*MP3: The Poison Control Center - "Start The Revolution" The Poison Control Center's new album, Sad Sour Future , comes out tomorrow on Afternoon Records (woot!) and it is amazing. In honor of the release, the PCC boys put together a great mix of sad and sour songs for MFR and sent me this statement: "To celebrate the release of Sad Sour Future on Afternoon Records this week, we came up with [...]
Deeper into cosmic, tech and dubstep... RTYPE Ecliptical Mix by r-type RTYPE 'ECLIPTICAL' MIX 1. Soul Mekanik - I'll Call U (Acapella) [Rip] 2. Claro Intelecto - Know The Lingo [Modern Love] 3. Kink - Bitter Sweet [Liebe*Detail] 4. I:Cube - Falling [Versatile] 5. Floating Points - Vacuum Boogie [Eglo] 6. The Timewriter - Love Is Beautiful (Francois Dubois Remix) [Plastic City] 7. Soul Clap - Bobby [Soul [...]
Spring is in full force, people are out and enjoying the warmer, longer days, making plans for the summer, soaking up the sunshine and forgetting about one of the snowiest and coldest winters in years. What better way to celebrate the days of spring than with a mix of spring-themed, and upbeat, songs from a variety [...] Related posts:Songs of Spring Playlist, Vol II: Club 8, Akron/Family, The Flaming Lips, Afternoon Naps and More Songs of Spring Playlist, Vol I: Annuals, Spinning Wheels,... Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock [...]
I have this giant notion running about in my head lately about the circular nature of, well everything, but in this case, music. It involves the advent of digital music, the push for everything new all the time, and of course the rabid, teeth-bared snarl of the blogosphere. It's a whopper if I don't say [...]
One of the reigning champions of that lofi sound, Ty Segall has a new LP. It is called Melted and it comes out next week on May 18 via Goner Records . Here is the Kinks -y track that has been floating around the internets for a little while in anticipation. Listen. Downloadable: Caesar (mp3) You can preorder Melted @ Insound . If you like, you showed probably check out last year's excellent, Lemons . Downloadable: Lovely One [...]
Hopefully this will be the first in a successful line of guest writers on APFOS. We present to you... Dan! Considering I've never written for a blog I approach the task with some trepidation especially considering I'm invading on a perfectly decent sibling partnership whose franchise is growing in success. Yet here goes, I saw LCD Soundsystem live in Manchester. Due to unforeseen circumstances we missed the support act which seemed fairly unimportant considering the standard of LCD's performance. There's an art to playing dance music without turntables and LCD [...]
I perused the concert movie Glastonbury the other night which is to be seen not so much for the music as for the way it captures the brash streak of eccentricity of the British. They take their lunacy much more seriously than Americans, which is saying something. Standouts Bjork and Ray Davies killed it the hardest. I loved the sight of seeing the massive throngs swaying, washed in dusklight and sha-la-la-ing upon Davies' command to the song Waterloo Sunset , a song that's kind of quaint [...]
We love our Moms. We love excuses for creating playlist mixes. We love sharing them with you. We love that we're on the cusp of summer. "First-Time Mother's Joy (Flying)" - Mercury Rev from The Secret Migration (2005) "Treat Me Like Your Mother" - The Dead Weather from Horehound (2009) "Mother" - Pink Floyd from The Wall (1979) "Mother's [...] Related posts:Mother's Day Playlist: Iron & Wine, The Kinks,... Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
I've been caught up in the whole deep house thing for ages now, but still find myself wondering what the hell does "deep" mean.... So I did a little research, and by research I mean wikipedia. Deep House is, by definition, " a subgenre of house music that fuses elements of Chicago house into the 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music ." I never fully understood the meaning, Deep House was always that 5 am [...]
"You Really Got Me - The Story of the Kinks" is a recently released 90 minute DVD that uses a montage of footage including many rarely scene performances in both B&W and colour to take you on a trip through the legend of The Kinks however as the voice over and narrative are from a US perspective and because of the infamous ban handed down to the band for "reasons unknown" the period of bands exile from USA is skipped over. Homage is paid to one of the most influential bands of the British [...]
If you read this wee lil' blog often, you might notice that I'm always droning on about finding "meaning" in songs, enjoying "meaningful lyrics" and the like. As a fiction writer I've always been big on my stories having some moral, and overall I value art the most if it somehow teaches me something about how to live my life. I guess, for me, that's what art should truly be about (and before you say it, yes, a song can just be fun and artful-fun itself is pretty instructive, isn't it?). I say this [...]
RIGHT - lifeboat helpers, thank you very much for volunteering, we need as many bodies as we can get. Tomorrow Mrs. Toad cooks roast lamb, as it's nice and Springy these days, and we get in a gallon of red wine and after pestering the good people of Stockbridge for their spare cash we shall eat and drink and record a podcast and make merry. Our house (email if you don't know where that is) between 10am and 4pm please! In other news it is the eagleowl EP launch tonight, at the Roxy Room. Hairy bollocks that EP [...]
The Who - The Real Me Die Anfänge der britischen Mod-Bewegung liegen in den späten 1950er Jahre. Damals wollten sich besonders Angehörige der Arbeiterschicht, gemäß des Leitspruchs „Der Schein bestimmt das Sein", von seinem Schmuddelimage lösen und sich durch Stil und Verhalten der Oberschicht annähern. Plötzlich trug die Jugend maßgeschneiderte Anzüge und Markenklamotten. Um diese angemessen zu schützen wurde während der Motorrollerfahrt ein Parka übergezogen, der schon bald das Markenzeichen der Bewegung wurde. Vor allem in den 1960er sowie in dem Wiederaufleben der Bewegung Ende der 1970er wurde dieser mit zahlreichen Aufnähern [...]
Long time friends Ramadanman & Midland team up for their first release together with this EP on Aus Music . Seeking to breakdown barriers between sub bass garage sounds and house music, Ramadanman & Midland created an innovative sound with this EP. "Your Words Matter" is a testament to this innovation with a deep warbling bass line and an uplifting soulful vocal hook that is chopped up in a very soothing and uplifting way. Check out the full release HERE , on beatport. [...]
[ Ovum Recordings ] (buy vinyl tk) ( buy mp3s ) After listening to the track "Existence" from KiNK's Rachel EP for Ovum Recordings, I found myself slightly appalled. Essentially it's a rework of "Changes of Life," a 1992 cut by Jeff Mills, done as a tech-house wind up. Fitted with a new set of filters, delays, and freshly phased drum rolls, "Existence" dices up that signature piano riff to closely resemble its exemplar but remain just different enough to warrant being called its own. But it's missing the rawness [...]
Pretty cool track out in 20002, reminisiant of 90s house scene, but with a moderen twist- you can actually see some similarities with this as quite a lot of dubstep and 'oldschool... High quality download and some links hidden from RSS feed, click through to http://www.feelmybicep.com for full download
[Boe Recordings] ( buy vinyl ) (buy mp3s tk) In Islamic parlance, food that's been prepared in accordance with Sharia law is designated as halal, similar to the Jewish distinction of kosher foods. So by naming its seventh release Halal Prepared Vol.1 London-based Boe Recordings sends a strong signal regarding the level of respect it affords to house music's underground fore-bearers and traditions. Yet the three tracks on offer here from KiNK, Iron Curtis and Ladzinski are reverent rather than than obedient - clearly influenced by seminal house releases but [...]
Filed under: News , Movies Most rock music fans have an appreciation for the Kinks , but Geoff Edgers, an arts writer for the Boston Globe, has an obsession that he's been taking to the next level since 2008. In a new documentary entitled 'Do It Again,' Edgers embarks on a quest to reunite the British band and get Ray and Dave Davies , the band's famously-feuding brothers, back onstage together. "The Kinks are simply rock's great, underappreciated band," Edgers told the Arlington Advocate . "They've [...]
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If you're unaware of what Music Monday is, it's a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too. Using the hashtag (#) followed by "MusicMonday" you can easily find new music posted by the thousands of people making recommendations each week. Every #MusicMonday I upload a playlist of 20 songs that I've been listening to (new and old) over the [...]
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