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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Jaguar on October 02, 2009, 05:06:16 am
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This is meant to be an extension of "The 2009 Albums Thread" (http://www.930.com/forum/index.php?topic=6123.0). Since it's dated, I thought I'd start a new one to serve as a Part II, of sorts.
Butterfly Explosion
(with help from God Is An Astronaut)
Target date: February 2010
From what I've heard, it's very good and even better than their debut EP.
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No clue on dates for these two but:
New Jack Rose on Thrill Jockey
New album from Rick Bishop/Chris Corsano/Ben Chasny's yet unnamed band. If there was ever a supergroup that's not destined to fail, this is it.
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Not exactly an 'album' but related enough to include in this thread.
Upside Down (http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/10/creation_records_documentary_d.html)
A documentary on Creation Records
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Did that shoegaze doc Beautiful Noise ever come out?
Edit: found the filmmaker's blog. (http://www.syn-sen.blogspot.com/)
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the only thing i care about musically . . . is whether or not the polyphonic spree will ever release another album?
this is neato:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqUc4Y6Oxw&feature=player_embedded
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the only thing i care about musically . . . is whether or not the polyphonic spree will ever release another album?
but... but... you said that skinny puppy was the only thing you cared about.
it's the lying that hurts <wipes tear, but tried to put on a brave face>
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the only thing i care about musically . . . is whether or not the polyphonic spree will ever release another album?
but... but... you said that skinny puppy was the only thing you cared about.
it's the lying that hurts <wipes tear, but tried to put on a brave face>
my faces are as many as sally field's unmedicated schizophrenia.
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"We are delighted to make the first TRUE announcement concerning the forthcoming haunted and exhilarated album by Current 93. This will be released on or
around David's birthday in 2010.
THE CIPHER FOR THE ALBUM IS
.'. BS:SO .'.
THE TRUE NAME WILL FOLLOW SOON
Full details will follow very soon of the subscription edition.
Each track has a picture. Each picture has a face. Each face has one of you in it.
We are also considering whether to make the book, CD and vinyl of this album available only by mail order and for download. These discussions continue."
;D
Aleph at Hallucinatory mountain is one of my favs of '09.
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thanks azagh.
the entire Current 93 catalog is back on emusic! (they seem to be off and on with emusic for the past couple years).
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scissor sisters ;D
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didnt know where else to put this...
amazon 50 albums for $5 here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=s9_al_bw_feat?ie=UTF8&docId=1000371251&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=1PWE4R9V47NMBGM3XJG2&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=497144211&pf_rd_i=163856011&j=22079825&e=odyssee1@hotmail.com&l=14955314_HTML&u=251340988&mid=80647&jb=0)
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Butterfly Explosion
(with help from God Is An Astronaut)
Target date: February 2010
From what I've heard, it's very good and even better than their debut EP.
Awesome, I cant wait. The EP was very good, and gets play on my shoegaze playlist. Plus working with GIAA? Bad ass.
And the Spree definitely need to release something new. They usually do a few years between albums, and the Fragile Army just came out in 2007. Wiki says they started their new one in August, so maybe mid next year...
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just heard this morning that the new "untitled as of yet" album from hot chip is due out on the streets at the end of feb. can't wait!!! just also heard this morning this horrid, god awful remix of over and over. can wait!!!
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TMT:
"The Magnetic Fields to Release Realism in January 2010
The Magnetic Fields are back and presumably better than ever. Their eighth LP, Realism, is set for release January 26 via Nonesuch. Aside from the title, release date, label, and tracklisting, we ain?t got much else to say. But I bet it?ll be as compelling as 2008?s Distortion (TMT Review). I mean, why not?
Realism tracklisting:
1. You Must Be Out of Your Mind
2. Interlude
3. We Are Having a Hootenanny
4. I Don?t Know What to Say
5. The Dolls? Tea Party
6. Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree
7. Walk a Lonely Road
8. Always Already Gone
9. Seduced and Abandoned
10. Better Things
11. Painted Flower
12. The Dada Polka
13. From a Sinking Boat"
Hell yes.
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new lucky soul album due next year
preview of first single
http://soundcloud.com/ruffa-lane/lucky-soul-white-russian-doll-1
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God Is An Astronaut will have a new album out sometime in 2010.
Also, Air Formation has a new one coming out. Not sure of release time but suspect it won't be before this year ends.
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The Beach House album leaked and from what I've heard so far, it's much better than Devotion (I didn't care much for Devotion, though).
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Sennen will release their new album in March of 2010. They play British Rock with a few Gaze elements mixed in.
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New Panda Bear solo album and Animal Collective movie (http://www.pedestrian.tv/blogs/view/3596/panda-bear-talks-new-solo-albums-super-d.htm)
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New massive attack at least in the UK
Massive Attack fifth album: 'Heli-go-land' out on Feb 8th. With Horace Andy, Martina Topley Bird, Damon Albarn, Guy Garvey & Hope Sandoval.
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Spoon just moved up the release date of Transference a week to Jan 19th 2010
I've heard about half the songs on it and they are super great :D
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New massive attack at least in the UK
I am anxious to heat that. But what's the strategy to a uk-only release these days? Once that recording hits the street everybody and anybody can get it.
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man everybody and anybody will be able to get it months before the street date
it sucks but its just the way it is now
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And yet they will turn around and bitch about the download pirates.
Get with the times, Massive Attack! They aren't some little band who have to limit or stagger area releases due to extremely limited funds. The old ways of A&R don't work like they use to. Now let's just hope they don't work exclusively with Spotify which, ironically, also creates an international black market. They probably will be available on iTunes and Amazon but some of us want the tangibles without shelling out $30 or so for an import.
On the upside, those of us who are patient may very well get a bonus song or two. That too is yet another old A&R practice that only serves to encourage the pirates and pisses off their locals. (I really, really hate that practice even though, more often than not, we seem to get the extras rather than the other way around. Japanese releases excluded as they too often always have an extra something and better sound quality, at least on physical products.... at ridiculous prices.)
*Btw, for those who may be reading this post wrong, I am not justifying pirating. Only pointing out reasons and effects of their operating in the past decisions.
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And yet they will turn around and bitch about the download pirates.
Get with the times, Massive Attack! They aren't some little band who have to limit or stagger area releases due to extremely limited funds. The old ways of A&R don't work like they use to. Now let's just hope they don't work exclusively with Spotify which, ironically, also creates an international black market. They probably will be available on iTunes and Amazon but some of us want the tangibles without shelling out $30 or so for an import.
On the upside, those of us who are patient may very well get a bonus song or two. That too is yet another old A&R practice that only serves to encourage the pirates and pisses off their locals. (I really, really hate that practice even though, more often than not, we seem to get the extras rather than the other way around. Japanese releases excluded as they too often always have an extra something and better sound quality, at least on physical products.... at ridiculous prices.)
*Btw, for those who may be reading this post wrong, I am not justifying pirating. Only pointing out reasons and effects of their operating in the past decisions.
Once you get the album can you burn me a copy ;D
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My earlier post regarding the new Massive Attack did go through.... but my point was the info on the new record came via a bbcmusic Twitter, and I have no other info to share regarding a US release
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Stand down everyone, filter mag is reporting that the album is coming to the US on 2/9 they also have a preview mp3 from the new EP
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Ah, a day later. No problem.
But my thoughts still stand on the above since there are still some industry dinosaurs out there, not to mention the stupid cut off their noses to spite their faces Spotify crap going on. Don't blame them but I do blame very big labels, the RIAA and the CRB for that b.s..
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Has anyone seen confirmation that Courtney Love is releasing a new album this year? Shut the fuck up, I still care and you're a cocksucker if you think she's irrelevant. 2010 is the YEAR OF THE.
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there's an article on a recent Rolling Stone issue...
Has anyone seen confirmation that Courtney Love is releasing a new album this year? Shut the fuck up, I still care and you're a cocksucker if you think she's irrelevant. 2010 is the YEAR OF THE.
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Soundpool:
we're really happy to tell you that we will be bringing our upcoming album
"MIRRORS IN YOURS EYES"
to you via
KILLER PIMP RECORDS!!
watch for our 7" vinyl release mid january...
and the full album will be released on c.d. & vinyl in early 2009!
we're very happy to be working w/ jon whitney of brainwashed & killer pimp with our new album "mirrors in your eyes"!
thanks to all of you for your support & patience!
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Rangda (http://www.myspace.com/calonarang)
Fuck yes.
Now all three people on this board who'd give a shit about this can rejoice.
New album from Rick Bishop/Chris Corsano/Ben Chasny's yet unnamed band. If there was ever a supergroup that's not destined to fail, this is it.
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23 Upcoming Albums That Matter Most
http://www.spin.com/gallery/23-upcoming-albums-matter-most
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New Emma Pollock in March
Preview track from that album and other Chemikal Underground goodies here
http://www.chemikal.co.uk/maillistsubs.htm
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
is set to release their fifth studio album, Beat The Devil's Tattoo, on March 8th (UK/Europe/Japan/Australia et al), March 9th (US/Canada) and March 16th (Germay). This release signifis the band's first full-length on their own Abstract Dragon label, in partnership with Vagrant Records and Co-Op Music Group. The band wrote and recorded most of the album at The Basement Studio in Philadelphia, PA - the same room where they wrote and recorded "Howl" as well as some work in their hometown Los Angeles. Beat The Devil's Tattoo also marks the first album with drummer Leah Shapiro.
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Malory
"Pearl Diver"
January 11th
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Hammock
Target date: March 2010
"...
The title of the album is "Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts", and it has 12 songs and a running time of about 73 minutes. It was mixed by Tim Powles (member of The Church, one of our musical heroes, and master of the ?wet mix?). The song titles follow:
1. The Backward Step
2. Tristia
3. Little Fly/Mouchette
4. Breathturn
5. In the Nothing of a Night
6. Andalusia
7. The Whole Catastrophe
8. The World We Knew As Children
9. Dust Is the Devil's Snow
10. How Can I Make You Remember Me?
11. You Lost the Starlight in Your Eyes
12. Something Other Than Remaining"
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I wanna see Hammock again.
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new Autechre, "Oversteps", in march.
http://warp.net/records/autechre/new-album-oversteps-announced-plus-european-tour
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The P4k Guide to Upcoming Releases: Winter 2010
http://pitchfork.com/news/37446-the-pitchfork-guide-to-upcoming-releases-winter-2010/
some interesting announcements in there: Magnetic Fields, Massive Attack, Peter Gabriel, Wu-Tang, David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, Eluvium, BMRC, Frightened Rabbit, DBT, White Stripes, Goldfrapp, Black Francis, Battle, !!!, Gorillaz, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem...
not bad.
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What I've heard in the last week...
Hot Chip: first half is solid, 2nd half was unlistenable to me.
Silver Mt. Zion: very Spiritualizedish as odd as that sounds. Nice listen.
Pantha Du Prince: Good background music. Not much more.
Jack Rose: beautiful album front to back. Hard to listen to and not think about the inevitable success for which he was bound. :(
Retribution Gospel Choir: strong effort. Mostly a straight-up rocker of an album. About as far from Low as can be (don't get me wrong; I very much enjoy me some Low).
Owen Pallett: listened to roughly the first half last night; very pleasant. More use of electronic instruments on this album than the previous two.
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A New RGC album? Must get as soon as I get back to the East Coast.
And yeah, they are not Low, but i still dig them.
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The guitars on it make it sound like it was produced by J Mascis.
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Lali Puna
"Our Inventions"
Release Date: April 1, 2010
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Efterklang!
Magic Chairs
This should be good.
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This is actually amusing
The Hot Rats - Turns Ons
Released on
US 1/19/10
UK 2/1/10
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The guitars on it make it sound like it was produced by J Mascis.
Very nice. Ill grab it today when i get back to the east. I have a lot of music to catch up on.
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Boooooo...The first two tracks of the Efterklang album are uninteresting bland crap. I turned it off and put Parades on. Much better...
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Sennen will release their new album in March of 2010. They play British Rock with a few Gaze elements mixed in.
Sadly, this sucks. All the gaze is gone and has been replaced with cheap cheesy crap. Boo!
However, this:
Malory
"Pearl Diver"
January 11th
is FANTASTIC!!!
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The Dolly Rocker Movement
"Our Days Mind The Tyme"
On Bad Afro Records
Available for Download on Feb. 22, 2010
Fun Garage Pop Psychedelia from Australia.
Getting ready to prepare several songs to upload to the station.
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Hot Rats leaked.
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Monster Movie
"Everyone Is A Ghost"
Seems that I read that the release date is April 5, 2010
*Monster Movie is Sean Hewson and Christian Savill (ex-Slowdive)
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^Nice.
Loving the hell out of this new Citay album. I remember reading good things about their previous release but never listened to it.
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Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sergeant Pepper?:
Very weird and all over the place thus far. Dancier than their other work. It's like they're trying to pull a Primal Scream and do a cross-over album a la Screamadelica. Not sure if it's working all that well.
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Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sergeant Pepper?:
Very weird and all over the place thus far. Dancier than their other work. It's like they're trying to pull a Primal Scream and do a cross-over album a la Screamadelica. Not sure if it's working all that well.
but will it make for a good show? ;D
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Good question. Guess we'll find out.
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your comment "Dancier than their other work" gives me hope.
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Some tracks will surely make for a dance party. It's just that I don't know how well a dance party will go over at a BJM show.
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In 2005 (a.k.a. the Golden Age of music sales), Starbucks' then cutting-edge Hear Music label poured millions and millions of marketing dollars into thinking up a fantastic name for their first Valentine's Day compilation CD of Indie LITE artists covering classic love songs... then they looked down at some of those candy hearts or something and decided to just call the damn thing Sweetheart instead... then they realized that they had no business trying to sell their own new music in their stores and kinda stopped doing a lot of that... then last year, they released a sequel to the series anyway... and now, with the economy doing better than it ever has in history, Starbucks has dropped yet another Sweetheart album.
This time around, they're really hoping that your lady is totally INTO covers of songs she's never heard before unless she's a music person and owns the songs already. Killer strategy, right? The Shins' James Mercer collaborates with his brother Robert on a version of Bob Dylan's "Spanish Harlem Incident," Spoon take on The Damned's "Love Song," Yo La Tengo try out The Zombies' "You Make Me Feel Good," (okay, that actually sounds awesome) and José González contributes his version of Kylie Minogue's "Hand on Your Heart" (yeah, man, digging deep here). Elvis Perkins, Grand Archives, Mates of State, The Long Winters, and The Avett Brothers also make some Starbuxianly (I just made that up) non-offensive appearances.
But the best part? Dude, the comp's for sale on iTunes RIGHT THE HELL NOW. Valentine's Day shopping = all done, man. Now we can hit up the In-N-Out Burger, get some burgers, some beers, have a few laughs or whatever.... Your former troubles are over, dude.
Sweetheart 2010:
01. José González: "Hand on Your Heart" (Kylie Minogue)
02. Grand Archives: "Cupid" (Sam Cooke)
03. James Mercer & Robert Mercer: "Spanish Harlem Incident" (Bob Dylan)
04. Spoon: "Love Song" (The Damned)
05. Elvis Perkins: "Teneme en Tu Corazon (Keep Me in Your Heart)" (traditional)
06. The Long Winters: "Give Me All Your Lovin'" (ZZ Top)
07. Yo La Tengo: "You Make Me Feel Good" (The Zombies)
08. Céu: "Eu Amo Você (I Love You)" (Tim Maia)
09. Diane Birch: "I Go Crazy" (Paul Davis)
10. Jason Collett and Zeus: "Every Night" (Paul McCartney)
11. The Avett Brothers: "I Love" (Tom T. Hall)
12. Mates of State: "Long Way Home" (Tom Waits)
13. Angelique Kidjo: "Ne Me Quitte Pas (If You Go Away)" (Jacques Brel)
14. Hey Marseilles: "True Love Will Find You in the End" (Daniel Johnston)
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the reason why radiohead is playing that haiti benefit in LA is because they are currently recording their next album there. no release date on it yet, but it'll be out this year.
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rD_8J-qV22Y/SxkdkyWQVcI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/0ov-mDXWUZ8/s400/shout-out-louds-work-art.jpg)
Just listened to 3/4 of this while doing a lunchtime run and... sadly I found it pretty listless and boring, which is how I felt about the last one. The first one was so good too. Not sure if they changed or I did.
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The first 2010 release that I really like
Kind of a mix of white-girl garage soul with guitar jam freak-outs that approach Comets on Fire-levels of awesomeness
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9ROOpn4epE0/SybnV-pKFwI/AAAAAAAADWc/PxpHMI_Rv6s/s320/large.jpg)
The first 2010 release that I really like
Kind of a mix of white-girl garage soul with guitar jam freak-outs that approach Comets on Fire-levels of awesomeness
(http://cheezfailbooking.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/funny-facebook-hulk-snack.png)
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Wouldn't beef be more appropriate than tuna?
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I would blow hulk
just saying
doesn't make me proud but if the choice is hulk smash or hulk cum
well, we all face tough choices in this world
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totally LOVING the new Beach House!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
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Black Tambourine
End of March
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From Stella Luna...
"We are in the studio beginning work on releases for 2010."
This is both shocking and wonderful news for we Shoegazers as their sole EP, Stargazer, is often held in the highest esteem within it's genre. They were supposed to release something in 2002 but that never happened. To everyone's knowledge, they had fallen off the face of the earth as no one knew anything about what had happened to them and there were no signs of anything musical from this band. The exception is that there was word that they are 'perfectionists'. That was all. Not a thing more. The above quote was just posted by the band about 2 weeks ago and I just happened to stumble across it last night while doing a little research for some other project I'm involved in. No fanfare; just a simple little quote.
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Kyte
"Dead Waves"
April 2010
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Jamie Lidell - Compass 5/18
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Sonic Boom is producing the new MGMT album. Why, Peter, why?
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stream the new peter grabriel covers album here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/feb/04/peter-gabriel-scratch-back
(i had to refresh the page once before the widget showed up)
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Trembling Blue Stars
... are working on a new album but don't know if it will be out by the end of the year. They still have plenty of time so it may well make it.
Oh, and...
A Place To Bury Strangers
... have a new album which should be out in the near future.
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So Jag, do you think Sonic Boom will make MGMT listenable or will they still suck even with him on production?
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So Jag, do you think Sonic Boom will make MGMT listenable or will they still suck even with him on production?
Honestly, I don't see it making for much of a change in their sound. Supsect that it's more of an association thing on both their parts than any real musical enhancements.
This only confirms to me something that I've suspected for a long time. For all the 'coolness' (take that anyway you want), musical influence, drug involments (don't assume that's positive), and other musical associations that Sonic Boom has had, at heart, he's a bit of a mainstream preppie who got sidetracked early on by the real Spacehead, Jason Pierce.
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Paull Weller's "Wake Up The Nation" will have guest spots from Kevin Shields, Clem Cattini, Bev Bevin, and Bruce Foxton.
http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/02/03/paul-weller-to-wake-up-the-nation/
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I just read that Kevin Shields was collaborating with Weller no more than a couple hours ago.
If only he would stop procrastinating w/r/t getting his own shit done.
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Has anyone heard the new Massive Attack yet? I know, can't get to stores, no deliveries, etc....
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oh right, thanks for reminding me. i've been meaning to listen to that one... too much music in the queue. i'll let you know what i think in 52:58.
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I thought it was pleasant.
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on first listen: it's awright. didn't grab me at first listen, but i was working while listening so it didn't have 100% of my attention. lacks the trippiness and ominousness of MA's peak output, and nothing struck me as being trip-hop. there are nonetheless some good solid moments, and one unlistenable track.
maybe it's a grower, i'll def be giving it more listens. seems like the band is evolving, might take a little time to appreciate.
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New Morcheeba album and tour with Syke back as vocalist, plus another solo album from Skye in the spring!
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New Morcheeba album and tour with Syke back as vocalist, plus another solo album from Skye in the spring!
That would be a great show at the club.
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great news!!! ;D ;D ;D
New Morcheeba album and tour with Syke back as vocalist, plus another solo album from Skye in the spring!
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+2 for morcheeba (the missus is all over this one)
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Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
Album: Missing Deadlines - Selected Remixes
Release Date: March 15
Label: Rocket Girl
Tracklist:
01 Howling Bells: "Setting Sun"
02 A Sunny Day in Glasgow: "Ghost in the Graveyard"
03 Katharina Franck: "Faithful Friend"
04 Madrid: "Out to Sea"
05 Asobi Seksu: "Strawberries"
06 Dragons: "Remembrance"
07 Aus: "Halo"
08 Mahogany: "Supervitesse"
09 Lunz (Roedelius & Tim Story): "Lunz"
10 Rachel Goswell: "Coastline"
11 High Violets: "Chinese Letter"
12 Mark Gardener: "Story of the Eye"
13 I'm Not a Gun: "Make Sense and Loose"
14 Mojave 3: "Bluebird of Happiness"
Notes: Collection of remix work from the German electronic shoegaze producer.
http://pitchfork.com/news/37888-new-release-ulrich-schnauss-imissing-deadlines-selected-remixesi/
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The new Massive Attack (Heligoland) is very meh in my opinion. It lacks the etheral/dark feel that always seems to flow so well with 3D's production. I think the album relies way too much on it's collaborations. Thus, it really sounds more like an UNKLE album than a Massive Attack album. Some tracks could really use 3D's vocals. The only song upon my first listen that grabbed my attention was Rush Minute, which actually sounds like a real Massive Attack song.
Babel, Flat of the Blade, Atlas Air, and Girl I Love You are all decent at best. Everything else is pretty forgettable.
Will still catch them live though - definitely.
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DEAD MEADOW's forthcoming THE THREE KINGS (http://vimeo.com/8706959) is a full-length, old-school concert movie with soundtrack. The film consists of live footage from a 2009 LA show intermingled with "vignettes that abstractly depict themes of corruption, destruction and rebirth". The band portrays the Three Kings who are silent watchers of their world.
A stunning mix of fantasy film and multi-camera live concert footage, The Three Kings overlays the transcendental experience of the band's music with film vignettes of The Three Kings at work. The Kings look into our mortal world where each of the three human characters we play are tempted by the dark side of things and each react differently. The package consists of an album that stands alone with live material and FIVE new studio tracks and soon to be classic concert DVD. (http://store.deadmeadow.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=896&rv=denmuvkrk4vb147roocljbf1e2)
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DEAD MEADOW's forthcoming THE THREE KINGS (http://vimeo.com/8706959) is a full-length, old-school concert movie with soundtrack. The film consists of live footage from a 2009 LA show intermingled with "vignettes that abstractly depict themes of corruption, destruction and rebirth". The band portrays the Three Kings who are silent watchers of their world.
A stunning mix of fantasy film and multi-camera live concert footage, The Three Kings overlays the transcendental experience of the band's music with film vignettes of The Three Kings at work. The Kings look into our mortal world where each of the three human characters we play are tempted by the dark side of things and each react differently. The package consists of an album that stands alone with live material and FIVE new studio tracks and soon to be classic concert DVD. (http://store.deadmeadow.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=896&rv=denmuvkrk4vb147roocljbf1e2)
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Carlos Giffoni - Severance
Date not listed.
Rough Trade store review:
while he'll still carry around the tag of 'noise musician' in some quarters, carlos giffoni's recent creative trajectory has seen him venture ever deeper
into the realms of more formal and austere minimalist electronic composition. severance follows on as a natural successor to 2008's adult life, prompting
comparisons to the analogue stringency of mika vainio and pan sonic at their most experimental whilst also doffing a proverbial cap to academic 20th century
synthesizer music. the album is broken up by a series of concrete miniatures, the first of these being 'severance i', which commences the disc with a kind
of industrial hacking noise, beating away belligerently until the first synthesis track blurts in with an undulating throb: 'the hermit' gathers itself
from initial strands of gnarled tonality, eventually introducing sequenced elements that install a rhythmic order. at this point giffoni enters into a
sinister, spiralling soundworld in which starkly malevolent tones hobble around like something from a '70s synth horror soundtrack before crumbling away
and dissolving into a din that sounds rather like v2 bomber drones. so far, so good. even more rhythmic is 'knife', which sculpts raw noise signals into
rudimentary 4/4 beats whilst hypnotic arpeggiating synth patterns lurch around. 'shaved arms' is more aligned with good, old fashioned drone music and
commands a masterful array of buzzing, slowly modulating rasps, sustaining and throbbing with real menace and analogue heft. the last of the long-form
pieces, 'athens', might be the most complex and ambitiously constructed of the lot, combining the various techniques demonstrated in the earlier pieces
into a visceral finished product. here, percussive traits combine with pure analogue sound design and harmonically skewed step sequencing, all building
up to a punishingly extreme climax that crosses over into all-out noise-spewing dirge. another indispensable full-length from the no fun boss.
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01 Howling Bells: "Setting Sun"
02 A Sunny Day in Glasgow: "Ghost in the Graveyard"
03 Katharina Franck: "Faithful Friend"
04 Madrid: "Out to Sea"
05 Asobi Seksu: "Strawberries"
06 Dragons: "Remembrance"
07 Aus: "Halo"
08 Mahogany: "Supervitesse"
09 Lunz (Roedelius & Tim Story): "Lunz"
10 Rachel Goswell: "Coastline"
11 High Violets: "Chinese Letter"
12 Mark Gardener: "Story of the Eye"
13 I'm Not a Gun: "Make Sense and Loose"
14 Mojave 3: "Bluebird of Happiness"
Very nice!!! But no Dead Leaf Echo - Pale Fire (Ulrich Schnauss Mix)? Oh well, thats still looks to be a solid collection. I havent heard a few of these yet...
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Ugh...
Rick Rubin is producing the new Gogol Bordello album. Why and how does this worthless hack keep getting work?
In not-shitty news, the new High on Fire leaked last night and is brutally awesome.
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Ugh...
Rick Ruben is producing the new Gogol Bordello album. Why and how does this worthless hack keep getting work?
I'll have to hide my cd collection when you come over for a beer.
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Ugh...
Rick Ruben is producing the new Gogol Bordello album. Why and how does this worthless hack keep getting work?
I'll have to hide my cd collection when you come over for a beer.
Because your CD collection is loaded with Slayer, Andrew Dice Clay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and old-school rap?
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Ugh...
Rick Ruben is producing the new Gogol Bordello album. Why and how does this worthless hack keep getting work?
Maybe they keep mistaking him for Rick Rubin.
Muse and U2 would agree with you.
Adele wouldn't as he's also producing her 2nd album.
In really serious music news NME reports Limp Bizkit sez 'Our new album has a Daft Punk vibe'
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fixed
Ugh...
Rick Ruben is producing the new Gogol Bordello album. Why and how does this worthless hack keep getting work?
I'll have to hide my cd collection when you come over for a beer.
Because your CD collection is loaded with Slayer, Andrew Dice Clay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and old-school rap?
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Ugh...
Rick Ruben is producing the new Gogol Bordello album. Why and how does this worthless hack keep getting work?
I'll have to hide my cd collection when you come over for a beer.
Because your CD collection is loaded with Slayer, Andrew Dice Clay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and old-school rap?
He was also the first person on his block with a copy of that last Metallica album.
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Ugh...
Rick Ruben is producing the new Gogol Bordello album. Why and how does this worthless hack keep getting work?
I'll have to hide my cd collection when you come over for a beer.
Because your CD collection is loaded with Slayer, Andrew Dice Clay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and old-school rap?
I'm not music geek enough to usually pay attention the who produces the albums I have, but off the top of my head, there's the Avett Brothers' most recent album, there's Rainy Day Music by the Jayhawks, there's all those Johnny Cash American Recordings albums, there's Tom Petty's Wallflowers, and yes, a couple of old Public Enemy albums.
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old Public Enemy albums.
James Ford:
(http://www.bookcase.com/~claudia/mt/archives/Herbert%20Kornfeld.jpg)
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(http://4gifs.com/gallery/d/146537-2/They_see_me_rollin.gif)
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Will still catch them live though - definitely.
3D of Massive Attack was just on Zane Lowe's show. Martina Topley-Bird is opening and singing with them in the UK. Not sure of here.
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And now for something completely different!
"According to TwentyFourBit, Jim O'Rourke has produced a Burt Bacharach tribute album to be released April 7 on Japanese label ADWR. Titled All Kinds of People ~Love Burt Bacharach~,
the album contains 11 tracks featuring the likes of Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Yoshimi (Boredoms, OOIOO), Glenn Kotche (Wilco, Loose Fur, etc.), Bacharach
collaborator Donna Taylor, free-jazz musician Akira Sakata, Shibuya-kei musician Kahimi Karie, and, of course, O'Rourke himself. If that weren't enough,
O'Rourke, Kotche, and other artists will perform tracks from the album in Tokyo and Osaka in mid-April."
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Unless its a well know producer (Eno, Albini, Lanois) I don't really know who produced most of the albums I have; but those JC albums and Wallflowers are excellent. So Rubin's okay in my book.
"Johnny Cash American Recordings albums, there's Tom Petty's Wallflowers"
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Intuition - Girls Like Me
(http://cdbaby.name/i/n/intuitionhiphop2.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aE99fp3qkQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aE99fp3qkQ)
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The new Massive Attack (Heligoland) is very meh in my opinion. It lacks the etheral/dark feel that always seems to flow so well with 3D's production. I think the album relies way too much on it's collaborations.
Will still catch them live though - definitely.
Just finished listening to that disc this morning. Agree with pretty much everything you wrote (especially the bolded part) and it's kind of a shame. Really the first MA disc that didn't completely blow me away. Couple of good tracks here and then it really picks up around track 8 but ends soon after that. I'm curious as to how may of these actually beconme part of the setlist when he hits the road over here.
Still....I'm there if/when they get to DC.
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Listened to this last night. One of the better pieces of minimalism I've heard in a while.
Carlos Giffoni - Severance
Date not listed.
Rough Trade store review:
while he'll still carry around the tag of 'noise musician' in some quarters, carlos giffoni's recent creative trajectory has seen him venture ever deeper
into the realms of more formal and austere minimalist electronic composition. severance follows on as a natural successor to 2008's adult life, prompting
comparisons to the analogue stringency of mika vainio and pan sonic at their most experimental whilst also doffing a proverbial cap to academic 20th century
synthesizer music. the album is broken up by a series of concrete miniatures, the first of these being 'severance i', which commences the disc with a kind
of industrial hacking noise, beating away belligerently until the first synthesis track blurts in with an undulating throb: 'the hermit' gathers itself
from initial strands of gnarled tonality, eventually introducing sequenced elements that install a rhythmic order. at this point giffoni enters into a
sinister, spiralling soundworld in which starkly malevolent tones hobble around like something from a '70s synth horror soundtrack before crumbling away
and dissolving into a din that sounds rather like v2 bomber drones. so far, so good. even more rhythmic is 'knife', which sculpts raw noise signals into
rudimentary 4/4 beats whilst hypnotic arpeggiating synth patterns lurch around. 'shaved arms' is more aligned with good, old fashioned drone music and
commands a masterful array of buzzing, slowly modulating rasps, sustaining and throbbing with real menace and analogue heft. the last of the long-form
pieces, 'athens', might be the most complex and ambitiously constructed of the lot, combining the various techniques demonstrated in the earlier pieces
into a visceral finished product. here, percussive traits combine with pure analogue sound design and harmonically skewed step sequencing, all building
up to a punishingly extreme climax that crosses over into all-out noise-spewing dirge. another indispensable full-length from the no fun boss.
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Has anyone heard, and have an opinion on, The Big To Do by DBT yet? I hope its as good as Brighter Than Creation Dark.
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(Don't think this has been posted yet. Sorry if a duplicate.)
Eluvium
"Similes"
You can stream the album here (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123564373) in its entirety.
Pre-orders available now.
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I like his live show but could never manage to get into his studio work. It doesn't make sense; I like many other artists who do similar things in studio.
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I like his live show but could never manage to get into his studio work. It doesn't make sense; I like many other artists who do similar things in studio.
wow.
this from the guy who likes free jazz, merzbow, experimental noise, etc...
as mentioned in WAYLT (http://www.930.com/forum/index.php?topic=6331.1995), i gave his 4 hour compilation a spin. made it through once, it was pleasant work music. not sure when i'm going to have another run-through... it's a big commitment. i too prefer his live show to his recorded work.
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BRMC and Autechre leaked.
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Kinda shameless and I didn't want to start another thread about it; only because from times I have promoted....I get people on here who weren't too pleased with my promoting, LOL.....soooooo, here's my mixtape:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4331487436_9ebbe4f743.jpg)
The homie Ardamus [spotlight] just sent over his latest mixtape: When Everything Goes Wrong 2.0. The mixtape is a mixture of songs Ardmamus has done over the years that either weren?t tied to a particular project or stuff he did for the sake of nostalgia of the DMV scene that bred him in terms of music. DMV stand up!
1. Mixtape Intro.
2. Cry Now (freestyle)
3. I?m Illy And Successful (freestyle)
4. Drinksmoke (Hiphopapotamus Remix)
5. Cap City feat. YU, Keyote, X.O., Shea Butterfly, Enoch, and Mental Stamina of Rosetta Stamina (prod. by Ardamus)
6. Rattlesnakes feat. Enoch (prod. by Ardamus)
7. Ms. Robinson (prod. by Surock)
8. Body Music feat. Caledon (freestyle)
9. Not A Player Like You (prod. by TECK)
10. American Household (prod. by Yusef)
11. When The Truth Comes Out (prod. by Weirdo)
12. Randomness (prod. by Yosef Una)
13. How Do You Wanna Die? feat. Yusef (prod. by Yusef)
14. Don?t Believe It Then (prod. by RES NULLIUS)
15. I Know You Just Hate Me (freestyle)
16. Outro. (prod. by Constrobuz)
http://kevinnottingham.com/2010/02/24/ardamus-when-everything-goes-wrong-2-0/ (http://kevinnottingham.com/2010/02/24/ardamus-when-everything-goes-wrong-2-0/)
Download
http://www.mediafire.com/?lnjogyd2enx (http://www.mediafire.com/?lnjogyd2enx)
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Checked out the new Radio Dept album last night. Its pretty damn good! Some songs sound almost like the Stone Roses.
Pulling down the new Drive By Truckers at the moment, going to check it out during my lunchtime run.
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The new Brian Jonestown Massacre is out. Has a pretty weird vibe to it. It was recorded in Berlin and Iceland, which shows in the album imho. The tracks on it that are good, are fucking good, but there are some songs that I can't stand. It's alot dancier too.
"Let's go fucking metal" is so awesome. One of my favorite songs of the year.
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azaghal, may you please link me to the new BRMC? or send it my way?
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It sounded to me like they were trying to pull off their own Screamadelica. And like you said, hit-or-miss.
The new Brian Jonestown Massacre is out. Has a pretty weird vibe to it. It was recorded in Berlin and Iceland, which shows in the album imho. The tracks on it that are good, are fucking good, but there are some songs that I can't stand. It's alot dancier too.
"Let's go fucking metal" is so awesome. One of my favorite songs of the year.
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Autechre leaked.
....any good?
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The new Brian Jonestown Massacre is out. Has a pretty weird vibe to it. It was recorded in Berlin and Iceland, which shows in the album imho. The tracks on it that are good, are fucking good, but there are some songs that I can't stand. It's alot dancier too.
"Let's go fucking metal" is so awesome. One of my favorite songs of the year.
Has Anton Newcombe lost his goddamn mind, or does he just want everyone to think so? And does it really matter? These among other questions burned my brain throughout my ascetically excruciating listening experience of Brian Jonestown Massacre?s new album, Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? Still, by the time I finally reached the end of its interminable one-hour runtime, I was left with no answers, only further uncertainty ? not only as to the band and their terrifying lack (abundance?) of self-awareness, but also my life, our lives, existence, nature, the Universe. I suddenly hated myself, hated my surroundings; mostly, I hated Anton Newcombe.
Everyone and their sister, at this point, has seen DiG!, the 2004 documentary on Brian Jonestown and their 'feud' with pretty-boy pop hacks The Dandy Warhols. You?ll remember that, at the end of that film, it was decided by a combined court of Judges Joe Brown, Judy, Hatchett, Mathis, and Reinhold that both bands were at total and cosmic fault; that neither was the victor and to no one went the spoils. Both bands were cited for their misuse of irony, their pseudo-clever, celeb-punny names, and their independently derivative, uninteresting 60s-mining sounds, and were sentenced to die by beheading. But while the Dandies indeed met a nasty end by the hand of honorary executioner Roky Erickson, BJTM managed to escape into the dark, damp night. Since it was generally thought that the band would make every attempt to stay off the grid, thus signifying an end to their tactless and profuse recording career, all involved muttered ?eh? and agreed that justice had been served.
But all were wrong. Suddenly, and without any warning at all, comes Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?, a monumental failure of the American judicial system and an aural affront to music lovers worldwide. By now, readers of this site may have heard "Let?s Go Fucking Mental," Sgt. Pepper?s lead single and a pretty good indication of what level of professionalism to expect from the whole damn thing. "Let?s go fucking mental/ La la la la,? Newcombe repeats over and over AND OVER against an Odelay-reject beat. Believe it or not, it?s one of the album?s more listenable songs.
BJTM have apparently wrung the last bitter drops of blood out of the 1960s psych-folk they once co-opted as their own; little of that is found here. Not to speak of its title, ?White Music? is a lazy attempt at ambient drone. Several tracks find the band approximating low-rent Euro club beats and layering them under computerized voices or foreign-language vocals (Newcombe lives part-time in Iceland), to shitty and nonsensical effect. ?This is the One Thing We Did Not Want to Have Happen? starts out promisingly enough as something resembling rock and roll, but lasts about a million minutes too long. Remember when you were a kid in school, and there was always that one other kid who didn?t know when to let up? Like, he?d get really close to your face and repeat a phrase over and over, because he knew it was annoying as all hell? Listening to Sgt. Pepper is a little like that.
Only toward the end of the record does BJTM finally let up, delivering a couple relaxed and half-realized shoegaze jams (?Super Fucked? and ?Our Time?) that come close to being good. Sadly, it is all for naught: closer ?Felt Tipped Pictures of UFOs? is a plodding 10-minute turdfest, all cheesy moonbeam keyboards and a maddening vocal track of a girl arguing about The Beatles. Duh. Why did I expect anything else? Originality on BJTM records has long been hard to come by, and Sgt. Pepper is no exception. Ultimately, whether or not Newcombe is fucking with us becomes irrelevant; if you take the time to listen to an album like this, you?re being played one way or another. You know how O.J. Simpson released that book about if he had done what everyone knew he probably did? BJTM asking who killed Sgt. Pepper is a lot like that. Hey TV judges, howzabout a murder trial?
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/Brian-Jonestown-Massacre-Who-Killed-Sgt-Pepper
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Hilarious review.
RE: Autechre, it held my attention for four solid tracks then fell hard into generic IDM-land. It was late and I was tired so I turned it off then and went to bed.
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Whether one agrees with that review or not, the simple literary verbosity of it continues to exemplify why TMT > P4k.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UtbrbsrjY
Gorillaz w/ Gruff Rhys and De La Soul - Superfast Jellyfish
I like this song a lot. With this and Stylo, Plastic Beach is looking pretty interesting so far.
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It sounded to me like they were trying to pull off their own Screamadelica. And like you said, hit-or-miss.
The new Brian Jonestown Massacre is out. Has a pretty weird vibe to it. It was recorded in Berlin and Iceland, which shows in the album imho. The tracks on it that are good, are fucking good, but there are some songs that I can't stand. It's alot dancier too.
"Let's go fucking metal" is so awesome. One of my favorite songs of the year.
..thats actually a really good way to put it.
Maybe it will grow on me, but a fair amount of it isn't the BJM that I know and love.
Still going to catch the show at the club though. Definitely.
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I love BJM and that review is probably accurate (I haven't heard the album yet) and crushes any expecation of another ...and this is our music or Strung Out in Heaven style album. I read somewhere that Anton said of My Blood Underground and I'm paraphrasing, play these tunes and lets record and then you never have to play them again. So it basically seemed like listening to at a jam session or anton's home recordings. It sounds like this album is going to be along those lines too.
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Any good? I have an itunes gift card. I'm saving it for this album and maybe Beat the Devils Tattoo.
Pulling down the new Drive By Truckers at the moment, going to check it out during my lunchtime run.
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BRMC and Autechre leaked.
BRMC now has the entire album streaming on '(their) page'. I assume that means their MySpace profile since I read the notice in their MySpace activity stream. (Didn't check yet.) If it's not there, go check their website.
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Had to post this one mostly because I love the name of the album so much.
Dragontears
"Turn On Tune In Fuck Off"
Due out sometime this Fall on Bad Afro Records
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Gorillaz - Plastic Beach streaming in full on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124114812
Damon Albarn is my favorite living musician (not saying he's the best, just my favorite), so I am biased, but: LOVE IT. Has a definite White Album vibe; a beautiful, glorious, slightly schizoid pop roller coaster ride. "On Melancholy Hill" is especially beautiful, on par with such emotional Blur gems as "This Is a Low" and "Sweet Song."
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Plastic Beach is pretty great, and I've only played it once. It's really all over the place, and Damon did a great job producing it. There are some stunning tracks on there.
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in case someone cares enough to give this a listen:
First Listen: Broken Bells
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124018401
Brian Burton, a.k.a. Danger Mouse, always seems to be working on something, but this feels different. Burton has teamed up with James Mercer, who's spent more than a decade leading his band The Shins, to form Broken Bells. As The Shins' lineup changes and the band switches to a new label, it's only natural that Mercer would want to try something new, and Broken Bells' self-titled debut feels like a fresh start.
(continued)
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Fall leaked.
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Fall leaked.
but it's not even spring.
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Come on Walkies. I'd expect lame humor such as this from Rhett but you're typically held to a higher standard.
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I saw on a write up of a NYC SVI/Ceremony show that Ceremony has a full length coming out this Spring.
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I never thought I would say this but MGMT's Congratulations is great! They are a 100% different band now than on that overrated piece of garbage album that was their last. I don't know if it's Sonic Boom or their more psychedelic influences or a combination of both but this album is a total revamp of their sound.
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broken bells :-*
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Honest Strings:A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jack Rose (http://fina-music.com/catalog/index.html?id=104712)
That's a massive lineup. And it includes two appearances by the forum's own Snailhook.
Hopefully lossless downloads will be available.
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I never thought I would say this but MGMT's Congratulations is great! They are a 100% different band now than on that overrated piece of garbage album that was their last. I don't know if it's Sonic Boom or their more psychedelic influences or a combination of both but this album is a total revamp of their sound.
There's probably one or two people out there who agree with you, somewhere. :P
I found a couple of guilty pleasure songs on the first one, but the new one is unlistenable. I'm sure pitchfork will give it a 9.2, then a plethora of other people will agree with you.
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Why is it that I find a single Teenage Fanclub track more engaging then entire albums by Goldfrapp, Frighten Rabbit and the Watson Twins. Guess old age and the grump really truly is setting in... And I'm also not really buying into Free Energy, despite the fact it's being touted as 70's power pop, it just sounds forced and manufactured....
And take it from me avoid at all costs Young and Devine, imagine the worst possible pop-punk with autotuned vocals, and cheesy synths.
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Why is it that I find a single Teenage Fanclub track more engaging then entire albums by Goldfrapp, Frighten Rabbit and the Watson Twins. Guess old age and the grump really truly is setting in...
Um, maybe because you're a power pop freak?
I do like that TF track, but I also like the Watson Twins album quite a bit. I loved Midnight Organ Flight, but the new Frightened Rabbit is a little too slick. I liked the previous Goldfrapp album, but not this one.
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Power Pop freak or not, I'm finding less and less new rock music that's worth listening to more than once..
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so far i'm really enjoying: gorillaz, jonsi and harlem
still need to listen to: she and him, owen pallett, four tet
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The Owen Pallett album is pleasant but I am having a hard time justifying paying $15 to see him.
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The Owen Pallett album is pleasant but I am having a hard time justifying paying $15 to see him.
How much did you pay for the album?
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125322183&sc=fb&cc=fp
David Byrne's new album is streaming on NPR. You can even stream the individual tracks without having to listen to the whole thing.
Vocalists include: St. Vincent, Shara Worden, Martha Wainwright, Nicole Atkins, Sharon Jones, Tori Amos, and Santigold.
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New James EP which can be previewed here until 4/5 and they are back with some great new tracks!
http://soundcloud.com/james-the-band/sets/the-night-before/
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Speaking of Sharon Jones, her new one leaked a few days back.
As did Alcest.
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I need to check out Alcests new one. Ive been listening to Souvenirs d'un autre monde quite a bit lately. Have you heard the new one?
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^ I've heard it and was completely aghast! Had mixed feelings too. Beautiful Alcest instrumentation... and then Neige starts 'singing', for lack of a better word. He's back into his hard-edged Dark Metal mode. Lots of distant and horrific screamo. So sad because, without the vocals, this would be a nice album. The man can sing but, unfortunately, he chooses to scream on this release instead of sing.
There is one good song and that's the last one. No vocals.
File it under: Buyer Beware
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On the other hand,
The Brothers Movement - "The Brothers Movement"
is pretty decent.
Imagine the more ballady side of Jason Pierce joining Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club or The Black Ryder and making a few songs influenced by either Chad & Jeremey or Peter & Gordon, sort of spaced out a little, but for the new millenium. All the good parts of that as it all works pretty nicely.
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On the other hand,
The Brothers Movement - "The Brothers Movement"
is pretty decent.
Imagine the more ballady side of Jason Pierce joining Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club or The Black Ryder and making a few songs influenced by either Chad & Jeremey or Peter & Gordon, sort of spaced out a little, but for the new millenium. All the good parts of that as it all works pretty nicely.
Where you been jagy?? Haven't seen you around for awhile ;D You see all the crazyness with the Phish show?? Hippies ;D
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Around. Just choose to take a break.
Yes, saw the Phish fracas. Luckily, I have no desire to attend so never got hooked or hung up in that net. I do my swimming elsewhere.
Missed you William the Great. You always make me smile like this: ;D
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Speaking of Sharon Jones, her new one leaked a few days back.
As did Alcest.
How can it have leaked if people who legally pre-ordered it, have it in their hands?
Just sayin'...
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So...
"Trans-Continental Hustle is a big step for the band: their first record for their new label and their first time working with über-producer Rick Ruben.
Ruben is well-known for his career-making (and career-reviving) turns behind the boards, but here I?m not sure he?s done the band a service. Gogol Bordello
is first and foremost a live band, so their music works best when it sounds like it?s being played in a live setting. Steve Albini and Jim Sclavunos had
the right idea; the rawer, more bare-bones quality of their albums made a better conduit for this band?s unique energy."
How could anybody not see this coming?
(rest of the review is here. (http://tinymixtapes.com)
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Missed this earlier. Guess it didn't "leak" technically, then.
How is it? Still yet to hear it.
Speaking of Sharon Jones, her new one leaked a few days back.
As did Alcest.
How can it have leaked if people who legally pre-ordered it, have it in their hands?
Just sayin'...
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Re: The new Alcest.
Except for the last track, I hate it. Very sad as I absolutely love the previous release.
Thought that I wrote my thoughts on this in here somewhere but maybe it was in an email to someone or maybe some other site.
Unfortunately, Neige chose to use that horrid monster form of singing, if that's what you want to call it. Totally ruins the entire album which would otherwise have been very good.
Edit:
Go back a page in this thread. It's there.
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Hey guys,
I really like your thread. There is a ton of information here and a lot of bands that I will have to check into. I'd like to add the band that I play in to the Mix. We are not some huge act, we play The State Theatre in Falls church, (hoping to do 930) soon. We just put out a new song and are releasing a single May 7th. "Stars Align" is the debut track and it's produced by Scot Spelbring. I'd love to get some feedback from seasoned music listeners. Let me know.
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So...
"Trans-Continental Hustle is a big step for the band: their first record for their new label and their first time working with über-producer Rick Ruben.
Ruben is well-known for his career-making (and career-reviving) turns behind the boards, but here I?m not sure he?s done the band a service. Gogol Bordello
is first and foremost a live band, so their music works best when it sounds like it?s being played in a live setting. Steve Albini and Jim Sclavunos had
the right idea; the rawer, more bare-bones quality of their albums made a better conduit for this band?s unique energy."
How could anybody not see this coming?
(rest of the review is here. (http://tinymixtapes.com)
Ah! Totally forget I just put this on my iPod, gotta listen to it when I get a chance.
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Hey guys,
I really like your thread. There is a ton of information here and a lot of bands that I will have to check into. I'd like to add the band that I play in to the Mix. We are not some huge act, we play The State Theatre in Falls church, (hoping to do 930) soon. We just put out a new song and are releasing a single May 7th. "Stars Align" is the debut track and it's produced by Scot Spelbring. I'd love to get some feedback from seasoned music listeners. Let me know.
It would greatly help if you posted a link or something.
Welcome to the forum. When a few start newbie bashing, just ignore them.
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New SJDK album is fantastic! Great variety of styles and I think all artists should be forced to record on 8 track analog equipment
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New SJDK album is fantastic! Great variety of styles and I think all artists should be forced to record on 8 track analog equipment
(http://retrothing.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452989a69e2011570103b25970b-800wi)
:o :D ;) ;D 8)
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Haha,
Thanks for the kind words. Well, shoot, Facebook link work? http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sematic/49638971047 (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sematic/49638971047) Thanks for the words. I know I'm not as much of a music expert as some. I go on pitchfork and some indie sites but I'm into a lot of rock. I've grown up around here, been to a bunch of shows, and I guess I'm looking to get more into the DC scene. Our type of music is a little less indie and doesn't fit in at say, Black Cat or something like that, but I'm hoping one day to branch out to 930 from State Theatre. It's definitely tough being a musician around here, but I'm hoping in time that I can make something that folks from our area truly appreciate.
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I just released a mixtape of covers, remixes, and video game music updates. It features artists like Foals, SPC ECO, mc chris, MC Frontalot, Optimus Rhyme, Seal, Placebo, Bonde Do Rolê, and myself along with video game music remixes of SNES and NES tunes (Final Fantasy games, Little Nemo, Tetris Attacks and others), done (mostly) drum and bass style. Also a couple of beats I made for rappers that never were used. I usually wouldnt promote my nerdy solo electronic work here, but i thought a few of you might dig some of the tracks. My webpage has links for individual tracks and the album as a ZIP file, along with track and sample notes.
http://www.campaigntrail72.com/ (http://www.campaigntrail72.com/)
This is the last release of this sort that i will be doing as i am focusing on my electronic shoegaze band now that my keyboardist is not gone for work so often.
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Excited to hear this:
'Does It Look Like I'm Here?' is the third official album by Emeralds (after "Solar Bridge" on Hanson, and the self-titled LP on their own Wagon and Gneiss
Things imprints, as well as countless small edition tapes and CDRs on a host of labels) and once again it presents another radical new direction for this
Cleveland trio.
It sees the group moving from playing single oscillator analog synthesizers to really complex analog and analog/digital hybrid as well a great deal of
guitar synthesizers, not to mention fine tuning their skills as brilliant tunesmiths. Simply put, the results are outstanding.
Comprising of a number of tracks from their recent ultra limited 7" vinyl series on Wagon, as well new compositions exclusive to this release. This fine
selection of tunes surpass anything they have achieved in their 5 year career. Perfect melodies intertwined with ripping sequences and a guitar sound that
floats perfectly throughout. Although most tracks cover new ground in that they follow a shortened 'pop format', more long form cuts such as the towering
'Genetic' and the title track will give fans of their earlier work something to grab onto, or totally let themselves go depending on the state of mind.
Having spent all their lives in the relative isolation of Cleveland means their music has developed into a vital, stunning unique hybrid that may have
not been able to blossom in more active urban centres.
'Does It Look Like I?m Here?' heralds a turning point for all those involved and is perfect vivid soundtrack to emerge out of the recent harsh grey winter.
Fresh, shiny and totally essential
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The Dolly Rocker Movement
"Our Days Mind The Tyme"
On Bad Afro Records
Available for Download on Feb. 22, 2010
Fun Garage Pop Psychedelia from Australia.
Getting ready to prepare several songs to upload to the station.
The official US release of The Dolly Rocker Movement CD is on it's way. Listening parties in L.A. on June 2nd.
To show you how little I pay attention to mainstream Indie, I had no idea who the 2 new members are. I just knew of them mostly from an English label that I have some affiliation with and one from Denmark who mailed me the CD to air on Air Atlantic Underground Radio (http://www.live365.com/stations/airatlantic).
"Come get your groove on with Australia's Dolly Rocker Movement as they celebrate their official U.S. record release of their latest album, "Our Days Mind the Tyme" and the debut of their new U.S. band members, including Daniel Darling and Jimmy Sweet formerly of Hot Hot Heat. Records will be available at the event. You don't want to miss it!"
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scissor sisters ;D
june 29, according to pollstar (http://pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2010/05/20/723978.aspx)
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The Black Angels
"Phosphene Dream"
Sept. 14th - US
Sept. 13th - UK
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radiohead almost done recording new album, should be out by end of the year.
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Engineers
"In Praise Of More"
October 4th
This will include new members, Daniel Land (from Daniel Land & The Modern Painters and Riverrun) and Ulrich Schnauss.
Also a new compilation with a bonus disc is being put out by Rocket Girl which will contain all her bands and more. It will include a cut from Robin Guthrie called "Broken Heart". Other details to follow at a later time. It's all been compiled; it's just the rest of the business side that needs to get under way. My guess, sometime this Fall, in time for the Christmas rush.
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New Vaselines LP and Antony EP both leaked recently.
The Vaselines can still write a perfect pop song and the Antony EP contains quite a few moments of bliss.
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Blonde Redhead's new one is all sorts of boring. One or two slow plodding electronically driven tracks would've been enough but a whole album? Sleepsville. The new Kemialliset Ystävät is an amazing psychedelic celebration of sound and catchy melodies.
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I'm not ready to write it off entirely, but I took the new Sword album out for a run yesterday and halfway through it, I forgot what I was listening to. What sucks is this is how it went for the last one too -- first couple listens were pretty blah and then I pretty much forgot about it. But I still play 'Age of Winters' constantly, hence my disappointment.
And maybe because I haven't listened to this band much in the past, but I'm digging the new Of Montreal. Also like the new Black Mountain a lot.
Oh yeah, listened to the first five tracks on Interpol and thought, okay that's enough.
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I listened to about a track and a half of the Of Montreal and got side-tracked by something the other day.
Oh yeah; the Swans album is excellent. Not even Devendra Banhart could ruin it.
Eels' new one just popped up.
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Stream James Blackshaw's 'All is Falling' (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129237935)
The addition of Lars Gotrich to their music department is the best thing to happen to NPR in a long time.
First Thou and now this album. It's about time they showcased something other than cookie cutter indie-rock in this First Listen series.
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Anyone know if the albums will come out by the following bands this year? And yes, this is is kinda long so forgive me, lol:
A Life Once Lost, Anaal Nathrakh, Black Tide, Circle of Dead Children, Alice Cooper, Corrosion of Conformity, Darkane, Darkest Hour, Deeds of Flesh, Destruction, Devildriver, Down, Evile, Exhumed, Faith No More, Full Blown Chaos, The Gathering, God Dethroned, God Forbid, Godflesh, Gojira, Gorgus, Gwar, Hate Eternal, Impaled Nazarene, Into Eternity, KillWhitneyDead, Kryoburn, Lazarus AD, Leaves Eyes, Malevolent Creation, Marilyn Manson, Misery Signals, Morbid Angel, Motorhead, Obituary, Opeth, Primordial, Remembering Never, Sabaton, Samael, Spineshank, Suicidal Tendencies,Symphony X, Thine Eyes Bleed, Devin Townsend, Trivium, Vader, Venom, Vintersorg, Weedeater, Within Temptation, Zao
Now all that I've read about those following bands is that their upcoming albums are TBA. Maybe someone has some info other than that on any of them. Thank you.
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new michael jackson album on dec 14.
http://pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2010/11/05/746557.aspx
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It's that time to start listing future releases for 2011 (http://www.930.com/forum/index.php?topic=20891.new#new).
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Available for pre-order now but the official release is November 22, 2010.
Presents For Sally
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5108ckb09ZL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
A Touch Of Joy, A Touch Of Sadness
This is very good! One of those releases that once it's finished, I just want to hit the replay button to hear it all over again. One of my tops of the year!
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Jag how do you get all the good stuff so early? ;)
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Being the owner of Air Atlantic Underground Radio (http://www.live365.com/stations/AirAtlantic) has its privileges. ;)
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We've been playing the new Kanye in the office all day and I gotta say, I've never spent much time with any of his previous stuff but this thing is real good and entertaining. Last week it was C-lo so I'm feeling like quite the Urban Vanilla over here.
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(http://wiggerplease.com/INDEX/images/A1868%20IM%20WITH%20WIGGER.jpg)
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Haven't heard that Kanye but I will definitely peep it. Here's some of my picks:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61aMd1zit0L.jpg)
(http://www.soulculture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Ski-beatz-24-hour-karate-school.jpg)
(http://grandgood.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Open_Mike_Unapologetic.jpg)
(http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/files/2010/09/koke_rnd_dinotype2-300x300.jpg)
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(http://wiggerplease.com/INDEX/images/A1868%20IM%20WITH%20WIGGER.jpg)
I prefer to be referred to as wafrican wamerican, thank you.
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Weird Scenes, a remix album of songs by the Factory Kids was just released.
http://corporaterecords.co.uk/artists/Factory+Kids/Weird+Scenes (http://corporaterecords.co.uk/artists/Factory+Kids/Weird+Scenes)
(I remixed track 3)
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anybody heard this yet?
http://lcd-hotchiplive.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DisplayItems.html
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Haven't heard that Kanye but I will definitely peep it.
if you haven't heard it already, you're too late: pitchfork has given it a 10 (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14880-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/). all cred will be lost if you listen to it now.
(bonus points to anyone who actually makes it through that whole write-up... ugh)
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I bet reading the writeup is less painful than listening to the album. ;)
Haven't heard that Kanye but I will definitely peep it.
if you haven't heard it already, you're too late: pitchfork has given it a 10 (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14880-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/). all cred will be lost if you listen to it now.
(bonus points to anyone who actually makes it through that whole write-up... ugh)
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I bet reading the writeup is less painful than listening to the album. ;)
Not even close. I'm not much of a Kanye fan, but I enjoyed the new album.
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I listened to the track that samples King Crimson and I just can't get into it. It's probably because I just dont like rap and hip hop in general, but the overblown production and West's annoying voice really impede having a pleasant listening experience.
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and for $106 you can see it performed live at bowery. (assuming one could get in).
Haven't heard that Kanye but I will definitely peep it.
if you haven't heard it already, you're too late: pitchfork has given it a 10 (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14880-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/). all cred will be lost if you listen to it now.
(bonus points to anyone who actually makes it through that whole write-up... ugh)
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I sampled a couple of tracks.
Lyrically, he's too much of an egotistical douche for me to enjoy.
For my token hip hop album for this decade (so far), i'll take the Roots' How I Got Over. And it's way more than token.
I bet reading the writeup is less painful than listening to the album. ;)
Not even close. I'm not much of a Kanye fan, but I enjoyed the new album.
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For my token hip hop album for this decade (so far), i'll take the Roots' How I Got Over. And it's way more than token.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vgv1ZrLIwWg/SFuUuou3AxI/AAAAAAAAAhA/e-_UNMDtVC4/s320/token1.png)
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Sway - This Was Tomorrow (nice electronic dream pop: http://swaypop.com/album/this-was-tomorrow (http://swaypop.com/album/this-was-tomorrow)) or itunes, but bandcamp is cheapest)
Broken Little Sister - Memories, Violet & Demons (new Japanese shoegaze: http://darla.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=38732 (http://darla.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=38732) or on itunes)
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LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
The Walkmen - Lisbon
Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone
The Roots - How I Got Over
Arcade Fire - Suburbs
The XX - self titled
The National - High Violet
Spoon - Transference
....all $1.99 each as a download on amazon right now...
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Lyrically, he's too much of an egotistical douche for me to enjoy.
That's probably the same reason why I like it. Runaway is probably my favorite track...
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LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
The Walkmen - Lisbon
Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone
The Roots - How I Got Over
Arcade Fire - Suburbs
The XX - self titled
The National - High Violet
Spoon - Transference
....all $1.99 each as a download on amazon right now...
Thanks for the tip, i saw the Arcade fire one on the main page but didn't know about the others. I love Amazon MP3.
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I prefer Big Boi's album over Kanye's new one.
I sampled a couple of tracks.
Lyrically, he's too much of an egotistical douche for me to enjoy.
For my token hip hop album for this decade (so far), i'll take the Roots' How I Got Over. And it's way more than token.
I bet reading the writeup is less painful than listening to the album. ;)
Not even close. I'm not much of a Kanye fan, but I enjoyed the new album.
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even after reading the hype, i'm surprised by the new kanye. very restrained, coherent, and 'classic'. feels heavily set in blueprint-style with various nice mid-90's RZA notes . . . bringing the past to the future, like 'power' sounds so modern but also probably could be at home in 2002. some kanyetastic dbaggy moments but its got heart, a sense of humor, and a natural unforced swagger . . .and it feels like the work of a person, not a character.
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^^Agreed as far as the mid-90s style Kanye went for this time. For those who may not follow hip hop to closely, its been the trend for the past few years to re-create the 80s and 90s. A few years ago, everyone hopped on the 80s kick and now its starting to wear thing. Now, its all about bringing back the army jackets, timb boots, and philly blunts. Along with that, the hard-hitting style hip hop had in the 90s which most folks refer to as the golden era.
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For those who may not follow hip hop to closely, its been the trend for the past few years to re-create the 80s and 90s.
That's not limited to Hip-Hop!
Thanks for the elaboration though. Obviously, you are well aware that some of us are sort of clueless with the genre. (Yeah, I'm looking at myself. lol)
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For those who may not follow hip hop to closely, its been the trend for the past few years to re-create the 80s and 90s.
That's not limited to Hip-Hop!
Thanks for the elaboration though. Obviously, you are well aware that some of us are sort of clueless with the genre. (Yeah, I'm looking at myself. lol)
Oh no doubt. I know that a lot of the kids try to bring the ugly-ass neon colored suits and the bad haircuts athe dance clubs. But in hip hop, its been pretty widespread. I think its finally wearing thin but it'll take some time.
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(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b127/swapmeetlouie/billy_crystal.jpg)
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i don't know who the klaxons are or if they are any good, but i just realized they released an album with this on the cover
(http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/klaxons452.jpg)
so i guess i'll give them a chance. or should i not . . . and just stare at the album?
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^^ definitely a good band ;)
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hmmm... if Walky is basing albums by their covers then here is one he might like ;D
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000F3AAWU.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V54996170_.jpg)
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hmmm . . . not enough cat. ;D and just who does that cat think he is anyway, paul from sgt. pepper?
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(http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/08/Bonnie-Prince-Billy.jpg)
;D
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^^ definitely a good band ;)
I liked "Surfing the Void". It's not as good as "Myths of Near Future" but few albums are.
I disagree with the collective ejaculation regarding Mr. West. I've listened to that album five or six times and I just don't get it. Putting aside the Summer's Eve that flows through his veins, I don't hear "genius." I hear the rap "Chinese Democracy."
My theory is that music critics love more than anything a proper "rock" star who validates myths and behaves poorly. The reasons Kanye's album is topping EVERY year end poll is the same reason that if look back on polls from the 90's, a lot of Hole albums are up there. Two, three years from now we'll look back on our entire "Kanye phase" with embarassment.
However, getting back to the Klaxons. Here's one of the better live mash-ups. "Golden Skans" vs. a song you're sick of hearing. Whatever happened to her?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfqRfMJ4tDA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfqRfMJ4tDA)
Brian
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Some of my fav albums of 2010:
http://www.welovedc.com/2010/12/22/favorite-albums-of-2010/
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Besnard Lakes - nice...
Some of my fav albums of 2010:
http://www.welovedc.com/2010/12/22/favorite-albums-of-2010/
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Jaguar and Killsaly, you both have to grab this if you haven't already:
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is A Stream
I am only two tracks in but am pretty sure both of you will love it.
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Sade - Soldier of Love album...apart from the title track, this is such a boring album.
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after watching that harp playing joanna newsom on letterman and then just now hearing a song by her on sirius, i now like her and want her last album. how odd.
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There's nothing in my history of liking shit that suggests I would like Joanna Newsom and yet I like her a lot. Loved the 6th and I show from earlier in the year.
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I've tried countless times to delve into Have One on Me and cannot for the life of me get it to hold my attention for more than 2-3 songs.
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Ditto. People need to start realizing her first album is flawless and that everything after is pretty blech. I gave Ys the benefit of the doubt, but after hearing that new one, it turns out they're both pretty boring and nonsensical. Like the Matrix sequels.
I've tried countless times to delve into Have One on Me and cannot for the life of me get it to hold my attention for more than 2-3 songs.
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Thought YS was pretty good.
Firebutt McGee/ixkpd-bk's rendition of "Emily" is about 37 times better than the original, though.
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were the matrix sequels the worst follow ups that could have been so much more, in movie history? even worse than star wars one through three? thanks for the heads up on the harpy . . . i check out her first album instead.
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Chemical Brothers Further was probably my favorite release of the year
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I think so re: the Matrix sequels. I think the second movie could have been amazing...if it wasn't followed up and explained by that awful last one.
Even though I unabashedly love JN's first album...it's definitely not for everyone. I think I've finally beaten my wife down enough to like it, but I think her voice definitely makes it a difficult listen for most. Much more minimal than the follow-ups, and that's mostly what I like about it. Plus, her songwriting isn't bogged down by too much pretension on that first album. I mean, Ys has some great lyrical content too, but it's so much more direct on the Milk-Eyed Mender. IMO.
were the matrix sequels the worst follow ups that could have been so much more, in movie history? even worse than star wars one through three? thanks for the heads up on the harpy . . . i check out her first album instead.
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Just listened to Soviet League (The Sugarplastic and The Autumns), can't wait to get my hands on the disc. Quirky chamber pop at it's finest.
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sovietleague.bandcamp.com/
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(Wrong thread. Moved post to the correct one.)