Courtesy of the always giving and incredible NPR, this week we’ve got not one, but two albums up for streaming in their entirety. Both sophomore releases from the Fleet Foxes and The Antlers, namely Helplessness Blues and Burst Apart respectively, can be listened by accessing the links listed below. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues [full album stream] The Antlers – Burst Apart [full album stream] The streams will be up just this week, more than…
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…
I know I’m a few days late with this, but I barely now remembered to post about it. I saw Fleet Foxes’ live performance, when they played this past weekend at the Saturday Night Live show, and was pleasantly surprised how well they behaved themselves. Nice to see again bands that can play live just as good or even better than in the studio. Check out the two songs from this SNL, “Mykonos” & “Blue…
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