I haven’t posted any illustrations for a good while now, but now is a good a moment as any, seeing how I just stumbled across this majestically drawn Andrew Bird poster. I’ll leave you to contemplate the illustration for a minute (hint: click on the image to enlarge it a bit). If you’re curious to see more similar work, the poster from above was made by The Little Friends of Printmaking, and they have a…
The Montreal trio’s previous sophomore release “Parc Avenue” came in like a mouthful of fresh of air, for me, in a time when I was getting just stick and tired of the whole repetitive sound and style that was going up and about. It’s a record of magnificent eclecticism, one that won over thousands of hearts from the Canadian frozen plains, to the sunny California beaches. It’s hard to resist the Plants and Animals, and…
As most of you are probably already aware of, Jimmy Lee “Jay Reatard” Lindsey tragically passed away a few days ago under still undetermined circumstances in his sleep. His shattering death came as an absolute blow to the already shaken scene where his no bullshit approach to music was needed most, but his talent still lives on through his legacy passed on – in his music. Matador, just recently released Jay’s cover of Nirvana’s Frances…
We’ve all seen some weird as fuck videos for some equally fucked up songs by Dan Deacon, but this one… Boy, all I can say is I don’t know what the music video producers for “Woof Woof” were on, but what I do know is I don’t want any of it. It’s a cute video and all, it’s just that most of it all is complete rubrish, with no disrespect meant for the Baltimore collective…
Editors are finally releasing their third album in the US, “In This Light and On This Evening,” after a pretty well received follow-up to 2007’s An End Has A Start in the UK. Surprisingly or not, Eels are back in 2010 with a new album, titled “End Times”, only a year after their previous extraordinary full length effort’s release, Hombre Lobo. One of our most anticipated records of 2010, Spoon’s “Transference” also sees its first,…
If you query “Poker Face cover” on YouTube, you’ll most undoubtedly find all kinds of peculiar renditions of the song delivered by mostly talent-ill teenagers, from bad, to worse to damn right excremental. The one I’m writing about today, however, is well beyond the above demographics – namely Igor Presnyakov’s acoustic take on Lady Gaga’s anthem, Poker Face. Why the very talented Russian guitarist chose the track is well beyond my comprehension, but what’s important…
“Warm Heart of Africa”, the debut record of the infectiously catchy The Very Best, hit me totally out of the nowhere last summer when I first spun it, surprising me with it’s fresh blend of African/Western influences. That’s why I was very glad earlier when I first took a glimpse of the newly released video for the album’s title track. The Very Best are notorious by now for their energetic songs and implicit live performances,…
Sudan 365 – A Beat For Peace is a humanitarian project founded by Faithless drummer Jamie Catto, aimed at creating awareness for the ever dire situation in Sudan, where the longest civil war in Africa is underway. Radiohead’s Phil Selway, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and The Police’s Stewart Copeland, among many other talented and multi-cultural diverse drummers, have added their support to the campaign striving to keep the peace in Sudan. As support shown to…
After a marvelous year of 2009, in which Dirty Projectors released one of the best records of the year once with the almost complete Bitte Orca, it seems Dave Longstreth and co. have started the new year on a jovial note, seeing how they’ve just recently offered the brand new “Ascending Melody” 7″ up for free download. Both songs are brand new, Ascending Melody and Emblem of the World (b/w), remnants from the Bitte Orca…
In a recent interview for Rolling Stone, the flavorful Maya Arulpragasam or M.IA., as she most known in the in hip-hop scene, revealed a myriad of scrumptious details regarding her upcoming, still untitled, new album. She confesed to RS, among others, that she wasn’t all that happy with how Kala come out to be (for what’s it worth, we were very happy with it, Maya), and that her new material will be her ‘back to…
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