Paste interviews David Rawlings about his debut solo album, A Friend of a Friend . Paste: You cover some songs on this record—including a medley of "Method Acting" by Bright Eyes and "Cortez the Killer" by Neil Young. How did that come to be? Rawlings: A couple years ago, at the end of '07, Conor [Oberst] called me and asked me if I would come play guitar with Bright Eyes because Mike Mogis was producing a record and it was running on, and they [...]
Paste lists the best debut novels of the decade. Paste interviews David Rawlings about his debut solo album, A Friend of a Friend . Paste: You cover some songs on this record—including a medley of "Method Acting" by Bright Eyes and "Cortez the Killer" by Neil Young. How did that come to be? Rawlings: A couple years ago, at the end of '07, Conor [Oberst] called me and asked me if [...]
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 [...]
Has any Los Angeles band been more productive this decade than Rilo Kiley ? Probably not if you count solo projects its members have undertaken. Let's see: four albums by the Silver Lake quartet itself, two by singer Jenny Lewis (one with the Watson Twins), two by guitarist Blake Sennett fronting the Elected , one by bassist Pierre de Reeder ... and now, coming right after the first of the year, the solo turn by drummer Jason Boesel , "Hustler's Son" (Team Love Records). Boesel, of course, has a long resume, having drummed [...]
Even though I have listened to most of his work, I've never completely gotten on board with Conor Oberst's music. I think my continued issues may have something to do with his voice. Despite never completely hopping on the Oberstmobile, I have enjoyed several songs he has had ...
Today's song comes in from the Raleigh, North Carolina indie-folk (sometimes described as nu-folk) band Bowerbirds . Consisting of members Beth Tacular, Phil Moore, and Matt Damron, Bowerbirds have released 2 full-length LPs since their debut EP "Danger at Sea" in 2006. Ghost Life can be found on the band's most recent album Upper Air , released on July 7th of this year. The band is currently in the throws of a US tour that is scheduled to wrap up in Atlanta, Georgia on February 12th of next year; a full tour schedule can be found on the [...]
50 M.I.A. - Arula 49 Muse - Absolution 48 The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows 47 Brendan Benson - Lapalco 46 The Delgados - The Great Eastern 45 Avalanches - Since I Left You 44 Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 43 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 42 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 41 Wild Beasts - Two Dancers 40 Ryan Adams - Gold 39 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles 38 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 37 The Knife - Silent Shout 36 Spirtualized - Let it [...]
BEST ALBUMS OF THE NOUGHTIES The daunting task of putting together something that you know lots of readers won't agree with is never easy, but then we thought you could always go make your own lists. At least we had the balls... So the 50s had rock n roll, the 60s had it's pop and folk, the 70s it's punk, disco and glam, the 80s it's pop, hip hop and hair rock, the 90s it's grunge, brit pop and dance music. It begs the question - what standout genre defines the [...]
Following in the footsteps of frontwoman Jenny Lewis, lead guitarist Blake Sennett, and bassist Pierre de Reeder - in other words, everyone else in Rilo Kiley - Rilo Kiley drummer Jason Boesel will release his first solo album on January 12, 2010. Hustler's Son , named after the first song Boesel ever penned, is being issued by Team Love Records , co-founded by Conor Oberst, which is just the first bit of two-degrees-of-separation indie-music lore that surrounds the album: Boesel manned the kit for Bright Eyes' seventh studio album, Cassadaga [...]
De a pocos se van sumando más medios a publicar sus listas con lo mejor de la década, anteriormente revisábamos la lista de la norteamericana Pitchfork con 200 posiciones que escogió como disco de la década a Kid A de Radiohead, ahora es turno de la NME y aunque últimamente ya no tenga la influencia de antes, resulta más que interesante revisar la decisión del staff de la publicación británica. Es conocido el impulso que ha logrado dar la NME a la nueva música británica, no han querido parecer distintos en su lista ya [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK The Monsters of Folk fanbase are clearly missing a trick. Every time this four-strong folk-rock outfit takes to the stage, they should be met a chrous of b-movie screaming and a mass stampede for the exits. That'll learn them for calling themselves "monsters." The supergroup -- Conor Oberst , Jim James ( My Morning Jacket ), M. Ward and Mike Mogis ( Bright Eyes ) -- were at London's Troxy venue, a recently [...]
Tempo di classifiche di fine anno anche per NME , la prestigiosa -e controversa- rivista britannica. Votata dalla redazione e da una selezione di musicisti e addetti ai lavori, arriva la classifica dei 100 migliori album del decennio che sta per finire. Tra i giurati: gli Arctic Monkeys, Carl Barat, i The Killers, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty, gli Elbow, Johnny Marr, gli MGMT, Ian Brown, i The Big Pink, Snoop Dogg, Alan McGee, gli Yeah Yeah Yeahs e molti altri. Qualche sorpresa. Un gruppo inglese (i Libertines ) è stato scalzato dal podio da [...]
Inaspettata è stata la notizia di un ritorno di Yoni Wolf e compari a breve distanza da quello spettacolo di "Alopecia", edito appena l'anno scorso. Forte la curiosità di scoprire cos'altro nascondessero quelle stesse session, perché è sempre da lì che provengono le tracce del nuovo "Eskimo Snow". Appena trentacinque minuti per dieci pezzi che non negano la stretta parentela che li lega ai diretti predecessori: è un carosello meno ambizioso, meno caleidoscopico, meno gargantuesco, ma anche meno sfuocato, più semplice e diretto. Se in "Alopecia" la poetica veniva portata agli estremi, qui troviamo schegge di talento e [...]
I could sit here and give excuses for my lack of posting but quite frankly I have been doing this for almost 4 years now and I have gotten to the point where I post when I really have something to share, it is never forced and if it is it is never posted. I appreciate the readers who keep coming back even though they may get frustrated that they do not always see something new. As I finish up the remaining part of this year I have been going through a ton of music. There is a [...]
Music brag NME has crowned The Strokes' debut album 'This is It' as the best album of the decade. As the naughties come to a close NME (and a long list of music experts) voted for what they thought are the best 100 albums of the decade. With the concluding list spanning artists from Jay-Z to Johnny Cash and a few unexpected ones in between. The New York rockers beat off the likes of Primal Scream's 'XTRMNR' and 'Up The Bracket' by The Libertines to take the holy grail. Mike Skinner must be [...]
Music brag NME has crowned The Strokes' debut album 'This is It' as the best album of the decade. If that isn't enough encouragement for the boys to get cracking with their next album release then I don't know what is. As the naughties come to a close NME (and a long list of music experts) voted for what they thought are the best 100 albums of the decade. With the concluding list spanning artists from Jay-Z to Johnny Cash and a few unexpected ones in between. The New York rockers beat off the [...]
I've learned writing this tour blog that I'm unfairly prejudiced against Juggalos. (And I'll admit it when I'm wrong. Juggalos are awesome people and they mean us no harm, right?) Writing this blog has been like a journey of humbling, personal awakening. Because now I've learned that I was also unfairly predisposed to think that our four shows in Texas would be a little…rough. One was, after all, in a saloon and another one in a sports pub. But I cannot express how pleasantly, happily, wonderfully surprised we all were! [...]
David Gray stopped in Seattle for a night I'll never forget. This was one of the last stops in the U.S. for new album tour, Draw The Line so it looks like you'll have to head to Europe to see him now! The opener was Lisa Hannigan , who has worked with many musicians in her career but is perhaps most recognizable from the days she collaborated with Damien Rice. She came out with her debut, Sea Sew , in 2008, and it's fantastic. Her voice is powerful, but her stage [...]
David Gray stopped in Seattle for a night I'll never forget. This was one of the last stops in the U.S. for new album tour, Draw The Line so it looks like you'll have to head to Europe to see him now! The opener was Lisa Hannigan , who has worked with many musicians in her career but is perhaps most recognizable from the days she collaborated with Damien Rice. She came out with her debut, Sea Sew , in 2008, and it's fantastic. Her voice is powerful, but her stage [...]
It seems like NO ONE knows about this show! The original venue (941 Theatre) got shut down.. so the promoter had to scramble to get this someplace else.. which is, insanely, the Starlight Ballroom. Here's the details: Thursday, Nov 19th / 8:30pm @ Polaris Jack Oblivian Jack "Oblivian" Yarber of The Tearjerkers was a key figure in the influential, Memphis-based Compulsive Gamblers and the legendary '90s garage-punk band The Oblivians. Though, to only ramble on about Yarber?s work with The Oblivians [...]
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