Top Album Releases: January 2010 Nick's Top Beach House: Teen Dream Surfer Blood: Astro Coast Magnetic Fields: Realism Spoon: Transference Owen Pallett: Heartland [...]
The Dollyrots make their game show debut on The Price is Right on Friday, January 15. Although what their appearance entails remains a mystery, High Wire Daze is reporting that The Dollyrots will perform two songs - their new single, "California Beach Boy", as well as "Because I'm Awesome" from my second favorite CD of 2007 , Because I'm Awesome . The band is working on their third album (with some co-writing help from ex-Letters to Cleo singer Kay Hanley ) which they hope [...]
Vampire Weekend's second album, Contra , is the first highly buzzed release of 2010, which adds Latin American music influences to their mix. If you saw the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road , you know how effective Nick Cave and Warren Ellis's soundtrack was to the movie. The soundtrack is in stores tomorrow. Other albums I can strongly recommend this week are Owen Pallett's final album under the Final Fantasy moniker, Heartland , Laura Veirs' [...]
I've closed the voting for the Coverville Countdown 2009, and I'm tabulating the results right now. Some old favorites on the list, as well as some new independent stuff that I'm really happy to see made the grade. Starting tomorrow, we'll countdown the top 40 on the last four shows of the decade! And as promised, following the break, see the entire list of nominees: Here is the full list of nominees (minus the songs inducted into the Coverville Hall Of Fame ) '19992 - Red Dirt Rangers [orig. [...]
So this is Christmas. No no, please don't scurry away, I promise you: no more John Lennon!! OK? Are we friends again? Have you stopped screaming?? Good. I was looking back at my Chrimbo posts from last year and I was struck by how Grinchian and grumpy they were! My goodness, pre-visitation Scrooge had NOTHING on FiL circa December 2008. Much of that was due to circumstances; I shan't go into details, but it was one of those burdensome Yuletides where I knew no matter what happened it [...]
Just two weeks ago, SXSW announced it's initial list of over 230 showcasing bands for next year's festival (March 17th-21st). Today they've added an additional 200 bands, with highlights including Fool's Gold (pictured above), Anya Marina , The Hood Internet , Summer Camp , Vandaveer , and a bunch more. Starting next year we'll be doing our SXSW Spotlights featuring some of the new up-and-coming bands. Check out the new additions down below and see the full updated list here . [ Via ] *Akina Adderley & [...]
More bands announced via SXSW.com for the upcoming festival in March 2010. For those of you who've already been following this, there's a handy-dandy asterisk next to the bands that were announced today. Highlights amongst these add-on's (in our opinion) An Horse The Black Box Revelation The Happy Hollows The Low Anthem Jason Lytle Ume White Rose Movement Be sure to keep your eyes on this space for our announcement regarding our SXSW showcase, featuring many of the bands you've seen us interview during the past year. [...]
The Low Anthem being added makes me super excited. Attack Attack being added makes me giggle, knowing that there will be so many bloggers at that show giggling away. From SXSW : *Added 12/8/09 Aa (Brooklyn NY) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO (Osaka JAPAN) A Classic Education (Bologna ITALY) *Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys (Austin TX) *Allo Darlin (UK-ENGLAND) [...]
The holidays are right around the corner and Blackheart Records, Joan Jett's record label, will be celebrating with their holiday album A Blackheart Christmas available on vinyl for the very first time. The album features holiday standards from Girl in a Coma, The Dollyrots and original tunes from Seattle punks The Cute Lepers and [...]
Blackheart Records Xmas compilation, "A Blackheart Christmas" A Blackheart Christmas is now available to pre-order on vinyl (and available now on CD and MP3 ) from Joan Jett's Blackheart Records . This includes tracks by Cute Lepers, Girl In A Coma, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Thommy Price featuring Nefertiti Bones, Kenny Laguna, The Dollyrots, and The Vacancies. 1. Blue Christmas - Girl In A Coma 2. The Elf Song - The Vacancies [...]
SomaCow Media is proud to present ComaSow brought to you by the National Lampoons Endless Bummer Soundtrack . We listened to: Track 4: The Aggrolites - Ghost Town Track 11: The Action Design - Chamber of Hellos Track 1: The Dollyrots - Bad Reputation Soundtrack List: 1 Bad Reputation - The Dollyrots 2 Amoeba - Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus 3 Destination Unknown [...]
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Another school year starts again in a few hours. Here's a playlist for my students and for my friends who teach: 1) Otis Redding: "Stay in School" Stay In School - Otis Redding 2) The Ramones: "Rock 'n' Roll High School" Rock 'N' Roll High School (Rem... 3) Otis Rush: "Homework" Homework - Otis Rush 4) Reigning Sound: "Time Bomb High School" [...]
I was fighting a cold last week, so I didn't make it out at all. Hopefully this week is different. Some cool stuff going on in town.... Monday 8/10/09 [Pick of the Night] Local Natives / Red Cortez / Swim Party / Rademacher @ Spaceland (Free) – The first night of the residency was packed last Monday. [Recommended] Lower Heaven / The Moon Upstairs / Hi Hos / Shine Brothers @ Silverlake Lounge (Free) – The Moon Upstairs [...]
Everest, Red Cortez @ Hammer Museum Old 97's @ Music Box Tortoise @ Amoeba Music Gillian Welch @ Largo at the Coronet You Me and Iowa with The Damselles, Rachel Goodrich, Oak and Gorsky, Sara Roberts @ Hotel Cafe Steve Wynn and The Miracle Three, The Urinals @ The Echo Kay Hanley, The Dollyrots, The Janks @ Viper Room Dusty Rhodes and The River Band, These United states, Olin and The Moon @ Echoplex Cave Country, Sparrows Gate, Quiet Life @ Spaceland theSTART, Bloodcat Love, Useless Keys, In the Presence @ [...]
[One in a series on new music hitting the local scene ...] I confess that all Ingenue had to do to get my attention was boldface the influences. Singer-songwriter Lauren Dolan professes a love for the Boston power pop scene (check); "The Lolita EP" was produced by Letters to Cleo's Michael Eisenstein (check) and features contributions from LTC singer Kay Hanley (check) and Veruca Salt's Nina Gordon (check). So how does Dolan, a SoCal native, fare? Pretty well. [...]
A stream has been posted for the soundtrack to Endless Bummer , the new National Lampoon movie produced by the Warped Tour's Kevin Lyman . Lyman serves as executive producer/co-writer of the movie, The flick is based on the real-life experiences of screenwriter John "J.D." Drury and the early 1980s-era story follows a group of Ventura, Calif., beach buddies who are in search of a stolen surfboard. Participants on the soundtrack include Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker of Blink 182 and Plus 44 , The Aggrolites , Circle [...]
Buddy Miller , Emmylou Harris , Patty Griffin , Shawn Colvin @ Greek Theatre KCRW Presents: Pete Yorn Record Release Party @ Roxy Isis , Mammifer @ Music Box Café Tacvba @ Gibson Amphitheatre Susie Suh [...]
Yeasayer parecen haberse deshecho por completo de los clichés para el que será su segundo álbum de estudio, “Odd Blood” (Secretly Canadian, ’10). Y es que este “O.N.E.” (que [...]More about Yeasayer
Illustration borrowed from barkingbirdart I may not be consistent but I’m not giving up! The whole daily/single song post thing just [...]More about Hot Chip
brazils gui boratto released one of my favorite tracks of 2009, the ebbing and flowing “no turning back”. he does a great job of managing listener [...]More about Massive Attack
Hype, it’s a bitch for your band. At best, you’ll get lots of attention, which hopefully will bring with it legions of music lovers who will buy [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Phoenix – Fences (Delphic Remix) Phoenix – Armistice (Yacht Remix) PS. Delphic Modcast Related posts: [...]More about Phoenix
I don’t know about you guys, but for me there’s no better time of the year than late January to sit back, contemplate and assess the [...]More about St. Vincent
Beach House’s Teen Dream comes out in a little over a week, and I can’t give enough praise for this album. It’s been on repeat for [...]More about Beach House
Mussels. Chorizo. Polenta. Just reading those ingredients and you know the recipe featured on eating/sf today is hearty, flavorful and sooo satisfying. This recipe had an abundance of [...]More about Spoon
KiD CuDi who's set to be featured on Snoop's "Snoop Dogg: Malice N Wonderland (More Malice)" on a track called 'That Tree', doesn't only work on his sophomore album [...]More about Kid Cudi
Yes, this is the first song off the Gorillaz' new album. As you might know Mos Def is also a member of the band now, under the [...]More about Gorillaz
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