I first off want to say how awesome a world we are living in is. Just a little over a decade ago the music industry was talking about suing people for trying to download music, and now for only $5 a month you can get pretty much unlimited access to any song you can imagine ($10 to get it on your phone). It seems like all the talk these days is about Spotify , the mysterious music streaming app from Sweden that has just made it [...]
Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes Check out my review of the entire album here . Wilco - I Might Excited to hear the whole album, but then again I am a Wilco fan boy. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Blue Skies Again Came out a few months back, but I just heard it the other day. Really solid album. Little Dragon - Ritual Union Get to know this band! LOVE, [...]
Static 502 from Static on Vimeo . I'm trying to get into a rhythm with these shows. I know I haven't put any interviews in them, yet (I have a few in the can that I haven't don anything with), but I feel like keeping the momentum going is good for the both of us. Here is the track list for the above show. As usual they are in order of appearance. Hopefully it will be on TV in the coming week; my internet is disgustingly slow. [...]
I am quite possibly the laziest photographer in the world. Don't tell the music publicists that, or else I wouldn't be able to get in to see rock bands from Canada like Mother Mother . I was surprised to find out that there are people out there that don't like Canadians. Are you one of those people? Why? I have nothing against them, they are kind of like the quite kids in class that just did their homework and married their sweetheart and lived a nice simple life. Unlike us Americans who strive to be the high school quarterback [...]
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I am a sappy, reminiscent fool. I think a lot of times it puts me in bad situations and doesn't allow me to move on. Than again maybe we can only learn from our past in order to not make the same mistake again. It seems like Eleanor Friedberg of the Fiery Furnaces is having the same backward looking mentality at this point in her life an career. I spent a lot of my late teens rejecting my parents music of rock and wanted a style of music that was different and [...]
Sub Pop released singer-songwriter-producer Ernest Greene's first full-length album on Tuesday and the chillwave glo-synth movement blushed and fawned . Shut up in his parent's house in Perry, Georgia, 28-year-old Greene made his first music release in the summer of 2009. He referred to these recordings "mostly as a way to experiment with songwriting processes," but the great success of his Life of Leisure EP meant he was an obvious full-fledged virtuoso. After 2 years of touring, we have Within and Without leaving many of us awestruck, "Where did this guy come from?" [...]
I know it has been a long time since our last episode, but have no worry, the most watched music video show in Louisiana is back and we have added 2 more markets, Baton Rouge and Lafayette. We are planning a lot of exciting things for this season, but before we get ahead of ourselves here is our latest episode and play list. Static S5Ep1 from Static on Vimeo . Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean Low - Try to [...]
Although the first track echoes "Nothing's the same," don't worry. It's just the happier side of Death Cab for Cutie that we all know and love. Somebody said this album is proof that Ben Gibbard suddenly realized he's married to Zooey Deschanel and rejoiced. Just look at the upbeat track titles: "Stay Young, Go Dancing," "Underneath the Sycamore," "Doors Unlocked and Open." Hear lovestruck vestiges in lyrics like "She may be young but she only likes old things," "cause when she sings I hear a symphony," and my personal favorite the resounding "This fire grows higher." Guitarist Chris [...]
Last month was crazy for me personally. Wrapped up working on 2 shows and than I went on a 10 day vacation that I just got back from. It has been tough to get back into the swing of things. Hopefully this post gets me rolling again. I plan on wrapping up a new show tonight. Robyn - Don't F*cking Tell Me What to Do I will be posting an interview soon with the Brooklyn artist Making Friendz . She told [...]
Five years in the making Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, releases Rome , his soundtrack to "an imaginary film." He paired prodigies Jack White and Norah Jones with harpsichord and a reunited Cantori Monderni of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly fame. In collaboration with Italian composer Daniele Lupii ( Sex In the City series) Burton recorded in a Rome. The beauty of working with Luppi is that his work has been described as a barrel of Italian film-score cliché. He is the roast beef po'boy to Danger Mouse's beef bourguignon. Working at Forum Studios, [...]
This is a great follow up for what I was talking about yesterday. This is a great video with a great mixture of enough action and drama to keep me interested, but not too much of a distraction that you don't pay attention to the song. Well done by the Ulysses//Onasis peeps who directed it. This song by the way is off of Gardens & Villa' s debut album that will be out July 5th on Secretly Canadian . Can't wait to hear the whole LP. Black Hills by Gardens & [...]
Vice premiered this one . This is off Bill's new Album, Apocalypse , that I reviewed a few weeks back . This video was made by Archie Radkins and based on the art of Max Galyon . The video is pretty much one scene of a skier going over the mountains. I initially really liked this video because I like the idea of the simplicity of the action. It keeps me from being distracted by the video since the true purpose of a music video should be to support the song. So initially I was [...]
Got to check out David Vanderveld this past weekend at the Brooklyn Bowl here in Williamsburg. Had some good times. Always happy with venues that just let me bring the camera in. Not sure who the band was before David, but boy was I happy for them to get off the stage. I just felt like they were just throwing noise at me, so believe me I was happy to have David's psychedelic soul music come to the stage. [...]
One of my fondest memories as a child is that of my father going through my CD collection and being pretty upset about some of my choice of records. BG's Chopper City, Pimp Daddy, Outkast, Too Short, Master P...he just hated their lyrics and what they promoted. He thought that would have a strong impression on me. My memory of me at that age is a blur. Maybe by choice. I am pretty sure I would not want to hang out with the younger me. I was probably an ass [...]
The new album Moment Bends from the Australian quintet vacillates between soft rock epic and something that can only be described as New Age Caribbean. Touring in white tuxedos with iridescent cummerbunds apparently they stumbled into a time machine. The album's influence is heavily 1980s. Waiting to watch this band mature from the playfulness of In Case We Die (2005), it was unfortunately overtaken by bass and lazy hooks in Places Like This [...]
Like we spoke about last month , we in the Static offices are supper happy to be supporters of the website Rdio . I am getting super comfortable with the site and listening to a lot of new music. I think that may be a big reason why I think a lot of great music came out or it might be the fact that honestly a lot of great music came out this month. Here are the tracks that made my April Playlist. Jay Electronica - Exhibit C [...]
When most of us hear the word Apocalypse we think of the end time and the rapture. We think of fire and destruction. But that isn't the whole story, is it? It's befitting to write about a thought like this after Easter. In the theory of the Apocalypse, a few believe that we must tear everything down in order to rebuild a new in a way that is for the better. What that better is is always up to interpretation and personal taste. It is of course usually the writer. History is written by the victors, while the future is [...]
Yesterday saw at least two much anticipated records released from highly successful bands in the oughts, TV on the Radio and Panda Bear from Animal Collective. I think that their differing styles leads to an interesting debate about popular music and if a band "gets it" . The new Panda Bear record, Tomboy , starts with a track titled You Can Count on Me , and if nothing else I can count on him being honest with himself and the style [...]
This is the only picture I took from last night. I did this while using the bathroom, mostly to remind me who the opening bands were. Isn't it arty? Ran out of work to catch this show. The only thing I missed by getting there on time was a chance to drink. The opening band, Adventure , was about as boring as it comes. They create the kind of electronic music that makes me understand why people don't like machine created music. I heard 2 songs than [...]
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