Hey guys, I teamed up with Break Thru Radio as the Featured Blogger of the Week! Check out my selected playlist and interview segment On-Air now! Also included are 5 of my favorite recent posts from our site (under articles .) Be sure to bookmark BTR who strive to bring to you "Radio rediscovered!" Break Thru Radio: The Anatomy of a Blogger MP3: Missy Elliott - Bring the Pain (Featuring Method Man) or zShare Tagged: anthonyc, break thru radio, tastes [...]
I will be wrapping up 2009's miscellaneous in our Loved and Loaded in 2009 list tomorrow, so without further ado I present to you the final chapter of our Best of the Noughties List: The 15 Best Albums of 2009! Be sure to visit our Caramel Shop powered by Amazon.com to purchase all of the titles in our Best of the Noughties List ! Previous lists are here: 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 [...]
Last year we unveiled our very first " Loved and Loathed " list for 2008, so the 15 Best Albums of 2008 list has been pulled from that post and amended to reflect what albums we feel have stood the test of time. Although we loved all of our selections, there were some that we mistakenly overlooked. For a full recap of what mattered to us in '08 check out our list HERE and stay tuned for Best Albums of 2009 and Loved and Loathed in 2009 lists coming VERY soon! [...]
The media's obsession with fallen pop stars continued in 2007 , sadly this time with the incredibly talented Amy Winehouse who released a historical gem with Back to Black. Another monumentally innovative release was M.I.A. 's highly anticipated sophomore album Kala which skipped all over the musical grid and put her on the mainstream map. After the completion Radiohead 's contract with EMI the band shocked the music industry by announcing the self- release of In Rainbows, which allowed music fans decide how much they wanted to pay for the digital download [...]
The Year 2006 was the year of the celebrity. With the booming paparazzi and celebrity obsessed media, it was hard not to get sucked into the outlandish behavior of our pop icons: adopting babies illegally, exposing themselves, getting arrested and displaying erratic behavior almost intentionally. However, 2006 wasn't just a year of fuck-ups. Artists such as Bat for Lashes, Arctic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio focused their energy on making quality masterpieces while Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado and Lily Allen had the pop world in a headlock. Check [...]
In my opinion 2005 marked a turning point for music, the evolution of a new sphere of influence. Artists like M.I.A., Madonna, Bloc Party and Goldfrapp pushed pop music into a much-welcomed harder electronic direction while Arcade Fire [released in 2005 in the UK] birthed one of the most beautiful albums of our time, Funeral. Many of 2005's musicians took the opportunity to voice their displeasure with the state of the world/politics (namely with the re-election of President Bush) on the record and in turn created a sense of artistic revolt. But [...]
In my opinion 2005 marked a turning point for music, the evolution of a new sphere of influence. Artists like M.I.A., Madonna, Bloc Party and Goldfrapp pushed pop music into a much-welcomed harder electronic direction while Arcade Fire birthed the most beautiful albums of our time, Funeral. Many of 2005's musicians took the opportunity to voice their displeasure with the state of the world/politics (namely with the re-election of President Bush) on the record and in turn created a sense of artistic revolt. But on July 2nd 2005 music came together for [...]
2004 saw an evolution in the digital world with the creation of social-networking website Facebook and further creative approaches to digital media. One of the albums on our list, To the 5 Boroughs , continued the use of Copy Protection System (2001-2006) created by EMI and Sony in response to the industry-wide file-sharing debate. Also important in the year 2004 was the official return of rock music with Morrissey and U2 releasing fantastic albums and new comers such as The Killers and Franz Ferdinand following in the footsteps of The Strokes in [...]
The year was 2003 and while oil prices were on the rise, Reality television shows like American Idol, MTV's Rich Girls and The Simple Life boomed (and the reality show trend continues.) Banksy proceeded gaining notoriety through his sociopolitical commentary via his graffiti art, and even took some time to create the cover art for Think Tank . 2003 also birthed iconic albums by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beyonce, The Postal Postal Service, Muse and The Knife to name a few. All in all I can confidently say it was a strong year [...]
We're up to Chapter 3 in our countdown list of the Best Albums of the Noughties, which brings us to the year 2002. 2002 was a year of rebirth and change for many following 9/11, which carried onto the sounds coming out of the record industry. There were many amazing records that touched onto everything from devastating heartache (Sea Change), new found independence (Stripped), politics (A Rush of Blood to the Head), and a rock revival as seen with the release of Up the Bracket and White Blood Cells! The 10 albums listed below are ones we felt made a [...]
Yesterday we presented our list of the best albums of 2000 and keeping with the 10-part series we bring to you the best albums of 2001 . The year 2001 was a very trying year with the devastating death of Aaliyah and the life changing tragedy that unraveled on September 11th 2001. Through it all great music prevailed that year. Check out our picks for the best albums of the year 2001 and once again and let us know what you think! (The purple titles are albums Jess and [...]
It's hard to believe 2009 is almost over, let alone another decade! In this 10-part feature we'll be sharing our List of the Best Albums of the Noughties (2000's if you will) with a list for each year until the unveiling our Top 15 Albums of 2009 and the annual Loved and Loathed List for 2010. The first list in this series is the year 2000 which many featured would be the end of the world. It was a year highly dominated by TRL and bubblegum pop but [...]
Now that summer and festival season is officially over, it's time for the new round of gigs. Some of our favorite artists are coming back to town, while for some this will be the FIRST time playing New York! Check out our short long list of selections for the must-see gigs of the Fall - Winter season. This list is for announced non-CMJ gigs, don't miss out! MP3: Horrors - Scarlet Fields or zShare MP3: Girls - Hellhole Ratrace or zShare [...]
Friendly Fires at Bowery Ballroom, 3.27.09 It's that time of the year when all of our favorite bands decide to make our heads spin with tour announcements! Here is short a list of gigs Tastes Like Caramel will be getting down to this spring - summer (of what's been announced so far.) See you on the dancefloor! Au Revoir Simone w/The Antlers, Lights. April 29 at 8PM, Music Hall of Williamsburg , $15 [...]
Exciting news Hot Chip fans! Check out the brand new killer 2 Disc mix compiled collectively by Hot Chip for Bugged Out! The first disc, Bugged Out features some dancefloor ready techno and house tunes and the BRAND NEW track by the boys called Take It In !!! The tune is a great new sound for Hot Chip, for lack of better words it's bugged out! Disc 2 titled Bugged In is described as a dream house party mix with new and old classics. Click HERE to stream the album and for more [...]
I don't normally write album reviews but I jumped at the opportunity when mega-site Pretty Much Amazing approached me to do so! As you know, I've been raving about the new Peaches record for weeks, so I had the ultimate pleasure of sharing my review of I Feel Cream with Pretty Much Amazing's vast audience! Check out my review HERE and don't forget to pick up the must-have record, in stores now! MP3: Peaches - Mommy Complex (Barletta & Ernold Sane Remix) or zShare [...]
Hey readers, we've finally got an official Tastes Like Caramel Twitter page! Go stalk us! Tastes Like Caramel on Twitter : www.twitter.com/tlcblog MP3: Tweet - Oops! (Oh My) or zShare MP3: Aly-Us - Follow Me (Club Mix) or zShare Tagged: tastes like caramel, twitter
So last week we decided to create a NEW FEATURE on the site requesting that our fellow bloggers submit their most loved & blogged about artists and introduce them to our readers. For our very first feature we selected Bangers and Trash who think you should be obsessed with College . Give them a listen and let us know what you think! Submit yours, more info here: Calling All Bloggers ! Name: Den Blog: Bangers and Trash Favorite Artist: [...]
We're really excited to recently be networking, meeting and twitter stalking all you bloggers so I figured why not collaborate on something? We would like to run a new feature on the site selecting one blogger a month to write about their most blogged about, most loved artist and why we should all be obsessed. Sounds like fun right? Please contact us or send an email with the information below. Let's do this! Name: Blog: [Blog]'s favorite artist: Where they're from: Sounds like: Why we should be obsessed: Choice tracks: [...]
Picture courtesy of Deltaschnauzer As you know we LOVE putting together playlists for Tastes Like Caramel but when we get commissioned to select tracks for some of our favorite sites we get even MORE excited. We had a lot of fun handpicking tracks for Buffetlibre 's Continental Breakfast Blog (Barcelona) and Sheena Beaston (New York.) Check out the selections below: > Best Song to Bang To : Hooverphonic - 2Wicky > THE BEST [...]
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