[It's Bjork's birthday on Saturday, celebrate appropriately. Here's my late-arriving weekend rundown:] Tonight: Alan Palomo's Neon Indian [pictured; download below] brings its multimedia synthscapes to the Echoplex for a night of cool electro that includes Keenhouse , Tigercity and Little Red Radio . ... Julian Casablancas hits downtown's Palace Theatre for Week 3 of his residency. ... Party guys Iglu & Hartly try to build on their U.K. buzz with a show in their home city at [...]
Drums Play Spaceland Monday Night (and It's Free) Ray Davies put on a fantastic show on Saturday night at the Orpheum. If you get a chance to see him on this tour do not hesitate. More on that later. Another great week this week. If you're into buzz bands you might want to check out Drums tonight, The Big Pink on Wednesday, Tape Deck Mountain on Thursday, Neon Indian on Friday and The XX on Saturday. Some of those will be good, but I'm recommending a variety of [...]
Erin McKeown Reaches #1 on Amazon.com! Featured on WXPN's World Café and WNYC's Soundcheck Watch "making of" video After just five days on Amazon.com's Top 100 Chart , Erin McKeown 's latest album, 'Hundreds of Lions,' peaked at #1 on the Bestseller MP3 Album Chart . 'Hundreds of Lions', released October 13 on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records , "truly shines," hails Paste Magazine. The accomplishment is the [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2008-11-11, Boston [mp3,ogg,flac] "Always a Friend" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Back Forty : 2009-10-31, Ypsilanti [mp3,ogg,flac] "Thriller (Michael Jackson cover)" [mp3] other Back Forty posts at Largehearted Boy Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-10-31, Bloomington [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
MUST-SEE SHOW: 11/23 Jay Reatard @ Brillobox This is worth going to if only to see what all the fuss is about. I've been reading about this guy nonstop over the past couple years, but for some reason, I thought he was a teenager. Turns out he's 29. A few weeks ago he tweeted that his entire band quit on him. Hopefully they'll have their shit together by the time the Brillobox show rolls around. ALSO WORTH ATTENDING: 11/4 OK Go @ Mr. Small's [...]
You probably never expected to see the Polaris Prize winning band Fucked Up and actor Tim Robbins in the same headline. But thanks to similar ventures, in the form of their own personal music festivals, that fantasy has now become a reality. From October 26-31, Fucked Up will take to venues across Toronto for the awesomely titled Fucked Up Weekend 2009. Among those scheduled to take part include Little Girls, Cro-Mags, The Rival Mob, Free Spirit, Burning Love, and The Bang Bangs, and of course Fucked Up will play two sets during [...]
last night i got to see my pal jill sobule play with the lovely & talented erin mckeown , whose new album hundreds of lions was just released yesterday. if you like these songs, buy it here ! a few of my favorites : erin mckeown // you, sailor erin mckeown // the foxes erin mckeown // (put the fun back in) the funeral [...]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Daniel Johnston at Highline Ballroom Built To Spill at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Bklyn Raveonettes and Black Angles at Webster Hall Regina Spektor and Jupiter One at Radio City Music Hall Nick Lowe at City Winery Zap Mama at Hiro Ballroom Chris Barron & friends at Sullivan Hall [...]
Long before Katy Parry came to the air waves, Jill Sobule was the one experimenting and kissing girls. In fact, in August, Jill ripped into Katy for borrowing her title . As an MTV kid in the early 90s, I loved Sobule's cutesy ode to experimentation. Granted, I haven't kept up with her since then and have apparently missed albums 3-8, the most recent released earlier this year (and to generally quite positive reviews). With Jill comes Erin McKeown . The jazzy cabaret/rock/swing/folkster has toured with Andrew Bird, Ani DiFranco, Josh Ritter, and released her [...]
Erin McKeown is bringing her eclectic, genre-mashing, and always intriguing touch back to a world of music in continuous need of said qualities. To get audiences riled up, she's shared "The Foxes," a catchy little diddy about cunning and superficial lovers (the aforementioned title characters) and their victims. Interestingly, these affairs end up teaching the victims that they have recovered from previous heartbreaks. At least, I think that's what it's about. Seriously, deciphering phrases like "the bed of trundle is done" makes my head hurt. I was never good at poetry. [...]
Described by Billboard Magazine as "irresistibly entertaining," Erin is hitting the road on an extensive fall tour with Jill Sobule. Currently the 4th most added on AAA radio, Erin is thrilled to engage fans with a Twitter radio contest. Before each appearance, she will tweet a word or phrase on her Twitter page. The first [...]
MUSIC NEWS - NYC's WFUV-FM has announced their latest CD release, FUV Live 12 ! And, as expected, it includes artists from a variety of genres and eras. The station's newest compilation of exclusive live in-studio performances recorded at New York City radio station WFUV (90.7 FM, wfuv.org) in the last year. The release takes us accross the musical universe from Elvis Perkins to John Doe & Kathleen Edwards, Nikka Costa to The Pretenders and Raphael Saadiq to Richie Havens, the CD features 20 songs [...]
dear loyal readers of tradehooks my gf sent me a link to a website the other day proclaiming that the most dangerous way homosexuality invades the family is through popular music. DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS!!!! Jay-Z, promoting homosexuality direct quote from love god's way "We've taken the time to highlight the bands that are particularly Gay. Please take the time and dissect your child's CD / iTunes catalog. If you find [...]
As Charlotte Pop Fest runs into this weekend I wanted to let readers note that Saturday (9/26) morning and afternoon shows on the Main Stage at Freedom Park are FREE. On hand are The Parallax Project, Tony Low, The Singles and other favorite artists. And if you're stuck at home, you could do yourself a favor and get the Compilation CD. It's a massive pile of 35 great tracks. The starting point is a NEW Smithereens track, "Someday Boy" and then The Spongetones "Lost Weekend" pulled from their latest album. Although Roger J. Manning Jr. wasn't able to make the [...]
hatte ich ja versprochen. ein paar worte zu julie peel. am 22.09. erschien "near the sun", ihr erstes full length. dabei ist sie keine unbekannte, hat an diversen projekten mitgewirkt und sich auch in brooklyn, neben montreal mittlerweile wahlheimat, einen namen gemacht. erschienen ist das 12 track werk der in frankreich geborenen auf american laundromat records . dort, wo auch ihre beiträge für das the cure tribute ("just like heaven") oder jenes für die pixies ("dig for fire") oder neil young ("cinnamon girl") erschienen sind. sie muss (vielleicht gar nicht so) gern vergleiche mit aimee mann [...]
Featuring: 1 Crazy In Love The Puppini Sisters The Rise And Fall Of Ruby Woo Orig. Beyonce 2 Independent Woman Elbow BBC Radio 1 session Orig. Destiny's Child 3 [...]
Trevor is getting unanimous critical praise, and will be heading to NY for CMJ week after Portland shows with Jill Sobule, Cass McCombs, Papercuts, and Richard Bruckner. Since the July 21 release of Trevor Giuliani's debut LP, Subcontrario (in Stereo), the rookie singer is getting love from college radio stations across the country. Subcontrario climbed immediately to #65 in the Top 200 with r...
A Summary & Commentary - Forrester Research has released an aggressive road map of changes that analyst Mark Mulligan says are "necessary to save the music industry from the current Media Meltdown it finds itself in. The CD is dying, the 99 cent download model clearly isn't enough (nor is live), and ad supported and subsidized models all have much distance to go". "a continual artist-fan relationship" The challenge is to make people willing to pay for music again and Forrester suggests that part of the answer [...]
"Almost and Always" is David Mead's fifth full-length release. His most intimate work to date, the album examines life after marriage and the promise of things to come. Mead collaborated with producer Brad Jones (Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Jill Sobule, Butterfly Boucher, Over The Rhine, Josh Rouse, White Light Motorcade) and new songwriting partner Bill DeMain (Swan Dive) to create a quiet, soulful collection that sets 21st century pop songs in classic arrangements that recall Harry Nilsson, Paul Anka and Harry Belafonte. As always, Mead's honeyed voice is front and [...]
"Almost and Always" is David Mead's fifth full-length release. His most intimate work to date, the album examines life after marriage and the promise of things to come. Mead collaborated with producer Brad Jones (Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Jill Sobule, Butterfly Boucher, Over The Rhine, Josh Rouse, White Light Motorcade) and new songwriting partner Bill DeMain (Swan Dive) to create a quiet, soulful collection that sets 21st century pop songs in classic arrangements that recall Harry Nilsson, Paul Anka and Harry Belafonte. As always, Mead's honeyed voice is front and [...]
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Bobby B's Top 50 Albums Of The Decade (#25-21)
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