In preparation for their 5th full-length album release due out March 24th, The Decemberists are offering up a free download of "The Rake's Song", from The Hazards of Love. Apparently the whole album plays like a story, so the album will be performed straight through for their upcoming concerts. You do have to [...]
I finally came across a little snippet of J*Davey's "End of the World (Mama's Back). This was my joint over the summer, so a big thank you goes out to I Bootlegged Your Mum for sharing the love!
So Miike Snow is being remixed by the likes of Treasure Fingers and Crookers (yeah, those guys responsible for the remix of Kid Cudi's "Day 'N Night"), but you can't seem to find any info on him/them. There is not much to go on when the Myspace page consists solely of the ambiguous [...]
Whoa, whoa, whoa! I don't know why exactly why I was expecting this to be some low-key, layed back track. Maybe it was the slow intro, or the title, but I got caught completely off guard. By no means is that a bad thing either, I'm absolutely loving this song right now. [...]
OK, so it's a couple weeks old. I hadn't been to Kissey's site for awhile, but was happy to find this nice little Christmas present that she had gifted to all her fans. HAHA, I like the word gifted, it makes me feel sophisticated when I say it ;). Oh well, enjoy [...]
Just wanted to give you a little heads up on a FREE show Emily King has coming up on Friday the 16th over at Rockwood Music Hall. She hasn't posted any new music on her site for quite sometime, but when I got to see her this summer she played a couple new tunes. [...]
Being the huge Ray LaMontagne fan that my old college roomate is, she played his music to the point where I actually started to like him. No, I kid, I kid. His music is actually very relaxing, not to mention that he has one of those awesomely sexy, raspy, tortured soul voices. So [...]
So the Photomachine remix (thanks We Like It Indie) of Yo! Majesty's "Don't Let Go" has been gaining momentum around the blogosphere, since apparently getting some spins from Basement Jaxx. Not that the Florida duo needs any help making waves for themselves. I'm still diggin' the original more, what do you think? [...]
Still a huge fan of The Bird and The Bee, I have been patiently awaiting their sophomore album, Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future, which is due out Jan. 27th. Continuing to keep things fresh, this time around they've managed to produce tracks that are much more danceable and funky, that is to [...]
This has been landing in my inbox all day… Of course we need this! Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position. We in the arts [...]
I've been a fan of Kid A for nearly 2 years now and still haven't figured out how to describe her music. On her Myspace bio she describes it as "blending everything you ever loved about music into a proverbial buffet of awesome." Well I'm a fat kid at heart, so you know [...]
Just catching up on emails and stuff, so I know this is a little late! D/Will has another EP, Human Decency Prevails, available for free download! Mostly covers with a couple originals thrown in there, it's a nice little listen…so make sure to check it out here. I'm diggin the cover of [...]
I dread the sad iPod icon; you know the one, that face that shows up when you have some kind of hardware problem with your iPod? It is every iPod addict's worst nightmare, usually resulting in sending your iPod back to Apple. In other words, your paying almost the same amount to fix [...]
So I first stumbled across beat maker K15 on Myspace and fell in love with his song "Anya". Not long after he sent me a copy of his upcoming release, a calloboration featuring vocalist LP, and the feeling was no different this time around. An album of chilled, laid back tunes that leave [...]
Bonne Année! ! I am having an awesome time with my travels, took a tone of pictures, but I must say that I am a little glad to be soon finished with the hectic traveling schedule and back into the swing of things. One day I will actually take a vacation that is actually [...]
So I know there have been a ton of "Womanizer" covers floating around, most famously by Lily Allen and Ladyhawke. I honestly never thought I would be mentioning Britney Spears on here, however I think the cover by the Frenchman Sliimy takes the cake…I think i just like when he says Lollipop. Does he remind [...]
Ok, so I'm not going to lie, I haven't gotten around to checking at Common's new album Universal Mind Control. I know it's sad, and I suppose saying that I have been busy is really not a sufficient excuse now is it? However, I can say for sure that after hearing "Everywhere" (while [...]
My first contact with Curumin was on a mixtape a friend of mine had made back in 2005. Then again after hearing "Guerreiro" on a Nike commercial for the 2006 World Cup, I decided to the give Achados e Perdidos a shot. It was a good album, but if your not down to [...]
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