Man I gotta tell you, sometimes I really love the world – though not that often. A while ago, we were telling you about former KISS member and overall goof Gene Simmons, who was saying something in the lines of: sue everybody, blablabla. OK, I’ll even drop a quote: “Make sure there are no incursions. Sue everybody. Be litigious. Take their homes, their cars. Don’t let anybody cross that line.” Now guess what happens if…
Does anyone still read the Village Voice? Well, they decided to publish a Top Ten of the best rap songs about Four Loko. ‘Cause, apparently, there are ten songs about it. Who knew? I’ve been sitting here going through the list – it has embeds for every song on the list, as well as short blurbs arguing for a given song’s spot on the list – and I can’t decide which part of this is…
Purely spectacular and painfully beautiful are the music and lyrics that are delivered by Baltimore’s own Beach House. Last Monday night, Beach House took the audience on a musical journey through time and space at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando, Fla. With a simple and sophisticated set made up of three light reflecting pyramids and an intimate arrangement of instruments that brought the band to the edge of the stage, lead singer Victoria Legrand,…
This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Portishead – Third (Island Records) Muscular synthesizers, drum breaks and abrupt endings keeping the tension high. In a few words this is how Portishead’s third studio release, suggestively titled “Third,” sounds like. An amalgam of noise, distortions and Eastern Bloc minimalism is what the first listener might…
Holy shit. Swift’s latest offering, Speak Now, has done what only two albums in the last five years have done and only a dozen previously in history have achieved: gone platinum in one week’s time. She just beat out Tha Carter III with 1.047M for best first-week since 50 Cent’s The Massacre moved 1.141M back in 2005. Considering the era in which Speak is being released, it’s an impressive number – to say nothing, of…
As I strolled disheartened by a malevolent weather through an unwelcoming campus earlier this morning a shroud of mist engulfed me. Suddenly I couldn’t see a thing 50 feet ahead, moment at which I couldn’t help but thinking “this shit is creepy”. I’m home now, safe, sound and warm, and strangely enough I came across this incredible track by Britain’s Veronica Falls called “Found Love in a Graveyard”. It’s really a very adorable song -…
Hot on the heels of their previous critically acclaimed 2009 The Hazards of Love, the Portland five piece folk outfit is prepping for the release of a new album, recently titled The King is Dead. The upcoming 10 track LP is set to roll out at the beginning of 2011, and will allegedly feature R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck on three songs. Colin Meloy, the band’s frontman, actually stated that the R.E.M. feel will be present…
Let's Buy Happiness: (l-r) James King - Drums, James Hall - Guitars, Sarah Hall - Vocals, Mark Brown - Bass, Greame Martin - Guitars.
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A brand new video for a fashionably old Streets song – beware! Beware of Mike Skinner and his incredible appetite that is, since, besides incredibly rapid fire close-ups, he can be seen devouring copious amounts of food, while sitting back enjoying an after-meal fattie. Although the video isn’t that interesting, I’m more than happy to post “Trust Me” anytime. It’s “dancing music to drink tea to” like Skinner very well went on to describe the…
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