Shhh...I have a secret for you. What, you say? That I've been MIA for a long time? Yeah, this is true, but I'm taking about something secretly canadian . I gotta tell you that Secretly Canadian's lineup gets more and more impressive by the week. The Seattle-based collective Throw Me the Statue released their second LP Createresque last August, and I've been meaning to write about it for a while now. As legend has it, the idea behind Throw Me the Statue began as a sort of mixtape for a girl, and has [...]
Throw Me The Statue - Waving At The Shore appropriate photo huh? MORE OHCNAP , THEPERFECTCLEFT & MODERNDORKOLOGY
Hello and happy holidays! It's that time of the year again, when we SS-ers take a break fom being mere purveyors of fun recommendations, and resize our music-snob-critic hats for yet another year's worth of "songs from this year that we loved but you may not have heard". I'll try to keep the accompanying text down to a dull roar this year... 01. The Airborne Toxic Event, "Sometime Around Midnight" Sometimes I'm glad I'm not as tuned into the world of popular musical criticism as most (well, most who would go [...]
I'd love to be able to say I did this list in one shot, fired from the hip, and came out fearlessly and decisively with my rock solid Top 20 Albums list ready for prime time. The truth is, unfortunately filled with scribbles, crumpled paper balls, wishing I had 25 slots, and a few question marks that will inevitably be answered in a year or two from now when I look back on this list and laugh at myself. I must admit my 2008 list held up pretty well for me over time. Even my 2007 [...]
Night of the Living Dead Atlanta's Carnivores Rise From the Grave By Julia Reidy The first time I saw Carnivores play, they were members of a band that is now dead. In early 2008, the four were still playing around Atlanta as Chainestereo, and I had low expectations. But when they opened for The Ruby Suns and Throw Me The Statue (two much more pop-inflected groups) at the Drunken Unicorn, from the first few damaged chords, I was hooked. Keyboardist Caitlin Lang started singing and whipping her hair around – one of my photos [...]
So here we are, my favourite songs of the year. What be they? How sound them? All is revealed. I think what strikes me about the music of the last twelve months is the blizzard of originality. An awful lot of new sounds were made. It's a little like the melting-pot at the centre of western music worked very well this year, because a lot of these songs have influences that are wide and disparate. Is this list, taken as a whole, better than that of 2008? I think it just might be. But only just. The artwork is what [...]
Sometimes, the most obvious answer is right in front of your face. I went around and around, mentally juggling my favorite songs of the year – all of which were great but none of which really stood out above the rest. In a year that I felt was just sorta "eh," singling out one track as my favorite seemed daunting. (Hell, I even considered a Yeasayer song – Tightrope – and anyone who knows me knows how ridiculous that sounds.) But then I recently heard Phoenix's [...]
Este es el comienzo de una nueva década, tenemos la seguridad que estos próximos 10 años vendrán llenos de muchos sonidos que nos volveran a emocionar y marcarán una generación... Esta noche de viernes estrenaremos una nueva lista programada, el Friday Night se asiste del playlist 116 de Silent Roy para Galaxy 94.3 fm ® Los Mochis Radio ... mañana sábado misma dosis... Sintonice su receptor — 20:20 horas , y reciba la mejor música de la galaxia... Playlist 116 [...]
Here is my list of the best songs of the second half of 2009 . Be sure to read the first half's list here and treat the two posts as a tag team of epic jams. Wow, what a year. TBE is a month shy of it's first birthday and now I have to wrap it's whole existence into a short list? Tough times. Well, since objectivity is a myth, I am gonna keep my Best 20.9 Songs [...]
Here is my list of the best songs of the second half of 2009 . Be sure to read the first half's list here and treat the two posts as a tag team of epic jams. Wow, what a year. TBE is a month shy of it's first birthday and now I have to wrap it's whole existence into a short list? Tough times. Well, since objectivity is a myth, I am gonna keep my Best 20.9 Songs [...]
While googling to find our readers the mp3 links for the Sirius XMU Top 41 of 2099 playlist, it struck me that all these songs have one thing in common. Almost all of these tracks are available via free + legal mp3 sites such as rcrdlbl , Pitchfork , The Fader , Prefix Mag , I Guess I'm Floating , etc. Record labels and upstart bands take note! If you want your new music to make a mark, make an mp3 easy to find and download. [...]
Hey all, TSRE's countdown to 2010 marches on with a special New Year's Eve feature - 8 young artists/bands to keep an eye on in 2010 To start, some of my thoughts on the past year: 2009 has been a year of the new and the trailblazing. Everything I loved this year took me in new directions and pushed the boundaries of how mainstream music could sound. From Merriweather Post Pavilion that will heavily influence much future music to the nascent DIY, glo-fi, and woodsy movements, established bands and precocious [...]
meine mir liebsten songs in 2009 sind kaum mehr an fünf händen abzuzählen. aber eine auswahl wollte getroffen sein. nachfolgend also 50, die mir ohne groß nachzudenken untergekommen sind. dass yo la tengo und laura gibson das glück hatten, gleich mit zweien dabei zu sein, hängt nur mit meiner mangelnden gedächtnisleistung zusammen. es gäbe unzählig mehr, aber die zeit ist zu knapp und das neue jahr will fortan besungen sein. ein letzter blick zurück: 1. scott matthew – for dick 2. josephine foster - she sweeps with [...]
endabrechnung 2009, beste alben top 140, plätze 101 - 140 *** 101. bowerbirds – upper air 102. throw me the statue - creaturesque 103. david sylvian - manafon 104. the extraordinaires – electric and benevolent 105. the devil makes three – do wrong right 106. timber timbre – s/t 107. a.c. newman – get guilty 108. bruce peninsula – a mountain is a mouth 109. jens carelius – the beat of travel 110. great dynamo – the average genius eps 111. it hugs back – inside your guitar [...]
Julia Wilson is so many shades of awesome she is like the sister I wish I had. Not only does she manages one of the most exciting labels around , she also runs her own exciting record label called Rice is Nice . If the name also rings a bell, it may be because you have seen Julia's name occasionally pop up as a photo credit on TWYE. So she is not only passionate about music, she also a rad photographer who has snapped the likes of Metallica , Flaming Lips , Youth Group , [...]
2009 was another great year for live music , slightly edging out last year for me with a grand total of 97 shows, in 26 different venues for 251 sets of music by 215 different bands, with 26 bands logging in 2 or more. Continuing to be one of the best live music venues anywhere, Johnny Brenda's topped the list with 25 visits. The other places where you could have found me hanging out this past year being World Cafe Live (15), The M Room (11), Kung Fu Necktie (7) and The Khyber , The [...]
We've seen an unprecedented year of new music in 2009. There's been enough diversity to satisfy practically anyone's music tastes. We definitely had a surge in surfer sound revivals, dreamy bedroom pop, lo-fi garage rock, and psychedelic electronica, but we also heard just about everything in between. It'll be interesting to see what trends emerge next year. Before we leave 2009 for good, we wanted to recap of our top rated album releases and close out the year with our top 100 songs. [...]
ein paar vielleicht zu unrecht zu kurz gekommene alben, die ich gar nicht oder zu wenig beschrieben habe, einfach einige perlen, die kurz vor dem jahreswechsel noch einen glanzpunkt setzen sollen, album + label ergänzen die musikalische information: von "feral harmonic", erschienen im oktober auf saddle creek : old canes - trust old canes - little bird courage erschien im august auf secretly canadian , "creaturesque": throw me the statue - ancestors throw [...]
wand – hard knox (2009) > ungeprägtes, freizügiges singer/songwriter album, das sich gern ein transparentes kleidchen überwirft, 3-3,5/5 wilco – wilco the album (2009) > hier drückte sich die ideenarmut schon im titel des albums aus, der profit aus früheren werken ist doch längst verspielt, mensch, 2,5-3/5 venice is sinking – azar (2009) > flirrendes, verwoben atmosphärisches, poptaugliches ding mit viel angriffsfläche zu mehr, ideen gehörten zuweilen gebündelt, 2,5-3/5 [...]
40. Helado Negro - "Dos Suenos" ( Awe Owe ) Απο το τροπικό Εκουαδόρ και την πάντα ζεστή αγκαλιά της Asthmatic Kitty μας έρχονται αυτά τα «δύο όνειρα» ("dos suenos") του οχήματος του Roberto Carlos Lange με το όνομα Helado Negro (= μαύρο παγωτό). Πολλή γλωσσογνωσία έπεσε οπότε ας σταματήσουμε να απολαύσουμε το ηλεκτρισμένο falsetto του Roberto σε αυτό το μικρό και γλυκό ταξίδι στις ιδρωμένες γειτονιές της Λατινικής Αμερικής. 39. Μ. Ward - "Hold Time" ( Hold Time [...]
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