You sure have changed Sia.Sorry, that was lame. Let’s start all over.Sia, who happens to be one of my favorite artists ever, decided to give her fans a taste of what she’s been working on to follow up 2007’s Some People Have Real Problems. So yesterday, she Tweeted a download link of “You’ve [...]
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I personally find it rather frustrating when a band member decides to launch a solo career but simply ends up sounding like the original band he/she was originally a part of. It makes me wonder: what’s the point? But of course, that’s the fan talking in me and we all know fans have no regard [...]
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Photo by Sarah Murphy JuradoHoly crap is “ River of Love” cheesy. I mean, it’s called River of Love, seriously, by the group United State of Electronica – a band that self identifies as “disco pop.” Completely, unabashedly, poppy and over the top – the little snare hit, the snappy guitar riffs, and of course [...]
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Funnest music video of the year? Probably.We are giving away the Cousins 7″ single. Entries will be accepted until the December 15th release date. Enter here.Contra is out 1/11 via XL. Pre-order it at InSound or at Amazon.Edit: Web Sheriff sucks.Tags: Vampire WeekendWhile I Was Gone (5)Vampire Weekend plus Ra Ra Riot equals Discovery (12)Vampire [...]
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Photo by meik meikSo a few weeks ago, CMJ was happening, and we were all running around like dance crazed party girls. Now that the dust has more than officially settled, we can tell you that some pretty cool shit went down. We talked to some folks. We caught some shows.One of the people we [...]
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Photo courtesy of Little Dragon’s Myspace Page.Is there something in the water in Gothenburg, Sweden? The Knife, The Tough Alliance, Jose Gonzalez, Jens Lekman, and now Little Dragon – those damn Swedes just keep pumping out irresistible pop melodies in a variety of weird incarnations.Little Dragon’s track “Runabout” is certainly a slice of quirky [...]
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Don’t forget to rate the album at the end of the post.Welcome back to Blinded By The Hype, the PMA feature in which we revisit albums once the hype has died down. In today’s world, music is released at a machine gun pace. It’s a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately type scene, and “lately” usually means this week. Rarely [...]
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Photo by Kirstie Shanley“Fright Lined Dining Room” is one of the three unreleased tracks to back the Arctics’ second single “Cornerstone” off Humbug, which we were crazy about .Alex Turner told Uncut Magazine that he wrote the song “one morning, quite quickly” adding that, “there’s something to be said for writing in the morning. At [...]
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Karen Dancing In The Rain (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Osheaga 2009 Montreal) by Anirudh KoulRarely am I at a loss of words. Rarely is “wow” the only thing I am able to express audibly. “Hysteric,” when played live, is one of the few songs that make the words fall out of my head and out of [...]
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Other pretty much amazing happenings in the music blogophere that I probably won’t be writing about:Watch Lil Wayne’s The Carter Documentary in its entirety at First Up!Listen to and download Amerie’s “Tell Me You Love Me” at Fluxblog. It’s really f’n great.Gorilla vs Bear has the music video of the Golden Filter’s “Thunderbird” available for [...]
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Lady GaGa on Gossip GirlLast night’s episode of Gossip Girl featured a lot of Lady Gaga (and even a performance by GaGa). So much that it was almost ridiculous. This GaGa injection was, no doubt, in promotion of Lady GaGa’s upcoming album The Fame Monster.The episode prominently featured Monster “Bad Romance” and “Made in the [...]
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In many ways, the new music video for “Ready, Able” matches my feelings for the lush track off of Veckatimest, one of the year’s best albums.The video’s best moments (see colorful melting at :47, potential alien abduction at 1:53, and awesome clay, stop-motion transformations at 3:26) come at the song’s most thrilling moments- jolts of [...]
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Don’t forget to rate the album at the end of the review.Basement JaxxScarsUltra Recordsout October 6th68/100[Rating Scale]Basement Jaxx are, at this point, an old group, as strange as that sounds. 2009’s Scars comes a full decade after the duo burst onto the dance music scene with Remedy, a longevity matched by [...]
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When I first heard Cousins, I watched it at seven in the morning on a Thursday in a grainy Youtube video, all strobe light and dancing kids, and I did everything that fantastic and lucky weekend singing to myself the precious few syllables that I understood. “Me and my cousins and you and your cousins [...]
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Photo by Vince KmeronNew tour dates have been announced for Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, The Big Pink, Hot Chip, The xx, Passion Pit, Japandroids, St. Vincent, Jay-Z, Neon Indian, and Fiery Furnaces. Full dates after the jump:Phoenix11-17 Stuttgart, Germany – Zapata11-18 Frankfurt, Germany – Cocoon Club11-19 Dortmund, Germany – FZW Eldoradio11-20 Mannheim, Germany – Alte [...]
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Photo by FilkoeI saw Tune-Yards (not TuNe-YaRdS, as I’m afraid of my shift key) open for the Dirty Projectors last week while visiting the cold and wet Salt Lake City. I had no idea who they (I later found out it was just a she) were, but the gorgeous, all-over-the-spectrum noises this woman was making, [...]
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Photo by Punk PhotoSleigh Bells is the loud, creative forced brought to life by Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss. Derek played in a hardcore band, and Alexis well, she was a, uh… school teacher who played in a pop group in her teenage years. With a winning combination like that, you’re bound to to make [...]
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The xx performed and recorded a Black Session for the French radio station France Inter FM on October 26th. Their set was basically a run through of their debut album XX. I would have loved some spontaneity from the band. Maybe throw in their Florence + the Machine cover? Either way, it was fun to [...]
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Best Albums of 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 092007 might just be my favorite year for music releases this decade. Unfortunately, many, many great albums were left out of this list. It was pretty hard leave them out, but I couldn’t [...]
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Reader’s Choice: Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m NotWas anyone shocked to see Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not win the popular vote for Best of 2006? If you were, you were probably born in 2007… just woke up from a 4 year coma.The album is stunningly [...]
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