In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Blake Butler is the rare young writer who consistently and effectively challenges his readers. Scorch Atlas is a haunting collection of interconnected stories and vignettes, a dystopian work of genius. The book itself is a work of art. The internal pages are individually distressed, and the page edges and cover appear burnt and scarred, and the design complements the book's theme perfectly. Matt [...]
Track-by-Track: Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster Coming off of such a massive debut success, Lady Gaga had a lot to prove with her second album. Luckily, she's more than up to the task, eclipsing her debut in every way possible. The Fame Monster is her official arrival, a declaration that she's in this for the long run. 1. Bad Romance - Her best single to date, and surely one of the defining singles of her career, this takes everything that was wonderful about her older songs and [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys collects stories, poems, and essays by sex workers. Compiled by David Henry Sterry and RJ Martin, Jr., the book organizes this collection of refreshingly genuine and brutally honest writings by category (love, life, money, etc.). The New York Times wrote of the book: "From the unappealing title, you might think this is a truly trashy [...]
As Torrance Shipman once said in the 2000 classic, Bring It On , "Missy's the poo...so take a big whiff." While that quote doesn't really apply here (aside from suggesting that Gaga is indeed 'the poo'), the point is this: As the driving force behind the writing and recording process of her music, the creative director of her album artwork, music videos, tour visuals, merchandising and just about every other minute facet of her career, Lady Gaga is a very new kind of pop star; one that sings live, writes and records, dances, styles photoshoots, [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Clues : "Ledmonton" [mp3] from Clues other Clues posts at Largehearted Boy Globes on Remote : "D.T. Lipps" [mp3] from The Woo Hoo Hoo (out November 17th) other Globes on Remote posts at Largehearted Boy Hurricane Bells : [...]
The third installment of A Retrospective, this time the focus is on 2002. The year of rebuilding, so to speak. It was the year I discovered Cider Jack (and did so plentifully) at the local Pullman bar Rico's, and we all would rehearse Bill Brasky skits (from the SNL spots, and made up on the spot) as twenty feet away the university jazz combo performed excellent renditions of Van Morrison's "Moondance" and various Motown favorites. As we see every year, 2002 saw several real great releases. Here are my favorites. [...]
Thanks for everyone who tuned in this week to Public Education. We had a heck of a time with Moses Campbell busting out the live jams. Check out the playlist and grab some! Hiking - Radding the Flesh Alexander "Skip" Spence - All My Life (I Love You) Brad P and The Celebrities - The Ghost of Our Love Toro Y Moi - Blessa Turtle Ambulance - Tamaulipas Plates Onipa Nua - Anuanum Adofo Baths - Mecha Joy [...]
I know these are the pics you've been waiting for, so instead of going from early in the day to late, I'm starting with the most important ones first. Oh, and BTW, the eyes in the 2nd photo are not doctored. At all. Danzig Gorilla Biscuits Mission of Burma [...]
From their album Truce Opium Combining such ludicrous and disparate sonic obsessions as Albert Ayler, Neil Young and Neu!, Athens Georgia's Dark Meat radiates a sound as layered, multivariable and insane as its improbable membership roll. The band's hometown scene, in fact, makes key attitudinal contributions to its expansive sonic tumult: Dark Meat inherits much from the halcyon days of Elephant 6 psychedelia. Not only has the band contained, at times, several key E6-ers, they've also taken big cues in musical methodology: [...]
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Universal Indians was an album that bathed in obscurity. After all, opening track "Freedom Ritual" was a blissful track in which Dark Meat flirted with psychedelic trips and prog afterthoughts. It opened with a near two minute a capella before the epic guitars suddenly burst forth to rip off your face. It also had its painful moments, when over-the-top experimentation left little but a gut-wrenching noise. Truce Opium picks up right where Universal Indians left off, but in a way much stronger. Truce Opium [...]
Sup, yawl. So maybe you were at Fun Fun Fun Fest this weekend, that is rad, good work. I spent the weekend with Dark Meat. It was sweet. They had a FFF aftershow at Mohawk (a $15 ticket for them, Trail of Dead and An Albatross) on Sunday that hardly anyone was at, most likely due to the fact that it was wet and nasty as fuck, and I'm assuming people had had their fill after being at FFF all day. I really wish I could have seen Broadcast, and am a bit grumbley that [...]
We couldn't be more excited to know that we will be able to spend the weekend soaking up the sights and sounds of Fun Fun Fun Fest at Waterloo Park. Tickets are still available, the weather is going to be perfect, and this might be the best lineup in the festival's brief history. We will have more coverage after the smoke clears, but for now here are our band picks for each day, along with info on a few after parties. The full festival schedule is here . Mr Curiosity picks: Saturday: [...]
Date 11/8/09 Location Mohawk Doors 900pm Tickets $13 from FrontGate I think most of us will be about done from our Fun Fest weekend on Sunday, but if you're still raring to go, head to Mohawk for a headlining after show by locals Trail of Dead . Joining the guys on the outside [...]
Top Album Releases: October 2009 Nick's Top Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms Black Heart Procession: Six Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 The Flaming Lips: Embryonic Monsters Of Folk: Monsters [...]
Photography by buhoazul Okay. I'm not one to grab albums via promo emails. I always feel a little dirty when I do. I prefer to get my music the old fashioned way, internet pirating. ARRR! But this one had three little words in the email I just couldn't... COULDN'T ingore. No, no, no, not "hot naked chicks", but the following: Montreal! Pop!! Prog!!! [...]
What are the central features of the recent surge of low-fi, DIY, garage intonation in popular indie music? I'd like to go on record as fan of this movement, drawn to the underlying sleaze and overall simplicity behind it all. Before the public relations shitstorm surrounding Wavves, I'll admit that I was tapping my toes, impressed that a kid could sloppily package about six decades into two minute pop/rock songs that glued themselves into my brain. Perhaps, also, my age heightens the importance of the pseudo-renaissance of this type of garage sound. I find it, at the very least, intriguing [...]
Mule and Phish weren't the only bands performing on Halloween as there was plenty of action all over the country from our favorite bands. We'll have extended takes on most of these shows over the next few days, but for now let's take a look at what went down on October 31st... Umphrey's McGee Day of the Dead IV, Las Tortugas Set I: JaJunk* > 2 × 2 > Q*bert > 2 × 2, Cemetery Walk, Padgett's Profile**, Cemetery Walk (part II), Sweet Sunglasses# [...]
moe. @ Washington Ave Armory, Albany, NY, 10/31/09 Download/Stream via the Live Music Archive Set I: TGORM Godzilla (Blue Oyster Cult cover) Farmer Ben You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon cover) We Got the Party (Miley Cyrus cover) George Echoes (Pink Floyd cover) Set II: Stash (Phish cover) meat Eyes Of the World (Grateful Dead cover)-> Echoes (Pink Floyd cover) Rebubula -> Dark Star (Grateful [...]
Lee Coombs is a man who needs little introduction, a constant name and face on the dance music landscape since the mid-1990s. He has played a major part in charting the ever changing course of electronic music. Now he gives us an insight into his sound of 2009 with this his latest opus in the form of third artist album "Light and Dark". "Light and Dark" is in Coombs own words "...a true tech funk album", an amalgam of sounds and influences from dance music's often disparate scenes. Alongside acts like Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes and Elite [...]
Image: Mr Bojangles I'm a bit ill educated on the musical history of Lee Coombs but after looking at his release catalog I'd say it was fair to assume that he's one of the prominent DJ's of the past 10 years or so. I received two of his newest tracks that appear on his third album 'Light and Dark', including the title track and I'm hooked. I suggest you have a listen to them too but first here's a bit of info about the man. [...]
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Friday Five: Surf Songs
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
