You know what they never address on the Survivor season finales? What happens to the digestive systems of the last three contestants after 39 days of near-starvation, when they get that final breakfast delivered to them. Because I know if I lived off of only rice and fruit for over a month, the first time [...]
The Eversons are highlights in the fusion of past and present that is art-punk, a genre most recently propelled by names like Art Brut and The Rakes. Both groups debuted in 2005 with a thickly accented, spontaneously wry vocal wit backed by tremolo-heavy riffs and mechanical rhythms in a style akin to bands like Gang [...]
Sometimes I have to step back and think about the craziness of what was released by major labels in the 1960's; the scene was full of A&R men that must have been throwing their hands in the air saying something like "I don't understand what these crazy kids are up to, but these crazy kids make us a lot of money!". This record is complete and utter insanity compressed into 2:03. The sound of suburbia either cracking up on drugs personally or under the influence of those who HAD cracked up on drugs. From what it seems, most [...]
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Tweet If you're reading this, chances are you consider yourself to at least some extent a fan of underground music. Given that, you might be intrigued to hear about Israeli rockers Modern Tapes . They're an underground band. No, literally: they formed in a bomb shelter, as well as playing and recording there for nearly a year. Underground. (Yes, I've been super-excited to make this lame joke ever since I first heard about them. You may judge me.) Being based in [...]
The blog's slow today, so here's a lil' update from our favourite Bulgarian guy, RAKE.
Rake travels around, writes his name on walls, takes photos and sells cameras and film. His photos are great.
DIM MAK CELEBRATES 15TH ANNIVERSARY WITH THE "INDIE VAULT: VOLUME 13 posted by RZ22 for EYHO Blog Berlin Dim Mak Records is proud to announce its second installment of its vault series, "Indie Vault: Volume 13, Out Now. With this collection, Dim Mak revisits its Indie past with artists like Klaxons, Bloc Party, Whitey, Mystery Jets, The Rakes and many [...]
Hey everyone Just got my Internet back, and the first thing I did was downloading that dope remix of The White Stripes (rip, one of my favorite band ever...). Many, way too many, people tried to remix / cover Seven Nation Army for one obvious reason, you can be as bad as the lovechild of Guetta and Aoki, you'll do something that's not too bad, because the original song is one of the greatest ever made. [...]
Happy Super Bowl Sunday, you super people! I hope your team won, if you're a sports guy who likes a certain sports team. Otherwise, as we say in New York (about the Mets) better luck next year! Speaking of which, pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training soon. I don't have anything else to say really, so I guess I'll stop stalling and get to this week's mix tape. RULES for uninitiated noobs : I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever [...]
Amanda Jo Williams and Tommy Santee Klaws covered each other's songs for this digital release by local psychedelic guitar master 5-Track's label Binary Stars . Light Bloomer is the best $3 you can spend today. Then spend $5 more on November 20th to see both these bands play at HM157 for the Rakes record release show . It's good that AJW and TSK have come together. Their initials look nice side by side, and both bands seem to reside on the same astral-extraterrestrial plane, though in different parts of cosmic town. They're making [...]
dave van patten Tommy Santee Klaws "In Formation" (From the self-released Rakes out now) This record is ruthless and filled with weather. Sometimes it's rain-addled, green and gasping; sometimes there's barren, scorpion-infested desert fire; sometimes you see constellations. The band (really, more a militia) seamlessly oscillates between each microclimate, never at risk for jetlag. The man himself, Tommy Santee Klaws, has a brutal, quavering wail. At one moment he's threatening, a well-reasoned exponent of dread. The next, he's the spokesperson for failed animals [...]
Crescere. Evolversi. Ho latitato parecchio dalle pagine del blog, preso com'ero dai preparativi per l'apertura del nuovo ufficio. Ora qua dentro siamo finalmente operativi. Prossimamente vi farò vedere qualcosa della nostra nuova sede, luogo dove io e i miei altri 3 soci riusciremo a migliorare il nostro lavoro sia da un punto di vista quantitativo che qualitativo. Ne sono assolutamente convinto. Dicevo, al più presto vi farò vedere il mio nuovo ufficio. Magari non qui ma sul sito della nostra attività quindi, amici miei, stay tuned. [...]
Just in case you missed the streets lined with more flags than you ever thought existed, today is Labor Day. It's probably a rather bittersweet Labor Day for many, as our unemployment rate over here in the states isn't where we'd like it to be. Still, we pay tribute to the hard-working souls out there - both in and out of employment - with this mixtape of questionable thematic merit but awesome musical content. Enjoy! [See post to listen to audio] The Isley Brothers - Work To Do [See post to listen to [...]
In this, the latest of my podcast series, I present to you a podcast you can run for half an hour to. Well about 28 minutes to be exact. But none the less, since I had a bout of running earlier this year which I should really get back into, I've faced the pressure to find a good playlist to run to. This is the summation of that work. Or in fact merely the beginning. I'll probably expand my personal mix to around about an hour or so long. Because half of an hour is a pansy workout! Listen now [...]
Toronto - So if you follow baseball, you will know that pitching PHENOM Stephen Strasburg will be making his debut tonight for the Washington National against the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates. This man is supposed to be the savior for the floundering Nationals, who probably have yet to lose less then 100 games in a season or something. Seeing how they used to be the Montreal Expos, I guess there is very vague Canadian connection. Can you believe the Expos once dealt Grady Sizemore , Cliff Lee AND Brandon Phillips for Bartolo Colon [...]
Quick post today. Kano revealed via his Twitter last week that he's gonna be making a mixtape in seven days. Yes, writing, recording and releasing a mixtape in a week. That mixtape; Jack Bauer drops tonight at 9pm. Should be interesting what new flows KA is gonna bring to the scene. He leaked a new freestyle today at 5pm. Guess what beat its over. Yes, pass out! Some new Drake surfaced yesterday. Now this isn't gonna be off his forthcoming album, apparently its a reference track [...]
The Rakes - Work Work Work (Pub Club Sleep) I love the rakes and this song basically represents "going out on the town" to me.
Toronto - I am trying to become a better blog writer. I look at other music blogs and I admire their penmanship and the incredible detail they go into describe the music they are promoting. With that in mind, I decided to take notes (on my iphone) at the Laura Marling show. I will share those notes in a moment, but lets introduce the person whose show I just went to. Laura Marling is the current IT girl in terms of British folk music. If British Folk Music was a magazine, Laura Marling would [...]
Uhh, this got a bit side-tracked and I promised myself a gazillion times to finish it. But I'm now determined to finish this series soon at least before this year's festival. SATURDAY I began today after a day of music yearning for more, the first day was pretty good so I was reasonably excited. First up, after losing a friend for the morning, me and my mate TC went to see the fantasticaly energetic and probably rabid Pulled Apart By Horses. I did not know any of their stuff, but I loved [...]
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FREENESS: Robot Orchestra – Beat The Odds (Germany)
