So we now know who is to play the apex of the Pyramid Stage across the three nights; who is to enrapture the newfangled dance hamlet, Silver Hayes; and who is to promenade The Park (inevitably eye-popping special guests aside, for which my money's on Atoms for Peace ) during this year's edition of The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts . Though the best element of this year's line up thus far? No, it's not the fact that The Rolling Stones are to start us up come the Saturday night as so many so optimistically [...]
It was around a quarter to seven last night that, before an impatient if well lubricated congregation in a Maida Vale studio, an astonishingly unperturbed Melvin Benn sat propped up on a BBC stool brandishing a wry smirk and a boyish glint in each eye. Vastly magnified by his convex lenses, he exuded a palpable confidence right there and then that was not only immediately apparent, but so too quite robustly founded. For Latitude last year arose to the challenge of installing itself among Britain's great festival elite – a task prompted by the drastic [...]
Steve Mason performs at the launch at BBC Maida Vale Studios By Matt Jones So the lovely people at BBC Radio 6 Music , who are playing a huge part in organising Latitude Festival 2013 (with their own stage to prove it), invited us down to the festival launch event last night - and boy, oh boy does it look exciting. Top of the bill stand Kraftwerk , fresh out of their Tate Modern audiovisual spectacular, who will be performing the best [...]
Steve Mason performs at the launch at BBC Maida Vale Studios By Matt Jones So the lovely people at BBC Radio 6 Music , who are playing a huge part in organising Latitude Festival 2013 (with their own stage to prove it), invited us down to the festival launch event last night - and boy, oh boy does it look exciting. Top of the bill stand Kraftwerk , fresh out of their Tate Modern audiovisual spectacular, who will be performing the best [...]
50. Spector - Enjoy It While It Lasts 49. Ceremony - Zoo 48. Jeremih - Late Nights 47. Rah Rah - The Poet's Dead 46. Yeasayer - Fragrant World [...]
We're lucky enough here at The Wounded Jukebox to have friends and old confidants willing to send us their thoughts on the fortunate occasion. You might have seen their names at the bottom of some posts throughout the year. They live all over the United States, but we've wrangled their lists of the best and [...]
2012...what a year of music. We got new releases from favorites such as Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear and heard new favorites in Father John Misty, Nude Beach, Tanlines, and more. Last year Earbuddy celebrated one year of existence with the best 50 albums of 2011 . However, we've grown since [...]
As our twelve days of Christmas continue, we have more on the way with another MUF writer, Michele, whose top songs of 2012 represent another great year in music. ...
And now, the end is nigh. We tug away a little more at Sinatra's bloody red curtain, and unveil the penultimate ten in our Tracks of 2012 series. Saying it clear and stating that case of which we're certain, in our combined mind few MP3s and other assorted ones bettered the below, which this time encompasses entries born Under the Westway, drifted in from Japan, spawned in New York, and oozed Raclette-like out of Switzerland. The Avalanches also finally found it in themselves to return – and did so with a disconcertingly calm Silver Jew in the trim shape [...]
Every year has its turkey albums. Once a year, we take the opportunity to put them out of their misery. It's the 2012 Turkey Shoot! This is an idea I've stolen from the fantastic Chicago Public Radio program Sound Opinions. Once a year, Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot get together to take [...]
Pocas emociones son tan fuertes para un verdadero amante de la música como la que se vive cuando el cartel de uno de los festivales más grandes del año es develado. Ver una y otra vez los nombres que ahí aparecen es una actividad obligada. Hay que estudiarlos con mucho cuidado y seleccionar cuidadosamente a quiénes ver. El problema con esto es que todo es hipotético, por más que miles se desgasten por días evaluando el cartel, todos los supuestos se rompen cuando salen a la luz los dichosos horarios. Seguramente, muchos de ustedes se identifican con esta [...]
We live in age where you can download a two gig HD movie, pause a live sporting event, have eight browser tabs opened at once, video chat with a friend that is in another country, and order fast food without picking up the phone. We are a generation of multitasking and wanting it now. Because we have so much information and options at our finger tips we end up doing to many things at once. Which leads to us getting bored or sidetracked extremely quick. Well if you feel like those sentences above were talking to you, then this is [...]
These bands might not be as new to you as some of my other left field picks, hopefully you’ve heard them already, but if not, you don’t want to be missing out on these two kick ass female-fronted albums which are sure to be on the shortlist for my favorites of 2012. Heartless Bastards: Arrow The Heartless Bastards are one of those bands that isn’t quiet under the radar, but still doesn’t quite get the universal admiration I personally think they deserve. Heck, all Erika Wennerstrom and company do is put [...]
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” -Willy Wonka Aimee Mann – “Labrador” (starring Jon Hamm) Jon Hamm, The Mountain Goats' Jon Wurster, and Aimee Mann revisit Til Tuesday with beyond hilarious results. Is there anything Hamm can't do right? Seriously. Ben Folds Five – “Do It Anyway” The Muppets from Fraggle Rock , Rob Corddry, Anna Kendrick, Chris Hardwick, and Ben Folds Five = HEAD EXPLODES. Cat Power – “Cherokee” [...]
The cover art for Cat Power’s newest release gives pretty plain insight into the spirit of her first album in six years (to be fair, Jukebox , 2008’s album of covers, came out in that time as well). A sitting image of a strikingly short-haired Chan Marshall (Power’s given name) superimposed atop a rainbow, beside the single word “sun,” projects a sense of triumph through travail, the sort of clear-eyed beauty that can come after years of weathering rain. When she stepped into her studio in Silverlake three years ago though, the album she had planned to [...]
It being Friday, and just shy of half-way through the ninth month of the year, this morning I ( @andykahn ) decided on a whim to tweet out my Top 9 Albums of 2012 (so far). Along with the nine I chose, I also added a handful of, “Honorable Mentions,” that didn’t quite make the cut. With a quarter of the year left, 2012 has thus far proven to be another impressive year of album releases. #9 album of 2012 (so far) @ mapsnatlases "Beware [...]
The acclaimed singer-songwriter has released her ninth album. How does it measure up to her past work? Matador, 2012 6.9 / 10.0 A summary of Chan Marshall’s career, by itself, does much to explain the above score, so here we go: as Cat Power, Marshall broke through with her minimalist rock [...]
Talking with Cat Power's Chan Marshall, it's clear that she's an artist totally comfortable with herself and her abilities. Cracking jokes throughout the conversation, Marshall’s sweetness and openness regarding her career (from the drug-addled Atlanta days to struggling as a solo artist in New York City) are not only revealing, but refreshing. That sweetness, however, should not be mistaken for weakness, as Marshall has also proven to be just as stubborn and independent today as she was opening for Liz Phair in 1992. With Cat Power supporting its ninth studio album, Sun , [...]
Cat Power has come a long way. Chan Marshall’s rawness is a major source of her strength as an artist, but it has also sometimes placed her in great personal peril. Without vigilance, self-protective details ... read more
Cat Power Sun out 9.4 Stream | CD | Vinyl Chan Marshall's career is not an easy one to characterize. In some ways it is a classic musician-coming-of-age story: daughter of a southern musician spends her childhood on the road; estranged from her mother she gets caught up in the hometown music scene; she moves to New York where she is influenced by the experimental atmosphere; her early material is rough and profound; she [...]
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