Imagine Chapterhouse, Teenage Fanclub and RIDE all at once and you have UK Psych-Pop/Shoegaze outfit Sun Dial — the most under-the-radar band with the most obvious sound, especially on Reflecter . It's too bad they travelled in the shadows of these other acts they were so accurately compared to because they had some dynamite songs. At that time, if you weren't in your late teens and had at least three out of four pretty boys in your group then you were relegated to a one paragraph review in NME (see Bleach, The Charlottes, Nightblooms, [...]
I had my camera. I took almost 4,000 pictures. That seemed like a lot, but once I factored in the number of bands, the odd things that have to be documented, the friends gathering for shenanigans and the eight long days involved, it really wasn't surprising. I haven't done the final tally, but it would be fair to say that I saw part of a set from around seventy bands. It is my turn to give a rundown on bests and worsts of The Conference . The many highs were tempered by very [...]
I had my camera. I took almost 4,000 pictures. That seemed like a lot, but once I factored in the number of bands, the odd things that have to be documented, the friends gathering for shenanigans and the eight long days involved, it really wasn't surprising. I haven't done the final tally, but it would be fair to say that I saw part of a set from around seventy bands. It is my turn to give a rundown on bests and worsts of The Conference . The many highs were tempered by very [...]
HD Video by G. Sometimes life is too surreal to be believed. I am a die-hard Janis Joplin fan and several years ago, I was elated that her appearances on the Dick Cavett Show were released in full on DVD. One of the best episodes was from 1970, where just mere months before Janis died, she appeared on the Dick Cavett Show and one of the other guests was actress Raquel Welch. The episode is epic in every way from Janis' performance of "Get It While You Can," to her and Raquel engaging in conversation with Dick Cavett. The Cavett box [...]
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By Chris Gedos O.k. so this one's slightly obvious given its sporadic rotation on OBG / Sirius 60's radio, but The Reflections' one hit wonder, "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet", occupies a unique place in Detroit music history. Originally released by Golden World Records, the song climbed to #6 during the week of May 30th, 1964, one of the greatest in the history of pop music (the top three that week included "Love Me Do", "Chapel of Love", and "My Guy"). "(Just Like) Romeo [...]
Genre: House, Tech House. Keep Moving released by Ryan Dupree on Stil Vor Talent, includes 4 tracks.
The good brother Blazo just hit us up with his latest release "Reflections" out today . Blazo as everyone should know by now is one of the most known producers to come from the Nujabes school of piano inspired Hip-Hop production. 20th of January marks the release of 'Reflections' the third album by Blazo . This time around the album features: CL , The 49ers and Nieve . The 15 track album draws inspiration from [...]
Mark Aubert has a new tape filled with, Lost / Found , beat artifacts that were left behind and put unto a dusty shelf of his. The 16 track beat-tape runs with grooving loops, easy-sounding lounge, and a robust soul embedded regime that uplifts and rules all the sound waves. Chill out and reflect on the mind with this one. Download the whole thing on his bandcamp . <p>&amp;lt;p&a mp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt; a href=" http://markaubert.bandcamp.com /album/lost-found"&amp ;amp;amp;gt;Lost / Found by Mark Aubert&amp;amp;amp;lt; /a&amp;amp;amp;gt;& ;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; </p> Also :: He's got [...]
The new year always brings massive periods of reflection for me. Not only do we all start a new chapter, but I have a January birthday, so I'm looking ahead and acknowledging my past simultaneously. I assess where I want to be, areas of life to improve and lessons to keep in my back pocket. I've always been an extremely deep thinker, and music significantly marks and highlights different seasons on my life. Blind I is making some exciting changes this year and it's beginning with revamping the way we approach our compilations. I [...]
Electric Envoy - Midnight Monk EP released by Hypnotic Room, includes 4 Deep Techno tracks.
First of all.. Who is VNDL ? If you haven't been around for the last year.. Well thats what you missed because this guy as HUGE potential !! CHECK IT OUT ! VNDL is Philippe Vandal, 20 years old, from Montreal , Canada. Philippe started producing electronic music in October 2009. Inspired by the whole Hymen Records and even Abstrakt Reflections, he is surrounded by his own inspirations. Access to Arasaka, Amon Tobin, Gridlock, Apparent Symmetry, HECQ, just to name a few… [...]
Original beats, lyrics and flows on "SANKOFA". Don't sleep on this one ya'll, 13 tracks of continuous goodness. As the title suggests, this album is about a return to and reflection on the entire cycle of life. The recording for Sankofa began in November of 2009 and the project wasn't complete until November of this year. The album features guest appearances from Namibian Soul star Shishani and Eric Ian Farmer, a North Carolina vocalist of incredible range and prior G-DO & Xception collaborator. CLICK HERE [...]
Word Is Bond kicks off a month of reflection and celebration of all things hip-hop that have transpired over these last 12 months with a series of posts exalting the best of the best from the collective editorial cerebrum here at the blog. The first piece in this presentation is a round-up of our favourite videos. Due to great diversity; these are in no particular order the TOP 10 VIDEOS OF 2010 Lupe Fiasco - Words I Never Said CLICK IMAGE FOR VIDEO [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Let me start by saying I had no intention of creating a definitive, all-encompassing Winter 2011 playlist. A feat like that should be left only to the people who can spend all of their hours sorting through thousands of albums, identifying the standouts, and only then would they be able to define what they believe a Winter 2011 playlist should consist of. Knowing that my capacity as a human to waste away my days listening to music is limited, I instead turned to a modest [...]
Royal Albert's conceivably still shuddering in dumbfounded stupor even two weeks after Polly Jean Harvey gave him a bone-trembling pre-Hallowe'en fright . Would he finally have composed himself in time for one of Britain's truly great polymathic acts to shriek and blaze through three hours-plus? Tonight, The Cure's sole UK Reflections show, is something of a remorseless sonic excavation down into the quite literally deepest catacombs of the back catalogue, Robert Smith and a fluctuating cast of four exhuming the first three records (rightly discounting those unorthodox compilations for the irritable [...]
Almost exactly 20 years ago, I cut a morning class with my college roommate Scott and my friend Molly, went across the street and bought a copy of Achtung Baby , came back to the dorm, ordered a pizza and took in the album from beginning to end. I was deeply disappointed. The Joshua Tree was the focal point of my high school rock star dreams, with the live version of "Where The Streets Have No Name" from Rattle and Hum being the live version of said dreams, and [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Releases Courtesy of Roger O'Donnell It's hard to think of the Cure without hearing the iconic Brit band's indelible synths, but the man manning the keyboards since 1987, Roger O'Donnell, has spent the past few years on other projects after Robert Smith downsized to a trio in 2005. But earlier this year O'Donnell returned to the Cure for a series of 'Reflections' shows [...]
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