Steve Earle, Phoenix, Imogen Heap, Levon Helm, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Neil Young, Steve Martin and Loudon Wainwright III , who says the Grammys aren't cool! Check out a few of the early and non-televised 2010 Grammy winners below. Best New Artist WINNER Zac Brown Band Best Alternative Music Album WINNER Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Phoenix Song Of The Year WINNER Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Thaddis Harrell, [...]
No real surprises to report. Beyoncé earned a bundle of Grammys. Lady Gaga delivered a rousing - and surprisingly uncontroversial - duet with Elton John . Taylor Swift also cleaned up, though her number with Stevie Nicks sounded a tad off (as did Slash's guitar solo during T-Pain's performance). Best prop goes to Best Comedy Album winner Steven Colbert , who pulled an iPad out of his jacket during his monologue. And kudos to Kings of Leon for admitting they were a tad drunk while accepting the Grammy [...]
Record of the Year "Halo," Beyoncé "I Gotta Feeling," the Black Eyed Peas "Use Somebody," Kings of Leon "Poker Face," Lady Gaga "You Belong With Me," Taylor Swift Album of the Year "I Am ... Sasha Fierce," Beyoncé; Shondrae "Mr. Bangledesh" Crawford, Ian Dench, D-Town, Toby Gad, Sean "the Pen" Garrett, Amanda Ghost, Jim Jonsin, Beyoncé Knowles, Rico Love, Dave McCracken, Terius "the Dream" Nash, Radio Killa, Stargate, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Ryan Tedder and Wayne Wilkins, producers "The E.N.D.," the Black Eyed Peas; Apl.de.ap, Jean [...]
PMA will be tuning into the GRAMMYs tonight, giving you minute-to-minute updates and reactions on "music's biggest night". Before the night begins, here are the big nominees: Record of the Year "Halo" – Beyoncé Beyoncé Knowles & Ryan Tedder, producers; Jim Caruana, Mark "Spike" Stent & Ryan Tedder, engineers/mixers "I Gotta Feeling" – Black Eyed Peas David Guetta & Frederick Riesterer, producers; will.i.am, Dylan "3-D" Dresdow & Padraic "Padlock" Kerin, engineers/mixers [...]
Chicago's own juke-house-ghettotech-raving DJ/Producer Chrissy Murderbot has been working the electronic music scene hard since 1995, at the tender age of 13! After playing alongside such electronic music legends as 4Hero, Orbital, Ghislain Poirier, and Juan Atkins, his work has been praised by everyone from XLR8R to Pitchfork. His newest project is My Year of Mixtapes , posting a new, downloadable mixtape once a week, every week for a year, without a single repeat of song or theme. I've just been through the whole lot and the range of electronic music from its [...]
What's a buildup without an epic drop? Eh? Can I get a witness? This batch of some of the most awesome drops goes out to the fuckin G, Peter Cameron. Also, keep in mind this is by no means a definitive list of the best drops or whatever, just a list I put together with a bunch of honorable mentions if you will. Also, every track is a Golden Banana, that's sort of why they're on this list. In other words, if there ever was a time to grab the zip file at the [...]
Automata Automata are a Chicago based band who have just self released their debut EP Microcosm . The EP is available for free download on their site . "Give and Take" is one of my favourite tracks from the EP. It's funky, soulful, rock induced, and a little jazzy at the same time. I love how lead singer Rachel Thomas' voice sounds in this track. She's very talented and I thought this track showed off her pipes in a great way. I have [...]
Most Likely To: seem overly dramatic, even to a Goth. Over the course of the two previous Editors albums, it was never quite clear if vocalist Tom Smith identified more with Ian Curtis' self-loathing or Ian McCulloch's loathing of everyone but himself. On the Birmingham band's third album, Smith makes his allegiance clear: the things he loathes more than himself and more than anyone else are common sense and restraint. Smith has always been just a tad over-the-top, but fittingly so fronting a band that took most of its cues from [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Best known as SNL's "The Beehive Queen", the flashy, gritty long-time featured vocalist with the Saturday Night Live Band, Christing Ohlman has wrapped up her first new album in nearly five years. The April 6 release, The Deep End will be out via the Music Group through Select-O-Hits and includes a stellar support team. Having earned herself the respect of many fellow artists over the years, Ohlman has been able to assemble an amazing group of them to pitch in on the new album, including - Marshall Crenshaw, Dion DiMucci and Ian Hunter [...]
You may remember that a while ago I blogged about Mustard Pimp compiling an astonishing 12 hour mix - well the sneaky French duo have now topped that with an epic 24 hour compilation mix made up of nearly every genre going! It's all in the honour of the new series of 24 which is about to start on Sky. I really didn't follow the last series, I tried but it's hard work. Seriously, how many times does Jack need to save the world? Jean Claude Van Damme wouldn't have had these issues, he'd simply kick [...]
Mustard Pimp have topped their 12 hour hercules mixtape with one which lasts a whole bloody day! Massive amount of music from many different genres, including hip-hop, rock and most dance sub-genres. Fucking nutters they are. Here's the link and the ridiculous tracklisiting. MUSTARD PIMP - JACK BAUER MIXTAPE Tracklisting down here! Hour 1 1)Mustard Pimp – Scissors (Intro Edit) 2)Boris Dlugosch – Bangkok 3)Sonicc [...]
Hour 1 1)Mustard Pimp – Scissors (Intro Edit) 2)Boris Dlugosch – Bangkok 3)Sonicc – Unicorns On Acid 4)Sonicc – Trolls On Acid (Beataucue Remix) 5)Malente Vs Azzido Da Bass – They're Killin It (Motor Remix) 6)Mvsevm – French Jeans (Style Of Eye Remix) 7)Schizophonics – 88 8)LA Riots – The Drop 9)Mustard Pimp – Kiwi (Gtronic Big Bass Remix) 10)Sound Of Stereo – Zipper (LA Riots Remix) 11)Mustard Pimp – Cherry (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix) 12)Timbaland – Morning After Dark (Mr Gaspar & Oliver Portamento Remix) 13)Magnvm – Bingo (NT89 Remix) 14)Hot Pink Delorean – Let's Go 15)Shinichi Osawa – [...]
Our crazy friends from France have done it again. This time they outdone anything we could ever think of. Mustard Pimp goes in the footstep of the popular tv-show 24 and produces a 24 h mixtape. It is crazy, but in a good way. The best thing is that you can enjoy them in the same way that you enjoy 24, hour for hour. Download the 24 episodes here (mediafire folder) Look at the 800+ tracklist after the jump. Hour 1 1)Mustard [...]
9th Annual SF SKetchfest Just a reminder that New York doesn't always have the lock on cool, the always amazing SF Sketchfest starts tonight ( Jan 14, 2010 ) and runs through Feb 2 . Some of the great shows and performers on the bill at this year's 9th Annual SF Sketchfest include: Tim & Eric, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Dave Foley, Dave (Gruber) Allen, Linda Cardellini, Scott Adsit, Fred Willard, John Hodgman, Ask A Ninja, Invite Them Up, The Red Wine Boys, [...]
I don't do product reviews. I don't do website or app reviews. I don't have any intention of being the next Stereophile, Engadget or Gizmodo. So if you ever catch me doing any more reviews in the future please email and complain. With that said what follows is my first attempt at doing a review of high end speakers. The combination of serendipity and coincidence that led me to these speakers and prompted me to do this review was too strong to ignore. See a couple of weeks ago [...]
1. Is This It The Strokes / RCA, Rough Trade / Gordon Raphael / 2001 2. Funeral Arcade Fire / Merge, Rough Trade / Arcade Fire / 2004 3. Turn On The Bright Lights Interpol / Matador / Gareth Jones, Peter Katis / 2002 4. Z [...]
TimTom: "There are two things that I really adore in this life. The first by far are people - I love nothing more than to meet and connect with other humans :) A very close second is my life long love of music. So as you can imagine, put these 2 things together and there's nothing more perfect for me to do other than to be a DJ. I fell in love with clubbing after a random night out with some mates from work. It soon transformed from going out into a way of life with the core of [...]
The most memorable event of the past decade is the day the Donnybrook Writing Academy opened its doors and began providing taste, culture and direction to a world wallowing in mediocrity. As the decade comes to an end, we feel obligated to enlighten the masses once again. We at the manor have put together the definitive best of the decade film list. Through science, trigonometry, and a little black magic, we have calculated the ten best films of the decade and have employed the brightest minds on the planet to share our findings. Enjoy the enlightenment. Honourable Mentions [...]
techno SHOW 87 - 26/12/09 teknology.free.fr Robert Hood - Who Taught You Math (Freak n' Chic) Memory Foundation - Bass Traveller ( Yore ) Juan Atkins - FFWD ( Tresor ) E-Dancer - Pump The Move 'Kenny Larkin Remix' ( KMS ) Karl O'Connor/Peter Sutton/Ian J.Richardson - Death Head Said (Downwards) Unknown - Untitled (Unreleased) Robert Hood - Untitled ( Duet ) Ben Klock - Subzero 'Sandwell District Remix' [...]
Last year we unveiled our very first " Loved and Loathed " list for 2008, so the 15 Best Albums of 2008 list has been pulled from that post and amended to reflect what albums we feel have stood the test of time. Although we loved all of our selections, there were some that we mistakenly overlooked. For a full recap of what mattered to us in '08 check out our list HERE and stay tuned for Best Albums of 2009 and Loved and Loathed in 2009 lists coming VERY soon! [...]
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