Unless you've been living in an isolated, internetless location for the last four years, you're likely aware of Daytrotter . The site started in 2006 and, in the four years since, has provided listeners with nearly ten million free, live tunes from their favorite bands. I will say that again for dramatic effect and because I enjoy repeating myself: ten million tunes. Free. As important as providing music lovers with access to all of those sessions, Daytrotter offers a reminder of just how pure and rewarding it is to really love, and really appreciate, music is. Stripped [...]
It's a poorly kept secret in the Canadian music industry that Danko Jones is an angry man. (Danko Jones himself, is a poorly kept secret in the music industry, as well!) Jordan Robson-Cramer of Magic Weapon / Miracle Fortress/Sunset Rubdown has attested to Mr. Jones' hostility in interview , and the man wears his attitude like a single black glove. That is, foolishly, and mostly in a music video. But could there be something more behind his angry man persona? Yes. It's because he comes [...]
Photo by Anthony Verrilli It's been 2 years since GRUM has changed my life. The first time I heard their New Wave remix of Anoraak's Nightdrive With You on 2008, I've been yearning for another fix from them. This group is great at many things but it's this that makes them top of my list - consistency. Their tracks just blow be away - no kidding. And their work is like wine - it gets better throughout the years. Another bonus for this post are two good tracks - The [...]
Snorkelface I had a long post for this but I can't find the goddamn old interview I did with Spencer Krug. It was a great one, about his one day deciding, 'fuck it, I'm not going to work at this bakery any more, I'm pursing music.' The story seems to have been swallowed up by the internet (yet many of the dumber things I've written most certainly still exist...) Krug recently released a marimba driven EP under the new moniker Moonface. The title: Dreamland EP: marimba and shit-drums . [...]
For those familiar with Spencer Krug , you know the drill when one of his many projects emerges with some new music. Acquire it, listen to it, and, in most cases, love it. For the newcomers... where have you been? Over the last decade, Krug has proven to be one of indie rock's more intriguing contributors. The guy doesn't sleep much, what with being a key member of every band you like (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, Frog Eyes, etc.). However, when he does take a few minutes to lay [...]
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. - Alfred Adler Beach House - Walk In The Park (Daytrotter session) Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up, I'm Dreaming Of Places Where Lovers Have Wings (Daytrotter session) Ponytail - Beg Waves (live Daytrotter Sesh) Dosh - Fireball (Daytrotter session) HEALTH - Perfect Skin (Daytrotter session) truman peyote and idiot on daytrotter next month? oh shiiiiiit.
Photo by Shawn MacDonald2007's Tears of the Valedictorian marked the proliferation of Victoria, British Columbia's Frog Eyes into the ears of critics as a band, rather than a sometimes side-project of Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown) or associates of Destroyer's Dan Bejar. The quartet's fourth release gave affirmation that Frog Eyes not only had a voice, but something to say with its
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer: Another failed attempt at converting me into a fan.
With much of the evening's "star power" focused just down the road at the Bell House's Haiti benefit show, Wednesday's wonderful bill at Union Hall nearly went under the radar... nearly . But courtesy of an inspiredly cohesive lineup and an exclamation point of a headlining set by Wild Yaks , all our focus was front and center. Ball of Flame Shoot Fire kicked things off, blending and swapping time changes, genres, instruments, and vocalists to maximize the same sense of crazed disorientation that accompanies hearty doses of Frog Eyes [...]
You know it, we know it (though sometimes we're too wordy for our own good), nowadays it's best to just streamline the message, and our message is this: we get lots of submissions from various artists, labels, and PR folk, and it's honestly impossible to stay on top of it all. There's a ton of good music out there, and the following five bands are just some of the latest to jump out from our inbox; now, we pass them on to you in the simplest format we know: 5 + 5 = 10. Five bands, five songs, 10 words [...]
2009 foi um ano do caralho para a música (leia-se, espetacular, fantástico, fabuloso, ou qualquer outro adjectivo hiperbólico que desejem aqui encaixar). Pronto, não tenho mais nada a dizer. É isto. 35. Wolf Eyes - "Always Wrong" (Hospital Productions) 34. Pterodactyl - "Worldwild" (Jagjaguwar) 33. Big Business - "Mind the Drift" (Hydra Head) 32. Black Cobra - "Chronomega" (Southern Lord) 31. Eagle Twin - "The Unkindness of Crows" (Southern Lord) 30. Sunset Rubdown - "Dragonslayer" (Jagjaguwar) 29. Greymachine - "Disconnected" (Hydra Head) 28. Sholi - "Sholi" [...]
Uma desculpa para dar destaque a alguns dos grandes discos que não couberam na lista que se segue a esta. Uma desculpa para dar ainda mais destaque a alguns dos grandes discos que nela couberam. Uma desculpa para dar destaque a alguns dos discos de 2009 que valem, sobretudo, por uma ou duas músicas. É um pouco de tudo isto. Ordem crescente de preferência, links para os vídeos (caso os haja), e para o download dos ZIPs no final. Siga! 30. Magik [...]
The medieval chroniclers Ralph, Abbot of Coggeshall, and William of Newburg, tell us the events played out during the chaotic reign of King Stephen (ad 1135-54) at harvest time. Local peasants working the fields of Woolpit, near Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk were interrupted by the distinct cries of children. Wolves stalked the area, so the villagers rushed off in the direction of the sound. Upon investigation two young children, a boy and a girl were found in the deep ditches excavated to trap the wolves, (known as wolf pits, hence the name of the village). Their [...]
Po kolei: * płyty przesłuchane i zapomniane -> tutaj * płyty nieco lepsze, ale poza rankingiem -> tutaj - nagroda specjalna - JAMES YORKSTON & THE BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS Folk Songs Album zbyt odmienny, aby konkurować z innymi w zwykłym rankingu. Trochę pisaliśmy już tutaj , ale warto dodać, że to świetne wskrzeszenie folkloru i zadziwiająca bezstratna [...]
You guys have waited pretty patiently for me to get off my lazy ass and get my best of 2009 lists out to you. I mean it's already 15 days into 2010, I need to get with it! So like I said in my #100-51 list , I didn't include singles that were released in 2009 that have 2010 album release dates (such as Vampire Weekend's Cousins) since I consider them 2010 releases! I did include artists like Local Natives however since I obsessed over them this year and their album did come out in the UK! [...]
I had a leftover post from the end of last year and unfortunately I'm way too busy this week to write anything else new, so you're getting this, which is a list of the #1 songs on the Vague Space weekly charts in 2009.p I've actually kept a spreadsheet of all my top songs of the week every week since March 27, 2004, when Modest Mouse's "Float On" was the first #1 of my iPod era.p And in the near six years since, somewhat unsurprisingly, a single band has dominated the top of my weekly charts.p Sunset Rubdown [...]
HANK ALTOGETHER: If there's anything to be be gleaned from the gorgeous opening of Shearwater's latest mp3 from their forthcoming Golden Archipelago LP, it's that the band is moving with a fuck-ton of purpose and definition. "Black Eyes" certainly sounds like the expansive Rook but now with more atonal prodding a turn which seems a little Sunset Rubdown, but there ain't nothing wrong with that. More than anything else, it feels that (like Rubdown) this band, which was once a side project for Okkervil River members Will Sheff [...]
HANK ALTOGETHER: If there's anything to be be gleaned from the gorgeous opening of Shearwater's latest mp3 from their forthcoming Golden Archipelago LP, it's that the band is moving with a fuck-ton of purpose and definition. "Black Eyes" certainly sounds like the expansive Rook but now with more atonal prodding a turn which seems a little Sunset Rubdown, but...
It hasn't been a great year for me, watching video-wise. I use quite a bit of bandwidth but at the same time I had to make a switch to a cheaper high-speed internet company and it makes watching music video much much more of a tedious venture. I couldn't do the desired amount of research that I would've liked so why write one? Well because I can . Also because lists are fun and this is more of a personal choice with videos and the videos also happen to double as songs I like. I'd see no reason [...]
Photography of Claudia by Me at the Rome Motel. Hello & happy Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard Day!!! Did you get a dollar under your pillow too? In honour of the reason for the season, I took that dollar and bought me one of them delicious black & white cookies. Mmm.. Mmm! Equality is scrumptious!!! Well, in honour of the man, I went out for a windy, chilly, [...]
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