I can't reform or seem to slow down, I burn my lunch money on LP's and 7inches. The record player spins endless at Night-People HQ right along with the dubbing station and the in house assembly floor keeps it all hectic and manic. As is typical with me, some NZ, AU, UK and barely heard long lost Garage Gems + a couple other weirdos hanging out. Making Mix Tapes sits high tide with the DIY Spirit, which I guess I have plenty of. Always enjoy when I can find the time to dig into the collection even deeper [...]
Reading the romantic poets is often lost upon people who have been told they ought to be familiar with Keats and Shelley. Between the relatively tame subject matter and the strict sensibility of it all, the romanticism passes them by. I once watched James Graham play a show. I was working the bar in an old Presbyterian church. As the band stood up to preach their sermon, Graham reverse-prostrated himself and played the entire set lying on his back - an arrogant act of defiance and pride against God, in whose house he was playing. Within [...]
This review runs live, first and in color at the Bowery Presents' House List blog. The first time I saw John Roderick was with his full band, the Long Winters, at a now-defunct East L.A. venue back in 2008. He was in rock-star mode with long hair and a loud maroon jacket, and he never took off his sunglasses. But on Saturday night, a mellower version, perhaps a more authentic Roderick,
I love islands. I like laying on the sandy shores of islands; I like sailing around islands; I like surfing and building bonfires on islands; and I like listening to Islands . Pretty much everything you do is better when you do it on an island (including listening to Islands). The band Islands sounds just like a musical group from Canada called Islands should sound, mixing a poppy-palm-tree-tropicalia vibe with a dark undercurrent of neurosis and melancholia (a natural cohabitant of Montreal's long, snow-blanketed winters). But if you've got those cold-weather blues (more like deep, endless grays), Islands' newest [...]
Graphic by Katherine Speelman. Most of these albums are contained within this: Our Seasonal Soundtrack: Winter Spotify playlist . The Antlers Hospice [Frenchkiss; 2009] In the past couple of years, no album has come close that delivers the devastating emotional blow that Hospice delivers. In fact, it was our album of the year back in 2009. The narrative of the concept album centers on the relationship between a hospice [...]
Aftercologne mix by SEAARCH ALL SONGS SLOWED TO A NODDING 84 BPM: Chip E - Like This Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Jack Your Body Adonis - No Way Back Air - Empty House Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation (12" House Nation Mix) Enjoy as an afterglow to a long winters day.
Todd V Wolfson I feel that I should say up front that any reservations I have about Kathleen Edwards and her work are entirely my own issues. Since her 2002 debut Failer , I've enjoyed her honest, roots-rock fare but always felt like I expected more from her creatively even though across her first three albums, she'd never shown any signs that she had ambitions beyond being a good singer-songwriter. That said, the fact that she spent her downtime following 20082s Asking For Flowers [...]
For those of you who don't know who Kathleen Edwards is, you're going to be hearing her name a lot in the coming days, weeks and months, as the critically acclaimed Canadian alt.country singer will release her fourth studio album Voyageur tomorrow via Zoe/Rounder Records. Edwards was looking to get away from the singer-songwriter mold of her previous work, and make an album more inline with the indie rock that she had been listening to before entering the studio. So what's the big deal about that? Well, she was able to nab none other [...]
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 [...]
Kathleen Edwards acaba de lançar o quarto álbum de sua carreira de mais que dez anos, mas Voyageur promete conquistar a atenção de muitos que não a conheciam anteriormente. Afinal, Edwards firmou parceria, não apenas musical como também amorosa, com Justin Vernon , frontman do Bon Iver e dono dos holofotes do folk em 2011. Voyageur , co-produzido por Edwards e Vernon e que ainda inclui backing vocals do próprio artista folk e colaborações com John Roderick , do The Long Winters [...]
A dusting of snow was on the lawn this morning. It was the second dusting of the winter, and both are the only snow we've seen. The day is getting warmer, already up 5° since I first checked, and the warmth has made the dusting a memory. Today will be in the 402s. During previous winters, a day in the 402s was considered almost balmy but not this winter. 40 during the day seems to be the norm. The nights, however, are still cold, even freezing, and they remind us that this is really winter. On our way [...]
Can't believe 2011 was 4 days ago. Missing it already. In 2011, Winters were warm. In 2012, winters are cold. That's enough for me to want to go back. I fancy myself to be a concert photographer. More specifically, I fancy myself to be an Iphone concert photographer. It's a rare breed. Sure, a lot of people take snapshots of concerts with their phones during a show, but how many of them use them for their music blog? Not many. Those other people just look through their albums one day, wonder 'what is this?' and [...]
As the gap between what many of us term as indie music and electronica becomes ever-more blurred it seems that many bands you would never have previously expected to are dabbling with synths and the like in an attempt to bolster and improve their sound. This of course is done with varying degrees of success and there are times when it feels both unnecessary and contrived. Thinking back to when I first heard The Twilight Sad 's debut LP Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters, I would never have [...]
Dear 2012, can we put on our wish list that PULASKI the band of Baltimorians make some more music for us this year? Whiskey and beer can sometimes coax the muse out of the best of bands in Pulaski's case it's the simple motivation like these except for maybe breakfast food. Ok they're prone to write the occasional break-up song like their classic "I want my records back" or the religious anthem the "Black Hand of g*d"? The inspiration is pleasantly misanthropic my friends so help reel in the vibe. They'll brew a song about almost anything using [...]
Now that I've wasted so much time here establishing a few traditions, I'd be remiss to honor not them... Almost every artist in the history of mankind has at least one title in their catalog that is a compilation, a stopgap collection meant to maintain interest between releases (often to boost holiday sales) or to fulfill a contractual obligation. This is the former, a chance to make use, one more time, of a lot of wasted time over the past twelve months. Three years ago, I reflected on the annual, childhood tradition of [...]
Looking back at our 2011 list of Most Anticipated Albums , there is a pretty wide spectrum of releases that fulfilled their potential (Destroyer, Fleet Foxes, James Blake), never quite took off (Danielson, Hercules And Love Affair, Lupe Fiasco), and even a few that we are still waiting for (Dead Man's Bones, Blur, Portishead). Sorry guys, we couldn't get them all right. This year, there seem to be even less announced albums then we are used to, and hopefully we will see a surge in confirmed 2012 releases in the coming weeks. Regardless, we still [...]
Among my favorite things about New Year's Eve: glitz and glitter, champagne, debaucherous friends. Among my least favorite: waiting for cabs, waiting for cabs in the cold, waiting for cabs in heels in the cold and snow. Now, I'm no Scrooge, but there's nothing worse than waiting for the coveted New Year's Eve cab that inevitably will not come. And so, in the book of New Year's according to Freya, proximity is everything. Plus, bars on New Year's Eve tend to be crowded, sticky, and magically endowed with the right to charge exorbitant cover fees. As I've referenced before, to [...]
If you missed the first part of our countdown then head on over here , if not then just scroll down to check out our twenty favourite records of 2011. We hope you have a great Christmas and New Year and we'll see you in 2012 for more of the same... * * * 20. Youth Lagoon - Year Of Hibernation At the end of [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Book Club , New Music , New Releases Patrick Lelli Michigan-based troubadours Breathe Owl Breathe aren't your average three-piece folk band. By pulling together elements of children's literature and onstage experimentalism, the band creates a live storybook filled with anthropomorphic characters that value friendship above all. Spinner recently caught up with bearded frontman Micah Middaugh to talk about the band's newest foray into [...]
For an explanation of how we determined our Top 50 albums of 2011 (and for a look at albums 75 to 51), see our first post in the series, Top Albums of 2011, 75 to 51 . . . . 30. The Atlas Moth – An Ache for the Distance (Profound Lore, USA) In their rookie season, Windy City sludge slingers The Atlas Moth wowed the crowd with starry-eyed highs and lows murkier than Lake Michigan. An Ache for the Distance saw the [...]
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