Blog: Tuneage

Air - Le Voyage Dans Le Lune Dr Dog - Be The Void Of Montreal - Paralytics Stalks Sharon van Etten - Tramp WWTB Now 2012 is starting to get rollin'… Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s ) Dr Dog - Be The Void ( buy the CD [...]

Azealia Banks - 212 Azealia Banks is just one bad ass bitch. She's blowing up right now. Kanye follows her on twitter, Pitchfork featured her in the top 10 tracks of 2011, she played a show at Karl Lagerfeld's house and Universal Records signed her in January. Also, she was just profiled by the New York Times The high school dropout comes from Harlem but attended private schools early in her life and as a listener, you can definitely pick up on these dichotomous lives she experienced. [...]

KYNAN - I Fly So High This song randomly appeared on my dash a couple of days ago. It's weird, it's funky (pop-y but also retro and electronic). The music video is so l-phi I'm not sure what to make of it but I think that's kind of the appeal; and the truth is I Fly So High has been stuck in my head for the last 48 hours. It's super catchy. The stop-motion quality of its music video is actually kind of endearing - it fits the vibe of the sound perfectly. Plus, the [...]

WWTB Just one this week, but it's highly anticipated and I may just buy it for "Video Games" alone… Lana Del Rey - Born to Die ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s )

First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent... Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52 WWTB So this is the first week of 2012 where there's been more than one thing worth buying. Welcome to 2012, kids. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s [...]

Daveed Diggs - Small Things (To A Giant) Daveed Diggs is one third of The Getback (the other parts of the triumvirate being Rafael Casal and Chinaka Hodge ). The Getback is a Bay Area originated art collaborative with fingers in music, film, and theater. The Getback music tends to be hip-hop featuring live instrument production and incredible lyrics, which shouldn't be a surprise given their poetry and theater backgrounds. Daveed just released his first solo album "Small Things To A Giant," which is [...]

Pogo - Jaaam (The Fresh Prince Remix)

Saturday treat! Gotye - Somebody I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra) Sometimes, at tuneage, we accidentally let great music slide past our radar. Allow me to now rectify this mistake and present Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know . I love the Peter Gabriel and 80s pop influence in this song but it's the music video that really won me over. Unlike the narrative arc within the lyrics, the music video isn't necessarily trying to tell a story. It emotes and I find it to be at once be enchanting [...]

With another year out of the way it's time to find out what the Tuneage gang's favourite albums of the year were. Dave Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues Laura Stevenson & The Cans - Sit Resist Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings Wilco – The Whole Love Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – [...]

Of Monsters and Men - Dirty Paws Iceland! Iceland! What do you put in your water? You give me Björk, Sigur Rós, Emilíana Torrini and now Of Monsters and Men? This sextet's first album is like this perfect smorgasbord of indie music. Little bit of Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, sprinkle of Florence & the Machine and a touch of the xx. Admittedly, Dirty Paws is not their catchiest song (that award goes to Little Talks ) but I think it best represents the album as a whole. I also love how evocative the lyrics are. [...]

Emily Jane White - Wild Tigers I Have Known Winter winds and the Midwest's biting cold have kept me inside this wintery season. I need music to match my mood and to match the unrelenting grey that January promises. The calmness and simplicity of Emily Jane White's style may come from her California upbringing or the time she spent in the French countryside. But there's something soothing about all of her music but also a little bit dark. Wild Tigers I Have Known is off her 2007 debut album. I like the [...]

Jared Saltiel - " The Problem " "The Problem" is Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Jared Saltiel's latest single and the cinematic sound - a dark, poetic tale of family strife with a driving beat and a remarkable string arrangement - now has a proper cinematic visual to accompany it. The video is a collaboration between Jared and his filmmaker brother, Jason Saltiel, based on the relationship between a depressed teenager and his emotionally remote parents. It follows the 15-year-old protagonist as he attempts suicide, only to descend into a hallucinatory state during eerie foliage [...]

Miles Kane - Come Closer Mr. Kane is no stranger to the music scene - he was a part of The Rascals and then The Last Shadow Puppets with Alex Turner. Come Closer is off his debut solo album: Colour of the Trap . And his music shows that he's definitely on the cusp of something. I'm just not sure whether that cusp is him developing an awesome unique sound or if his solo work is just another British cliché. This song leans more towards kick ass though. It's got something funky, vaguely 60s. [...]

Desire - Under Your Spell I mean, we here at tuneage think it's unlikely that any of our readers haven't seen heartthrob Ryan Gosling's new film, Drive . It is a work of cinematographic genius. And the soundtrack? Pure perfection. It stands alone but once you see the movie - every song is perfectly linked, if not intertwined, within the film's plot. Now, many would argue that " A Real Hero " by College is the breakout hit of the compilation and they aren't necessarily wrong. But [...]

Atlas Sound - Parallax Jonathan Coulton - Artificial Heart Tom Waits - Bad As Me WWTB Been slow lately, so even with the catch-up being played here, there's just a few… Atlas Sound - Parallax ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s ) Jonathan Coulton - Artificial Heart ( buy straight from him ) Tom Waits - Bad as Me [...]

M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming My Brightest Diamond - All Things Unwind Real Estate - Days WWTB M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s ) My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s ) Real Estate - Days ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s )

Bjork - Biophilia Feist - Metals The Field - Looping State of Mind Mayer Hawthorne - How Do You Do WWTB It's looking like a good week* to spend your hard-earned money by buying music, kids. Bjork - Biophilia ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s ) Feist - Metals ( buy the CD / buy [...]

AWOLNATION - Sail I know, I know. I'm posting another Billboard song. This is a habit I have to stop and look, I can't tell you exactly why I love Sail, I just do. While I'm not as a big fan of AWOLNATION's other stuff: this song is perfection. It balances a sweetness in harmony and clapping with the harsh hoarseness of leader singer, Aaron Bruno's voice. The lyrics are simple but evocative. And then there's this hint of synth that I love. Sail has a grittiness a lot of rock music is missing these days. Dammit, there's even a [...]

De La Montaña - " Money Hungry Astronauts " De La Montaña is the brainchild of Madison Velding-VanDam, an Ann Arbor, MI-native whose move to Santiago, Chile inspired his debut album, Postmodern Whirled . It's a textured collection of songs, fusing the analog and digital with an almost math-like rhythmic layout. Madison's lyrics are poignant but subtle, never preachy, often reconciling the contradictions inherent in everyday travels. "Money Hungry Astronauts" is a standout track, one that takes hold when the throbbing bassline hits your chest (you've [...]

De La Montaña - " Money Hungry Astronauts " De La Montaña is the brainchild of Madison Velding-VanDam, an Ann Arbor, MI-native whose move to Santiago, Chile inspired his debut album, Postmodern Whirled . It's a textured collection of songs, fusing the analog and digital with an almost math-like rhythmic layout. Madison's lyrics are poignant but subtle, never preachy, often reconciling the contradictions inherent in everyday travels. "Money Hungry Astronauts" is a standout track, one that takes hold when the throbbing bassline hits your chest (you've [...]