Puddlegum |
1 minute ago
Paul Mawhinney has the biggest record collection in the world at over three million albums. The amazing thing is nobody wants it. With plaguing health problems he’s trying to sell. It’s been appraised for 50 million dollars. He’s selling it for three million and can’t find a buyer. If anybody wants to give Chasing Lions three million dollars we’ll buy it. Watch the movie below to see the archive for yourself.
Idolator |
2 minutes ago
Jon Savage is best known as the author of two excellent books on youth culture (last year's Teenage and the punk-history classic England's Dreaming), but he's also put together a handful of good compilation CDs (Queer Noises and England's Dreaming for Trikont) and is about to release another: Dreams Come True: Classic First Wave Electro: 1982-1987. The 12-inch mix of Yaz's "Situation" makes the cut, which alone gives Savage's comp an advantage over a number of other recent electro collections. [Fact [...]
Pitchfork:Today |
2 minutes ago
Dropping a former coke addict into the midst of the Colombian drug trade for television purposes doesn't seem like the smartest idea. But BBC America has done exactly that, and not with just any former coke addict. It was Blur bassist Alex James, who "once bragged that he spent over a million pounds on cocaine at the height of his addiction," according to a press release. Not only did James return intact, but the resulting documentary, Cocaine Diaries: Alex James in [...]
The Music Slut |
2 minutes ago
Enjoy audio from last week's performance below. Coldplay MP3 at bottom of post.MP3: Coldplay - Shiver
stereogum |
2 minutes ago
Shuffle playlist stuff can be lame, but (surprise) Lou's well listened and has opinions. You'll learn a thing or two (and add some to your download queue) after parsing. Check it at A.V. Club.
my old kentucky blog |
2 minutes ago
My Old Kentucky Blog is stoked to join forces with our friends at Transmission Entertainment and other notable blogs and such to be a part of Fun Fun Fun Fest this year. Giving me an excuse to jump a flight to Austin, TX is never that tough, but getting me to do it when it isn't 108 degrees down there is liking taking candy from old people. I mean, you just gotta do it. Take candy from old people I mean.Novemember [...]
gorilla vs. bear |
3 minutes ago
I've been pretty anxious to hear the album version of "House Jam," the first single from Gang Gang Dance's upcoming Saint Dymphna LP, since hearing what xxxchange did with the song a few weeks back. I mentioned then that this is what it might sound like if Timbaland produced the Knife, and I'm happy to report that the original is just as danceable (and immediately infectious and accessible) as xxxchange's banger. Download it over at fluxblog. And, in case you mixed [...]
fucking dance |
40 minutes ago
so Field Day was pretty naff minus those shorts Tim Harrington wore, The Mae Shi's set and erm that's about it. everyone else i saw was pretty boring or just really awful. i didn't get there til after 3pm so maybe all the fun fizzled out along with the hope of any decent weather. if you enjoyed yourself despite being surrounded by people who were just taking a piss anywhere and everywhere you can get early early earlybird tickets for next [...]
Butter Team |
40 minutes ago
Back in May we said Mux Mool's Night Court could be a hangover b-side from Daft Punk's Discovery (still stand by that); now he's wonder twin city powering with Big Quarters for a dope free EP worth your precious mouse clicks.Break out the janitor dust b/c the production is sick. Take the opener to "Ladies Know," which heats up with every rewind...Muxy tosses out a bumped-up disco sample, drops it into the 73-ton Prefuse compactor, and robotically lasers each part back [...]
Idolator |
41 minutes ago
Behold: An MP3 player that's designed to look like the Birds Nest stadium that was built in Beijing for the Olympics. Unfortunately, if you want an accompanying cool fireworks display, you'll have to buy an old iPod Nano and fuse the two together. [Geeph via The Listenerd]
Idolator |
42 minutes ago
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Chinese officials have closed access to Apple's iTunes Store after getting wind of Olympic athletes downloading Songs For Tibet, which features songs by the likes of Rush, Underworld, and Moby. (Proceeds go to "peace-related projects" that were hand-picked by the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.) The ban came shortly after the Art Of Peace Foundation, which backed the project, sent out a press release saying that "over 40" athletes participating in the 2008 [...]
Pitchfork:Today |
42 minutes ago
In the spring of 2007, after Prinzhorn Dance School fell prey to visa troubles, LCD Soundsystem head honcho and DFA Records co-founder James Murphy invited Jona Bechtolt's YACHT to fill in the opening spot on the band's North American tour. It seems to have gone well. So well that on a day off in Portland, Bechtolt recorded "Summer Song," which he calls "a sort of love letter" to LCD Soundsystem. Originally, the song was posted for free download on YACHT's website. [...]
Pitchfork:Today |
42 minutes ago
This fall, Dutch composer Stephen Emmer will be issuing his album Recitement. It's an unusual project packed with guest stars from across the musical and literary spectrum. Emmer takes an assortment of poems, stories, and the like, and sets readings-- some by their original authors, some by guests-- to original music. This track takes finds Lou Reed reciting a piece by Paul Theroux, set to score reminiscent of light cocktail jazz. The short film by director Paul Faas is a love [...]
brooklynvegan |
43 minutes ago
On the bill, Holland's legendary avant-punks the Ex, playing live as an expanded 10-piece and joined for the first time in NYC by Ethiopian saxophonist Gétatchèw Mèkurya. If you need even more dazzling news, Lincoln Center added two amazing East African/American collaborations to the bill: Either/Orchestra with Mahmoud Ahmed and Alèmayèhu Eshèté, plus Extra Golden. Thanks to the New York State Music Fund grant that enabled WFMU bring in the Ex and Getatchew, we've also been beefing up not only the [...]
Minneapolis Fucking Rocks |
1 hour ago
(Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - "Swimming Pools")YouTube LinkEven though the name is Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, the backup band will be doing both the former and the latter when Thao Nguyen, formidable as a performer on her own terms, plays several solo shows in the fall as part of the Hotel Cafe Tour. One of those stops is in MPLS. But before all that occurs, she's got a few one-off festival dates with the Get [...]
Minneapolis Fucking Rocks |
1 hour ago
(Bloc Party)Download: Bloc Party - "Trojan Horse"Download: Bloc Party - "Trojan Horse"Yesterday, it seemed like there was an explosion of music streams happening. First off, on the heels of the very-sudden, Radiohead-esque announcement that their third album, Intimacy, is out TOMORROW, Bloc Party put up a stream of a new song called "Trojan Horse". Listen to it at the band's MySpace page, or stream a copy of it above. Next up is TV on The Radio. Their new album arrives late [...]
The Yellow Stereo |
1 hour ago
As you can see with this week’s Graboid, there are a lot of great releases out there to spend your hard-earned cash on. Seriously, I don’t even know where to start with this list. A few releases that I can definitely recommend include Ra Ra Riot’s The Rhumb (really dig this one - so happy for these guys), Jaguar Love’s Take Me To The Sea, Lykke Li’s Youth Novels (finally gets its US release) and Stereolab’s Chemical Chords. I really [...]
The Music Slut |
1 hour ago
Details are as follows:September 9thThe Delancey7:30 PM ($10)For further info, head here.Visit Gold Streets at their official site.MP3: Gold Streets - The Wait
The Line of Best Fit |
1 hour ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrcx2q_Ru8Y Related posts Black Kids - London ULU, 18/06/08
stereogum |
1 hour ago
Mr. Byrne's Everything That Happens... LP collab with Eno is rather great and all, but this one's about the legendary Head's other love (no, not that one or that one or that one). As you've probably seen if you live in NYC, the guy likes to bike. He also to park his bike. And he's proving it all with a series of bike racks of his design, strategically installed all over the city (shaped like a $ at Wall St., like [...]
brooklynvegan |
1 hour ago
by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Patrick Bower - See Ya When We See Ya (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Amazing Baby - Head Dress (MP3) a version of Amazing Baby Wednesday (8/20) has so many good NYC show options it's criminal. Top of the list for me is probably Seattle's BOAT at Union Hall, who (as listed in last week's post) played a great show on Sunday at Cake Shop, one of the most fun shows I've been to all year. Add locals My Teenage [...]
Idolator |
2 hours ago
Something that came up in the comments section of the post on that new TV On The Radio song (which you should really listen to if you haven't already): While the numbers would seem to indicate that many Idolator readers visit the site while they're bored at the office, a fair amount of people said that they don't listen to music at work, and that while they can read the site when they're on the clock, they tend to wait until [...]
Pitchfork:Today |
2 hours ago
What do you get when you combine Davis Guggenheim-- the director of Al Gore's conservation documentary An Inconvenient Truth and a director/producer for gruesome Western drama "Deadwood"-- with Jack White, Jimmy Page, and the Edge? Nope, not an after school special in which the three guitarists offer helpful tips on how to save the planet, and not a saloon fight scene in which the axemen use their guitars as axes...on each other. Actually, you get a pretty straightforward rock documentary called [...]
Rock Sellout |
2 hours ago
Raissa from The Mummers on Steve Lamacq Today saw the long-awaited Mummers mini-album arrive on my doorstep. I have been a longtime advocate of this wonderful Brighton-based collective. Indeed, they were one of the first bands I ever blogged for Rock Sellout. The album is entitled Tale To Tell (part one) and it’s available now. All I can say is please buy it!! The video explains the making of the album and the track I have included is no longer available [...]
Idolator |
2 hours ago
Members of the metal grotesquerie Slipknot are trying to distance themselves from a South African teenager who attacked four people at his school with a sword (!) while wearing a homemade version of one of the band's masks; one person died, while the other three sustained injuries. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a few members of the chattering classes over there are quick to blame the murders on the "Satanic music" the teen listened to in his out-of-school hours, and Slipknot is getting particular [...]
