The story of Willis Earl Beal rise to professional musician status sounds more like an inspirational disney movie than reality. After working a number of odd jobs in Albuquerque, NM, Beal was discovered originally not for his music, but an intriguing letter left on city sidewalks in which he was seemingly looking for a female companion. In fact, the Chicago Reader's Leor Galil did a great job of describing his, I guess, humble beginnings to his move back to his hometown of Chicago and eventual arrival [...]
The Act of Estimating as Worthless drops a pretty worthwhile debut, comprised of sounds pioneered by some of indie folk's favorites: The Moldy Peaches, Neutral Milk Hotel, Smog, and the Microphones. WATCH THE REVIEW
Antsy Pants is a French anti-folk band featuring Kimya Dawson on lead vocals. The band contributed two songs to the soundtrack of Juno. They released their self-titled debut album on plan-it-x records in 2006. It is available here http://www.plan-it-x.org/artis t/antsy-pants-kimya-dawson-/ Antsy [...]
Á mánudaginn kemur út ný plata frá, að mati undirritaðs, merkilegasta söngvaskáldi dagsins í dag: fjöllistamanninum Jeffrey Lewis . Platan nefnist A Turn in the Dream-Songs og er fyrsta sóló-stúdíóplata Jeffreys síðan 'Em Are I kom út árið 2009. Við fyrstu hlustun virðist hljómurinn vera ósköp svipaður síðustu tveimur eða þremur plötum Lewis: áherslan er á fyrst og fremst á textana, upptökurnar eru nokkuð hráar og byggjast aðallega á akústískum hljóðfærum. Áhrifin frá hippaþjóðlagasýrutónlist eru áberandi líkt og á síðustu plötu. Það er því ólíklegt að skoðanir fólks á tónlist Lewis muni taka grundvallarbreytingum með [...]
"Psychedelic pastoralism" - that's how record label Critical Heights neatly summarises its new London charges Savaging Spires . The phrase is perfect: this is the music of crazed circuses careering down country lanes; of peaty cottages filled with firewood and dead bodies; of mistakes in muddy haystacks; of begrizzled farmers and questionable ancestries; and yes, of The Wicker Man. Theirs is a kind of spooked folk, witch house with cowbells. A debut album is due sometime this autumn. Bending The Rules Of Time by Savaging Spires Savaging Spires - Bending The Rules Of Time [...]
The Moldy Peaches were an anti-folk band composed of Adam Green , Kimya Dawson , Toby Goodshank , Steven Martens, Jack Dishel, and Strictly Beats. Disc one "Moldy Peaches in da House " "Answering Machine #1" "Answering Machine #2" "Nothing Came Out" (original recording) [...]
Hljómplatan Jukk með Prinspóló kemur út um gjörvallan heim föstudaginn 10. júní næstkomandi á geisladiski og vínylplötu á vegum Kimi Records . Þetta þýðir að plötuna má nálgast í öllum betri hljómplötuverslunum allstaðar í heiminum. Þetta er heimskuleg hugmynd," voru fyrstu viðbrögð listamannsins þegar hann frétti af framtakinu. Það er hægt að dánlóda plötunni frítt á prinspolo punktur com. Kaupum okkur frekar nammi fyrir peninginn," sagði prinsinn gramur í bragði. Aðstandendum útgáfunnar tókst þó að sannfæra prinsinn um ágæti hennar meðal annars með því að segja honum að á vínylplötunni sé að finna aukalagið 18 [...]
Following the widespread success of 'First Love', Emmy The Great has finally returned after a long, long two year wait with a poignant, cathartic record that follows the further development of a hugely important artist. Written in the aftermath of the widely circulated breakdown of her engagement -as her atheist partner left for a life of religious conversion- Emma-Lee Moss chronicles personal tragedy through allegory and euphemism, as the sombre and contemplative record retains a scarcely voiced optimism throughout, with the richly produced acoustics embellishing the album with the necessary sense of interiority and sobriety. Whilst 'First [...]
Genre: Anti-Freak-Psych-LoFi-Folk Label: dontrustheruin Does this cover artwork looks familiar to you? Yes it's made by the Big Blood family. Inspector 22 is Mr. Todd Wesley Emmert who recorded a bag of songs since 1997. All in best weirdo lo-fi home-recording manner. Some of them are just simple piano tunes backed with clanging percussions and the most are guitar based, filled with the sometime [ This is the summary, read the whole story on Website ]
Loksins er væntanleg sjöunda breiðskífa and-þýðu (en. anti-folk) tónlistarkonunnar Kimya Dawson , Thunder Thighs . Hún hefur ekki verið iðin við músikkolann frá því að hún sló gegn með tónlistinni úr óskarsverðlauna-myndinni Juno. Síðan þá hefur hún einbeitt sér að barnauppeldi og aðeins gefið út eina plötu, en það var einmitt barnaplatan Alpabutt sem kom út 2008. Thunder Thighs kemur út hjá útgáfufyrirtæki Calvins Johnsons K . Tvö lög eru komin á netið, "Walk Like Thunder" og "Miami Advice." Hún er á kunnulegum slóðum textalega: að venju syngur [...]
'I'm a creepster freakster, I don't need you either,' sings Richard Ringer on the title track of this strange little album, in a voice like a slightly pervier Jeffrey Lewis singing to you from the other end of a deserted tube station. The guitars are lo-fi and slightly crooked-sounding, as you'd expect from peculiar New York anti-folk, and it just gets more bizarre from here. Read more..
Two cool things happened this week: I got a job (well, two jobs really) and this little blog got recognized by some really cool people in the music blogging world. Well, this was a really lovely surprise! Love Shack, Baby has been made SoundCloud's Blog of the Week over on their Tumblr. I had exchanged a few emails with Michelle , describing how I used the free service and how bands had reached out to me with their music using SoundCloud. Little did I know that I was in the running for their Blog of the Week [...]
I give you.... thanks to Puppet Show for finding it! and here's two mp3s I found from a live show Yo Zushi did in London last Feburary, 2009, courtesy of MusicBorn which is a community of folks who tape live stuff. (these aren't mixed so you're getting just a live feed here.) Hallelujah I'm A Bum mp3 Seven Sleepers mp3
You know I love this Withered Hand guy, Dan Wilson. His album, Good News was my top pick for 2009 for many reasons, some sentimental... I sort of fell for someone to the sounds of this record and it will always remind me of him, and some purely rational... I think Dan's voice is beautiful and interesting and evocative and his songwriting topnotch. The things Dan writes about are everyday subjects that any of us who live in this post-industrial, alienated, anomic society can relate to, in other words, [...]
I generally like to have lots of kettles in the fire. I like to have new and exclusive songs arriving in my inbox at least on a weekly, if not daily, basis. But the summer doldrums have set in, as well as the fact that there are now so many music bloggers plying their trade. So I was happy to finally have the new song from the Ditty Bops arrive this morning. You may have heard of the Ditty Bops because of their numerous times on Grey's Anatomy, or for the press their bike [...]
Það að list hafi áhrif á mann er gríðarlega einstaklingsbundin tilfinning, tilfinning sem er sjaldnast studd rökum, a.m.k. ekki rökum sem eru sýnileg í fyrstu. Maður þarf að grafa djúpt í sálarlífið og undirmeðvitundina til þess að finna þessa strengi sem tengja mann listinni svo náið. Þess vegna getur það oft verið erfitt að útskýra fyrir öðrum hvað það er sem heillar mann við tiltekið verk, maður veit það varla sjálfur. Ég hef alltaf átt í erfiðleikum með að velja mér uppáhalds. Hvort sem það er litur, matur, staður, bíómynd eða tónlistarmaður. Það sem er í mestu uppáhaldi [...]
>> Adam Green @ Razzmatazz, Barcelone, 2 mars 2010 Il y a quelques années, après l'avoir vu une première fois en ouverture des Strokes un mois plus tôt, j'assistais au Scala à Londres au concert d' Adam Green . Ce concert reste encore aujourd'hui l'un des meilleurs auxquels j'ai assisté de toute ma vie. Mais qui est Adam Green ? Fils d'un grand neurologue, frère d'un astronome et petit-petit-fils d'une fiancée de Franz Kafka, Adam Green est un petit branleur de génie de la musique qui a commencé à 15 ans avec [...]
Funny, how it happens sometimes, isn't it? Not romance, silly - I mean discovering new music. I spotted Axel Loughrey 's name on an email shout-out from the Flowerpot, randomly* decided to listen to his stuff and now feel rather fond of his sullen, beefy folk-rock. Loughrey offers ambling, agonised songs about difficult girlfriends and, well, difficult girlfriends, lined with growly hooks and winsome harmonicas. I particularly like the sweeps of country sounds, the fact that Axel sounds about 40 years older than he actually is, and the utterly unexpected arrival of a female singer halfway into True Friend. [...]
The songs on Daniel Knox's new, yet unreleased record, Evryman For Himself remind me a bit of the vampire-rock-opera-for-puppets that Jason Segal's character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall was working on. Now I know that movie was a comedy and the music was intended to be funny yet I found it strangely compelling and so outside the mainstream that it was more refreshing than it was amusing. So the same can be said for the gothic cabaret stylings of Daniel Knox. "I Make Enemies" is a fine example of what I'm [...]
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