The Orchard is 15 years old! We've been on quite a ride since 1997, when things like Google, the iPod, YouTube, music hack days and Facebook didn't exist. (Can't wait to see what the next 15 years will bring.) So, in honor of this birthday, the community of businesses and ...
Now, hear me out. I'm a Falcons fan but we went down like chumps today. We didn't even kick and scream. We just rolled over. The Broncos and Tebow though…they played like men. They also beat my most hated team the Pittsburgh Steelers. So watch this mashup by DJ Porter of Skip Bayless (and various other sports and entertainment personalities) called "All He Does Is Win". In honor of Tebow Time, I'm posting this up.
Tweet Carousels aren't exactly known for a strong association with great music, unless of course you're a fan of barrel organs playing waltzes. I'm not. Other than kinetosis, they conjure up thoughts of Logan's Run and American Gods - not bad, but again not necessarily all that relevant to auditory joy. Carrousel ( sic - they spell it French-style) do at times lapse into a touch of "Oom-Pah-Pah" 6/8, but it's done with folky charm rather than fairground shtick. [...]
In anticipation of their upcoming tour together, Jon Dwyer's Thee Oh Sees will be releasing a split with Total Control on Dwyer's own Castle Face Records . A handful may still be available on half easter egg yellow, half ultra clear vinyl, available from the label, but black vinyl is available for sure from Midheaven for $13. Check out an older version of "Blood In Your Ear" by Thee Oh Sees below, a re-recorded version appears on the split. 15 - Thee Oh Sees - [...]
Maîtres incontestés des platines, Thee Mike B et Sammy Bananas se sont levés tôt le jour de leur anniversaire pour courir au studio et nous pondre une poignée de tracks disco à souhait. Réunis sous le nom de Fifteenth (qui est le jour de leur anniversaire), les deux compères nous transmettent leur énergie débordante à travers un EP, 15 , sorti aujourd'hui sur le label Fool's Gold et apparemment ce n'est que l'début ! Fifteenth - [...]
Why? To help decorate a library and Internet Learning Center in Loita, Kenya. I ran into this guy at The Belgian Room in the Lower East Side last week. He was the first guy I've met—in any city—whose paper cup pleaded for bottle caps instead of cash. It's all part of a larger effort, but in short the women of the Maasai tribe, who are known for their intricate bead work, will be using the bottle caps to create designs that will make this new building a piece of cultural art as well as a place [...]
That last post was written in a bit of a rush because I was on holiday. I've got some general thoughts about writing about music to post here (mainly about how I used to want to be a music writer/'journalist' as a job one day but I don't any more). I think the freedom of blogging has played a big part in that which is great. I'll try to keep that post interesting. I've also got lots of pictures of America to post (I've been here for a week and obviously my hair has turned blonde and my head is [...]
¿¡Q-VO, CULEROS?! Te gustan EL MOSH?! Pienso que sí! Escuchame si te quiero EL MOSH tambien!!! As you can tell from my terrible Spanish, I'm just a dumb güero who can barely tell a tamale from a taqueria. I might not be the master of foreign languages, but I do know that Latinos always been [...]
The Vibe Collective – Feel The Vibe Show #15 [Right Click/Save As To Download] As usual a sultry blend of Deep Soul/Jazz vibes from the fresh to the classic. Make sure you add Feel the Vibe on Facebook to follow all the news and updates, from Will and the crew. We post every week, the [...]
We interviewed Italian mentalist disco duo Fare Soldi , as you will go on and read below it's like that Frost/Nixon movie. But with much sexier consequences and no Kevin Bacon. They also did us a downright amazing mixtape!! Woo!!! ♥♥♥ FARE SOLDI presents Capri Sonne Mix 2010 ♥♥♥ ★★ ★ Crafted with love for http://www.toomanysebastians.n et (THATS US!!) ★★★ Fare Soldi - Capri Sonne 2010 [ Alt.Download ] (Tracklisting in comments!) [...]
"SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A Southern California mother whose two children were reported missing 15 years ago has tracked them down in Florida using Facebook. The children's father, Faustino Utrera, took off with them in 1995 when they were ages 2 and 3, said San Bernardino Deputy District Attorney Kurt Rowley. The mother had found her daughter's Facebook profile after searching for her name on the social networking site in March, Rowley said. An official said Saturday that the now 17-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy have been placed [...]
Off Modern is disappearing yet again for the summer and to send off one of the best night's in South London their moving to Friday night and presenting us with a fountain of brilliant music and art. This month includes tunage from the awesome lunar electronic dance outfit Teeth & the hypnotic beat factory Phantom proving as always Off Modern is a night on the tiles not to be missed. Along with the main events the night also holds strong with DJ sets from the brilliant Is Tropical, Zarcorp (Late of the Pier), The Boogaloo Crew, [...]
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○●●●● DO YOU like musicals? Are you a fan of John Barrowman? No, I'm not questioning anybody's sexuality, the reason I ask is 'entertainer' John Barrowman 's self-titled new album sees the 'personality' covering a selection of songs from the shows. There are covers of tracks from Copacabana, Cats, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia! and more - although the only cover I'd like to see here is the final curtain fall. Because these overproduced, pointless recordings are so cheesy they should come with a warning for the lactose intolerent - you can visualise Barrowman's smug face churning these [...]
○●●●● I TAKE exception to experimental Brooklyn six-piece Excepter 's new album, Presidence . Imagine if Animal Collective were a collective solely of mutilated, suffering animals... Opening track in earnest "The Anti-Noah" is 10 minutes-plus of nothingness, Teleportation: KAL is like someone having a mental breakdown while trapped inside the workings of a traction engine, while the weeping and wailing of Teleportation: GOL is how I imagine purgatory sounds. Only occasionally does music break out - such as the unnerving When You Call . Now if you're [...]
○●●●● THE revered experimental psychedelic indie act Animal Collective - the band behind one of 2009's most critically acclaimed albums, Merriweather Post Pavilion - re-release their 2003 album Campfire Songs next week. Whoopee, right? Well, not really. I know I risk the wrath of many, many people with this, but Animal Collective's releases are, collectively, a load of rubbish. Over the course of Campfire Songs ' five tracks and 40-plus minutes, I counted two songs, at a push. It sounds like, and for the most part is, the sound of a [...]
Notice how the didn't use the "Dreamlover" video when the song came on but instead opted for the "It's Like That" video to keep things current and happening. As Mariah is one of our favorite creatures on earth, she is not one of our favorite live acts we have to say. Not because she can't deliver, because she just stands there and makes it hotter than a thousand Madonna backflips. But, it's because Mariah's shows are very single-heavy and rarely different. This time, the only nice addition would have to be "Subtle Invitation," which we love! Posted in Beats, [...]
○●●●● SHE'S a celebrity? Get out of here. Topless model-turned-singer-turned-rea lity TV contestant Samantha Fox probably hoped to capitalise on renewed interest off the back of her visit to the Australian jungle. But this compilation is a lot like her fleeting appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here - there's about five minutes of retro kitsch appeal before it all gets grating. That five minutes is of course her biggest hit Touch Me (I Want Your Body) - which is followed by an onslaught of dire '80s pop-by-numbers that just gets worse [...]
○●●●● AFTER listening to Next We Bring You The Fire , I have a sign for Signer - a stop sign. Maybe even a rude hand gesture as well. Because the 10-track synthesizer extravaganza from electronic New Zealand artist Signer, real name Bevan Smith, is a self-indulgent waste of time. It's pretty much the sound of a man mumbling in soft tones while pressing down too many keys at once on his organ - half of the time without the saving grace of a beat. But if you think this is [...]
○●●●● IF LOVE On An Oil Rig is anything to go by, I won't be applying for membership to Victorian English Gentlemens Club anytime soon. Because the album, the Welsh three-piece group's second, is like an in-joke that I just don't understand. It's deliberately obtuse but not funny, and the punk indie rock music on show is wonky to the point of being unlistenable, with only The Venereal Game actually passable as a standalone track. Even the band's name, with it's missing apostrophe, gets my dander up. One is not amused.
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St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video)
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