Adaline was recently chosen as one of the twenty finalists for the Peak Performance Project. The Peak Performance Project is sponsored by the 100.5 The Peak FM and Music BC. The PEAK Performance Project is a seven-year, $5.29 million contest open to all musicians in British Columbia. The project was created by 100.5 The PEAK and Music BC to develop BC based emerging artists. Every year, twenty finalists from BC will receive an intensive, one week training program in the music business, live performance, songwriting, marketing and [...]
Fang Island delivers sound of 'everyone high-fiving everyone' "A triumphant, heavily riffed, primarily instrumental epic, whiplashing through six minutes of smiling prog jams, and as many tempos as passages, before settling into one last minute of uplifting chants." - Stereogum "Life-affirming prog guitar anthems." – Seattle Stranger Fang Island describes its sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone." And, the Brooklyn quintet's anthemic and soaring songs make it quite possibly one of few bands befitting such description. Check out MP3s for two new tracks, "Daisy" and "Life Coach." Its finger-tapping guitar lines, chanted vocals, [...]
Interpol get a lot of shit heaped upon them. From the constant references to Joy Division & The Chameleons, down to the criticism of Paul Banks' admittedly oft-baffling lyrics. 2007's Our Love To Admire seemed like the flashpoint for everyone who'd been patiently waiting for a major screwup to release steady streams of contempt and disdain in Interpol's direction. I actually included OLTA in my Best Albums of 2007 list, and while in retrospect I'm not sure I didn't put it there just to piss off people who wouldn't stop prattling on about [...]
You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home any more? All of a sudden, even though you have some place where you put your shit that idea of home is gone. You'll see one day when you move out. Just sorta happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know? You won't ever have that feeling again [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. God damn you Vampire Weekend. Why do you make it so hard for me to defend my positive feelings towards your material? Why do you constantly feel the need to remind me that I didn't go to Princeton (or Cornell or Dartmouth or Bryn Mawr)? Why do you have to rub your madras shirts and clever ironicism and frenetic energy in my midwestern face? I understand that I would be 30% more clever with a degree from an Ivy League school (or even someplace that [...]
E very genre of music has an ideal listening environment. Classical is best heard at a smyphony. Arena rock should be heard at, well, at a large arena. Electronic music? Nothing beats a dance party. But whether you're a club person, a bar junkie or a house party lover, you've probably encountered a lot of obnoxious people during your nights out. Below are nine of the people we hate most in no particular order. Got any good ideas for future lists you'd like to see? Send them over . [...]
Hear The Track HereThere is no doubt that over the last couple of years, the review blog has introduced me to a great many musicians from outside Soundclick, sometimes with excellent results and sometimes not. To be honest, getting tracks from elsewhere is also my own way of stopping Soundclick becoming stale for me. As it happens, several people have said that they like the oddities I come up
Back in 1997 Anthony Lovett and Matt Maranian wrote and published what eventually became my favorite Los Angeles guidebook. That book's name was (and is) LA Bizarro . A few years ago on this website I talked to Matt about the original book's undertaking ( fun interview with Matt here ). Since that time the two authors have now revised, updated and significantly expanded that original tome, and their collective output was published by Chronicle Books just this fall. In the 2009 updated edition of LA Bizarro (available at the time of this [...]
I wrote this post over a year ago - in August 2008, to be exact - after I got a cease and desist for posting a song by a girl named Gabriella Cilmi. For whatever reason, I didn't post this. Maybe I figured some mysterious record company man in a long black coat with scars on his face would whack me in the parking lot if I did. Not so worried about that now. And, if you don't mind me noting: as of today - November 20, 2009 - I haven't heard a lot [...]
A Classic Education A Classic Education are a six-piece band from Bologna, Italy whose epic melodramas seem to attracting much attention. They played Indietracks in 2008 and are frequent visitors to London and further afield. Following a trip to CMJ in New York in October, they're back in the UK this month: they play at the Lexington on 26 November and the Buffalo Bar the following night. They have released two records: an [...]
By Carrie Brownstein As Bob Boilen, host of All Songs Considered , put it in a text message to me this afternoon, "The [end of the decade] series has been great. Overwhelming, but great." When we at Monitor Mix and NPR Music began our end-of-the-decade endeavor two weeks ago, I don't think any of us knew that we'd basically be publishing an online magazine. But, hey, we did! We put up 72 posts in 10 days! And we're very proud of it! So I'd [...]
Here's the skinny - no pun intended. There is no order to all of this, but it seems to be working for HappyParts. I certainly don't do any of this perfectly. On top of all this believe in timeless recordings, accept that people are busy, and attention span is the new revenue - so when's it's there, carpe' diem. Join Gym and go every day. Be friendly there. But don't be a creep. Do Cardio 45 minutes @ 3.8 mph at 11 point incline. (random fat burner button) 100 crunches afterwards. And [...]
J. Tillman took the stage at the Middle East Upstairs for a late show on Sunday night. But then again, it was only 8pm in Seattle, the west-coast town that this drummer from Fleet Foxes calls home. The performance was a family affair, with J. Tillman's brother Zach opening as a solo act called Pearly Gates Music . Zach Tillman offered us a stripped-down version of his already sparse style: leaving behind all unnecessary instruments, he came to us as one man and a guitar crooning blues and covering Pavement's "Shoot [...]
Holy fucking ape shit I'm really excited about this record coming out. I just found out, thanks to Blabbermouth.com , that the tracklist and label have been confirmed for Shining's Black Jazz record. If you rememeber us writing about this a few months ago in out response to listening to their last record Grindcore and being in awstruck of what we where hearing. Well from the looks of it in their comments about the record and the video, this looks to be even more brutal and crazier then the last record. Here is the comment from their [...]
[Via - The Star] Dismissed by some as irrelevant, music bloggers can have a striking impact on album sales, an expert on technology and the economy has found. "It's been suggested that blogs are just noise that really didn't help you predict" sales, says Professor Vasant Dhar of New York University. "A moderate amount of blog chatter might not predict anything, but off-the-chart blog chatter – even in some cases when there was no major record label behind a band – had an effect." The study, Does Chatter Matter? The [...]
Ke$ha has been controversy ever since word spread. Being the highlight of much criticism for obvious Uffie rips and for being a young girl in the LA scene, she seems like she'd be having it tough. Her song "Tik Tok" though can be heard at various parties, and honestly frat jocks and horny girls can't seem to stop requesting it. Although the dollar sign in her name is a bit much and her tiny shorts and cowboy boots remind us of a girl playing dress up, you can't deny the fact that this girl is going to be around [...]
By Carrie Brownstein And it's naptime. ( courtesy of The Patton Veterinary Hospital ) It's hard to believe that we've reached the end. For the past two weeks, all of us -- the NPR Music Team, a handful of outside contributors and myself -- have explored the last 10 years in music. Did we cover [...]
Sebastian Mlynarski When I rounded up all the bits of information around Holly Miranda's solo project back in January , I had no notion that interest in it would eclipse that given to her main band, The Jealous Girlfriends . But her more atmospheric approach is certainly more in line with what people expect/want to hear wafting out of Brooklyn these days and it has apparently tickled more ears than the Girlfriends' heaver, more guitar-driven rock did. So while the Girlfriends take a deserved break, Miranda has been busy - [...]
One of my personal most anticipated release of the upcoming new year is definitely Spoon 's " Transference ". We've talked a bit about the new Spoon record in the past, more exactly about the few Transference tracks that have already been played live on the band's last tour. It now seems people will get the chance to have a first hand account of the new Spoon sooner than one may think, as in the following months the band will be touring through out the U.S. and Europe in support of Transference, which, by the way, will [...]
Here is the final installment of our unscientific, should-not-be-used-for-news-an d-reporting-purposes survey results. As you probably know by now, the following answers were culled from a variety of people in the arts, music and entertainments communities. The last question we asked them was: How do you think we'll listen to music ten years from now? Our respondents' answers ranged from silly to philosophical to downright Sci-Fi! We hope you enjoy reading them. And thanks so much to everyone who took the time to participate. Douglas Wolk, writer: [...]
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Vampire Weekend - Cousins
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