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Archive for March, 2007

One of the most underutilized facets of electronic music is the music video. I remember some simple videos within the genre that have ultimately lead to me becoming a fan of an artist or group’s music; Cassius and Daft Punk both come to mind. As such I figured it wouldn’t be a bad [...]

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Following suit of the Music Remixed project’s Sounds Like Silver is today’s post which features a number of solid mashups and remixes of things new and old: LCD Soundsystem. Included are bits and pieces from all over the place; a track from a 2 Many DJ’s mix, a variety of bootlegs from the web [...]

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Cloud Cult @ SXSW: WOXY Studio 03/17/2007

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Thanks to WOXY for providing their in studio set with Minneapolis-based act Cloud Cult. The above picture comes from WOXY’s photo set of the band which can be viewed here. The short half hour session included a few songs from the group’s upcoming The Meaning of 8 release including “Chain Reaction,” “Pretty Voice” [...]

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The good people from the Music Remixed project have already put out their best of the bunch in terms of remixes for LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver entitled Sounds Like Silver. The excellent mix includes a unique list of DJs including habitual bootleggers Go Home Productions and Team9. One of the best parts [...]

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Air “Pocket Symphony” Review

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Why is there air; or for that matter Air? As humans our bodies necessitate the need for air but since electronica’s booming 1990s wave it doesn’t seem as functional to still maintain a similar relationship with Air. The French-electropop duo still elude even the finest of dancefloor fan with its latest release, Pocket [...]

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I’m not sure which acts as a more uplifting sentiment, Pitchfork’s Mark Pytlik giving Sound of Silver a 9.2/10, calling it “as close to a perfect hybrid of dance and rock music’s values as you’re likely to ever hear,” or the tasteless Alternative Press perceiving it as “Merely Okay.” The album is something quite [...]

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An old friend recently reminded me of something that I had blocked from my memory, my embarrassing introduction to hip hop; and in particular the exact time when I fell in love with “Jump Around.” I suppose that’s the problem with talking to friends you haven’t spoken to in over a decade, you start [...]

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As an outsider looking in on the local Twin Cities music scene one may be left with a simplistic look as to what it is that The Cities and their modern artists have to offer. But aside from conversations surrounding Hüsker Dü, The Replacements or even Tapes ‘n Tapes what does the rest of the [...]

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The MySpace Roundup: A place for some of my new best friends and their bands to get noticed! This time around I am pleased to introduce you to Philadelphia’s most bad assiest keytar-welding son of a gun Mose Giganticus, Dallas indie-MC Pikahsso and Minneapolis’ answer to the age old question “can young adults [...]

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Amy Winehouse on The Late Show

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Amy Winehouse looks as though she should sound something like an aged pop star when in fact her voice is more reminiscent to that of a young Shirley Bassey. Making her American television debut after a successful year in her native UK Winehouse delivers a remarkable version of “Rehab.” As I was trolling [...]

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What’s all the hype about behind Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog? From this performance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien one might think that the band is just a gruffer version of Widespread Panic, with its roots heavily planted in jam. Thanks to a few samples given to us by a good man one might [...]

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With all the recent love for Peter, Bjorn & John comes this excellent mashup from one of the best bootleggers around, Lenlow. It creates a great setting with the only song that really mattered from the Trainspotting soundtrack (OK, “Lust For Life” counts too) with “Born Slippy” and uses the infamous whistle-loop from “Young [...]

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Sometimes it’s hard to know what to do…y’know, as an adult. You try to listen to good music, so as to know who came before you and their stories and all. But it’s hard. You have people telling you to pay attention when they themselves can’t recite a Ronettes. And you [...]

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Deftones: “Mein” Video

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Breakdancing, extreme sports and cars sporting hydraulics on a rooftop - would you expect anything less from a Deftones video? It’s a whole different feel than the video for “Hole in the Earth” which was based on its totally 80s graphics for the most part…no theme, just waves of light. In comparison a [...]

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Nine Inch Nails: “Survivalism” Video

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

As the comments of the YouTube upload read “The official video for ‘Survivalism’ distributed via USB pen drives at the London show on March 7, 2007.” Keeping in tune with the rest of the album’s theme the video monitors a set of surveillance cameras, with the government monitoring the nation’s people and weeding out [...]

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