Think About It, Flight of the Conchords Always entertaining but often forgotten, this post presents to your turntable the glory that is Flight of the Conchords. I’ll let them, in characteristic Australian accents and self-effacing style, introduce themselves: “We are Flight of the Conchords, formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk parody duo… Unfortunately another [...]
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On Dan’s Turntable: Think About It / Flight of the Conchords
On Dan’s Turntable: GOLDBRICK / andrew dunham
Rise of the Half Moon [512x212], andrew dunham The Black Cat x The Illest, andrew dunham Coming at you from the collaborative craniums of two Kenyon kids, the album is GOLDBRICK, a five-song space package sent just in time for summer. While you were studying for finals, Andrew Firestone and Win Dunham were capturing in [...]
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On Jack’s Turntable: Sexual Healing / Hot 8 Brass Band
Sexual Healing, The Hot 8 Brass Band I love ridiculous covers, and this one is about as ridiculous as they come. On this radical re-interpretation, the Hot 8 Brass Band turns Marvin Gaye’s seminal classic completely upside-down, contrasting the original in every possible way like Bizarro and Superman. On “Sexual Healing,” Marvin is liquid smooth, [...]
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On Jack’s Turntable: Thinking About You / Frank Ocean
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Thinking About You, Frank Ocean I’ve proclaimed my appreciation (okay, love) for Frank Ocean before on this site, but this weekend I watched the official Youtube footage of his Cochella performance, and this song hit me way harder than I expected it to. I downloaded this track when it surfaced at the end of last year, but [...]
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On John’s Turntable: Somebody Ihat I Used To Know/Gotye
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Gotye, Somebody That I Used To Know After I listened to Walk off the Earth’s innovative cover of this song with a guitar-playing friend of mine, we both decided to check out Belgian-Australian* artist Gotye’s original version. Turns out it’s just as good as Walk off the Earth’s cover, which is a testament to both [...]
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On Jack’s Turntable: Why Even Try (RAC Remix) / Theophilus London
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Why Even Try (RAC Remix), Theophilus London I liked the original version of this track for the most part when I first heard it last summer, but I found its overly-pronounced growly ‘80s bass line distracting, and honestly a little bit ugly. Lo and behold, the mighty Remix Artists Collective agreed with me, replacing the dirty [...]
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On Jack’s Turntable: Patron Saint / Garret Baker
Patron Saint, Garret Baker One of the most interesting discoveries I’ve made since coming over to Ireland has been a series of gatherings where Dublin’s Ukulele players congregate above a pub and swap songs for a few hours every month. Garret Baker, a singer-songwriter from the Dublin folk scene, is a regular at these events, [...]
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On Dan’s Turntable: Don’t Think Twice (Dylan Tribute) / J.Period & K’naan
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Don’t Think Twice (Dylan Tribute), J.Period & K’naan A spectacular collaboration between Brooklyn-based producer J.Period and Somali rapper K’naan, here is Don’t Think Twice. The song is one of the duo’s best off their trilogy of albums, a series called The Messengers, tributes to Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, and, in this case, Bob Dylan. All [...]
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On Jack’s Turntable: When We Were Happy / Rob Giles
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When We Were Happy, Rob Giles One of the most beautiful and emotionally crippling things about language is how some short phrases can have such huge connotations hidden in their phrasing. My favorite example of this idea comes from Sam Beam’s lyrics to his song “The Trapeze Swinger,” when he says “someone told me you’re [...]
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On John’s Turntable: Février / Vincent Vallières
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Février, Vincent Vallières Even though we’re well into February, we still don’t have much snow in Central New York, so maybe this post is a little ironic. Actually, in case you can’t understand the lyrics, take my word for it: it’s ironic. The name of the song translates as “February,” and the lyrics are sort [...]
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On Dan’s Final 2011 Turntable: Rescue Ranger / Rubblebucket
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Rescue Ranger, Rubblebucket For my final haphazard catalogue of 2011, I offer Rubblebucket. I don’t know much about them, except that they used to go by Rubblebucket Orchestra, and that they’ve always been funky. Music ranging from alternative to pop, some indie and eclecticism, the band is hard to pin down. I’ve gotten lost listening [...]
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On Dan’s 2011 Turntable: Youth Lagoon & schultzing
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Posters, Youth Lagoon Claremont, schultzing Sometimes, all you want from your music is a background track to whatever you’re doing… whichformeismostlyhomework. It is this aesthetic that connects the two bands featured here: Youth Lagoon, who I know nearly nothing about, and schultzing, a German jazz quintet. Youth Lagoon. Just one dude, 22, named Trevor Powers. [...]
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On Jack’s Turntable: All Through The Night / Tyler Ramsey
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All Through The Night, Tyler Ramsey In September I wrote about this song for Cover Me (you can check out the post here), and ever since then it has haunted me- never getting boring no matter how often I listen to it. There’s something astonishing about how Tyler’s guitar picking follows the core melody while simultaneously [...]
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On Dan’s 2011 Turntable: Flying Overseas / Theophilus London
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Flying Overseas (feat. Devonte Hynes & Solange Knowles), Theophilus London 2011 was a year that in large part legitimized the rise of indie music, in all its eclectic forms. With Bon Iver topping Pitchfork and many others’ charts, 2011 marked an age led by low-fi acoustic folk recordings, accompanied by 80s-esque electronic renderings of several [...]
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On Zach’s Turntable: Last Nite / Adele
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Last Nite, Adele A big thank you to Jack for bringing this cover to my attention. Simply put, if I were forced to name one song as my favorite song of all time, I would probably have to say the Strokes’ 2001 garage-punk gem “Last Nite,” off their marvelous debut Is This It (also probably my [...]
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On Pete’s Turntable: 2020 / Sol
2020, Sol This album came out a few short weeks ago, and this post is a public appeal to all of you devoted readers to GO BUY THE CRAP OUT OF IT. Sol has singlehandedly blown a blast of fresh air into the recent rap releases, establishing a unique focus that could be described as [...]
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On Jack’s Turntable x3: I Can’t Make You Love Me / Bonnie Raitt / Adele / Bon Iver
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Flipping through my overflowing Google Reader feed the other day I came across this Ann Powers article chronicling the past and future of American Idol, a show I very much adored in my younger years for vocalists like Ruban Studdard and Jennifer Hudson. I inexplicably followed a link in the article to Carrie Underwood’s original [...]
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On John’s Turntable: Wild West West / Dire Straits
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Wild West End, Dire Straits God knows it’s sometimes tough to get posts up here on Turntablr during the semester. But I absolutely have to gush over Dire Straits, and I don’t mind staying up just a little later to do it. “Wild West End” sits among an album of spectacularly lean and muscular songs, [...]
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On Dan’s 2011 Turntable: Fuck Your Ethnicity / Kendrick Lamar
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Fuck Your Ethnicity, Kendrick Lamar A gangster rapper from Compton with a social consciousness sharp as Common, Kendrick Lamar entered the hip-hop game in 2010 with his release of O(verly) D(edicated). The year prior, he released the Kendrick Lamar EP, notable for the fact that it contained 15 tracks—many more than the traditional EP, displaying [...]
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On Jack’s Turntable: We Take Care of Our Own / Bruce Spingsteen
We Take Care of Our Own, Bruce Springsteen I can only start this review by admitting my lifelong love of Bruce Springsteen’s music. I personally believe that he’s the strongest lyrically-focused songwriter of Rock’s first three decades (’50s, ’60s and ’70s), and that Josh Ritter is probably the only writer who has been able to [...]
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