ALBUM REVIEW OVER ADAM GREEN’S MINOR LOVE Artist: Adam Green Album: Minor Love Label: Rough Trade Records Total Length: 32 minutes, 35 seconds Release Date: February 16, 2010 When reviewing any album, there are three questions a listener needs to know the answer to before having an informed opinion: 1. Are the concepts behind the music relevant? 2. Does the music contain depth and substance in its content? and 3. Is the style of the work impressive? If we ask these three questions of Adam Green’s 2010 album, Minor Love , we can [...]
Photo Credit: Pop Justice Song Produced by Lady Gaga and Fernando Garibay Yesterday afternoon, I was checking updates on the blog's twitter account , where I follow any number of musicians. Around 5:00 pm I was surprised that amongst the mundane, I found the beginning of today's gem from Lady Gaga: Transcription: Lady Gaga [3:40 a.m.]: Surprise Monsters!: Born This Way (The Country Road Version) will be released on Twitter [...]
![Lou Reed - Poetry Reading, NYC [1991]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3279465_lg.jpg)
These tracks truly speak for themselves, made up of Lou Reed reading his poetry and lyrics for a crowd in New York City, 1991. Heroin is a lyrical masterpiece, so it’s great to hear how he gives these words credence in the context of intimate poetry. Dirty Boulevard is a great testament of Lou Reed’s love/hate relationship with New York. It Wasn’t Me is a thrilling political piece where he spears those who blame him for being a “bad” influence and causing his listeners to “sin”. The timing can be weird, when someone has to read something originally written in [...]
T.I. No Mercy – Lit. Review of the Collaborations FIX OF THE SYLABBLE-CHOPPERS That slick hiccup of a bump snuffed up the sum of others humming. Here’s those hot collabs of his new album. Get that? What about so fresh hot track, stepped off the rack yesterday they’re mad by way of waiting for Mr. do-time to come home & be released & release steam & release these. It’s amazing so amazing amazing baby baby amazing so amazing amazing baby baby. Who wouldn’t love her brother called amazing? Eminem did get in on this mix, w/ [...]
Here's a list of the 7 artists I'm mostly looking forward to see at SXSW 2011. You definitely should have heard of these artists by now. If not, click around below and turn up your speakers! OWEN PALLETT: Formerly, the artist known as Final Fantasy is surnamed Pallett. Apparently #FF was taken. Shucks, so wow-much more nude name now. What do you get when you mix queer theory as applied in multi-layered solo performances w/ stringed instruments [...]
---Swear, there's an mp3 below. I've been neglecting this blog for over a day in order to start up a twitter (visible from our site now), and working on a new project which can't be unveiled to y'all yet. Before I consolidate the two worlds of music blogging and music tweeting, and come back here for good, I wanted to try an experiment. Instead of tweeting about this blog 200+ times in three days, I decided to blog a bit about an mp3 I posted on my twitter. The song is Micachu and the Shapes - [...]
![SXSW 2011 Mix Pt. 3 [12 Tracks From Some Lesser-Known Artists]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3274085_lg.jpg)
How about, instead of artists everyone’s heard of, let’s now focus on bands that you’ve AT MOST barely heard of, ever. SXSW celebrates an ever-diversifying “line-up”, as if you can ever fit over 2,000 bands into a solid line-up, much less posting the info into just one word document w/o a computer crash. I’ll post a part 2 of this series VERY soon, so check back in soon. Happy festing! 1. The Black Angels - Telephone [mp3] 2. Charles Bradley - The World [Is Going Up In Flames] [mp3] 3. [...]
![HOW TO BUY JAMES BLAKE TICKETS for Sat. May 14, 2011 [The link's on this page]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3272309_lg.jpg)
via Collective Concerts ARTIST: James Blake DATE: Saturday, March 14, 2011 TIME: 9 PM PRICE: $20 Advance; $25 @ door VENUE: The Rivoli ADDRESS: 332 Queen St. West Toronto, ON M5V 2A2, Canada PHONE: (416) 977-5082 Age Requirements: Must be 19 years or older Tickets available for James Blake @ TicketMaster [here] They don't go on sale until Friday, March 11, 2011 10:00AM [...]
![SXSW 2011 - 54 Shows You Don't Want To Miss [Pt. 2]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3269524_lg.jpg)
Find Part One of this SXSW 2011 Suggested Shows Feed here . Updated w/ new info daily. Let's start with a hot event: James Blake, Raphael Saadiq, Duran Duran, Bun B; etc. and then we'll go into the rest. Congrats, we're about halfway through the 54 shows by everyone's favorite sxsw 2011 artists. Suggested Acts: James Blake (9:15 PM); Raphael Saadiq (11:15 PM); Duran Duran (12:30 AM); Bun B (8 PM); Smith Westerns (10:15 PM) AND MORE . . [...]
![SXSW 2011 - All The Artists You Should See and Have Heard Of; Text of Event Details and Flyer Images Abound [Pt. 1]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3269498_lg.jpg)
SXSW 2011 Is Here! Check out this page for all your favorite artist's concerts. Some of the more popular shows listed here have up to 8 artists at just one event. Here's to simplifying your SXSW 2011 Trip. If I don't have what you need, you're going to need to google it. I googled all these. It will be worth it as I show my band to get in to some of these great shows of SXSW 2011. Let's start with a great artist doing a show by themselves, then move right into it: [...]
All 7 of these albums were released yesterday, March 08, 2011. AUTHOR'S TOP PICK: Wye Oak - Civilian I saw this band live back in August, 2010. I loved the stage presence of their attitudes; so thick that they have a physicality, so tender it can be touched by anyone, and it touches back. They long to play their instruments, they mourn in front of you, they wail their tools as part of their dollar trade. Please buy this album below to support this [...]
![SXSW 2011 Mix [19 Tracks from the Largest Artists]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3267218_lg.jpg)
SXSW 2011 is upon us [Music: March 16-20. To celebrate this festival, I toast with part two of a mix. Part one was posted here. This full-length mix is meant for those interested in who the premiere groups which SXSW is showcasing this upcoming weekend. I plan to be in attendance [about a 6-hour drive away]. I plan on folding down the seats and sleeping in back of my car. I have gone with zero dollars before, and its fun even if all you can do is eat and walk [...]
![Legends: Joy Division [1976-1980]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3263607_lg.jpg)
Joy Division has been a favorite band of mine for a few years now. When I was younger, I never wanted to be like Ian Curtis. I wanted to be Ian Curtis. In some ways, I was. In other words, if you didn’t know by now, this band is worth obsessing over. This band is worth listening to every song they produced, and then sifting through each track, after many repeated plays, find your favorites. Here’s 5 of mine: 1. [...]
SXSW 2011 is upon us. To celebrate this festival, I toast with a mix: This full-length mix is meant for those interested in who the premiere groups which SXSW is showcasing this upcoming weekend. I plan to be in attendance [about a 6-hour drive away]. I plan on folding down the seats and sleeping in back of my car. I have gone with zero dollars before, and its fun even if all you can do is eat and walk the streets amongst the crowd of tens-of-thousands. Last year I got lost among the hundreds [...]
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake Do you like PJ Harvey? I don't. There are things to like about it, but not inherently within it. I enjoy the moat but not necessarily the citizens within. However, there is an English uprising allegegedly, with the youth, thus the godmother stakes her claim in the issues at hand. More hopeful and positive for future change, despite a grim outlook on status quo. Who's to blame? Not PJ Harvey. Here's four songs to whom the album belongs, dig the song titles, yeh?: [...]
![An Introduction to Mr. Sufjan Stevens for Dr. Salyers [Author's Repost from 2006]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3262719_lg.jpg)
/ / / EDITOR's Note: This is a Re-posting that originally appeared on this blog in 2006. It is the third in a series of reposting popular articles from the past. Maybe it's outdated, but evidently that doesn't mean it's irrelevant. Over.//// An Introduction to Mr. Sufjan Stevens for Dr. Salyers For ones who may be reading this outside of The King's College and wondering about these four as the chosen songs to introduce the much broader [...]
Devotchka The new Devotchka album was recorded in Arizona. The tracks sound familiar to fans, though once again this is another 2011 album with exemplary production. The band hath outdone itself not in lyrics or vocals, but in instrumentation and overall feel. While their sound is not as groundbreaking as it once was, there’s not much room for this kind of band to develop when they already started at the limits. Here are four songs off the new album, entitled “100 Lovers” [...]
These three women, lined up to change the world; unlike the other ones, lined up to see them or changing lanes or clinging to coke lines. These three women, wrapped up in linens and examined as is. Three women at a restaurant with no make-up on, run them through a background check. Robyn is more lyrically carefree, all about the dance anthem. Ke$ha is lyrically dumber/funner. Uffie is lyrically more mischievous and intellectual. All three have solid vocals and mess around on the 1’s and 2’s quite a bit. Here are 3 mp3 examples of each, in case you don’t [...]
Here are four albums with one song example from each. They are all EP's or singles by James Blake, released within the last two years. Below are small writings on or around each. James Blake - Air and the Lack Thereof Sparing The Horses [2009] MP3 Quiet intro until builds into snaps where the mind’s edges clap together. Syncopate the tune please and quit freaking me out, man. Oh wait, those vox, so great. Thanks. [...]
![Discovery: Of Weekend AND Riot [Addendum]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3257974_lg.jpg)
[Discovery] Discovery was formed from Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend [keyboard/production] and Ra Ra Riot’s Wes Miles [vocals]. The combination makes for excellent pop, which expanded until flying away, in my town this past summer. The acceptability of the music mixed with its functional erraticism causes surprise on first listen and ear-warmth thereafter, as the ear wormeth. Here is a revue of Vampire Weekend; Ra Ra Riot; and lastly, Discovery. Parts of 1. Vampire Weekend [...]
The Concert Room
Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead
Macklemore + Ryan Lewis – Can’t Hold Us (Major Lazer Remix)
L D R U – The Tropics
