In honor of Josh Ritter ’s lovely yet heartwrenching new album , inspired by the tragic disintegration of his marriage, I’ve compiled a mix of some of my favorite breakup songs. To keep this at a reasonable number, I’ve limited it to songs from the last 15 years (apologies to Bob Dylan , Nilsson , Sam Cooke , Love , and The Cure , among others). Click here to download the mix / listen on Spotify . 01. Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead [...]
Eliot Hazel It feels a bit anticlimactic to try and sit down and formally review Instinct , the debut album from Sweden's Niki & The Dove , and the reasons for this are many. Besides the fact that I've been talking about them since last August and already seen them twice at Iceland Airwaves and again at SXSW over the past year, there's the fact that though it's only formally out in North America this week, Instinct was released in Europe and the UK [...]
Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending August 12 - 18. It is still a few weeks left before summer is going to end. This week's #1 single goes to UK's The xx. Looks like there is high anticipation when Coexist drops on September 11, 2012. I prefer Chained more than Angels. There are four new debuts from Jens Lekman and Wild Nothing. Check it out! This Week Last Week [...]
photo by Dave Lichterman Two years removed from 20102s only best concept album relating the Civil War to pained life in the suburbs , New Jersey punks Titus Andronicus have announced details of their third album, the relatively less amibitious Local Business . Due on October 23rd through XL Recordings, the ten-track LP will likely be 20122s only album to feature both a guest turn from Owen Pallett on violin and a song called "Food Fight!". View live clips of some of the songs and the tracklisting for [...]
ithugsback.co.uk Though I only gave it a very passing mention when it came out, I was really quite fond of British quartet It Hugs Back's 2009 debut Inside Your Guitar ; after all, I described their aesthetic of narcoleptic vocals, humming organs, and understated guitar heroics as a charming blend of American Analog Set and Yo La Tengo - how could I not like its fuzzy, mid-fi charms? But I lost track of them between then and now, though not without reason: first, they found their way off [...]
I get the occasional email from readers, and a couple of times recently I've been asked, in passing, why I started this blog. There were loads of reasons at the time, but in the main it boiled down to the fact that having installed broadband in the house (around three years ago this week) I could now browse the world wide web seeking out songs of old, and I decided on a whim that this was something I wanted to do myself. So Mrs Villain bought me a USB turntable one day and told me to [...]
There are few times in my life when being a little careless works out for the best, let alone for the rapturous and revelatory. But last week – on a rainy but refreshing afternoon – it did. Let me set the scene. I had left work earlier than usual. I had just called my dad to [...]
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