Here is the final installment of our unscientific, should-not-be-used-for-news-an d-reporting-purposes survey results. As you probably know by now, the following answers were culled from a variety of people in the arts, music and entertainments communities. The last question we asked them was: How do you think we'll listen to music ten years from now? Our respondents' answers ranged from silly to philosophical to downright Sci-Fi! We hope you enjoy reading them. And thanks so much to everyone who took the time to participate. Douglas Wolk, writer: [...]
Here is the final installment of our unscientific, should-not-be-used-for-news-an d-reporting-purposes survey results. As you probably know by now, the following answers were culled from a variety of people in the arts, music and entertainments communities. The last question we asked them was: How do you think we'll listen to music ten years from now? Our respondents' answers ranged from silly to philosophical to downright Sci-Fi! We hope you enjoy reading them. And thanks so much to everyone who took the time to participate. Douglas Wolk, writer: [...]
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 [...]
Otra banda con sindrome de Joy Division. 1. Volts 2. 21st Century 3. Hello Tomorrow 4. Rainmaker 5. Exit Wound 6. Air In A Lung 7. Champagne Socialist 8. Princess 9. Anymore 10. Glow 11. Butterflies Screaming Lights - Like Angels www.myspace.com/screaminglight s
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 [...]
My computer has been in the process of dying lately, so I haven't been able to access my music very often or even do simple things like writing documents without dealing with constant crashes, so the blog has been taking a little break, and posting will be sporadic, if at all, until the beginning of December when I get a new computer. Here are a few good tracks I've gotten lately, though: Hot Chip are coming out with a follow-up to the excellent ' Made in the Dark ' and have released the [...]
I FINALLY got round to buying the Earcom 2 compilation this week. I've had 1 and 3 for years (and loved them!) but always dismissed 2 as it had Joy Division on it (a bit too commercial! Ha!). Anyway, so glad it arrived for this beauty from Basczax. Basczax - Karleearn Photography
L'ultimo clone dei Joy Division in ordine di tempo? L'ho scoperto in questi giorni ascoltando Nme Radio. Si chiamano Lyrebirds, vengono da Brighton e il loro singolo si intitola (credo non a caso) "Closer". In rete ancora non si trova, ma potete ascoltarla sul loro Maispeis, insieme ad un paio di altri demo. A dispetto della scarsa originalità devo dire che non mi dispiacciono. Diciamo da non
Not many Australian teenagers can claim to be Brian Wilson's pen pal and the son of a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ex-gangster. Pascal Babare can. He releases his debut album 'Thunderclap Spring' on 23rd November through Tokyo and London based indie blackmaps. It includes an introspective cover of Joy Division's 'Ceremony', which you may sample below. Download 'Ceremony' . Buy at blackmaps .
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 [...]
Known for his highly literate lyrics on his solo work, along with his time spent in the Auteurs and Black Box Recorder, Luke Haines has a new album out called 21st Century Man . Jarvis Cocker's oddly priapic solo release this year, Further Complications , was mostly disappointing, but for those looking for a witty, smart and musical Cocker-like album for 2009, they should definitely check out Mr. Haines' new work. Neil Young wrote Southern Man as an anti-slavery missive about the American South, and with his new album, Haines [...]
by BBG On Sunday at Le Poisson Rouge, Shrinebuilder played an overwhelming show -- almost meditatively focused, one whose afterimage is likely to stay with those who saw it. It's a band of willful musicians in their 40s from around the country who have given their adult lives to slow-and-heavy music: Scott Kelly of Neurosis, Scott Weinrich of the Obsessed and Saint Vitus, Al Cisneros of Om and Dale Crover of the Melvins. Shrinebuilder is as loosely based in doom-metal as Krallice is in black-metal: it [...]
So is anyone else out there a big LCD Soundsystem fan? I am guessing a lot of heads are nodding. Good. This post is about a track I somehow seemed to pass over. Now, are any of you all that nodded in agreement a fan of Joy Division, also? I am guessing there will be a fair amount of heads nodding to both, correct? Well, when LCD Soundsystem released the EP for their track "All My Friends" (which was covered by Franz Ferdinand, albeit not on this EP), they also made their own stamp on an old [...]
Project: Komakino began as the solo music project of Kris Kane in March 2007. The project follows a simple manifesto, purely; "To Konstrukt!". PROJECT:KOMAKINO was unveiled at the now legendary Experimental Circle Club in April 2007 and received high praise. From there Kris has gone on to play a number of gigs with the like minded up folks, such as Ipso Facto, Electricity In Our Homes and Ulterior. The band has been referred to as a group of shadows, clad in uniforms of espionage and driven by the duende. With songs about dystopian futures and darker times, [...]
As we progress down our path of the loveliest music of the decade, we'll give you a bit more detail on the records we've chosen. While we were infatuated with numbers 31-40 (which you can read here), we're ready to go to battle over every selection from 1 to 30. Not a bad song on any of these albums, if you ask us. You can listen to the entire album of each of these by registering with Lala.com.... but you knew that, right? While we don't claim this to be a defining document of merit, we [...]
"REVELATION! ..these are jams-check them out, and if you're down, envelop yourself in the Little Girls explosion..." - The Fader "If someone bottled up Joy Division's essence, stored it for thirty years, and finally released it in 2009, it would sound something like this Toronto four-piece. And no, that's not Mike Sniper (aka Blank Dogs) behind [...]
Cada día cuesta más encontrar bandas que sorprendan, siendo que lo único que buscamos es algo que nos refresque el oido. De todas maneras, el último tiempo personalmente he dejado esa búsqueda, ya que encontré la banda a escuchar. Ya lleva un buen tiempo rotando en mi playlist y decidí escribir sobre ellos, porque dudo que salgan de mi rotación musical por un buen rato y vale la pena hacerles un reconocimiento. Son los indicados para empezar la banda sonora de este verano que se acerca. Anoten: The Drums . Me he estado [...]
Manic Street Preachers by Nick Parker Growing Old Gracefully but it's a Mixed Bag that results... In the 1990s British music scene there were hardly any bands faster and more furious than The Manic Street Preachers . Leading the charge of Welsh guitar bands in the period, the Manics were also among the most radical of them, both musically and politically. Then of course, there was James Dean Bradfield's [...]
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
No Curve Allowed (Grading This Week's New Tracks)
Beach House: Norway
Friday Five: Surf Songs
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
