por Ênio Jr. Seguindo com os mixtapes lembrando da década passada, venho com com esta 2.0(00) (sim, é um trocadilho geek infame). Foi difícil selecionar, mas entre várias dos anos 2000 ficaram estas 14 melodias que me marcaram de alguma maneira, seja pela época e/ou situação que comecei a escutar, seja pela própria música. Alternam-se momentos calmos com outros mais agitados e as obviedades com coisas não tão óbvias assim. [MP3] 2.0(00) Mixtape [...]
This list could go hundreds, thousands deep and it would still only touch the surface, so you know how much a struggle it was for me to cut it down to just 50. Ranking art is always a bit of a silly process, and it's even more here, when every single song is brilliant. So don't take the order too seriously. The real point of this is to give people a chance to hear the things that I simply couldn't live without, the songs that make my whole world go around – and to hopefully [...]
One lucky winner will score her or his very own song from Gorillaz/Blur mastermind Damon Albarn , and that's just the tip of the iceberg in the stellar Haiti benefit auction organized by Glastonbury Festival co-coordinator, Emily Eavis . A stunning bag of goodies is up for grabs on eBay UK, with all proceeds going directly to Oxfam, one of the major aid organizations working to help Haiti. The Glastonbury Festival is no joke, and this list of swag isn't either: A turntable from DJ Shadow Signed, [...]
The New Government Estes New Government vêm do Líbano e chamam-se assim porque na altura da sua formação em 2004, o seu país estava literalmente sem governo. Depois de lançarem o disco de estreia em 2006, foram obrigados a parar por causa da guerra. Desde a edição de um EP em 2007, o baterista e o baixista sairam da banda, mas o grupo continuou em formato trio. Misturam saudavelmente os ritmos da zona de confluência cultural e espiritual onde nasceram com o indie rock. Por vezes, o timbre do vocalista arrasta a sua música pelos intermináveis [...]
The best time for contemplation is on late winter nights, a friend said to me. Sometimes he holes up in his bedroom and while the world sleeps, he thinks. The cold harnesses the mind and hones the senses. We see divisions more clearly: the geometry of a bedside table, the sharp difference of darkness and light, the separation of communal identity and the lone self. In winter, the watercolor smear of summer is gone and the world has suddenly come into focus. Winter keeps us indoors for long spans, which is hell for restless people. But [...]
Today's blog post is dedicated to Gigantic regular and all-round party animal, Lola Bonner . She's been coming down to the club for absolutely ages. In fact, I'm pretty sure she's been coming down before she was legally allowed to, the scamp. She used to always invite herself into the DJ box and totally melt my head, then get totally hammered, and be even more melty. It seems that she has calmed down a bit of later, thank gawd. These three tunes are the ones that remind me of Lola the most, because she's banged on [...]
Pitchfork released a list of a bunch of albums that are set to come out in 2010 (view them all below the break). Here are a few of those that we are looking forward to... The National: TBA [Beggars Banquet] Beach House: Teen Dream [Sub Pop] LCD Soundsystem: TBA [DFA] MGMT: Congratulations [Columbia] The Magnetic Fields: Realism [Nonesuch] Interpol: TBA [Capitol] Spoon: Transference Mount Eerie: Black Wooden [Latitudes] David [...]
Zugegeben, die Überschrift klingt mehr nach Adorno als nach Musikblog. Aber keine Angst, ich will hier nicht in prätentiöses Geschwurbel verfallen, sondern bloß einige Gedanken über Rockmusik der Gegenwart und Zukunft loswerden. Eines aber noch vorweg: Natürlich ist die Einteilung des Zeitstroms in Jahrzehnte mehr oder minder willkürlich, aber irgendwie muss man ja Sinn in das Chaos bringen. Und dazu muss der Mensch auch – allen oftmals berechtigten Klagen über das Schubladendenken zum Trotz – Kategorien aufstellen. So, jetzt aber rein ins Getümmel! Die so hässlich betitelten „Nullerjahre" waren das erste Jahrzehnt [...]
Date Wednesday, January 13th Location Emos Doors 900p Tickets $10at the door Lets face it, Adam Franklin is a very busy man. Whether he's playing with Interpol' s Fogarino in Magnetic Morning or he's reuniting with Swervedriver , he's got a pretty solid schedule. Somehow he found time to get with his new project [...]
Last year, I hired a Portland psychic to help make sense of the future of music. If you want to see how many of her predictions came true, you can watch the video here. This year, I'm in New York City. And, even though there's a soothsayer on every street corner, I have yet to build up the nerve to invite him or her into my apartment so that I might inquire about The Magnetic Fields. Instead, I've decided to use my own non-psychic but highly intuitive abilities in order [...]
You may notice a few differences between this list and the album list. I don't feel I need to justify that due to the distinct difference between a song and a full album. These are the songs that I still listen to on repeat; they made me laugh, tear up, dance, think, and morph my own tastes into what they are today. So here in no particular order is my Favorite Songs of the Decade. Picking a favorite song is like picking a favorite child, it changes depending on your mood... ___ [Audio clip: view full [...]
1. Is This It The Strokes / RCA, Rough Trade / Gordon Raphael / 2001 2. Funeral Arcade Fire / Merge, Rough Trade / Arcade Fire / 2004 3. Turn On The Bright Lights Interpol / Matador / Gareth Jones, Peter Katis / 2002 4. Z [...]
Now that you're all completely sick of these lists, here's the bottom ten in my top 50.... 50) Radiohead: Kid A (2000 on Capitol) – After seeing this at the top both Pitchfork and Rolling Stone's best of the decade I went back and re-listened to it. Being a fan of melodic guitar rock, I only enjoy listening to four of these songs. They were still a great live band around this time though. Idioteque - Radiohead 49) Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights [...]
Often chosen to either open, close, or provide an instrumental interlude on an album, untitled works has long been a staple of rock music and director's cuts of Cameron Crowe movies. Here's a mix of some of my favorite songs that show great music doesn't always need a title (just ask Beethoven). Andrew Bird - untitled Interpol - Untitled Neutral Milk Hotel - Untitled Smashing Pumpkins - Untitled Sigur Ros - Untitled #1 [...]
bevor ich mir jetzt hier auch noch die arbeit mache, schick ich euch einfach weiter zum kollegen nico von nicorola.de, der hat nämlich rausgesucht , was massive attack, radiohead, interpol, arcade fire, lightspeed champion, spoon, we have band und the national 2010 vorhaben. hier geht es neben dem normalen betrieb übrigens noch bis zum wochenende weiter mit dem jahres- und jahrzehntsrückblick. und bis heute abend könnt ihr noch an der abstimmung teilnehmen .
Buying albums might be ever so passé, but that doesn't mean there still aren't quality new releases worthy of your dinero. Continuing with our theme of 2010 , we have identified 35 albums you'll probably want to buy over the next 365 days. Of course, since only about 1/4 of the albums that will be released in 2010 have actually been announced, this list is certainly heavily biased toward the first few months - though we tried to take into account some of the more realistic possibilities at the end - and subject to sudden change. But based on [...]
I didn't really want to attempt a list of my favourite albums of the decade - the list for this year alone was more work than I needed. Instead, I decided to hit some of the ways this decade dealt with music - how technology has changed the musical landscape further, what globalized capitalism has done to the music industry, and what media convergence did to help out. Then as a second part, I thought I should add some of my musings on the decade as far as my own musical development goes - after all, I became an adult [...]
60. Kanye West Graduation Few rappers have had the commercial and critical success that Kanye West has enjoyed in the last 10-years. He has gone from a little known producer to one of the biggest artists in the world and obviously there's got to be some reason behind it. Graduation isn't Kanye's finest album end-to-end but it is loaded with fantastic singles one after the other in the first half of the record. That half alone pushed it here as the last half goes a bit flat at points. But seriously this is [...]
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we're in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years? In the final week [...]
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