Spin This Vol. 5 (Audio CD) - Various Artists (Mazzy Star, Meat Puppets, Frente, Weezer, Morphine, Sponge, Buffalo Tom, The Church, more)
Medium Dreams (Free subscription) | yesterday
A couple of you have asked what the songs were that played in this week’s episode. There were two main ones. The song that was playing at the very beginning, when Allison was dreaming about the car crash, and the one at the end when Lee and Lynn got engaged. I talked about both of them in The Open Mic, but here are some visual representations! Here’s “Space Oddity” by David...
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
50 MJ Hibbett & The Validators - Regardez, Ecoutez Et Repetez No disrespect here, but this feels like a natural number 50. When we wrote about the bard of Peterborough's shot across the bows of the idea that only the young have anything to say about live as the narrator lives it, we speculated that his work is not easy to review in the same context as the rest of the pop nonsense we drivel on about....
Popdirt.com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The Veronicas posted an update on their official web site on Monday (November 30), talking about work on a follow-up to ‘Hook Me Up’. The Australian pop rock twins write: Lis and I...
The Devil Has The Best Tuna (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Asobi Seksu Genre: Psychedelic / Trance / Pop From: Brooklyn, United States One of the last albums ever recorded at London’s renowned Olympic Studios (where The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The Who have all recorded), ‘Acoustic At Olympic Studios’ finds Asobi Seksu stripped down to core duo—vocalist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist James Hanna to give listeners a fresh...
Art News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Since discovering the iPod I now rarely listen to whole albums while I paint as I just create play lists to suit my mood. But some albums just play well all the way through so I still use them in the studio. Here's Ten albums that have kept me company during the completion of a painting or two.. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate Anything by Leonard is good to paint to though. Antony and the Johnsons...
Oh Beautiful girls (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Name : Maggie Cheung Full Name : Cheung Man-yuk Profession : Actress Country : Hong Kong (China), UK Date of Birth : 20th September 1964 Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (pinyin: Zhāng Mànyù; Cantonese: dzoeng1 maan6 juk9/juk2) (born September 20, 1964) is a multi award-winning actress from Hong Kong. Cheung spent part of her childhood and adolescence in the United Kingdom. Upon her return...
Behind the Hype (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Mazzy Star fans have been waiting a long, long time for a new album. The next best thing came along in 2001, when Hope Sandoval put out Bavarian Fruit Bread, her solo debut with the Warm Inventions (which is, for all intents and purposes, My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig). It had some impressive [...]
Bold As Love (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
From CMJ New Music Report: Massive Attack will release its fifth album, Heligoland, on February 9 via Virgin. The new record will be the duo's first studio full-length since 2003's 100th Window, and the British trip-hop progenitors roped in quite...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Filed under: News , Electronic , UK Six years on from the release of their last album, '100th Window,' and just weeks after dropping their new EP, 'Splitting the Atom,' Massive Attack have at last announced the details of their new collection of original material which will feature a slew of guest vocalists. According to a posting on the band's website , 'Heligoland' is scheduled to be released on...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Filed under: News , Album , UK Six years on from the release of their last album, '100th Window,' and just weeks after dropping their new EP, 'Splitting the Atom,' Massive Attack have at last announced the details of their new collection of original material which will feature a slew of guest vocalists. According to a posting on the band's website , 'Heligoland' is scheduled to be released on Feb....
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Brand New Single "Layers" - Digital bundle release out on 7th December 2009 on One Little Indian. White Lies main support 18th November - 5th December. One of the last albums ever recorded at London's renowned Olympic Studios (where The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The Who have all recorded), 'Acoustic At Olympic Studios' finds Asobi Seksu stripped down to core duo - vocalist...
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
When we meditated on Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally's gorgeous sophomore album Devotion we had the following to say: [Y]ou can't fall back on Mazzy Star or Galaxie 500 references because they've pushed themselves into their own, unique solar system. Victoria's voice and woozy after-hours organ tones are more assured, Alex has lost the beard but gained more inventive, atmospheric guitar lines. For...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The idea of the band This Mortal Coil is quite ingenious, really. Ivo Watts-Russell, who founded the label 4AD Records (probably past, present or future home of some of your favorite bands) started a band in the early 80s whose original purpose seems to have been to promote his label. The band featured [...]
Sally Jane Vintage (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
- Anthropologie dress - UO tights - UO shoes - vintage denim jacket - vintage wool beret - vintage Coach purse - listening to Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See "Blue Light"
Murray Newlands (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Tell me about your Blog? The blog is a secret diary of a small London publishing office. Featuring everything all the workers and some of the managers really get up to when the boss has his back turned. All your usual office misdeeds including affairs, heartbreaking, backstabbing, bitching, rivalry, drugs, friendship, office politics, crap bosses and [...]
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