The following is a four part 8+ series based upon songs from the film 'Children of Men', the film itself, and the writing of Jorge Luis Borges. All of the songs featured here are originally from the 'Children of Men' soundtrack. This series was originally published sequentially over a four week period and has been collected here to allow you to read the entire story in one place, in order. "Fragments of a Prayer" by John Tavener & [...]
Bright Giant "s/t" EP The Des Moines, Iowa based Josh Davis Band decided to evolve into a more refined and organic style this past January and have reformed as Bright Giant. The new band has a raw energy that mixes rock, country, alternative with a chewy melodic center. It sounds a little like The Mother Hips with less psychedelic influence and more Foo Fighters injected in the mix. Opening with the distortion driven "Women" it finds it's voice with a foot stomping rhythm and harmonic chorus."Songbird" is another gem that starts out [...]
Amidst the ongoing frenzy of festival lineup announcements , the Wakarusa Music Festival has announced their next round of lineup additions : Widespread Panic, Umphrey's McGee (2 sets including a late night), The Black Keys, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, 7 Walkers featuring Papa Mali and Bill Kreutzmann, State Radio, Dub Tribe Soundsystem, Fishbone, Mark Farina, Todd Snider, Mother Hips, Ott, Tortured Soul, Future Rock, Spacemen, MiM0SA, Pimps of Joytime (2 sets), That One Guy (2 sets), Ekoostik Hookah, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Great American Taxi, [...]
Are you ready to rock? If you are then I have some shows for you! On Thursday, I am all about Those Darlins' at TTs. This band from Tennessee have a rock and twang attitude and are so entertaining live. Friday has the Brooklyns at the Cantab and The Acrobrats at O'Brien's. And if you need a little soul injection, don't forget the Red Rose Soul Club at the Rosebud and it's free! On Saturday there's a great lineup at Church with The Dirty Truckers, Muck & the Mires and Watts and at Great Scotts, there's Reverse and Sun Lee [...]
Joining the bill for Wakarusa Music Festival 2010 : Widespread Panic, Umphrey's McGee (2 sets including a late night!), The Black Keys, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, 7 Walkers (featuring Papa Mali and Bill Kreutzmann), State Radio, Dub Tribe Soundsystem, Fishbone, Mark Farina, Todd Snider, Mother Hips, Ott, Tortured Soul, and Future Rock. Find all announced acts here ; tickets here .
Last year The Mother Hips quietly released Pacific Dust , a record that continues the band's knack for seamlessly blending country, '60s pop and pure rock 'n' roll. Goddamn right it made the TDoL Best Of Twenty-Oh-Nine list . The Hips are on tour and recently made a stop at Daytrotter to record some raw and rambunctious versions of a few tunes off Pacific Dust and Kiss the Crystal Flake as well as a cover of Gene Clark 's "Kansas [...]
The Heated (aka Cristina Espinosa) has focused her DIY spirit and embarked on the Twelve Songs Project , a project that involves recording and releasing one song at a time for every month of 2010. Her classic, bluesy Liz Phair style is well-represented in "Cars Roll Down," the first song of this project that will be available for free download until the end of February. Subsequently, February's song will be available for all of March, March's song for all of April, etc. Listen to and download the songs from the Twelve Songs Project [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2010-01-23, Louisville [mp3,ogg,flac] "I Was Drunk" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Camper Van Beethoven : 2010-10-17, Cambridge [mp3,ogg,flac] "Might Makes Right" [mp3] Camper Van Beethoven : 2009-12-29, Solana Beach [mp3,ogg,flac] "Cowboys from Hollywood" [mp3] other Camper Van Beethoven posts [...]
Here we are at the end of January and there are great shows to entice you out of your cozy homes to brave the cold. On Thursday, Great Scotts has Retribution Gospel Choir (with members of Low) and the Gobshites are back again at the Burren for some good Irish drinking songs (I went last week and it was a good time). Friday has a couple of pretty awesome shows with Eddie Japan and Huck at Sally O'Brien's (love free shows!) and then there's a garage night at Precinct with JJ & Thee Cuban Heels, The Swinedells and The Downbeat [...]
The Soft Pack 10 Release Shows In 1 Day This Sat. Jan 30th, 2010 We're back from an extended hiatus while we were out on the road!!! First things first - Beach House 's amazing 3rd album "Teen Dream" is available NOW on Sub Pop. The album is already #10 on the iTUNES album chart! People seriously this record is a MUST LISTEN. Pitchfork even gave it a well deserved 9.0 . [...]
[While sending out birthday wishes to Sam Phillips this morning, I'll also tip you to her new subscription-based music and art project, Long Play , and to the fact that she's guest-editing Magnetmagazine.com this week. ... Now, on with tonight's shows:] The Key Club is back in business, although not with a full schedule. I missed Go Betty Go's farewell show there last week, but this week the Sunset Strip club kicks into high gear. Tonight, Grammy-nominated Mos Def headlines [...]
Citay Play the Echoplex on Thursday (with the Fruit Bats!) Monday 1/25/10 [Pick of the Night] The French Semester / Team Abraham / Le Switch / Wonderground @ The Echo (Free) – The French Semester are doing the free Monday night residency in January. Get there by 10 PM to see Le Switch (one of my favorite local bands). They're now a bit more rockin' as a quartet. [Recommended] Girls @ Detroit Bar ($12) – Great chance to [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK Los Lobos Sat, Jan 30 UCLA Royce Hall 2 pm family matinee 8 pm evening show THIS WEEK'S TICKET GIVEAWAYS Citay w/ Fruitbats Thurs, Jan 28 Info [ ENTER TO WIN TICKETS ] The Residents [...]
Last week, I put together a list of my Ten Favorite Jam Cruise 8 Sets , but that was only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. There were so many stellar moments - both musical and otherwise - that didn't make that list. Each hour of every day, it seemed like I experienced something mind-blowing that just doesn't happen in the real world or at typical music festivals. So this week, I decided to put together a list of 75 Amazing Jam Cruise 8 Moments to show the breadth [...]
Lots of music so let's get to it! On Thursday, The Gobshites are doing their third night of their January residency at the Burren. If that's not your thing UK soul singer Findlay Brown is at TTs with Marc Pinansky and Rick Berlin. Friday has a lot to offer. There's a benefit for the victims of the Haiti earthquake at the Middle East Downstairs featuring: The Gobshites, Force the Fallen, Forgetful Jones, The Doom Buggies, Sherman Burns and Van Burens (rockin' for a good cause is a good thing). There's a cool show at Precinct with Corin Ashley, Mike Gent [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK The HotRats w/ Lemon Sun Gaz & Danny of Supergrass Tues Jan 19 - Spaceland Thurs Jan 21 - Troubadour THIS WEEK'S TICKET GIVEAWAYS Black Lips w/ Nobunny & Jemina Pearl El Rey Saturday Sat 1/23 Info [ ENTER TO WIN TICKETS [...]
Here are the mp3's we discussed this past week. First from our live session with The Mother Hips : The Mother Hips band intro Exclusive: The Mother Hips - Esmerelda Exclusive: The Mother Hips - White Falcon Fuzz ( video ) Exclusive: The Mother Hips - Third Floor Story ( video ) Exclusive: The Mother Hips - One Way Out Exclusive: The Mother Hips - Lion And [...]
The Mother Hips ' trippy power-pop has aged awfully well. On the Bay-area quintet's seventh album, "Pacific Dust," singer-guitarist Tim Bluhm and crew avoid the pratfalls of many of their psych-pop brethren — they're heartfelt but not sappy, amiable but not goofy, expansive but not indulgent, with songs that exude a 1970s warmth without feeling microwaved. Now entering their third decade, they shouldn't be taken for granted. ||| Download: "Third Floor Story" and "White Falcon Fuzz" ||| Live: The Mother Hips perform Jan. 28 at [...]
Welcome to the weekend! Lots of cool happenings to share with you. Starting on Thursday, Joe Pernice is at the Lizard Lounge (there are still tix but this show is sure to sell out). Also on Thursday the Wheelers and Dealers will be at the Plough (cool, country songs about drinking) and The Gobshites are at the Burren (cool, Irish songs about drinking). On Friday Mission of Burma starts a 2 night stay at the Paradise and on Friday the Konks are the opening band. Also on Friday The Full Time Dreamers starts things off at the Cantab along with [...]
Ray Wylie Hubbard offers answers rather than questions in the title of his new album, "A: Enlightenment B: Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C)." Or maybe they're just choices. The music offers a lot of choices, too. (Hint: There are no wrong answers.) For starters, the album's filled with country, rock and blues; there's even some holy-roller style gospel. You can choose if you want, but I'm betting you'll have a hard time because Hubbard blends everything into one big gritty groove. You could try choosing between Hubbard's musical heroes, too, but Hubbard's not [...]
Those dudes up there attended Yale. They’re ambitious and reliable. If I were forced to hop in a boat with 9 other dudes for my [...]More about Yeasayer
The title track from Hot Chip’s new album One Life Stand is everything I hoped it would be. Take a listen: Hot Chip [...]More about Hot Chip
I dag dök nya albumet från Massive Attack, Heligoland, upp på Spotify. Min recension: Helt jävla grymt! Splitting The Atom fick vi ju [...]More about Massive Attack
Vampire Weekend has recently been getting a lot of love on Dipped in Dollars, and this remix of Cousins by Mexican producer Toy [...]More about Vampire Weekend
We get it. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is probably the most loved french pop album of 2009 and there is even an entire remix album of it, but [...]More about Phoenix
On its previous albums, 2008’s Devotion and its 2006 self-titled debut, I dismissed Beach House as a listless Yo La Tengo, another Brooklyn-embraced duo that was all emperor, no [...]More about Beach House
2009 the Year in Music Welcome! You have just found one of the most exhaustive and well-considered lists of quality, [...]More about St. Vincent
Photograph by Autumn De Wilde In the pirate blogosphere culture of our recently ushered in decade, it can be hard to keep an album under wraps. Just [...]More about Spoon
i know what youre thinking. “really? another day n night remix? really?” well, this one is way better than any other one youve ever heard, [...]More about Kid Cudi
Awesome cover art, eh? Fresh new track from the Gorillaz's third LP, Plastic Beach which will be released by Parlophone on 8 March, 2010. [...]More about Gorillaz
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Phonat - "Love Hits The Fan" music video
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields - Official Trailer
Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja (Official)
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