Our countdown of the '00s continues with 2004, a year that was particularly good for new bands. Among the top 10 albums of the year we find the debuts of Franz Ferdinand, TV On The Radio and Arcade Fire, three of the best new acts of the decade. Franz Ferdinand's self-titled LP played like a greatest hits compilation, as each and every song on it sounded like a potential number one single in an
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In this month's album selection we have a healthy dosage of hedonistic noise, an abundance of ingenious experimentation, inspired melancholic ballads, a bit of electro brit-pop, plenty of grungy guitars and even more ear-shattering noise.The title of the second A Place To Bury Strangers album clearly states the band's intentions. They are after our heads and they have just the right guitars and
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In part four of our series of posts dedicated to the best music of this decade, we present today our 30 favorite albums and singles of 2003, a very rewarding year for those of us who enjoy loud guitars, strong female voices and discovering exciting new music.Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who released the best debut of the year, had all those elements in place and so did The Kills. Karen O and Alison Mosshart
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The first visit of Willard Grant Conspiracy in Greece was filled with stories about death, dreams and women. Robert Fisher is a gifted storyteller and on this last stop of his band's current European tour supporting the release of the album "Paper Covers Stone", he had plenty of good ones to tell. Stories and songs like the one about a snake-handling preacher trying to convince space aliens to
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Part three of our tribute to the best music of the '00s and this time we turn the bright lights on 2002, a year dominated by the stunning debut of Interpol, the blitzkrieg rock of Queens Of The Stone Age and the epic, apocalyptic noise of … And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.Here's what I wrote about "Turn on the Bright Lights" at the unveiling of C.M.C.'s "Best Albums of 2002" list: "For
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We’ve had quite a few great releases in the two months since the last “Listening Habits” post and at least half of them may well find their way in our end of the year Top 50 list. We have already praised the excellent "Get Color", Health’s second album (or third if you also count last year’s remix job), and especially the stellar first single "Die Slow". Dream-pop vocal melodies and laye
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Our countdown of the '00s continues with the presentation of our favorite albums and singles of 2001, a year that will always have a futuristic glow in the eyes of 20th century children since this was the year that usually signified the future in sci-fi literature and cinema.The new music that dominated in 2001, however, was anything but futuristic. The main influences of the new rock
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HEALTH, from Los Angeles, is one of the most blogged about bands at the moment and rightly so, since their recently released second album "Get Color" is one of the most exciting records of the year so far. The cataclysmic noise of their 2007 self-titled debut is now kept under control, creating the building block of their well-structured industrial-electro assault. "Die Slow", the first single of
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MGMT, live @ Technopolis, Athens.MGMT has been one of the biggest sensations of 2008, with their major-label debut "Oracular Spectacular" finding its way in all the respectable end of the year "Best Of" lists and their singles "Kids" and "Time to pretend", getting non-stop airplay everywhere. While the recording of their next album "Congratulations" is underway, the band hit the road for a few
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Not much to go for the end of the decade and various "best of" lists are already starting to appear. Our own album list for the '00s is going to be finalized early next year because we feel that we should concentrate on 2009's music for now. However, starting this month, we shall dedicate two or three of our monthly posts to the presentation of our 30 favorite albums and singles for each year of
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For the past few months I've been posting lists with the best albums from each year of the '80s on Cool Music Database and finally, last week, the process was completed with the 1989 selection. Those lists have been in existence for several years and were first published in the original Cool Music Central site, hosted on Netscape websites between 1999 and 2008.Instead of posting the lists on the
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The search into the dustier parts of our record collection continues for the fifth installment of "Blast From The Past". The aim of this series of posts is to pick our 50 favorite albums from a different 5-year period each time. As a rule, only one album is permitted from each group or solo artist. This means that we also have to decide on the best release from each band in this 5-year period.The
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It's finally time for our summer vacations but before we prepare our suitcases and hang the "Gone Fishin'" sign, we'll be taking a look at the latest batch of fine records that fell into our lap recently.The "Album of the Month" title for July goes to the latest Jack White-featuring supergroup, The Dead Weather. This time he has taken up the drums and hooked up with Alison Mosshart from The Kills
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Many of my travels over the years had something to do with music. Whenever I travel abroad, I'm always looking for opportunities to go to concerts or festivals and this unquenchable thirst for live music has taken me to tiny clubs, large concert halls or fields all over the map, in cities like London, Reading, Dublin, New York, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid and more recently Barcelona. For the two
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Lists presenting the best albums of the first half of the year have become as inevitable as a heat wave in July. And since this blog is known for never missing an opportunity to create a "Best of" list (as you may have guessed, we're big fans of "High Fidelity"), this is exactly what you're going to get.The music of the first half of 2009 hasn't exactly been spectacular, but there are at least 15
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Last week I was saying how great June had been for live music in Athens, but it seems that by giving praise too soon I may have inadvertently put a jinx on future events! A sudden hailstorm last Sunday (28/6) led to the cancellation of the second day of Rockwave Festival where The Killers, Tricky and Dinosaur Jr. (among others) were supposed to play. Unfortunately, the organizers were not
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June has been the busiest month of the year for live music in Athens. Actually, this is an understatement as I really can't remember any other month in recent history with so many festivals and gigs taking place in and around the city. We have already written about Synch Festival and next week we'll talk about Ejekt and Rockwave. Today's subject, though, is the three gigs that took place at the
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Among the various mini music festivals taking place in and around Athens in the summertime, Synch Festival offered, for another year, the most adventurous line-up and certainly the best bet to discover new music and see some acts that you wouldn't expect to be playing here as they are virtually unknown to most. But thanks to the good reputation that the festival has created these past 6 years
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After blowing us away with a magnificent performance at Primavera Sound '09, Sonic Youth return with one of their best albums in this decade that seems to have a lot in common with their early '90s work. Opening tracks "Sacred trickster" and "Anti-orgasm" seem to hail straight from the "Goo" or "Dirty" recording sessions and set the tone for their first album on an independent label (Matador) in
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Green Man Festival, the independent event which takes place in Glanusk Park, in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, boasts one of the best line-ups you'll find this summer featuring the likes of Animal Collective, Jarvis Cocker, Wilco, Bon Iver, Roky Erickson, British Sea Power, Dirty Three, Grizzly Bear, Andrew Bird, Four Tet, Vetiver, Camera Obscura, Wooden Shjips, Gang Gang Dance, The
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