I love to start sentences with “In the future…” because no one can really argue with you. For all they know you’re got the gift of second sight. So, with that in mind… In the future, all music will be made like this, with robots. Sure the robots may look like kitchen appliances given life, [...]
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Rad Video for “State Of The Art” by Gotye
I’ve gotta hand it to Gotye, their brilliance compels me to write my second post about them in as many weeks. But he’s worth it. I came across the video by way of Avoision.com who led me to the song from Gotye’s newest album, Making Mirrors. The combination of creeping voice manipulations, 60s Jetson’s style [...]
Shut Up and Play the Hits – LCD Soundsystem Concert Film to Hit Sundance
I couldn’t make it to New York for the final LCD Soundsystem show, but when I listened to it for the first time I knew there was something pretty special going on inside Madison Square Garden. There was a certain indescribable but totally palpable energy coming through the music, in my opinion beyond what a [...]
Five People Play One Guitar To Perfection
A few weeks ago I accidentally heard a song on the radio that I’d end up listening to about ten times that day, over and over, at work. The song was by an Australian songwriter named Wally De Backer, also known as Gotye (surprisingly pronounced “gore-ti-yeah”). The song was called Someone That I Used to [...]
Jonsi Buys A Zoo – Songs from the Soundtrack of ‘We Bought a Zoo’
I tend to turn to Jonsi (or Sigur Ros) when I’ve had a tough day at work, when I want to strangle the other the people on the bus, or when life just sits on my back like a giant beached whale. His music is a sort of panacea. Which is why I was delighted [...]
Midweek Mixtape – Late-Aughts Awesome
A good mixtape should make you feel alive. It should raise feelings from under your skin and remind of you of times when you took off in the car on late summer road trips, your cheek on the rolled-down window and your eyes watering from the wind and the sense that the world is a [...]
Animated Mashup Sells the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour
Whether or not your a fan of their beverage, commercials, or soapbox derby, Red Bull is out there harnessing the world’s creative energy and putting it to good use. The Red Bull Music Academy, which launched in 1998, brings together student musicians, vocalists, producers and DJs from around the world to workshop with industry greats, [...]
Midweek Mixtape #2 – Fuzzed Out, Far Out
Guitars. Bass. A drumkit the size of a small city and little steel boxes with pedals that can turn sound into pea soup. This week’s Midweek Mixtape is a guest compilation by Jake Cooledge, a true reverb-freak whose blood I’m sure pumps to the tune of amplified power chords. For decades Jake’s hobby has been [...]
Jack White Covers U2′s Love is Blindness
Love em or hate em, U2 is pretty much universally respected in the music industry. They have longevity, awareness and more class than a state university in September. Who would a thought it but one of U2′s biggest fans is none other than the mighty Jack White. If you’ve ever seen the fantastic movie It [...]
The Midweek Mixtape
The end of the week is closer than ever and it makes me turn up the speakers. If there’s anything that can take you into the weekend with your voltage high, it’s good music. Which is why I’m delivering a mixtape to keep that energy up. The choices are based around a moment I had [...]
Much Deliciousness in New Track by Tycho
When I was younger, I went through a phase where I listened to, among other things, a great deal of downtempo techno music. You could even say this kind of techno was the vaporous planet around which my world revolved for a good part of my late twenties. It never failed to light up my [...]
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