Mark Seliger Apologies for going for the low-hanging fruit with this one, but I don't have the time or energy to squeeze out something more interesting. So you get this. And pro tip: providing a current photo with credit really goes a long way towards leading off a post. Anyways, The Rolling Stones - perhaps you've heard of them - finally announced their long-rumoured, basically inevitable 50th anniversary North American tour yesterday, and while it's only nine dates long, at least for now, Toronto makes the cut - the Stones will be [...]
![[News] Governors Ball 2013 Announces Full Lineup, and It's Awesome](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4735337_lg.jpg)
The Governors Ball Music Festival , which takes place every June on Randall's Island in NYC, has announced the lineup for the 2013 festival, and it's absolutely awesome. With headliners like Kanye West and Kings of Leon, the lineup goes from "meh" to "holy crap" very quickly. Continuing the awesomeness are Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Beach House, Grizzly Bear, The xx, Cut Copy, Animal Collective, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Bloc Party, Local Natives, Crystal Castles, Dirty Projectors, Holy Ghost!, Death From Above 1979, Japandroids, and so many more. Of note, there's one name that is blacked out, which we're [...]
I had a great time at the Governors Ball last year. With the 2013 lineup announcement, it seems like the festival is growing a lot bigger. Not only is there another day added (June 7,8,9) but the quality and size of the artists particiapting this year seem to be on an all-around grander scale. Headliners include Kanye West, Kings Of Leon and a secret guest that will be announced later. Also playing are Nas, Grizzly Bear, The xx, Kendrick Lamar, Beach House, Cut Copy, Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Bloc Party, Beirut, Local Natives, Death From Above 1979, [...]
I saw a lot of great shows in 2012, from all the great shows in NYC during CMJ, from my trip to Bonnaroo, and my duel visits to Chicago for Lollapalooza/Pitchfork. I saw many bands both big in small in a wide variety of venues, and made many good memories along the way. When it came down to it, these shows were my absolute favorite concert moments of the year: 1. Radiohead @ Bonnaroo (June 8, 2012) 2. My Morning Jacket @ The Capitol Theatre (December [...]
The Middle East - Pig Food Three meals that were eaten at least once a week, throughout the year after I discovered that they existed, as I desired to sit bloated and content in the sun, slowly recovering from a hangover. 3. The BLT - with a smudge of avocado - sandwich on Turkish bread from Newscaf , Newtown. Mammoth and messy, it smears green and drips red. Swine strips on your tongue. Terrible for [...]
It's that time at last! Triple J Hottest 100 voting has opened. For those that don't let their musical intelligence be insulted by Triple J, this year promises to be another hard slog at getting those 10 tracks perfectly right, so that you can just tick them off as they come up one by one on the 26th January. Well... at least that's what it used to be like. It's been only 10 years ago now, that Queens of the Stone Age held the number 1 spot with their mental track "No One Knows", and only five years [...]
Frank Yang It's really a travesty that Neil Halstead's isn't venerated as a musical trailblazer. This is, after all, a man whose work in Slowdive was groundbreaking for both the shoegazing and ambient electronic genres and who created some of the finest alt.country moments from the UK via Mojave 3 , the say nothing of the increasingly deep catalog of works under his own name, most recently with Palindrome Hunches . And yet for the recognition that he should but mostly does not get, he seemed perfectly content [...]
Clash When you're a couple years on from your last album and still a calendar year off from your next, yet you want a pretence to stage a North American tour, what do you do? If you're Frightened Rabbit , whose Winter Of Mixed Drinks was back in 2010 and major label debut isn't due out until early 2013, you put together five-song EP of new songs, call it State Hospital , release it on vinyl and digital only - because the kids love [...]
Sabe o que que dá ficar quase um mês sem postar remixes aqui no blog? Um acúmulo de remixes. E pela matemática, se o número de escolhas aumenta, chances são que a qualidade final do produto será mais alta do que outras com poucas escolhes. Pois bem, teorias e números a parte, estamos felizes em trazer o resultado desse acúmulo de posts na 48º versão do nosso Friday Mixes , dessa vez também todo mixado pelo nosso querido DJ Amplis de forma profissional em uma mixtape perfeita para a véspera de feriado, final de semana ou para [...]
Andy White Okay not the whole internet - Obama's AMA probably did more to clog those tubes yesterday - but for a certain demographic, an interview Neil Halstead gave to MTV Hive certainly registered as a major event. Not because Neil doesn't talk - he's got a new solo record in Palindrome Hunches coming out on September 11, of course he's talking - but because he addressed the topic of a potential Slowdive reunion not with denials or dismissals, but with a [...]
Facebook Let it never be said that The Joy Formidable are lacking in work ethic. Having toured endlessly and constantly behind their 2011 debut A Balloon Called Moaning as late as the end of April this year - they hit Toronto alone four times in the preceding two years - it's an understatement to say that the Welsh trio were due a break. But instead they headed straight back into the studio, put lie to the old adage that you have a lifetime to write your first record and a [...]
It can be tough to keep up with the constant onslaught of music and many times tough to discern the good from the bad. While this list is by no means a complete listing of all of the great stuff arriving in the coming Fall months, we open this to be a forum of what you think is worth listening to this fall in the comments below. That said, here are twelve albums we're really looking forward to (in no particular order) - album art included: Pinback [...]
Stacey Hatfield As performing names go, Daughter certainly exists pretty far on the "not very" end of the Google-ability scale, but they're worth the effort. Originally a pseudonym for London's Elena Tonra, its scope eventually expanded to include guitarist Igor Haefeli and now, with drummer Remi Aguilella in the fold, represents the trio and is a proper band - one whose dark, quietly dramatic, atmospheric folk turned out to be one of the highlights of this year's SXSW . Considering that hot on the heels of their festival appearances came the word that [...]
Frank Yang The arc around The xx's 2009 debut xx was a narratively perfect one, rich with mystery, sex, and drama as the London trio vaulted from obscurity to Mercury and, most prestigiously, a place on my year-end list . And perhaps most crucially for a perfect story, they ended. Or at least went away for a while. Real life differs from stories, however, in that it generally doesn't let you just ride off into the sunset, and so after some deserved downtime [...]
So we're coming in to the back end of the year and it's absolutely insane how much fresh new music is about to be released. It is mental. In light of that, we thought we'd get some buzz going for some of the albums we're particularly hanging out for! Here's what our research has yielded so far! (ordered by date of release) The Killers - Battle Born - July 11, 2012 The Antlers - Undersea - July 24, 2012 Passion Pit - Gossimer - July 24, [...]
Hands Up Who Cares , our monthly club night, is back next friday (21st of May) at The Library in Islington. We’ll be spinning tunes by Crystal Castles, TV on the Radio, WHY?, Foals, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Two Door Cinema Club, The XX and loads more Cougar favourites. Entry is free to everybody registered as ‘attending’ on the [...]
![[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week – April 26th](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2504480_lg.jpg)
If you're unaware of what Music Monday is, it's a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too. Using the hashtag (#) followed by "MusicMonday" you can easily find new music posted by the thousands of people making recommendations each week. Every #MusicMonday I upload a playlist of 20 songs that I've been listening to (new and old) over the [...]
![Remix Roundup Vol. 20 – 4.16.10 [Bloc Party, Tegan & Sara, Neon Indian, Brahms...]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2482053_lg.jpg)
Some real gems up in here. A couple ass-shakers, mood setters, and a trifecta of hip-hop sampling mashups to round things out. Get in! For more jams or by any of these artists use the ‘tags’ links at the bottom of the post! ♫ Marmaduke Duke - Kid Gloves (Electrically Charged Boy remix) / It's this remix that inspired me to track down Marmaduke Duke's jams and if you're listening then you know why. I can't stop grooving to this funked out re-do of the mellow original. It's still [...]
1. Foals- Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimble Remix)2. Rainbow Arabia- Kabukimono (Pictureplane Negative Slave Remix)3. The xx- Islands (CHLLNG Remix)4. Tunng- Hustle (Blog Party Remix)5. White Panda- Tipsy In the Sun (J-Kwon / Weezer Mashup)
It has been a full year since the BOTR series graced this humble page. And I do apologize. I apologize. But it is far better to apologize than to eulogize. And in the end it is far better to actually post music than to take months off (sorry mates, but deadlines at work and real life adventures are simply dominating my time). I started this series, and the BOTM series, because in my previous life I had much more free time than anyone else on the face of the planet. Literally. Well since then I landed a fairly [...]
Chromewaves
Some Kind of Awesome
We All Want Someone To Shout For
TUNE THE PROLETARIAT
Scenewave.com
Oh My Rock
Music Under Fire
Cougar Microbes
Listen Before You Buy
The Burning Ear
The Needle Drop
The World Forgot
The National – Graceless
Weekly Mix Vol. I
