Deux ans seulement après Falling Down A Mountain , les Tindersticks nous reviennent donc en plein cœur de l'hiver avec un neuvième album, ponctuant pas moins de vingt ans d'orfèvrerie musicale. Et on ne s'en plaindra sûrement pas tant au fil des années, le groupe est devenu pour nos oreilles un sûr refuge, cosy, nous abritant des agressions sonores et de la barbarie ambiante, opus après opus. The Something Rain ne fait ainsi pas exception à la règle, le groupe n'étant visiblement pas décidé à redescendre des cimes atteintes en 2008 avec le merveilleux The Hungry Saw , qui [...]
An audio retrospective of Elefantkvinnan , the 2005-2009 label curated by Viktor Sjöberg ( V. Sjöberg New Jazz Ensemble , Jens Lekman ) and Gustav Rosengren ( Kalligrammofon ).
De acordo com Jesse Kivel em entrevista ao Rock 'n' Beats , o ar de tropicalidade presente no álbum de seu projeto Kisses deriva da artificialidade californiana. Agora, o compositor norte-americano de indie-pop acaba de cruzar os EUA e aportar em outro oceano, o Atlântico... pelo menos é o que indica a nova faixa de sua banda Princeton , entitulada Florida e disponível para audição e download na Stereogum . Florida é a terceira faixa do novo álbum da Princeton , Remembrance of things [...]
La cantante chilena Javiera Mena abrirá la temporada 2012 del popular ciclo MSTRPLN , en Crobar de Palermo, el próximo 17 de febrero. Tras presentarse en Lollapalooza de Chile y Primavera Sound de Barcelona, Mena -quien hizo su fuerte y romántico debut en 2006 de la mano de Esquemas Juveniles - traerá para su tercera aparición en el escenario de MSTRPLN las canciones de su segundo disco Mena (2010); el mismo contó con [...]
With the GOP's impending Florida primary dominating national discourse this week, California outfit Princeton come through with a finely cut indie-pop nugget well timed to ride some sweet politico SEO coattails. The title is pure synchronous coincidence, though; this is not a electorally inclined song, and Mitt and Newt get no shine here. The song itself is bright, and rippling with warm keyboards that lap over a spare and buoyant bassline, and these are sounds that evoke the song's namesake even as its lyrics are all about getting far away from its air and its leaves. And Princeton's vocals have [...]
The GFP inbox is approached more with trepidation than excitement these days. Not that there is anything wrong with the content, more that it's a little worrying to see just how many emails have piled up since our last visit. There must be so many wonderful bands/albums/songs that slip through the cracks but thankfully Alpaca Sports wasn't one of them. Andreas Jonsson got in contact with us last week and we instantly fell for his subtle and catchy brand of indie-pop. Hailing from Gothenberg in Sweden, Andreas has recorded his debut single with producer Kalle Von Hall [...]
Sophistication is a hard thing to get right – a hard attribute to earn and perhaps even a confusing badge to have pinned on your breast. While it can be easily mistaken for smarm or perceived as valuing style over content in many musical scenarios, Francois & The Atlas Mountains achieve sophistication with ease and wear it with charm. This, along with a few other key attributes, is what make F&TAM's fifth "studio" release (if a church in a French village count as a studio) such a warm, luxuriant delight. Francois himself was drawn [...]
Aan het einde van deze maand komt het altijd geweldige Woodsist met wat de doorbraak van The Doozer gaat worden. Simon Doozer uit Cambridge wordt daarmee de eerste Britse artiest die een release krijgt bij de jongens van Woods , maar hij gaat zich er zeker thuis voelen. Keep It Together past namelijk perfect in het rijtje van eerdere releases met een sticker van dit label, die niet zelden een combinatie vormen van psychedelische folk en charmante pop. In 2010 kregen [...]
We here at Kata Rokkar and Snob Theater are honored and privileged to be involved in the prestigious comedy festival, the one and only San Francisco Sketchfest. The line-up for this Snob Theater is beyond ridiculous; Chris Fairbanks (Fuel.tv, The Daily Habit), Sheng Wang (Comedy Central Presents, Comedians of Comedy), and Coree Spencer (Bridgetown Comedy Fest, Comedian on Comedian). In addition we are lucky to be featuring local indie pop heroes and all-around amazing supergroup Still Flyin' to bring the tunes to this epic event. Still Flyin' [...]
It's hard to imagine that just a few short months ago we were enjoying sunny summer days. 2011 was my best year yet, having achieved a few milestones: four and a half years running FensePost, riding my bike from Seattle to Portland and logging over 1,000 total on those two wheels between January and December, enjoying life with the love of my life (Andi), and a few defining mindset changes that put the two of us on a path to minimalism and frugality. All of this has led to happiness. That the [...]
Allo Darlin' / photo by David Greenwald Without using the word "best," here are eight bands, all new (or maybe new to you?), worth keeping an eye on this year. Mostly indie-pop, because that's mostly what I like. Release dates if they exist. What are you excited about this year? Let me know in the comments or @daverawkblog . Michael Kiwanuka: The UK singer's getting an inordinate amount of hype for sounding like a Platonic ideal Starbucks CD rack option, but if people [...]
Here are the LOOSE L!P's writers' favorite tracks and tidbits of 2011. No explanation necessary; just trust us. Today Russ, our lovable barely-reformed emo kid, graces us with his list. - - - *All links route to YouTube/Soundcloud unless specified as [mp3]. Feel free to download those bad boys. TOP 11 SONGS - Yuck - Holing Out - St. Vincent - Cruel [mp3] - Jens Lekman - Waiting for
It's hard to imagine that just a few short months ago we were enjoying sunny summer days. 2011 was my best year yet, having achieved a few milestones: four and a half years running FensePost, riding my bike from Seattle to Portland and logging over 1,000 total on those two wheels between January and December, enjoying life with the love of my life (Andi), and a few defining mindset changes that put the two of us on a path to minimalism and frugality. All of this has led to happiness. That the [...]
Let's start the year off right. Like Jens Lekman's "Cowboy Boots," one of the best songs of 2011 didn't get an official release last year. I had the pleasure of watching the Mountain Goats play triumphant high school ode "You Were Cool" twice last year; here's a nice, professionally shot take from his Lollapalooza performance. We may get a recorded version sooner than later: the last time I saw the band, at the Troubadour in December, John Darnielle all but promised another record: "Unlike those navel-gazers who release 12 tracks every year," he said, "I put in work. [...]
"It started with Studio's 'The End of Fame', sounding like a lovesick whale in the depth of the ocean. Try making a ring tone out of this, you bastards, we said. With no particular ambition, but with a strange confidence, some kind of culture was created and (dis)organized, spontaneously but in a certain direction. And Service rapidly took shape as the leader of Swedish pop in the early 21st century." And so went the opening quote to mark the celebration of Service's ten year anniversary last month. A Swedish independent label recognised [...]
Come da titolo noi di Junkiepop vi facciamo un regalo. Perchè ci leggete. Perchè commentate. Perchè vi lamentate, ma vi vogliamo comunque bene (magari a qualcuno un po' di meno e ad altri un po' di più). Per cui mettiamo da parte di rancori e apriamo tutti assieme il bottone dei jeans sotto il tavolo del pranzo del primo dell'anno ascoltando questa selezione di canzoni del 2011, che magari conoscete o magari no. Ne abbiamo scelte due ciascuno. Tanti auguri, buttatevi dai camini e a vostro discapito troverete carbone o un grandissimo panettone sopra cui atterrare. Uno sguardo [...]
Nu är den här, som ni har väntat.... Min lista över de bästa och mest minnesvärda låtarna från 2011, utan inbördes ordning. Spotify playlist här . Låtlista: Deportees – Islands & Shores Noah And The Whale – L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. Lana Del Rey – Video Games Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers (Dave Sitek Remix) Miss Li – I Can't Get You Off My Mind Fleet Foxes – Lorelai Bon Iver – Holocene Radiohead – Lotus Flower [...]
It's time to break the radio silence on BTA, and bring you my best albums and tracks of the year 2011. A year that belonged to Ms. Harvey. Since Let England Shake was released early in the year no-one else had a chance. Top 10 Albums: 10. Big Deal - Lights Out 9. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 8. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes 7. Bon Iver - Bon Iver 6. Metronomy - The English Riviera 5. Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde 4. Black [...]
El talentoso cantautor sueco Jens Lekman está dando los detalles finales a su nuevo LP , que viene largamente demorado. Para informar sobre el estado de su nuevo disco, Lekman eligió una curiosa forma, pero podemos saber que su nuevo trabajo tratará, una vez más, sobre corazones rotos y amor. Lekman subió a su blog Smalltalk una conversación de Skype entre sí mismo y su persona a los 17 años, para contar el estado en [...]
La última vez que escuchamos de nuestro sueco favorito, Jens Lekman , fue con la publicación de su más reciente EP, An Argument with Myself , una placa que según dijo él mismo contenía temas descartados de su nueva producción, la cual todavía no tiene fecha de salida pero de la que el músico ya ofreció algunos adelantos en un curioso post de su SmallTalk . El músico utilizó una llamada ficticia en Skype entre el Jens de hoy y el que era cuando tenía 17 años [...]
HARTZINE
It's a trap!
Rock 'n' Beats
indieHearts
Stereogum
GoldFlakePaint
The Line Of Best Fit
MrBungle
kata rokkar...
Fensepost
The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
LOOSE L!PS
JunkiePop
amix music
bridging the atlantic
Cuchara Sónica
death from up in arms and in fingers
The Shins – September
AC/DC – Thunderstruck (Protohype Remix) : Filthy Dubstep / Glitch Remix [TSIS PREMIERE]
Bon Iver's PISSED OFF frontman Justin Vernon LASHES OUT at HIPSTER RUNOFF over critical coverage
