The Bloodsugars stellar debut album, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On was released this week on Engine Room Recordings. After their short Midwest tour last week, including a great show in Cincinnati, singer/guitarist Jason Rabinowitz was able to take some some time to answer some questions about the creative process and theme of the new album, some of their new favorite bands and the their new-found love for Bobby McFerrin. Atlas and the Anchor: My favorite song on I Can't Go [...]
Årtiet lakker så småt mod enden, og i den anledning har Frekvens kigget tilbage på de bedste plader fra perioden 2000 – 2009. Alle redaktionens medlemmer har således indleveret deres top 25 lister over årtiets plader, og de er nu blevet regnet sammen til Frekvens' definitive top 60 over årtiets bedste albums. Ikke mindre end 145 albums har været med i overvejelserne, men Arcade Fires debut endte med at blive den suveræne vinder, af et i øvrigt utroligt stærkt felt. Death Cab For Cutie forsangeren Ben Gibbards hyggeprojekt The Postal Service rendte med 2. pladsen, blandt andet foran to [...]
WE ARE THE WORLD RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM 'CLAY STONES' ON MANIMAL VINYL FEBRUARY 23, 2010 IAMSOUND set to release "Clay Stones" single on January 26, 2010 "[We Are The World] work the dance beat, taking pop to strange outer space."– Paper Magazine "Art-damaged electronica." – LA Weekly "We Are the World celebrates the visual as much as the sonic—incorporating into their performance as much dance and design as music with fantastically spooky effects. We Are the World raised the bar." – LA Record "I feel that referring to them as [...]
http://www.beatsinspace.net/pl aylists/495 Pt 1 with: JTC 1. JTC - Beats In Space - Unreleased 2. Traxx - Parametric Melody - Nation 3. Harmony Funk - Can't let you go - Real Estate Records 4. DJ K-Alexi - Re-lax With Chicago - MAAD 5. JTC - Overnight (chrome heads) - Minimal Rome dubplate 6. Steve Stoll - Floor Control - [...]
As you know by now, we at NPR Music sent out a series of questions to people in the music, arts and entertainment communities. We wanted to get a sense of people's thoughts and feelings pertaining to the last decade in music, and what their thoughts were about the future. One question we asked was: What is the one song, movement or artist that sums up the decade for you, and why? Our respondents had a variety of answers, from Kanye West to M.I.A. to Beirut. Please add your [...]
As you know by now, we at NPR Music sent out a series of questions to people in the music, arts and entertainment communities. We wanted to get a sense of people's thoughts and feelings pertaining to the last decade in music, and what their thoughts were about the future. One question we asked was: What is the one song, movement or artist that sums up the decade for you, and why? Our respondents had a variety of answers, from Kanye West to M.I.A. to Beirut. Please add your [...]
Contrast Podcast recently asked music bloggers like myself to submit our favorite 50 songs of the year for their annual "Festive 503 podcast. Our selections were then compiled into a shortlist and now we've been asked to recruit votes to narrow it down. For the curious, I've bolded the 10 songs I personally voted for. I really, really want "Nice Very Nice" by Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier (from their album Ice-9 Ballads ) to make the final list. Not only because it's my favorite song of the year, from my favorite album of the year, [...]
It's been over a decade since Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs and Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea , two albums that pushed the boundaries of chamber-pop and psychedelic rock in an era of indie innovation that has few rivals. Without shouldering them with the burden of exaggerated expectations, blossoming Los Angeles act Pepper Rabbit picks up where those records left off - stylistically, if not yet quite qualitatively. But on two self-released EPs, the band's music aches with potential. Throughout, Pepper Rabbit goes dark and deep, letting [...]
Matter of Time mp3 The Leisure Society The Sleeper ..... ..... buy it Well, now this is getting interesting... Over at the Contrast Podcast , Tim's solicited everyone for their favorite 50 songs of 2009, remember? From all the responses he's compiled the top 155. I'm very impressed with the list! If you didn't submit your faves yet, you've still got a chance to get in the game at this point! Help us out, eh? (I"ve highlighted my top 10 in blue) Here's [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News When A Camp 's Nina Persson sang, "Now we're gonna party like it's 1699" at her band's show on Tuesday night, she was only half kidding. With plume-adorned microphone stands, an elegant grand piano, sunset-colored lamps and dark blue mood lighting, New York's Le Poisson Rouge was decorated more like an old-fashioned cabaret than a Manhattan music club. Persson, best known as the singer for Swedish band the Cardigans , fit right in with a lacy black-and-gray dress, feathered headband, and [...]
remixes max tundra - which song (passion pit remix) the xx - shelter (death to the throne remix) florence & the machine - raise it up (switch remix) the temper trap - fader (jakwob remix) fool's gold - surprise hotel (mad decent remix) [...]
Petit lundi. Pour ceux qui ne tombent pas sur cet article par simple recherche, google et/ou moteur de recherche quelconque, vous savez que je ne porte pas une attention particulière aux fautes de grammaire ou whatever faute de français lorsque je tape quelques mots sur un sujet musical quelconque. Je tape comme ça me vient à l'esprit puis après, je lui mets un petit antidote vite fait / bien fait et that's it, finito les remords de conscience sur la qualité de mon français écrit. Cela dit, je crois quand même que la maitrise de la langue (dans [...]
Another week, and another great show to put our name behind here in Austin. This time around, WOXY and our friends from Austinist are proud to be presenting The Mountain Goats and Final Fantasy at Antones on November 18th. In addition to having The New Yorker magazine refer to him as "America's best non-hip-hop lyricist", John Darnielle has released another critically acclaimed album this year titled The Life Of The World To Come that is already popping up on several "best of" lists as we round out 2009. Final [...]
By Carrie Brownstein As beardy indie-folk takes over, is rock losing its edge? (Getty/Fergus McDonald) These are strange times in rock music when the genre's big brothers and elder statesmen -- those pillars of manliness, with upper bodies so capable and broad that it looks as [...]
How awesome was The Hood Internet at Scoot Inn last Friday? Seriously, they had everyone dancing! If you still can't get enough of their mashups, they've just released the fourth installment of their famous mixtapes (download Vol. One , Vol. Two , and Vol. Three as well). Clocking in at just over an hour of instant party jams, it's available as a continuous mix and as separate tracks. [ Download HERE ] The Mixtape Volume Four Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. David Banner vs [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Hanan Al-Shaykh's The Locust and The Bird is a unique memoir, a mother's life written by her estranged daughter, told in the first person. Not many authors could pull this off, but Al-Shaykh, widely regarded as one of the Arab world's finest writers, does so with incredible effect. Kamila (Al-Shaykh's mother) can neither read nor write, so she dictates her story of a forced marriage, search for true [...]
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