Just Music That I Like’s Twenty Five Favourite Abums of 2011 aka The Best 25 Albums of the Year Part Five Direct Links to Albums: 25 - 21 // 20 - 16 // 15 - 11 // 10 - 6 // 5 - 1 5. Austra - Feel It Break [...]
I promised the staff I would not go all Masterpiece Theater with this intro, so I’ll be brief. Our Annual Report has reached its halfway point with our Top 50 Songs of the Year. The many flags of our staff are hoisted high - and we couldn’t be happier with what we have. From Cults’ very first song to Tom Waits’ thousandth song, we put up the tracks that left us with more thoughts, feelings, and impressions than any other. We think we done good. But just to make sure the world still spins on its [...]
Some artists make much more sense in the live setting, take for example Erika M. Anderson’s ( EMA to you and I) album “ Past Life Martyred Saints.” Whilst showcasing her many talents as a songwriter it’s only when you see her perform the album live you realise how it singularly failed to covey this girls charisma and the visceral nature of the music. Her set at Liverpool’s Kazimier was nothing short of epic, throwing herself so completely into each song she almost became a woman possessed. Suddenly the album took on a whole new dimension, mixing [...]
50 (All week we’re counting down the top songs of 2011. For previous entries on the list, click here . We hope you enjoy the music.) 10. Youth Lagoon - "Montana" We were early champions of the music of Youth Lagoon, and our love of Trevor Powers bedroom-pop project has only grown over the course of 2011. Each song on debut full-length The Year of Hibernation has its own merits, but [...]
Milwaukee's Surgeons In Heat get some love from World Cafe . The "tribute album based on Wilco's Summerteeth " they mention is here . Some great year end lists from Gorilla vs. Bear , NPR , The Quietus , and Stereogum . You Ain't No Picasso lists his 50 favorite songs of 2011. The Quietus has an interview with EMA and Zola Jesus
Frank Yang A little into her show at The Drake Underground on Saturday evening, Nicole Atkins mentioned that this was her first-ever solo show in Canada, and that performances of this format were usually reserved for more casual one-off performances back home in New Jersey during the holidays. Indeed, though Ms Atkins has been no stranger to Toronto stages since releasing her debut Neptune City back in 2007, she's always been accompanied by some iteration of her band The (Black) [...]
2011 was full of debuts and followups from ladies that know a thing or two about making good music. So on this 4th Day of Good, please enjoy this small sample of what some very talented ladies brought to the table this year. Eleanor Friedberger is one half of the brother-sister, indie-folk duo, The Fiery Furnaces . This year she dabbled in a solo career and released her debut, Last Summer . If you're [...]
So the NME just published their 2011 Cool List . As ever, it's a bewildering document that proclaims the likes of The Killers' Ronnie Vanucci, the Arctic Monkeys' drummer and, yes, Lana Del Rey to be cool, which makes us wonder if the NME ’s writers have the same understanding of that particular word as we do. Anyway, we appreciate that setting yourself as arbiters of "cool" is asking for trouble (especially if you then proceed to include two members of Kasabian in your Top 10), but the fact remains: there are some people missing from [...]
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Tweet Over the last few months you've no doubt heard us wax lyrical about how good the new album Zola Jeus is. If you haven't heard us gush, allow me to remind you. Her unique vocal style is akin to The Knife doing opera, her sound is emotive, raw, industrial, and oozing with passion. Album tracks "Vessel" and "Seekir" got [...]
Data romana al Circolo degli Artisti per Erika M. Anderson , un piccolo primo tour italiano da solista per promuovere il debutto a nome EMA Past Life Martyred Saints : lo smembramento dei Gowns , gli strascichi sentimentali, la depressione e la rinascita a suon di brani rock irreprensibili. Il successo di critica e pubblico sembra aver preso Erika alla sprovvista: sta mutando la sua percezione di sé sul palco, il suo rapporto con la scena sperimentale, le modalità con cui attingere ai generi più disparati senza smarrire il suo tocco [...]
by Lucy Dearlove I'd picked four of the six singles for this column when I realised there was a distinct theme going on: GIRLS. So I figured I might as well run with it, and here are some fabulous ladies singing for the second last week in November. There's some gorgeous stuff out this week, but I have to admit I haven't listened to any of these as many times as I've listened to 212 by Azealia Banks. You're welcome. Seapony 'Sailing' [...]
One of my favorite new discoveries of 2011 is EMA . She has a 7-inch coming out for the great song "Marked," that features an equally great b-side called "Angelo." Read on to listen and order.
Land of Tomorrow is no stranger to mixing audio and visual art mediums. The meticulously curated fringe art space in downtown Louisville celebrated its 2010 opening with a free Bear In Heaven show. Noise and avant garde musicians often provide the soundtrack to a variety of multimedia installations. Land of Tomorrow's exhibits aim to highlight the fluidity between visual art and music - no where more evident than The Expanded Music Project , opening this Friday, November 18th. The exhibit, which runs throughout December and into the new year, features some extremely exciting names [...]
Facebook Another week passes and guess what, another week with an EMA posting. Erika has announced a split Nirvana cover 7" with Male Bonding, EMA's take of "Endless Nameless" was mentioned here a while back and it seems the folk at Rough Trade and Sub Pop liked it enough to get it released on wax. Limited to 500 copies you can pre-order here , expected 6th January. Seriously, this is just insane. Thick guitar sludges, crashing cymbals and screaming vocal cries; alongside Oh Land's take of " Bloodbuzz Ohio [...]
Tweet Listen to EMA 's cover of Nirvana 's "Endless, Nameless" and Male Bonding 's cover of Nirvana 's "Aneurysm" below. Two of the best albums of the year have been released by EMA with "Past Life Martyred Saints" and Male Bonding with "Endless Now" , [...]
Taken from a Rough Trade/Sub Pop split single due out January 6th.
This week, our Monday Threesome is taking you into the onset of winter with some music that’s a bit dark, maybe even on the melancholy side. Few things can warm you up quite like heavy guitar riffs, though, so relax and snuggle up with these freebies from angsty chick rockers! Whirring - The Joy Formidable // Buy The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade - The Joy Formidable // Buy [...]
Although the hooplah surrounding the 20th anniversary for Nirvana' seminal Nevermind is all but ended last month, some bands are intent on prolonging the celebration. On January 6th, 2012, Rough Trade Shops and Sub Pop will release a split 73 single featuring Nevermind -era covers by English noise rockers Male Bonding and singer-songwriter EMA . For their contribution, Male Bonding reworked "Aneurysm", a B-side from Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" single, while EMA's track of choice was "Endless, Nameless", which was previously included on SPIN 's Newermind compilation as [...]
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Tipps für eine Woche voller besserer Musik. Diese Woche mit Musik von zarten, lauten oder verzerrten Gitarren und dem eigenen Glück im Kleiderhaufen. Montag, 14. November 2011 Montag ist Ruhetag! Das gilt nicht nur für die Stammkneipe, sondern auch für Konzertgänger. Eine abendliche Verschnaufpause hat jeder verdient: Mit dem Debüt "Welcome to Condale" von Summer Camp wähnt man sich an einer Teenagerparty während man entspannt auf dem Sofa lümmelt. Dienstag, 15. November 2011 [...]
Giuseppe Zevolli ha parlato del debutto solista di Ema approfonditamente qui su Indie-eye.it ; Past Life Martyred Saints , uscito lo sccorso maggio è il primo lavoro full lenght di Erika M. Anderson, artista poco più che ventenne, pubblicato dopo l'esperienza con i Gowns, band che ha condiviso con il compagno e all'interno della quale ha militato per quasi cinque anni. Ema, dice Zevolli nella sua recensione, ha una " straordinaria abilità nel trasformare di continuo le sue intuizioni, alternando i panni della rockeuse spregiudicata a una dimensione intimistica che riesce a dare pieno spazio alle [...]
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