Remember when I told you about Bebel Gilberto's new cd ? Well now I'm pleased to inform you that she is also going on tour and the bossanova explosion might just be coming your way. Check out the dates below to see if you are one of the lucky ones. Nov 23 - Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club Nov 25 - New York, NY - Hiro Ballrooom Nov 27 - Boston - Paradise Rock Club Nov 28 - Montclair, NJ - Wellmont Theatre Nov 29 [...]
At the tour's request, we did not photograph the Swell Season. The photos are of the opening act Doveman. Since seeing the Swell Season 's fantastic performance at Berklee Performance Center, I've told several friends that I haven't seen "Once," the film that launched the duo of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová and their real-life romance. Each time, I get the same reaction: my friend puts a hand to her chest and a hand on my arm, looks me straight in the eye and says, "You must see 'Once.' It's [...]
One would expect the end of the world to be a fairly chaotic affair. If the the trailer for this month's action flick 2012 is any indication, there's going to be a lot of shit blowing up. Cities will tumble. Mobs will scream and trample. There also be fighter jets, another creative destruction of the White House from disaster/snuff director Roland Emmerich, and (if you don't blink) Oliver Platt. I'm judging from the trailer alone, because it convinced me to totally disregard the actual film based on the erroneous statement that the Mayans were the "oldest civilization." If [...]
Guitar and drum duo Jason Buehler and Mark Shirazi are Nice Nice. They're Warp Recs' latest signing, and the label is marking the occasion with a new 7'' from the band.This b-side to the 7'' is a thick, linear casserole of African Drums and Matmos-esque synth blips. There are plenty of astral hums spackle the cracks, too:MP3: Nice Nice- "Ark Drum"Also, stream the a-side, "One Hit", right
MP3: Bebel Gilberto (w/ Mark Ronson) - "The Real Thing" Brazilian vocalist Bebel Gilberto will be starting her North American tour next week. She'll be hitting up DC before finding herself in New York at Hiro Ballroom on November 25. Check out the full list of tour dates after the jump. Bebel Gilberto tour dates: Nov 23 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club Nov 25 - New York, NY - Hiro Ballrooom Nov 27 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club Nov 28 - Montclair, [...]
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We've been snared deep and deerlike in the brilliant glare of Isaac Knight AKA Boneless and his bent and brain-addling sunshine bottling loopmania for a while now and so we were pretty delighted when he sent over his astral, cloud-skimming new jam "Treetops" - a collaboration with likeminded bedroom-ensconced sample heavy psych-pop sculptor I Am The Dot earlier this week. Lose yourself in the circles of its spotless serenity and then check out both projects separately for more fearless explorations in the field of futuristic, painkilling, pristine pop music. [...]
Think About Life at Arlene's Grocery | "M for Montreal" Showcase at CMJ (10/21/09) Malajube at Arlene's Grocery | "M for Montreal" Showcase at CMJ (10/21/09) Photos : Jon Klemm M for Montreal 2009 Schedule ( Nov 19-21, 2009 ) Beast , Malajube and Think About Life were three of the bands I caught at the M for Montreal [...]
David Bowie, Lou Reed, Talking Heads also tackled on covers album Peter Gabriel fronted Genesis when they were astral prog travelers. He also did time as one of the weirdest, least likely pop stars of the 80s and early 90s, looking like a bank manager but cranking out hallucinatory art-funk videos like "Sledgehammer" and "Shock the Monkey". More recently, he teamed up with Hot Chip to cover Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"-- a song that namechecks Gabriel himself. Suffice to say, Gabriel's weirdo credentials are fully in place. Early next year, he'll reemerge with an [...]
Where were you on the night before the dawn of the New Millennium? Jon Kerr was getting a pit going in Jilly's Rockworld, Manchester. We've asked him to summarise the ten years since then in all things metal in a handy A to Z J udas Priest As if one seminal British vocalist returning to his former band wasn't enough, Rob Halford followed suit in 2003 and re-joined Judas Priest . Angel of Retribution followed and Priest [...]
Some recent notable metal releases elicit further positive spin-offs, in the form of their lead videos below. Let's take a butcher's hook , shall we? Immediately familiar with Killswitch Engage 's tight, galloping guitars and the ever powerful vocal of Mr Howard Jones, the video adds to the urgency of the song with a fast-paced cityscape racing around the slo-mo couple personifying the lyrical matters. It has a certain amount of cheesy schmaltz to [...]
While Moloken 's wonderful debut release "We all face the dark alone" showcased a band with the potential to deliver high-quality, sludgy metal, it only hinted at the abundant genius held within the ranks of this Swedish quartet. Only a year later this ingenuity has been fully realized in "Our astral circle" as we find an outfit that has honed their songwriting skills to as damn near perfect as is humanly possible. Moloken have demonstrated that post-metal doesn't have to be a one-dimensional entity, and they've done it with such style that they [...]
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969) Glenn: Let's clear one thing up: "The Murder Mystery" is awesome. Anybody who disagrees hasn't caught onto the Velvet's project, which is to use drones, pulse, and deadpan-specific lyrics to create a trance that contains an entire world. Anything else the Velvets do - sing, change chords, play feedback, take speed, let Nico do her thing - is extra. While "The Murder Mystery" isn't a typical Velvets song, it does have the elements I've just identified, plus a wild bouncy-piano-with-vocals outro. [...]
The name Rick Moody will be familiar to anyone who keeps current with American writing. He's the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir, and his lauded 1994 novel The Ice Storm was filmed by director Ang Lee. [...]
In a healthily expanding approach to exchanging music for some useful fan info, Brooklyn psych-indie troupe Yeasayer have become the latest to embrace the e-mail for free tune concept. Their newie 'Ambling Alp' - available here - is pulled from the second album Odd Blood , due out in February next year.....actually next decade, but who's counting? Me. OFFICIAL SITE / MYSPACE / TWITTER [...]
überschrieben mit "folksongs, improvisations and musical mystery" geht early winter recordings an den start. das kleine label ist mehr oder weniger die kopfgeburt von james green, seines zeichens schalter und walter von the big eyes, siehe post vom vortag. auf early winter recordings tobt er sich quasi auf solopfaden aus bzw. lädt andere dazu ein. mit "tempers" legt er denn auch vor und hält seine ersten soloaufnahmen bereit, 14 an der zahl. es handelt sich um eine sammlung von improvisierten gitarrenstücken, aufgenommen im eigenen studio in sheffield auf einem 2track recorder. ein auszug: james green [...]
Les soirées tourangelles qui valent le coup sont rares et quand on en a une sous la dent mieux vaux ne pas la lacher. La quatrième édition des soirées En Attendant ! réunit à l'Atrium de Saint-Avertin le 11 novembre prochain Uwe Schmidt AKA Atom™ et la moitié du duo Zombie Zombie, Etienne Jaumet . Un line-up d'exception puisque Atom™, maitre incontesté de la musique electronique actuelle, sera en touraine pour l'une de ses deux seules dates françaises de l'année. Etienne Jaumet quant à lui, disque du [...]
Twangy spitfire Neko Case's Middle Cyclone was selected by Amazon.com's editors as the best of 2009, while U2's No Line On The Horizon was the online retailer's best-selling album this year. That's according to a just-released year-end package that jumps the "happy new year" gun by quite a few days. Sure, boosting these albums now will probably be great for the holiday sales, but it's too bad that publishing the list now means that the likes of R. Kelly's Untitled and Shakira's She Wolf didn't get their critical due. Oh [...]
Glenn : I was lucky enough to meet magisterial bassist Richard Davis during college. When I asked Davis about Astral Weeks , to which he contributed genre-busting bass lines, Davis smiled down and said, "Oh, yes. Of course. Well, you know, Van was a mama's boy." And smirked. I'm not quite sure what Davis meant, but his pat response means he wanted to shed some humanizing light on Astral Weeks , as it is so revered. Davis is on record saying that Morrison didn't know what he wanted from the musicians - or is it that [...]
Wow guys this is a must listen! I can see ASTRA MOVEO tearing through 2010 with a vengance - they've got strong pop hooks with a electronic rock. If you love Muse or The Killers you'll love these guys no doubt. The teaser videos for the new material ( first one , second one ) project a world of astral fantasy mixed with old movies and world strife. Mother Teresa even makes an appearance! We've got two fresh 320k tracks, DOLLFACE and CRIMINALS [...]
From their upcoming release (1/26/2010) Teen Dream album, comes their first single, “Norway”. Last month they revealed the new album deets [...]More about Beach House
Chew Fu has the remix game on lock. Dope bangers constantly dropping from this dude. Here is a new remix of Gaga’s new jam Bad Romance. I want your ugly. [...]More about Lady GaGa
När jag såg Vampire Weekend på Way Out West i somras tjatade dom hela tiden om hur vi i publiken skulle dansa, dansa och åter dansa. [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Haven’t done a real time review in a while, and hey, Fall Be Kind just leaked. Let’s see what’s up. Here’s a live blogging of my thoughts, [...]More about Animal Collective
You like feuds, right? Because this new Beck song is the baby of the feud of the year and it’s pretty messy. The story goes like this: [...]More about Beck
Some heavy hitters. Midnight Juggernauts - This New Technology (The Juan Maclean remix) Calvin Harris - Flashback (Eric Prydz [...]More about Beyonce
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You know. DJ tags on this unfinished joint and no real information on where the song came from, but I got Gaga & Beyonce, then Rihanna, why [...]More about Kanye West
I’m feel’n Supreme’s new campaign…. Game – Krazy Feat. Gucci Mane & Timbaland IRON DJ / DWNLD MP3 / VOTE Lil [...]More about Lil' Wayne
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