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Rilo Kiley: Well-Crafted, Well-Recieved Indie-Rock
2008-09-10 02:55:00 Rilo Kiley are a restless lot. They adopt countless musical styles, switch labels with nearly every release and make time for solo careers. Even within a single song, the LA band can jump from theme to theme. The group began as a duo of former child actors Jenny Lewis (vocals, keyboards, bass) and guitarist Blake ... More About: Rock , Indie , Indie Rock , Rilo Kiley
Tricky - Knowle West Boy
2008-09-09 23:16:00 Tricky?s early output was so devastatingly brilliant that still, some 14 years after debut Maxinquaye, the arrival of a new album is enough to raise the pulse in the faint hope that he might once again scale the heights of Ponderosa, Aftermath et al. He doesn?t, sadly, but then who does? The good news, though, ... More About: West , Tricky
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
2008-09-09 21:49:00 ?Quite good.? It?s the most eloquent summation of the music of Alex Turner and his ubiquitous Arctic Monkeys as heard in the past three years? of slavering press about this latest in a long and increasingly tedious succession of Great New British Songwriters. Not the words of a stony-faced refusenik, either, but of Jarvis Cocker, ... More About: Indie , Shadow , Britpop , Brits
Wovenhand - Ten Stones
2008-09-09 00:18:00 Making a career out of crafting ominously heavy music, 16 Horsepower singer David Eugene Edwards started Wovenhand as a side project in the early 2000s. Weaving together bits and pieces of all sorts of Americana and Denver’s Southern Gothic traditions into a monumentally weighty and utterly singular vision since 16 Horsepower parted in 2005, they ... More About: Folk , Stones
The Fiery Furnaces - Remember
2008-09-08 23:07:00 In their relatively brief lifespan, the Fiery Furnaces have released six full-length albums, each revealing new and intriguing facets of their blend of prog, psychedelia and all-out weirdness. The sibling duo?s latest opus, a monolithic two-CD (three LP) chronicle of their live performances, is no different. Remember is a worthwhile exploration of one of the ...
Giant Sand - proVISIONS
2008-09-08 22:30:00 This time around, their eerie, atmospheric arrangements reflect not only the hallucinatory environs of the Arizona desert that remains their home base and continuing source of inspiration, but also a liberated attitude borne from recording sessions in Denmark, where Howe Gelb found both sympathetic musical support and new ways of working. The results are manifest ... More About: Sand , Giant
Exploring The New York All Tomorrow?s Parties Festival
2008-09-08 17:07:00 Named after the same Velvet Underground song that William Gibson claimed for the third installment of his Bridge trilogy, the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival began in the United Kingdom but has since expanded to encompass installations on either side of the pond. And this year’s New York party happens to be its best ever, at ... More About: Festival , New York City
Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect?
2008-09-08 04:26:00 After last year’s Conqueror, there’s not much more Justin Broadrick can do with Jesu ’s mix of indie-rock emotion and hard-ass heaviness. So it’s not a surprise that his recent work strays from that signature sound. But when the music on Why Are We Not Perfect ? and a split with art-metal outfit Envy eschews oppressive guitar ...
Hair Police - Certainty of Swarms
2008-09-08 00:34:00 Kentucky’s Hair Police are frequently lumped in with the so-called modern noise vanguard of Wolf Eyes , Yellow Swans, and Sightings. Yet Mike Connelly, Robert Beatty, and Trevor Tremaine haven’t fully earned that honor. Too often, their repertoire–amorphous nicks, scratches, and dents, turgid shortwave frequency squishing, strained static farts, rusty torture-chamber residue–feels desperately anonymous. On 2004’s ...
The Acacia Strain - Continent
2008-09-08 00:23:00 When we last heard of The Acacia Strain , they had The Last Walk and in 2008, they go Continent . Continent starts with Skynet which opens with static distortion fueling the double bass and grinding chords backing their demonic frontman. They get to the thrashing quite quickly as Vincent Benett roars like a monster while ripping ... More About: Metal
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
2008-09-07 20:46:00 Simply put, Bitches Brew is the most revolutionary album in jazz history. Having virtually created the genre known as jazz-rock fusion (for better or worse) and being the jazz album to most influence rock and funk musicians, Bitches Brew is, by its very nature, mercurial. The original double LP included only six cuts and featured ... More About: Miles , Davis , Miles Davis
The Beep Seals - Things That Roar
2008-09-07 03:07:00 You’d never guess The Beep Seals were from Manchester. If you were picking which west side they’re from you’d probably think more LA than Levenshulme. They are a band with a seriously sunny disposition, and a mid-Atlantic sound to match, several hundred miles from Manchester’s famously slate-gray skies. Their debut album Things That Roar is ... More About: Indie , Britpop
New Dananananaykroyd, Streets, & Justice Goes Electro-Prog!
2008-09-07 02:14:00 The Scottish sextet Dananananaykroyd transcend greatness with alarming regularity, transferring songs that are above-okay but hardly legendary on record into attendee-snaring behemoths that demand absolute sing-along reverence. The formula?s simple enough: a dash of Blood Brothers (twin vocalists, sweet and sour, nice postures), awesome pop hooks that would sit pretty in the catalogs of The ... More About: Justice , Electro , Kaiser Chiefs , Prog , Streets
Heavy Heavy Low Low - Turtle Nipple And The Toxic Shock
2008-09-07 00:41:00 “I don’t think I ever wanna wake-up again,” Robbie Smith screams at the outset of Giant Mantis vs Turtle Nip, the first song on this band’s second full-length. It’s unclear if that’s because he’s dreaming these songs or if it’s because he’s just finished living through it all, but either way the record is a ... More About: Shock , New Wave , Heavy , Toxic
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
2008-09-06 06:11:00 Much of the hyperbole preceding Glasvegas ? self-titled debut has emanated from former Creation Records supremo Alan McGee who, in feverish blog posts (”the most exciting thing I’ve heard since The Jesus & Mary Chain”), seems to herald the Clydeside fourpiece as the final installment in a three decade trilogy that began with the Jesus & ...
Jeff Hanson - Madam Owl
2008-09-06 05:12:00 If you didn’t know better, on first listen you would probably think that Jeff Hanson was a woman. His voice is high-pitched and precise, and he uses inflections that are ordinarily the terrain of the fairer sex. Its initial novelty aside, there is no denying the beauty of his singing, especially when it’s matched with ... More About: Madam
Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada
2008-09-06 05:04:00 The increasingly prolific Woodpigeon?s new release is a 14-song collection of bits and bobs that will tide fans over in anticipation of the band?s next studio record (due in the fall), but Treasury Library Canada could certainly pass itself off as the proper follow-up to 2006?s Songbook. Band leader Mark Hamilton?s ability to write consistently ...
Mountain Goats - Prophetic, Poetic, and Profound Indie
2008-09-05 17:28:00 For an expanding horde of cassette-cuddling sub-undergrounders, home taping isn’t killing music, it’s about the only thing keeping it alive. Those folks have long held this shadowy Claremont, California, “group” (essentially singer/guitarist John Darnielle, plus whichever of his pals happens to have some free time and a spare Maxell) in high esteem. That’s due not ... More About: Indie , Mountain , Goats , Profound , Mountain Goats
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
2008-09-05 05:31:00 In 1983, Tom Waits saw himself creating an entirely new identity for himself. After leaving longtime label Elektra, Waits transitioned to Island, where he began a legendary tenure that saw some of his career-defining and best-known records. The first of these was Swordfishtrombones, which for Waits, was a drastic step into an altogether new direction. ...
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
2008-09-05 04:54:00 The cover art of Los Angeles perfectly captures the complicated, compelling and otherworldly sound contained within. Steven Ellison?s second full length, and first for Warp, comes together from all directions at once, a beautiful mess of contradictions, sacred thoughts and visual sounds. In terms of sound, it’s tempting to draw comparison to labelmate Prefuse 73. ... More About: Soul , Flying , Lotus
UNKLE - End Titles: Stories For Film
2008-09-05 04:48:00 When is an album not an album? When UNKLE takes the leftovers from a previous release, gets inspiration from visual media, and combines them in a 20+ track non-”album”. End Titles … Stories for Film is exactly that, and perhaps as a point of dignity, the group credits previous sessions and outside influences ... More About: Unkle
Jennifer O?Connor - Here With Me
2008-09-04 04:01:00 This is music to play in the car while you’re driving the highway between home and your ex’s place. Preferably, it’s kind of cold outside and you’ve got the windows open a little. It’s very dark outside?and inside. “At least that’s how it feels” (that’s a repeated lyric on the record) listening to Brooklyn-based songwriter ... More About: Jennifer , Connor
Tricky - Maxinquaye
2008-09-04 02:38:00 Along with Massive Attack ’s Blue Lines and Portishead’s Dummy, Maxinquaye is one of the most influential trip-hop albums of the ninties. Tricky ’s lascivious solo debut takes the glistening electronic soul of Blue Lines and smothers it in far-grittier textures, exploring the destructive nature of love (”Now I could just kill a man,” he says on ... More About: Hip-hop
Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
2008-09-04 02:16:00 On his previous albums, Matthew Robert Cooper (otherwise known as Eluvium) draped his instrumental music in a rockist aesthetic. Those soundscapes were charted with heavily treated guitars, but the music on Miniatures is mapped out with a more orchestral instrumental palette. Organic elements-piano, brass and strings-mingle with synths and echoing ambient atmospheres. But this instrumental ...
Sic Alps - A Long Way Around To A Shortcut
2008-09-03 18:51:00 Over the past two years, guitarist Mike Donovan and drummer Matthew Hartman have used an old 8-track to document their reverb-drenched hallucinations, producing a relatively steady stream of releases in limited-edition 7″, 12″ and cassette format that have all long been snatched up by eager fans and vinyl-hungry collectors. Scour the internet if you like, ... More About: Long , Shortcut , Alps
The Essence of Hip-Hop: From Golden Age to G-Funk to Grime
2008-09-03 05:16:00 Old school, jazz rap, native tongues, West Coast , East Coast — when everything is said and done, the hip-hop community has released some of the greatest musical accomplishments and commercial successes of the past 20 years, thanks in large part to creative beats, lyrical mastery, and an in-your-face attitude that is fresh and raw. Rap ... More About: Funk , Soul , Golden , Golden Age
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2008-09-02 23:47:00 The brilliant 71 minutes of music on Sonic Youth ?s sixth album brazenly attempted to be iconic when it first came out in the fall of 1988, and it succeeded on every level. Similar to what the Velvet Underground did on The Velvet Underground and Nico in 1967, and Television on Marquee Moon in 1977, Daydream ... More About: Nation , Sonic Youth
The Uglysuit - The Uglysuit
2008-09-02 21:08:00 The Uglysuit describes its music as ?an extended love song to the notion that everything is possible, yet nothing is guaranteed??a fit of hubris that somehow doesn?t seem surprising coming from six 20-to-23-year-olds from Oklahoma City. They are the latest band trying to pull off proper ambient-pop and do it particulary well. Conjoining memorable hooks ...
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
2008-09-02 20:56:00 The story goes that Grouper even reaching listeners beyond her bedroom is an accident–an overheard recording becomes her first record-label release becomes an Aquarius Records “Record of the Week,” and Grouper’s Liz Harris becomes a known and much appreciated public artist (among the more discriminating and patient music fans, anyhow). It’s one of the most ... More About: Deer , Dead , Hill
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
More articles from this author:2008-09-02 07:40:00 In 2005 Prins Thomas and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm were pioneers of what is now referred to as “space disco,” a highly melodic strain of electronica that mined both the minimalism of carefully constructed micro-house and the excess of maximalist dancefloor singles. The tag was not of their creation but the music that came afterward. A celebrated ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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