Three weeks ago I posted a list of my 50 favorite albums of the past decade. You can catch up with that here , here , here , here , and here , if you'd like. While drafting the list I found that I rediscovered plenty of albums that were and are still worthy of more attention, even though they ultimately weren't included on the finished product. It was extremely difficult to cut many of them, especially those made by lesser-known artists. So starting last week, continuing today, and for the next 2 Mondays I'll [...]
Although their debut album dates back to Feb 2007, it was only recently I discovered this band... Pas onlangs ontdekte ik via een collega-blogger de Amerikaanse band The National Lights , hoewel hun debuut ( The dead will walk, dear ) al in februari 2007 uitgebracht werd. Meer dan een rimpeling en goede recensies veroorzaakte dat niet, en dat is best wel jammer, [...]
I really hate to call this conglomeration of tunes a "mixtape", because there is no coherent theme. Other than it's pretty good stuff that I don't have time to post about. Most of it (but not all) was garnered from the bowels of payplay.fm , a great source of eclectic indie music. I tried to sort through the stuff that I "borrowed" from other blogs and eliminate it, but some of it was too good to pass up. Unfortunately, not all creators of mp3's are as anal about creating tags as I am. So [...]
A few months ago, Stephen King, who I respect in the same way I respect Nick Hornby, as a writer whose work I like who also has a pretty good critical perspective on popular culture, wrote a piece for Entertainment Weekly about coolness, and who was cool and who wasn't, specifically in terms of pop artists. (Find it here .) It was actually surprisingly curmudgeonly and, in my opinion almost as off-base as Sasha Frere Jones' article about how indie music has disconnected itself from black music. However, it gave me permission to use coolness to define my best-of-2007 [...]
Before starting, I must confess: I don't know much about the south beyond the typical negative stereotypes (which I will not enumerate here). But for a region plagued by such a controversial and turbulent history, the south sure inspires gorgeous music. And while only some of the artists featured in this ...
I have recently had to leave Ohio for my native Pennsylvania, and though I love Pennsylvania, I miss Ohio terribly. In honor of the 3 splendid years I got to spend there, I make this entry here, filled with great bands all with something to say about the Buckeye State. Here's to you, Ohio. I miss you. The National Lights " O, Ohio " Sun Kil Moon " Carry Me, Ohio " (left click) Over the Rhine " Ohio " (YouSendit link)
The National Lights, from Richmond, Virginia, have released an album called The Dead Will Walk, Dear , on BloodShake Records, and it's lovely (in a full moon shining through the pine trees in a lonely forest in Kentucky sort of way.) I have found myself listening to it a lot lately - in the car, on my way to work, on my computer at work. One song flows into another so seamlessy that the album seems to be over in the space of time one song usually takes. Everything works: the 21st-century folk arrangements, the self-assured production by Chris [...]
SS: You're right. But then the question is—whose vetting process is this, and who are these people? A buddy of mine, I went and saw his art at DUMBO, and I asked him why his shit wasn't showing in the big New York galleries. And he said he can't get in there, he doesn't know anybody. It's just the way it works. Your response to that can be "Fuck them, I don't need the imprimatur of a bunch of Manhattan gallery owners to know that I'm good," and you'd be right. But if you're a painter and you want people [...]
Jan 4, 2007, 4:21am
3hive
BloodShake Records's (or is it Records'? Yeah, it's Records', right? You do 's when following a singular noun ending in s? This is what happens when I teach only history classes for a semester...) other artist , Sonya Cotton , was well received here at the 'hive, so I though I'd pitch The National Lights. Slow and brooding, the Lights provide a further vehicle for Cotton's lovely voice — here as backing vocals — while setting somber scenes of desolation and vague desire. Well, at least it's pretty music, even if it's not exactly [...]
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