We've posted some new reviews. You can check them out below: A Wilhelm Scream - A Wilhelm Scream [12 inch] Kids Like Us - The Game This Time Next Year - Road Maps and Heart Attacks Lion of Judah - (Number-rology) [7 inch] Touché Amoré - ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse [12 inch] [...]
Lest any of you think my pining away this week for a real brick and mortar version of The Vinyl District was some Yoko Ono-like 'wish poem'...well, you're only partly right. Some interesting offers did come our way, although all best seized upon when the thing actually exists. But I don't need this to happen today or tomorrow. Or next week or next month. Longer range is fine. While I in fact hone the meter to that wish poem. [...]
Words: Jodi Root | Photo: Clayton Huack Maps and Atlases served as the perfect bait to lure me to my most (and quite frankly, only) anticipated field trip into Chicago's Lincoln Park – the city's newest venue, Lincoln Hall . While Maps & Atlases put on an incredible, entertaining set– thanks to Muzzle of Bees contributing Champaign writer Jon Stone, we already knew that . Instead of repeating his previous praise, I'd like instead to focus on the highlights (and there are many) [...]
It's not like we need another group with the word maps in their name, but Maps , from the UK, produce dreamy and driving electronica that soothes the soul and is well worth your listening time. Their latest effort, Turning The Mind , is an album full of soaring synths mixed with breathy vocals and dynamic melodies. Some songs, like Papercuts , have a barely there sound, while others, like Love Will Come and I Dream of Crystal have strong melodies and plenty of hooks. The two Maps [...]
( née today ) ( jbury ) ( ash lie ) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps (iTunes Originals) Enable Javascript to play audio content on this site. [...]
TomTom has released version 1.2 of its TomTom U.S. & Canada turn-by-turn navigation application, adding support for the iPod touch and original iPhone. The inclusion of iPod touch and iPhone support means the application can now be used on those devices when connected to third-party GPS solutions, such as the TomTom Car Kit . Other improvements include improved search and route summary screens, updated maps and points of interest databases, an updated IQ Routes database, Advanced Lane Guidance in both portrait and landscape modes, Text-to-speech in English, French, and [...]
Hey everyone, Nokia's giving away over $10,000 worth of vouchers for General Pants, Sportsgirl, Incu, Lucid Laundry as well as enough movie vouchers for you to see Twilight like 7 times. All you need to do is click here and register ! I know what you're thinking, nothing comes for free right? Well that's where you're wrong. Take it from us, people think competitions are impossible to win. They assume everyone else will enter when in reality no one does. Except this one guy who wins every competition because he knows no one else will enter. [...]
There's nothing quite like a good, old fashioned zombie apocalypse to force a disparate band of strangers to work together for their common survival. Building upon that foundation, Left 4 Dead 2 emerges as a bigger, more diverse and comprehensive package than the original. Left 4 Dead 2 follows the bloody struggle of four random strangers as they fend off an undead horde and a few new super-zombies. Over the course of five campaigns, a new cast of survivors treks from Savannah, Georgia, all the way to New Orleans, Louisiana. Armed with new melee weapons and a bigger [...]
By Jon Stone | @jwstone Over the weekend I saw three shows in Champaign-Urbana. Each show was a good show-great even. But wow, were they different experiences. This disparateness is one of the things that makes thinking and writing about music appealing: parsing through the musical experience looking for clues and connections of their quality with our resulting affinity. My goal here is to review each of these shows but also make a larger argument (that includes some theorizing-sorry: academic alert) about why it is we like the music we do and what [...]
"Ogni canzone è ancora così eccitante" Intervista ai Girls Ormai è un anno che seguiamo ogni passo dei Girls , da quando siamo stati travolti da quella gioia pura che è Lust For Life . Il loro debutto, Album , è uno dei miei dischi preferiti di questo 2009 ed è quindi con immenso piacere che pubblico qui l'intervista con il cantante Cristopher Owens realizzata per MAPS da Jonathan Clancy, che ringrazio. L'intervista andrà in onda oggi pomeriggio dalle [...]
Music brag NME has crowned The Strokes' debut album 'This is It' as the best album of the decade. As the naughties come to a close NME (and a long list of music experts) voted for what they thought are the best 100 albums of the decade. With the concluding list spanning artists from Jay-Z to Johnny Cash and a few unexpected ones in between. The New York rockers beat off the likes of Primal Scream's 'XTRMNR' and 'Up The Bracket' by The Libertines to take the holy grail. Mike Skinner must be [...]
Music brag NME has crowned The Strokes' debut album 'This is It' as the best album of the decade. If that isn't enough encouragement for the boys to get cracking with their next album release then I don't know what is. As the naughties come to a close NME (and a long list of music experts) voted for what they thought are the best 100 albums of the decade. With the concluding list spanning artists from Jay-Z to Johnny Cash and a few unexpected ones in between. The New York rockers beat off the [...]
¡Carlos, I'm Pregnant! , "Etta James" Yeah, I realize that I live about 750 miles away from this show (thanks, Google Maps!), but I wanted to post the flyer for those of you back in the DC/Virginia area. As you might know, I'm a huge fan of ¡Carlos, I'm Pregnant! , and the fact that I don't live near them anymore doesn't change that. So if you happen to live, oh, let's say at least 90% closer to Fredericksburg than I [...]
Welcome to the new, not-really-improved BabyStew This Week In Chicago listing. What's new about it, you ask? Absolutely nothing, except that it now covers the week from Monday through Sunday rather than Sunday through Saturday. It always seemed weird to me not to be listing Sunday shows until the morning of – when not many people are reading blogs – for the sole purpose of sticking with the conventional definition of "week" ( i.e. , Sun-Sat). But convention be damned. So here's what's going on in Chicago this "week". [...]
Here are the Wisconsin and Illinois shows we recommend you take in this week. Check them out below and let us know which ones you'll be attending or ones you think should really make our list . Upcoming Wisconsin Shows: 11/17 - Bruce Hornsby - Northern Lights Theater, Milwaukee 11/18 - Brendan Benson + Cory Chisel - Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee 11/19 - Surgeons In Heat + Jason Mohr (Juniper Tar - Sugar Maple, Milwaukee [...]
Maps: Turning the Mind (Mute)release: October 20, 2009style: celestial electronic popsimilar: M83, Project Skyward[rating: ***] The follow up to the debut We Can Create, Maps' Turning the Mind makes the obligatory leap in production from bedroom recording to studio, with Tim Holmes of Death in Vegas turning the knobs. While it doesn't have the same breathtaking effect of Create, this is a calm
The twenty-first episode of the pmaCAST is here. The new episode runs a little bit over an hour and fifteen minutes and features some of my favorite songs of the moment. I'm pretty confident that you all will like this one. There are two ways I want you guys to get the pmaCAST: the easiest way is to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes , for free of course. Every time I upload a new episode onto iTunes, it will automatically download onto your computer. The version of the episodes found on iTunes are enhanced with chapters [...]
Dysrhythmia has posted a series of photos online from their recent U.S. tour dates in support of their latest album "Psychic Maps." The photographs, and a tour blog, can be found at this location. Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
Every Friday we bring you our weekly batch of uploads. Download all the songs that went up the week of 11/9-11/13 right here, right now. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [ [...]
Seeing everything else RJD2 has planned for the weeks ahead , it's only appropriate that the Pennsylvania based musician has announced plans what is being billed as a "colossal" tour. Beginning on January 9th, RJD2, complete with full band, will embark on the North American adventure beginning January 9th in Washington, D.C. A road trip for the next two month follows, with more dates yet-to-be-announced. Tickets go on sale beginning tomorrow, November 13th, via Ticketmaster.com . In other news, the latest item up for grabs in RJD2's weekly "Monday Madness" is a [...]
no saturday is complete without beach house, and perhaps a bit of rain. Volcano Choir - Island, IS Beach House - Used To Be [...]More about Beach House
Lady GaGa and Beyonce Knowles' hook-up in an electro dance track called "Telephone" has hit the web. "Telephone" is not the only collaborative project between [...]More about Lady GaGa
Oh. Shit. New Vampire Weekend! For a 2 and a half minute song, this one packs a punch with that "A-Punk" style energy (fun yelling included!) I've [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Beck had completed the second album from his Records Club collection: "The Songs of Leonard Cohen." This time around the group included Devendra Banhart; Ben, Andrew and [...]More about Beck
This was my wallpaper this month. I used some website to make a “mosaic” of classic/simple album covers. (Although MPP and London Calling could be considered [...]More about Animal Collective
For two reasons I'm always happy to find emails from James aka Death To The Throne in my inbox: First, his remixes are always excellent and [...]More about The xx
A Bailar! Después de una serie de posts llenos de sonidos y ritmos que invitan a bailar a las neuronas y agudizan los oidos, toca [...]More about Beyonce
You know. DJ tags on this unfinished joint and no real information on where the song came from, but I got Gaga & Beyonce, then Rihanna, why [...]More about Kanye West
Another track from Lil Wayne’s mixtape No Ceilings which is scheduled to be released on Halloween. Here Lil Wayne raps over the No Id produced beat [...]More about Lil' Wayne
Passion Pit just released an out of this world video for their track 'Little Secrets' one of their catchiest tracks off their [...]More about Passion Pit
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