This is the follow up post from Monday, January 18 : Side B of the first Feel Bad for You comp of 2010. I asked the forum members of AltCountryTab.ca to submit their favorite tracks from 2009 which other members may not have heard. The comments on the songs are from the people who submitted them. Side B - download the zipped comp for one week only . 1. Stephen Simmons - Hey Shannon.mp3 Buy (CD Baby): [...]
ok. so this isn't a post about some new stuff I got sent. This is a post about some of the new stuff I've bought. Yes, that's right. Even us bloggers go out and buy music. I've bought some new stuff and some old stuff. Being a blogger, you sort of feel as though you should have the top 10 albums in the Hype Machine 2009 Zeitgeist . Or maybe that's just me. MAAMF is still relatively new (although, i'm not sure if 'new' really exists in the music blogosphere), so I feel as though it still has a [...]
Yep here's an obligatory top ten because I spent time putting these together for bma and I figure, why not share with everyone else?! Sadly my number 1 is pretty much not even anyone else's top 50! Miike Snow people! Maybe I love it too much? I don't know. I just think it hits all the right buttons and it's a very different kind of music. It's electro but it's not as saccharine as, say La Roux or Passion Pit. It's not another outstanding FOLK album like 2008's Fleet Foxes. Miike Snow's debut is a pretty unique album for 2009 [...]
A little while back, our pal Georgia at Microphone Memory Emotion asked me how we find the "crazy stuff" we post about on Rose Quartz. I guess it'd be tough blogging from Brooklyn, where everyone's no more than 30 seconds away from tweeting about the next massive thing, but here in Sydney it's a lot easier to find and post about a heap of cool shit that isn't already saturating the Hype Machine (totally selfish, I know!). Anyway, here are my top ten albums by Australian bands this year. Shout outs go to Love of Diagrams, Brain Children, [...]
Paddy Mann, aka Grand Salvo, è uno dei tesori meglio custoditi della scena folk mondiale. Quattro eccellenti album non sono stati sufficienti a far emergere il talento del folksinger australiano, le speranze sono ora dunque tutte riposte nel suo nuovo lavoro "Soil Creatures" (Preservation), che segna un ritorno alle origini folk minimaliste, dopo il maestoso "Death" [...]
Kim Winderman - Uchu Tanjyo [from " Immediate Growing Anamnesis "] (2009) Grand Salvo - Road (mp3): I keep my heels rough and calloused for songs like this. When I wake up from this dream, or if peak oil happens, or if I suddenly find myself without a job and a gift of pure time... I need to be able to know how to walk down the street barefoot. Financial advisors help you build a nest egg, [...]
Grand Salvo – Needles On a basic level, "singer-songwriter" describes what Melbourne's Paddy Mann does, but bring context in and suddenly your phrase is inadequate. Every entry-level altbro and his guitar is a singer-songwriter. Paddy Mann is not entry-level. Grand Salvo make music that demands adjectives: listening to songs like Needles, you find yourself constantly reaching for newer, more poetic ways of describing what you hear; trying to imagine what kind of world Paddy Mann was inhabiting when he created them, because it seems impossible he was on this one. There's a fleeting, unpredictable [...]
As per the request of fellow writer, A Reminder, enjoy M/O/U/N/T/A/I/N/T/O/P_T/W/O/ 1. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood (2008) 2. Headless Heroes - The North Wind Blew South (2008) 3. The Mountains - In the Land of the Corpses, Hidden Stories are Revealed, Retold & Relived (2009) 4. Johnny West - Centipede Marriage Proposal (2009) 5. Jordaan Mason - Remember: Only You (Can Prevent Forest Fires) [2007] 6. Fleet Foxes - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (2008) 7. Grand [...]
Dans la grande famille des tops, il y a d'un côté ceux qui considèrent qu'il faut hiérarchiser la musique sortie entre le 1er janvier et le 31 décembre et ceux qui à l'inverse listent la musique qui est entrée dans leur vie sur la même période sans prendre en compte la date effective de sortie des disques en question. Le problème, c'est que d'un côté, il serait imbécile de mettre un N°1 d'un top 2008 un Village Green Preservation Society que j'ai enfin découvert en entier cette année sans m'en tenir aux tubes évidents ou le Songs [...]
I must admit i don't spend that much time in selecting my album covers of 2008 as i spend time finishing the list of lists. Therefore, i sometimes end up selecting album covers that may not deserve to end up in this list, because there are way better looking artwork cd's out there. Then again, if there is one thing about lists that is certain, that is that they are temporary, useless, and futile. So, bearing that in mind, i present to you: the nicest album covers of 2008. [...]
Rockstar Aimz
me, and all my friends
A Has Been That Never Was
rose quartz
Happy Days Are Here Again
I'm Just Sayin Is All...
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
La Blogotheque
An Inside Out Sock
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
Diplo - "Climax" (MP3 Stream)
Out This Week 2/14
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
Jackback Feat. David Guetta & Nicky Romero – Wild One Two
