Alas, there's no new music on here, but what it does have is four of his best tracks: For Emma, Flume, Lump Sum and Blindsided , all reworked in a session for myspace. This EP sounds fantastic, and it gives his music a subtle new sound that is just as good. They're not unrecognizable, but ... different. Best of all, the entire EP is up for a free download, here . Blindsided (Myspace Transmissions) - Bon Iver [...]
A couple fellow music blogs have posted up this, and after giving it a read over, as well as the review in question, I felt compelled to do the same. The guys who make up the group The Airborne Toxic Event was given a 1.6 rating from the indie-music website, to which they had the following reply: Dear Ian, Thanks for your review of our record. It's clear that you are a good writer and it's clear that you took a lot [...]
Helen Lawson's debut EP Crossing the Bridge is a pleasant and charming listen, with a fantastic, easygoing sound that sounds somewhat like a cross between Enya and Kat Flint and something of the down-tempo genre, and to me, very English. There is a certain richness to the sound between the vocals and supporting instrumentation of the cello, bass and piano. The four tracks here are all really good - Silver Purse and Something in the Wine being particular favorites of mine. While I've come across and reviewed a number of female artists [...]
Ani DiFranco is an artist that I've recently covered with the release of her latest single , Emancipated Minor , which I really enjoyed as a teaser for her latest album, Red Letter Year . Giving the entire album a full listen, I found it to be a mixed album, with some fairly good songs, and some that I was indifferent to. There are a handful of tracks here that really shine from this album - Emancipated Minor, Landing Gear, Smiling Underneath and the title track, Red Letter Year . The rest [...]
Snow Patrol has a new album coming out next month, entitled A Hundred Million Suns, due out October 27th. The lead single, Take Back the City , has come online, which you can listen to here on their website (or down below, streaming) and on their myspace page . I'm excited for this album. I really dug their last album, 2006's Eyes Open , although I have a number of extremely bittersweet memories from it, particularly with their song, Set Fire to [...]
The founding member of Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, died at the age of 65 at his home in England. His obituary from the Associated Press: Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies age 65 By MEERA SELVA – 14 minutes ago LONDON (AP) — Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65. Pink Floyd's spokesman Doug [...]
Snow Patrol has a new album coming out next month, entitled A Hundred Million Suns, due out October 27th. The lead single, Take Back the City , has come online, which you can listen to here on their website (or down below, streaming) and on their myspace page . I'm excited for this album. I really dug their last album, 2006's Eyes Open , although I have a number of extremely bittersweet memories from it, particularly with their song, Set Fire to [...]
It's been a very slow day, and I'm taking a break from homework. Here's five songs, picked at random for the weekend. Grounds for Divorce - Elbow Kids - Goodtimes Goodtimes Feel So Free - Ivy You In A Song - Jason Reeves Kathleen - Josh Ritter Hype - Buy
I hate what this day has done to the US - I'm disturbed by the attitude of my country and my classmates, and I wonder what life would have been like if things were different. The world has plunged into madness. I hope that it will someday be righted. Freedom - Amos Lee For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield There Were Roses - Cara Dillon 16 Military Wives - [...]
Fox's much-hyped show Fringe hit the airwaves last night, a multi-million dollar pilot episode that combines some of the more interesting elements of CSI , Alias and the X-Files . The show is to be about an FBI team (and consultants) who investigate odd happenings around the world, fringe science. The pilot is certainly one to catch attention - on a flight to Logan International, a man is panicky, injects himself with something and within moments, the passengers have been killed, their connective tissue and muscles turning to gel and [...]
Big milestone in geek-genre history today. Today is the 42nd anniversary of the first release of Star Trek , back in 1966. 42 is a fun number for anyone who's a geek and read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , which is why I find this amusing. I'm not a Trekkie - regular readers will remember that I'm a Star Wars nerd, but Star Trek is one of, if not the most influential Science Fiction TV show out there, despite the fact that it only ran for 3 seasons before being canceled. Here's a couple songs to celebrate: [...]
I don't normally delve into family things at all with my online writings. However, I do want to throw out a congratulations to my brother and future sister-in-law for their engagement over the weekend. They've been going out for a very long time, and there has been a general feeling of 'it's about time', at least from me - I know it's something that had been discussed over the past couple years, and it's thrilling to see them finally together for this. Both are musicians, and for some reason, I always equate this song with my brother, as he played [...]
Ani DiFranco is an artist that I've followed off and on over the years, and I've always enjoyed her style of music. Later this month, on the 30th, she'll be releasing her latest studio album called Red Letter Year . The first track has been released, Emancipated Minor , which is a fun listen that sounds very much like DiFranco , but with some evolution here. This album sounds like it will be a fun one. Here's the track list: Red Letter Year Alla This Present/Infant Smiling [...]
Once again, it's the close of one month, and in with another one. This past month saw the return of a number of favorites of mine with new material, and all around, some fantastic material from a numbe of really good bands. Shelly - The Alternate Routes This is a song that I've been hearing live when I've seen [...]
A while ago, I posted up a couple of ripped MP3s of the songs from the webseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog . It was a fantastic series, and now, the soundtrack is now up on iTunes! It's a short album, but without the background noise, it's fantastic! Here's the tracklist: Horrible Theme My Freeze Ray Bad Horse Chorus Caring Hands A Man's [...]
Over the Weekend, Chris Martin, the front man for Coldplay, announced that in December, they would be releasing a 5-track EP entitled Prospects March . There's no word on an exact date. There was some word about this a while ago, when the band mentioned that they had another track, titled Luna , which featured Kiley Minogue, and that they had a lot more material. No surprise, given how short Viva La Vida was. In addition to [...]
It seems like the Postal Service are the people to cover. There's a lot out there, and a number of well known and excellent musicians have gone and covered what is arguably their best known song, Such Great Heights . Iron & Wine's fantastic cover, which was featured on the Garden State Soundtrack, is, in my opinion, the best version, one that surpasses the original (but not by much.) Thus we fall into two camps - there's the acoustic-indie version of the song, and the pop-electronic versions, or ones that emulate either Iron & Wine or the [...]
The next stop around the world is Chad. The Republic of Chad is located in Africa, bordered by Libya, Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger. Largely desert, the nation has been inhabited for thousands of years, with a long history. The country has been in French hands since 1920, and as a result, French, along with Arabic, are the official languages. Currently, the nation has been destabilized with neighboring problems in the Sudan causing an influx of refugees. The band representing Chad is Chari Jazz. The group was founded in 1964 and is considered the [...]
The Post-apocalyptic, quasi-folk indie-folk duo We'll Write have added another installment to their serial album Songs for the End of the World , this one titled Demon . I've written about these guys before, and it's always a pleasure to hear some fun songs that fall squarely within the geek realm. This is the third song to be released from these guys after Bleached Bone Fields and Measure of a Man . [...]
I just finished Charles Stross 's last book, Halting State , which proved to be a facinating, and ultimately a very different read than I had been expecting. The book is set nearly twenty years from now, and technology has progressed much as it could be expected. Mobile phones, wireless devices, and the internet have taken on a far more ingrained role in society than it is today. The premise of the book starts with a bank robbery in MMORPG land - a band of Orcs break into [...]
Carry You Away
Avicii – Two Million
Beck – I Just Started Hating Some People Today
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Amanda Mair
