The Damnwells Let ‘Er Rip
The Damnwells, possibly the hardest-working band you’ve never heard of, have decided to give it all away, here. They play Live at The Mercury Lounge, April 4th.
February 2009
SoundExchange, broadcasters reach royalty pact for streams
SoundExchange, broadcasters reach royalty pact for streams This one covers regular broadcast stations and their streams. they are still working on the agreements for the “internet only” streamers. But this might show the way. (Ars Technica)
Lady Sovereign – So Human
With a good (but obvious) Cure sample. I’ll bet the full CD is heavier. Guaranteed.
Nightmare or Dream? Heaven or Hell?
Only you can decide…
Why no Grammy commentary?
One word: Coldplay. After that it really does not matter. But, at least there was this:
Bruce’s Not So Great As They Say New Disc
Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream From Springsteen we’ve come to expect, if not outright demand, the rich, multi-hued detail of every moment, making ‘Working On A Dream’s weird one: It sounds real good but what does it mean? Springsteen has always taken his heralded influences and made them work for him but here he works for them and, opposite his granite rep, doesn’t always get the job done. If these dark ages really were the old radio glory days his writing harkens back to, “My Lucky Day” and the CCR-ish title track would deservedly be blasting from every…
The Deceptive Perfection of Auto-Tune
Unusually cogent discussion of AutoTune on Slashdot. Including notions of “authenticity” in music. Slashdot | The Deceptive Perfection of Auto-Tune Can we at least agree that too much use of *any* musical “trick” can become annoying?
Dan Wilmer Poop 08
Best Records: Buy New or Used via Amazon Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend This album brings me back to days of tapping kegs and watching bands play on the beach at Fairfield University. College pop, in the best way. Love the way that it evokes Paul Simon in songs like Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa and early Police in others like The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance – super songwriting and great beats. Caught them at the Bowery Ballroom earlier in the year and had a blast. Buy New or Used via Amazon 2. The Virgins – Virgins Though…
Tom Whalen Poop 08
Top 25 favorites from the year proper Buy New or Used via Amazon Buy New or Used via Amazon Buy New or Used via Amazon 1 Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull (Southern Lord) 2 James Blackshaw – Litany of Echoes (Tomkins Square) 3 Grails – Doomsdayer’s Holiday / Take Refuge in Clean Living EP (Temporary Residence/Important) [2008 was the first year since I was in high school that I devoured more past music than current jams (see below). Unenthused by the sterile, finished-off hype-pop that has f(l)attened most year end round-ups (Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes,…
Q: What happens at the record fair?
A: A lot of men venture further from their goal of having plentiful sex by looking for records that quite often sing about plentiful sex. The Psycho-Geography of Record Fairs – Utrecht, WFMU and London Olympia (Johan Kugelberg – Perfect Sound Forever)
You’ve Got Poop 08!
Dear POOPster: Yes we can . . . be POmpous and OPinionated. Come hell or high gas prices, a sputtering economy with the fuel light on, and corporate bailouts (where there should have been corporate-types out on bail), 34 POOPsters have still weighed in. Call this your musical stimulus package. For the last twenty-two years, these pages have recognized the creativity, imagination and originality expressed on turntables and in CD players. But it’s quite possible that what America did on November 4th trumped music in terms of creativity, imagination and originality. Life imitates POOP. It’s been a long time comin’…
Main Poop Analysis 2008
Dear POOPster: Yes we can . . . be POmpous and OPinionated. Come hell or high gas prices, a sputtering economy with the fuel light on, and corporate bailouts (where there should have been corporate-types out on bail), 34 POOPsters have still weighed in. Call this your musical stimulus package. For the last twenty-two years, these pages have recognized the creativity, imagination and originality expressed on turntables and in CD players. But it’s quite possible that what America did on November 4th trumped music in terms of creativity, imagination and originality. Life imitates POOP. It’s been a long time comin’…
Scott Dellamore Poop 08
Click to see Scott Dellamore Pooplist 2008 in PDF Think Adobe acrobat reader takes too long to load and robs your system of resources? You need a better .pdf reader – try Foxit Reader,or the somewhat jankier, but even smaller Sumatra reader
Damian Cleary Poop 08
Buy New or Used via Amazon #1 GRAILS – DOOMSDAYER HOLIDAY Sold out at Sub Pop #2 OM – GEBEL BARKAL Buy New or Used via Amazon #3 EARTH – BEES MADE HONEY IN THE LIONS SKULL Buy New or Used via Amazon #4 JACASZEK – TRENY Buy New or Used via Amazon #5 PENTEMPLE – o))) PRESENTS. . . SIGUR ROS – MED SUD I ERYUM VID SPILUM ENDALAUST OXFORD COLLAPSE – BITS DON CABALLERO – PUNKGASM ROMAN – LIVE ABOVE NEKO SESSIONS SUNN 0)) – DOMKIRKE PARTS + LABOR – RECIEVERS MOGWAI –…
A Mystery Contributor who asked to expunge his name Poop 08
A last minute Poop List – who wants to miss this? Buy New or Used via Amazon 1. The Hold Steady – “Stay Positive” Buy New or Used via Amazon 2. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – “Sunday At Devil Dirt” Buy New or Used via Amazon 3. Bon Iver – “For Emma, Forever Ago” Buy New or Used via Amazon 4. Free Kitten – “Inherit” Buy New or Used via Amazon 5. She & Him – Volume One Others I dug on for a while: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – “Real Emotional Trash”;…
Eric Fine Poop 08
As I now go back and decide which records moved me the most in 2008, I realize how stark and bleak all of it was. A musical colon cleanse is in order. Where is that late night infomercial when you need it? It used to be for every brokenhearted album, I’d find a ray of shinning musical light. Not this year. Has the doom and gloom just taken us over, or have I just not realized it’s been like this along? My pointer finger has become hardened by skipping songs on the iPod that do not work for the mood….