1) "You Will Miss Me When I Burn" - Palace Brothers from Days In The Wake [ Buy it ] 2) "Leave The City" - Magnolia Electric Co. from What Comes After The Blues [ Buy it ] 3) "Steal The Crumbs" - Uncle Tupelo from Anodyne [ Buy it ] 4) "Round and Round (It Won't [...]
Photo by Martin Fuchs Reading the front-page headlines is starting to become more like the obituaries. Fifty-three dead in a Pakistan bombing, tens of thousands of Chinese children poisoned by tainted milk, American and global markets teetering on the brink, intermittent dispatches from largely forgotten wars. It's a pretty rough time, and the national mood is growing darker than ever. Yet as difficult as it'll be to pull through some of the crises we face, there's another task that's nearly as daunting: producing art that effectively speaks to the times. [...]
Back in New York, I'm wearing jackets and even sweaters again. The frost of fall's setting in, but what's really put the chill in my bones is the new Horse Feathers album. House With No Home , a stunning follow-up to the stunning Words Are Dead , is a record that'll mess with your body chemistry. Hearing those elegiac strings or Justin Ringle's tender voice might make your heart murmur or your posture slacken. Its soft, soaring melodies might prompt Thoreau-style walks in the woods or fingers inching toward the repeat button. But most of all, as the [...]
"Molten Light" Chad VanGaalen "Delivery Man" The Cool Kids "Idyll" Benoît Pioulard "Wrestlers" Hot Chip "Her Disappearing Theme" Broken Social Scene "Summertime" Wiley
Photo from Vintage Photo (via Avi Abrams ) * MP3: "March Movement" - Talkdemonic from Eyes At Half Mast [ Buy it ] * MP3: "Delivery Man" - The Cool Kids [ Buy other Cool Kids ] * MP3: "Un Día" - Juana Molina from Un Día [ Preorder it [...]
Photo from ggaabboo I miss letters. My address scrawled out on the envelope. The twenty-three-cent stamp voided with grill marks. The folded looseleaf and lines of blue script. Chatty paragraphs from pen pals or long-distance girlfriends updating me about their lives. I's dotted with stars; the vague scents of foreign places. I don't remember the last time I've received a letter, and I don't remember the last time I've written one. It seems like a relic of a bygone century now, a time when we'd condense months of [...]
Photo by Stephanie Goulding Tricky's Knowle West Boy isn't Maxinquaye or Pre-Millennium Tension . But I think it should get a decently good reception, because it's also not Vulnerable or Blowback . No, it lands somewhere between those poles, alternating between old genius and more recent embarrassment. On this new album, Tricky is most successful at reviving the [...]
Photo by Arndalarm "Sort of like a dream. No, better," Air France sang earlier this year on "Collapsing At Your Doorstep." I don't know what subject they had in mind, but it should've been Blue Sky Black Death's fourth album Late Night Cinema . This set of gauzy dreamscapes effortlessly drifts between the waking and unconscious, a glyercine-drip of moving moments and indelible ephemera. Though BSBD's members, Kingston and Young God, have a background in hip-hop production, their new work goes far beyond genre parameters. Late Night Cinema [...]
1) "Kids Are Your Friends" (MGMT-Justice-Pitbull Reeemix) - JAPATTACK! [ Visit them ] 2) "Pop Bottles" (Yea Man Remix) - Birdman and Lil Wayne [ Buy other Lil Wayne ] 3) "Say Whoa" (Boys Noize Remix) - A-Trak [ Visit A-Trak ] [ Visit Boys Noize ] 4) "Council Estate" (Drums of Death Remix) - Tricky [ Buy other Tricky ] [ Visit Drums of Death ] 5) "Gold And A Pager" (Klever's Moon Walk [...]
1) "Kids Are Your Friends" (MGMT-Justice-Pitbull Reeemix) - JAPATTACK! [ Visit JAPATTACK! ] 2) "Pop Bottles" (Yea Man Remix) - Lil Wayne and Birdman [ Buy other Lil Wayne ] 3) "Say Whoa" (Boys Noize Remix) - A-Trak [ Visit A-Trak ] [ Visit Boys Noize ] 4) "Council Estate" (Drums of Death Remix) - Tricky [ Buy other Tricky ] [ Visit Drums of Death ] 5) "Gold And A [...]
Photo by Bob Richards Well, this is it. The suitcase is out of the closet; the months of crusty dishes are simmering in the sink. A cold wind's already threading through the Montreal nights, confirming the creep of fall. Tomorrow, I'll be back on the Amtrak, taking in the green landscapes before they're shedding their dead leaves. After a three-month high, I've been errantly wandering this city these last few days. I've been getting all contemplative and shit, reflecting on my run here, wishing I could somehow prolong this truant [...]
"Kim and Jessie" M83 "In Our Talons" Bowerbirds "Just A Friend" Biz Markie "Good Morning" Kanye West "Radio Ladio" Metronymy "Sunflower" Low
I Hans-Peter Lindstrøm's long-anticipated official LP debut , this album features three sprawling songs that range between ten and twenty-nine minutes. It's epic and expansive where most electronic music of this ilk is built around immediate payoff, patchy and challenging and moody where most others aim to please. II The natural intersection between dance as ambient and ambient as dance. [...]
Photo by Xris Manteris The stalest trope in hip-hop criticism used to be the plight of the female MC. Why there weren't more, why they didn't get more attention, why they weren't better. It was trotted out in the early days of MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, and Salt 'N Pepa and revived for the bitch-hop heyday of Foxy Brown and Li'l Kim. But at this point, I'm almost starting to miss the cliché. There are so few woman rappers of note today that no one's even around to call attention [...]
Photo by Reem * MP3: "What Was Raymond Doing With His Hands? (A Soundtrack for a Real Swinger of a Nightmare)" - Steinski (via The Village Voice ) * MP3: "Get It Up" - Esau Mwamwaya, Santogold, M.I.A and Radioclit [ Buy other Santogold ] [ Buy other M.I.A. ] [ Buy other Radioclit ] * [...]
Parc Jeanne-Mance, Montreal, 8-17-08
Photo by Stefano Corso Sometimes, you need night songs. Lullabies gentle enough to ease you into sleep, or seductive enough to strike a different tone. Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell's second collection together, Sunday at Devil Dirt , is steeped in just such nighttime moods--lassitude, ache and more than a little libido. With their contrasting vocal styles, the singers ably embody all those competing desires. Lanegan, formerly of grunge asterisks Screaming Trees, sounds like a [...]
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