Fourteen years after playing tug-o-war over a shared guy on "The Boy Is Mine" , a major R&B event at the time that resulted in a thirteen-week-long Number One Pop smash and Best R&B Performance By A Duo or Group Grammy score, the now-thirty-something divas Monica and Brandy leave the cattiness behind to lean on each other over new boyfriend woes (though, thankfully, with different dudes this time) on new duet "It All Belongs To Me". Equally fed up over partners who just aren't satisfying their relationship needs ("Loving you is hard/ [...]
It's been a long, cold winter. Although really, it hasn't been a long, cold winter. Maybe it's because it's been about two months since I've been to a show. Welcome to winter in Boston. It felt good to shake off the cob webs and head out to PA's lounge to see the much-heralded up-and-comers Adam Arcuragi and the Lupine Chorale Society last Friday night. It felt so good that I didn't even question why they were playing PA's Lounge. [...]
Numbered days - Doughboys This album has been in Egg Records for years and if it's still there tomorrow i am going to buy it. It has become necessary to me. I must have it in my life. For the longest time the Doughboys existed to me unlistened and grouped amongst those late 802s, early 902s bands who weren't All, but those bands who aren't All are very much still like All, with similar and new pleasures to be gained. With enough time and [...]
Ahh, good old computers. Aren't they just great? These days it's so much easier to get to stage one of your career as an ambitious musician by tip-tapping away at your desk. Do-it-yourself is a phrase that's been taken away from the out-of-town hardware stores and bestowed upon a new breed of bedroom producers. It's now possible to use a computer to lay down a multitude of ideas in a song. You can produce it right there on your laptop, even adjusting for any lack of real skill, and record it with some pretty smart equipment, at least to a [...]
Welcome to another Monday Threesome! Each of the bands this week falls within the realm of electro/snyth pop, focusing on keyboards, falsettos and rhythms. They play a dance hybrid of indie rock and electronic music, but within that somewhat narrow subgenre, each is able to bring something unique to their sound and leave their mark. One is a veteran, and the others are some new bands we are very excited about. Sleepyhead - Passion Pit // Buy Known for their very passionate falsetto vocals, [...]
https://twitter.com/#!/blobtow er/statuses/166632740958113793 Bon Iver is a tenured indie buzzband who brought the soothing sounds of a lonely man in the pure rural American vibes to the mainstream, recently earning a Grammy nomination for his contribution to the arts and mindie scene. He is at the mainstream indie mountain top, mad record sales, critical buzz, truly on top of the world. You have to remember that Bon Iver was buzz incubated in a time when there was 'no internet h8', and instead of creating backlash to generate buzz, you [...]
Something special for you today: 3 remixes of the multitalented French-British Charlotte Gainsbourg's Paradisco, off 20112s Stage Whisper. The reason so many remixes are out? Beatport is hosting a contest (if you're interested) with free submission, so undoubtedly you'll be hearing more remixes in the days to come. So far, we've selected edits by Upside Sounds favorite Le Crayon, as well as another Frenchman (and a huge one at that) on remix duties with Joakim and a Brit, Francophilippe, rounding it out. First up: 20 year-old Le Crayon . He needs [...]
You may have heard, Lil Earl Sweatshirt has been going through some serious intervention in Samoa, and the latest news is that the young Odd Future prodigy is on his way home to Los Angeles, where he'll finish high school before getting back into this music shit. Alternative Intervention Models (AIM) is the group that most recently sent some volunteers over to Samoa to meet with Earl, and they called his experience there "extraordinary." When Complex interviewed Earl's friend and fellow resident at Samoa's Coral Reef Acedemy, Tyler Craven told a slightly different story . [...]
A new track from Here We Go Magic's forthcoming LP, A Different Ship. It's set to drop via Secretly Canadian on May 8th. "Make Up Your Mind" shoots for roughly the same quirky, Feelies-inspired rock sound that material off of Pigeons and January did. I will say this time, however, the music does not feel as cold or intentionally robotic. Rather than being eye-widening and hypnotic, "Make Up Your Mind" comes off as almost danceable. Definitely a warmer sound from these guys.
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Tweet When we last left Chairlift , Caroline Polacheck and Patrick Wimberly, they were somewhat exhausted. The cutesy nature of their indie-pop hit "Bruises" had garnered them brief notoriety for writing adorable songs that are easy on the ears. Much of their attention had come from the use of "Bruises" in an iPod commercial, putting off some fans while bringing in new fans with short attention spans. "Something" is another shot at displaying their songwriting talents, now with a little more production [...]
"I made you this new mixtape playlist for your car." Consequence of Sound has partnered with Spotify for a weekly playlist series featuring artists and their own playlists. We're kicking off this series with Kevin Barnes, lead singer of the prolific avant-pop band of Montreal. Barnes has led of Montreal through a variety musical pastures over the band's prolific career, from acid-folk to pure soul-funk and every pop genre in between. This playlist created by Barnes paints a backdrop for their latest album, the expansive and daring Paralytic Stalks, and showcases some of Barnes favorite tunes at [...]
"Sinister in its darkness but generous in its quality..." The Twilight Sad | No One Can Ever Know The Twilight Sad sure do signpost the direction in which they wish to be traveling. First of all there is the name, which perfectly captures both a melancholic artistry and the feeling that they probably decided upon it while listening to the Scottish rain hammer against their window pane. No One Can Ever Know , which follows 2009's Forget the Night Ahead cites industrial heavyweights Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails among its [...]
Ahhh February, when the weather is not consistent, children of love find more ways to spend money on each other and we at Kick Kick Snare show our lust for all of you, by throwing 20 songs on a digital mixtape (CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE). We here at KKS are extremely excited for February, why? Because we've got some monstrous, mind melting, disco ball-breaking stuff going on backstage, and we will soon be inviting you to the VIP room. In light of this exciting month in KKS history, I thought it would be interesting to expand our horizons with [...]
It's always about a girl. I've heard of girls breaking up bands, but I've never heard about a girl being the reason a band has gotten together. Especially when that girl has dated all the guys in the band. The kicker? She's also a member of the band. For Chicago band, Northpilot, that's just the case. Lay that thought aside for a moment, and let's talk about the music. Northpilot comprises Travis Shaver (guitar/vocals), Matt Cragnolin (bass), Dan Julian (drums), Danielle Mint (vocals/keys), and Justin Vittori (guitars/whistle). The Chicago [...]
In response to last year's tragic Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Blonde Redhead frontwoman Kazu Makino curated a benefit album. As its name infers, We Are the Works in Progress consists primarily of songs in an unfinished state, ranging from fan favorites that never made it onto an album such as Interpol's "Song Seven" and Broadcast's "In Here the World Begins" to Karin Dreijer Andersson's head-turning haunter "No Face," a cut from the currently unreleased soundtrack to the Ingmar Bergman play The Wolf Hour . More than the latest in a series of charitable releases, [...]
![[Introducing] – Warm Weather](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4040918_lg.jpg)
Tweet Warm Weather are exactly what you want them to be - a dancey synth pop LA based band with plenty of boyish charm and heart-crushing soaring harmonies. I was first introduced to their heartthrob drum beats and looping silvery harmonies by Lydia from Sunset In The Rearview . It was their EP "Dances" that I heard initially, and I was completely mesmerized by the twirling synth sounds, only to be distracted from these by quilted vocals in [...]
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If there's one band that I'm still holding out for because of the promise of their debut LP and a handful of truly excellent songs, it's Here We Go Magic . Now with two albums and an EP under their proverbial studded pink belt, they're ready to drop album number three: A Different Ship . With a title like that and Radiohead's own "fifth Beatle" (Nigel Godrich) grasping production reins, I'd like to think this might be the album where all the stars align... where every song sounds like the prodigious offspring [...]
Lovely jam this one by the Austalian producer Oskar , which is another regular "costumer" of Golden Scissors. This track can easily be played in clubs or on the beach. If you are planning to play this in a club, you just have to speed up the pitch a little, on the contrary if you want to make it sound more sexy you can always.... slowww down this awesome track. Really nice one! Follow Golden Scissors on Facebook
As previously reported, Here We Go Magic has teamed with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich for their third LP. According to Pitchfork , the end result, entitled A Different Ship , will arrive on May 8th via Secretly Canadian. Below, you can download one of the album's 10 tracks, "Make Up Your Mind". The band began recording with Godrich in 2011, first in L.A. and later in London. Discussing the new album with Stereogum , Temple called it "much more organic" than the band's 2010 album, Pigeons . [...]
Words by Leland Bonner ( @lelandbfresh ) Not too many can say that they've shared the stage with James Brown, toured around the world with the likes of Usher and Jill Scott, and even worked in the studio with Snoop Dogg. To what many seem like a dream, is nothing but reality for singer/songwriter BJ The Chicago Kid. The smooth Chicago crooner has made a name for himself by creating a signature sound that he coins "World Soul R&B" and by writing and performing background vocals for artists such as Mary Mary, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, [...]
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