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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 [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

February 21st, 2012

The memorable three note guitar riff powering the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was intended as a throwaway placeholder to be replaced with a blaring horn section. The band ultimately decided to stick with the guitar, and, according to Mick Jagger, it was that track that “changed [The Rolling Stones] from just another [...]

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. [...]

5 Questions With… Breathe Owl Breathe

February 17th, 2012

I caught up with Micah, Andrea and Trevor from Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Breathe Owl Breathe before their set at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill. Their live show is upbeat and whimsical. In fact, I’d venture as far as to say I’d never seen a band appear to have so much fun on stage (The [...]

Turntable Kitchen :: February 2012 Mix

February 16th, 2012

The February 2012 Mix is the first time we’ve featured most of these artists, but you can be sure you’ll be hearing more about them in the coming months. For example, I can’t get enough indie r&b recently, so artists like AlunaGeorge, Milo Mills, and Woolfy have been getting a lot of plays in our [...]

It’s an EPIC Giveaway: Win Our Turntable + A Starter Record Collection (Value: Over $500)!

February 13th, 2012

Today we’re sharing something REALLY cool with you. A few months ago, we hooked up with the very talented Eric Slatkin of Highbeam Media (not to mention our friends Lindsey & Christian, who let us take over their house) to shoot a video that we hope captures what we feel is the Turntable Kitchen Pairings [...]

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 [...]

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