Savath y Savalas The Predicate (Dub Version) (Stones Throw) Releasing: January [CD] Now [digital] The Predicate (Dub Version) is a Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse 73) remix of his group's La Llama, and if you find "Pavo Real Plucked" to your liking, you can pick up the digital pre-release over at Stones Throw. SONG LIST 01 Adeu Salutation 02 Abri.l Closed 03 Pavo Real Plucked 04 Pajaros En Cada...
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Detroit Free Press (MCT) -- DETROIT — First novels are often thinly disguised autobiographies, so why should a first piano concerto be any different? Michel Camilo's Piano Concerto No. 1, which the 55-year-old jazz pianist performs with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra this week, describes most of the key influences in his musical life. In its blend of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, classical forms and .
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Forget all about equality: this is one of the greatest productions of the 1980s.I mentioned in my review for Nouvelle Vague’s 3 that I found the French pop group’s cover of the 1984 Depeche Mode single “Master and Servant” lacking. Now, I don’t really want to rag on Nouvelle Vague (I do like the group’s music), but there’s simply no way that anemic faux-blues version could ever stand
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If there was a checklist for Eels archetypes, "Little Bird", the first track to see the light of day from the band's forthcoming LP End Times, would fill up more check boxes than just about any other song that E has penned. A simple, delicately strummed melody with a capo at the fifth fret? Check. Direct appeals to God? Check. An avian-centric narrative? Check. Gratuitous use of the word "godda...
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) -- (Erik Lunsford/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT) ST. LOUIS — Rocker Sheryl Crow never banked on her 1993 album "Tuesday Night Music Club" being a game-changing breakthrough. "I really don't know what to expect," Crow told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch during the album's release week, when the Kennett, Mo., native, was living here. "Anything is possible. Not ever having.
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El Ten Eleven + Controlled Storms: 18 November 2009 - The Khyber, Philadelphia / Words and Pictures by Sachyn MitalThe question of the night for El Ten Eleven was “Why aren’t you playing bigger venues?” The groovy electro-funk duo made their first ever Philadelphia tour stop at the Khyber Bar in front of a very appreciative but small crowd. The bar itself was cozy and, as hinted, a small p
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This song won me over in about 3 seconds with its springy guitar, and though some might find Olof Arnalds' oohing a little too bold, a little too Doris Day, I find it all the more idyllic. This is the musical equivalent of Snow White's friendly forest animals. I don't know what she's saying, but it sounds warm and earnest, like she has my best interests in mind.lf Arnalds Englar og drar [MP3]
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Baroness: 18 November 2009 - Rock and Roll Hotel, Washington DC / Words and Pictures by Mehan JayasuriyaOn Wednesday night, Savannah, Georgia metal act Baroness kicked off its fall tour at the Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington D.C. Living up to their reputation for outstanding live shows, the four-piece brought to the stage nearly every quality that makes Blue Record one of the year's best meta...
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Words and pictures by Mehan JayasuriyaOn Wednesday night, Savannah, Georgia metal act Baroness kicked off its fall tour at the Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington D.C. Living up to their reputation for outstanding live shows, the four-piece brought to the stage nearly every quality that makes Blue Record one of the year's best metal albums: bone-crunching riffs, anthemic vocals, hushed interludes...
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On Saturday night in LA, pop sensation Lady Gaga performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art's 30th Anniversary Gala. She performed the new ballad "Speechless" from her forthcoming album, The Fame Monster. Russia's world-renowned Bolshoi Ballet also performed that evening. Talk about pop culture slamming into high culture. Later that week, Lady Gaga appeared on Gossip Girl in an episode, approp...
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This AC/DC grab bag is expensive, but you know you want it.With gross earnings topping an astronomical $105 million, to say that it's been a good year for AC/DC is a bit of an understatement. With a third generation discovering the band's music, they're now more popular than they've ever been, there's no venue too small for them to play, exorbitantly-priced shows are selling out left and right,...
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Two wonderfully orchestral, conceptual albums: Osso re-arranging Sufjan, the other Sufjan re-arranging the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Caution: May require ritlin.Grab your layperson's guide to orchestral music terminology. It's time for a couple of non-folk conceptual albums from arty wunderkind Sufjan Stevens -- actually, one is rearranged by Osso. Both of these albums will alienate some fans...
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A long-awaited survey of the life and times of a cultural icon.Given Joan Baez’s centrality to American cultural and political life over the past five decades, the greatest surprise about this documentary is that it wasn’t made much sooner. While Bob Dylan’s career has been the subject of a multitude of docs and bios, essays and retrospectives, Baez’s work -- both as artist and activist --
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Good performances of great songs, but there's nothing to see here, people.Not too long ago, I reviewed the new Flight of the Conchords album, and among my complaints was the charge that some of the songs didn't work without their accompanying visuals. Well, feel free to haul out your Emerson and find something about foolish consistency, because I'm about to say that Robyn Hitchcock's concert DV...
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Lowlights may operate on a well-worn country road, but they cut their own route there.Dark End Road, the title of the last Lowlights record, was a perfect name for the band's sound. Their lush country music has the deep feel of being isolated out in the vast, wide-open parts of America. And that stark, beautiful sound continues with Further/Free. Singer Dameon Waggoner and his band guide us dow...
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The radio plays on and on. The heartbeat flat-lines.The Norwegian transplant Sondre Lerche, a music industry veteran at only 27, possesses considerable talent, but his new album Heartbeat Radio finds him working too hard toward no discernible end. The album is about love in its most mundane forms -- passing the morning paper back and forth over tea, squabbling, driving, chatting. It’s a minor w.
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Jupiter One's second album has some great songs, but it also gets mired in mediocre '70s-style pop here and there.Jupiter One's self-titled album was an unexpected surprise. Full of pop gems yet stylistically diverse, it was one of 2008's stronger debuts. Except that it was actually a reissue; the band originally self-released the album all the way back in 2005. So it's not a shock that the fol...
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One of the best live bands in American metal finally starts to live up to its potential on record.When a band is on the cusp of something really good, sometimes all it takes is a great producer to provide that one last push over the top. Athens, Ohio's Skeletonwitch has built a steady following over the past few years thanks to a phenomenal live show and such promising releases as 2006's Worshi...
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A compilation of varied but smartly integrated tracks.The PR for the Footsteps in Africa documentary is so Noble-Savage awestruck ("The viewer witnesses the Tuaregs [sic] mode of life, a survival from the soul.") that one might wonder if the soundtrack is worth a listen. The short answer is yes. It's a compilation of varied but smartly integrated tracks, some field recordings ("Tuareg Girls in ...
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The 1995 album by the Depeche Mode-esque German act who brought you "The Great Commandment" gets remastered and reissued with a bonus disc.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, record companies found some success by signing moody synth-pop acts and dropping an album in the space between Depeche Mode releases. Thus, bands like Celebrate the Nun, Red Flag, and Cause & Effect were given brief moments...
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