As leader of the San Francisco band Translator, Steve Barton helped create four of the 1980s greatest albums and the ultra catchy hit single "Everywhere That I'm Not." West Coast Bureau chief Keith Valcourt caught up with Barton in Los Angeles to discuss all things Translator, playing John Lennon in a Beatles Tribute band , what it's like top have the Brady Bunch's "Cousin Oliver" as your drummer and his his haunting new solo CD: "Projector" Rocker: Is it true you started your professional [...]
It's not easy to come up with exemplary pop songs. I'm talking about material of the caliber associated with the Beatles, Cardigans, Raspberries, Todd Rundgren, La's, Translator, Nerves, Howie Beck, and scores of one- or two-hit wonders who made the airwaves such a happy place from the late '50s through early '80s. For Projector , Translator and Oblivion Click songwriter/frontman Steve Barton 's managed one such slice of lasting amazingness. "These 4 Walls" is good enough to stand with a gem from Teenage Fanclub, ELO, or, uh, Translator. It's simultaneously driven and haunting. Barton's [...]

Somehow, a recent conversation with a friend turned to a discussion of English-language covers of foreign songs. I'm not exactly sure how that happened (the conversation, not me having a friend) but it inspired me to write this post and share a few of my favorites. Warning: this is going to be Flash-y. I want to include specific videos so I'm going to keep it all in the same format for consistency. Let's begin. And yes, I know the photo is completely unrelated. I'm doing a thing here, so just let it go. An oldie but [...]

Sometime I really wish I understood exotic oriental languages. That's why I'm so glad Dirty Projectors have a new song translated from a super cool ancient language. Check it out in this vid. posted by @EstabanBelChere

New single from Othello's recent release "Translation Please" featuring the Pocket Change band, not much more info on this album unfortunately. But as a long time fan of Othello myself, I am felling this greatly, soulful boombap, with live instrumentation, it really doesn't get any better than this. Listen to the full album preview below and if you dig, purchase from Amazon Digitally now, and CD Baby on physical form soon. [...]

Dela just reached out via mail with this gem by DJ Spinna, from the new/remastered edition of Dela's Translation Lost album, 7" out may 1st , CD & 2LP may 15th , Digital march 30th Dear all , here's a little something we've made happen for the physical release of Translation Lost. hope you'll like it. feel free to share, give feedback, anything. - Dela Previous posts on Dela Dela: Twitter . MySpace [...]

Wrighteous - Listen ft. Intalek & Ced Hughes (prod. MP Franco) Originally released as part of his #WrighteousWednesday campaign, VA artist Wrighteous is beginning the new year by re-releasing a track which will be featured on his upcoming release, Live & Learn, slated for March of 2012. "Listen" displays more of his lyrical abilities along with two of Virginia's premier up and coming artists, Intalek (@Intalek) & Ced Hughes (@CEDTheMighty)... WIB TRANSLATIONS!! Wrighteous: Twitter 602Diggler Tags: 2012 , 602Diggler , ced , [...]

Artwork by Jonas Eriksson [ Ostgut Ton ] Marcel Dettmann reawakened the relationship between industrial abstraction and techno on his steely yet gritty debut album, but his new EP Translation sees the German DJ/producer operating in a radically different sphere. Indeed, this creative restlessness is a common feature of his catalog so far: just as soon as he teases [...]
In surveying jangle-pop albums, calling an album great makes allowance for more uninspired tracks than on most other genre releases. Like early '50s rock albums by groups like the Everly Brothers – who inspired many of them – they are slipshod assemblies of 45s and tracks produced to sound faintly like those 45s. They're nevertheless [...]
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NO DJ track off Gucci Mane's Writing on the Wall 2 mixtape. DOWNLOAD: Gucci Mane Ft. Yo Gotti & Cartel – Translation [Prod. By Drumma Boy] (NO DJ)

It is time for the next volume of the Best Downloadables of 2011 . You can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) or you can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom left of the page. If you are using Chrome you should really think about installing the awesome ex.fm extension (especially if you use last.fm ). Listen. Downloadables: ( ) [...]
What happens when you cover Top 40 hits in haze, fog, and then drown them until they're reborn as something new? You get Jealov's Translations EP, of course! OK, that was a little much, but the Belgium resident reinterpretations of cuts like Jay-Z 's "99 Problems" and Sean Paul's "Temperature" are ethereal, lush journeys into the deep. Also, you know, the mysterious producer makes "Temperature" listenable outside of being in a drunken stupor at a bar or club. No easy feat. Hit the skip to stream and download the EP. It's a precursor of sorts [...]

The world of Jealov has been a mysterious one since its very inception. The Belgium group of producers/film makers have been putting out short cryptic films in the lead up to their new EP, Translations . Now the EP has dropped, the level of obscurity seems apt. The record is hard to define, yet rather than being annoyingly unobtainable in terms of understanding; it plays with well-known and loved sounds and samples. The record, largely made up of well popular Rn'B and Hip-Hop samples, plays with these sounds and [...]
Had a nice vacation, did a lot of ... nothing ... but that's what vacations are for I guess. The weather is finally getting better in Belgium, but I kept you guys waiting long enough so time to get going again. And what better way to start blogging again then with a free EP coming from creative minds Jealov . Their Translations EP is getting a free release on the Los Angeles based Mush Records, some of the tracks already past this frontpage but are worth posting again! Hard to paste a genre on their music, but [...]

photos by Amanda Hatfield This summer seems to be the summer of ticks. Spend one hour outside in some tall grass and you are sure to have a tick crawling somewhere on your body. To make matters worse, as soon as you find one, you will no doubt have that creepy crawly feeling that they are all over you. Minnesota has two species of ticks, the wood tick and the deer tick. Wood ticks are relatively harmless, while deer ticks can carry lyme [...]

Translations was one of the most positive notes at our May 2011 B.E.A.F. Fest - their inventive, textural psych rock also earned them a Deli "CD of the Month" in September 2010. The band just released this cover of Nico's "I'll keep it with mine" ( here 's the original), taking the opportunity to announce that they will be playing at the South Street Seaport Music Festival on August 11, and releasing our favorite track " Tarantella " on a limited edition 7" on Seaport Records. Mp3: Translations - " [...]

Washington's Translation Recordings made their debut with a jaw-droppingly good 123 from Resound in 2005 and over the past 6 years, have dipped in and out of the vinyl market while keeping digital releases frequent. Their first venture into vinyl for 2011 is set to arrive on the 25th of July and sees two of the finest exponents of quality deep drum n bass join up for remix duties. Both producers bring their a-game and deliver two chunks of dancefloor friendly bass driven goods with a sprinkling of dark atmospherics that hint at early [...]

It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you [...]

Why the long face Lady Gaga? Ran out of "looks?" Filed under: Beats , Yankee Panky Tagged: cover , down , gaga , lady , magazine , new , spex , stills , tones , translation