(photo: Autumn de Wilde)There’s more than a little joy on Little Joy’s self-titled debut album. In fact it’s chock full of music that would beautifully soundtrack a South American vacation slideshow of snapshots featuring your hot aunt with nothing but a scant bikini and almost drawn-on tan lines, a group of inebriated hotel guests sipping concoctions crammed with crushed ice and tropical
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Brand new start
Manipulating woman
Ladyhawke: bird of a different feathered hairdo (photo: Modular Records)If you’d never heard of Wellington, New Zealand’s Phillipa “Pip” Brown, and her musical alter-ego Ladyhawke before, you probably have no trouble imagining what her music would sound like just by looking at a list of her label mates on Modular Records:?? Chromeo, MSTKRT, Cut Copy, Klaxons, and Robyn.?? If even that bit
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Manipulating woman
Ladyhawke: bird of a different feathered hairdo (photo: Modular Records)If you’d never heard of Wellington, New Zealand’s Phillipa “Pip” Brown, and her musical alter-ego Ladyhawke before, you probably have no trouble imagining what her music would sound like just by looking at a list of her label mates on Modular Records: Chromeo, MSTKRT, Cut Copy, Klaxons, and Robyn. If even that bit
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Great Zeus!!
(photo: Myspace)I’m not Chromewaves. Or I Guess I’m Floating. Or Gorilla vs Bear. Or–well, you get the picture. I am just a small little blog, coming to you from the middle of nowhere. I don’t get the big scoops, or the exclusive mp3s. I’m like that kid in high school who, while not shunned by the cool kids, didn’t exactly get to hang out with them on the weekends. Maybe
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I’ve found a new way, baby.
That weegee crime scene inspired cover art EVERYONE is talking about.Franz Ferdinand have revealed the artwork for their third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand to the NME, and so therefore to the entire world ( The physical product hits store shelves on January 28th, but if you head over to their official site now, you can take a spin on their random-track-playing turntable and hear “selections
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Like a hitman, like a dancer
AC Newman: Guilty as charged (photo: Myspace)With A.C. Newman, you know what you’re going to get. That’s not a bad thing or a criticism; it’s just a matter of fact that anything he puts his name to is going to be smart pop that’s not afraid to rock out, or overstay it’s welcome. Whether writing as head New Pornographer, or working on his solo material, Newman is the consummate musica
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Accident and emergency
Harmonies that heal all wounds: First Aid Kit (photo: Josefin Klåvus)I guess now that American Thanksgiving over, it’s time to start the holiday season off with a vengeance. Is there a better way then to ring it in with a Swedish duo covering “Blue Christmas”? I didn’t think so. QBiM, meet First Aid Kit. They’re getting ready to release an EP entitled Drunken Trees sometime earl
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Highway of endless dreams
M38: You, appearing with The Killers. (photo: Myspace)M83 have just announced that the band is going to be opening for The Killers across North American arenas in January and February. M83 have been on the road for the better part of this year supporting the album Saturdays=Youth. In the studio, Anthony Gonzalez makes all the noise on M83 records, but on the road he’s joined by Loic Maurin o
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This is where I get off.
Just want to let all my QBiM readers know that there are some changes afoot, and I want to make sure I'm not losing any of you in the process. As of RIGHT NOW, QBiM will be accessible by visiting www.quickbeforeitmelts.com only. Some of you may still be going to our original Blogger URL http://qbim.blogspot.com, but this will be the last post on that site. Consequently, anyone who's reading ...
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Random transmissions from the nether regions
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A random photo taken by me. It's one of those odd days around QBiM where I actually find myself with very little I want to write about so we'll play a little game called "Start Writing The Post and..." ...and we'll see where it takes us. I've been having a rough week blog-wise, friends, because someone out there seems to be going through my archives and looking for posts of a questionable natu...
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These days mean nothing to me.
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Album:Moon Country
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52 girls on film
I'm currently reading Love Is A Mixtape by Rob Sheffield, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, which is billed as a memoir about "life and loss, one song at a time". Each chapter's starting point is a mixed tape that Sheffield--or someone close to him--created at certain life intervals that carry with it the spirit of it's time and the essence of the place and moment the tape was enjoyed. ...
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Classical records
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Beware our nubile miscreants
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Mixing pop and politics
Happy Tuesday! I hope all the Canadians have gotten over their turkey-induced hangovers. Just in time, too, as today we of the Great White North get set to paint our nation red, blue, orange and/or green: it's Federal Election time in Canada.I'm not political, and I don't a politically-savvy thirtysomething on TV, but I have a voters card and I'm not afraid to use it. At the start of this c...
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Mixing pop and politics
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