"Closeness" Duets with Ornette Coelman, Alice Coltrane, Keith Jarrett and Paul Motian
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Electronic prog fans Underworld team up with some other people to make a compilation LP... what on Earth could possibly go wrong? Underworld have been around since Jesus was in infants. They've not always been a dance act either (for...
Notes from a Different Kitchen (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The plug on this Oakland-based producer's latest project: "Nick James Plays Crown City Rockers is the third installment in the series of remixes dropping every week. Crown City Rockers is a Hip-Hop band that have been captivating audiences with their live shows for years and I took on the task producing tracks to complement their style. In the past two weeks I dropped Nick James Plays Outkast...
The Sky Report (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Flaming Lips: Embryonic (Warner bros.) review by Matthew Lindsay Call it willfully perverse career suicide or seeking out new musical frontiers but one thing is undeniable; the Flaming Lips' sprawling new 18-track disc Embryonic is a bold volte face away from the Hanna Barbera, orch-pop they have been mining since 1999's Soft Bulletin . If the day-glo quirkiness was becoming a bit too cloying by 2006's...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
You may know Devendra Banhart as the hirsute dude who briefly dated Natalie Portman, but the 27-year-old Californian is a seriously gifted (and slightly eccentric) singer-songwriter who’s released six records of wonderfully experimental folk-rock. This month, he returns with What Will We Be , his first album for major-label Warner Bros. Vulture caught up with Banhart to talk about recording...
DJ Orion - the diary (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Underworld has compiled a new collection, Underworld vs. The Misterons – Athens, due for release via the !K7 label on Nov. 24. It’s going to be an eclectic, jazzy experience rather than a full-on house/electronic album. The long-player features music from Underworld itself, Carl Craig, Lauren Garnier, Squarepusher, Roxy Music and a previously unreleased collaboration between Underworld’s...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Legendary producer guests on the band's new compilation
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Not going to lie. It sounds pretty wild, folks.
kingblind (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
If new albums by Super Furry Animals, 50 Foot Wave, and the Flaming Lips are any indication, 2009 is smack in the middle of a new psychedelic age. Popism, rockism: please defer briefly to weirdism. The Lips have always been the most chthonic of the nouveau psychsters, and on the Oklahoma vets' 12th studio album, they dive deep into the netherworld of human duality. This 70-minute epic (marketed as...
local Cut (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
In an era where music blogging often amounts to the use of ALL CAPS, quibbling about numerical ratings (does the new Grizzly Bear song deserve an 8.2 or an 8.7?), and naming your favorite chillwave band, it can be hard to get excited about a jazz festival. That is until you see that the lineup [...] Related posts: Live Reviews: Keith Casper at The Portland Jazz Festival Now that t Scion Garage Fest...
Honey Soul (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
AFTA-1 put together a series of beautiful mixes for GAS’D that he calls a “collection of moments.” “Love is Real Vol. 4″ features Robert Glasper, Little Dragon, Mos Def, Alice Coltrane and an unreleased Muhsinah track produced by Flying Lotus. Just lovely. [via moovmnt] Download AFTA-1 x GAS’D – Love Is Real Vol. 4 1. Imani Waddy [...]
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Download for $8.98. Listen to Santana performed at Balboa Stadium on July 28, 1974
Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
As far as mixes go, my undercover find last year was Full Crate & FS Green's "Mixing Monthly" series. Despite the flame I still hold that this series will return, my appetite has been sated, albeit in a very subdued and...
So Much Silence (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Do you think Southern Lord just wouldn’t let a band put out a record called “God Is Good'” Whatever the reason, doom-metal mystics OM’s new record is released by the fine folks at Chicago’s Drag City. The Steve Albini-produced set is the first album to feature the band’s new lineup, with drummer Emil Amos (Grails) joining [...]
Isak (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
... John Coltrane would have turned 83 years old (on September 23, actually). Poet Amiri Baraka is among those who paid tribute last week to the jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader who wasn't just good; he was the best. (Baraka, incidentally, written Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical MusicBlues People: Negro Music in White America and ). Coltrane's tenor instrument fused...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Of the 11 cuts that comprise TV on the Radio guitarist/vocalist Kyp Malone 's solo debut 'Rain Machine,' 'Desperate Bitch' and 'Love Won't Save You' stretch out past the seven-minute mark. Fans of Malone's full-time gig will surely see it as something new, but he doesn't see it as being such a departure. "For me, I'm not thinking 'How I can place this...
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