This won't be the first time we've sung the praises of Bill Baird--a.k.a. {{{Sunset}}}--on this blog, and this probably won't be the last.Last year, Baird released three albums under this project, making it nothing short of prolific. These twisted, home-recorded ballads and instrumentals have got guys like Tom Waits and Beck on speed dial. There are some psych pop premonitions hanging in the air,
If you're looking for one of the best rock records of the year, look no further. White Denim 's latest LP Fits is a true test in quick change ups, brooding funkadelic bass lines, and spastic 'fits' of adrenaline. The first single "I Start To Run" is a ferocious example of the band's ability to cause a sonic ruckus. Fits is available now on Downtown Records .
Click here to view the embedded video. And not just any billboard. It's an anti-discrimination billboard! Oh. My. God. How could they? You know what the best part of this news report is? The ugly lady at the beginning who has no idea she's the worst kind of hypocrite. "I cringed," said Christine Lutz. "I was disgusted at the same time. I said how dare you take the scriptures and twist it to fit your needs." Which is probably what she does, I'm only assuming, when she yammers on and on about [...]
Le Fun Fun Fun Fest est un festival de musique qui se déroule ce week-end à Austin, Texas. C'est la 4ème édition et la programmation est assez sympa. Ils ont quand même leur lot de groupes punk nuls et de machins noisy inaudibles, voir tout en bas, mais hé! il en faut pour tous les goûts, et ils ont vraiment bien réussi leur affiche cette année. Voici donc une petite compilation best-of très personnelle comme d'habitude, avec en bas un lien pour télécharger le tout et la programmation complète. [Pour écouter sans télécharger, allez visiter l'article] [...]
Tweet this video ___ Share on Facebook ___ Bookmark on delicious Dis donc, on approche de l'overdose de groupes états-uniens aujourd'hui... Encore des Texans, mais d'Austin cette fois, c'est Spoon et "Written in Reverse" enregistrée au Pitchfork Music Festival 2008, une chanson qui devrait figurer sur le prochain album du groupe, Transference , qui sortira le 26 janvier prochain chez Merge Records et distribué en Europe par Anti-, ce qui vous fait une belle jambe, et dont la [...]
Ray Sharpe Help Me (pts 1&2) Atco - 6402 1966 MP3 File I know Ray Sharpe primarily as a rockabilly artist. His hit "linda Lu" from 59 gives no indication of the sounds that would come along later in his career. Here he is in 1966 on Atco throwing down one very heavy soul groove... *pts 1&2 have been blended into one track for this post.
This weekend, I'll depart for sunny Austin, TX and Fun Fun Fun Fest . I arrive Friday morning and will hit the ground running. A free blogger panel at The Mohawk with notables from Aquarium Drunkard, Idolator, Billboard, Spin, and Austinist/Austin 360 and then on to The Scoot Inn for THE COMBO PLATE! My Old Kentucky Blog is combining forces with our friends at CherryPeel.com [...]
[Pour écouter sans télécharger, allez visiter l'article] Tweet this post ___ Share on Facebook ___ Bookmark on delicious J'ai une envie de gros son après mon petit séjour à Londres (j'avais oublié de vous prévenir, j'espère que vous n'avez pas pensé que j'étais morte, lol), voici donc du punk dans la ligné du Gun Club avec une petite louchette de Jesus and Mary Chain, ce sont les trois Texans de Woven Bones (Andrew Burr, Matty Nichols et Casey Seymour) et un extrait de leur premier EP qui m'a aussi fait [...]
This Will Destroy You are an instrumental quartet from the great state of Texas who play a cascading brand of cinematic rock music. The band is made up of guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bass player Donovan Jones and drummer Andrew Miller with Jones also playing the keyboard for live performances. They are currently signed to Magic Bullet Records. While they recently released a new split EP, titled Field Studies, in January 2009 with the band Lymbyc Systym, we wanted to reach back to 2006, when TWDY released "Young Bear", a six-song EP originally intended to [...]
Swirling, hypnotizing, debilitating. These are each very very choice words to describe the edit that funky educator Baron Von Luxxury has done to "Stuck In The Middle", by the Texan indie rockers The Burning Hotels. The track, set to be...
Down and Out in Austin, Texas Eric Dalke from A Faulty Chromosome sent us a wonderful email last week, complete with a link to download his band's new album and information about a pledge drive they're doing to raise money to pay for making it. It's great then that A Faulty Chromosome's music is extremely good, spinning a cutesy pop buzz in line with The Unicorns, The Zookeepers and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. The four piece band from Austin, Texas make a kind of children's music [...]
Let's meet the neighbors, the Darling New Neighbors ! This Texas-trio has just released their second album, "Rocket" , on their own label. The music is a strange combination of rough rock with sharp guitars, folk, country and indiepop, and sometimes they take a step into the 60-girlgroup territory with sha-la-la's and shubidu's. The press-release kind of takes the words out of my mouth when they write that they hear bits and pieces of stray influence in the Darling New Neighbors: "the soft-hard derby crash of the Pixies , new [...]
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Royce Da 529 Ft. Bun B & Joell Ortiz - Hood Love (Produced by DJ Premier)
Bowling For Soup Sorry For Partyin' A&G Records 12 October 2009 by Luke Morton Back with their seventh studio album, Sorry For Partyin' once again sees Bowling For Soup happier than a puppy eating candy floss and makes about as much sense. Since forming in 1994, the Texan pop-punkers have been consistently fun, juvenile and light-hearted in their music which seems to have gone pretty well for them so far. But aren't they getting [...]
The first time I ever heard anything referred to as Texas Country it was a song from Robert Earl Keen. That song, unlike many people's first REK exposure ( The Road Goes on Forever ), was Corpus Christi Bay . My younger brother played it for me one evening and I was hooked. I speedily acquired REK's catalog and branched out into other Texas Country artists like Cory Morrow , Pat Green , Jason Boland & The Stragglers just to name a few. I love the Texas Country scene and especially The Firehouse Saloon [...]
When infamous Texan grind-merchants, Insect Warfare , announced they were to play the opening night of their UK tour in the heart of hipster Hoxton, who better for us to send than moody bastard Hugh Platt? He hates everything. So when we reach the top of the stiars that lead to the gig space above the Old Blue Last, we're faced with stepping over a pair of dogs in order to get into the room where Insect Warfare are due to take the stage. Surely there's some serious [...]
Paramore Brand New Eyes Fueled By Ramen 28 September 2009 by Mike Strata Contrary to popular belief, Hayley Williams' incomprehensibly cringe-inducing appearance on the latest Set Your Goals album did not bring about the end of music. We're all still here, the hits keep on coming, and a few months on from Ms Williams last indiscretion we have a new Paramore album to digest. Whether the release [...]
On Jan. 1, 2004, I moved to London. It was a weird and mostly unhappy time for me. London is a fantastic place to feel alone and dour. I didn't have many friends at the time, and spent most of my days wandering on the Thames walk, south of the river, going to underground queer parties, searching for ANYTHING that was open 24-hours (I was homesick), writing songs on my Martin backpacker guitar and visiting galleries and museums alone. Of course, I was also in school, so I did that too. My friend Ame and I also made [...]
Thinking about Paul Simon made me think about Edie Brickell (whom he married in 1992 and has three kids with). I got so so into this album ( Shooting Rubber Bands at the Stars ) sometime in high school. I think I can actually remember rocking out to it on my discman. The whole thing is oozing with late-80s/early-90s cheese and sincerity, but of course you couldn't help but fall in a dated kind of love that's still nice to return to periodically (like all your favorite episodes of My So-Called Life , especially that one featuring [...]
Norman WongEven though he coined it himself, I often wonder if Joel Gibb regrets encouraging the use of “gay church folk music” as a description for the [...]More about Beach House
The big buzz this week has, undoubtedly, been the release of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance video. With it's steamy and suggestive theme, along with a pretty decent song to boot, [...]More about Lady GaGa
pues acaba de filtrarse otra cancion del nuevo cd de Vampire Weekend, que como ya deben saber se llama Contra. la nueva, titulada 'Cousins' esta MUCHO mas [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Revenus de notre mission outre atlantique, on en a plein les yeux, plein les oreilles, alors on vous en fait profiter: beck -stranger song (of leonard [...]More about Beck
To New Zealand artist LEN LYE , whose animations I have recently discovered and find incredibly genius and want to watch them over and over again. There [...]More about Animal Collective
Gonna do a little mix-post now, with stuff I forgot to post and still liked. First off we got Den Svenska Björnstammen, which is something [...]More about The xx
Some heavy hitters. Midnight Juggernauts - This New Technology (The Juan Maclean remix) Calvin Harris - Flashback (Eric Prydz [...]More about Beyonce
So here comes this freestyle or whatever it is from Kanye. No one seems to know if it is new or some unreleased stuff but [...]More about Kanye West
Lil Wayne sure has his hands full these days. Or I might say, he will have, 'til February next year to be exact, then he's due for the sentencing [...]More about Lil' Wayne
Saw Steve Aoki on Friday just there. I was absolutely hammered and therefore dancing like an absolute gimp on the dance-floor. He played a really good set and did about [...]More about Passion Pit
The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
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The Swell Season featuring Jason Segel - Nov 18, 2009
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WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
remixed: the beach boys, lady gaga, duck sauce, ellie goulding, shakira, la roux, madonna, & more!!!
