The National - Mistaken For Strangers
A few years ago, any blogger who was featuring The National would probably have needed to provide all sorts of background information on a band that was seemingly destined for nothing more than...
View ArticleLumerians - Corkscrew Trepanation
Every release by the Bay Area’s transcendental Lumerians features a different angle between dance, drone, and psych experimentation. Live, however, the group focuses those angles into a powerful and...
View ArticleYeasayer - 2080
Most of what we do revolves around the idea of trust — that people do what they say they’ll do. Whether it’s at work, in relationships, or sitting at a white tablecloth’d restaurant, the world goes...
View ArticleAgainst Me! - New Wave
Against Me! has never shied away from being controversial. Â They have always belted out rebellious punk anthems with a military swagger and a thumping musical heartbeat. Â They played with such...
View ArticleInterpol - The Heinrich Maneuver
In the days before blog’n’roll I used to spend quite a few hours watching music videos on MTV2. Most of the time it was the same old, same old, hour after hour, but every now and again something… (in...
View ArticleThe Works - Live And Direct (feat. Jams F. Kennedy)
Today, March 15, marks ALL SCANDINAVIAN’s fifth year anniversary as Denmark’s representative in the global blog network, Music Alliance Pact. It’s been fun and an absolute pleasure selecting the 58...
View ArticleSpoon - the ghost of you lingers
chad batka for the new york times top of the friday evening, assholes! hope everyone is having a lovely friday night. i am here drinking a beer, watching one of the x-men movies, and missing my boys...
View ArticleMaxïmo Park - Sandblasted And Set Free
Seventeen seconds A measure of life A Brief History Of Love Once, A Glimpse Stockholm Syndrome All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You Wicked Game Could It Be Any Harder Sandblasted And Set Free Bitter...
View ArticleTaken by Trees - Lost and found
Burning Hearts - I Lost My Colour Vision ::mp3:: Taken By Trees - Lost and Found ::mp3:: Ballboy - I Lost You, But I Found Country Music ::mp3:: Romance 126 by Snow Mantled Love (in post Lost and...
View ArticleZoot Woman - We Won't Break (Boris Dlugosch Les Visiteurs Remix)
Nach langer Zeit melden sich Zoot Woman zurück: ihr neues Album "Star Climbing" erscheint Ende August. Hier könnt ihr die ersten Songs hören. (in post Zoot Woman - We Won't Break (Boris Dlugosh Remix)...
View ArticleThe Twilight Sad - Cold Days From The Birdhouse
Just a reminder…the idea of this series is to take one of my favourite bands or singers and list what I think would make the idea ‘Best of’ album with a few words on why. The only proviso… (in post AN...
View ArticleEdwyn Collins - Home Again
I think I’d probably put Edwyn Collins in my Top 5 of all time songwriters. His work with Orange Juice impacted a lot of my listening habits, past and present. So, his 2005 struggles with multiple...
View ArticleRichard Youngs - Low Bay of Sky
There aren’t many years where you can cast an ear back over all the aural nonsense that has been crapped out in the preceding 12 months and conclude that the most stonking anthem of the year is a… (in...
View ArticleThe View - Same Jeans
The View initially formed around a cover band from a school in the very working-class district of Dryburgh in the east-coast city of Dundee, initially signing to local independent label Two Thumbs on...
View ArticleBlonde Redhead - 23
On December 2 I checked into the always wonderful Music Hall of Williamsburg to take in a set from Blonde Redhead. The stop at MHOW came a week after two shows at Bowery Ballroom, all in support of…...
View ArticleBlu & Exile - In Remembrance Of Me
Producer Spotlight: Exile Exile is definitely one of the best new school hip hop producers still relevant. He is largely known for his collaborations with Blu, and their “Below the Heavens” album is...
View ArticleBlu & Exile - The World Is (Below The Heavens..)
Producer Spotlight: Exile Exile is definitely one of the best new school hip hop producers still relevant. He is largely known for his collaborations with Blu, and their “Below the Heavens” album is...
View ArticleLCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
From the fingertips of S-WC….. A few years back James Murphy, the kingpin behind LCD Soundsystem said that this band are ‘over once and for all’ and I for one was gutted. I think I said before that…...
View ArticleCandie Payne - I Wish I Could Have Loved You More
Question: What is this record? Is it groovy jazz funk, a long-forgotten off-cut from a Blaxploitation soundtrack that never was? Is it late 60s wig-out psychedelic rock/pop, a remnant of the days when...
View ArticleCandie Payne - All I Need To Hear
Question: What is this record? Is it groovy jazz funk, a long-forgotten off-cut from a Blaxploitation soundtrack that never was? Is it late 60s wig-out psychedelic rock/pop, a remnant of the days when...
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