The Millipedes: Shake Your Bones Box sets are probably a bad financial deal in the last days of the music biz but a box is the perfect home for a collection of impressive 7" singles by the Millipedes. The pseudonymous band (guitarist "Rocking Oliver D'World" has a name of cryptic genius) is a veritable Steel City supergroup, comprising former members of the Long Blondes, Smokers Die Younger, Thee Motherfuckers and Velodrome 2000. [...]
Ironie du sort, j'ai entendu parlé de The Dodoz avant The Dodos . Dans les deux cas il m'a fallu un peu de temps avant de plonger dedans. Géraldine a une manière de chanter qui n'est pas sans rappeler les Long Blondes (R.i.p), malheureusement pas pour le meilleur, et comme pour ces derniers, il faut aller au delà du réflexe d'autodéfense "oulah ça sent les dents longues" et s'habituer à certains tics qui sont vraiment repoussant de prime abord. Ensuite on s'habitue à ces condensés d'idées de 3 minutes. Les musiciens [...]
Terrorbird at CMJ + Updated Schedule of Bands Free show! Free Red Bull Vodka! Free cupcakes! Wed 10/21 @ Cakeshop (152 Ludlow) 12-6pm 12:00-12:30 - DJ Caroline 12:30-1:00 Tempo No Tempo 1:20--1:50 - Turbo Fruits (Fat Possum) 2:10 -2:40 - Silver Starling (Last Gang) 3:00 - 3:30 - ZAZA (Kanine) 3:50-4:20 - Warpaint (Manimal) 4:40-5:10 - Darlings (Famous Class) 5:30-6:00 - Black Hollies (Ernest Jennings Rec. Co) [...]
Best Unofficial Day Show : Pop Tarts Suck Toasted's CMJ '09 Kickoff Party Where : Cake Shop When : 12pm - 7pm Cost : FREE Lineup : 12:30pm - Dinosaur Feathers , 1:30pm - Little Girls , 2:15pm - Sisters , 3:00pm - Motel Mote l , 3:30pm (upstairs) - Seth Kallen , 3:45pm - [...]
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 [...]
The Gossip Music For Men Columbia Records [2009] Fire Note Says: Glossy but still catchy in parts. Album Review: Music For Men is the Rick Rubin produced major label debut from indie darlings The Gossip. This is a band that has evolved since their Kill Rock Stars days of two minute bluesy garage punk in 2000 to the morphed dance rock you hear today. For longtime [...]
Words by Scott Curtis . When PMA asked me to create a mix for them I immediately started putting something together that was all encompassing, a mix to show what Living Ears was about in the past, the present and where I see the future of the site going. I put together a playlist that had just over 40 songs. As I started playing through it what quickly stood out was the number of incredibly strong tracks from the past 3 months or so that stood up to much of what I was pulling from [...]
Björn Kleinhenz may hail from Sweden, but Peter, Bjorn and John/Long Blondes-style pop isn't quite his game. Rather, if we must compare Kleinhenz to his countrymen, let's go with Jens Lekman and Loney, Dear. Both trade in soft-spoken quirkiness, although Kleinhenz doesn't go in for big production numbers the way Lekman does. With a few notable exceptions ("Bodilla" comes to mind), the whispery, strummy B.U.R.M.A. seems to owe more to American singer-songwriters like Mark Kozelek and Alex Chilton (at his quieter moments). English may not be Kleinhenz's first language, but he sure does have a way with words. [...]
Singles Singles Singles!!! Novelty record alert! But in a good way! The Drums from Brooklyn ride the indie pop wave with the highly hummable Let's Go Surfing which features a shimmering foot to the floor riff and the best bit of whistling since Peter Bjorn and John went all Rolf on us. Don't Be A Jerk, Johnny on its 7" flipside drops the pace a tad and has [...]
I've been spending a lot of time recently combing through Pitchfork's list of the top 500 songs of the decade, but one thing that has annoyed me is that I can't find a site that actually lists all 500 songs on one page. I'm tired of having to scroll through page after page. So, I'm doing it myself. Here's the complete list, republished merely as a reference. Go to www.pitchfork.com to see the full presentation with song reviews, artwork, and audio clips. 500. The Big Pink - "Velvet" 499. N.E.R.D. - "Run to the [...]
TUNE IN Today For Weakerthans, Depeche Mode, Paddy Casey, Cut Off Your Hands, Joy Formidable, Rachel Zamsteen, Nine Inch Nails, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Polyrock, Ghostcat, Ramones, Damnwells, Lissy Trullie, King Of France, Long Blondes, Datarock and 110 more!
In his 1990s heyday, Garth Brooks refused to release even his biggest songs, from "Friends in Low Places" to "Shameless," as singles. Sure, it pumped up his album sales. And mostly, he was following the Nashville convention at the time, wherein country hits were generally released only as noncommercial 45's for jukeboxes. But Brooks was no ordinary country act; he was the bestselling '90s act of any genre, period. If anyone could have sold truckloads of singles like a pop act, it would have been him. No, Brooks eschewed them, in part, to prove a point: in [...]
Time for another playlist and for my favorite show on TV. The Office is going on strong and really worked their storylines well without getting too ridiculous. I've become a huge Michael Scott fan as the seasons grow on, he isn't the total douche and not necessarily a complete idiot. I've had a few complaints from friends who don't like the show as much as previous seasons. The truth of the matter is that I think I enjoy the show more when I can watch it uninterrupted (on DVD) and over again. The Office [...]
Hair is controversial-whether you have it or not, how long or short it is, what color it is-it can identify your personality, genetics, your culture. Your employer can dictate how you wear it. Hair is considered so sensuous in some cultures that women must keep theirs covered to keep it from driving men wild. Blondes have more fun, and redheads have bad tempers. Check out Contrast Podcast # 181 for tuneful coverage on the subject of hair. My contribution was "Bad Hair Days" by Mikrofisch. Be sure [...]
In fact, here's more: TUNE IN Today For Long Blondes, Wintersleep, Damned, Gaslight Anthem, HTRK, Matt & Kim, Now Now Every Children, Brazilian Girls, Kasabian, Bombay Bicycle Club, Pat DiNizio, Dramarama, Cure, Hockey, Bat For Lashes, Project Jan Project Jenny and 110 more! (You know where to click. You don't? Try the top of the page...)
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Alex Palmer, awhile back did his Top 10 Sex Songs list . Not to offend another writer but the songs just never resonated with my choice of what a good sex song makes. Nonetheless, I'm an off-beat so I'd prefer to have sex with an indie soundtrack rather then trying to get my freak on with Sexy Back or some other song. I'm more of a fan of background music with rhythm. I don't like songs taking over the mood but rather one that doesn't disrupt it yet fits perfectly like peaceful noise. A LOT of indie [...]
Katsen Katsen are Chris Blackburn & Donna Grimaldi, an electronic pop duo from Sheffield. Their debut album It Hertz! is released by Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation, past purveyors of the Long Blondes, Monkey Swallowed the Universe and Smokers Die Younger, on 28 September. You can pre-order the CD immediately (it's dispatched about 2 weeks before the official launchdate) with an immediate download from a special site for £10: [...]
The fourth annual Brooklyn Book Festival will take place on September 13, 2009 at Borough Hall Plaza, Borough Hall Courtroom, St. Francis Auditorium and The Brooklyn Historical Society. This free event includes readings, discussions, and panels with such literary, comedic and musical luminaries as: Jonathan Ames, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Dominic Carter, David Cross, Jonathan Coulton, Edwidge Danticat, Lupe Fiasco, Mary Gaitskill, Ben Greenman, A.M. Homes, Siri Hustvedt, Naomi Klein, Chuck Klosterman, Jonathan Lethem, Leonard Lopate, Phillip Lopate, Norman Mailer, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Oliver Sacks, Melvin Van Peebles, Colson Whitehead and Mo [...]
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Friday Five: Surf Songs
