I could've made this list twice as long but I capped it at 50. Most of these are actual singles. The rest should be. Beyond the top ten, ordering is fairly arbitrary. Metronomy - The Look ( MP3 | Video ) I first heard this song back in February and I have yet to tire of it. I wish the keyboard solo outro lasted forever. Exlovers - Blowing Kisses ( MP3 | Video ) Rocking shoegaze pop of the highest order. [...]
It's that time of year, bloggers are making end-of-year lists and record labels are putting out compilations from the past 12 months. Rough Trade are the first off the mark, signing off 2011 with a free MP3 sampler of their releases throughout the year. It's a pretty tasty 12-track mix including the likes of The Strange [...]
What a Wednesday night you have in store: ► The Kooks play the first of two nights at the Music Box behind their new album "Junk of the Heart." Yawn opens. ► Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge bring their co-headlining tour to Club Nokia. ► Resurgent L.A. quartet the Jealous Sound [ see "Your Eyes Were Shining" ] play the Echo, supported by Bad Veins and Soft Swells. ► This month's It Girl Lana Del Rey holds forth at the sold-out Troubadour. [...]
LAURA VEIRS (early show) ( Mississippi Studios , 3939 N Mississippi) Read our article on Laura Veirs . JEFFREY LEWIS AND THE JUNKYARD, ALMOST NEARLY, AWKWARD ENERGY (late show) ( Mississippi Studios , 3939 N Mississippi) Read our article on Jeffrey Lewis . THE CAVE [...]
Live This Month: December 2011 (Podcast #262) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. For a month when few new records are coming out and music journalists spend a lot of time meticulously crafting numerical lists of their favorite albums of the year, there are still a wealth of great live shows hitting the San Francisco area in December. Bands that had big years in 2011 - including Other Lives, Cass McCombs, and [...]
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Tweet Sardonic, quick-witted comic artist and folk-poet Jeffrey Lewis is a bit of a cult figure - when he's not appearing in the The New York Times for the world to see, that is. It's something he addresses head on with the song "Cult Boyfriend" from his latest album, "A Turn In The Dream-Songs " . Self-deprecating as ever, Lewis namedrops a clutch of cult bands, films, comics, and radion stations that, like he, are loved fiercly... [...]
Ish Marquez is the hidden light at the end of the otherwise tedious anti-folk tunnel. He has the melodic gifts of Arthur Lee, but without any of the failed lyrical obtuseness. Someday there will be a compilation to sand over the numerous repetitions in his discography, and America will finally take notice of him. He
JEFFREY LEWIS AND THE JUNKYARD, EMILY LACY, AND CHEESE ON BREAD ON WEDNESDAY DEC. 7TH AT THE ECHO COUNTRY OUTPOST, 1770 GLENDALE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 7:30PM/ $10/ ALL AGES
The Christian Science Monitor interviews Jeffrey Eugenides about his new novel, The Marriage Plot . What is the reason for putting so much literary theory at the start of your new novel? There was a lot of literary theory in my life when I was in college, and as soon as I graduated, it began to fade away, as it does in my novel. It was a very passionate time for reading, as I recall, and a time when what you were reading was influencing [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 JEFFREY LEWIS & THE JUNKYARD + GUESTS $6. 1o:00pm. Golden West Cafe 1105 W. 36th St. Hampden, Baltimore. With... The Creepers and more TBA Facebook RSVP. Buy Jeffery Lewis' comics at Atomic Books.
It seems like A Turn in the Dream-Songs is something of a transitional moment for Jeffrey Lewis ; having shed the Junkyard who backed him up on his last record, 20092s masterful 'Em Are I , Lewis is shouldering the album's burden alone - albeit supported by a rotating cast of Wave Pictures, Dr Dogs, Misty's Big Adventures amongst others. Dream-Songs takes the manifesto from 'If Life Exists(?)' - "It's hard to get too bored when you pick the right two chords" - and runs with it, stretching out running times and expanding arrangements to far greater [...]
by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD : Jeffrey Lewis - Cult Boyfriend (MP3) Jeffrey Lewis ' new album, A Turn in the Dream-Songs , came out a few weeks ago and the East Village mainstay is about to head out on tour for it, one that concludes November 25 at Mercury Lounge (with Diane Cluck). That's the day after Thanksgiving, and a good reason to get [...]
I'm a sucker for a good horror movie (an even bigger sucker for a horrible horror movie), a few friends, and doing scary things like wander up to a cemetery at midnight ( esp. Stepp Cemetary) or exploring an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. Indy even has an abandoned asylum and an abandoned [...]
It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your [...]
Jeffrey Lewis' latest album, A Turn In The Dream-Songs , exhibits all the trademark lyrical humour and self-depreciation now anticipated in the New York anti-folk hero's every release. He reveres us with stories about bad break-ups and suicide attempts gone awry – all with the kind of wit you'd expect from someone who once sang about getting forcefully bummed and beaten by Will Oldham. The first song, To Go and Return , is an introduction, an early morning reverie, to his world. His turn of a phrase always pleases, and he's equipped with a voice that [...]
The truth hurts, and no one illustrates honesty more colorfully than Jeffrey Lewis. If all is fair in life, then Jeffrey Lewis will one day be Poet Laureate of New York City. Much is made of Lewis' songwriting prowess (that notable English wit Jarvis Cocker once called him "the best lyricist working in the U.S. today"), so this statement could be considered only mildly outlandish. Still, if Lewis were in contention for the position, we must believe that his songs speak the truth, and, unfortunately, as evidenced on...
A look at what's happening right now: Labrador's latest signing is a precocious talent from Stockholm, Sweden. Amanda Mair, all of 16, was picked up by the label when they discovered her by chance in 2010. Her second single "Doubt" just popped today, and I am absolutely smitten by the song, and really impressed by her level of maturity. "Doubt" is a smart tune, achingly modern with a dose of girlish charm mixed into the fold. Her debut [...]
A couple days late this week, but The Graboid is up and open for business with the week's new releases. It's my intention to get this up on the actual album release day, but I've been a bit busy. Hopefully, things will get back to normal starting next week, but who knows! Anyways, two big hitters top the list of new releases with Björk's Biophilia which she describes as "a multi-media project encompassing music, apps, internet, installations and live shows." It's an intriguing concept, but I've yet to tackle this one outside of listening [...]
JEFFREY LEWIS myspace last.fm Cult Boyfriend [mp3] From the new A Turn In The Dream-Songs . "Jeffrey Lewis is a far more otherworldly songwriter than he's given credit for. ... Effortlessly brilliant lines that would tangle the larynx of mere mortals tumble from his mouth, and all in that croaky underdog patter. Things aren't much different here; he's on brilliant form." - Chris [...]
A sparse yet obviously obsessively devoted audience is gathered in The Button Factory for this gig by Brooklyn anti-folk singer/songwriter (and noted cartoonist) Jeffrey Lewis , a man who almost single-handedly defines the phrase 'cult figure'. One of the most oft-heard criticisms of Lewis (and, by extension, of the entire anti-folk movement, all the way back to Moldy Peaches, for whom Lewis did cover art) is that the songs, such as they are, are entirely vehicles for delivering words, and you wouldn't listen to his albums for the sounds. But that's not completely true, and thankfully he [...]
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