Unfortunately, the conclusion of a music festival means the inevitable return to reality! While, myself and others attempt to recuperate in between 9-5 work days, I think we should make an equal effort to apply some inertia to this process by listening to this year's stand-out artists and headliners. Enjoy the remainder of the week, and prepare for your next festival adventure! 1. Original post: Governors Ball 2013: Festival Wrap Up, Ft. MS MR, Cold War Kids, Kendrick Lamar + More [...]
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For The Key’s year-in-review, we asked our trusted sources – our writers and photographers, XPN’s on-air staff, fellow bloggers in the Philly scene and even a few musicians – to send us their Top Five Whatevers. Could be the traditional music route – albums, songs, concerts of the year – or it could be only ... Continue reading
The Raveonettes' newest single, "She Owns The Streets," was by far the most played and downloaded track on IRC in September, trailed by the second most popular song of the month, "Angels" by The xx. Other top singles of the month, in order, were the swaggering horn-laced romp ,"A Little Revolution," by Firewater; the sassy [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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With all the craziness of music blogging, from concerts to press releases to interviews to festivals, it can be hard to find time to sit down, listen to an album and give it an honest, thorough review. With that in mind, we came up with the Reviews Roundup , a way for us to look back at all of the major releases in the past month and give them an on-the-spot review. Whether we like them or not, we'll spout out a quick blurb about the album to give an overall impression of what makes it good or bad [...]
Lots of debuts this week. It's better to let the records speak for themselves. TOP TEN ALBUMS 1. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND - AWAY FROM THE WORLD 265,961 // DEBUT 2. LITTLE BIG TOWN - TORNADO 112,758 // DEBUT 3. BOB DYLAN - TEMPEST [...]
Praise flannel! One group of rockers who found initial success in the '90s succeeds another on the Billboard Top 200, as Dave Matthews Band 's Away From The World bumps Matchbox Twenty 's North off the top of the chart this week. DMB's latest sold 266,000 copies out of the gate — nearly four times the amount (95,000) M20 debuted with last week . North has now been bumped down to #8 after adding another [...]
True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today’s age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to us at the click of a mouse. How perfect is that? We can discover a brand new artist on the opposite side of the globe in seconds without a radio or a music television channel. It only makes sense that a website so dedicated to this gorgeous universe of music would [...]
As we mentioned , September 11th drops us right in the thick of some great music this week. Look at these two guys above. They're just making my year with their new album Negotiations , which you can stream in its entirety below. We've given you the whole spiel on these guys here and here . You get it. We're excited. We've already listened to the album about 5 times. So if you're a Helio Sequence fan, you won't be disappointed with Negotiations . The variation with this album is that there [...]
You guys, there are just...a million awesome releases today. Seriously, there are a million - so many that we really had to edit this baby down to just our favorites. Let's just jump right in, so you can start your listening. She Owns the Streets - The Raveonettes // Buy Observations - The Raveonettes // Buy I first started listening to The Raveonettes (@theraveonettes) with their 2007 LP, Lust [...]
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A few of my favorite new releases this week, including new stuff from The Raveonettes , Seapony , The Vaccines , David Byrne and St. Vincent , and the highly anticipated sophomore effort from The xx . As always, be sure to visit Largehearted Boy [...]
It's a mind-blowing list of new releases on perhaps the biggest release date of the year, so let's get started. You're going to need all the time you can get to pick these up. First up, the long-awaited second album by The xx is potentially KEXP listeners' album of the year. While it's but one of a number of hotly anticipated this year - others come from Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and Grizzly Bear - The xx strip down their sound to a sultry murmur, like a whisper in your ear. Oliver Sims and Romy Madley-Croft never sounded [...]
The xx - Coexist The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter David Byrne & St Vincent - Love This Giant The Raveonettes - Observator WWTB This is the week of releases I’ve been waiting on for a while. The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s ) David Byrne & St Vincent - [...]
If it wasn't for Tuesdays we would hardly even have enough days for a week let alone a day set aside just for the release of brand new consumer media like books, music and movies in all their varios physical and digital formats. Hey! Who likes run on sentences? Amanda Palmer: Theatre Is Evil The Avett Brothers: The Carpenter The B-52's: Original Album Series (5-CD box set) Billy Talent: Dead Silence [...]
If it wasn't for Tuesdays we would hardly even have enough days for a week let alone a day set aside just for the release of brand new consumer media like books, music and movies in all their varios physical and digital formats. Hey! Who likes run on sentences? Amanda Palmer: Theatre Is Evil The Avett Brothers: The Carpenter The B-52's: Original Album Series (5-CD box set) Billy Talent: Dead Silence [...]
Austin City Limits’ 2012 lineup is officially one day old and that means it’s time for some post-reveal analysis. In the pages that follow, we run through the biggest highlights and surprises appearing on this year’s bill, in addition to the most glaring omissions. We also highlight five names worth knowing as you prepare for your October getaway down South. Highlights Neil Young & Crazy Horse If there's one act to always count on it's Neil Young. Pair him up alongside Crazy Horse and you're in for a [...]
A complete listing of the 50 highest selling albums of 2010 at Grimey's New & Preloved Music in Nashville.
When you arrive in Manchester, Tennessee, you know you’re at Bonnaroo . The heat hits you like a ton of bricks, if those bricks were each tiny little suns. The heat this year was the worst that it’s been in a long time, even with the near constant threat of rain, which fell on Wednesday to make for a muddy Centeroo. But after nine years, we’ve come to expect the mud and the heat. They’re hallmarks of Bonnaroo. And even though some people didn't expect this year to live up [...]
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