Story by Adam Daniels Photography by Dorothy Hong "Do you need a drink?"
"Yes, I need four double whiskeys and four PBRs." It was Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's record release show at Williamsburg's Union Pool, and while he was among a roomful of friends, he was not at ease. Robinson's former fiancé obliged the request, assuming it was on behalf of the entire band. This was not the case. Robinson wasn't a household name in indie rock at the time. But he had a lot of the pieces in place [...]
It's a busy weekend at POD in Dublin this weekend, with Orbital, Great Lake Swimmers, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Sleeping States and We Have Band all making their way to Harcourt Street at some point. We have two pairs of tickets to give away to the Great Lake Swimmers / Sleeping States (Friday) and Cymbals Eat Guitars (Saturday - after the football, so don't fret) shows in Crawdaddy. To win just send your name, contact number and gig of choice to giveaway@state.ie by 3pm on Friday. [...]
This was the greatest decade of music for me as a fan. There were so many incredible albums, almost all by bands I'd never even heard of in 2000, discovered almost entirely through the same musical venue that you are reading write now -- the Internet. At the dawn of the decade, I was approaching a rock fan milestone that presumably signaled the end of my interest in cool new music (I turned 30 in 2001), while at the same time, the rock music industry (ie. whatever they played on the radio) had devolved into a hybrid of cheap rap-rock [...]
A list of events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. Tuesday 10th Nov - Damien Jurado @ Whelan's (€20) Wednesday 11th Nov - Marina and the Diamonds @ The Academy, Dublin (€14.80) - Shred Yr Face tour: Cave Singers, Woods, Espers @ Crawdaddy, Dublin (€18) - Mark Eitzel @ The Village (€20) - Yellowman, Worries International @ The Button Factory (€16) [...]
Swirly, spacey, transcendent, and altogether a near-spiritual experience. Yes, I'm describing the first time I ever heard My Sleeping Karma's brand of pyschedelic stoner rock. Mesmerizing is another word that leaps to mind. Naturally, we were thrilled when the guys stopped by the Ripple office to chat, light some incense, and become one with everything Ripple. When I was a kid, growing up in a house with Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, and Simon and Garfunkle, the first time I ever heard Kiss's "Detroit Rock City," it was a moment of musical epiphany. [...]
++Really all over this song by Atlas Sound/Bradford Cox ( here again modeling more winter headwear via Done Waiting ) off of Logos . It's upbeat and relaxing in the vein of Animal Collective and unlike the song by Sleeping States from the other day , it meanders but in a way that works. Atlas Sound is touring with Broadcast, whose new song might not be good to listen to if you're prone to hearing voices. [...]
Gallows are still slogging it all over the world to help promote their awesome album, Grey Britain . At the moment they're in the USA with AFI so we thought we'd drop guitarist, Laurent Barnard a line to see how he's doing. How has it been driving around in the van? I actually really like it. Though it's not for too long - we get to stay in hotels and have showers in the morning. [...]
Karin Dreijer Andersson of the Knife is now performing as Fever Ray, and she has an album out by that name Nov. 24 on Mute Records. Vanity Fair is premiering her video of "Stranger than Kindness," a Nick Cave song. Andreas Nilsson, who also produces live shows for the Knife and Fever Ray, directed the video. Under dark lighting, it depicts a fantastical, antiquated sequence of still scenes – providing a nice accompaniment to gothic, tawdry lyrics: The gaunt fruit of passion Dies in the light Stranger than [...]
Passion Pit- by definition is a hot and heated back seat session, at the back of the line at a drive in movie theater. Michael Angelakos learned this term in an early century of sorts class in school. His passion pit is what drove him to create his first collection of music. He wanted to do something special for the woman in his life at the time...and this is what created Passion Pit. The other boys in the band Ian Hultquist, Ayad Al Adhamy ,Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer came together to create this new music sensation. [...]
On our way to beautiful Cymru (Wales, for all you illiterates), we make a stopover to marvel at the excellently-maintained Tewkesbury Abby. Josh snaps some illicit pictures--you're supposed to buy a camera license of some sort for a vast sum, but as we all know, Josh is a rebel who lives by his OWN rules, etc, etc. Then we repair to a nearby teashop for our long-anticipated full-on cream tea--with PLAIN scones, [...]
Edward Budd was an enterprising eighteen-year-old. He was determined to make something of himself and escape the desperate poverty of his parents. On May 25, 1928, he put a classified ad in the Sunday edition of the New York World: "Young man, 18, wishes position in country. Edward Budd, 406 West 15th Street." He was a strapping young fellow who was eager to work and contribute to the well-being of his family. Trapped in the dirty, stinking, crowded city in a miserable tenement with his father, mother and four younger siblings, he longed to [...]
CMJ released the band schedule for its 2009 Music Marathon & Film Festival yesterday, which is about as good a sign of fall hitting New York as the return of apple cider at Greenmarket. The festival runs from Oct. 20 - Oct. 24 and includes various venues throughout the city, and the list of featured artists would probably take all four days to read through. But skimming the selection reveals a fairly equal distribution of well-known acts like Atlas Sound and Deer Tick , anonymous locals (including krautrock-y Jeff Buckley-channelers Pocketknife), twenty-two bands who [...]
Having spent the last four months traveling the world, winning over legions of fans with her unmistakable song-craft, Regina Spektor is very excited to make her Saturday Night Live debut this Saturday, October 10th and premiere her second single, Eet, from her critically acclaimed album, far. An artist known for her uninhibited imagination and acute sense of detail both in music and words, Spektor has joined playwright / director Tina Landau (Floyd Collins & Superior Donuts) and lyricist Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) to create a new Broadway bound musical called Beauty. In addition, Spektor has recorded a duet [...]
Having spent the last four months traveling the world, winning over legions of fans with her unmistakable song-craft, Regina Spektor is very excited to make her Saturday Night Live debut this Saturday, October 10th and premiere her second single, Eet, from her critically acclaimed album, far. An artist known for her uninhibited imagination and acute sense of detail both in music and words, Spektor has joined playwright / director Tina Landau (Floyd Collins & Superior Donuts) and lyricist Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) to create a new Broadway bound musical called Beauty. In addition, Spektor has recorded a duet [...]
The press release below doesn't actually list all the acts performing at CMJ this year, so you're probably better off checking out cmj.sched.org to get a true idea of what's happening during this year's marathon. Of course, sched.org is a little confusing too and it doesn't list unofficial events and day parties (as far as I know), so you'll have to wait a little bit longer for info to trickle out from the blogs and other unofficial sources. Lastly, even though the press release says the schedule is "final", you can pretty much bet that things will shift [...]
REGINA SPEKTOR TO APPEAR ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH SPEKTOR TO WRITE MUSIC FOR NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL, BEAUTY CURRENTLY ON NORTH AMERICAN TOUR WITH UPCOMING PERFORMANCES AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL & THE GREEK THEATRE Having spent the last four months traveling the world, winning over legions of fans with her unmistakable song-craft, Regina Spektor is very excited to make her Saturday Night Live debut this Saturday, October 10th and premiere her second single, Eet, from her critically acclaimed album, far. An artist known for her uninhibited imagination and acute sense of detail both in [...]
This is an ever changing and (hopefully) expanding list of some of the songs I have mentioned before in this blog or simply stuff I have found somewhere on the web that I find interesting, but have no time to write about. All files have been found somewhere in cyberspace (and NONE of them have uploaded by me, so I cannot help you with any requests you might have - just keep returning and something new might pop up), so they will be available until the artists, record labels, fans, whatever decide to remove them. Thanks to a few readers, [...]
It's 1968 - cue the protests and dramatic social change, underscored by rock 'n' roll. "America", performed by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, is one of the slower tunes of the year's soundtrack, describing the search for the true definition of the United States of America. As much a notion as it is a physical entity, America is often believed to be a place where anyone can succeed. For more than a decade after World War II, that notion seemed correct. Levit and Sons, Inc. erected the first mass-produced community outside New York, NY. Levittown, as it was [...]
![[MP3] new <span style="color: #384E60; background-color:#84CCF2">Sleeping</span> <span style="color: #384E60; background-color:#84CCF2">States</span>: "Gardens of the South" + "Red King"](http://cache.elbo.ws/posts/2017537_lg.jpg)
Sleeping States certainly had a lot of buzz back in 2006. He had it for about one day, November 22, 2006 , when IGIF, Stereogum, Said the Gramophone and countless other blogs picked up the track "Rivers" from Grizzly Bear's blog (this, along with his initial Peter Bjorn & John rec, were the first demonstrations of Ed Droste's tastemaking chops). The buzz sorta fizzled out, at least on this side of the pond, with a weak P4K review (which mattered more back then) and the lack of any songs comparable to "Rivers" on the [...]
As the sun cracked up over the California horizon Sunday morning, I lay cuddled under a warm blanket a few states over, but amidst the palm trees and the eerie fog, my friend Dainon sent me a cell phone snap and then stood in the grey morning light filming this opening number in a Hollywood cemetery: I've been watching every video I can find of Bon Iver 's sunrise show, which surely was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I can't think of an artist I'd rather hear while wrapped in a [...]
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Friday Five: Surf Songs
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
