Big Stereo |
6 minutes ago
Steed Lord has released this little eleven minute mega mix of all the tracks that are on their debut album Truth Serum. Troof, I luv u megamixes. The band will be heading out on a proper North American tour this February and March with stops at SXSW and WMC. Look for them in your direction soon. Steed Lord - “Truth Serum Mega Mix” Album is out — buy it from Amazon or wherever.
Disturbed Beats |
22 minutes ago
Hope everyone had a good christmas (I've just recovered from boxing day activities), anyway here's a late present for you all, 007 in the Disturbed Beats mix series from Shab Ruffcut & Trevor Loveys live from Warehouse Party, short at only 30 minutes but very very sweet with plenty of their new material available over the next month or 2.Disturbed Beats 007 - Mixed by Shab Ruffcut & Trevor Loveys (zShare) (Mediafire)Tracklist:001. Chemical Brothers - Hey Boys, Hey Girls (Soul Wax [...]
Puddlegum |
22 minutes ago
I know this is an unusual Puddlegum post, but I thought it needed to be shared, considering the humanitarian crisis in Congo. Ben Affleck directed a short film for UNHCR, raising awareness of the Congolese struggle. The footage is moving, as their fight for survival is staggering. The short film is set to The Rolling Stones‘ song Gimme Shelter. You can watch a BBC interview with Ben Affleck where he describes his experience filming this video. According to the short [...]
Puddlegum |
22 minutes ago
Arcade Fire have digitally released a film called Miroir Noir: Neon Bible Archives. The archive was directed by Vincent Morisset and shot by Vincent Moon. The band, who took a year off to write songs, read books, “and keep our plants alive,” are offering the digital version in three sizes with respective prices. The DVD version “will ship no later than 3/31/2009.” A limited edition DVD also includes video footage of their memorable Saturday Night Live performance as well as [...]
Puddlegum |
23 minutes ago
We will be back in a few days to kick off `09 with several interviews, reviews, and opinion pieces. We’re excited about the new year and the new music it’ll bring. The late winter and spring releases we’ve heard so far show promise for a strong year in independent music! The new year will be one of transition for me. I’m going back to finish my degree in New Media Informatics, and I’m sure the studies will bring inspiration for Puddlegum [...]
largehearted boy |
23 minutes ago
The week between Christmas and New Year's day is typically slow for DVD releases, and this year is no exception. I may rent the first part of season 5 of Nip/Tuck, but other than that, the pickings are slim. Alan Ball's Towelhead is also definitely on my list (Ball was the creator of HBO's series Six Feet Under). What can you recommend buying or adding to the rental queue from this week's DVD releases? This week's interesting DVD releases: $100 [...]
largehearted boy |
24 minutes ago
In what has to be the weakest music release week of the year, I plan to skip the slim pickings and look forward to 2009's releases. Did I miss any of the week's new releases? Happy New Year... This week's interesting CD releases: Front 242: Moments... Lee Perry: Repentance [vinyl] It's a Vinyl World After All [dvd] Van Morrison: His Band and the Street Choir (vinyl reissue) Various Artists: Dissidia Final Fantasy (soundtrack) also at Largehearted Boy: 2008 Online Year-end [...]
largehearted boy |
24 minutes ago
Today's additions to the "best of 2008" books and music lists (keep up with daily additions at the update archive page): "Best of 2008" Books Lists additions: Amy's Book Nook (best books) Book a Week with Jen (best books) California Literary Review (best books) Creative Writing Corner (favorite books) Global Dashboard (top books) Josephine Damian (best books) Mania.com (best books) The Other Side of the River (top books) The Search (best books) Signs of Life (favorite books) South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Chauncey [...]
You Aint No Piccasso |
25 minutes ago
Miles Eaton of the Akron/Family told Gothamist that the band are finishing up their newest reconrd on time with a Spring ‘09 release. “We are finishing mastering it as we speak,” he said. “I just got off the phone with Seth, our mastering engineer, and we’re just kind of going through it and working out
XO's Middle Eight |
1 hour ago
Annie Lennox's long-delayed new single, Shining Light, debuts on January 5th on the Ken Bruce show on BBC Radio 2. She's shot a video for it too- let's hope it's better than Dark Road's taxi riding.Brits can also see Annie on the BBC on NYE doing "one of her solo hits and a classic big band tune" on Jools Holland's Hootenanny.
Oceans Never Listen |
1 hour ago
Slumdog Millionaire is the most vibrant, most alive film I have seen in a very long time. This wonderful movie teems with humanity, leaping off the screen with the utmost zest and vitality. A splendid celebration of cinema, a must see event. Danny Boyle's best work yet.Slumdog Millionaire is based on the novel "Q & A" by Vikas Swarup. Adapted by Simon Beaufoy, Boyle made the film wholly in India and mostly in the chaos that is Mumbai. It follows the [...]
Both Sides of the Mouth |
1 hour ago
by AngieWasn't it a bit harder to pay attention in 2008 than it was in 2007? 8. Santogold by SantogoldSantogold burst onto both the independent and mainstream music scene in 2008. With her undeniably unique and talented voice, Santogold blends funk, hip-hop, rock, and reggae into an infectious combination. Coming to a Converse ad near you. mp3 Starstruck7. Youth Novels by Lykke Li The incredibly pretty Swede, Lykke Li, was virtually unknown until 2008. Youth Novels' "Let it Fall" catapulted her [...]
Pitchfork:Today |
2 hours ago
Zooey Deschanel photo by Alex Burack; Ben Gibbard photo by Natalie Kardos Cue the sound of thousands of blogger hearts breaking. USmagazine.com (via Rawkblog) reports that Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and actress/She & Him singer Zooey Deschanel are engaged. Isn't that just the most indie-in-2008 thing ever? It almost seems a little too perfect, as if we made it up in some kind of fantasy indie rock love connection.Emails to Death Cab's publicist and She & Him's [...]
brooklynvegan |
2 hours ago
John Joseph (Cro-Mags) @ FFF Fest (more by Tyler Nutter) today in NYC * Hanukkah stuff * Cro-Mags @ Knitting Factory * Andrew WK @ The Crazy Donkey * Matisyahu & Assembly of Dust @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * The Gaslight Anthem & The Bouncing Souls @ Convention Hall in NJ * Yo La Tengo, Metal Mountains & Todd Barry @ Maxwell's You can also catch Andrew WK on New Years Eve at Santos Party House. There aren't many more [...]
brooklynvegan |
2 hours ago
DOWNLOAD: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything With You (MP3) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have two upcoming NYC shows scheduled. The first is February 7th at Mercury Lounge which is also the first date of a tour the NYC band is going on with The Depreciation Guild. Cause CO-Motion! is also on the Manhattan bill and tickets are on sale. The second is [...]
brooklynvegan |
2 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 [...]
musicisart |
3 hours ago
Artist: The Accidental Album: There Were Wolves Record Label: Full Time Hobby Designer: Rob Lowe, Supermundane Listen: Wolves Artist: Bon Iver Album: For Emma, Forever Ago Record Label: 4ad Designer: Photography by Gilbert Vernon and Design by Daniel Murphy Listen: Creature Fear Artist: Fleet Foxes Album: Fleet Foxes Record Label: Bella Union Designer: Original Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder Listen: Mykonos Artist: The Gutter Twins Album: Saturnalia Record Label: Sub Pop Records Designer: Photography by Frank Relle and Art Direction by Scott Ford [...]
i guess i'm floating |
3 hours ago
Of all the ten or so gifts I got for Christmas this year, no gift was as pleasantly unexpected as Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion which leaked sometime on Christmas day. Apologies to Stephen Colbert, whose holiday DVD (featuring the likes of Elvis Costello, Feist, and Willie Nelson) may have once been "the greatest gift of all", for we all know nothing is sweeter than AC's 11-song sonic orgasm.That's a strange introduction, perhaps, to a contest where we're giving away the [...]
WFMU's Beware of the Blog |
3 hours ago
Modern day hardcore bands namedropping Void, Negative Approach and Die Kreuzen automatically throw down the money-where-your-mouth-is gauntlet, so when Austin's Total Abuse does all that and then the singer talks about how he likes to hide behind a wall of power electronics noise and intone to the audience dictator-like, I am skeptical. But with the new weed of HC bands like Fucked Up and Sex Vid (covering the Dead C for heavens sake) the combo of select history lessons in [...]
Discobelle |
3 hours ago
NYC trio Old Money just released their free digital only EP “Scareapeutic”. To promote the release they’re handing out these two remixes of Swedish electropop singstress Little Jinder and rapper Donnis, that until now have been hidden away in their vault. Little Jinder - Polyhedron (Konrad Old Money remix) (Mediafire) Donnis - Party Works (Konrad Old Money remix) (Mediafire)
AudioPorn Central |
3 hours ago
Simon Iddol - the Vatican Years [download page] 01 sargasso sleep (Morcheeba VS Salt Tank)02 wrong seduction (Everything But The Girl VS Snoop Dogg)03 body rosa (Belanova VS Booka Shade)04 bangin daydream NEW! PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACK! (David Bowie VS The...
soul sides |
3 hours ago
For every beginning break collector, especially those coming out of the 1990s, it was inevitable that you'd end up with more than a few Freddie Hubbard records. As a trumpeter player, his work - especially for CTI - was such an essential part of the soul-jazz sound of the 1970s that would find renewed resonance two decades later. Hubbard died today, only age 70, from a heart attack. Here are a few personnel favorites:Red ClayPovo
marathonpacks |
3 hours ago
(As I do every year, I'll devote this week to posting some year-end thoughts, musical and otherwise, from some friends of mine. My own thing will no doubt go up sometime in the early part of January. In the meantime, my year-end mixes are still there for the taking, btw.)------------The following four guys are enrolled in the same graduate program as yours truly. That's one thing. More importantly: these are guys with whom I regularly debate the relative merits of Cris [...]
A Closet of Curiosities |
4 hours ago
Dan Gibson - Solitudes Volume 2 Hope that everyone is enjoying the holidays. It's great to be back posting. Usually, I post these kind of records on Sundays, but I was busy with activities yesterday. Perhaps this will be pleasant to listen to on a Monday. THE SOUND OF THE SURF I watched the sea, flat and grey, a slab of pewter that stretched and curved out to the rising moon. Like a shapeless
stereogum |
4 hours ago
According to US/People/Sufjan Beat, Death Cab For Cutie's frontman proposed to the She half of She & Him before Christmas and she said yes man (sorry). We're happy for them (sort of!), but look forward to your indie wedding jokes in the comments. (Via Rawkblog.)
