The National have been making music since 1999, and for over a decade they’ve been consistently getting better at it. It’s hard to imagine that given the already grandiose nature of their style – a high-class blend of driving rock beats and chamber-pop instrumentation – but they’ve been refining that blend ever since their self-titled debut. In 2005, they completely nailed it with Alligator , and they've built upon it with each subsequent release of theirs: Boxer , the glorious High Violet [...]
St Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, y Sufjan Stevens están entre los invitados que aparecerán en el sexto álbum de The National, próximo a aparecer.
Os Dark Dark Dark são um quinteto que fala ao coração, juntando o clássico do acordeão com toques modernos, o que os encaixa no chamber-pop. Como sucessor de Who Needs Who (2012), os americanos voltam agora aos EPs, com What I Needed, a editar dia 23 de Abril. Este EP terá quatro músicas: "What I Needed", "Love Lies", "I Collect Things" e "How It Went Down (Remix)". A primeira, que dá o mote ao álbum, pode ser ouvida abaixo. A vocalista dos Dark Dark Dark, Nona Marie Invie, irá também [...]
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So it was a somewhat blustery Hallowe'en one – same as every year, or so it'd seem. And whilst the Samhain celebration ushering in that eternally damned darker half of the year may occur annually, and with the unerring tedium of the equivalently wretched wallet-voiding guising it entails, down round The Forum a momentous sense of occasion did brood. A one-off exclusive; a "late night double feature." Not since 2007 have Tim DeLaughter's The Polyphonic Spree been about these dank and windswept parts, and indeed in the interim period the boys and girls in the floor-length [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , New Music , Music Appreciation , New Releases Kevin Winter, Getty The Arcade Fire might not have performed at this year's Pop Montreal festival, but they sure were ubiquitous characters throughout the week. First was an art exhibit entitled The Art of "The Suburbs" which offered people a chance to see the work behind the cover art of the Grammy-winning [...]
Finalmente chegou o Record Store Day ! Quem acompanha o Rock'n'Beats já deve ter lido notícias sobre esse dia nas últimas semanas. Caso você ainda não saiba o que é, não se desespere. Seus problemas acabaram. Segue com a gente e veja detalhes dessa iniciativa que marca espaço na venda independente de discos. O Record Store Day ocorre anualmente no terceiro fim de semana de abril simultaneamente em vários países. A comemoração foi criada em 2007 para relembrar os eternos vinis e alavancar vendas dos artistas. Nesse dia, as lojas de discos contam [...]
Earlier in our coverage of Record Store Day 2012, KEXP has covered both the full list of record exclusives and live events around Seattle ; however, amidst the many, many special releases available this weekend, we've highlighted the vinyl releases that we're super excited about. Arcade Fire - "Sprawl II" (Mountains Beyond Mountains) Courtesy of Merge Records. Remixes of The Suburbs tracks "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) and "Ready to Start" by producer Damian Taylor with Arcade Fire. [...]
What happens when a bedroom-recording project is blown up to full size in the studio?
1. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 2. Adele - 21 Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 3. Cliff Martinez with various artists - Drive (Original Movie Soundtrack) Drive the film was bad-ass. Ask all my friends, I was obsessed with [...]
Well, 2011. You were quite the year! So much so that I’ve only been able to recover enough to think about you a full week into 2012. Crazy, huh? New jobs, lots of change, oodles of shenanigans, and yes, lots of good music. So much so, that I undoubtedly missed vast quantities of things that [...]
Friday evening was a mad house. Getting into the station wasn't the issue, as I expect it will be in the coming weeks now that winter is upon us; it was the transition. Transitioning from one on-air personality to another is a bit nerve-wracking. The quarters are cramped, the mic is hot, and you have to do your best not to step on their toes as they wrap their show and you begin yours. And when it's time to fly, you have to remember which buttons should be lit and which ones shouldn't. After the [...]
In recent years the crowd that is claiming "the album is dead" has grown louder and louder. We couldn't disagree more. As more and more people turn to iTunes and the Hype Machine to download the latest and greatest singles, we have stuck to the traditional album listening and found that there are still some truly great records being made these days. For most of this year we have been inundated by bands breaking into the world, mainstream artists trying to recapture their former glory, and indie rock "superstars" growing into their own, it has been exciting and fun and [...]
pmaCAST #18 The “Post-Labor Day” Episode Tracklist 1. TV On The Radio - Staring at the Sun 2. Animal Collective - Fireworks 3. Modest Mouse - Float On 4. The Strokes - Hard To Explain 5. St. Vincent - Actor Out Of Work 6. Kings of Leon - The Bucket 7. Black Kids - I'm Making Eyes At You 8. Deerhunter - Never Stop 9. Kings of Leon - Red Morning Light 10. Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook 11. Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah [...]
Alucinante Podcast No. 2 Tamaño: 72.1 mb Duracion: 1:02:40 Las de esta Semana... 01. Wolf Like Me - Tv on the Radio 02. All You Ever Wanted - The Black Keys 03. I Should Have Known Better - She And Him 04. No Time Soon - Gnarls Barkley [...]
Hey guys! It’s been almost two months since I showed my raggedy ass around this place. You’re used to that, though, right? To be completely honest, I’m seriously considering putting this blog out of its misery. I just haven’t had the time, or the inspiration, to update. I’m still going to think about this, so you’re not rid of me just yet. Before I decide whether or not to jump ship, I figured I’d do my favorites of 2007 list. I don’t really go in for [...]
( MTV.COM ) As promised, I return post Christmas with the family to bring you my past year in shows. Its been the best year I have ever had for shows, and as always, I was sad (and poor) that I couldn't see more, because some stellar shows were missed. I am going to list the bands that I was able to see this year, and then some highlights. A mix of tracks follows at the end. SHOWS: The Hold Steady/ The Ratchets/ Wolverton Bros. - Newport, Ky [...]
And, thus, 2007 comes to a close. This was a fantastic year for music, with several of the best albums of the decade so far seeing their release. 2007 blows last year out of the water as far as I'm concerned, and it has made for many hours of happy listening. With this final feature, Under The Rotunda will be on break for two weeks until the new year rolls in. Well, a little bit after the new year rolls in -- I'll be back January 7th, to be exact. Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, enjoy [...]
Please do not use this I'll be honest: even taking the Biblical annoyances which have plagued my music-consumption habits over the last few months - the move, two computers dying, Time Warner being Time Warner, certain harumph cough hack being shut down by the cough blagh hork snxxx, etc - the fact remains that my musical 2007 was spent decidedly elsewhere . 2007 was, for instance, the year I entered into My Steely Dan Phase, a project which certainly took priority over determining whether White Williams was worth being [...]
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