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The Beatles, featuring Smokey Robinson
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Periodic Update: What The Streets' Mike Skinner Has Been Up To
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Remix on Fire
There's a lake monster in Lake Winnipesaukee, EEEK! I'm still on vacation, but here' s a pretty synthtastic new remix of personal favorite Hearts on Fire. I could listen to that song all day long. You know what? I just might.Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire (YSI) (filesavr)Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire (Viking Remix) (YSI) (filesavr)
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XX are Pretty Cool
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Day 2 of the perfect summer weekend continues and I'm headed up to Lake Winnipesaukee in NH after a long week of work while Chris is chilling in Seattle. I recently discovered the languid, hazy stylings of XX and I am hooked just like every other hipster out there. Eschewing fancy tricks and gimmicks, XX construct remarkable grooves with only some lo-fi guitar interacting with male and female v...
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Party on a Yacht
Its finally feeling like summer in New England and everybody is at the beach. Seriously, everybody is on vacation this weekend. Yacht dropped a new album recently entitled See Mystery Lights with the aid of the boys over at DFA. The album is filled with anthemic jams featuring the grooves of DFA and Yacht's party boy swagger. Its a perfectly fun, sunny album for a great weekend at the beach. En...
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A Fruitful Grapevine
It’s hard to think of too many songs that have produced three or more very different, very high-quality recordings. Back in high school my buddies might have cited “All Along the Watchtower,” with versions by Dylan, Hendrix, and Dave Matthews, but I refuse to recognize the Dave Matthews version as great. “Yesterday” is the most covered song of all time, but it’s hard to think of any tr
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New Single "Us" From Brother Ali Shows Great Flow and Good Vibes
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It's a well documented obsession that I have with Brother Ali, but one that I stand by without a shred of self-consciousness. I see literally NOTHING to not like about the guy. He's overcome a bunch of hurdles in his life - blindness, poverty, albinism - and come out the other side with a positive attitude, a good message, and a phenomenal way of spreading it. Street preacher indeed.To top off ...
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Back to Delorean
Do you remember the band Delorean? Following up their excellently danceable debut LP Transatlantic KK, Delorean have just released a similarly enjoyable EP entitled Ayrton Senna. Delorean construct grandly textured rhythms complete with handclaps and rich female vocals. If you're in need of some well-done, upbeat electronic dance music, check out Delorean. With their sense of rhythm, Delorean r...
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Colin Munroe: Professional Genre Dabbler
Colin Munroe is a guy I've heard a lot about, but only actually listened to here and there. He's a bit of an "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride" type artist - every time I see his name it's as a guest spot on a big name album. Apparently he makes his own tunes, although I still have yet to hear one. I thought one of the tracks I'm posting about today was a Munroe original, but it turns out tha...
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Blue Roses Is Bon Iver's Female Counterpart
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Recently I stumbled across a track from a young woman named Laura Groves who calls herself Blue Roses. I listened to it a few times, and slowly became obsessed with it. I can’t get enough of it. She’s young – 22 I think – but she crafts a pretty phenomenal song in “I Am Leaving”. Her other stuff ain’t half bad either. She reminds me a bit of a female Justin Vernon. His Bon Iver took
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Can You Declare the Death of Something That's Already (Mostly) Dead?
Jay-Z, that elder statesman of the rap game, dropped the D.O.A. bombshell on the world a few weeks (months?) ago - I forget exactly when and I'm too lazy to look it up/care. Regardless, Hova was declaring the Death of Autotune months after everyone else had cried the same thing (see: 808 and Heartbreak fallout). Thing is, Jay-Z did it in that Jay-Z way that made it sound really really awesome. ...
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Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs at the MFA Boston
The purpose of TSRE, beyond promoting what Chris and I think is worthwhile music, is really to instill a curiosity in music as a cultural form that like it or not is a ubiquitous presence in 21st century culture. As such, I would like today to focus on an interesting and fun exhibit currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston entitled Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs. The exhibit s...
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Tiny Mtns, Mr. Sister and The Points North 7/30 @ Club Passim Cambridge
Usually when I go to a show the purpose is to see a specific band. There are goals for the show, such as to hear a specific song, or finally see so and so band live. Last week though, Chris and I went to a show just out of curiosity about the bands and the venue itself. The show, at the very alternative and fun Club Passim in Harvard Square, was an EP release party for the newly christened Tiny...
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What Do Phoenix, Dent May, and Riceboy Sleeps Have In Common? Years!
Coincidentally, I've become hooked on a number (<-- haha this is a pun that you will get in a minute) of songs with numbers in them. Four digits numbers, in fact, or as the French call theme, "years". The best song to ever be created in this genre, no arguments allowed, is Neutral Milk Hotel's "Holland, 1945". That song, my friends, is awesomeness embodied.Some other year-centric songs, however...
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Memory Monday
As some of you may already know, Bicycle by Memory Tapes is probably my favorite track of the summer thus far. It really has everything that I could ever want. Memory Cassette, who participates in Memory Tapes, has a new EP out entitled Call & Response that is accompanied by a remix EP. All tracks involved are phenomenal pieces of music. Last One Awake features a ghostly and addictive bell line...
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