Lollapalooza '92: Lush and The Jesus & Mary Chain - 18 track split double live album
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Each and every Friday we offer songs by local artists. Today’s selection, featured on the [...]
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Standard procedure dictates that once you conquer, you move on to unexplored territory. Stephen Merritt, along with his long-standing company who play as The Magnetic Fields, know this too well, and from this point forward will linger on one style no more! As we have previously reported, after successfully aping The Jesus and Mary Chain's sonic pop bliss with Distortion, the beloved band will release...
Grubtunes (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Okay, so I'm not really a Nietzsche scholar or anything, but this thing isn't about Nietzsche really, it's about why us damn kids are so crazy about all this "noise-pop" stuff. You might say, "well, that's not really punk", but it came out of punk and it's all very up to debate. Was the Velvet Underground punk? Well, they definitely laid the groundwork for punk. The Ramones supposedly...
Kate's Random Musings (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I love funky stuff. Funky people, funky events, funky places - I absolutely eat that shit up with a spoon. Give me a day in the Village or Cambridge or Camden Town or anyplace with vintage boutiques, ethnic and vegetarian eateries and a crowd of outrageous dye jobs, and I am a blissed out, happy girl. On rare occasions, I've been known to expose a bit of the funky depths of my persona. Thinking back...
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The past decade has seen the music industry change beyond recognition. From Napster to Itunes - the means for people to get their ears on new music has altered immeasurably. And just as the method of consumption has been tilted on its head, so have the traditional methods for measuring a band's success. Chart positions? NME covers? They all seem terribly archaic notions and somewhat irrelevant in 2009....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
My team's unlikely triumph on the 'fiendishly difficult' University Challenge When the call came from the BBC asking if I would like to assemble a team from the Idler for a "professionals" series of University Challenge, I was beside myself with excitement. This must surely be the adult equivalent of an appearance on Blue Peter. I thought, however, that we would have no chance of winning....
Bumpershine.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Magnetic Fields – Realism UPDATE: I spoke too soon, Friends of BAM can purchase tickets to the Magnetic Fields Feb 13, 2010 show starting today ($25, $35, general on sale begins Friday, Nov 20). Well, at least I can now name one big name “rock” act who will be headlining the Sounds Like Brooklyn Festival at BAM [...]
captains dead (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
whoa! i randomly grabbed the sunday reeds’ drowning in history sometime in the past week, and after realizing i hadnt listened to it as of yet, decided to load it up in the ol’ foobar and hit play. again, whoa! talk about feedback, glorious feedback. if there is one thing i love, but isnt done [...]
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Sorry about the lack of blogging. The reason I was traveling is a big one, though: Marc and I have made the decision to move to New York City, specifically Brooklyn. We’ve been considering a move for a long time...
I'm In Captain Dangerous (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I've been really lazy recently with updating this blog so for that I’m sorry...I'm feeling good at the moment though and in a very positive frame of mind. Just suffering some crushing mouth pain as a result of a tooth extraction last Thursday. The dentist took an hour to rench out my tooth and I feel like somebody has carved a arse hole into my gum and used a 10 inch dildo on me. I'm very soar...
Jonk Music (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
"Hunchback" from the album Childish Prodigy 2009 iTunes With Childish Prodigy , his debut for indie-juggernaut Matador, Kurt Vile stretches and pulls the increasingly annoying "lo-fi" tag into interesting new shapes, distancing himself from his Woodsist-kin, who seem content to blanket their pop-punk and folk with sheets of tape hiss. Instead, Vile creates dense layers of texture,...
Dead Flowers: Anglophiles Anonymous (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Forgive me Blogger, for I have sinned. I know I've dismissed, unfairly at times, a lot of music in the past few months--I can't help it, it's in my nature. I also know that I've failed to write about the small amount of music I actually have liked--surely no way for a hobbyist critic with delusions of grandeur to act. So here, without further ado, are some reviews... Mew--No More Stories... Mew have...
The Decibel Tolls (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Big Pink currently enjoy an astounding wave of Intarwebz hype, but I certainly won’t let that affect my opinion of the their debut A Brief History of Love. However, the record itself just happens to suck, all things considered. No, the hype didn’t ruin the listening experience. It just epically blows, hype or not. Yes, [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
We'd bet dollars to doughnuts that you were unaware that today, November 3, is National Cliché Day. To celebrate the art of overusing things to death, we picked the Top 10 clichés that still permeate the music world. For some reason, these things are often hard to break out of and we don't really have a good explanation as to why. Maybe monkey see, monkey do. Bands should start thinking...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The Mary Onettes weren’t shy about their love for the alternative side of ’80s pop on their self-titled debut, and the follow-up, Islands , finds the Swedish quartet still pining for the days when all it took to see a Smiths or New Order video was flipping to MTV on Sunday at midnight. But while the 2007 offering often turned into a game of spot-the-influence—the aforementioned alt-rock...
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