Here's the playlist for this week's radio show: 01. Firefox AK - Techno tears 02. TALK 1 03. Hello Saferide - Anna 04. Sods - Copenhagen 05. Jonathan Johansson - En hand i himlen 06. TALK 2 07. Miss Li - I'm sorry, he's mine 08. Parker Lewis - Heart rate hill 09. Tiger Lou - Crushed by a crowd 10. Juvelen - [...]
The mere 33 copies of The Goner 's excellent "Haven" release sold out almost instantly (no surprise), so now there's a new "shadow edition" of the release available to latecomers: http://svartamarknaden.wordpre ss.com/2008/10/11/the-goner-re leases-a-shadow-edition-of-hav en/
With the release of "Haven" , The Goner has completed his H-series triptych and secured himself a place in my year-end top 10 list. This final chapter might be the best of the bunch too, that is, if I was to consider them individually. It's got the gentle folksiness of "Halartraller" as evidenced by opening track "A song" (featured today), but it's also balanced by more raga instrumentals and extensive psychedelic vamping that defined "Hind Hand" . Again, this is cult music; willfully obscure and intentionally obtuse. Music like this isn't created [...]
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show: 01. Mimas - Cats on fire 02. TALK 1 03. Martin Vogel - Pick A D 04. Jonna Lee - The light 05. Abalone Dots - Over Georgia 06. TALK 2 07. Tobias Hellkvist - Ships of the North Atlantic 08. Lapko - Killer whales 09. The Social Services - The Baltic Sea 10. TALK 3 [...]
The third and final installment of The Goner 's H-Trilogy is called "Haven" and is out now. Stream samples at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/gonergo nergoner Considering that the first two already rank as some of my favorite releases of the year, I'd say this one is probably just as crucial. Only 33 copies so act fast.
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show: 01. Theresa Andersson - Na na na (empty heart) 02. TALK 1 03. Soviac - Malorca 04. Agent Side Grinder - Ricocheting memories 05. Svenson - Howlong 06. TALK 2 07. Hello Kinski - Summer is a waste of time 08. Britta Persson - Kill Hollywood me 09. Tredje Mannen - Cul-de-sac 10. TALK 3 [...]
Here's another one that probably should've been included in last week's "best music of 2008 thus far" series of posts ( here , here and here ), but I ran out of days so what can ya do? As I stated before with regards to The Goner , the music he creates is willfully obscure psych/pop/drone par excellence and this particular track is the perfect culmination of everything he stands for. "Halartrallar" , the first EP of his planned H-Trilogy, leaned more towards the pop side of things with a few tracks that [...]
The Goner fits the definition of a cult artist to a T. What else can you say about a bedroom artist who puts out extremely limited hand-packaged CDRs of unique psych-pop? "Halartrallar" is the first EP of his planned H-Trilogy on his own Svarta Marknaden label. 33 copies in all, packaged in an oversized envelope. The music ranges from melancholy ballads to droning freak-folk to other songs such as today's pick "Kill them all save Simon Joyner" - a poppy, upbeat almost-country number with nonsensical lyrics, pop culture non-sequiturs, a driving bassline and metallic cling-clang percussion. [...]
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L.A. RECORD
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
Bison - Quill
SABRINA JOHNSTON + TIEFSCHWARTZ
American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
