La scorsa settimana abbiamo terminato il nostro viaggio attraverso gli album più importanti del decennio che si sta concludendo. Abbiamo quindi pensato di riassumere il tutto in questo post che non è altro che la lista completa, tappa per tappa, degli album che di volta in volta abbiamo approfondito, in modo tale da avere una sorta di indice delle varie puntate. Dopo il salto trovate anche la listona di tutti gli album che di anno in anno sono stati inseriti fra "gli album da salvare". [...]
Welcome to part one of GIMME TINNITUS' Best Songs Of The Aughts where we look back on the best songs of 2000-2004. Back when all the "best of the decade" whoopla started earlier this year (with Pitchfork's Best Of ), I began thinking about the songs I would have blogged about had I actually been blogging (or let's say posting about music on an angelfire page) way back in 2000. I sifted through many tracks to come up with this list, and I hope it helps you reconnect with some tracks you may have forgotten [...]
Setlist: The Continental, October 24, 2009 So Keep jumped in to help me out with DJing at The Continental Saturday night since Rudy had a prior commitment, and I feel comfortable saying we kicked total ass. We got a pretty good early crowd and the place was absolutely choked with bodies by 2 a.m. or so. We decided it was a "zero pop" night and Keep enjoyed playing bad cop to anyone requesting what he deemed not heavy enough. That's not to say we didn't play catchy stuff, we just didn't allow ourselves to be [...]
Rarely does one think of Ballet and in the next thought think twisted, perverse and sadistic. These rare combinations of thoughts were combined for me last week at the Hermosa Beach Playhouse's one-night production of the Lost Angels Ballet "Burn" & "Bathing for Beauty". Wishing I had become a ballerina, I've spent the past decade of my life going to ballets, admiring the grace, agility and beauty of the men and women who glided across the stage. Most of what I've seen has been classical performances. You know, Swan Lake or the Nutcracker, where [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Orlando and Hugo of The Maccabees, Backstage at Mercury Lounge for TLC. NYC was lucky to get two shows from The Maccabees this summer where the UK indie rockers showcased material from their brilliant sophomore record, Wall of Arms. TLC was very lucky to get to sit down with vocalist/lyricist Orlando Weeks and guitarist Hugo White, albeit in the hottest room ever inside Mercury Lounge, before their headlining gig. The guys were humble and shy jokesters, Orlando barely able to sit still without fidgeting with a plastic cup (which he then wore [...]
A review for The Music Magazine, an amazing return for Alice In Chains. On July 3rd 1996 in Kansas City, Missouri, Alice In Chains played a final gig with lead singer Layne Staley. On the 5th April 2002 he died of cocaine and heroin abuse, aged 34. With guitarist Jerry Cantrell about to release his second solo album and in spite of his comments a month earlier about the possibility of reforming, Alice In Chains was no more. Until now. Since 2005, the band has flirted with different lead singers and finally [...]
Like I said yesterday, I'll be sharing some of my favorite old Elemental magazine columns with JTTS readers over the next few weeks. In addition to my presumption that you'll enjoy them, I want to get these joints in cyberspace since they don't yet (and never did) exist here. This first one is the introduction to my old column, Read the Labels , in which I profiled a different indie imprint every month. If you're at all involved in the industry yourself - I suggest you check these carefully. Not because [...]
With weather reports predicting high temperatures of up to 95 degrees, day two of Lollapalooza wasn't exactly going to be a walk in the park, either. Well, in some respects it was, but you get the idea. By high noon, mile-long lines had already gathered at every beverage stand, and hundreds of bikini-clad girls flashed around their fresh and fashionable sunburns. Neither shade nor sunscreen made a difference - even the Ice Cream Man couldn't save the day! Instead, while the heat continued to join the thousands of Lollagoers, a mighty wind picked up the slack, cooling things down and [...]
Queens, NY natives, Bogard a.k.a. Lari Guap and Nexusdeep . a.k.a. SpenceGabor . have come together to form Guap & Gabor . Though from opposite sides of the spectrum, one being from Southside, with a heavy Hip-Hop background, the other being from Flushing raised on Electro-Pop, they have created an eclectic balance of their styles, on the self titled debut called " Guap & Gabor. ". Bogard a.k.a Lari Guap , grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, during the height of the 80's crack epidemic. When he [...]
A sort of tired determinism lay in the air over the second Sade Sunday meeting between Josh and myself. We intended on talking at a rope swing, which we had relieved ourselves of care on the month previous, that lay high in the Berkeley hills overlooking the bay and all its bridges. The voyage was arduous at best. We got lost. Once we had found our former place of repose, the old rope swing was gone and in its place a frayed rope and now silent skid marks down the hill. Yes readers, we could [...]
Heeeeeyyyy soul kids~ how ya feelin' out there? Been a long time I shouldn't have left you without a dope beat to step to... However, let's not waste time dwelling on my lackadaisical fuckery... Instead, please allow me to serve you with another outstanding volume of covers, remixes, mashes, and interpolations. As usual, I chose an eclectic variety of selections, so I have faith that most of you will discover something that causes a little commotion in your soul. I decided to split this [...]
The Dead Weather-- Horehound (Album Review) Freakin' Jack White. If there's anything more annoying than a guy who can't make up his mind, it's a guy who turns every half-baked idea into a gold-plated success. Our boy Jack is guilty as sin on both counts. First and foremost, of course, the singer-guitarist is the brains behind The White Stripes. And, since ex-wife Meg seems to have lost her shpedoinkle for touring, he's got his Nashville rock outfit The Ranconteurs. But is that enough for White? Noooooo. He's gotta have a [...]
Despite the many great recent releases and ever-rising stack of submissions - digitally speaking....no-one sends physical CD's any longer, Grandpa - my listening has been harking back to days of yore for a couple of weeks now. Although partially attributed to the reunions going on, there have also been some random whims taken up from idle iPod browsing. Such are the vagaries of having an entire music collection in one's pocket. The most recent, not to mention regularly repeated, foray into yesteryear has been to [...]
Interview by Dub MD www.twitter.com/dubmd84 Flawlesshustle.com is back with the third in the "10 Question(s) Q&A Session Series", this week we got the chance to catch up with an up and coming emcee from Southside Jamacia, Queens, Junclassic, a super talented lyricist that has been making music since 2000 as part of the group "Dynamix" with Monsta X, but just over the past few years has started focusing more on his solo career. Junclassic has already released two studio albums, EP's, collaboration projects, etc over the past three years, and all in the lead up to his brand new studio album entitled "Imaginary [...]
After relentlessly touring KC multiple times over the past year, Bethany finally caught up with Alt rockers Anberlin . Guitarist Christian McAlhaney , formerly of Acceptance , filled PopWreckoning in on life on the road and at a major label. Bethany, PopWreckoning: You guys are one of the most popular alternative bands now, but it wasn't always that way. What were some of the challenges of breaking into mainstream? Christian McAlhaney , Anberlin: It is endless. Anberlin has been a band…some of these [...]
Did I grab your attention with that headline? Good. Orange has put together a very nifty giveaway for this year's Glastonbury . You simply guess where in his field a bull named Desmond (yes, a real bull) will be at 3pm every day. They've set it up like a kind of grid, so you essentially pick a square and let the dice fall where they may. They have 18 pairs of tickets, so you certainly have more than one chance to get it right. Take your shot here . They have a 'bull cam' and have [...]
The legendary Daptone has done it again with the release of debut album, What Have You Done, My Brother? from not-even-close-to-newcomer Naomi Shelton and her Gospel Queens. From the Dap site: "Naomi Shelton is no ordinary gospel singer. Though she, like many others, grew up singing with her sisters in their Alabama church, she has also spent much of her life in the soul clubs around New York, and her 45s, "41st St. Breakdown" and "Wind Your Clock" b/w "Talking 'Bout a Good Thing," have long been revered and prized by funk [...]
The legendary Daptone has done it again with the release of debut album, What Have You Done, My Brother? from not-even-close-to-newcomer Naomi Shelton and her Gospel Queens. From the Dap site: "Naomi Shelton is no ordinary gospel singer. Though she, like many others, grew up singing with her sisters in their Alabama church, she has also spent much of her life in the soul clubs around New York, and her 45s, "41st St. Breakdown" and "Wind Your Clock" b/w "Talking 'Bout a Good Thing," have long been revered and prized by funk [...]
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Vampire Weekend - Cousins
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
remixed: the beach boys, lady gaga, duck sauce, ellie goulding, shakira, la roux, madonna, & more!!!
