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Seattle pop music has always seemed a bit off-kilter. Still, the birthplace of Grunge has birthed a few outstanding pop artists. What A Lovely Surprise To Wake Up Here may not have taken Curtains For You into that realm yet, but it properly demonstrates that the band is heading in the right direction. There's an undeniable 60s and even early 70s pop sound here, but it also sides on contemporary, blending the then with the now for added cohesion. The melodies are [...]
On December 5th and 6th Golden Bloom and Alan Cohen Experience will appear at The Beatles Complete On Ukulele Marathon. All proceeds going to Yoko Ono, the benefit will take place at N8 in Williamsburg. In a NY Daily News article, co-founder of the festival, Roger Greenawalt says, "Yoko gets a very bad rap for [...]
Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal mp3 downloads and full album streams from this week's music releases : Alan Cohen Experience: Eat the Peace "Ranger Stranger" [mp3] Andy Caldwell: Obsession full album stream [...]
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There isn't much you could say about a group like Alan Cohen Experience that wouldn't be bloody obvious after a quick listen to Alan and his orchestra's latest experiment, Eat The Peace . This is piano-laced and hippie-friendly southern driven rock and roll that also parallels Phish at their happiest moments. It's happy-go-lucky storytelling about every free-loving individualist's favorite subjects: peace, love, train rides, and truck drivers. The lava lamp torch should instantly be passed down to Mr. Cohen. Any given track on Eat The [...]
Interview by Samuel Duke Photography by John Francis Peters On a rooftop high up above Hell's Kitchen at dusk, the Horrors are sprawled across rotten deck furniture, a lonesome scene for what some presume to be The World's Bleakest Band. And though they look the part— dressed in mostly black apart from the rare sliver of white oxford shirt here or there—they are hardly morose. When they talk at length about records and sound and people they've been blessed to work with, they [...]
Not much tops yesterday's interview with Pavement . But we certainly gave it our very best when it came to this week's Friday Mixtape. As always, included is the week's best mix of new singles, remixes, and covers along with mp3s from some up-and-comers you just might want to check out. Enjoy! NEW Singles: "Last Drop" by Awesome New Republic "Flight of the Demoiselles" by Blacklist "Photographed With Ease" by Home [...]
New Music ! Someone You Should Know the ALAN COHEN EXPERIENCE Seth Kroll photo Fresh off an appearance at this year's CMJ Music Festival, Boston's Alan Cohen Experience have a new six-track EP called Eat the Peace . Cohen, who is a former member of the critically acclaimed band [...]
So, I don't know if I've already mentioned this enough already, but I'm going to NEW YORK on Sunday for a week of tomfoolery and Big Apple based fun. We've also chosen this week in particular to head across the sea as it's CMJ Music Marathon and there are some pretty fucking cool bands playing. A fair few that we've featured on this here blog in fact. Hooray for us and coolness! But, my problem is I just can't process this list of bands who are playing. There are too many for my [...]
CMJ released the band schedule for its 2009 Music Marathon & Film Festival yesterday, which is about as good a sign of fall hitting New York as the return of apple cider at Greenmarket. The festival runs from Oct. 20 - Oct. 24 and includes various venues throughout the city, and the list of featured artists would probably take all four days to read through. But skimming the selection reveals a fairly equal distribution of well-known acts like Atlas Sound and Deer Tick , anonymous locals (including krautrock-y Jeff Buckley-channelers Pocketknife), twenty-two bands who [...]
The press release below doesn't actually list all the acts performing at CMJ this year, so you're probably better off checking out cmj.sched.org to get a true idea of what's happening during this year's marathon. Of course, sched.org is a little confusing too and it doesn't list unofficial events and day parties (as far as I know), so you'll have to wait a little bit longer for info to trickle out from the blogs and other unofficial sources. Lastly, even though the press release says the schedule is "final", you can pretty much bet that things will shift [...]
Reading Alan Cohen's blog entries on his MySpace page engendered a completely irrational hatred of him, but several listens to his EP led me to be completely (and rationally) underwhelmed. The tracks are catchy, and tend to remind you of various songs by much better bands, but generally fall flat. Reminds us of: (A poor man's:) The White Stripes | Spoon | Van Morrison. Alan Cohen Experience: ( Official / MySpace ) alan cohan experience eat the peace
Go to thebeatlescompleteonukulele.bl ogspot.com/ to download "Your Mother Should Know" and read producers' Roger Greenawalt and David Barratt's interpretation of the song. "Roger and Dave say, Your Mother Should Not Know. Don't trust her. Don't tell her a thing. She can and will use it against you." Alan Cohen Experience is a musician, talk show host, and [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alan Cohen Experience : "Ranger Stranger" [mp3] from Eat the Peace (out November 3rd) other Alan Cohen Experience posts at Largehearted Boy Alan Singley and Pants Machine : "Le Rain" [mp3] from Feelin' Citrus (out August 25th) other Alan Singley posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
Setting the release of Eat the Peace a year to the day of the 2008 self-titled EP, the indie-pop maestro Alan Cohen Experience delivers an election day gift on November 3rd, 2009. Featured on CNN and in the UK's The Guardian, Alan Cohen Experience's finds himself again collaborating with Brooklyn Producer, Roger Greenawalt (The Pierces, Ben [...]
We have a jam-packed Friday Mixtape for you this week and with names like Yo La Tengo, Lou Barlow, Ben Harper and Wale included, it's also a stellar one at that. So, without further adieu, please enjoy this week's mix of the best new singles, remixes, and covers, along with mp3s from some up-and-comers you just might want to check out. NEW Singles: "Hustle Beach" by Baby Teeth "At The Cut" by The Cave Singers "Soldier" [...]
The Seth Kroll and Alan Cohen produced video for the Alan Cohen Experience cover of The Beatles' "Your Mother Should Know" will appear on Beatles Complete on Ukulele thebeatlescompleteonukulele.bl ogspot.com on July 21st. The brainchild of producer Roger Greenawalt (Ben Kweller, Nils Lofgren, The Pierces) and David Barratt (Jimmy Page, David Bowie), they set [...]
In January, producers Roger Greenawalt and David Barratt set out to record every Beatles song: on ukulele. The video for the Alan Cohen Experience's "Your Mother Should Know" mixes Oedipus with Sarah Silverman, which to us seems like a match made in heaven. (But Silverman should know: She slept with God.)
The Seth Kroll and Alan Cohen produced video for the Alan Cohen Experience cover of The Beatles' "Your Mother Should Know," will appear on Beatles Complete on Ukulele, on July 21st. http://thebeatlescompleteonuku lele.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/alancoh enexperience http://alancohenexperience.com /
NPR is streaming Leonard Cohen's Live in London concert, which is out March 31st as a 2-CD set and DVD . Wired's Underwire blog interviews comics writer Grant Morrison about writing the Batman comics. Wired.com: Zibarro, Bizarro World's own Superman, was a misfit riot. Morrison: Zibarro was the Morrissey Bizarro. The sensitive outsider on a world of lunatics. He was great to write. [...]
Last night I finally got to play Watchmen fanboy, as Nate, Nicci and I went to see the film at the Arclight in Hollywood. We thought about buying advance tickets to a midnight screening last Thursday, but I think we all realized that because The Dark Knight experience wasn't much fun we should wait until the initial flurry of activity and hype surrounding the film's release died down a little. The theater last night was less-than half full. I've been hearing that since opening night the box office numbers for Watchmen are down considerably. [...]
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