Anna Isola Crolla If you were thinking that Friday meant another housecleaning, link-aggregating post - this time from all points abroad - then you are correct. You get a cookie. From someone else. I have no cookies to give. Nor do I technically have the new single from Camera Obscura to give, since it's not mine to allocate, but since it was rolled out in streamable form to the internet earlier this week, I can certainly point you to it. It comes from their forthcoming fifth album Desire Lines , and while it's [...]
It’s time again for Friday on My Mind , our weekly blog post where we look at videos centered around one common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. Easter is around the corner, so we are looking at songs about rabbits. So let's talk rabbit facts. A male rabbit is a buck, a female is a doe, and baby rabbits are called kit. A wild doe can give birth up to eight kits a year. As well, female hares are capable of conceiving a second litter of offspring while still pregnant [...]
Welcome to the end of 2012. And possibly the world as a whole if you're so inclined to believe. Once again, we've taken the stray thoughts that fell through the cracks in our Annual Report and compiled them into one (hopefully) comedic list. As my esteemed colleague Jeremy Larson wrote last year , "Year-end summaries, lists, recaps, and reports are just study guides for an exam that’s never happening, you guys ." True, but by listing things and poking a little fun, we're doing our part to remind you that the music industry can be [...]
When we set out to make these lists at the end of each year, we usually try to include tracks that aren't on the Best of Albums List to narrow down the choices. This year we took a more honest approach, but it was terrible to cut 365 days worth of songs down to a mere 25 tracks. We changed them up until the last possible minute, driving ourselves, our loved ones, and each other crazy with our "what if..."s. In the end, though, these are the songs that made us hit repeat, and carried us [...]
Robin Silas Throwback-style pop is nothing new - sounding old is really kind of the point - but there's something special in the way English quartet Veronica Falls goes about it. It's like they've got a foot in 19702s New York, with no small amount of Velvet Underground goodness in the mix as well as echoes of their followers and the other in swinging 19602s London with the irresistible catchiness of the British invasion. Taken together and you've got a brew that's buoyant, yet somehow sinister and wholly memorable. Their set was [...]
We resume our reposts of the Blogophilia series this week with volumes 8 and 8.5. Why 8 and 8.5? Well, I mixed these at the same time, and the tracks came from the same collection of songs I reviewed. Calling one 8 and the other 9 didn't feel right. We've also had a 12.5, and recently a 26.5 for the same reason. Like volume 7, these two mixes really capture the summer spirit. Volume 8.5 has a throw in from an "oldie but goodie." Enjoy... Blogophilia Volume 8 [...]
"Nothing Like You" by Frightened Rabbit was my top song obsession, photo by ipickmynose 2010 has been the oddest of my life, full of contradictions: the most amazing and most boring times; the most lovelorn and most disinterested; the most outgoing and most antisocial. It'll take years to see what it all means and where it will lead, but I have to say it was pretty good. But these contradictions led to a vast and odd array of music getting caught in my head, twisting and turning around in there and begging to [...]
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by teepoo Merry Christmas from Ride the Tempo! Here's a giant collection of indie Christmas songs from artists that you may or may not know. It's pretty a big list, hopefully the giantest. Some of these old, some of these new. Some are covers, and some original. Enjoy. Happy Holidays!! Sufjan Stevens- We Three Kings of Orient Are AM Taxi- The Worst Noel Ohbijou- Last Christmas The Aquabats- [...]
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Music on the tv show Chuck has always pulled from a lot of indie bands and the season 4 episode 7 soundtrack was no exception. Although most of the songs were from last year, it is nice to recognize them when you least expect them as you are watching tv. Frightened Rabbit are a very popular Scottish indie rock band from Selkirk, formed in 2003, the song "Snake" is from their debut studio originally released in May 2006 on Hit Fan Records. Snake was serenading the scene when Chuck & Morgan talk about fighting in [...]
I have to admit, when I read the synopsis for this episode weeks ago, I was not looking forward to another Chuck and Sarah relationship episode (their "first fight" being the vs here). But thankfully, that part of the story was pretty small, and then, of course, there was Timothy Dalton. Getting Dalton to guest star on a spy show is the kind of coup the series hasn't really enjoyed since the end of season two when the series finally took off with the help of both Scott Bakula and Chevy Chase. And his talents certainly didn't go to waste, [...]
Frank Yang Near as I can tell, there's no great narrative that explains why or how Two Door Cinema Club's sold-out show at Wrongbar earlier this week became the hottest show in town, with tickets in huge demand and scalpers having apparently missed the boat entirely. There's been no soundtrack appearance, no ad placement, no celebrity scandal, nothing that could explain why people were lined up hours in advance of doors to see the Northern Irish trio (quartet live) except that, well, they liked the songs from their debut album Tourist History [...]
David Gourley Frightened Rabbit's 2008 album The Midnight Organ Fight earned itself many adjectives - "grand", "anthemic" and "gobsmacking" from these parts , and less subjectively, "folk-rock" from most everyone. It certainly wasn't afraid to get loud and electrified, but the foundation of the record was homespun and acoustic and the Scots rode that formula to great acclaim and a place as one of my favourites of the year . For this year's follow-up The Winter Of Mixed Drinks , the [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Holy Hell Indie rockers the Cribs have canceled their Coachella appearance because they can't get out of the UK. No, it's not a visa issue; it's volcanic ash. Airports all over Europe, including Heathrow Airport, have been grounding all flights after a volcanic eruption in Iceland on Thursday spread heavy clouds of ash over northern Europe. The British band tried driving 16 hours to Amsterdam to get a flight out of the city, but unfortunately, [...]
Frank Yang The Saturday night of Canadian Musicfest featured a considerable shift in musical gears, starting out with the gentle, harp-led orchestrations of Joanna Newsom at the Phoenix - not a CMF show and which will be written up tomorrow - and ending with some big, loud guitar rock at Rancho Relaxo. Who says I don't have varied tastes? An expedient streetcar and longer-than-expected set meant that I was able to catch a couple songs from Montreal's Kill The Lights . It almost seems wrong to say I'd seen [...]
Frank Yang Just one question for everyone at Lee's Palace for Mumford & Sons on Monday night. Where did you all come from? This question doesn't just come from the fact that this band - whose debut album Sigh No More was only just released in North America yesterday and who were conducting this super-short, four-date North American tour without, at least to my knowledge, any major promotional push - had sold out Lee's Palace, but had filled it not with curious musical passers-by, but raving, honest-to-god [...]
The 11th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival lineup features headliners Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz, in addition to LCD Soundystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Faith No More, Tiësto, Pavement and-possibly-Thom Yorke. Event organizers Golden Voice are seemingly playing coy on whether the environmental advocate will attend, but EW.com has an explanation . The three-day fest held at Empire Polo Fields in Indio, Calif. April 16-18, 2010 includes dozens of other acts, from quirky types like Yo La Tengo and Dirty Projectors to indie favorites Grizzly Bear and Vampire Weekend. David Guetta and Kaskade hold down the dance [...]
Ian West Let's be honest here. It's a couple of days before Christmas and a four-day weekend - something that people of all faiths can agree is a good thing - and you're probably not reading this. Goodness knows why I'm writing this. I mean, I could be watching Lost right now - after years of holding out, I've picked up all five seasons on DVD and am ploughing through them like a fat kid on Smarties. But seeing as how I'll be enjoying said upcoming long weekend almost certainly sans [...]
Frank Yang Coming via The Guardian , here's an unexpected collaboration to wind out the week - Paul Weller has completed work on a new album entitled Wake Up The Nation and while a release date is still forthcoming, the first single from has been released and it features the fruits of a collaboration with none other than My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields. "7 & 3 Is The Striker's Name" pairs the Modfather with the godfather of shoegaze (Shields doesn't have a catchy nickname that appropriately [...]
MySpace I don't remember if I read somewhere that Charlotte Hatherley has synesthesia (the condition wherein your visual cognition is tied to your aural and, amongst other symptoms, you see colours or shapes when you hear sounds - experienced by the likes of Lightspeed Champion and Ida Maria , amongst others), but even if she doesn't you could be forgiven if you assumed she did. Her first two solo records, Grey Will Fade and The Deep Blue , obviously referenced colours in their [...]
Pavla Kopecna All throughout Theoretical Girl's set at SxSW back in March , I was wracking my brain trying to figure out who Amy Turnnidge, she who is the central abstract idea of the band, reminded me of. This didn't keep me from enjoying her set, but it was a relief and head slap when I finally put it together a week or two later - the name I'd been trying to dig out of my memory banks was Sarah Blackwood. Not the icy electro-pop queen she now is with Client , [...]
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