posted by Matt: The Maynards released a great record at the end of last year called, Date and Destroy , and as I'm halfway through watching this year's Grammy Awards (the cool blogs told me it'd be worth it), I've never been more happy that music like this exists. Scrappy garage rock, shouted vocals...the band gets described as 'fun' a lot, but they're also just really good....WHAT! Stevie Wonder is playing with the Jonas Brothers?! I appreciate that the Grammys want to fuse the new and the old, but that's like [...]
Posted by Andrew: The Walkmen are just the best. Their new record "You & Me" has kinda flown under the radar since they released it last year, but I have been all over it. I'm having a really tough time deciding if it is my fav record of theirs. I didn't think they would ever match how great their second record "Bows & Arrows" was, but they came pretty damn close here. Also, the TFD offices just got word that they are going on tour with Kings Of Leon in the spring, so that is makes us very [...]
posted by Matt: Awhile back I organized a small East Coast tour featuring my pals Shotgun Jimmie and The Superfantastics. I also invited a guy I only knew through his Myspace, named Dan Griffin. I guess he figured tagging a long didn't seem like such a bad idea, and met us for the dates. It wasn't long into his first performance before it became obvious that Dan comes by naturally what so many singer/songwriters spend hours on pirated versions of Pro Tools trying to pull-off. He's a pro...such a [...]
posted by Matt: She just keeps getting better...this is more of a rocker than most of the stuff on the brilliant Woke Myself Up and maybe even catchier. I can't wait to hear this record. MP3: Consolation Prize
posted by Matt: Drag city. The Prisoner is one of my all time favs, and it spawned one of my all time fav Iron Maiden songs as well. From The Guardian: Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy award-winning actor who created and starred in 1960s TV show The Prisoner, has died at the age of 80. The actor's son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said today that McGoohan had died yesterday in Los Angeles after a short illness. McGoohan was best known as the title character [...]
posted by Matt: We're back with the Five Favorites feature...and this installment comes courtesy of Halifax's The Stolen Minks. The band released their great new album, High Kicks , a few months back and soon after headed out on a tour that would make Magellan feel road weary (that's right folks, That's Fucking Dynamite, your premiere source for 15th century, Portuguese explorer humour). Tiina from the band was good enough to pass along a list of her current favorite albums, check 'em out. MP3: The Stolen Minks [...]
posted by Matt: Most people are more talented than me....these people are unbelievably more talented than me. MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo .
posted by Matt: So, I wrote out a list of my favorite albums of 2008 a few weeks ago and have been feeling uneasy about it ever since. Over the last few days, I've spent some time tracing my steps from last year and whittling down my choices. Sure folks, I take this way too seriously…but what would this world be without self important bloggers trying to push their opinions on what good music is down your throats. 1. Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant/Self titled 2. Lil' Wayne – [...]
posted by Matt: I held off listening to Tha Carter for some reason...worst decision I ever made, this is my favorite record in a long time. Check this out, it's awesome and he's rapping over two syllabels: <object width="4253 height="3443><param name="movie" value=" http://www.youtube.com/v/VFMHd SC2P7I&hl=en&fs=13></param><pa ram name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" http://www.youtube.com/v/VFMHd SC2P7I&hl=en&fs=13 type="application/x-shockwave- flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="4253 height="3443></embed></object>
posted by Matt: I'm ten minutes into this movie and it's already awesome, check it out:
posted by Matt: So, there's Criterion. It's this DVD imprint of hugely influential and accomplished movies. The style of the films they release ranges from Seven Samurais to Royal Tenenbaums...yet somehow The Rock slipped in there. I'm not one to judge though, maybe Nick Cage was pulling a bit more weight in that film than I noticed when I watched it in Jr. High. I digress...The point of this spiel is, I have recently entered into a competition with my friend Jason MacIsaac (we call him 'The Whisperer' due to his fondness [...]
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Bison - Quill
