As you can probably already tell, I wont be posting these in any order, seeing as Tapes 'n Tapes opened the second day and not the first. Anyway, after going into their set with lukewarm expectations I was more than blown away and they ended up being the perfect opening to probably one of the best days in music in a long while. [...]
Het blijkt moeilijker dan gedacht om zo na de vakantie weer te beginnenmet het zoeken naar leuke en interessante artiesten voor een log. Het isme in ieder geval gister niet zo gelukt. Vandaag had ik toevallig nog eenhandje vol artiesten die ik ooit nog op de site wilde zette. Uitkomst isJAFS deel 4! De eerste artiest(en) die ik in petto heb is The John ButlerTrio. Zij maken erg aanstekelijke count. ..
"Does Israel give a rat's arse about what anybody thinks of it anymore? Blowing up people left, right and centre, and then addressing the United Nations. Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off. To the Palestinians: fuck off. You can't be living there. Fuck off to some place you don't come from. We applied for [...]
"Look at me mah, i'm Phil Spector!"... This is what you will most probably be saying after playing with the Tapes 'N Tapes Mixer. It is often the simplest ideas that work best and this adage is really true in the case of this great, but simple online tool. You get to fiddle around with the bass, drums, guitars and vocals from the song 'Jennie', hours of fun for geeks like me. Officially, the tapesmixer is a [...]
Bringing along a so-called buzz band along to open for you on tour can be a two-edged sword. On one hand, it makes your show that much more attractive to the hipster crowd and surely helps attendance but on the other hand, you run the risk of half the crowd leaving before your set or even worse, being upstaged by the support (assuming the buzz is well-founded). That was a risk that Sunderland, UK's Futureheads seemed willing to take when they invited Minneapolis blog darlings Tapes'N'Tapes along to open a leg of their North [...]
Download five songs: Peter Bjorn and Johnm - Far away, by my side The Organ - Steven Smith Mountain Goats - I'm so lonesome I could cry (Hank Williams cover) Tapes 'n Tapes - Omaha Joan As Policwoman - Anyone
Big Surprise: Most politicians' music tastes are stuck in the 70's . "Later...With Jools Holland" is the most loved music show . Watch some of the great performances on the show from: Arcade Fire At The Drive-In & The Arctic Monkeys . An unreleased Jimi Hendrix track has been unearthed. The most annoying person ever on Big Brother is to get a TV show . There better be plenty Bottled Water . [...]
Amazing. I couldn't believe I was watching Tapes 'n Tapes on national television last night. The Ed Sullivan Theater. Man. They seemed a bit nervous for the first part of "Insistor", heck I was nervous for them, but the guys really nailed the second half of the song and put on an excellent performance in my opinion. Anyone else watch? How sick of T'nT are the indie kids going to act like they are now? HERE is a pretty crap video [...]
The blogs have gushed 'n gushed about Tapes 'n Tapes . Last week, the band returned the favor on MPR, confessing their debt to mp3 blogs in an interview for The Current . From this story : "With the Internet, and with a blog that people go back to, it's really easy to keep things fresh in people's minds," Willett says. "It'd be like, 'Oh yeah, there's that band again.' And then as you hop from blog to blog and [...]
Depending on what you read, music blogs are either the wave of the future, revolutionising the music industry from below, and levelling the playing field for bands worldwide, or, they're some self-loving ego-inflating elitist students incapable of writing anything original, with the same taste as everyone else, only endorsing that which is not popular, and deriding it once it becomes so. They
Here is the second half of our festival playlist. I can't decide which day I'm more excited for. This will be my first time seeing Spoon, so I'm leaning towards Sunday. I don't know much about Os Mutantes, but I've only heard good things. Lets be honest, I'm basically excited for every second of this event. One week and counting... DAY 2 [mp3] Danielson - Ships the Majestic Suffix[mp3] Os Mutantes
Tapes 'N Tapes, pride of Minneapolis, will see their debut The Loon, self-released last October, come out on XL Recordings next Tuesday. That night, they will perform on The Late Show With David Letterman. Before all this, however, is their...
Yes, it's a bit late, but it's just such a great song. I don't like the way NME have only just reviewed the Tapes 'n' Tapes album, as they keep doing with bands who re-release an album. Daft Musical Express more like - why can't they be more like Artrocker or Clash? [YES! - Perks] Anywho...yes, you probably have already heard 'Insistor' , but just in case you haven't, I'd buy it if I were you. It has been lifted from their album 'The Loon', slapped on one [...]
I'm well aware that the Tapes n' Tapes craze is spreading like wildfire, but I'm sure that large clumps of the e-masses aren't hip to their jive yet. I figured I'd remind them to check this band out. So before you start throwing tomatoes at me, just keep in mind that a little extra infectious rock never hurt anybody. Recently signed by XL Records, this Minneapolis ensemble, although being around since 2003, has finally had the chance to release their first full-length album, The Loon . Their songs cover a wide [...]
I recently received a promo copy of The Crystal Method 's Drive: Nike+ Original Run . According to Nike and the band: " The unique set-up of the track 'Drive' is that it follows the progression of a 45-minute work out. The tempo of the track begins at a slower pace to take the athlete through a gradual warm up, increases pace over the course of the run, and then gradually decreases tempo as part of the cool down ." [...]
Qualcuno ha anche coniato il termine “blog friendly soundâ€. Certo creare appositamente un genere musicale è quanto meno esagerato, ma sarebbe comunque poco leale non attribuire ai music-blog il merito di rappresentare la nuova frontiera (chissà quanto duratura…) dell’influenza musicale. Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah!, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire e ultimi gli Artict Monkeys sono solo i casi più eclatanti di band che senza l’appassionato passa parola scatenato via web non avrebbero impiegato pochi mesi ad imporsi come novità imperdibili del nostro tempo. Veleggiano senza indugi verso simile sorte anche gli americani Tape ‘N Tapes. I presupposti ci sono [...]
Has anybody else noticed that "Insistor" by current indie darlings Tapes 'N Tapes sounds a lot like Quasar Wut-Wut? Check out "Enola Gay" in particular. Even their video looks like a Quasar video. Or is it just me?...
So I know it's definitely late to jump onto this particular bandwagon, but seeing as how it still has enough drive I'm going to stoke the fire while it's still hot. Tapes 'N Tapes cuts the air with sound waves as a quartet from Minneapolis headed by vocal Josh Grier. Not much more can be said about the band that hasn't already been said by the droves of blogs and periodicals that fiercely wrote about these kids for quite a long while, but here I stand telling you about them using what residual energy is left for the [...]
Well, folks. Sorry it's been a few days. I'm somewhat bogged down with some design work in "real life". So here's the update you've been pining after. The winner of the Signed, Limited Edition 7" "Insistor" Single from Tapes 'N Tapes is... Mike Roeder for his suggestion that Tapes 'N Tapes cover Television 's late-70s hit "Marquee Moon" , which is an amazing song, and an obvious precursor to much of the music that influenced Tapes 'N Tapes [...]
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