While there have been a number of albums that have been absolutely incredible, music is remembered by the songs that top everything else that you go back to time and time again. This year has been no exception. Runner Up, 11 - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down - Alicia Keys This was a song that I hadn't heard up until a couple days ago. Keys is not an artist who usually pops up [...]
11 - Yeah Ghost , Zero 7 Zero 7 is back with their fourth album, Yeah Ghost . While I still think that their best album is their first, [...]
Last night, the trailer for Iron Man 2 came online - Stark's back, baby! And he's back in what looks to be much the same style as the first outing, the fantastic Iron Man 1 . There was a considerable [...]
This was a year of mixed priorities for me, and less of a focus on music than in prior years. Life gets in the way of such things, and as a result, this is a bit of a smaller list than I've presented in other years. That being said, the sound is no less potent, interesting and fun to listen to. Here's who I thought were some of the best new artists of 2009: Allie Moss - [...]
Over the weekend, I caught an ad in the local paper, Seven Days , and found one of the more fantastic deals for a concert that I've seen in a while: Josh Ritter and the Low Anthem at the [...]
Things have been busy, and this blog has been neglected, sadly, but this was something that caught my eye: Vanguard Music has put together a Holiday sampler that features a number of really good musicicans: Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers, Brandi Carlile, Joshua Radin, Josh Ritter, Needtobreathe, Greg Laswell, Meiko, Brett Dennen, Noise Addict, Dar Williams, Dawn Landes, Erin McKeown, Joe Purdy, Katie Herzig, Serena Ryder and The Watson Twins are all included. Download the [...]
The Symphony of Science people have released their third song, this time 'starring' Carl Sagan, Robert Jastrow, Richard Dawkins and Michio Kaku, entitled Our Place in the Cosmos . I'm really digging these songs that this guy is coming up with - running old science programs through an autotuner to produce an interesting and thoughtful piece. The website states: The Symphony of Science is a musical project by John Boswell designed to deliver [...]
Glide & Swerve's debut album, Bring Back Love , sounds much like their name. It's sleek, easy listening and feels like it's the perfect thing to zone out to while watching one of those Apple visualizers. The result is a fantastic down-tempo album that is perfect listening for a slow moment. Moreover, the album as a whole sounds 'cool'. The group has been compared to Zero 7, but I think it sounds [...]
On Friday, the SyFy channel unveiled its latest addition from the Stargate franchise, Stargate: Universe to high ratings, showing that the third series has a good potential at life for the newly relaunched channel. This new version is an enormous leap forward for the series, evolving characters, storylines and the entire universe in which the show is set to bring about what looks to be [...]
Sia recently recorded a cover of The Church's fantastic song, Under The Milky Way , for a Lincoln car commercial, the same ones who got Cat Power to do her fantastic cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity . This song was up for a free download on their website. It's a pity CP's song wasn't up there as well, but give this version a listen - [...]
I saw Carbon Leaf earlier this week, with a fun lineup with Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, along with Dawn Landes. I didn't take down a set list, because I've done that quite a few times already, but there is one part of the concert that I wanted to pass along to the greater internet population. One of the new songs on their latest album, Nothing [...]
Chasing Pirates , the latest song from Norah Jones, is a bit of a change from her normal sound, and will be coming with her next album, The Fall . Due out in November, this album is touted as holding a new sound for Jones, who's breakout album, Come Away With Me has really yet to be [...]
Over the past couple of years, blues/folk/rock has become a bit more popular through the radio and listeners, partially due to an influx of artists such as Amos Lee and Ray LaMontagnge, who have released a number of fantastic albums in the past five years that have blended country-folk with rock and roll. The results are a series of better-than-average rock and roll songs that take the best of both worlds - storytelling with the energy and sound of rock. While this isn't universally true, there is quite a bit to suggest that folk-rock is a bit on the rise, [...]
A couple weeks ago, I got to see a favorite singer of mine, Jonathan Coulton. Coulton is one of the leading singers in the small geek-folk/rock field. Like nerdcore music, this isn't any different than the overall genre, but he sings with a number of themes that fall within geek/nerd fandom. His concert, opened by Paul and Storm (who were in and of themselves quite funny), was a fun and highly entertaining evening. I can't say that he's the best stage presence [...]
Vampire Weekend, the indie-darlings of 2008, have announced their upcoming album in recent weeks, entitled Contra , which will be avaliable January 11th in the UK and the 12th in the US. I'm moderately interested to see if these guys can follow up with the same success with their first album. While they have a fairly unique sound, I've always been moderately turned off by the amount of critical praise heaped upon them, as well as the widespread adoption of the hipster-demographic. At [...]
When I first started this blog, I never thought that I'd these two up for a song. Today's duet is about the universe, a very fun remix with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. [...]
I never got around to formally reviewing The Decemberist's latest album, The Hazards of Love , when it was released this past spring, but when I saw that they were coming up Vermont, I elected to hold off until I'd watched them in person and kill two birds with one stone. The Decemberists is a group that I admittedly have a hard time [...]
Last week saw the release of Stephen Kellogg and the Sixer's latest release, The Bear . It's been a couple of years since their last album, The Glassjaw Boxer , a fun listen, but with this release, there are some good indications of growth for the group. The Bear [...]
There is something that's been bothering me on this day, and it's something that I've noticed happening for a couple years now: "Remember 9-11!" This year, I've been seeing more and more of this, people pouring out a simple one or two sentences, sometimes all in caps, reminding me that I need to remember the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the thwarted attack on United 93. As if I could forget. The events of September [...]
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