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New Site
2009-03-31 23:54:00 I apologize for the recent lack of updates. We are working on a new site that should be up within the next week. I am always open to suggestions so please feel free to comment. More About: Site , New Site
The Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha
2009-03-17 22:31:00 The Lawrence, Kansas based The Appleseed Cast have come a long way from the whiny vocals and dissonant guitars of their 1998 emo-slop debut, The End of the Ring Wars, to a place of hypnotic, melodic beauty that is their eighth album, Sagarmatha. This is definitely headphone music, and the correct listening position is a reclining ...
Pan American - White Bird Release
2009-03-17 22:17:00 Labradford guitarist Mark Nelson’s sample/computer- oriented solo project?has been exploring low-pulsed composition for 11 years. White Bird Release isn’t a significant detour from Pan American ’s previous five albums. There Can Be No Thought of Finishing opens the disc with Nelson’s familiar soothing whisper and spangly guitar filigree, which gets mutated into keening oscillations, then dispersed ...
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
2009-03-17 22:07:00 A Love Supreme is the essential example of the genius of John Coltrane . In what has become the apotheosis of jazz music, this eminently accessible work bridges the gap between music and spirituality, between art and life. With the ultimate incarnation of the jazz quartet, Coltrane brings together all of his turbulent elements into a ... More About: Jazz , John Coltrane
Bonnie ?Prince? Billy - Beware
2009-03-17 20:16:00 Bonnie “Prince ” Billy may be the most influential artist working today whom you’ve never heard of. Will Oldham, the quiet, bearded man hiding behind the public persona, has put out countless albums and EPs since the early ’90s, collaborated with hundreds of artists, and his fans have included Johnny Cash, PJ Harvey, Bjork and R. ... More About: Beware , Bonnie
The Boy Least Likely To - The Law of the Playground
2009-03-17 19:51:00 On its follow-up to 2005’s The Best Party Ever, the Boy Least Likely To come back strong with an album that offers much more than your typical British pop. Multi-instrumentalist Pete Hobs and vocalist Jof Owen take the genre to a whole new level, with synthesizers flowing to the lyrics and a banjo plucking over ... More About: Playground
Friendly Fires, Camera Obscura, YYYs & 15 More!
2009-03-17 19:41:00 There is something entirely refreshing about Friendly Fires , distinct from their post-punk counterparts and favoring a unique brand of electro-funk over gunfire-paced drumbeats or hokey-cokey vocals. Their latest single, Skeleton Boy, is in a world of its own, starting with a groove, like many a great song, and even if you are only mildly familiar ... More About: Camera , Camera Obscura
Mountains - Choral
2009-03-17 19:09:00 Brooklyn-based instrumental post-rock duo Mountains return with their third album of exquisite, pastoral avant-folk meditations. With songs ranging in length from two and a half minutes to ten times that length, Choral explores a variety of sounds and moods in its crystalline loveliness. More melodic than Brian Eno and less bombastic than contemporaries like Explosions ...
Nickel Eye - The Time of the Assassins
2009-03-10 18:53:00 Since the Strokes went on hiatus in 2006 Albert Hammond Jr has released two solo albums, Julian Casablancas has collaborated with Pharrell Williams and Santogold on a song for Converse (My Drive Thru) and Fab Moretti has worked on side project Little Joy (which sporadically featured Nick Valensi). Bassist Nikolai Fraiture follows a furrow well ... More About: Time , Rock , New York City , Regina Spektor , The Time
Iran - Dissolver
2009-03-10 15:24:00 Iran?s Dissolver is meant to represent the self-proclaimed experimental noise-popsters? first foray into conventional pop song structures and polished high-fidelity production. While the band manages a few undeniably lovely moments, Dissolver largely suffers from its attempts to simplify its musical approach. Instead of applying its experimental aesthetic to tightly structured pop songs, Iran delivers a ... More About: Iran
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses
2009-03-10 15:10:00 Ben Kweller is Texas through and through. His new album, Changing Horses , is the epitome of the southern state, with steel guitar and heart-wrenching lyrics, none more so than in opening track Gypsy Rose with its stripped down instrumentation and whining vocals, singing about his search for salvation. Although lacking the blues it craves, it ... More About: Americana
Boredoms, Kanye West, & Sun Ra
2009-03-08 20:29:00 Let’s see what we have today — the focus is on some of the more difficult to find recordings floating around the internet and we’ve found quite a few gems. For jazz fans, we have two great quality recordings from Miles Davis and Charles Mingus — additionally, Sun Ra offers a poetry reading on a ... More About: Kanye West , West , Kanye
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
2009-03-08 18:55:00 Along with an immense cast of contributors, Neko Case set out to follow up 2006’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood with an even more expansive effort. With passionate, haunting ballads and two covers throw into the mix, Middle Cyclone expands on the beauty of Fox Confessor and unleashes the dark country heart so well ...
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
2009-03-08 18:33:00 Norwegian singer Erlend Øye has one of the most effortlessly smooth voices in the underground pop world, and any project he’s involved with seems to play to that strength. The latest such effort is The Whitest Boy Alive ’s second album, Rules . It’s a well-refined collection of jazz-infused pop with the cool flow of ... More About: Pop
Generation Shitgaze
2009-03-08 18:20:00 Everything these bands record is spiked in the red and cloaked in caustic fuzz. Vocals are intelligible ever so often and snare hits resemble chopsticks on tinfoil. This is “shitgaze” — a charming label (a corruption of shoegaze) that apparently came about by accident, being a throwaway line by Matt Whitehurst, the front man ... More About: Ohio , Columbus , Pavement , Generation
Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
2009-03-08 02:06:00 Antony Hegarty pulls heart strings with melodies and vibrato on his new album, The Crying Light . His voice and mournful lyrics seem to fit the season, taking listeners through funeral processions and dark winter days. His lyrics begin setting a scene of loss, love and longing. The Crying Light is accompanied with acoustic guitars, violins ... More About: Indie
The Bronx - The Bronx III
2009-03-08 01:48:00 With the release of The Bronx ?s third album (thoughtfully entitled ?The Bronx III?) the punk scene definitely has a new titan on the block. The hardcore sound produced by growling guitar riffs and vocals full of aggression has actually seen the band tone down. Earlier records produced by the band were truly wild while this ...
Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
2009-03-05 01:18:00 A few weeks ago Black Lips guitarist Cole Alexander stripped off his clothes, dove into the crowd at Sir Mutha Venkata Subbarao Concert Hall in Chennai, India, scrambled back on to the stage, and made out with several of his bandmates. Par for the course for a Black Lips show, but not so cool with ... More About: Rock , Thousand , Million
Odd Nosdam - T.I.M.E.
2009-03-04 01:38:00 Conceived as a soundtrack to skate movie This Is My Element, this new Odd Nosdam album dedicates each track to a specific boarder, apparently tailoring each song to the “style and cadence” of the various subjects. Odd Nosdam’s nasal voice and Anticon-tainted hip-hop sensibility can be a bitter pill to swallow for some. Sure, it’s ... More About: Hip-hop
Handsome Furs - Face Control
2009-03-03 22:55:00 Handsome Furs’ first effort Plague Park, released two years ago, was all too quickly dismissed as a hobby album for Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner, the result of a man taking up model airplane painting to distract him from the day-job. There was good reasoning for this- It was, after all, made with his then-girlfriend and ... More About: Pop , Face , Control
John Frusciante - The Empyrean
2009-03-03 22:47:00 With the Red Hot Chili Peppers on indefinite hiatus, their lauded guitarist, John ?Under the Bridge? Frusciante, emerges with his 10th solo album. Old friends like RHCP bassist Flea and ex-Smiths/Modest Mouse guitarist Johnny Marr make contributions, as do long-time collaborator Josh Klinghoffer and the Sonus Quartet. Like most of Frusciante?s go-it-alone LPs, The Empyrean ... More About: John Frusciante
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
2009-03-03 22:40:00 It’s hard to believe it’s been nine years since Q-Tip’s first - and, technically, only - solo album, Amplified, considering how much he has to say and how well he says it. And one spin through The Renaissance will have everyone wondering how he could have stayed away so long. He trades rhymes with Amanda Diva ... More About: Hip-hop
The Best Of 2008: Part 3 of 3
2009-03-03 20:27:00 In a way, we?re really naming Bradford Cox Artist of the Year, because the mad genius behind Deerhunter in effect pulled off a hat trick ? three great albums in one year. After all, 2008 began with his brilliant, mind-blowing Atlas Sound side project. Then came Microcastle, the follow-up to last year?s breakthrough Cryptograms. And ... More About: Part , Part 3
Of Montreal: Battered Basement Disco
2009-03-03 03:47:00 Arguably the breakout band of Athens, Georgia’s “Elephant 6″ collective, Of Montreal is essentially Floridian songwriter Kevin Barnes plus an assorted collection of backing artists. Mining the melodic, mildly psychedelic vein of the White Album-era Beatles, Barnes composes striking short-form tone poems that, despite some rather downcast lyrics, manage to be catchy, upbeat, and utterly ... More About: Disco
Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night
2009-03-02 20:46:00 Both precious and abrasive, Love Is All’s A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night maintains the energy and frenzy that helped the Swedish quintet generate so much buzz with its debut recording three years ago. At their core, the group’s songs are just pop tunes played at a frantic pace, with Josephine Olausson’s shrill ...
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
2009-03-02 20:11:00 Fucked Up is the type of music your mother, Mary Whitehouse and the NME warned you about. This is the devil’s music, screamed at you by a bald-headed fat bloke called Pink Eyes who makes Wayne Coyne look sane, Frank Gallows look like a youth worker and Les Savy Fav look like the best bet ... More About: Life , Pop , Experimental , Common , Chemistry
Sad Day For Puppets - Unknown Colors
2009-03-02 20:05:00 In these long dark days of the economic winter let?s take a moment to thank our lucky stars for Scandinavia, the geopolitical region that continues to churn out brilliant pop records to brighten up the constantly perpetuated forecasts of gloom. Hell, even their downbeat exports are comforting, and Swedish indie nymphs Sad Day For Puppets ... More About: Colors , Indie , Unknown
People Under the Stairs - Fun DMC
2009-03-02 02:02:00 Rap takes itself way too seriously, way too much of the time. I?m fully aware of the social circumstances that inform many of its stars, but I?m talking more along the lines of all the music-video posturing, rather than the genre as a platform for social commentary. Run DMC, while they certainly hit on the ... More About: People , New York City
M. Ward - Hold Time
2009-03-02 01:44:00 Matt Ward is one of those characters who does things in such an understated manner that it?s easy to forget just how jaw-droppingly talented he is. M. Ward?s seventh album, Hold Time , was written and recorded during his whirlwind 2008, which found him appearing on record, on stages and on televisions alongside Zooey Deschanel as ...
Beirut - March of the Zapotec/Holland
More articles from this author:2009-03-02 00:00:00 Zach Condon is the Tintin of modern American indie. Under the name of Beirut , armed only with his trusty ukulele and trumpet, the plucky cub musician has bravely journeyed Into The Land Of The Gypsies (on 2006 debut Gulag Orkestar), caroused in The Paris Of The Golden 20s ( 2007’s The Flying Club Cup) and ... More About: Indie , March , Holland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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