As I prepared to host a New Year’s Eve party this year at my house, it occurred to me that I should put together a playlist of songs that moved me in 2009 so that one and all might reflect on this past year in rock music. With a little encouragement I threw together [...]
10. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More "It was fantastic to hear this multi-instrumental folk band go through the stages . Seeing them in May for the first time supporting the Maccabees, in July at Oxegen festival, then in August at Field Day Festival, their progression was phenomenal. By the time I saw them for their headline tour in October, the band were brimming with confidence to match their ever-present talents. They finished the year by bringing out one brilliantly produced LP . With songs like 'Sigh No More', 'Dustbowl Dance' and [...]
10. Passion Pit - The reeling To be honest, it's Manners is just a great album so it's hard to pick a favourite. Sleepyhead would probably get the nod but it's technically from 2008 so I went for the next best. 9. YACHT - Psychic city This song made me smile by far the most in 2009. Fact. I recommend the entire album but this is the pick of the bunch. 8. Bat for Lashes - Daniel Twice Mercury-nominated [...]
No.9 Passion Pit - Manners On first listen, Passion Pit may not make much sense. Their music sounds like the soundtrack to a lost SNES game, their singer Michael Angelakosa seemingly impersonating a falsetto obsessed man-child. However, over the course of their debut album Manners , it all becomes fantastically clear. Building from where their Chunk of Change EP – a collection of eight songs recorded as a Valentines Day present for Angelakosa’s girlfriend – left of, Manners rises above the current crop of [...]
While technically the calendar would have us believe that we had just entered into the fall months, heading to Central Park a few Fridays back to catch Phoenix at SummerStage would have had you believing otherwise, as the sold-out crowd was ready to bask in one of the last outdoor concerts of the season at the city's most serene and picturesque venues. For the Parisian band, 2009 has shaped up to be their breakout year which kicked off with a rare three-song performance on Saturday Night Live before their latest and critically acclaimed album Wolfgang [...]
On Saturday night, after hearing a chat with Ryan Adams , we headed uptown to see Phoenix and Passion Pit rock out in Central Park. The pair had already played Rumsey Playfield the night before, and by all accounts it was a spectacular show. We were eager to take in what would be one of the final outdoor concerts of the summer. Passion Pit opened the night, and despite what we had from some haters the night before, the band delivered a solid set that [...]
Our fabulous guest blogger, Kenya L. Jones, reports on Saturday night's gig! It was a great set up at Rumsey Playfield. There were tons of kids there. Food, drinks and a massive merch stand. The two bands were perfect together; a truly exceptional match. Boston's Passion Pit opened, tossing out tunes from their LP, Manners. [...]
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars It's funny that Cale Parks spent the majority of this summer touring with Passion Pit , as the member of Aloha seems in an entirely different league altogether on his latest, the Swift Mars EP , which is out now on Polyvinyl Records. As a musician, he most well known as a drummer, but his usage of electronics and layering on this EP tells a story of a [...]
Passion Pit On Thursday, the apple store downtown hosted a teaser for Lollapalooza that featured Chairlift and Passion Pit . The store didn't close down completely, as I was partly hoping - the signature apple store lighting was either a plus or a minus depending on how you look at it. Since the stage sat upstairs on the second floor, less-interested Chicagoans and tourists perused Ipods and Macbooks downstairs. The lineup, Chairlift and Passion Pit, was [...]
Passion Pit - Little secrets Well this will definitely be my easiest post of the day seeing as I have been listening to Passion Pit heavily the past several weeks. "Little Secrets" is one of those songs that has been my jam (just like "I'm the Ish") recently and "To Kingdom Come" is the song that [...]
I love going to music festivals. I also love free. Free music festivals within a 30mi radius of me = no-brainer. This was my second free festival this summer ( see Tom Williams’ Siren Festival Review ). God bless you, failing economy! The Host (C+) WFNX seemed to be a little all over the place. They didn’t get back to us in time for press pass info, so I tried to get one on my own. The poor girl at the [...]
Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars When news that Rostam from Vampire Weekend and Wes from Ra Ra Riot would unite to create an album under the name of Discovery , the Internet was afire with fans of both bands, all hoping that they could combine the magic of their individual outfits into something that would supersede both. LP is the title of said album, and while there are definitely [...]
Unlike the other Chrome Kids reviewer , I headed to the festival as a Glastonbury virgin, propelled by a bag full of ambition and a list of bands I told myself I had to see over the weekend. Although my head had been filled with horror stories of knee high mud, slashed tents and, most scarily, the state of campsite toilets, I don't think any hours of reading NME reviews or watching Zane Lowe on BBC3 could have prepared for the [...]
While UK music [arguably] struggles to find it’s late-noughties identity, many here in Ireland have embraced a certain eclecticism (often of a distinctly electronic flavour) in a bid to explore, move with the times and stay fresh. We seem to share this appetite with our cousins across the Atlantic. In the US, bands such as TV on the Radio, Animal Collective and MGMT have had critics slavering at their ankles, and justly so. They are refreshingly daring, modern and yet unashamed to wear their influences on their sleeve when necessary. To this list, add Massachusetts’ Passion Pit. [...]
2009 is an exciting year for music so far and this quarter was especially sweet over at EOTB....
Today marks the beginning of the second half of 2009. We've had a marvelous 6 months full of great music and it's time to update my list of the Absolute Best Songs of 2009 . Well, it's not really fair to call this an update really - I completely tossed out the old list and started up a new one from scratch. I didn't stop at the top 10 either - this list spans the 50 songs that I believe are the best of the year, so far. But like the first list, [...]
Headed up to the Granada for the Passion Pit show. These guys had been getting a pretty fair amount of buzz but had a slight bit of backlash I had noticed on their new album (which I have not yet listened to by the way). They were actually incredibly solid and brought some great dance/disco rock-ish kind of jams to the stage with pretty good energy. The crowd was very bizarre due to many reasons, including the Granada's decision to have reserved seats for this show, which was basically a dance rock show, so there was a [...]
I caught Passion Pit's hometown show at Paradise Rock Club, which was a really tight set despite the rather shitty sound. The bass was mixed so high that it almost completely drowned out lead singer Michael Angelakos ' vocals on a few songs, and that's saying something when it comes to a piercing falsetto like his. Passion Pit has had a whirlwind year, going from being relatively unknown to one of the must buzzed-about bands at SXSW, playing Bonnaroo, and now set to tour throughout most of the rest of 2009, including stops at Lollapalooza, [...]
When I first heard "Sleepyhead" early last year I didn't know what quite to think. Minus the vocals, the sound was familiar. Electropop is nothing new and is considered by some to be almost mainstream thanks to Matt Murphy and his LCD Soundsystem project and our friends across the pond, Hot Chip. But [...]
In the words of Bob Marley, one good thing about music is when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bonnaroo, one of the largest eastern festivals in North America hosted more than 70 000+ people this year with headliners such as Bruce Springsteen, Beastie Boys and Phish. But really, these were just headliners and in my opinion, not the real headliners of the festival. With performers ranging from Of Montreal, the Decemberists, Animal Collective, and Grizzly Bear to Femi Kuti, PUBLIC ENEMY, Erykah Badu,and Murs, you could easily be a neutral fan of the Boss and Phish-or in my [...]
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