Alright folks, the Monday Morning Mix-Up is a little bit all over the place. I wish I could tell you there was some central idea or feeling to these 8 tracks, but there isn't. Just a collection of songs that shuffled into my ears this morning. Hope you are okay with that. If ever you'd like to submit a list of 8 songs for the Monday Morning/Midday Mix-Up shoot an e-mail to me at c.ryan@musicthatisntbad.com. Have a great Monday!
Alright folks, the Monday Midday Mix-Up is a little bit all over the place. I wish I could tell you there was some central idea or feeling to these 8 tracks, but there isn't. Just a collection of songs that shuffled into my ears this morning. Hope you are okay with that. If ever you'd like to submit a list of 8 songs for the Monday Morning/Midday Mix-Up shoot an e-mail to me at c.ryan@musicthatisntbad.com. Have a great Monday!
Portformat - Entropy Tokyo Dawn: 2012 Just what exactly is R&B, anyway? As my personal musical tastes have developed over the last 10 years or so, I’ve gone from despising it to developing a begrudging curiosity in it. I've gone from appreciating it on its own terms to ultimately reaching a point at which I’ve had more than one alcohol induced disagreement about what exactly constitutes it as a sound. And I would still, in all honesty, be hard pressed to give you any really meaningful definition. Portformat, a German based, Senegal born electronic [...]
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Words by Rick Moslen So this is the series where I ramble on about classic indie/punk record labels fated to feed every music junkie’s obsessive fix. This time I’m gushing about possibly the mother of them all. Hold onto your butts and stuff some earplugs up those earlobes, cause it’s time for some raw, spazzing rock n’roll from Touch and Go Records. I know what you’re thinking ... how can I rope Touch and Go ’s extensive yet essential history into a mere blog post? That’s like leaving your [...]
Axe-tappers Dick Wolf! seemed to have laid low after the release of their 73, Entropy , last February. But the mathy trio has shared a brand spankin' new demo with us, which we now present to you. After the twitchy, double guitar-powered indie-pop that made a fun little record out of Entropy , Dick Wolf! seem to get a little bouncier on this new take, titled "We'll Sing Together." The song definitely hits its stride, however, when thick, weaving guitar lines [...]
Environmentalism, once the province of radical leftists, is being re-animated by global capitalists looking for a way out of recession. But, the Green Economy will not save the markets. The fundamental flaw and paradox of capitalism is that its relative success (however that is measured) is its ultimate undoing. We're learning that whatever type of market is employed—whether China's planned economy or America's mixed free market economy—the problem of exponentially expanding markets is a dilemma capitalism cannot deal [...]
They say music is the universal language; if that's true, they should put Shugo Tokumaru in charge of the dictionary. On the Japanese musician's fourth full-length, Port Entropy , he communicates with music so emotionally vivid its meaning would be impossible to mistake. More often than not, that emotion is joy as bright as the noonday sun, his major-key melodies skipping like expertly thrown stones. Tokumaru's music is best compared to the clockwork orchestrations of Jonsi's Go - a sound Shugo got to first. "Lahaha," the new album's best song, sets the tone with on-beat [...]
The reputation that had preceded Shugo Tokumaru before listening to this disc was one of home-recorded-pop mastery. Notes of his use of over 100 instruments abound, as well as his apparently skyrocketing status in his native Japan. Considering the state of lo-fi, bedroom recordings in America, one couldn't be faulted (I hope) for expecting drugged-out, scuzzy, reverbed, even sadsack from another bedroom record. Instead, as the cutesy MS Paint-style drawings on the cover of Port Entropy suggest, this is a record bursting at the seems with childlike joy and wonder. The only problem that this sort [...]
On his fourth LP, Shugo Tokumaru's jubilant bedroom pop proves to be a bit too much of a good thing. In the summer of 2006, I ducked into a small, subterranean club in Tokyo's Yoyogi neighborhood, excited to finally see one of my favorite new songwriters perform live. When I approached Shugo Tokumaru at the merch table, he seemed a bit taken aback. It was as if he couldn't comprehend how a foreigner might know of him, let alone attend one of his shows. The feeling of disbelief was more than mutual. How had a...
Label: Polyvinyl Release date: 15/02/11 Link: Myspace Some musicians charge into their success thrashing out on a guitar or smashing the skins off a drum set, utilising their singular instrumental talent to hash out their career, content to stick to one musical tool. Shugo Tokumaru is a Japanese musician who started with an electric guitar before deciding to move beyond the usual handful of instruments to develop his own uniquely sweet style of music making. Tokumaru can now play around 100 [...]
There's math rock, and there's math rock. Then there's Dick Wolf! . Calling them math rock is somehow an understatement. Their latest 73, Entropy , is merely two songs and six minutes long (or 3 songs and nine minutes if you buy the digital download), yet there may be dozens upon dozens of riffs and/or parts. What makes this little slab of rock not a total clusterfuck of sounds is that Dick Wolf!, at their core, believe in melody. Some of Entropy might sound [...]
Panther - Love Is Sold Portland duo Panther are releasing the limited-edition Entropy 123 at the end of the month. This follows last year's 14kt God Here they perform in a quartet off the Columbia River on Portland's Sauvie Island their new song, "Birds That Move". pre order for 9/29 release. Pre-orders come with a free "Birds" 123 EP. 1. Latitudes For Centuries [...]
Candler Park, Atlanta, Ga (4/18/09 & 4/19/09): Squirrelheads: Nashvillian Family Band: Packway Handle Band: Lefty Williams Band: Laura Reed & [...]
The mainstream corporate news have found other issues to pay attention to this year week, rather than the blockades, and now riot and rampant brutality occuring in the city of Oaxaca. What began in the spring as a protest by striking teachers and left-wing activists against corrupt state governor Ulises Ruiz, has evolved into a very unstable and dangerous situation. At least a dozen people have been killed, and injuries, beatings and acts of violent retribution are widespread since Vincente Fox sent in the federales. [...]
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