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Musical Pairings: Blu & Exile – Below The Heavens

February 22nd, 2012

Blu & Exile’s 2007 debut Below The Heaven was unquestionably one of the best underground hip hop albums released in the past decade. But, like a lot of great underground music, it’s taken time to discover it’s audience. Sure, the album brought them a loyal audience nearly immediately upon it’s release, but it took other [...]

Single Serving: Here We Go Magic, Frankie Rose, Booddha, and Bondax.

February 20th, 2012

I’ve got lots of great new music for you today. Here We Go Magic teamed up with Radiohead-producer Nigel Godrich and we have a taste. Frankie Rose released another single and you can have a bite of that too. Next we’ll follow that up with some bassy, glitchy palate cleansers courtesy of Bondax and Booddha. [...]

Musical Pairings: M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

February 13th, 2012

Having named his band M83 after the spiral galaxy Messier 83 (a.k.a. the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy), it is clear that Anthony Gonzalez is attracted to things that are grand, luminous and stunning in their scope. At the same time, Gonzalez’s music has always demonstrated his desire to grasp and recreate a nostalgic, child-like sense of [...]

Diary of a Music Blogger: Various Artists – The Roots of Chicha

February 10th, 2012

I only first knowingly experienced cumbia last year when Kasey and I visited Colombia. It was everywhere we went. In the tropical wall-ringed Cartagena, for example, rhythmic, Caribbean-inspired cumbias spilled out of small clubs packed full of late night revelers into the early hours of morning. But Cumbia wasn’t limited to the coast. In Bogota, [...]

TK005: Thousand – The Fall / Your Wild Heart 7″

February 9th, 2012

When I originally discovered the music from the solo project of Paris songwriter Stéphane Milochevitch I described Thousand (his musical nom de guerre) by stating that his music exhibits all of the qualities of a glass of fine red wine: it is bold, smooth, and a little spicy. I’d add that like a good red [...]

Musical Pairings: The Walkmen – You & Me

February 8th, 2012

I’ve always thought it was cool that The Walkmen were one of those bands that earned their chops as musicians by playing together, having played in bands alongside each other since the 5th grade or earlier. For example, Bassist/organist Walter Martin and vocalist/guitarist Hamilton Leithauser are cousins and grew up across the street from one [...]

Musical Pairings: Bachelorette – Bachelorette

February 6th, 2012

It has been said that all art is a product of its context. That is certainly true of the self-titled third album by New Zealand songwriter Annabel Alpers who records solo albums and performs live as Bachelorette. Bachelorette was recorded while Alpers was living a somewhat transient lifestyle with parts of the album recorded in [...]

Guest Post: King Krule – King Krule EP

February 3rd, 2012

My earliest awareness of the iconic Frank Sinatra came from watching classic Looney Tunes cartoons from the early 40’s. In those cartoons Sinatra was depicted as skinny and sickly, often attached to various medical apparatuses as women swoon in increasingly ridiculous fashion as a result of hearing the buttery tones of his hypnotic croon. I [...]

Musical Pairings: The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient

February 2nd, 2012

The band The War On Drugs formed the same way many great bands start: two guys with shared musical influences met, had a few drinks together, and decided to sit down and write some music. In this case, the primary songwriter, Adam Granduciel found his creative muse by collaborating with Philly-guitarist and fellow Bob Dylan-fan [...]

Single Servings: Azealia Banks, Deerhoof (feat. David Bazan), The Dø, and M.I.A.

February 1st, 2012

New music from Azealia Banks, Deerhoof (feat. David Bazan), The Dø and M.I.A.! That is a lot of great new music for one Single Serving. Thankfully, I think you can take it. What you waiting for: give ‘em a play. Azealia Banks – Bambi Uhm, so the new Azealia Bank’s track is mind-melting (and, uhm, [...]

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