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Photo by Benoît Derrier 2008 favorite Lyyke Li is giving away a free mp3 on her site of this Shirelle’s cover. It will cost you an email address. It’s a nice cover, but I would have preferred some new material. Author insert a music with WS Audio Player ( Download ) this music. ...
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The Rolling Stones
Goddamn this Graphics EP is good. It’s one man from New Jersey… channeling Battles, 1980’s Vangelis synths, pop-song chord progressions, Hot Chip electro-blips and bloops, and well… to be honest, I’m doing the improbably-named Dayve Hawk a disservice by limiting him with comparisons to ...
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Bear in Heaven is another indie band with synths from Brooklyn, and “Lovesick Teenagers” is another minor-key, moderately down-tempo song for lying in bed and staring at the ceiling. And you know what? it’s pretty damn good — the synth line finds that groove — the beauty of ...
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I know we haven’t put up the results for best album of 2007 yet, but I wanted to move onto the voting for 2008 because, if you haven’t noticed, we’re at the end of November almost and we have quite a lot to do still on our end. A lot of fantastic debuts made our list in ...
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Fleet Foxes
Robyn
Vampire Weekend
TV On The Radio
Bon Iver
Portishead
Photo by Pedro Rivera Here’s another opium dream for you, music lovers. Get your headphones on and prepare to float downstream to this downtempo remix of the already pensive ballad “Little Dreamers” by Baltimore synth-poppers Future Islands. All credit for the fantastic minimalistic ...
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Photo by Pedro Rivera Here’s another opium dream for you, music lovers. Get your headphones on and prepare to float downstream to this downtempo remix of the already pensive ballad “Little Dreamers” by Baltimore synth-poppers Future Islands. All credit for the fantastic minimalistic ...
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This unofficial music video for ‘Kettering,’ the heart-wrenching opener on The Antlers’ critically acclaimed debut Hospice , is made up entirely of meticulously selected favorite photographs off random fan Dan Sully ’s flickr photostream. This simple idea is executed masterfully and ...
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Photo by AnthoNYC/ Tastes Like Caramel We’ve already raved about Sleigh Bells’ debut Magic Metal, and “Crown on the Ground” was the stand-out track of an EP that “really hit it out of the park”. Its abrasive, relentless, “We Will Rock You” beat, and its distorted take on a ...
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Lil Wayne
Photo by Sarahanah/ Hooves on the Surf One of the best things about music blogs is (re)discovering old, random gems, that link two of your favorite bands in the world together. It happens more often than you imagine. This time, I owe buckets of gratitude to We All Want Someone To Shout For ...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
CD Giveaway details at the end of the review. Lady GaGa The Fame Monster Streamline/Cherrytree/Konlive/Interscope out November 23rd 83 /100 [ Rating Scale ] The new Madonna. The female Bowie. We have an annoying fixation with history repeating itself, but why does Lady ...
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Lady GaGa
Photo by Emma Svensson I first heard “Sweet Dreams” a year or two ago, back when it was simply known as “Beautiful Nightmare”, and even then I felt that this song was sort of wasted on Beyonce. Over the course of a Beyonce album, there will most definitely be a ...
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Beyoncé Knowles
Understated percussion, suspended synths, and woozy keyboard chords: at first, Beach House’s latest, ‘Norway’, will come as no surprise to their fans, as it opens with elements that the duo are already known for. It’s the restless guitar arpeggio that enters a little later that hints at a ...
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Click here to view the embedded video. Cold War Kids’ second album, Loyalty to Loyalty , was critically received as a huge drop-off from their immensely successful debut, Robbers and Cowards , and at first, I agreed. The album moved slower and had much more filler than the first. But ...
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When I initially heard “Brothersport,” before the rest of Merriweather Post Pavillion had been released, I was hooked for about a minute. But then that wacky noise kept whining; the song went into some weird place I didn’t expect. I quickly dismissed it as “typical ...
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Animal Collective
You sure have changed Sia. Sorry, that was lame. Let’s start all over. Sia, who happens to be one of my favorite artists ever , decided to give her fans a taste of what she’s been working on to follow up 2007’s Some People Have Real Problems . So yesterday, she Tweeted a ...
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Click here to view the embedded video. I personally find it rather frustrating when a band member decides to launch a solo career but simply ends up sounding like the original band he/she was originally a part of. It makes me wonder: what’s the point? But of course, that’s the ...
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TV On The Radio
Photo by Sarah Murphy Jurado Holy crap is “ River of Love” chessy. I mean, it’s called River of Love , seriously, by the group United State of Electronica – a band that self identifies as “disco pop.” Completely, unabashedly, poppy and over the top – the little snare hit, the snappy guitar ...
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Daft Punk
Click here to view the embedded video. Funnest music video of the year? Probably. We are giving away the Cousins 7″ single. Entries will be accepted until the December 15th release date. Enter here . Contra is out 1/11 via XL. Pre-order it at InSound or at Amazon . Tags: Vampire ...
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Vampire Weekend
Photo by meik meik So a few weeks ago, CMJ was happening, and we were all running around like dance crazed party girls. Now that the dust has more than officially settled, we can tell you that some pretty cool shit went down. We talked to some folks. We caught some shows. One of the people ...
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Michael Jackson
Photo courtesy of Little Dragon’s Myspace Page . Is there something in the water in Gothenburg, Sweden? The Knife, The Tough Alliance, Jose Gonzalez, Jens Lekman, and now Little Dragon – those damn Swedes just keep pumping out irresistible pop melodies in a variety of weird ...
