Goodness I’ve been out of action for awhile! I’ve got a few reasons, and a couple more excuses, but I’ll save that for a much larger post that I’m planning.I’ve been keeping my eye on the remixing scene during my absence, and it’s been pretty slow. No major activity by Soulwax or any other [...]Related posts:RW: My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)Remix Wedneday: Since I Left You (Corneli
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When DOOM released Born Like This earlier this year, his first record in four years, the rapper formerly known as MF Doom dished on anarchy, violence and homophobia. In short, the project stunk of hatred and pessimism. Unexpected Guests, a collection of Born b-sides, remixes and other oddball tracks, couldn’t be more different. It’s shorter, [...]Related posts:DOOM – Born Like ThisMassive At
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One of my favorite songwriters of the past several years has been pretty active the past few months and I just realized that I had failed to make mention of him here on the blog. Alex Brown Church has been making some of the best and most inspired indie rock music under the pseudonym Sea [...]Related posts:New Patrick Wolf SingleSara Lov, “Fountain” VideoBon Iver to Release New EP ‘Blood B
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This weekend, I visited a church with a ham-fisted drummer. He played busily when the song required a skeletal beat. He ignored song structure and any notion of dynamics with a toothy grin. And just as the chorus of a beautiful hymn prepared to soar, he played an entire bar of [...]Related posts:Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark MulcahyAlbum Review: Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shi...
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Fun has just released their video for their catchy single, “All the Pretty Girls,” off of their brilliant debut album Aim & Ignite. They have been busy riding the success of their Aim & Ignite all across the country. They spent the summer with Manchester Orchestra, who also had a stellar album released earlier this [...]Related posts:RW: Wouldn’t It Be Nice (Girls Can Hear Us Remix)Fun
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Julian Casablancas, lead singer of the Strokes and leather jacket enthusiast, lost his cool. It may have happened when his popular group splintered into a collection of guitar-focused side projects or when he married a few years ago. But Phrazes for the Young, Casablancas’ debut solo album, lacks the detached breeziness of the singer’s previous [...]Related posts:“Logos” is More of the Sam
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So after listening to Brady’s Autumn Shuffle last week, I was inspired to create a seasonal playlist of my own. I didn’t put quite as much thought into my list as Brady, rather I simply chose to create a list of songs and albums that I feel both musically and lyrically fit the mood of [...]Related posts:Matt Pond PA – The FreeepFinal Four PlaylistOlympics Playlist
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“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” – Robert BrowningThere’s nothing like the majestic melancholy of autumn. The cooling winds, wood smoke and mosaic of sunburned colors make for a truly magical few weeks, tainted only by a quiet apprehension of winter.Maybe it’s the slow fade of fall [...]Related posts:Another Autumn Playlist3 Song Thursday: Justin
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The deluxe edition of this New York based trio’s electronica/dream pop debut, Alpinisms, was released about 2 weeks ago and has been in surprisingly heavy rotation since then. The single “Iamundernodisguise” somehow manages to lodge itself in my head everyday, which probably creeps people out as I constantly chant the chorus under my breath. The [...]Related posts:Back to School RW: Long
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Spike Jonze has taken a 10-line children’s picture book and turned it into a full-feature film. Which is quite a feat in and of itself, but I think that he does so successfully, even if it doesn’t really translate into a movie that kids will want to sit through.They did a great job developing this [...]Related posts:Song of the Day: Wild Sweet OrangeDead Man’s BonesWeekly Recap: Conor Ober
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The title of The BQE, Sufjan Stevens’ ambitious new multimedia project, stands for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a poorly planned knot of a roadway built in the 1950s. Stevens’ visual and musical rendering imagines the structure as the triumphant feat of human ingenuity it was intended as.The BQE is, for one, an orchestral suite, commissioned by [...]Related posts:New Sufjan Stevens Record
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There’s a popular mashup sloshing it’s way around the good ol’ web right now combining the talents of indie-electronic rocker Miike Snow and rapper Drake.The Hood Internet – Cult Logic Forever (Drake vs Miike Snow)Lemme map out what was changed here.(Miike Snows’s “Cult Logic” – Vocals) + (Drake’s “Forever” – Music ) – Eminem = The Hood [...]Related posts:ReMASH Wedne
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Yes that’s right. Ben Folds, the musician, and Nick Hornby, the writer, have teamed up to write an album together. While the album is still untitled , we do have a few tracks for you to preview. Apparently they feel that the legend of Levi Johnston needn’t die, along with Palin’s political career. Head over [...]Related posts:Ben Folds Releases A Cappella RecordBen Folds LiveWilliam Fi
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The organ stabs on “Splitting the Atom,” the title track from Massive Attack’s new EP, are almost so self-conscioiusly spooky that one wonders if the group is performing with a wink instead of a grimace. The song, with its twirling synths with whispered harmonies, is Dracula’s hoedown sing-along.It’s still Massive Attack’s world-weary sense of foreboding, [...]Related posts:Cass Harr
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A couple of years ago, Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar met while working together on a Jim Sampas documentary about Jack Kerouac. During this experience, the two decided to work together to create an album based on the words of Kerouac’s 1962 novel Big Sur. The book recounts Kerouac’s [...]No related posts.
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Late last month, Volcano Choir released their debut album Unmap on Jagjaguwar. Volcano Choir is Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Milwaukee band Collections of Colonies of Bees. The original recordings of Unmap actually date back to before Vernon even began to mix and master For Emma, Forever Ago, his Bon Iver debut. While it [...]Related posts:Bon Iver to Release New EP ‘Blood Bank’RW: Blood
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Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald, otherwise known as “Doctor Luke” has managed, yet again, to get indie hipsters and radio lovers all across the country to move their feet and swivel their hips with Miley Cyrus’ incredibly catchy and dance-able “Party in the USA.” But for whatever reason, the majority of the people who found themselves [...]Related posts:Torture Review: Jonas Brothers
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This summer The Silent Years released a follow up to their stellar album The Globe, which made my top ten list for 2008 and was probably the biggest surprise find of the year for me. Let Go is a six song EP that unfortunately just doesn’t match up to the greatness of its predecessor. Not [...]Related posts:The Silent Years – The GlobeNathan’s Top Albums of 2008La Otrabanda
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Over the past two years, John Darnielle, the frontman for indie-folk band The Mountain Goats, has had to deal with a lot of the shit that comes along with living life on this earth. Apparently he has had to face some hard times including watching people close to him die. So in his effort to [...]Related posts:Unreleased Mountain Goats Love SongNew Death Cab For Cutie Album Released TodayNew D.
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Phoenix has this funny habit of being remixed into amazing compositions.Here’s the real kicker; from the entire album of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, I’m pretty sure that “Rome” wasn’t even in my top ten before hearing this remix. The original just has some odd quirks to it that I just can’t get past. But this version, [...]Related posts:Review of “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”Back to Sch
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