It's a short week, with a short list of albums, to be handled with a short post. Ratatat's latest is in Rhapsody a week early, making at least one album I can recommend, as the latest Earlimart is at best borderline, and beyond that, this week's crop is a wasteland. Playlist: New Releases 07.01.08 Album: Ratatat - LP3 Still relatively fresh from their success with [...]
Slowest... release week.... ever. Pick up Earlimart for sure, or save your money for the 5-disc Leonard Cohen box set or the 6-disc Sugarcubes singles set. Check out the other boatload of reissues on Largehearted Boy's list . Otherwise, it's slim pickings: The Chap - Fun and Interesting from Mega Breakfast on Ghostly International Earlimart - Song For ( MP3 ) [...]
My head's full of stupid things today, but the past few weeks have proven to me that if you aren't looking so hard, sometimes things appear much clearer. In my experience, those things could be much better than what you thought you were looking for in the first place. So if things look bad to you now, just think... in a few months you could be eating lamb scrapple or watching pigs named Kenny Hoggins and Dolly Porkon racing (and yes, they're good things). In the world of music, I got an email from Nettwerk Music Group about [...]
It's quite a joy to have a proper solo singer-songwriter to write about for once. I don't seem to run across many solo artists I can get behind these days and the ones that I do tend to be in bands anyway, which kind of negates things. It's rather nice to discover Jay [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Death Vessel : "Bruno's Torso" [mp3] from Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us (out August 19th) other Death Vessel music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Degenerettes : 2008-06-20, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Female Trouble" [mp3] other Degenerettes music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Drive-By Truckers [...]
I have to admit that I have never heard of Jay Brannan before today. I receive a fair few PR e-mails each day and, to be brutally honest, most of it is dross, or at the very least badly targeted (how often have you seen me write about hip hop on this site??). This one, however, caught my eye...or rather my ear. Here is what the e-mail had to say:"Jay has never released an album in the traditional sense, but has sold out shows in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Toronto, Tel Aviv and... Please visit [...]
I have to admit that I have never heard of Jay Brannan before today. I receive a fair few PR e-mails each day and, to be brutally honest, most of it is dross, or at the very least badly targeted (how often have you seen me write about hip hop on this site??). This one, however, caught my eye...or rather my ear. Here is what the e-mail had to say:"Jay has never released an album in the traditional sense, but has sold out shows in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Toronto, Tel Aviv and... Please visit [...]
I'm not sure if 2008 is turning out to be a good year for music or not. A year ago, new releases by Wilco, Rosie Thomas, Bright Eyes and Brandi Carlile had me very excited. Sky Blue Sky turned out to be my album of the year, and I will be listening to it for many years to come. I'm not sure I've yet discovered my album of 2008, even though there are some albums I really like. But, none as much as
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I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
Antony and the Johnsons - "Rise"
Santigold – The Keepers (Duke Dumont Remix)
