2009 the Year in Music Welcome! You have just found one of the most exhaustive and well-considered lists of quality, new music available in 2009. We don't promise to have everything that's out there but what is comes in one easy-to-digest package ! Read on below: Ultimately, we consider this to be an A-Z shopping list (we have great confidence that any and all of these belong in your permanent collection) is a reflection of [...]
I have been following this California-based, Alaska-native MC for several years, but it seems he's making a bigger jump in buzz (no pun) with his upcoming Girls Like Me album. To be fair, Intuition did make a small dent with his very good debut Stories About Nothing . This time around, though, he has the hip-hop section of the blogosphere pushing him pretty hard. And why not? This track, like the others that have leaked, is a perfect example of his breezy, smooth rhyming that combines humor and storytelling. Equally solid [...]
Last year , EAR FARM featured 43 bands in our Band of the Week feature... ranging from relative unknowns (such as The Laughing and Bombadil ) to interviews with indie-rock legends (see The Wedding Present and Silver Jews ) to everything else in between. In 2009 we set out to one-up ourselves, and as it turns out we've done just that. This year EAR FARM featured 45 bands as Band of the Week, again flexing our genre chops across the entire spectrum of what we consider to be the best music being [...]
Last year , EAR FARM featured 43 bands in our Band of the Week feature... ranging from relative unknowns (such as The Laughing and Bombadil ) to interviews with indie-rock legends (see The Wedding Present and Silver Jews ) to everything else in between. In 2009 we set out to one-up ourselves, and as it turns out we've done just that. This year EAR FARM featured 45 bands as Band of the Week, again flexing our genre chops across the entire spectrum of what we consider to be the best music being [...]
This is an ever changing and (hopefully) expanding list of some of the songs I have mentioned before in this blog or simply stuff I have found somewhere on the web that I find interesting, but have no time to write about. All files have been found somewhere in cyberspace (and NONE of them have uploaded by me, so I cannot help you with any requests you might have - just keep returning and something new might pop up), so they will be available until the artists, record labels, fans, whatever decide to remove them. Thanks to a few readers, [...]
The Hold Steady played the 9:30 Club on August 28, the night before the five-some were scheduled to appear at the Virgin Mobile Freefest at Merriweather Post Pavilion the next day. Given the choice of standing in the dark in an air-conditioned venue at night versus being exposed to the elements (sun, heat, and bugs) in the daytime, there's no contest. The floor was conspicuously empty when 7:15 rolled around and the opening act, Iran , was due on stage. Iran is the experimental/indie rock side project of TV [...]
I walked out of Phish's Hartford show thinking, "I'm glad I don't have to write a review of THAT one." But summing up the following night at Merriweather Post Pavilion isn't much easier of a task. [All Photos by Adam Kaufman ] Part of me wants to write a fairly negative review because for the most part, the song selection and placement were pretty bad. But the songs they did chose to play were played very well and there were some highlights. [...]
"Sour Milk/Salt Water" - Port O'Brien Strummy, lyrically insistent verses, with double-tracked vocals, alternate with a plaintive chorus, lyrics now moving at half the pace of the music, vocals still double-tracked but now in an almost Neil Young-like upper register. And while the whole thing is pretty simple sounding at one level it's mysteriously compelling at another--both instantly likable and slightly unusual. Or maybe it's not so mysterious, just well-crafted. Even as the lyrics topple out in the mode of a one-note harangue (a la "Subterranean Homesick Blues"), [...]
Yes, it's time again for the Chicago music event of the summer. Be sure to follow us on twitter at @loudlooppress . We'll be tweeting live from Lollapalooza all weekend long. Then tune right here for day-after wrap ups and then a complete post-Lolla review. Still want more? Head to Lollapaloozablog.windycitizen. com to find our coverage and even more in-depth Lolla stories. This year's event is an odd hodgepodge of new and old acts. Headliners include Depeche Mode and Kings of Leon who'll play on [...]
Portugal. The Man's fourth full-length, The Satanic Satanist , drops next Tuesday (though, as the band has made clear , it leaked a long time ago). While the band doesn't have any Portland dates in the near future (they play McMinnville Sept. 3 and perform at MFNW Saturday, Sept. 19), we thought The Satanic Satanist was a cool enough disc to warrant coverage timed to the album's release date. So we called John Gourley, who seemed a teensy bit frazzled from the band's German tour, and chatted him up about the record, love from the emo [...]
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Morning ya'll. It was a quiet weekend and I'm running a bit behind this morning. So I'm going to give you a handful to links to chew over before I begin in earnest. The site's still running slowly, so until I can fix that there won't be as many posts per day. Kinda sucks, but we'll do our best until things get Billie Dee Williams smooth again. - USA Today has a first look at Tim Burton's upcoming 3-D Alice in Wonderland project. What's interesting about [...]
Last week, Jess introduced the rather amazing Blizzards , and since grabbing a copy of their forthcoming album, "Domino Effect" (out in September), I must admit that it's amazingly catchy, memorable stuff. We were fortunate enough to sit down with the guys for a rather amusing chat about how they saved the Kaiser Chiefs from getting in a fight and their dislike of Paris Hilton... Hello The Blizzards. Who are you and what are you up to at the moment? We are a five-piece band that [...]
A mountain dulcimer is deceptive instrument to play. Mastering it takes many, many years, but if the player perseveres the possibilities are endless, especially when applied to folk music. Esther Golton did just so and now she plays it like a fully fledged jazz instrument. She knows her way around the flute very well, too. Based in Talkeetna, Alaska living in a log cabin she built her self with her partner, she was one of the founders of Whole Wheat Radio , broadcasting concerts over the internet. After doing this for a couple [...]
Greg Jamie , lead singer of O'Death , is launching a new side project called Blood Warrior . The project is a collaboration with his good friend Joey Weiss and wife Kristen Kellas-Jamie. We had a chance to preview the rough cuts from the album and talk a little about it... Blood Warrior - Choir MOKB : Tell me about your new project Blood Warrior. How did it originate? [...]
Once past piss-your-co-worker off-with-some-half-hearted-pra nk-day, aka April Fools, and those showers that supposedly bring May flowers, the month of April does have some redeeming qualities, like the fact it marks the start of the music industry's second quarter. And with a new quarter comes new releases, and a bounty of them. So many in fact, that the job of even remembering what will be hitting the "new music section" in the coming weeks and months is a pretty daunting task. Fortunately, Consequence of Sound once again has your back. Below, you'll find an extensive and up-to-date listing of all [...]
This is an ever changing and (hopefully) expanding list of some of the songs I have mentioned before in this blog or simply stuff I have found somewhere on the web that I find interesting, but have no time to write about. All files have been found somewhere in cyberspace (and NONE of them have uploaded by me, so I cannot help you with any requests you might have - just keep returning and something new might pop up), so they will be available until the artists, record labels, fans, whatever decide to remove them. Thanks to a few readers, [...]
1. Theme From Autumnland 2. Ran Into A Coroner 3. Does Your Mother Feel Sick 4. (I Want A) Happy Home 5. Dirtymouth 6. Heavy Foot 7. Trainwrecks (Don't Sing Of Them) 8. Allergies And Lust 9. Wet Hay In A Barn 10. Random Car 11. Controlled Climate 12. It'll Keep You Warm 13. Almost The Earth? 14. Quake Song www.myspace.com/builtlikealask a
(Art via sweet n' sour's Flickr )( more ) Shilpa Ray - I Only Have Eyes for You (mp3) (buy?) L's and G's, dudes and duds, your next great Rock and Roll Singer is Ms. Shilpa Ray ( myspace ). If you're lucky. Also: Maybe not yet! But (a), this is the Internet, where all praise comes in the form of premature ejaculation; and (b), it's so fucking there, it really is. Ray's been howling around town for a half a decade, now, most prominently as [...]
by Jim Meyer Jim Meyer, aka Jimmy Valentine, is your Charm City Rollergirls co-host and a stand up comedian who will be performing at The Baltimore Comedy Factory January 22nd, 23rd and 24th and will be hosing monthly open mikes at The Golden West Cafe starting in February. 10. Billionaires Apparently Worlds Worst Panhandlers In desperate need of billions to stay afloat until next year, the CEOs of the big three packed up their Louis Vuitton bindle sticks, hopped a ride on an east bound Learjet and started [...]
This is an ever changing and (hopefully) expanding list of some of the songs I have mentioned before in this blog or simply stuff I have found somewhere on the web that I find interesting, but have no time to write about. All files have been found somewhere in cyberspace (and NONE of them have uploaded by me, so I cannot help you with any requests you might have - just keep returning and something new might pop up), so they will be available until the artists, record labels, fans, whatever decide to remove them. Thanks to a few readers, [...]
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