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 OrangeVanguard Holiday SamplerDead Man’s Bones
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Where the Wild Things Are
“The BQE,” a Strange and Perfect Muse for Sufjan Stevens
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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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RW: Cult Logic Forever
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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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Folds Collaborates with Hornby
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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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Massive Attack’s Minor Failure
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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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Gibbard and Farrar Put Kerouac’s “Big Sur” to Music
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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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Volcano Choir
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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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Dr. Luke Is At It Again
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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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The Silent Years – Let Go EP
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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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New Mountain Goats Album Released
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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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Neighbors Remix Phoenix’s “Rome”
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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:Back to School RW: Long Distance Call (25 Hours A D
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RW: Rome (Neighbors Remix)
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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:Back to School RW: Long Distance Call (25 Hours A Day Re...
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William Fitzsimmons Covers Kanye West
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I know that it has become somewhat trendy to take a pop song and strip it down to nothing but a voice and an acoustic guitar. But this isn’t just another guy trying bank off of the fad of the day. This song is legit. It works for the same reason that it worked for [...]Related posts:New Releases From Kanye and Stephen ColbertKid Cudi’s “Moon” Mixes Fear with ZealLenka Covers Modest M
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Sara Lov, “Fountain” Video
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Singer/songwriter Sara Lov, has just released her debut album, Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming, earlier this year. With a little help from former Devics bandmate, Dustin O’Hallaran, Lov has created an enjoyable little piano-pop album. Here is a video for the gorgeous closing track, “Fountain,” featuring the work of Seonna Hong and animation director Marco Morandi. [...]Related posts:ACL Previ
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La Otrabanda
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A while back I introduced you to the band La Otrabanda. After I featured their video as the “music video of the week” they were gracious enough to contact me and thank me, and they offered to let me have a preview listen to their album Pueblo vivo/ Vibrant People. Not having heard a lot [...]Related posts:Beirut – The Flying Club CupTorture Review: Jonas Brothers – Lines, Vines, and Tryi
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John Vanderslice Releases New 7″
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The highlight of John Vanderslices recent album, Romanian Times, is being released today as a limited-edition 7″ single. “Too Much Time” is a one of the most compelling songs Vanderslice has written yet and well deserving of the release. The b-side will be the exclusive and infectious “Moon Rocks.” Thephotograph on the cover the album [...]Related posts:John Vanderslice Live In the Studi
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Winter Gloves “Party People” Video
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Back in March, we introduced you to the Winter Gloves with the video of their single “Let Me Drive”, off of their debut album About a Girl. We were pretty awed with the video at the time, but for some reason didn’t pay much attention to the album. But over the past six months, it [...]Related posts:Winter Gloves, “Let Me Drive” and Angus and Julia Stone, “Mango Tree”New Fleet Fox
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New Pearl Jam Video, “The Fixer”
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I’m really not impressed with this Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Elizabethtown) directed music video. But then again very rarely will I enjoy a music video that just shows the band performing the tune. On the other hand, I am really enjoying this song. It’s the first single off of Pearl Jam’s 9th studio effort, Backspacer, [...]Related posts:New Modest Mouse Song “Satellite Skin”Mu
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Kid Cudi’s “Moon” Mixes Fear with Zeal
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Cleveland’s Kid Cudi scored a massive crossover hit with “Day ‘N’ Nite,” a song that had every club-hopper and hipster singing about being stoned and lonely. It’s a song that personifies everything about the rapper, most importantly the fear and isolation brought about by his creativity. Man on the Moon: The End of Day is [...]Related posts:William Fitzsimmons Covers Kanye WestEmanuel
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New Sufjan Song, “There’s Too Much Love”
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Sufjan Stevens played a new song last week @ Castaway’s in Ithaca, NY. And fortunately for you and I, a fan took a video of that performance and shared it with our friends over at I Guess I’m Floating. And now I’m bringing it to you. So watch this video and let me know what [...]Related posts:“The BQE,” a Strange and Perfect Muse for Sufjan StevensNew Sufjan Stevens Record…Sort O
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