(Photo by Kristy Milliken) Rocking up to someone's 21st birthday bash, is always fun. Yet, turning up when you don't know that person from a bar of soap, is a pretty radical move. With the Meredith Music Festival 2011, this cheeky move turned out to be one of the best decisions of my entire life. Expectations were daunting, Meredith has always been one of the most talked up events on the musical calender and for good reason. It would be impossible to recount every experience, sight and sound of Meredith 2011, so here are a few of the highlights [...]
A good bit of natural uncertainty seems to surround new local trio Habitat, who for a time only played intermittently between each member's full-time band schedule and who have yet to formally record even one original song for public consumption. Through most interpretations, the band is nothing more than a side project: guitarist Andrew Landry and drummer Evan Cvitanovich, better known as noise punk duo High In One Eye, have noticeably been lending their talents as near-bit players in acts like Glish and the now-defunct Country Club. However, with Country Club's recent break-up freeing up the creative juices of singer [...]
Her Tiny Desk set featured: River To The Sea Surrender Jezebel Enjoy the full playback here. Anna Calvi recently dropped by Letterman . Purchase Anna Calvi items via Insound. MP3: Anna Calvi - Wolf Like Me
"Gossip Girl here. Your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite." Now, while your phones may not be constantly ringing with blasts from Gossip Girl covering the latest news regarding Serena (Blake Lively), Blair (Leighton Meester), and their slew of family and friends' privileged lives (flawlessly balanced between turmoil and perfection), the phenomenal soundtrack is sure to stay ringing in your ears. From the drugs and partying to the twisted relationships full of lies, deceit, and love, CW's Gossip Girl has found the ideal tracks to set the backdrop and atmosphere for the fast-pasted, [...]
The press release for 'The Lion's Roar', the sophomore album by First Aid Kit , makes much of the fact that this album was recorded in America and allowed the Soderberg sisters to channel their favourite folk and country music made in the good ol' USA. Maybe therein lies the problem: 'The Big Black and the Blue' released in 2010 was far more intimate, as if they'd lit a fire inside their hearts and welcomed you inside. For some reason I just don't get that feeling with 'The Lion's Roar', so maybe [...]
Samedi 17 décembre, 16h. Je suis assis au troisième rang de l'auditorium de l'imposante bibliothèque de l'Alcazar de Marseille quand Jean-Marc Montera , musicien d'avant-garde et président du Groupe de Recherche et d'Improvisation Musicales ( GRIM ) depuis quelques lustres, présente Matthieu Saladin , docteur en Esthétique et spécialiste des musiques expérimentales. Mon regard scrute le vide, l'afflux sanguin me cogne subrepticement les tempes. Lorsque ce dernier prend la parole - abordant liminairement son ouvrage Esthétique de l'improvisation libre , bientôt disponible aux Presses du Réel , dont la conférence qui s'ensuit tire sa substantifique moelle - les réminiscences idylliques de la [...]
Tweet Despite what the introduction headline may suggest, The Besnard Lakes are not a new band. They are Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, a married couple that started a band in 2003, so not old either I guess. But what's more relevant is that they are obscenely, colossally good. It's amazing, but they have somehow hovered under the radar here at LB4YB, even despite being signed to Jagjaguwar , one of my favorite labels and home to brilliance like [...]
Toy - Shacklewell Arms // 18th January 2012 Toy are bloody brilliant, the show is put on by EYOE, and it's free. Hello! What more can you ask for? Click here tograb your free ticket You can visit Toy by heading to http://www.facebook.com/toy.ba nd Other Gigs 16/02/12 : Dear Reader - The Social // Click here to buy tickets [...]
Well, I just looked up for a minute from the near constant keyboard tapping, information seeking, and record cleaning/listening rituals around here to find the new year fully engaged and Twelfth Night already past. Damn, tempus fugeddaboutit. It's time to stand back up and start celebrating all over again, and not just because the Saints continue their winning Who Dat ways.... It's Carnival season, y'all, in no way to be confused with the current Circus of the Absurd masquerading as presidnetial campaigning, traveling [...]
Disclaimer: The 25 artists featured on this list categorically transcend the traditional notions of instrumental music- and where boom-bap plays any role, the traditional notions of hip-hop. Despite the ambitious efforts of bloggers and critics, they are also impossible to genrify. Still, a few things are certain. Most of them have either been compared to or influenced by the still omnipresent J Dilla, in many ways the torchbearer of their sound. They are audiophiles. They know how to handle their varying labs of MPCs, vintage analogue keyboards, drums, guitars, field recordings, and future sounds. They piece together collages [...]
When you compile a list like this, you start to tremble at how much you're really going to absorb in the ensuing months. This doesn't even cover the misses and surprises. If you're a casual listener, you might get through an album a day. Okay, maybe two. If you're a fanatic, you're spinning discographies left and right. Still, after 365 days, either person is buzzing. One's just a little louder with the phonetics. As I wrote back in December, in a year, you'll have your next roundup of favorite albums. You'll have a new favorite song. You might [...]
5 Songs is a weekly series where we point out the strange, the grand, and the unique connections between our favorite songs. Let's get weird. Photo by Michael Wells Words by Chris There's a lot of Raptures these days. Tuesday we're gonna die, Thursday we're gonna die. The good news is that it's all bullshit and nothing really matters! Come along this long road of long songs to the End of Days… [...]
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Bryan Ferry uno de los maestros de la música actual, ya sea con los clásicos Roxy Music o en solitario, y en solitario a finales del 2010 publciaba su álbum 'Olympia', del cual se han ido extrayendo EP con grandes remezclas de sus temas realizados por grandes artistas, y el pasado mes de noviembre se publicaba la colección de remezclas del disco, y menuda colección 31 temas!!!!!, recopilando los remixes ya publicados y algunos de nuevos especiales para esta gran edición, donde encontramos a artistazos como Fred Falke , Todd Terje [...]
New-York, downtown. Entre la la Cinquième Avenue et la Neuvième Avenue, de la 34e rue à la 42e rue, The Garment District étale ses fastes et imprime les modes vestimentaires : cet immense quartier absorbe - outre de nombreux entrepôts et d'innombrables ateliers de confection de vêtements - l'Empire State Building, le Madison Square Garden en plus de l'un des plus grands magasins du monde, le Macy's. La démesure à l'américaine, comme souvent, pour un lieu réputé être l'une des places fortes mondiales de la création et de l'habillement. The Garment District , encore et toujours, [...]
Alternate blog title: Starting The Year Off Right My calendar is marked beyond legibility with concert dates for the next few months and my concert budget is shot... there is no other way I would want to start 2012. Recently I've been coming across album after album that I've loved for quite a while yet [...]
Hopefully this list will inspire you to get off your couch and check out some of these bands live. We all need a little rock n' roll to make us feel good. If you have additions to the list please email me at amy(at)rockerzine(dot)com and I will be happy to include them in the next update. Click the band you want to see dates for below, or scroll to see em all! Adam Ant *~* Ryan Adams [...]
2011 was rock solid we teamed up with MB Disco to tribute the one and only Giorgio Moroder we started our radio show on Big City Beats we had many events, parties, funnnn like: Illegal Sundays @ WAMP, gigs with The Glitch Mob and Ulrich Schnauss and millions 'n millions of you loved us madly THANK YOU SEE YOU HERE IN 2012 !!! and now let's see the highlights of the year first the most popular/visited posts of APC in 2011 based on the dry facts of our [...]
In Austin music scene, the first week of January means it's time for Free Week. For the duration of Free Week (January 1st - 8th), many popular venues in town offer free shows featuring some of Austin's best (and emerging) local talent. Graham Williams (of Transmission Entertainment & Fun Fun Fun fame) planted the seeds of this now annual tradition in 2003 when he was booking shows for Emo's. It has expanded by leaps and bunds since then, evidenced by the fact that more than a dozen Austin music venues will participate in Free [...]
Weiter geht's mit meinem persönlich geprägten Jahresrückblick. Bei den Songs haben sich zwei Coverversionen an die Spitze meiner Liste der meistgehörten und damit höchstpräfertierten Lieder gesetzt – und was für welche! Beides Mal wurden 5-Sterne-Songs in extrem gelungener Weise neueingespielt. Ansonsten haben sich einige Bands gleich mit mehreren Stücken in mein Herz gespielt, z.B. Mint Julep, die ja auch mein Nr. 1-Album abgeliefert haben, oder California Wives, von denen ich mir 2012 noch viel Gutes erhoffe. 1. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out – Dum Dum Girls [...]
DREAMTIME DEPARTURES VOL. 11 (MEDIAFIRE link due to server limitations) Hi Everybody! I got a repost of DreamTime Departures Vol. 11 for you today. You can look forward to a mix of Library Music, Jazz & Downtempo Classics . The files have been encoded into 192kbps mp3s and artwork is included. All files have been poolside tested for your protection! Here is the tracklist: 01. Morcheeba - Big Calm (DreamTime Edit) 02. Adani & Wolf - Sensing [...]
all i do is listen.
Barryfest
A Heart Is A Spade
indie shuffle
There Goes the Fear
HARTZINE
Listen Before You Buy
The 405
Home of the Groove
Potholes In My Blog
Consequence Of Sound
Draw Us Lines
COMO LAS GRECAS
Predictably Me
Rocker Magazine
AudioPorn Central
Covert Curiosity
Coast Is Clear - der Indie-Pop-Blog
STRICTLY MIXES
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