In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Helen Thorpe's Just Like Us follows the lives of four young Mexican women in the suburbs of Denver for four years. Two of the women are legal residents and two are undocumented, and Thorpe intelligently and elegantly examines the complex issue of immigration through her vivid exploration of these women's lives. Much like Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives in McSweeney's Voice of Witness oral history [...]
Vibes Ambassador - Dubwise Arise (320) by Vibes Ambassador "Vibes Ambassador plays all kinds of styles from old and new foundation, early and digital dancehall, rub-a-dub, roots and modern roots, current dancehall and new tunes up to own remix and mashup selections." DOWNLOAD ON MEDIAFIRE including Cover http://www.mediafire.com/?tzki 0mtdqtw 1. Brother Culture – Turn the tide 2. Uncle Sam – Round the world girls (Tes la Rok Mix) 3. Echo Ranks – Shinobi 4. Dubterror – Shinobi Dub [...]
Tennis is the one and only sport that I like—and as you might imagine, when I like something I really like it. The bummer though is that I really only know two or three people who like the sport. And when it comes to the blog/facebook/tumblr/twitter-v erse, all my proclamations and exclamations about tennis may as well be shouted into the void. So in an attempt to convince you, my indie rock obsessed readers, that tennis can be as epic, elegant, and engrossing as anything a band from Brooklyn can do, I wanted to speak to you in your [...]
What follows is four pages of my personal picks for artists I'm looking forward to hearing much more of in 2010. Featured artists include RUBIK, Baby Monster, I Am the Cosmos, Two Door Cinema Club, May 68, Sam Amidon, O Emperor, Manus Goan, Jay Electronica, MNDR, Surfer Blood, Lonelady, a host of Box Social-related artists and more. Enjoy. 1. Sleigh Bells Practically unheard of before CMJ in October last year, Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss' punky take on lo-fi dance-rock made an impression with many at [...]
Many bands have a shelf life because let's face it, often musical tastes change as you age. There are also factors such as mood, location, social circles that tend to influence the music you are listening to and again let's face it, all music is not meant for all situations. That is unless you are a fan of The Mountain Goats such as I. I will always like listening to The Mountain Goats and let's face it (where am I going with these "let's face its"?) there are great albums and just really good albums. I am partial [...]
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The end of DECADEnce may come a couple days late, as some of the massive pieces of writing I did last week, combined with a whole lot going on post-New Years pushed the time table for these lists back a little bit. At least it's finally getting done though, right? So what follows is the list that I consider to be the most important amid all the other lists I've written across the past 10 years. It is, after all, a grand summation of a decade's worth of fine records, these being the finest of the fine. Now before you [...]
First heard about these guys last year when a friend of mine brought them in from Rio to play a show at the social. Also got to see them play a show in Rio when I was down there, which I must say was one of the fucking best parties I have ever been to, man do Brazilians know how to party. Could have been the 50 cent shots but I can't wait to get back to Brazil. They really do put on a good show, this is a more chilled out song for them and I [...]
Treasure Fingers Mix Tracklist: 01. Kill The Noise - Hey You 02. Duke Dumont - When I Hear Music 03. Mondo - Alive (PH Electro mix) 04. Kill The Noise - Pull My Strings 05. Ocelot - This is Our Time (Treasure Fingers remix) 06. Hail Social - Heaven (Designer Drugs remix) 07. Villains - Rock It 08. Das Pop - Fool for Love (Yuksek remix) 09. Grafton Primary - I Can Cook (Miami Horror remix) 10. Soft Pink Truth - Media Friend (Rudimentary Peni cover) [...]
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60. Kanye West Graduation Few rappers have had the commercial and critical success that Kanye West has enjoyed in the last 10-years. He has gone from a little known producer to one of the biggest artists in the world and obviously there's got to be some reason behind it. Graduation isn't Kanye's finest album end-to-end but it is loaded with fantastic singles one after the other in the first half of the record. That half alone pushed it here as the last half goes a bit flat at points. But seriously this is [...]
It's hardly surprising I chose Radiohead as artist of the 2000s – despite formidable competition from Kanye West, Daft Punk, Jack White, the whole Montreal broken social scene (Arcade Fire, Feist, Stars, Wolf Parade), The Strokes, Animal Collective, Beyoncé / Jay-Z, Arctic Monkeys and I'll even throw in both surf-rock muse Brian Wilson and house DJ extraordinaire Kaskade. But, no one matches the near-worship level that Thom Yorke et al managed to reach over a full decade's worth of recording, philosophizing and music-industry reshaping. It didn't look as promising for the band in 2000, the first year of [...]
There's nothing quite like the year-end list in music. December rolls around and everyone takes a couple minutes/hours/days/weeks thinking about the music we've consumed over the past year, finally pushing back from the table and digesting for a short moment. Different sites have different lists, of course, but that's part of the fun. It's interesting to see what music made an impact on what people in the preceding 12 months. Having three separate writers, we are faced with an interesting challenge – compiling a list of the year's best releases while simultaneously accounting for individual tastes. So [...]
Musically, I'm looking forward to 2010. I was going to do a list of music to hot bands to "listen" for (as opposed to watch, cause one doesn't really watch music, unless it's live), and limit to like 10 or so bands, but as you all know there's a lot of music in the world. WTF? KWIM? Will these bands be BIG? Who the fuck knows. All I know is that IMO they're doing something interesting; either completely new or something old with just enough (or more than enough) of a twist that it makes you forget about [...]
Photo/illustration by David Greenwald After a year where I avoided making a best-of for six months, I'm thoroughly excited to bring you this year's albums of the year list. After the jump, the 40 finest albums of the last year of the decade - a list full of fresh faces and modern heroes alike. Editor's note: As the vast majority of these appear on my Best Songs of 2009 list, I'll point you there for the MP3s. Please, seek these bands out on the Internet and pay [...]
Listen to "What's On The Hi-Fi Ep. #6" MP3 "Blessa" - Toro y Moi Toro y Moi is the solo project of The Heist and The Accomplice lead singer Chaz Bundick. "Blessa", off his album Causers of This , is a unique sound that has elements of TV On The Radio, MGMT and crate robbers like Blockhead and R2DJ, but takes its own path. There is a psychedelic vibe behind the track like [...]
Hail Social - Heaven (Anoraak Remix) Anoraak - Nightdrive With You Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (Adeyhawke Remix) http://myspace.com/anoraak http://www.valeriecollective.c om
A fascinating multicultural project, Clash of Civilizations not only puts musical traditions in a blender, but also sprinkles in those often taboo subjects, religion and politics. Boston-based composers Milan Kovacek (aka Hip Son) and Nikola Radan both hail from Serbia, a land that has suffered more than its share of clashes. They explain: For centuries, a harmful myth has been perpetuated that we live in a divided world, that there are fundamental differences between races, cultures, and [...]
Here is an overview of our 80 favorite albums of the aughts. This way you can talk shit about our picks without having to click a bunch of different links. We like to make things super easy for all of you guys because we care. Anyways, I'm glad this is over, and look for our favorite albums of the year soon. View all 80 selections after the jump... [...]
A little late on the tracklisting folks; sorry for the delay. Next week we'll have our act together. Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Cheers. 0:00 Bowski - Hooves Boy 8-bit - Baltic Pine(green money baltic porn remix) Malente & Dex- Gypsy Kings Malente - I like it(Riva Star's remix) Rubix - Baiser sur la disco(rubix refix) Divine mother zebrass - Rain forest Pheonix fences - Neo Tokyo LMFAO - La la la(Hyper crush remix) Bag Raiders - Fun punch Hail Social - Heaven [...]
- PHOTO BY HOBO GESTAPO Over the past few months we have heard enough Diamond Cut remixes to know they are mint as hell. We applaud them for their efforts and we definitely want more from them. Remixing the likes of Monarchy, Fear Of Tigers, Hail Social & Cinnamon Chasers is a big deal to us and they are all amazing stuff. We shall let the remixes speak for themselves this time round. MP3 FEAR OF [...]
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