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Excerpt: "There is something untypically delicate about Lost In Waves Of Light, Antonymes's new composition. Ian M. Hazeldine, creative mind hidden behind this contrasting pseudonym, has just released his most audacious and creative piece on The Licence To Interpret Dreams but what is even more striking is this particular composition which connects various elements from above mentioned album. In comparison to his recent mildly dreamy, more ambient piano-oriented work, Lost In Waves Of Light sounds bit bolder and more resolute. That's mostly caused by Antonymes's beautiful arrangements for violin played by Christoph Berg, better known as Field Rotation. Actually, what makes them so pleasing and captivating [...]

My second FT5 is on the eve of Record Store Day. Record Store Day got me thinking about my addiction, so I am going to use this FT5 as a confessional. My name is Brian and I am an Music Addict, and I feel a need to dispel some myths... 5. We are all walking libraries I admit it. I forget more than I remember about the muic I listen to. What the name of the album is, the name of the best track, the [...]

Can't get enough of the Fab Four? Today only, an exclusive new Kindle book about the Beatles is available for just $4.99 . The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years features little-known stories, interviews, and photographs in celebration of a half-century's worth of Beatlemania. Early reviews are swooning, which is probably unsurprising given the authors: pop-culture guru Les Krantz and Beatles historian Robert Rodriguez . The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years is available on Kindle and free Kindle reading apps [...]

Listening to music, you may feel euphoria because your brain is reacting similarly as to when you engage in overtly pleasurable endeavors; eating delicious food or taking psychoactive drugs. Your brain has evolved perfectly to do this, and you aren't even aware it's happening! When your brain registers pleasure, it releases the reward chemical, dopamine; driving motivation to repeat the experience. A study by Valorie Salimpoor reported in Nature Neuroscience finds music provides an intellectual reward because the listener has to follow a sequence of notes to appreciate it. "A single tone won't be [...]

Photographer-at-large, David Lichterman (he covered 2010 Sasquatch for us) scored a press pass to the recent Arcade Fire gig at the Key Arena in Seattle. Here are the results and some words from David. -- Hugo Munday In Seattle, Autumn marks the tail-end of the festivals and the beginning of an amazing concert season. With big names like The Black Keys , The Dirty Projectors , The Flaming Lips , and Arcade Fire all playing within a 7 day timeframe, it's only natural to have [...]

Don'cha think? --Alan Wiley

OK, so maybe it's old news, but what can I say, I've already established my partiality for tots with musical moves . This one's a Brazilian dance prodigy with a taste for samba music . Know of more hilarious (real) dancing babies? Drop a comment! -- Jason Kirk

Local writer Travis Hay and photographer Dave Lichterman covered Sasquatch! on behalf of ChordStrike this year. Wish you were there... (Heck, we wish we were there!) ****************************** ****************************** ****************************** **************************** FRIDAY The Sasquatch! Music Festival proved to be a monstrous beast of music during its three-day run. Throughout Memorial Day weekend, Sasquatch! featured more than 80 bands spread across three stages and a dance and comedy tent. Kicking off the summer concert season in the Pacific Northwest, the festival's first day contained a [...]

For a limited time, we've got four free MP3 jazz samplers available: 1. Trippin N' Rhythm 2. X5 Jazz Legends 3. Mack Avenue: The Road to Great Music 4. Original Jazz Classics Remasters The samplers are [...]

Few things go as well together as hip-hop and science. The lexicon of bleeding-edge theoretical physics is practically overflowing with rhyme-ready particles (real, virtual, anti-, and otherwise), and from Dr. Octagon to The Sounds of Science , the rap canon abounds with more-or-less learned verses. So if you're like me and have trouble finding enough to time in your life to nurture your twin loves of hip-hop and quantum cosmology, let Alpine Kat grab the mic for a minute. Science writer by day and science rapper in her [...]

Looking for the perfect soundtrack to your Dharma party? Need something to spin for your final-season soirée? Now you can have all the songs featured in *Seasons 1-5 of Lost with just one click. The producers of Lost have some pretty diverse tastes, and the 71 songs included here include cuts by Patsy Cline, Perry Como, Petula Clark, the Pixies, and Puccini , just to name a few. So check it out. Sample tracks 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42, or download the [...]

I'm totally addicted to OK Go 's brilliant video for " This Too Shall Pass ." Every time I watch it, I discover a handful of new reasons to love it. Perhaps the most satisfying part of this video is the sheer number of times that the on-screen action coincides with the rhythms of the song, but let me not color your experience too much. Just watch it: -- Jason Kirk

Leave it to Rhymesayers to lead the charge in putting off the obsolescence of physical music. Last year, we made a bit of adoring noise about the very cool packaging of P.O.S.'s Never Better (in additional to naming it one of the Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2009, So Far and the 49th Best Album of the Year.. So Far ), but this year, whoever's running design over at Rhymesayers has absolutely outdone her- or himself. Freeway & Jake One's The Stimulus Package [...]

In a few days, the wait is over for fans of Stile Antico, the phenomenal vocal ensemble who specialize in Tudor and Renaissance choral music (and high-profile side projects with Sting .) They release " Media Vita ," a selection of works by the sixteenth century composer John Sheppard. Less well-known than Thomas Tallis , Sheppard's fame has spread slowly, because his compositions only made it to the twentieth century in manuscript form and many of them are incomplete. What survives bears all the hallmarks of greatness. This recording [...]

Criticizing an album before anyone's ever heard it would be a bizarre thing to do. Bizarrely, I think I'm going do just that. Y'see, I'm just a little concerned about one of my favorite artists. Joanna Newsom's Ys was one of my favorite albums of the last ten years, but she's announced her follow up, Have One On Me , is going to be a triple. There's no track listing yet, but whatever it is will be released on 3xCDs, or 3xLPs. [...]

I recently had the mixed pleasure of reading the newest biography of the great Satchmo, entitled Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong , by Terry Teachout. Having previously read Teachout's The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken , I'd expected a reasonably satisfying read, fueled by extensive research and delivered in rather pedestrian prose . As it turns out, that's exactly what the book offers. My fellow blogger Dave Callanan named it one of the " Best Books of December " and had the following [...]

By the time the European avant garde had advanced to breaking china and blowing train whistles, Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck was deemed "too accessible." Their loss, as " Notturno ," op. 47, (1931-1933) is a post-romantic chamber gem. Poems by Nikolaus Lenau, scored for string quartet and baritone are given a new reading on an ECM recording featuring the rock-solid, Rosamunde Quartet, with Christian Gerhaher. This is attractive, meaty, but agile musicianship, showing a wonderful dynamic range. Extra props go to Herr Gerhaher for his beautiful tone, and impeccable diction. – Hugo Munday [...]

The world needs more music critics like Charles Shaar Murray. Looking forward to the release of Jimi Hendrix's Valleys of Neptune (yes, a new Hendrix album!), I've been reading Murray's Crosstown Traffic . It's brilliant writing. Hendrix is the book's centerpiece, but there's a load to learn here for anyone who likes books about music. The subtitle of its best chapter yet asks, "So was Jimi Hendrix a sexist pig or what?" Murray argues that " the sexuality expressed through the blues gradually mutated into the [...]

Thanks for the first-hand accountp of the unfolding tragedy, Jason.p It's good to have you back. p I've spent the weekend in Nashville for the 2010 Stellar Awards , as gospel celebrates their big night. Lots of inspirational, empathetic speeches and prayers as the show began and throughout the evening for the victims of the tragedy unfolding in Haiti.p Underpinning the words, one of [...]

Sosúa, Dominican Republic ( Tuesday, January 12, 2010) -- I was on the balcony, three floors up, when suddenly I felt a powerful urge to throw up. Then my chair began to sway. When I looked across the alley and saw the laundry lines in full swing, I knew we were in trouble. As we all fled out into the street, the air of general panic was palpable. Over the next few hours, via spotty cell phone connections, those of us huddled together in the street, half a mile from the [...]