“Lisa Go Stick It, I Got My Bonnaroo Ticket” by Gary Chardonnay from Bonnaroo on Vimeo.I don’t know what this is, but I’m posting it in honor of my favorite music festival. Come hell or high water, by hook or by crook, with or without another colloquial southern cliche in this post, I plan [...]
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For three years now, we’ve watched as Beach House has gone from humble, subtly hypnotic Baltimore slack-key-core twosome to a fully realized and accomplished recording act. With the forthcoming release of Teen Dream on their new home label of Sub Pop, the team of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally will have completed a transformation [...]
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Slowly but surely, the machinery of Magnetic Fields is cranking back up. With their new album Realism set for release, they’ve decided to embark on a wee bairn of a tour. Check out these tour dates — (Tour dates/links thanks to The Music Slut)February 4 (Thu)WASHINGTON, DCLisner Auditorium @ George Washington UniversityFebruary [...]
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The legendary Gil-Scott Heron, the black radical poet, musician, composer, author, purveyor of spoken word and singer (whom many refer to lovingly with titles like “the black Bob Dylan” and “the godfather of rap”), has been long presumed dead due to his conspicuous absence from music. Though kept alive through retrospectives and reverential referencing [...]
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If you take a look at the recently-published list of Time Magazine’s “50 Best Inventions of 2009″, you will find many technologically significant inventions — NASA’s missles, a racing car made entirely out of food, and even a human-powered vending machine. Among these inventions, a surprising (and deserved) addition has appeared: the YouTube remix [...]
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I’m still on the fence about this, but the video, which leaked today, is pretty good IMO. But uh… Lady Gaga though? I have tried so hard to “get” Lady Gaga. I guess it comes down to this: I have to see her live to “get her”. Meh, dance y’all. If you came [...]
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If you were one of DJ AM’s millions of fans, there was no way to think of him without recognizing his public appeals regarding his personal struggles with addiction. At the height of his fame as DJ, Adam Goldstein was irrepressible and tireless in his quest to help those suffering from addiction, through both [...]
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We just got news about a benefit, at which Juan MacLean will DJ, to take place on November 20th at San Francisco’s Mezzanine nightclub in tribute to Jerry Fuchs. Jerry, the drummer for !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Maserati, LCD Soundsystem and The Juan MacLean to name just a few, died tragically last week at [...]
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(Editor’s note: this originally appeared on Loudersoft on 4 March 2009. I’ve updated the post to include MP3’s of the tracks so that, hopefully, it will pull people from MP3 search engines to discover Kutiman and his site. It’s definitely my favorite website of 2009 and, without a doubt, one of my favorite [...]
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The ephemeral Brooklyn indie pop trio of Annie, Erika, and Heather make up Au Revoir Simone, and if you’re here you’re likely already a fan. Their album Still Night, Still Light has been a mainstay amongst twee pop fans the last few months and, now, they have a new single from the album set [...]
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Those wonderful Dutch ghettotechin’ blip wizardy-wizards in Le Le hit us up today with a perfect hot mess — remixes of a track called “Disco Monster” from their last EP, Marble. Le Le’s super-human electro-insanities and skin-tight grooves can be heard in mixes from Erol Alkan, Busy P, DJ Medhi, and a whole mess [...]
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I don’t know anything at all about O’Spada, but I intend to find out more. The Stockholm act’s soulful funk, reminiscent of Prince, Rick James’ production style or the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis grooves of the 80’s, is getting some heavy attention and rotation. Apparently their last single “Time” got out in [...]
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Although we currently know next-to-nothing about what this album will sound like, we’re definitely excited to hear that a new Magnetic Fields album will be released on Nonesuch Records this coming January. Stephin Merritt fans may rejoice quietly as they look at the album cover (above) and the tracklisting (below) which was revealed to [...]
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Are you a die-hard music fan? Â Are you the most dedicated to a core of independent artists, many of whom you feel you have developed a “personal” connection with thanks to social networks like Twitter, Facebook or MySpace? Â As the models for artist survival in the music industry widen and mutate, there’s a growing focus [...]
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There is nobody in music quite like the one known as Res (pronounced ‘Reese’). A classically-trained born-and-raised Illadelphian vocalist with a soaring range, Res was raised on the strains of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Teddy Pendergrass. However, as her musical boundaries expanded, she developed a prurient interest in rock music — diverse artists [...]
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Prince Klassen is one of my favorite DJ / Producer / Remixers in the world at the moment. Roxy Music is one of my favorite bands of all time, a master act of the 1970’s and 80’s who straddled the lines of rock, dance and pop music, led by the inscrutable Bryan Ferry. [...]
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If you don’t know about the documentary known simply as The Carter, it’s time you became familiar. Â The movie, which screened at this year’s Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals (among others) to rave reviews, gives fans and foes an inside look at the mind and the day-to-day world of what it’s like to be Lil [...]
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You tell me what you think for a change. As the title suggests, I’m posting this without listening to it. The Bravery – “The Spectator” (right click to download)The new album by The Bravery, Stir The Blood, comes out on December 1. With the album’s first single “Slow Poison” being played on radio stations throughout [...]
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At this year’s SXSW music festival, I was very impressed during my opportunity to catch Those Darlins at the Brooklyn Vegan party. Hailing from just outside Nashville, the trio of Kelly, Jessi and Nicki Darlin bring a party atmosphere to the stage by melding styles that may not seem to go together on first [...]
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