by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD : Red Mass - Saturn (MP3) Red Mass @ La Sala Rossa - Nov 18, 2009 I'm currently up here in Montreal getting ready for the fourth annual M for Montreal , a music festival/industry event mashup that showcases nearly 30 of the city's bands/artists who are ready, in the eyes and ears of festival organizers, to make the leap from a local [...]
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 [...]
KiT How is it that every time we come across a band from Paris it makes us want to be right there, in their beautiful, hipster culture? It's probably the same factor that made us want to live in Brooklyn when we discovered Sleigh Bells , or Los Angeles when we first came across Heartsrevolution , or Berlin when, or Manchester when, or, or, etc. OK, to be fair, our home town of Brighton is plenty cool enough thanks, but this three piece from the Gallic capital are definitely made from that [...]

Apesar do pouco público, a estréia do Holger em terra cariocas, a micareta do Gogol e shows pra lá de competentes de Super Furry Animals e El Mato A Un Policia Motorizado garantiram o sucesso da segunda edição do Festival Indie Rock. Holger Precisa dizer que valeu a espera? Enfim, os poucos que já estavam na Fundição Progresso quando o Holger finalmente subiu num palco carioca podem fazer coro comigo que valeu sim esperar esse tempo todo por um show dos caras. [...]

How awesome was The Hood Internet at Scoot Inn last Friday? Seriously, they had everyone dancing! If you still can't get enough of their mashups, they've just released the fourth installment of their famous mixtapes (download Vol. One , Vol. Two , and Vol. Three as well). Clocking in at just over an hour of instant party jams, it's available as a continuous mix and as separate tracks. [ Download HERE ] The Mixtape Volume Four Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. David Banner vs [...]

There is an platitude expression that goes, "The mind is a great servant, but a terrible master." There is a yogi exercise that is "being mindful of every moment". Although at first impression, these don't seem to be saying the same thing, I believe in fact that they are close. The overlapping of these ideas in my mind is this; Take control of your thoughts, get off autopilot. Auto pilot is the banal reactions and lazy observations, the rote routine of self. Auto pilot is where we let ourselves be controlled by what we think is "just who [...]

The last few years records of rare and current pop from Africa have been coming out from the likes of Analog Africa, Mississippi Records and Sound Way, Sublime Frequencies and Honest Jon's on a weekly basis. The heightened exposure of African pop has been a boon, but if you've been looking stuff outside of Africa the pickings have been a bit more slim. Say you were looking for for garage sounds from Persia you probably been coming up empty handed. The other day I was flipping through records over at Sonic Boom in Ballard and came across this beautiful cover [...]
Snow Patrol Prize Pack Speaking of new releases, on Tuesday Snow Patrol released a 2 CD compilation of singles, covers, rarities and album tracks in celebration of their 15 year anniversary. Here's a little press blurbage about Up To Now , their new career spanning retrospective: Up To Now includes three previously unreleased songs, "Just Say Yes" "Dark Roman Wine" and "Give Me Strength", as well songs from the two albums Snow Patrol released on UK indie label [...]

Gruff Rhys durante apresentação do Super Furry Animals em São Paulo Os paulistanos tiveram apenas três dias para descansar do fim de semana que abrigou dois festivais ao mesmo tempo (Planeta Terra - veja nossa cobertura aqui - e Maquinária) e já tiveram mais um para conferir. Ou melhor, parte dele, porque o Festival Indie Rock completo acontece nesta sexta-feira (13), no Rio de Janeiro, com Gogol Bordello , Super Furry Animals , El Mato a um Policia Motorizado e Holger . São Paulo assistiu nesta terça-feira (10) [...]

Gruff Rhys durante apresentação do Super Furry Animals em São Paulo Os paulistanos tiveram apenas três dias para descansar do fim de semana que abrigou dois festivais ao mesmo tempo (Planeta Terra - veja nossa cobertura aqui - e Maquinária) e já tiveram mais um para conferir. Ou melhor, parte dele, porque o Festival Indie Rock completo acontece nesta sexta-feira (13), no Rio de Janeiro, com Gogol Bordello , Super Furry Animals , El Mato a um Policia Motorizado e Holger . São Paulo assistiu nesta terça-feira (10) [...]

+++++++ The Hood Internet – Mixtape Volume Four +++++++ Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. David Banner vs Fujiya & Miyagi - Get Like Pterodactyls 3. The Beastie Boys vs Matt And Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Rump Shaker 4. Kanye West vs Cage & Aviary - Touch The Television 5. Lil Wayne (feat. Babyface) vs Royksopp - Comfortable Up Here 6. Passion Pit vs Juvenile - Back That Sleepyhead Up 7. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince vs Daft Punk - Summer Circuit 8. Public Enemy [...]
The Mixtape Volume Four: 1. Intro 2. David Banner vs Fujiya & Miyagi - Get Like Pterodactyls 3. The Beastie Boys vs Matt And Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Rump Shaker 4. Kanye West vs Cage & Aviary - Touch The Television 5. Lil Wayne (feat. Babyface) vs Royksopp - Comfortable Up Here 6. Passion Pit vs Juvenile - Back That Sleepyhead Up 7. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince vs Daft Punk - Summer Circuit 8. Public Enemy vs HEALTH vs Nosaj Thing - Bring The Tabloid Sores 9. AZ (feat. Ghostface) vs The Golden Filter - Solid [...]

The fellas from The Hood Internet have compiled this mixtape of 30 tracks that they've mashed up over the last few months...Theres' all kind of crazy shit on this mix...but I still think the Beasties vs. Matt and Kim joint is my favorite... The Hood Internet - The Mixtape Volume 4 1. Intro 2. David Banner vs Fujiya & Miyagi - Get Like Pterodactyls 3. The Beastie Boys vs Matt And Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Rump Shaker 4. Kanye West vs Cage & [...]

I can think of no better way to start our work week/Monday morning than with a huge gift in the form of something free, something amazing and something musically diversely perfect. Of course it comes from some of our fave Chicagoans, The Hood Internet . It's been just over a year since the last installment of their mixtapes dropped, they recently posted up their 300th "Hood track", and in order to celebrate, their new mixtape is all yours, mine and ours...for free! [...]

We told you it was coming soon and WE WERE NOT LYING: the newest installment of Hood Internet mixtapes, Volume Four. Following the same format of the first three volumes, we compiled our favorite Hood tracks that have dropped since the last mixtape PLUS a handful of unreleased bits and compacted them all into a non-stop mix that clocks in a lil bit over an hour. It's the soundtrack to your next house party. Enjoy! Download direct via Raptorhideout [continuous mix] Download via Sendspace [separated tracks] [...]

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3 Revisions Metal Blade 26 October 2009 by Chris Cope When 3 released their last album, 2007's The End Has Begun , it seemed like they had the world at their feet. It crunched and grooved, winning the New York band golden support slots with fellow prog-rockers Porcupine Tree and Dream Theater amongst others. What now for this band? Well, they've sky-dived their way through an [...]

For Terre Thaemlitz, audio is never "innocent." From Thaemlitz's earliest ambient recordings, through a series of incredible electro-acoustic projects for the Mille Plateaux label, to a current triple-life as producer of astringently political "radio shows," deep house auteur as DJ Sprinkles and K-SHE, and writer/polemicist, Thaemlitz's project has always been to unsettle any putative audience's assumptions of what constitutes knowledge and politics. Thaemlitz is also possibly dance music's finest socio-political commentator. Not to mention her continual "queering of the pitch." With DJ Sprinkles's Midtown 120 Blues somehow managing to be one of the best dance music albums of [...]

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