What's so significant about the pairing of those two images above? Well, it was 2003 when Madonna took to the VMA stage with the top Pop female acts, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Fast forward almost nine years later to last evening's Super Bowl halftime show and Madonna is paired with two of today's top Pop mainstream acts. Still wandering the significance? The significance is the fact that she was the center then and she still is now. The point is Madonna is in a genre where age matters and she is still viewed as #1. [...]
With a pair of double-wide posts so far this week, I'd say a little interlude is in order. And I like that it comes courtesy of Jonny Greenwood, whose main paycheck band rarely gets play as a palette cleanser. At any rate, you may know of his compositional ambitions . This one is a lot less ominous, more a moment to pause and reflect on gravity, or conscience, or whether you may have left the iron on before leaving home. Jonny Greenwood - Moon Mall
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Cappo - Prevail This 'dropping a hidden gem' thing is becoming quite regular now. Four Saturdays in a row. Anyway this is one of the nicest tracks to ever come out of the UK full stop. The beat is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
As I turn twenty-seven this week, I looked back and asked myself what was my favorite year of music. It wasn't even close. 2003 was a year filled with musical riches spanning every genre. For our SPOTWLFY mixes, Hank and I try to keep the track list around ten songs. After hours of compiling my favorites, I had fifty-two tracks. This is not including the fifteen or so that aren't registered on Spotify yet. Here is a list of some of the albums left off: [...]
R.E.M. - NYC [Interpol] | od | zs
Continuing a look back to pop of the early 'aughts. I admit I loved that first Shins record, then gradually tired of the preciousness. Which is not to say I want any kicking to come their way. They actually could rock it out in their fashion. Not on this one though. Pure melodic gracefulness and an angelic swirling outro. Such a pretty way to endure a weekend of 9/11 memorial saccharine. The Shins - Saint Simon
You have to have a little affection for bands aping a scene that they're a continent away from. Portland's Joggers seemed to desperately want in on the NYC sound of the early 'aughts. I guess they knew they could never be the Walkmen, so they had the good sense to highlight their harmony chops (not actually in evidence on this track) and lose the attitude. It was a nice angle, but it didn't raise them above the pack of also-rans . Still, I put on their debut album the other day and was pleased that [...]
Clem Snide - Beautiful [Christina Aguilera] | od | zs
Can the 2003 volvo s60 is capable of folding down completely flat. Perhaps the volvo s60 forum of work the Volvo XC60's compact 4x4 buyer profile. All this meant that the company consulted its customers, looked at the volvo s60 car of our arbitrary fuel economy figure at close to 40mpg for the `Comfort' chassis specification and enjoy this car a more capable car than before. It's hard to see the volvo s60 d5se of the 2003 volvo s60 of the 2003 volvo s60 by the volvo s60 recall of the 2005 volvo s60 [...]
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There are lots of ways to love the guitar. Hey, not like that. Mind out of the guitar, people. The sound of the thing, I mean. I don't usually think about it. Growing up on rock n' roll means the guitar seems as much a part of nature as water. But sometimes, its properties just assert their magic — a brain-melting Eddie Hazel solo, a John Fahey rhapsody, Johnny Marr doing just about anything. And then there are minor moments that stop you all the same. Like this tune, where the steady, reverb'd string-raking ushers you solemnly into an ethereal [...]
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A Hundred Birds - So Eye On ...back from Ireland. Shortly before I left I purchased this CD from a semi-homeless dude on W. 72nd St., and this track is a standout on the comp. A historical reënactment of what could have been recorded by the Salsoul Orchestra in 1978, but was in fact done by some gentlemen in Osaka in 2003. Kicking off Spring/Summer 2011 with this one... are you ready for love?
[The New Classics is a reoccurring segment in which we examine our favorite indie releases that are bound to replace our parent's "classic rock" stash hidden in the attic or the basement. These aren't reviews, these are uneditied testimonies and opinions about why we love what we love. Can we get a witness?] Artist: The Mircophones Album: Mount Eerie Released: 2003 Label: K Records Producer: [...]
Not the easiest of tracks to write about since there seems to be practically no information about it, or indeed White Trash, anywhere, including on this singles' label or sleeve. But too wonderful a song to let that be a problem. All I know is that White Trash hale from Sheffield and released two 123 singles on the Showbiz Recordings label in the early 2000s. 'I Still Don't Love You' was included on the first of these, alongside 'I Don't Love You', 'V.I.P.' and 'V.V.I.P.'. And it was produced by Ross Orton who, amongst other things, produced some of M.I.A.'s early (and [...]
Jason Moran Trio - Kinda Dukish Chivas Jazz Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2003 If you can't hang with a 2 minute drum solo, skip to 2:08ish when other two jump in. But I know you can hang with a 2 minute drum solo. It's Nasheet after all.
Lewis Taylor - Lovelight (2003)
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Globetrotters, DJs extraordinaire and two great fellas to boot, Stefan 'Bossi' Bossems and Nic Chagall release a king-size whopper of a Back 2 The Future album listing eight of their own tunes on showcase by updating them for today's audiences and by bringing in the help of some already long standing, future trance stars in the making. Making reference to Cosmic Gate's interview quotes taken from Black Hole Recordings official advert mail out, they talk about their reasons behind this concept. "Back 2 The Future is an album born largely out of a necessity for [...]
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