In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Ben Shaberman's essay collection The Vegan Monologues is more than a book about not eating animals. Sherman touches on political, social, and environmental issues while recounting his own experiences, always in his humorous yet poignant voice. In his own words, here is Ben Shaberman's Book Notes music playlist for his essay collection, The Vegan Monologues : [...]
Before Daedelus' performance Friday night, I'd never really understood "underground" when describing a show. I've listened to underground music. I had been a fan of Daedelus' Exquisite Corpse , and recently, became a fan of Free the Robots. I never before had to search for a music venue down a dark dead end alley, which was marked by a couple of beef cakes in black suits. Quizzically, like an innocent doe I asked them, "Is this 103 Harriet." This is underground? "Yes, what do you need," the beef cake barked at me. I didn't need [...]
Leave it to the Rondo Brothers, the San Franscisco-based production team that's worked with everyone from Galactic to Handsome Boy Modeling School, to come up with an eclectic and original take on that well-worn concept, the holiday album. Encompassing a dizzying array of styles and incorporating an impressive roster of guest artists, This Is Your Brain On Xmas takes old familiar Christmas and Hanukkah songs and twists them into eccentric new shapes, updating them for a modern and decidedly dance-oriented audience. This is a full-on party album that tosses hip-hop, lounge pop, electro, Latin music, and more into [...]
Year In The Kingdom unravels some kind of galactic wilderness. Tillman's 6th album lyrically borders on mystic; proffering a transcendent union, an effortlessness. Strange and honest, this song cycle inhabits it's own idea-scape; one seemingly obsessed with wrestling death. These are afterlife dialogues of a mysterious future. Celestial badlands. Unknown to just about [...]
Heroes Of The Party are two lads from Down Under that have been heavily banging out remixes and production at a rate of knots, that they have given me a load of tracks to post up and let you give your opinion. Eminem - The Real Slim Shady - Heroes Of The Party The Killers - Human - Heroes Of The Party Remix We Hope You Enjoy - Heroes Of The Party [...]
New Orleans jazz/funk/hip hop hybrid Galactic have announced the release of their new studio album. The guest-heavy YA-KA-MAY will be unveiled on February 9th. Here's the track list for the record: Friends of Science Boe Money (featuring The Rebirth Brass Band) Double It (featuring Big Freedia) Heart of Steel (featuring Irma Thomas) Wild Man (featuring Big Chief Bo Dollis) Bacchus (featuring
From North of France, De Rominy is a generaly speaking clean electro-style artist with smooth and easy-listening songs. However, beneath the first impression, a deeper feeling of disembodiment appears, as if man aimed at an unreachable other, knowing no pain, no age and no death and failed into incosolable despair in his perfectly dumb galactic space. What thing I should try ? read on »
Three years after Galactic returned From the Corner to the Block , the New Orleans jazz funk has announced plans for the February 9th release (via ANTI- ) of its sixth studio album, a 15 track effort titled YA-KA-MAY . According to ANTI-'s blog , the New Orleans group has crafted an album that blends together all the distinct sounds of their home city and which features appearances by iconic New Orleans artists, including the Rebirth Brass Band, Irma Thomas, Big Chief Bo Dollis, Allen Toussaint and Walter "Wolfman" Washington. The band [...]
I've heard the future. It's not even a whole track, but to these ears the second half of s p a t i a l 's 90729 (on his own Infrasonics ) is the year's most forward-looking, next-level, game-changing [insert additional cliches of choice] dance record. [...]
074. Bebe. "Siempre me quedara" Pafuera Telarañas While most media and the general public grabbed on "Malo" for its furious socially-conscious topic, they forgot about this amazingly fragile song where Bebe literally turns herself into a mystical chantress. Her raspy voice has never sounded as beautiful and her lyrics peaked amazing heights. There's enough feeling here to spare out some tears and provoke wet dreams (ok, that sounded nasty, anything sounds dirty in front of such crystalline piece). CR [...]
Interview by Dub MD www.twitter.com/dubmd84 This 13th edition of the 10 question(s) Q&A series features an up coming producer by the name of Applejuce Kid. This North Carolina based producer, in a short space of time has already notched up 8 beat battle championships, 2 official remix projects, multiple collaborations with the likes of MC Lyte, Wale, Camp Lo and more. This is one producer you most definitely need to be checking for over the next few years. The Applejuce Kid sits down with us to talk [...]
ALEC OUNSWORTH TAKES FLASHY PYTHON ON THE ROAD ANNOUNCES DATES WITH COLD WAR KIDS Anti-Records is proud to announce tour dates for Alec Ounsworth, whose new album, Mo Beauty, was just released. Starting with four shows opening for Cold War Kids, Flashy Python, featuring Ounsworth, Matt Sutton, Peter Modavis, Brian Ashby and Jonas Oesterle, will be playing songs from Mo Beauty, Flashy Python's debut Skin and Bones and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's catalogue. The band gave their premiere performance at this year's CMJ Marathon. Mo Beauty was recorded deep in the heart of [...]
An architect company based out of Barcelona has begun production on the Galactic Suite Space Resort. That's right in 2012 you might be able to take a vacation in space for only a mere 4.4 million dollars. The hefty price includes a three-night stay at the hotel, which is in space, and an eight-week training course that takes place on a tropical island. Shit I'd do it just for the eight weeks on a beautiful island and it would cost me less than 4 million bucks. While in space, [...]
With the MSC Poesia scheduled to set sail from Fort Lauderdale two months from today, there's been plenty of news about Jam Cruise 8 to share. First off, the schedule for all five jam-packed days was just released . [Photo of Toubab Krewe on JC6 by Dave Vann ] As a Jam Cruise virgin, I was warned that there wouldn't be much sleep involved the trip and after a look at the schedule I can see why - the action looks relentless. [...]
Hey all you crazy kids.. Enjoy this short/20minute mixtape mixed by TCK's very own: >icknick< .. If you're in the mood for some serious space travel, tune in and turn it up, cause' this mix will take you above and beyond for some intense intergalactic disco. Intergalactic Disco Mixtape v.1 - >icknick< Tracklist: Julius Sylvest - Djemba Peter Pixzel & Julian Jpeg - Synth Richt Rendered (2nd [...]
The Cosmic Jokers: Gilles Zeitschiff "Hallo Galactic People! Ich lade euch ein zur allerersten kosmischen Plattenproduktion mit Timothy Leary ... Klaus Vierkanal-Schulze ... Tangerine Dream ... Ash Ra Tempel. Der Flug in die Zeit geht los ... seven ... seven ... seven ... seven up. Tim spricht durch die Silberkanäle. Mister Energy ... Mister Energy ... Mister Energy speaks through the silver channels ... silver channels ..." Weiter Die restlichen Stüke der Platte findet man auch auf Youtube.
MUSIC NEWS - The Fleet Foxes' J. TILLMAN brings us his new, Year in the Kingdom (out via Western Vinyl) release and unravels some kind of galactic wilderness. Tillman 's 6th album lyrically borders on mystic; proffering a transcendent union, an effortlessness. Strange and honest, this song cycle inhabits it's own idea-scape; one seemingly obsessed with wrestling death. These are afterlife dialogues of a mysterious future. Celestial badlands. Unknown to just about everyone, Tillman began recording in April, tracking most of [...]
Like New Year's Eve , Halloween is another holiday that a lot of bands choose to celebrate in style. There's just something about mixing the live concert experience with all the fun and choas of Halloween that really brings out the freaks. While most bands typically play into the Halloween vibe in some way, touring bands often approach Halloween as an opportunity to really create a unique live music event. Just as we did with our New Year's Eve concert round-up , we've compiled a list of Halloween concerts that will be going on this weekend (see below [...]
Galactic Bowling - App Store Link ($4.99) Galactic Bowling is a well-done port of Perpetual FX Creative's inter-galactic bowling game for the PC. I have to give kudos to Perpetual FX Creative as this port maximizes the capabilities of the iPhone/iPod touch platform. The game has great graphics, four well-defined characters (all with full back-stories) and the 'inter-galactic battle with aliens' story-line actually fits within the framework of this bowling game. Here is the official story line: " Since the dawn of time there [...]
Each month, HT Contributor Ben Wiser will take a closer look at notable performances of Dark Star. If you have any favorite Stars you would like him to cover, send the date over to darkstarstories@yahoo.com Last month I touched on the great Halloween night Dark Star from the Oakland Coliseum Arena back in 1991. That was the night Ken Kesey showed up and delivered his eulogy to Bill Graham. He recited some e.e. cummings and gave us the great line - "In any given situation [...]
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Friday Five: Surf Songs
