What We're Watching - Wye Oak's Fish
Wye Oak's video for their song Fish (off Civilian) is a just as gorgeous as their lush beautiful music.With spectacular artwork from fellow Baltimoreans Katherine Fahey and Michael O'Leary, it's...
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Happy Birthday Fort Lowell Records!!!
A year ago, one of my oldest friends launched a record label, promising to revive vinyl 7 inches and push out music from local Tucson bands.And with that, Fort Lowell Records was launched.Now it's a...
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What We're Listening To - Amor de Dias' Street of the Love of Days
If you haven't been paying attention, Merge Records has been churning out an incredible string of must have albums in 2011. Telekinesis, Apex Manor, Mountain Goats, Times New Viking, Wye Oak, and...
View ArticleThings We Love - Amazon Cloud Drive and Player (and Google too at some point)
I started writing this post in fits and starts. I just sort of left it in the drafts pile, would come back and massage it a bit. I was going to pull the trigger last week, but couldn't find a decent...
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Singled Out - John Legend covers Adele's Rolling in The Deep
So arguably the year's biggest single so far has been Adele's Rolling in The Deep. The girl can sing, though I was so underwhelmed by her first album, it's taken me sometime to warm up to her sophomore...
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What We're Listening To - The Postelles s/t
And here comes summer, skipping over spring with a fiery sustained furnace blast for the past two weeks.A break from the heat would be entirely all to welcome. But if we didn't have summer heat, we'd...
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What We're Listening To - Dawes' Nothing is Wrong
I'm always amazed at the different sounds that come from LA. Maybe because of my East Cost leanings, but it seems like every lost dreamer and wandering soul who picks up a guitar out there coaxes a...
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What We're Watching - Yuna's Come As You Are
It is no doubt ballsy to cover a Nirvana song. It's fairly iconic, and you want to make it your own, but you really can't improve too much on the original.So to cover something as haunting and...
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What We're Listening To - JAY Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne
The long awaited collab of hip-hop's two reigning titans arrived this week, after fits and starts and a lock down so tight no one heard it until they said so.And it's good. Not great by any stretch,...
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What We're Listening To - Frank Ocean's nostalgia, ULTRA.
I had put off listening to Frank Ocean for some time. I don't really dig much of modern R&B, and his association with shock rap collective Odd Future just kind of turned me cold. We have plenty of...
View ArticlePlans for the Night - The Postelles at The 9:30 Club
The Postelles are returning to DC, bringing their surf/sock hop rock by way of Brooklyn sound to 9:30 Club on Friday, 21 OCTOBER where they're opening for the Wombats. We really liked their s/t debut...
View ArticleBest of 2011 - A Preface
I've been mulling my EoY list for awhile, and I feel a bit out of sorts.Most of the music people who professionally listen to music said you should like I didn't like.And listening to this past year in...
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Best Albums of 2011 - Anything Merge Records Put Out this Year
So I started working on my various lists and realized that a lot of my favorite albums in 2011 seemed to come from Merge Records, that powerhouse label down in North Carolina. They remain one of my...
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Best Albums of 2011 - Three Sophomore Releases I Loved
Sophomore releases are notorious stumbling blocks. You want to branch out, but you don't want to be too different. It's tough to balance all that. There were three sophomore albums from three bands...
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Best Albums of 2011 - Something About Hip Hop and R&B
I don't get a lot of music, but I really don't get much of modern hip hop. I thought Lil Wayne's effort this year was garbage, I find Drake to be boring, and Rick Ross to be less than engaging. That...
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Best Albums of 2011 - Four Albums That are Cold Rocking It Without Prior...
Blessed are the noise makers, the chord crunchers, those that take it to 11; for they shall inherit the earth.Well, Jesus might have said it had he been into crunchy guitars and big noise.Despite...
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Best Albums of 2011 - Three Albums About Los Angeles
"They call Los Angeles the City of Angels. I don't know if I'd call it that exactly, but there are some nice people here."And so Sam Elliot starts out The Big Lebowski, one of many love odes to...
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Singled Out - Glory by Jay-Z ft B.I.C
It's nice of Jay to take a second away from the Lennox Hill Hopsital Suite/Mobile 40/40 club to drop a new track honoring his baby girl. But I almost kinda wished he didn't. Jay still is, a magnificent...
View ArticleWhat We're Watching - Mark Ronson's A La Modeliste
This has kinda been ruling my world since I saw it at the beginning of the BCS Championship Game. Trombone Shorty, the artists formerly known as Mos Def, Ms. Badu and the Dap Kings. Plus Mark Ronson...
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Singled Out - Yukon Blonde's Stairway
Vancouver's Yukon Blonde has a new album coming out. The first single Stairway is good, full of guitars, energy and simple harmonies. Quick hooks go a long way.A little jealous they won't make it to...
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