The latest from Elijah , My Cupcake Future Is In Your Hands , is a two part DJ mix compiled to showcase the music Elijah is listening to and making now. My Cupcake Future Is In Your Hands features unreleased remixes and never before heard productions by Elijah. Also, it has a silly name. My Cupcake Future intro jj - Ecstasy Elijah - Extended Eye Contact Colorpulse - Glorious Dawn Virtual Boy - Anything Goes Olive - You're Not [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Blake Butler is the rare young writer who consistently and effectively challenges his readers. Scorch Atlas is a haunting collection of interconnected stories and vignettes, a dystopian work of genius. The book itself is a work of art. The internal pages are individually distressed, and the page edges and cover appear burnt and scarred, and the design complements the book's theme perfectly. Matt [...]
Like most American kids, I went to camp during the summer. From age 7 to 10 I did all the usual camp things; rode horses, shot arrows, rock climbed and made lumpy ashtrays for the non-smoking parentals in ceramics. Another campfire tradition, in between state-mandated Kum Ba Yas , were ghost stories. Yet another year where our counselor attempted to give us the Gold Arrow camp canard about the B-17 pilot who plunged into the lake, and now whose ghost still haunted the area. By 9 years of age our cabin wasn't buying it, we [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Lydia Millet is one of my favorite writers, and her first collection of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys marries celebrities with animals to great effect. These keenly written interactions of human and animal move these tales forward and offer rare insights into the human psyche as well as our celebrity-obsessed culture. The Los Angeles Times wrote of the book: "Lydia Millet's first [...]
I first saw Haley Bonar opening for Andrew Bird at the High Noon Saloon in 2006 . I was hooked and have since lost count of how many times I've played her fabulous album, Lure the Fox . Since then, Madison has been fortunate to have Haley return on many occasions, most recently behind her equally great album, Big Star . Haley Bonar returns to the High Noon Saloon for a $10 show on Friday, November 20th . [...]
As you know by now, we at NPR Music sent out a series of questions to people in the music, arts and entertainment communities. We wanted to get a sense of people's thoughts and feelings pertaining to the last decade in music, and what their thoughts were about the future. One question we asked was: What is the one song, movement or artist that sums up the decade for you, and why? Our respondents had a variety of answers, from Kanye West to M.I.A. to Beirut. Please add your [...]
As you know by now, we at NPR Music sent out a series of questions to people in the music, arts and entertainment communities. We wanted to get a sense of people's thoughts and feelings pertaining to the last decade in music, and what their thoughts were about the future. One question we asked was: What is the one song, movement or artist that sums up the decade for you, and why? Our respondents had a variety of answers, from Kanye West to M.I.A. to Beirut. Please add your [...]
Don't forget to rate the album at the end of the post. Welcome back to Blinded By The Hype, the PMA feature in which we revisit albums once the hype has died down. In today's world, music is released at a machine gun pace. It's a what-have-you-done-for-me-late ly type scene, and "lately" usually means this week. Rarely do we stop to smell the roses. Even good albums get overlooked as time passes. And we almost never – aside from year end lists – take a look backward. Hindsight is 20-20, and we'd like to apply that retrovision [...]
It's almost cliché, but after college I drove cross country with a few friends and, literally, filled out a Relix internship application in the parking lot before a Deer Creek Phish show. I sent it off at a local Kinkos and after some persistent nudging scored an interview that fall. I interned for Aeve Baldwin, who was the editor at that time, and after a few months that turned into a part time job at the magazine. I did pretty much every job under the editorial sun except—luckily for Relix—copy editing, including project coordinator, staff writer, Jambands.com contributing editor, staff [...]
Modern Radio is one of the finest local record labels the Twin Cities has ever seen. Congrats on 10 years guys, it sounds like a helluva way to celebrate! Friday, January 22nd at the Turf Club FT (The Shadow Government) Daughters of the Sun The Chambermaids Double Bird Sheridan Fox (His Mischief) 21+, doors at 9PM - $7 Saturday, January 23rd at the Cedar Cultural Center The Plastic Constellations Skoal Kodiak Vampire Hands STNNNG and more! [...]
By Ian Minor 20 years ago an album came out that would later be called "a landmark release in the evolution from college rock to alternative." The third release of rock group They Might Be Giants , Flood would give them their big hits and fame worldwide. It would also be the immortal and ever important first album for me. [...]
By Tom Huizenga Conductor Marin Alsop ( Tracey Brown ) Let's face it, the world of classical music is fairly far off the radar screen for most people in this country. Still, [...]
Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults. On the one side, the Satanists control the major rock groups through drugs, sex, threats of violence, and even murder. On the otherside, publicity, tours, and recordings are financed by record companies connected to British military intelligence circles. Both sides are intimately entwined with the biggest business in the world, the international drug trade. The so-called "rock stars" are pathetic puppets caught in a much larger scheme. From the moment they receive their first recording royalties, the [...]
Think About Life at Arlene's Grocery | "M for Montreal" Showcase at CMJ (10/21/09) Malajube at Arlene's Grocery | "M for Montreal" Showcase at CMJ (10/21/09) Photos : Jon Klemm M for Montreal 2009 Schedule ( Nov 19-21, 2009 ) Beast , Malajube and Think About Life were three of the bands I caught at the M for Montreal [...]
photo by Mr T in DC It has only been a few months since I made the move to Brooklyn from Charlottesville, so I thought I'd give a little Cville music shout-out. Although it's a pretty small city, Charlottesville has always had a fairly bustling live music scene. But over the last few years, it had been marred by a ton of turnover with the town's mid-size music venues. The Satellite Ballroom closed, Gravity Lounge shuttered its doors, and Is hardly lasted a year. The Paramount was [...]
Written mostly by Frank Phosphate with some help by DL . FRIDAY Hidden Cameras / Gentleman Reg / The O's (Hailey's): It's a pretty shitty time to be a gay person in America. Somehow it was decided that civil rights issues are something to be voted on by the public at large. On one side of the argument, we have testimonials from couples unable to receive perks made easily available to their hetero counterparts, civil rights experts explaining the social/historical significance of [...]
Friday, November 13, 2009 Due to some technical difficulties, I was unable to make my trailer-related picks from last week. I was rushing about the windy, near-frigid streets of New York, broke-ass computer weighing me down, striving, with all of my exasperated might to find an Apple-sponsored store. But alack and alas, nothing. It's alright though, this week my approval and dismissal of movies based on their minute-long trailers will be twice as amazing. I wrote that in stone on a rock in the garden, so you know it [...]
Who says Friday the 13th is unlucky? Since it's a special day, instead of your usual 3 to 5 songs in the List Addicts list, it's going to be a baker's dozen. Also to celebrate a novel opening that I made that won $20 this week (woohoo! twenty bucks!) - the random songs that I'm serving up will presumably, be songs that can inspire you to write and make that work of art that you've been waiting all your life to finish. Songs are the perfect inspiration. They create the mood, and are great soundtracks for [...]
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Charlotte Gainsburg stars in Lars von Trier's Antichrist with Willem Dafoe A lot of people are choosing to be hostile towards Lars von Trier's " Antichrist ", especially the ones who've made it a point that they have no intention of watching it. Don't listen to them. If you care an ounce about film-making or the art of storytelling, go see it as soon as you can. The first part of the movie alone, The Prologue, accompanied by this heart-wrenching song , is worth the $12.50 I paid. The monotone sequence is gorgeous, and it [...]
[mp3] Beach House: "Norway" Today we get the first mp3 from the unbelievably gorgeous new Beach House album Teen Dream (1/26 Sub Pop). Here is [...]More about Beach House
MP3: Lady GaGa - Telephone [Featuring Beyoncé] More about Lady GaGa
Just wanted everyone in L.A. looking for a to do this Thursday night, to check out a great show, from London-Transplant, now L.A. inhabitant Samuel Stewart. He is the offspring [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Beck pays tribute to sound architect Harry Partch with 10 minute opus, defends Radiohead who pay respect to WWII British solider Harry Patch. Beck -"Harry [...]More about Beck
Haven’t done a real time review in a while, and hey, Fall Be Kind just leaked. Let’s see what’s up. Here’s a live blogging of my thoughts, [...]More about Animal Collective
Beyonce has recently released the deluxe version of 'I Am...Sasha Fierce' which includes 4 bonus tracks and a DVD. The deluxe edition came out on November 2nd, [...]More about Beyonce
Baria Quereshi, guitarist for The xx has left the band due to exhaustion, leaving questions about the group’s future. Consequence of Sound can tell you about it: [...]More about The xx
Got two crazy new tracks from Young Money finest Lil Wayne from his upcoming mixtape No Ceilings which drops on Halloween. Also in this mixtape there will [...]More about Lil' Wayne
So here comes this freestyle or whatever it is from Kanye. No one seems to know if it is new or some unreleased stuff but [...]More about Kanye West
Tonight, so long as this fucking rain stops, the Yankees and Phillies will go head-to-head in the World Series! It's been nine long years since the Yankees last [...]More about Jay-Z
The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
k-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
nekocasefallon
Animal Collective - In The Flowers
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
No Curve Allowed (Grading This Week's New Tracks)
Beach House: Norway
Friday Five: Surf Songs
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