Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Playlist Porcupine Tree - The Incident Various - The Old Grey Whistle Test (DVD) Cloudland Blue Quartet - Blend: The Best of CBQ 1996-2009 Cloudland Blue Quartet - Souvenir XVII - Acoustic Soundingfall Cloudland Blue Quartet - Soundingfall Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ersatzreal Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration Gilrs Aloud - Out of Control Highlight of the Day : The Thick of It
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Julie Miller - By Way of Sorrow Porcupine Tree - Remember Me Lover Mercury Rev - Black Forest (Lorelei)
XO's Middle Eight (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Paris photo by Stuck In Customs We know 2001 as a demode Michael Bay movie come to life. Literally, a few hours when we thought civilization was ending, or at least that is what it seemed like here in Washington. I don't like documentaries about that day because they always begin with how pretty the weather was and how la dee da... and then you know what is coming and you can't do anything about it....
The Decibel Tolls (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I believe that, technically, Atlas Sound is the headliner, but I’m treating this show as if Broadcast was. I love both artists, obviously. However, Bradford Cox, to quote The Spirit of Truth, makes his “ass very available,” whereas Broadcast hasn’t been around in a minute. So for me finally seeing Broadcast, after being a huge [...]
17 SECONDS (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The Delgados -’The Great Eastern’ (Chemikal Underground, 2000) The Delgados third album, The Great Eastern was released in 2000. It wasn’t the album that got me into them -that was their sophomore release, Peloton, a couple of years previously. But it was the album where the fantastic four, Emma Pollock, Alun Woodward, Paul Savage and Stewart [...]
SwissToni's Place (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
-- Earworms of the Week > " Harold of the Rocks " - Primus Amazingly, in spite of having quite a few of their albums, I don't actually have any Primus ripped onto my iPod. That's a situation that must change. How can anyone manage without some gloriously random, almost jazzy, bass driven metal on their portable MP3 player? I ask you? This song is on " Frizzle Fry ", an album...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Hudson Valley psych heroes return with its most out-there recording to date. There aren’t two finer bands representing the rich rock history of New York’s Hudson Valley quite like Hopewell and Mercury Rev. And when Rev frontman Jonathan Donahue invited the Dutchess County psych rockers to create a 30-minute piece of improvised space magic for his radio show on the Woodstock-based alt-rock...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The triumph of visuals over music in contemporary pop has really been gnawing on my mind the last couple of days.
Line Out (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Listening to Neu!’s “Hallogallo” recently, it struck me that this song was an incredible way to launch one’s recording career. It also spurred me to ponder the idea of groups and solo artists bowing into the recording sphere with a sonic nuclear bomb. It’s crazy (and wonderful, too) to realize that some groups peak with the first song they issue into the world. So below...
the echo and echoplex (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
[ November 5, 2009; 8:00 pm to 11:55 pm. ] Avi Buffalo || Watch || Mp3 Buffalo, whose real name “is really long, with a hyphen,” he says, is a preternaturally gifted guitarist who crafts swoon-worthy folk-rock full of nooks and crannies, exposed nerves and shimmering soundscapes — think an incipient Neil Young, or a low-fi Mercury Rev, or a lovingly shambolic Wilco. Joined by bandmates...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Thom Yorke, the National, Mercury Rev and a host of others contribute to this tribute album for a little-known singer-songwriter Mark Mulcahy isn’t much of a recognized name. The New Haven musician was part of an indie rock group called Miracle Legion in the 1980s, before I was really listening to indie rock, really. He’s had a small career as a solo artist since the 1990s, and settled...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
The nature of John Peel's programmes makes any attempt to recreate a Peel show on record likely to wind up with a strange and beautiful compilation album; it's hard to picture any other concept for a compilation winding up with this sort of collection: Small Faces, Thin Lizzy, Aswad, The Damned, Medicine Head, The Jam, The Slits, Funboy Five, The Cure, Linton Kwesi Johnson, That Petrol Emotion, Extreme...
Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
When former Miracle Legion and Polaris front man Mark Mulcahy’s wife, Michelle, died suddenly in 2008, all-star friends Thom Yorke, Black Francis and more banded together to pull him and his young twin daughters through the earth-shattering tragedy. The result is the utterly moving tribute album, Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, [...]
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Announced today is the release of Kats Karavan a 4-CD deluxe set charting the history of John Peel’s iconoclastic shows spanning 5 decades from the late 1960s until his sad and untimely death in 2004. Champion of the obscure and unheard, he introduced whole generations of teenagers to new music and gave hundreds of bands their first mainstream broadcasts. Drawing material right up until John’s...
In a cyclone of stones (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Ui. Take a listen to Eyelied Movies by Phantogram . Very cool beats, synth, shoegaze, indie and even Blonde Redheadish at times. In other words: Recommendable. And ui. Also check out Pinkunoizu . Dudes from Le Fiasko, Selvhenter and others. Lo-fi, country and somehow it also reminds me of the Yerself Is Steam by Mercury Rev. And that's a compliment :-). And a reason to find Carwash hair on Youtube...
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