Here are a list of "facts" about me. None of these are lies. 1. I thought that "Just Like Heaven" was a Goldfinger song, because I had never heard the original. 2. Ditto for Blink-182's "Dancing With Myself". Sigh. 3. I have gone into record stores, even at 24, and bought albums based solely around the album art, often ones that are of the "pop punk emo" genre, which resulted in me buying the musical abortion that is "Cute Is What We Aim For". 4. For about two months, all I listened to was a tape [...]
So, I finally did it. I put together a podcast. You can commence mocking my voice, but whatever. The point is this - I used my crappy microphone in my webcam to put together a 20-minute podcast. For the inaugural podcast, I've included tracks from Rainer Maria, The Heart Attack, Making It Right, and a few others. It's got a few fun tracks, and you can subscribe to my site (as you already could) by subscribing to my site in iTunes by going to "Advanced --> Subscribe to Podcast" and entering " http://feeds.feedburner.com/be nlovespodcasts". [...]
After learning of the video for the unbelievable Aberdeen City breakthrough single "God Is Going To Get Sick Of Me" through the nice people at Cornerstone Promotion (and Sonya Shaw), I made a point to email Ryan from Aberdeen City... and it went from there. As a result... here you are. An exclusive, iPod compatible version music video of one of the best songs of the year off one of the best releases in 2005. You have to understand - this is the most exciting new music to come out of Boston [...]
today, we've got four more mercury prize nominees, all four with really radically different sounds. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner let me make this clear - richard hawley has a tremendous voice. it reminds me a lot of classic crooner's voices like sinatra or dean martin. he's a great talent, and it's obvious in both his voice and his lyrics. he was in his own band, the longpigs, but quit it after he went through a serious and intense [...]
how i beat an englishman at picking world cup games, i don't know. but here's mike from nothing but green lights (who's one of the only music from the uk-only mp3 bloggers out there) and his postcard, which includes the words (because they're hard to read) "rubbish" in reference to plymouth, "wicked" in reference to teignmouth, "shit" in reference to torquay. although it's not 100% clear, i believe mike is from just west of dawlish. plus, the back has a cartoon of zidane. which is always entertaining.
the mercury prize nominees were announced recently - the mercury prize being the award given to the artist or band (english or irish artists only) who has released the best album of the last twelve months. this selection, while mostly always deserved, isn't free of controversy - because there's no real criteria and there's a small selection panel to pick the winner, some people feel that it's not exactly fair and that it's not really representative of how the people feel. some feel that the prize has been given to artists before who have basically been chosen to [...]
although the pitchdorks wrote about girl talk a few days ago in their infinity mixtape feature (which is cool enough - you should check it out, i suppose) and they wrote up about the actual highly controversial album (AND gave it a 8.4, just ahead of their lily allen review of 8.3, which i frankly expected a 1.0 out of, knowing how the pdorks operate.... but onward). the girl talk album is really amazing. i'm going to listen to the track that i'm posting, 'once again', and list off as many samples [...]
you see, a few months ago, a bunch of us music-blogger types on the elbo.ws/vanilla message board decided to have a world cup pool, with the winner getting a postcard from everyone else in the pool. not only did i finish first , but i finished in the 99.5% percentile and 514th worldwide . so i'm a world cup picking genius, and if not for a few dumb choices (like the US beating everyone but the czechs), i might have finished EVEN higher. so, the first of the postcards found its way to my [...]
angels & airwaves new video for the track that i posted a while back, 'do it for me now'. enjoyable video, although it's pretty 'speed of sound' by coldplay. but, enjoy.
not sure how many of you have seen this yet... the video for "snakes on a plane (bring it)" by cobra starship, the emosupergroup featuring members of midtown, the academy is..., the sounds, and gym class heroes. enjoy.
while paramore is known more for some of their more.... poppypunk endeavors, this cover of the foo fighters "my hero" is really quite terrific - it's an acoustic cover, which really works better than you'd think. and the lead singer, hayley williams, really does have a voice that lends itself to the song nicely - more than anything, though, it shows some depth by the band which is always encouraging. paramore - my hero (foo fighters cover) paramore's myspace
wow. i was going through some new music the other day, and i found a group called rubicks, and their single 'midas', which is beautiful poptronica music that echoes pink floyd, annie, and regina spector. they're based out of london and claim influences such as carole king, david bowie, roxy music, and run dmc (among others). it's well worth a listen - it sinks into your ears and the vocals eventually just become another instrument (much like some of the newer radiohead stuff with thom's voice). enjoy it. [...]
holy fucking shit. cobra starship - hollaback boy ..... wow. i mean. okay, fourth time through, it's probably NOT that funny, but this is FUCKING HILARIOUS. cobra starship is the emo megagroup featuring members of midtown, the academy is..., gym class heroes, and the sounds (who are the band behind the 'snakes on a plane' title song, called 'snakes on a plane (bring it)', which you can get from adamriff.com , and is your new summer anthem) - any wow. this is just funny. it's about [...]
i was a-drivin' home today from the 7-11 and listening to first contact on WFNX (my favorite boston radio station) and this song came on. i didn't have time to wait for the radio station to come back from break, so i called them up and they told me it was blow up hollywood, and the song was called 'wmd'. it's a politically charged song that really spits in the face of the bush administration, and despite the simplistic sound to the song, it's quite biting. the album itself, 'the [...]
well, we all know that the remixes have started to pop up of gnarls barkley's mega-summer-hit 'crazy'. well, guess what.... there's a few more. and here's one of them. featuring kardinal offishall, joe budden, and remy martin, it's a bit.... disjointed. don't get me wrong, as i'm a fan of kardinal and joe budden (not so much of remy martin, frankly, and her part is the worst), but the remix seems kind of forced. all that aside, it's worth listening to. it's entertaining enough. [...]
klaxons newest masterpiece (granted, it came out months ago) is " atlantis to interzone " - it's a rapture's "house of jealous lovers" meets franz ferdinand's "this fire" type of song. it's urgent and absolutely makes you listen to every note of the song until it ends. the wailing sirens, the screaming guitars, the fantastic vocals.... all of it combines to form some voltronesque beast known as klaxons. enjoy it.
real quick before i go to new hampshire for a fun 4th. great song by a local band in boston called making it right - the song is called ' summer anthem ', and that's exactly what it is. it's a summer anthem in every sense. it's a lively, fun, fast rock song that will have you singing the chorus all day. it's a special song, and if there was any justice, you'd be hearing it all summer on every major radio station nationwide.
well over a year ago, i wrote about how when i was a kid, and my sister and i would find thousands of tiny ants on our front steps and we called them ant partys. we'd tell our mom, and she'd come back 10 minutes later with a pot of boiling water and pour it on them. well, i became an adult last night - i came home from work and i saw that there was just THOUSANDS of them having a good time outside my house. so, in my [...]
eric matthews - needle in the hay (elliott smith cover) : i love elliott smith's music, and the song 'needle in the hay' was one of his masterpieces - and was perfectly placed and used in the film 'the royal tenenbaums' in the luke wilson suicide scene (in one of the most honest and brutal scenes in film history - it was pure agony to watch that scene, yet i've gone back to see that scene so many times). this cover by eric matthews is very true to the original, off the 'to elliott, from portland' disc - the [...]
before there was mc lars, before there was mc chris, before there was any of these geek rappers - you had the brown-educated mc paul barman, backed by prince paul. his style was uber-nerd, perhaps the reason i dug his sound so much. this track ' mtv get off the air, part 2 ' was the highlight of his 'it's very stimulating', lasting a full five minutes and featuring princess superstar (this was also my first exposure to princess superstar), and has always stuck with me. even tracks like 'salvation barmy' and 'i'm frickin awesome' deserve to [...]
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Bison - Quill
