Archive for June, 2006
A beautiful performance from an amazing artist. Fiona’s last album wasn’t received to outstanding acclaim, but as it grows a little older it is starting to show itself for what it truly is. Hopefully Fiona will continue to develop as one of the most enjoyable and talented singers of our time. Enjoy these live tracks, [...]
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Electronic crooners Zero 7’s recent follow up to the highly acclaimed 2004 album When It Falls, The Garden, touches on a unique blend of suburban beats and grassroots tones. Throughout the development of the group’s sound came a tendency to rely on the plentiful resources of other musicians to add a diverse tone to [...]
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There’s a certainty that this is one of the best performances that I’ve ever seen from a late night television program. Stereogum posted a link to the YouTube files for Bruce Springsteen & The Seeger Sessions Band’s performance on Late Night With Conan O’Brien from this past friday and it is absolutely spectacular. [...]
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Check out a great performance by one of the most influental bands of the last twenty years, Dinosaur Jr. on The Henry Rollins Show. They’re aging, yeah, but at least the band is back working together. (link)
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With the release of Good Riddance’s eighth full length Southern California-branded album, My Republic, there comes a continuation of a back-to-basics movement for the band (without ever neglecting the basics). Seemingly following the if it ain’t broke don’t fix it methodology the band continues to deliver a steady set of songs that persevere through [...]
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Occasionally something on Pitchfork really peaks my attention…today was one such day that this was oh so true. What kind of crazy mixed up sounding explosion of goodness could come from everyone’s favorite sample-steady indie pop band covering one of the longest standing street-cred worthy acts in history? It’s odd…but not too odd…not [...]
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Through the New York based band’s travels the recording process has proven to produce an increasingly overachieving brand of music as time progresses. With The Walkmen’s follow-up to the band’s uber-successful 2004 album Bows & Arrows comes a twisting and unbalanced record that finds both power, enlightenment and heartache when reflecting in the band’s [...]
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
The 12th edition of the Contrast Podcast has been released with a numbers theme, unlike the first edition which simply surrounded interpretations of the number 1. My selection for the podcast was a long time coming, Hank Williams III with his song “7 months, 39 Days.” (link) (feed) Next week’s theme has been [...]
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Irish indie rockers Snow Patrol fell into fashion with the band’s 2003 release Final Straw. Blending into its surroundings Snow Patrol found popularity through the band’s fresh appeal; though in all reality it had been a long time coming. Forming in and around 1994, Snow Patrol reveals Eyes Open as the band’s fourth album, finding [...]
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
A number of companies including Fuse and Alternative Press are offering an amazing contest that includes a trip for two to The Vans Warped Tour in Cleveland, OH and a pair of tickets to a guided Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Tour. Though I’ve historically had distaste for many things Cleveland, I’ve been to [...]
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Sonic Youth is one of my all time favorite bands and it is truly amazing to see a band aging with such grace. One of the true great bands of the last century (I’m excluding bands pre-June 1906…they were a bunch of losers anyways…).
Sonic Youth “Incinerate (The Late Show With David Letterman 06-16-06)” (mp3) [...]
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The most popular post in the short history of this site is Culture Bully’s 10 Favorite Mash-Ups of 2005. In the spirit of that, I’d like to introduce some of the best mash-ups that I’ve come across for the week ending Monday, June 19, 2006. As always, they’re not for everyone, but for [...]
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San Diego’s The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower have been receiving quite a bit of recognition within the confines of modern indie, but when it comes to bands with more than 7 words in their names, this usually spells trouble. The band’s INRI EP successfully serves as a quick once over of the [...]
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Pretty Flowers is a Brooklyn-based four-piece that harkens back to the post-punk era of bands that played solid mid-tempo music based on harder, faster influences. The three-song debut EP explicitly borrows from a wide range of bands from the early ’80s, and the group does so effectively. Keeping somewhat of a rough sound [...]
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Björk has made a handsome living from defining and recreating boundaries in the aural arts. One of the key characteristics made throughout her career has been the tremendous lack of separation between what is recorded and what her fans marvel at. As her career progresses she has been given the liberty of continually defining herself [...]
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