Oops, I almost missed my deadline this month, but even at the last moment I have at last the 50 singles that make up Cool Music Central's "Best Singles of 1993" list, which you can check out here!As usual, I've gone through, literally, hundreds of single and EP releases from the year at hand before applying the special C.M.C. filters and narrowing the list down to the 50 "best", meaning,
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1993: Top 50 Singles
Killer Tracks: 2:54 - Creeping
London-based, neo-shoegazers 2:54 was one of the bands we were tipping at the beginning of the year and now it's time to see if sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow will make good on their initial promise. Their self-titled, Rob Ellis and Alan Moulder produced, debut album is coming out today and based on the excellent new single "Creeping" (a reworked version of one of their early tracks) I
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Milk Music, live @ Six D.O.G.S (Athens, May 23, 2012)
One of our first posts of the year was about the new bands and artists that fit the profile of what we'd like to listen to more in 2012. Olympia, Washington’s Milk Music made the shortlist thanks to the awesomeness of their guitar sound, a raw, powerful yet melodic noise that brings to mind some of the best moments in the history of SST and Sub Pop, two of the leading American noise rock
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Plisskën Festival 2012 (Athens, May 12, 2012)
The second edition of Plisskën Festival took place almost a year and a half after the first one, this time with even more acts (23 in total) divided between two stages. These are the most memorable performances we witnessed last Saturday at the all-day alternative music event that took place at the "Hellenic Cosmos" Cultural Centre:PeachesThe
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Listening Habbits 03-04.12
Our favorite spring albums express a confusing mix of contrasting, extreme emotions, from ecstasy to horror, but the one sitting at the top of our list states a clear, bright vision about the present and future of pop music."Visions", Grimes’ debut album for 4AD and third overall, bristles with inspirational melodies and playful beats. Claire Boucher, the Montreal-based musician and
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100 A's - The John Peel Archive
The record collection of legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, containing more than 26000 LPs, 40000 singles and many thousands of CDs, has become an interactive online museum. This week we were able to check out the first 100 vinyl LPs of the collection classified under the letter A (from The A's to Adam And The Ants) and until October 2012 the creative arts project which is part of a new
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New Releases: April 2012
Round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in April 2012 including some of the limited edition Record Store Day releases:AlbumsBlunderbussJACK WHITE - BlunderbussSPIRITUALIZED - Sweet Heart Sweet LightMOONFACE - With Siinai: Heartbreaking BraveryACTRESS - R.I.PDEATH GRIPS - The Money StoreSANTIGOLD - Master Of My Make-BelieveALLO DARLIN' - EuropeLOWER DENS -
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1992: Top 50 Singles
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It's the end of the month, which means it's time for another trip down the '90s memory lane for the unveiling of our latest Top 50 Singles list from the last decade of the 20th century.This time we're going exactly 20 years back to 1992, the year PJ Harvey released her stunning debut album "Dry". A few months earlier, in February, the instant classic "Sheela-Na-Gig" was released as her
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Shearwater, live @ An Club (Athens, April 21, 2012)
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"Animal Joy", Shearwater’s seventh album, is one of their best efforts yet and one of the finest releases of the year so far. In that respect, we should consider ourselves lucky for the timing of Jonathan Meiburg’s band first ever visit to Athens, a decade into their recording career.The Austin, Texas band, which for this tour also includes Mitch Billeaud on guitar and keys, Lucas
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Giant Giant Sand
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It's not a typo. Howe Gelb has expanded the line-up of his Giant Sand to twelve members and fittingly renamed the group to Giant Giant Sand. Their new album "Tuscon" (self-described as a country rock opera, no less) is coming on June 11th, 2012 on Fire Records and the excellent "Forever And A Day" is the first taste from it. It sounds wonderfully dusty!And here's an older favorite from
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Mark Lanegan Band, live @ Fuzz Club (Athens, April 5, 2012)
After several visits in the last few years along with his many notable collaborators (Greg Dulli, Isobel Campbell, Soulsavers), Mark Lanegan returned to Athens once more, this time for a solo gig with his own band. Thursday night at Fuzz Club it was time for a Blues Funeral.Little before half past ten, after local act Illegal Operation presented us with their own version of the blues,
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New Releases: March 2012
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Round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in March 2012:AlbumsTHE MEN - Open your HeartLEE RANALDO - Between The Times And The TidesJULIA HOLTER - EkstasisLA SERA - Sees the LightBLOOD RED SHOES - In Time To VoicesTHE SHINS - Port Of MorrowTHE WEDDING PRESENT - ValentinaNITE JEWEL - One Second Of LoveELEPHANT & CASTLE - TransitionsODD FUTURE - The OF Tape Vol.2
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Keep Shelly In Athens & Baby Guru, live @ Gagarin 205 (Athens, March 29, 2012)
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Keep Shelly In Athens and Baby Guru, two of the best new bands of the Greek scene right now, shared the stage of Gagarin 205 last Thursday. Here's a glimpse into the happenings of this enjoyable double-bill:Keep Shelly In Athens was the first band to take the stage, playing just for the second time in their hometown. Thanks to the power of the internet, the band's chilled, electropop
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1991: Top 50 Singles
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To quote Sonic Youth, 1991 was the year that punk broke. Nirvana led the charge with "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the stunning first single off "Nevermind", indisputably the rock album of the decade, but if you take a closer look at our Top 50 Singles of 1991 here, you'll notice an abundance of gloriously noisy guitar music.Other highlights of the year included "Dress", P.J. Harvey's
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Killer Tracks: My Heart Beats
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Another winner by Veronica Falls! "My Heart Beats", the band's first new recording since last year's excellent debut (one of our Top 20 Albums of the Year), is released as a single next week by Bella Union. Check out the retro looking video below and go here for a free download of the super catchy track - can't think of a better way to welcome Spring!Veronica Falls - My Heart Beats
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Domino Record Store Day 2012 Sampler
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Record Store Day 2012 is only a month away. Here's a sample of what will be in indie stores from Domino on April 21st:More info on Record Store Day here. Check out the long list of releases here.
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Listening Habbits 01-02.12
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For the first installment of Listening Habits for 2012 we have compiled two neat Top 20 lists with our favorite albums and tracks for the first couple of months of the year as well as a few selections from 2011 that took us a while to get into. Let's take a closer look at some of the highlights of our Top 20 Albums list:The two most impressive albums we've listened to lately come from a
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Still Corners, live @ Six D.O.G.S (Athens, March 3, 2012)
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If Still Corners had been around twenty-something years ago, they would have been an ideal fit for the role of the house band at Twin Peaks' Roadhouse bar. Their innocent, half-whispered harmonies suggest a dark underbelly of mystery and sinister secrets, a perfect match for the Lynchian world of the cult TV series. Admittedly, the tiny Six D.O.G.S club at the heart of Athens bears
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New Releases: February 2012
Round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in February 2012:Albums MARK LANEGAN BAND - Blues FuneralSLEIGH BELLS - Reign Of TerrorGRIMES - VisionsSCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - GhostorySHARON VAN ETTEN - TrampFRANKIE ROSE - InterstellarPOP.1280 - The HorrorSHEARWATER - Animal JoyLAMBCHOP - Mr MTINDERSTICKS - The Something RainXIU XIU - AlwaysOF MONTREAL - Paralytic
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1990: Top 50 Singles
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Our '90s flashback is about to begin! Last year we revisited our favorite singles of the '80s with a monthly series of posts featuring our Top 50 lists for each year of the decade as well as playlists where you could listen to most of these 500 tracks.Between now and November 2012 (just in time for the Mayan Apocalypse!) we are going to choose another 500 remarkable singles, this time
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