Hello fellow music lovers. Bruce from Some Velvet Blog here, this time reporting from Ireland where I'm currently traveling around the country. So in between kissing the Blarney Stone and taking in the Ring of Kerry on the Western coast of Ireland, I'm squeezing in a quick post this week - Something Old & Something New from the legendary soul music icon Booker T The Road From Memphis is the [...]
I understand French, but even I'm not sure what Montreal's Radio Radio is saying sometimes, or it's a lot harder to keep up. They rap in a dialect of French known as Acadian French. In some tracks they mix in some English, which when mixed with Acadian language is actually another language called Chiac. For example, in Guess What , you probably think you know what you're hearing and then it sort of throws you off. The song. Despite that, the song is still crazy catchy. Radio Radio- Guess what [...]
My first review upon joining InYourSpeakers in July 2010 was Green Gerry’s Odd Tymes , a homebrewed lo-fi jumble of one-man-band experiments. Eager to prove my literary dedication to research and commentary, my review of Odd Tymes was eight paragraphs long, a short novel compared to my current standards. It’s hard enough for me to convince my parents to read my published eBook, so asking total strangers to read that much information on someone else’s work was nothing short of egotistical. But it’s the music that brings me back here. Tonight I asked [...]
I'm feeling down in the dumps, you can't call me Debbie Downer though... my mom's name is Debra... her nickname is Debbie... that's just weird. Anyway, I'm writing to you this week on the verge of insanity having just been plugging away at getting my studying done for my upcoming exams. Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II) Exams-shmexams. That is where my head is at. I've got five courses with exams spread out (not really) over the next almost four weeks. If only life was so generous to have [...]
artwork by Michael Page Hello Lovelies! Just wanted to share a song that I've had on repeat all weekend by awesome band WU LYF . There is so much to this song I adore, it's really fantastic and gets under your skin in the best possible way! Big thanks to my fav blog GIMME TINNITUS for the hot tip! WU LYF - Heavy Pop Have a great week y'all! Cheers, Dorice
Dum Dum Girls A quick note: After watching the LCD Soundsystem show online last night (I am writing this on Sunday), I wanted to add a few thoughts on the show and on the band in advance of the actual "Various and Sundry" column. And thanks to those who post videos on YouTube so I can embed them ... Like many of you, I watched the final LCD Soundsystem show via the live stream on Pitchfork this past Saturday night. I can't say the show had my full attention for [...]
Bawitdablog : Revisiting '90s jamz with as few Kid Rock references as possible ( title notwithstanding ). Yesterday's glance back at "Big Me" from the Foo Fighters triggered a thought about another music video that was released right around the same time as it; that being the clip for "Peaches" by the Presidents of the United States of America. Actually, after scouring the the web for some information I was able to find a site that is in the process of archiving a number of old lists from Much Music's weekly Countdown [...]
Bawitdablog : Revisiting '90s jamz with as few Kid Rock references as possible ( title notwithstanding ). With the new Foo Fighters album becoming available online during the past 24 hours it felt appropriate to continue this journey back into the '90s with a look at the group's first crossover hit: "Big Me." With other standouts from the Foo's debut album including such hard-hitting tracks as "I'll Stick Around" and " This is a Call ," "Big Me" was definitely an unexpected outlier in terms of the LP's sound. Additionally, the release of the song as [...]
I’ve had the bits and pieces of this post rattling around in my brain for quite some time now, so when Aaron alerted Team PCC that he may not be able to post today due to an alleged “road trip” for a so-called “fashion show,” I figured now might be the right time to unleash it (in all seriousness though, Tsuru and Tsurubride are both rockstars, I'm happy to help). When I’m not blogging, I spend most of my time in a cubicle where I work in TV music at a studio. I also music supervise [...]
Hello rockers and rollers! Bruce from Some Velvet Blog back again with the weekly installment of Something Old & Something New . Back in the days when I was a teenager, before I had status and before I had a pager, record companies used to put 45RPM singles on the back of cereal boxes . They were the precursor to the flexi-discs one would find on music fanzines back in the day. According to the The Internet Museum [...]
We're back again with everyone's favorite music blog aggregator search engine music discovery game, hypem hunting! In case you haven't been paying attention, we pick a word, search for it on The Hype Machine, and then listen to a bunch of songs that we've never heard before that appear in the search results and then bring you our favorites that we discovered. This week, we once again turned to the twitter for some motivation on the word to search for, and our friend and fellow PCCer Kyle, partial proprietor of PCC blog Those Who Dig , was [...]
Here I am. The man from dysonsound who rants on and on all over the web about how much I love vinyl. And now I'm coming at you to bust this big myth that everything sounds better on vinyl . This is FALSE, people. I hate to break it to you, but it's true. And sorry for the shocker of a title. You know I love my precious wax. But here are the reasons why it sucks and why it's amazing. AMAZING 1: God DAMN those 123 motherfucking pieces of [...]
Coeur de Pirate isn't really an unknown Canadian artist by any means. But There's random things you might not have known about this French beauty. For example, when she was 17 (not legal), she was a nude model on alternative porn site GodsGirls. Naughty! However, the girl has the ability to sing the sweetest songs, even if the non-French speakers may not understand them. Her 2008 self-titled album was nominated for Francophone Album of the Year at the 2009 Junos. In 2009, the song off the album called Comme Des Enfants received a CBC radio [...]
I randomly picked up Plastic Ono Band (the Lennon one, not the Ono) at a record shop in Baltimore a few months back. I had never heard the album (gasp!) and was always of the opinion that Lennon had by far the worst solo career of all the Beatles. "Imagine"? Come on does anyone really like that sentimental, tacky crap? Turns out Plastic Ono Band is brilliant, and there are many gems to be found in Lennon's discog. In honor of Dave picking me up a significantly better copy of POB , here [...]
illustration by Joren Cull aka Peppermint Wad I like my music with a little meat to it. Something that grabs hold of me from the tips of my pinky toes to the static electricity on top of my head. Mainstream music does nothing for me and even the majority of the popular “indie” crowd music doesn’t draw me in. My friend once said that the music I listen to is the type of music crazy people listen to and while laughing hard, I took that as a huge compliment (of course!). So in [...]
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The "4+1 and 53 is a series of interviews with popular musicians and their personal crafted playlists edited by Bay Area based (415 area code) blogger, SFCritic . Musicians are given five questions and asked to relate their responses to individuals songs, which are compiled into a playlist for readers to enjoy. With five questions and five mp3s, coming straight from (415), you've got "4+1 and 5." Josh Hodges, the creativity behind the bands, Starfucker, Pyramidd and Sexton Blake, can easily answer the question “What’s in [...]
Bawitdablog : Revisiting '90s jamz with as few Kid Rock references as possible ( title notwithstanding ). To this day it still might be widely perceived that grunge's northern reach ended at the 49th parallel in the early '90s. That simply wasn't the case though. Signed to Reprise/Warner in 1991 based a single demo tape, Vancouver's Pure achieved the bulk of their success based on their 1992 full-length debut, Pureafunalia . Produced by Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison, the album relied heavily on many rock standards of the time, leading Roch Parisien of All [...]
Hahahahaha, this is exactly how it sounds. Pocket Hipster is an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app in which a Hipster tells you how much your music sucks and tries to suggest you some new indie music. The mini hipster will actually insult you, it's actually quite hilarious. This isn't really an app for discovering music, just for some hilarious fun. I'm sure all us music bloggers have already heard anything this app will actually suggest. It would be entertaining to watch people outside the bloggerin world use it though. [...]
Bawitdablog: Revisiting '90s jamz with as few Kid Rock references as possible ( title notwithstanding ). All that jive about first impressions being the most important moment in a relationship and you're kicking things off with the Spin Doctors? Really? Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyup. For a brief period of time the Spin Doctors were, as the kids say (actually, I can't vouch for the kids, but I say this quite frequently; kids around the world would be wise to follow suit), trill as fuck; they covered Rolling Stone when doing so still mattered and had [...]
Let it be known: I am very rarely moved to write album reviews. Usually I find them too daunting. This is the first album I’ve listened to that not only inspired a strong opinion, but one that I felt compelled to share in writing. So basically this is my first ever non-soundtrack album review. Crazy, right? Maybe I’ve just reached “that point” in my blogging career, but all I know is I’m going with it. It should also probably be known: I have seen Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros more times live than any other [...]
T S U R U R A D I O
Top 10 MP3s of the Week (5/24)
Disclosure – When A Fire Starts to Burn
Daft Punk: When anonymity goes wrong
Listen: Dan Black feat Kelis - Hearts [New Single]
An artist you should hear: Marshall Lewis Baker
