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More bands should do this. Maybe we could keep the barrier between celebrity and anonymous person lowered if we could walk down the street, stand next to Kate Winslet, and listen to Beck bang out a few tunes on his acoustic.
Ra Ra Riot – Dying is fine – A Take Away Show posted [...]
This is amazing work. Jazz pianist Henry Hey did an outstanding job creating a song out of spoken words. We don’t often think about it, but words have musical pitch (which is obvious to anybody in China, where they use pitch & tone as an integral part of language). Hey used the pitch of George [...]
Did Josh Homme produce U2′s new record, or did they just listen to a bunch of stoner rock before they made this. It’s got heavy Homme influence, to my ears.
U2 – Get On Your Boots
Only it’s not as good.
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I’m noticing this cut-up, nonsense vocal thing happening more frequently. Justice does it a lot.
Justice – Newjack
The Field (Axel Willner) does it a bit too, and I like his music even better, even though it’s not quite the same rumpshaker-type tracks.
The Field – Over the Ice
This latest in this [...]
I like Massive Attack, especially the collaboration with Mos Def on the Blade 2 soundtrack. But nothing they’ve done stirs my soul like Teardrop, from 1998′s Mezzanine. Most people know it as the theme from House. I’m glad I heard it soon after its release. It was part of a stream of ambient and dance [...]
Chemical Calisthenics, from Blazing Arrow:
I don’t care what anybody thinks, I love these songs. I bought this one, among others:
He’s got a gleaming pile of these.
And it is amazing. Actually, it’s not new, it’s from back in November, but the video is new. Hamster on a Piano fans, take note:
In case you didn’t catch the chorus, it’s
I was like, she was all He was all, they were like We were all like OMG like totally
We were [...]
Their name sounds like a video game or a metal band, but they’re more indie pop with a bit of folk and electro thrown in. There’s not much electro in the songs on their myspace page, but that’s a good reason to go see them live, as the keyboards were stronger in the mix.
Poor [...]
Idolator‘s been snarky, which is cool, but when I check my iTunes library, here’s my top 5 of the year so far:
1. Vampire Weekend Yes, a lot of hipster fuckwits latched onto them, and posers think they’re now wise to world music, but it’s a consistently well-written album and I’ve played the crap out [...]
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