After binging on Grizzly Bear this spring, its been sometime since I have picked up Vecaktimest. However, their latest video for "Ready, Able" might be just the temptation I need to get back on the wagon. The Allison Schulnik production continues GB's long history of bizarrely animated clay people.
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Small Black has already produced one of my favorite songs of the fall in "Despicable Dogs". On 11/23 they will continue their successful fall with the release of that single backed with new song, "Kings of Animals" and adorned with quite possibly the greatest album cover ever (above). Grab the hazy, but poignant b-side below and admire that cover for just a bit longer. I want to hang out with t...
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El Perro Del Mar - which of course is Spanish for The Perro Del Mar - is the solo project of Swedish songstress Sarah Assbring. I haven't had much time to get into her latest release, Love Is Not Pop, but the song "Change of Heart" immediately jumped out to me. Like fellow Gothenburg natives, Air France, El Perro has a knack for making wistfully beautiful songs that sort of lull you into a more...
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News of Yeasayer's long awaited sophomore LP, Odd Blood, has been bouncing around the internet for a few days now. "Ambling Alp" offers us our first taste of the album. I definitely recall this track from their performance at the P4K festival, but can't seem to remember if this was the one they hailed as the "summer jam of 2010". It certainly has that potential. Grab the track for the price of ...
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Here's the official video for Florence and the Machine - You've Got the Love (The xx Remix)-The Sound Opinions guys have a great interview with Phoenix in their latest episode-Kaptain Cadillac has a new mix up for Mad Decent Radio-From Fool's Gold a FANTASTIC new mix from LA Riots and a Q&A with video director Ruben Fleischer-Spike Jonze fake slapped Kanye, as you've probably seen by now-NY Mag...
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(Let the record show that we don't actually speak the way we write emails here at CotP.)Mark Ronson, Sam Sparro and Theophilus London have recorded "Soles of Fire," as Chauffeur perhaps to accompany the release of Mark Ronson's Gucci shoe. It's an interesting jam. Here's to hoping for more collaborations between the three. (via FADER)mp3: Chauffeur - Soles of Fire::::::::::::::::I have been a...
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(not-directly music related video)-Weezer's new track features Lil' Wayne...no comment-Guitar lessons from Vampire Weekend, The National and Tegan and Sara-Fever Ray did a Halloween podcast for Resident Advisor-eMusic is also getting ready for Halloween with bands-in-costumes pictures-XLR8R talks with Zombie Disco Squad-P4k interviewed Wayne Coyne about Embryonic and touring with Coldplay-Brook...
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Freddie Gibbs on FADER TV with a hotel room performance of Iodine Poison-?uestlove tells Paste how The Roots ended up as Jimmy Fallon's house band-Through SellaBand, Public Enemy has reached their $50,000 goal to fund the recording process of a new album-Our main man Samuel's show was recapped on MTV's site-CMJ coverage: P4k on Thursday and Friday (here and here), KEXP is recording sessions wit...
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Some of my musical tastes are overwhelmingly predictable. I like to think my musical tastes are developing as I get older, but there has been and will always be a rightful place in my heart (and playlists) for foreign ladies singing pop music. As Heavy D and I hashed out the CotP Top 20 of the aughts (coming in November), he threatened me with bodily harm before I could even bring up Lily All...
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Today's links, brought to you by eggs, Diet Coke and the number 4:-NPR's Bob Boilen on Wednesday at CMJ-KEXP of Seattle is recording artist performances this week at CMJ-Craig Finn of The Hold Steady is adapting Chuck Klosterman's Fargo Rock City for film-From NME: Hot Chip's Joe Goddard is putting out a solo record on 11/9 and Run-DMC may soon have a bio-play on Broadway-The FADER interviewed ...
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John Forté first hit the scene in the mid-90s as part of The Fugees crew, working with the group on a few tracks from The Score. After the group disbanded, Forté was closely aligned with Wyclef Jean and Pras, appearing on two tracks on Jean's The Carnival. He was groomed as the next of the crew to hit it big, but his 1998 solo debut Poly Sci, while playing to solid reviews, didn't meet the la.
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A-Trak is my favorite disc jockey. Technically, he's fantastic on the ones and twos both scratching and beatmatching; he is a true joy to watch perform. Yet, technical spinning and producing are two very different, if related, skills. And while A-Trak has been among the elite on the decks for more than a decade, his production aesthetic is still developing. Don't get me wrong, I've loved a l...
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I enjoy putting on Girl Talk and just letting it ride. The DJs and producers that put mash-ups together clearly have talent and know how to, if nothing else, match beats flawlessly. And I do buy that old art can be re-appropriated to create new art and that "fair use" is a legitimate legal concept. The novelties of mash-ups are not lost on me; they can easily feel too cute for comfort. Stil...
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"Mowgli's Road" from Marina and the Diamonds-Slate's Jonah Weiner defends Creed as underrated...given that the band is widely reviled, reviled enough that without knowing their music, one might expect a monkey banging on trash cans, I accept that they're underrated; the question is to what degree. My best estimate is that Creed is underrated the same way that Teletubbies, brussels sprouts and ...
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Freddie Gibbs has put out two high caliber mix-tapes already this year. For a kid who use to listen almost entirely to rap, it takes an impressive performance to get me interested these days. Gibbs has a rawness that seems comical for a white kid from New England to write about, but trust me, it's there. If you have Google skills I encourage you to track down his mixtapes, The Miseducation of F...
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The Polyphonic Spree have always been on that list of bands I need to check out, but have never gotten around to. In high school a lot of the same kids that were pushing Phish and Widespread Panic were big Polyphonic Spree fans so I sort of wrote them off from the get go. However, I finally came around a couple weeks back when GorillavsBear shared a new demo for the song Blurry. This stripped d...
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The Very Best talks with Yours Truly-The Roots' How I Got Over is getting pushed back to early 2010...no link yet-The AV Club on their favorite road tripping songs. Mine? It's cliche, but I'm partially to The Allman Brothers Band's "Midnight Rider" and "Jessica;" I have fond memories of my dad playing those, and the soundtracks from The Magnificent Seven and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on...
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Sorry for the lack of posts, folks...busy times in the CotP Santiago bureau. More to come in the next few days.Kanye's weird short, done with Spike Jonze (thanks, Naima)-The New York Times Sunday Magazine wrote a lengthy, interesting piece on song-analysis at Pandora-HypeMachine is looking into making an iPhone application-Wavves recorded a session with Daytrotter and played some unreleased ma...
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-Former NBA player Paul Shirley has two solid columns up for ESPN: a long one on Austin City Limits and the latest from Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains-Music Is The Heart Of Our Soul is no more-Atlas Sound is putting out an extra LP in conjunction with Logos, but only if you order it from Rough Trade-There’s a series of celebrations for Fela Kuti taking place in 15 U.S. cities, next Monday, Octob.
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