MOG - Most Discussed |
12 hours ago
I am the worst combination of commitment-phobic and obsessive-compulsive to be making lists. Unfortunately, I have time. So here goes, alphabetized and unnumbered for my own sanity. My favorite albums of 2008Deerhunter - MicrocastleFoals - AntidotesGlasvegas - Glasvegas My other favorite albums of 2008Beach House - DevotionBlackstrap - Steal My Horses and RunCut Copy - In Ghost ColoursFriendly Fires - Friendly FiresLos Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster...Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!Portishead - ThirdRa Ra Riot [...]
brooklynvegan |
12 hours ago
Gogol Bordello @ ACL (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) today in NYC * 3 Floors of Ska @ Knitting Factory * Matisyahu & Mike Doughty @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Patti Smith & Her Band @ Bowery Ballroom * Gogol Bordello & Apollo Sunshine @ Webster Hall Mike Doughty replaced Little Jackie as opener for Matisyahu tonight. Mike is also playing Tuesday and Wednesday at Maxwell's. Patti Smith also has 2nd and 3rd shows on Tuessday and Wednesday. Wednesday is [...]
largehearted boy |
12 hours ago
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Charade: "Keeping Up Appearances" [mp3] from Keeping Up Appearances The Charade: "The World Is Going Under" [mp3] from Keeping Up Appearances The Charade: "Monday Morning" [mp3] from The Best is Yet to Come The Charade: "My Song to You" [mp3] from A Real Life Drama The Charade: "A Tough Decision" [mp3] from A Real Life Drama other Charade posts at Largehearted Boy Tegan and Sara: 2007-12-12, Melbourne [mp3,ogg,flac] "Umbrella (Rihanna cover)" [mp3] Tegan and [...]
Idolator |
12 hours ago
A little light reading for those of you stuck at work, or in front of your computer, today (some stories may even give you anecdote material for your New Year's socializing): • Stephen Holden recalls the career of Eartha Kitt, who passed away at age 81 on Thursday. [NYT] • Kelefa Sanneh emerges from the depths of The New Yorker's TV-reviewing beat to profile Will Oldham. [TNY] • An American professor is claiming that hip-hop's birthplace isn't the streets of late-'70s [...]
Big Stereo |
13 hours ago
Continuing on the Brazil tip is Superpose. The duo is from Florianópolis which is on an island off the southern coast of Brazil. If you Google image search Florianópolis you’ll come across photos of white, sandy beaches which makes me long for a vacation south of the equator. Anyway, I digress… kinda. What Superpose does is create some super slick electro pop rock that’ll warm you up and help you make believe that you’re on a sandy beach even if [...]
You Aint No Piccasso |
15 hours ago
This year was kind of a bum year for music. Nothing thrilled me like it had for the past four years and few new bands really stuck out. In fact, it was kind of an off year for tours as well. But in the midst of all that, I had one of the best concert
Time Has Told Me |
16 hours ago
The Coleman Country Traditional Society (Leader LEA 2044) 1972This field recording was made in 1971 in County Sligo, the home of Michael Coleman (1889-1945) who recorded prolifically in the 1920s and 30s. His music was carried on by local musicians during the lean years when Irish traditional music became unfashionable. Many of these tunes will be familiar to anyone who has attended a pub session anywhere in the British Isles (and elsewhere) but when this album was released many of the [...]
The Line of Best Fit |
16 hours ago
In what will be our last ‘Introducing’ of 2008 we wanted to give you a band we’re really quite excited about. Recently signed to Big Scary Monsters, Copy Haho hail from Stonehaven in Scotland and produce - to put it in simple terms - really fucking fantastic pop songs. The kind that Los Campesinos! might make if they for one second what quit the pretentiousness. So - if you like Johnny Foreigner and think Dananananaykroyd are the dogs nuts then [...]
Unreality Music |
18 hours ago
British rockers Keane have landed the number one spot in Q Magazine’s annual poll. The trio’s LP, their first since 2005’s Under The Iron Sea, topped Britain’s Q Magazine and Q Radio’s best releases of the year (08) list. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds came second, with U.K. electro-folk group Goldfrapp taking the third spot on the coveted poll. Keane obviously have many fans amongst Q’s readers as earlier this year, their first two albums - Hopes and Fears [...]
Pitchfork:Today |
18 hours ago
Photo by Ryan Muir The week before last Arcade Fire's Win Butler had a nice long chat with Amy Phillips about Mirror Noir, the new documentary about the making of Neon Bible and subsequent tour that the band just released in an array of configurations. As part of the promo push for the doc they've just released an mp3 of "Burning Bridges", an instrumental version of a song called "Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts" that the band has played live for a [...]
The Line of Best Fit |
18 hours ago
We all know the public are idiots. We live in a world of intensely stupid individuals. Individuals who consistently fail to grasp, you know, what’s actually good and right and stuff. This is why they end up doing things like voting ‘No’ on the congestion charge in Manchester then go around complaining about how expensive public transport is. And this is also why they decided to so consistently ignore the following incredible records: Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices Radio [...]
Minneapolis Fucking Rocks |
18 hours ago
Year End Lists are an extraordinary case study in trends and how music critics gather around to support their favorite releases of a given year. Although each list is unique, it is inevitable that a handful of universally loved artists will rise to the top of the indie-music pool. To distinguish who made the cut in 2008, we compiled a massive database comprised of the Top 50 lists of who we have determined to be the eight major music tastemakers today: [...]
3hive |
18 hours ago
Times New Viking sure make a whole lotta racket for only three people. The fuzz, the pounding, the screeching organ; it's like The Velvets on speed, the Velvets how they sounded in the earphones of the young, impressionable future members of Times New Viking. www.matadorrecords.com myspace.com/timesnewviking
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3hive |
Dec 28, 2008 11:40PM
Times New Viking sure make a whole lotta racket for only three people. The fuzz, the pounding, the screeching organ; it's like The Velvets on speed, the Velvets how they sounded in the earphones of the young, impressionable future members of Times New Viking. www.matadorrecords.com myspace.com/timesnewviking
my old kentucky blog |
Dec 28, 2008 10:40PM
As we said previously, sure, there are a lot of obvious records and and artists to look forward to in 2009, but who are the ones that are going to come out of nowhere and knock your socks off? Alela Diane still remains firmly under the radar outside of the blogosphere, but she is quietly putting out some of the most incredible, and somewhat simple, music around. Possibly overshadowed by her more known Nevada City native-counterpart, Joanna Newsom, and maybe completely [...]
Big Stereo |
Dec 28, 2008 10:40PM
The Tough Alliance - “Last Dance” (YouTube) Need anything else be said?
Big Stereo |
Dec 28, 2008 10:40PM
The results are in for 2008!! You made the nominations & casted your votes. And now we have some winners!.. ETA: And hey, if you think you can do better then leave your list in the comments Favorite Album of 2008 3. Crystal Castles - Self-titled [ MySpace | Amazon ] 2. MGMT - Oracular Spectacula [ MySpace | Amazon ] 1. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours [ MySpace | Amazon ] Favorite Song of 2008 3. Hercules and [...]
Big Stereo |
Dec 28, 2008 10:40PM
Discobot’s “Lights Out” is the necessary track as we approach New Years Eve at lightning speed — loud, fast, total party track to lose control to… perhaps totally epic in a 2008 way but brazen enough to bring us into 2009. Total bonus points for Discobot being from Brazil. You know they know how we do: Discobot - “Lights Out” And here’s a little mixtape they did a few months back: Discobot - Short Set - Ao Vivo No Music [...]
Nothing is v2.0 |
Dec 28, 2008 10:21PM
Watto Sitta, credited to Foday Musa Suso's band Mandingo (also known as Mandingo Griot Society), was one of the fruits of his collaboration with Bill Laswell (during the 1980s and 1990s) and brief association with Herbie Hancock during the 1980s. Recorded during the period in which Foday Musa Suso appeared on Herbie Hancock's album Sound System, and collaborated with Hancock on Village Life and Jazz Africa, Watto Sitta has a considerably more popish sound. Some of that no doubt is due [...]
the sky was candy |
Dec 28, 2008 09:41PM
i (heart) music |
Dec 28, 2008 09:22PM
16. The Pack AD, "All Damn Day Long" There's nothing groundbreaking about "All Damn Day Long": it's a straight-up blues-rocker. But Becky Black is a very good guitarist and a great, Janis Joplin-esque singer, and both of those qualities are at their best on this song. 15. Bonjour Brumaire, "Brooklyn" De La Nature, Des Foules may not have helped Bonjour Brumaire achieve a Malajube-like breakthrough (either into anglo-Canada or onto the Polaris list), but that doesn't mean it was lacking in [...]
Pitchfork:Today |
Dec 28, 2008 07:41PM
Photo by Ryan Muir The week before last Arcade Fire's Win Butler had a nice long chat with Amy Phillips about Mirror Noir, the new documentary about the making of Neon Bible and subsequent tour that the band just released in an array of configurations. As part of the promo push for the doc they've just released an mp3 of "Burning Bridges", an instrumental version of a song called "Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts" that the band has played live for a [...]
Allan's World Music |
Dec 28, 2008 06:23PM
I know I like to review a lot of soft, ambient music. But aside from Paavoharju’s Laulu Laakson Kukista, which would be in my top five of 2008, Grouper’s work Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (an extraordinarily Sysiphean title, if there ever was one) would take the cake for great recent discoveries in that region. Grouper is the moniker of beguiling Portland, Oregon artist Liz Harris, the crux of whose music seems to reside in the complex relationships [...]
Allan's World Music |
Dec 28, 2008 05:23PM
I’ve never been a Ne-Yo fan. In fact, never even listened to his albums. I just found him generally boring. When the opportunity came to listen to this 2008 album and review it, I was happy to try it out since I’d been a hater for so long. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this album. Of course, there is the obvious Michael Jackson comparison. But, honestly, which R&B/Pop male singer is not influenced by Mr. MJ? They [...]
WFMU's Beware of the Blog |
Dec 28, 2008 04:41PM
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