New songs from Beach House and Beck? Radiohead and Joy Division covers? A slew of mp3s from some of music's top up-and-comers? It could only be this week's edition of our Friday Mixtape! Yes, we got a particularly epic one for you, and for good reason. This was the week we announced our Top 100 Albums of the Decade after all! And with our Top 50 Songs of the Decade coming next week, there are plenty more reasons to celebrate still to come. NEW Singles: "Norway" by Beach House [...]
Once again Anton Newcombe and his prolific, ever changing music project that is the Brian Jonestown Massacre have posted a link to stream their upcoming record Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? . I've been listening all morning and the music is nothing short of brilliant. The record will be available for your personal collection 1/1/10, if WKSP ? dropped a day sooner it would easily take the number 1 spot for my Top 10 Album Picks for 2009. I highly recommend taking [...]
Top recs: Jon Brion tonight, as always; Fiery Furnaces ( pictured; photo by David Greenwald ) and their Radiohead-hating madness at the El Rey on Saturday; Monday, the Books are playing a pretty special gig at Hollywood Forever but I'll be at the Happy Hollows residency to catch Real Estate. The full list for the next few days: 11/21 Saturday – Elefant w/ Division Day @ Troubadour AND Fiery Furnaces w/ Cryptacize, Dent May @ El Rey Theatre AND Holly Miranda opening for The xx, Friendly Fires @ Henry Fonda Theater 11/23 Monday – El Perro Del [...]
Through the technological wonder and infinite time-sink that is Facebook, I've had the fun of reconnecting with gobs of old friends from college, high school, heck, even grade school; and part of that fun is seeing how many of my friends still maintain their youthful passion for music, no matter what kind. Jeff is off and running to see King Khan in the City, Diana is posting early morning videos of Alan Parsons, Dave has a Kiwi-American hybrid playlist. It's all good. More recently, I'd learned that an old middle-school friend and I developed into musical soul [...]
So the pretty lil event site Winter is the New Summer that Devin and I have been working on has officially launched in full! Whoo! Let's have a 750ml salute to that! We did a soft launch in October, then last week we introduced the poster concept and from this week on until the end of winter we will have a different member of the Portland scene acting as a Poster Boy or Poster Girl, holding up our event picks of the week, this week being Rocky formerly of the Hush and currently of [...]
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Rating: 9.4/10 The words 'one' and 'gold' are very meaningful. For rulers, 'one' meant superiority and 'gold' meant power. For athletes, they speak of accomplishment. For musicians, 'one' can be either rising to the top or ... Related posts: It's natural to like Plants and Animals Album Review: Fulton Read - Indivisualize EP Album Review: Division Day - Beartrap Island
Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults. On the one side, the Satanists control the major rock groups through drugs, sex, threats of violence, and even murder. On the otherside, publicity, tours, and recordings are financed by record companies connected to British military intelligence circles. Both sides are intimately entwined with the biggest business in the world, the international drug trade. The so-called "rock stars" are pathetic puppets caught in a much larger scheme. From the moment they receive their first recording royalties, the [...]
Not quite what you'd expect to see on Disco Demons , but those of you who've been following my blog for a while might know that I've always loved to cross lines. Still waiting for snow to find it's way to Austria. Congratulations, you're about to hear the best song in a week, a masterpiece. If you don't like it, go home. Division Day - Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode Cover)
I Don't Care About Nothin' One of the big things with the internet is that it really opens up the world and removes a lot of ideas about seasonal music. The last few months we've been enjoying a lot of sun-inflected blissed-out summer vibes, while shivering through winter. Now though, things are warming up, and The Drums' music is perfectly suited to laying on the beach, taking in the sun. Distorted bass line hooks, swooping vocals and gang whistles all fall in to place with [...]
You don't even have to be an online music nerd like me (and maybe you), to realise that the music industry is in a state of flux. Whatever your position on the digital democracy that music sharing online has fostered, whether you stand arm and arm with Reverend John Mclure who thinks the digital revolution has opened up the doors to a world of music you might never have heard, or you stand behind Lilly Allen who rather hypocritically thinks it's an evil theft of an artists work whilst sitting pretty on a major label and making her own mixes [...]
To play catch up from last week's missed mix, I'm giving you two once again. They're timely with their themes, the first being all German artists and the second being songs about war. In fact, in many ways these two themes are inextricably linked. As everyone celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, it inevitably brings Berlin's extraordinary history, along with Germany's more generally, back into the spotlight. And Cold War is war after all. I've written about how much I love Berlin here before, and it still remains one of my top cities [...]
Give the Drummer Some's 6 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere [**Note: Look for the download links after the jump**] A Veteran's Day post, for my father. Growing up, I was always aware that my dad had served during World War II. I knew from old photos what he looked like in uniform. I knew that he'd fought in the Battle of the Bulge. I knew he'd earned a Purple Heart (though he claimed his injury required only a simple bandage). I also knew [...]
I get more than a little jumpy writing things about stuff like this, because I am far from knowledgable and, as someone who is almost always against the wars that 'we' have fought recently, it can seem a bit rich to me, writing about the people who fought in them. My Granddad was a marine in WWII though. He drove a landing craft in the D-Day landings, he pitched up in Singapore and Madagascar, fought in the Pacific and, erm... I don't know much else to be honest, because he doesn't really talk about it. He'll [...]
Passion of the Weiss wrote a great piece on Nosaj Thing over at Resident Advisor . Stereogum sheds some light on the forthcoming Magnetic Fields album, Realism . Last year's Distortion was excellent. Months after Visitation 's release date, Pitchfork gives Division Day a lukewarm review. Since when is the band channeling "emo"? [...]
I've got a trash-strewn, vomit-smeared corner of my heart dedicated to that particular brand of sentimental sensationalism known as the rock book. While academics all over the world scramble to hang haphazard theory all over the world of pop culture, rock books are a simpler affair compared to their highfalutin cousins. They've got bold covers that promise sex, violence and insecurity, and the best of them, despite their generally exploitative nature, deliver high opera. I'm talking Please Kill Me and Cash ; mythic shit. Anyway, while us music writers have mined London and New York for every minor subplot [...]
Well we spent over a year as World Champions, not surrendering the title until the calendar turned to November, and I'd like to salute the team for its efforts to try to repeat, going much further than anyone could have expected, and that only the brave few had hoped. The mid-70s Reds were the only National League team to go back-to-back in like the last 80 years or something, so for those of us who are fans of one of the 29 teams that don't make a mockery of the sport by buying themselves meaningless championships over and over again, [...]
MPSHOWS.COM PRESENTS ART BRUT ART BRUT They're an eccentric, motley bunch who have more in common with Half Man Half Biscuit and Pulp than they do with their oft-compared influences The Fall. Vocalist Eddie Argos (an ex-goth obsessed with Jonathan Richman and Vincent Van Gogh) had previously been in a band, The Art Goblins, in his hometown of Bournemouth. Their stage show would see him playing a vacuum cleaner and escaping from a sack. They sounded not unlike cult Glaswegians The Yummy Fur and had songs such as I Wanna Be Johnny Dean [...]
Ten years after Jeff Astle had won them the FA Cup, West Bromwich Albion hit some more peaks thanks in part to these three: Pic from left to right: Laurie Cunningham, Brendon Batson and Cyril Regis It all started when the Baggies employed a relatively unknown young manager (previously at Cambridge United) by the name of Ron Atkinson. (Yes, yes, racist Ron, etc...) He inherited a team that included youth-team graduate Bryan Robson, as well as Messrs. [...]
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