Depending on his mood Jens Carelius (provenance Norway) incorporates a singing style somewhere between Bert Jansch and secular-era Cat Stevens. His sophomore album, The Beat of The Travel, released earlier this year, wavers between pastoral folk jams and ethereal brushes of If I Could Only Remember My Name era David Crosby. The wintry, haunted closing [...]
so i've just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list - which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list - and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i've decided to do a ten day countdown leading up to my number 1 album choice, vh1 best [whatever] of [decade] style. [100 - 91] 90. Nirvana- In Utero [...]
Oslo is not a huge city but it's easy to understand why it is a world leader in concerts per capita. For example, starting at the epicenter of the festival and within 3 block radius there are a literally a dozen venues. And not just tiny night clubs and discotheques either, but massive concert halls and auditoriums, some with multiple stages. So naturally it's a good burg to host around 500 gigs on a 3 day stretch with who knows how many thousand attendees. Tourism cataloging aside, By:Larm also brought in some brilliant minds and successful pros in [...]
i had no intention of making any kind of best of 2008 list, preferring instead to let my last.fm listening data speak for itself. but every single person/publication's best albums of 2008 list i've read so far has pissed me off. sure, several albums i loved this year have rightfully popped up on nearly everybody's list... but i've been amazed to find that some of my favorites aren't on anybody's list. take for example the top 25 albums lists of each pitchfork staff member -- which amounts to some 40 people -- published last [...]
Tracklist: 01. Song #1 02. Sonja 03. Summer Skin 04. Along The Keys 05. Lay Down Your Love 06. Our Freedom Is Now Yours #1 07. Come Back To Me 08. On Through The Morning 09. The First 10. Quicker The Run 11. The Heat 12. Our Freedom Is Now Yours #2 Genre: [...]
Meet Jens Carelius. Jens, my friends, is from Oslo. That's in Norway. And as Jens will tell you, he sings the blues. Aside from the devilishly throw back album cover, Carelius' approach harkens back to the 70s folk and blues writing. But to ignore the fact that he sounds almost exactly like Nick Drake, both in instrumentation and in vocals, would simply be foolish. From that sense, Carelius is not really creating anything original; rather, he is entering territory that has been trod quite frequently yet unsuccessful. The First Songs is more like [...]
mp3: jens carelius -song #1 mp3: jens carelius - on through the morning meet jens carelius. he lives in oslo, where he plays the blues. that is what he calls it, the blues, and the influence is definitely there. if i had to call it one thing though, i'd call it folk, à la nick drake. his is the name that immediately came to mind when i first heard jens voice on "song #1". as the album went on several other names came up, like leonard cohen, [...]
An Aquarium Drunkard
the bat and the bird
My Old Kentucky Blog
Ear It Now
Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream
Antony and the Johnsons
A Place to Bury Strangers
Hot Chip - Night & Day
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Cadence Weapon - "Conditioning" (CFCF Remix)
Gaggie x Bo Deal – Loose Lips [Prod. by Young Chop]
