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The Only Thing I Ever Wanted, Psapp
2007-06-04 21:37:00
The first track, "Hi" is such a standout song. It hooks you to say, 'I like this band, this is a band that I like'First track. ..Possibly they should have elongated the title to something like 'good afternoon' or at the very least 'hello'. I'm saying they should ride that wave longer.'Hi' is a great track.Can you tell already that the rest of the album is so hard to live up to that it doesn't.Maybe electronica isnt my thing... 'Hi' is the closest thing you can get to melodic pop on their tracks, and, truth be told, that's what I like.Their sound reminds me of an organized kitchen. Pots and pans and buttons and switches, windchimes, claps, swishes - in harmony.Check out their myspace singles. It's easy to like.http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm ?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID =11732999
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Daniel Higgs at Southpaw
2007-05-15 21:06:00
First time I saw Dani el Higgs perform was at The Glass House in Brooklyn. He played the jews harp and also played this radical distorted acoustic guitar. I dont even know if it produced notes. It made sound though. Glory sound.He forgot that wicked guitar on Saturday, but he did get himself a girlfriend. So that's good. Higgs mostly played on his beautiful banjo and a few songs with his signature mouth harp. His girlfriend played the violin and sung backup voCals. They both shared duties on this drum with a string attached to it. Not sure of the name, but it seemed like one of the first instruments made by man.So, If you don't know about him, Daniel Higgs is....well, when I tell most people, I usually describe this.Here is what I recorded from the showHe sings about pretty interesting topics such as wolves devouring carcasses and the world ending. The last show in The Glass House was much more "world is going to die" "armegeddon commeth" type. Maybe since he got a girlfriend, he l...

Cass McCombs, I take it back
2007-05-07 22:18:00
Don Pedro's in Brooklyn, Saturday night - Cinco de Mayo. Maybe my expectations were too high. A more accurate indication of my impressions of the artist that night is that the recordings are just too good to match.If you read the prior post, you can tell my closing in on obsession. Now its damaged, I must say. I saw hints of his transcending voice, but only that. The music was opening band worthy. The acoustics werent conducive. Things didnt go as deep inside you as you might hope for. As I hoped for.Maybe it would have gone better with a sweet womanly figure with me - rather than 2 drunk friends asking me for money to buy more beer.Cass had a 2 guitarists and a drummer with him. No one came out and claimed the performance for themselves. All that really sparkled was the glimpse of his voice.His next record, I'm in. And I still love to listen to the older records. But as for future live shows, I will wait to go home till I listen to the voce again. Feliz Cinco de Mayo
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Cass McCombs, Manic Crooner
2007-04-20 21:29:00
I've been following this artist for about 3 years now. It was one of his first singles, "I went to the Hospital" that got me hooked. It is hard to get the entire impression of him by just going to his album and being digital with his music (picking one and done). Try sitting in a room, and non-stopping an album. Its hard not to feel strong inside after listening. Not patti smith strong. comfort strong. what?His original site had drawings that people made and sent to him. His new site says fire in the hole. yes it does. This is the misdirection in obscurity that I cannot get enough of. Is it only me that he does this for? I hope not, but wouldnt be surprised.I am suddenly realizing the similarities to Radiohead that my friends have mentioned. that soft sweet puffy lipped drawl.Cass McComb s is playing 3 dates in NYC in the next monthMay 3 2007 2:30P Canal Room, Tribeca Film Festival New YorkMay 5 2007 8:00P Don Pedro's BrooklynMay 6 2007 8:00P Mercury Lounge New YorkSee you a...
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Tiny Masters of Today
2007-04-16 22:25:00
"Dude, have you heard of this band playing in brooklyn, its like 2 13 year old kids. Its like a mini white stripes... Tiny Mast ers of the Universe I think..."That was last Saturday, my friend Chet was trying to tell me about them, but this was one of those drunken, last brain cell memory type of "did you know?" type of pontifications.I took it to heart. I love kids trying and also jack white. I believe in our future. So I bookmarked it somewhere in my head, and yesterday I found who he was talking about.Tiny Masters of Today Is this the legitimate return of lo-fi? - in the vain of the stooges and the Ramones. Especially in their sub 2 minute songs. What made punk rock so cool in the 70's was the lack of money and good recording equipment, the do what you can in order to F with the man attitude. In this day and age, only a couple of pre-teens can legitimately do this. They probably have no allowance, they havent been influence by the news or even the daily show yet. They are not inte...
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Nancy, Brazilian import
2007-04-09 21:48:00
Heres another band I found on myspace. I was attracted to this band for 2 reasons. 1 - Brazil . Anything from South America is automatically killer. After CSS (not the code, you geek), I am convinced that music coming out of arid countries in turmoil must be good. I imagine a house boarded up, with ransom driven kidnappers at the doors. Guns put together from Russian army surplus. Inside, a recorder, a computer, and a hotspot from the coffee shop next door. these mothers bang out the track live, and post it to myspace. for me. 2- the red/orange hue myspace photo. They tease you consistently with pictures of the lead singer. We all want to see the face. They never give it to us. Very close on the website. not satiated though. Nancy originally was an instrumental band. Eventually they stopped being background music and signed Camila Zamith. Smooth and original. unfiltered. Astrud Gilberto stops you in your tracks. Victoria Bergsman makes you sit and close your eyes (see the video in t...
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Envelopes and more Swedes
2007-04-06 07:05:00
Envelopes "smoke in the desert, eating the sand..."seems like a nintendo throwback video until you start getting destroyed.What is this? another swede? the Scandinavian music import scene is strong. vVerYy strong. Serena Maneesh already broke up to become some other band, but apparently they are back and touring with NIN. Trent Reznor (phone number 216-333-1810) always has a heads up on whats good. and whats God. Emil is god-like on stage. off too. At a show in NY, I realized something: Scandos are huge! every body unnative to the states was pressing 6'2 - and the women were on the cusp of 6 even. Some singer from some death metal norwegian band told me that back in the bulbous triple threat, every band plays. every night. every band is this just as good as this or better. I believe him and I want to go.and if you havent hear the songs playing in your local abercrombie, here is some sweet sweet music to sit with. courtesy Peter, Bjorn and John. Be sure to thank them on your way out.
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23, Blonde Redhead makes their own sweet background music
2007-03-29 20:48:00
Unfortunately for Blonde Redhead , their newest album shares their name with a Jim Carrey movie (thanks ponyboy). Whats also unfortunate is that they broke so much new ground with their past albums that each new record will have a hard time to revolutionize just like they did before. So now, we will wallow in the awesomeness where they have already created.This is not an embarrassing step-son type of album - the one you might feed seldomly and keep in the kitchen when you have company. This is more of the youngest child. An absolute pleasure to have around, sure, but when someone makes fun of your mother, you fucking bring out Misery Butterfly and you watch them cry running home to their own.The title track pretty much lays the mood for the entire album. It deserves to be the title track, and deserves to the the first single from the album. Its good. Playing loud makes better, as with most BR. The rest of the album follows along the same ambient path, with a few highs and not so many...
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THE NOT NEWEST DEERHUNTER
2007-03-24 20:24:00
so i’m sitting in my cubicle this morning listening to “turn it up faggot” and i feel overwhelmed by this giddy pride in being 24 years old and listening to thrashy, distorted noise and screams and thinking how if i were 40 i’d be such a fucking loser. but i’m not. i start to sense a plan developing but its too early to translate these sensations into something manageable, so i decide to finish my coffee and let my brain catch up to the intuition of my body. it takes me an hour and a half, as always, to finish off that last muddy, sugary gulp, and by the time i finally do, i have a pretty good deerhunter buzz flowing through my body. i had listened to the album a few times and remembered how much i love adorno, and wondered if it was really ‘that’ adorno that the song was about. how could you know: the words are indecipherable throughout the album, but it doesn’t matter. i don’t think anybody notices that. on most songs, if you’re not paying attention its di...
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The Vicious Five
2007-03-24 00:30:00
Another myspace find. Sick mother Effing Band!These guys are from Portugal. I have no idea what language. there definitely some english in there, but there is otherwise unintelligible lyrics. At least being in another language would be a good excuse for it.I am given the impression of the Black Keys kicking people in faces. Not to say the keys arent doing that already, but this band is doing it in a destroying something beautiful kind of way.Their single (?, they have a video) reminds me of Jet, but not like in a ">Gap kind of way - more of a yellow rat bastard kind of way. One can't help but notice the sausage fingers on one of the guitarists, as depicted in the video.This music makes me believe Portugal is a radical place with deserts and guitars and wires, and cactus, and black blood, and people rocking till they die. I don't even think bulls can survive in such a climate. Ive never been there, but is this correct?
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Jessica L. Fenton
2007-03-20 06:45:00
Do some people just have it? I think you can always see the magic in people. Here is an artist I found on myspace just by clicking around. Her name is Jess ica L. Fenton. The production is noticeably unrefined. Somehow she rises slightly above generic though. Thats why I am writing this. There is no type I am specifically looking to write about in the blog, but the correlation is definitely the artists who are able to go to one more level than what is expected. This girl, Jessica Fenton, she has this snarl, a yell - particularly on the track "Wool" which really rises out of comfort into intrigue. The guitars are a normal guitar riff, but a good one nonetheless that always sounds good wherever we hear it. She adds a piano in there, drumset - all which she plays herself. To totally reduce her to generics, I would say fiona apple and the proclaimers consummated their mid 90's love affair. But thats not fair. Here is a person who is doing the music we have all heard before, but there ...

Young at Heart Chorus
2007-03-15 02:34:00
Young@Hear t ChorusIts hard to believe this group has been around for 25 years. their ages: 3 to 4 times that. http://www.youngatheartchorus.com/index.p hpIts not just just their ages, but the artists they cover: pearl jam, strokes, flaming lips, coldplayhttp://www.myspace.com/youngathea rtchorusThey are something worth knowing about. 70-90 year olds covering current songs. The thing is, they are too good, they are too with it. this is nothing like I would expect at my grandmother's old nursing home. theres no follies, no missing teeth, no pureed food droop, and the smell is nowhere to be found, this is just the older generation singing today's hits. still worth seeing once. And if they ever come to NYC, I'm front row.
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Fire Bug
2007-03-14 20:44:00
Myspace discovery from the forum I created to as an outlet for new bands to show off their videos.Fire Bug. Grandiose music made for destruction. Perfect theme music for a demolition job. Blues/rock/psychedelic - Ive heard music like this before but very rarely does it click like this. The difference might be the acoustic, bringing the psychedelic down to earth. http://www.myspace.com/firebug Walk Again (stereo)Add to My Profile | More VideosIs Marianne Faithful the inspiration? that sweet death rattle of a voice. very cool music - worth a listen.

Lily Allen
2007-03-13 20:51:00
I have to get this one out of the way before its too late. There are tons of unsigned bands to post about, but I also realize that there is plenty of time, and the bandwagon is already moving with this artist.Lily Allen . If you don't know her already, you have to get on board. This may be a bit poppy, and I am definitely aware of the flack I am susceptible to now, but F you - shes good. If the rhythm moves you, let it groove you. I found her through pitchfork when the featured her video for 'smile'. Here it is:is irreverent the word for her? Well, she seems real and cool and not too pretty so shes untouchable, but still fit as anything. her website is great, all her songs are posted, she has a tour diary, videos. Here it is: http://lilyallenmusic.com/is this too late for this post? Doesn't matter, here it is.UPDATE: Today Lily Allen slates Apple's iTunes tacticsApple accused of bullying musicians into providing exclusive content for iTunesKaren HaslamBritish singer Lily Allen ...