You could argue that the majority of the bands on the list already made names for themselves in 2010. But if you surveyed people that don't regularly follow blogs/tumblrs, 8 out of 10 wouldn't recognize any of the bands listed below. In 2011, I expect these artists to break out and reach a larger audience. 1. Lord Huron Hometown: Los Angeles Label: Unsigned Lord Huron - The Stranger [...]
Happy New Year! Hooray it's finally 2011 and I'm ready for a fresh start. Thanks to everyone--musicians, readers, and friends--that made 2010 a wonderful and exciting year, now let's make this year better. I made you all this little mixtape to rest your weary hungover head on. I definitely have the best version of Auld Lang Syne by Lake Huron which just debuted this morning. I tried pretty hard to make it a positive mix but that's just not the most realistic thing so there are a few little songs filled with doubt that snuck their way in there. How [...]
2010 was a fantastic year for music and a very good start to a new decade of it.
These are my 30 favorite songs of 2010. It was a wonderful year in music, albeit somewhat overwhelming for the sheer volume of releases. But these songs received the most love from my ears, my brain and my heart this year. We here at The Wounded Jukebox want to thank you for reading and for [...]
There's no doubt that the local music scene in Philly has busted out. This year, led by our faves including Dr. Dog & Free Energy the local scene is center stage nationally and for many of the reasons below. Here were some of the records this year that were of the best of the local music scene. In my very subjective opinion, 2010 was a high water mark banner year for local music created by Philly bands. For the last few years in particular the scene has been extremely happening, fertile and diverse. Nationally, Philly's prowess is being [...]
Sun Airway - « Oh, Naoko » MP3: Sun Airway - « Oh, Naoko » (version originale) J'préfère la version de la session Yours Truly . L'originale a un côté Coldplay qui m'ennuie profondément. Le passage de l'électro-pop à la folk-pop fonctionne merveilleusement bien. Jon Barthmus explique dans une lettre à Yoko Ono la genèse de ce morceau : ( via )
In my very subjective opinion, 2010 was a high water mark banner year for local music created by Philly bands. For the last few years in particular the scene has been extremely happening, fertile and diverse. Nationally, Philly's prowess is being felt cross many genres; from indie-rock and R&B to tomorrow's classic rock today, singers and songwriters, hip-hop and some of that old time rock and roll. It's (mostly) all good in the hood. So who made some of the best music in Philly this year? Read on. Dr. Dog [...]
Sun Airway - " Oh, Naoko " A friend of mine just introduced me to Sun Airway and it took about two days for me to become hooked. For me, I know a song is great when I casually listen to an album once or twice, walk away from it, and hours later have some 'random' song stuck in my head. Then the fun begins when I backtrack and try to remember what exactly it was that I was listening to. That's what happened with this song in particular. Sun Airway is based out of [...]
50. Silver Swans - "Secrets" A dark, sexy slice of female fronted post-punk, Silver Swans took us downtown and underground in 2010. Pushed through crowd to the back of the club and into some secret corner with dead eyes and weak hearts, the central lyric is a lie, "I don't think about you anymore." 49. Apex Manor - "Under The Gun" "Under The Gun" both enjoys the comfort of conversation
Sun Airway When Frederic Chopin wrote his famous nocturnes, he sat down at the piano. For their modern-day nocturne, Sun Airway's Jon Barthmus and Patrick Marsceill used their computers. If Chopin tapped the pure power of a single acoustic instrument, Sun Airway revels in the digital technology that lets two guys from Philadelphia sound like a symphony in the woods. Sun Airway's ethereal electronica falls somewhere between the pop minimalism of the Postal Service, the lushnesss of Animal Collective, and the trance-bliss of Caribou. With its joyful melancholy, their debut album Nocturne of [...]
This past week we posted this video of a session that Sun Airway did for the San Fran music blog Yours Truly . During the session the band performed "Oh, Naoko" and turned the exhilarating ambient dream pop song inside out, giving it a galloping sweet alt-country spin. You can now download the song in exchange for your e-mail address here .
Continued from part 1 , here's a couple more bands deserving of your attention. - Freedom or Death . Earmilk said it best : " It's like Bon Iver car pooled with the Junior Boys on the way to the Massive Attack concert – but they got snowed in. " This one below reminds me of TVOTR. 04 - Freedom Or Death - This Crowded Room by Freedom Or Death - [...]
We asked some of our buddies in the game to serve up their faves of 2010 and they turned up the heat. More like it: This Week in NYC: November 15-21, 2010 Live 1052s BFD 2010! June 6, 2010 The Best Shows of 2010
When you're a highly self-conscious person like me, compiling a year-end list means that you have to shrug off a lot of nagging thoughts: whether the ranking's exactly right and how dumb it is to rank art anyway; whether there was a ton of other music you would love as much if not more if you just went searching and listening for hours; whether you have enough diversity of style and whether it matters when it's a personal list; how the year stacks up against other years. But you know what I'm really terrible at? Shrugging off [...]
(All week we're counting down the top albums of 2010. For previous entries on the list, click here or simply scroll down. We hope you enjoy the music.) 10. Vampire Weekend - Contra We at FP are unabashed fans of Vampire Weekend, a bizarrely unpopular position given the band's success. Perhaps it's the fact that Ezra Koenig and the band embrace their upper-crust, trust fund roots that rubs Joe McWilliamsburg the wrong way; perhaps it's the vague air of [...]
File it under "It's A Slow News Day": Unless I'm mistaken, not a single band from Philadelphia* managed to squeeze its way into Pitchfork's recently released "Top 100 Tracks Of 20103 list. (Granted, after going over the 100-song list several times—which, to nobody's surprise, is heavy on synthesizers, ethereal vocals, and electronic dance beats—everything has started to look blurry.) Not that Pitchfork has traditionally given Philly a ton of love: If you're from this city and not Pissed Jeans (who didn't crack the list, either), good luck breaking the 8.0 mark over there. It [...]
Sun Airway's "Put The Days Away" falls claustrophobic and cold. The keyboard loop reminiscent of the first two bars of LCD's "All My Friends," but with the soul cut out and cast as an extra in a zombie flick, left to wander listlessly, sickly around some deserted American city. The hum and buzz of the arrangement remain aggressively modern, unsettling and frozen. Out of this maw twice comes a
Ed. Note: Yesterday we welcomed the lovely McKee Floyd into the fold. Today, we say hello to Sean Weathersby, A.K.A. Griggs. Much like McKee, Sean will be tapping into the D.C. scene, as well as just giving us his fresh take on the music scene. Welcome Sean! Hi. I'm Sean, and I guess I'm the newest contributor here at ATG. I'm a 23-year-old Mississippian who somehow found himself at school at Bowdoin College in Maine and is now searching for a happy medium somewhere in the DC area. Right now I'm living in [...]
Sun Airway just showed me again why we put them on #2 in the best albums of the year. They recorded a totally new version of "Oh, Naoko", one of the most outstanding tracks on Nocturne Of Exploded Crystal Chandelier at Yours Truly . This is one of the best things I've heard in quite a while!
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