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“I’m a very stressed-out person, a lot, because still...

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:55:00 -0500

“I’m a very stressed-out person, a lot, because still everything is so important,” she said. “I have to give everything, my everything, and that’s exhausting, and how the hell am I going to do that for the rest of my life? But I’m going to have to figure out how.”

Really looking forward to this one.

via Fiona Apple’s New Album, ‘The Idler Wheel’

Where could it be? Tracking Vintage Album Art in NYC

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:23:35 -0500

Where could it be? Tracking Vintage Album Art in NYC

Flaming Lips Thunder Up… (by Heady Fwends) “The...

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:13:28 -0500

Flaming Lips Thunder Up… (by Heady Fwends)

“The Flaming Lips offer this to the Thunder and all their fans… To get the victory party started!”

The Flaming Lips - with the help of followers on twitter - rewrote their song “Race For The Prize” as a Thunder theme song.

So when is Wilco going to start supporting Derrick and the boys?

“I make hits mthrfckr let me do it for free.”

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:44:00 -0500

“I make hits mthrfckr let me do it for free.”

“Yell like hell to the heavens!” First Listen:...

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:08:00 -0500

“Yell like hell to the heavens!”

First Listen: Japandroids, ‘Celebration Rock’

“The album is a collection of awesome moments, each topped seconds later by an even awesomer one.”

Been rocking this all weekend.

So good.

Really captured by this this quote on Spinner:

“‘Young Hearts Spark Fire’ for example, that five minutes of the set was always just a peak,” he says. “The energy in the room, the singalong factor, the physicality of the audience during that song was something we took notice of.”

So the band decided to try and write an album, where the whole show is a peak.”

It’s true.

Get this.

via Japandroids Almost Quit Music, Instead Made Celebration Rock in Nashville

wellplaid: The May Man (is Back), a playlist on...

Sat, 26 May 2012 15:52:32 -0500

wellplaid:

The May Man (is Back), a playlist on Spotify.

Thanks, in part, to Simplesinger.

"The robots asked the Munich Machine to go into a vocal booth and speak about his life. In the studio..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:03:41 -0500

“The robots asked the Munich Machine to go into a vocal booth and speak about his life. In the studio were multiple microphones of various vintages from the 60s to today. When Moroder asked the engineer why they had so many mics, he replied that the mic they would use would depend on what decade of his life he was speaking about. When Moroder asked if anyone would know the difference, the engineer replied ‘They will know.’”

- From URB’s report about electronic pioneer Giorgio Moroder’s recent studio stint with Daft Punk. (via pitchfork)

wellplaid: The Swell Season - You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Live at...

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:30:00 -0500

wellplaid:

The Swell Season - You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Live at Lincoln Hall on Sound Opinions)

On his 71st birthday, I thought I’d share one of my favorite covers of Bob Dylan’s classic song “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” which he wrote during the solitary period following his motorcycle accident in 1967.

In 2010, outside Radio City Music Hall, I watched as Glenn Hansard and Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season busked alongside their opening act, Josh Ritter. They’d recorded the song that year for Todd Haynes’ film I’m Not There, which pays tribute to Dylan in a way only Todd Haynes could’ve imagined. The experience of watching these three people busking on a busy New York street, simply for the love of the song, rivaled the concert itself.

While there are many cell phone captures of that experience, I much prefer the warts-and-all performance in this video taken at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall for WBEZ’s Sound Opinions.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Dylan. To many more.

I would like to echo that statement from my friend Maxwell.

I was at this show, and Glenn and Marketa played short set after a screening of the film. It felt like sitting in a living room with them, which was a pretty amazing thing.

As for Mr. Dylan, I’ve got to say that my favorite is “Girl from North Country”. Shocking right? Anyways, my favorite version is this one with Johnny Cash:

Happy birthday sir!

MoonriseKingdom 8tracks mixes OK, so I’m starting to get...

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:55:00 -0500

MoonriseKingdom 8tracks mixes

OK, so I’m starting to get really excited for this one.

Sam & Suzy’s Playlist from MoonriseKingdom on 8tracks.

MODERN RECORD CONSOLE WANT. SO HARD.

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:28:00 -0500

MODERN RECORD CONSOLE

WANT.

SO HARD.

Nick Waterhouse - “Some Place” Pretty slick little...

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:55:00 -0500

Nick Waterhouse - “Some Place”

Pretty slick little video. Was hoping to catch Mr. Waterhouse at Schubas on Thursday, but looking like it’s canceled.

Guess I’ll just have to catch him next time.

Michael Kiwanuka | A Take Away Show (by LaBlogotheque) Oh Geez...

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:06:16 -0500

Michael Kiwanuka | A Take Away Show (by LaBlogotheque)

Oh Geez this. Is. So. Good.

“While the aim of Warner Music or Universal is to sell...

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:21:00 -0500

“While the aim of Warner Music or Universal is to sell millions of records, Numero’s founders insist their goal is merely to make a profit on each record in order to fund the next one. They consider their efforts urgent because the musicians in Numero’s wheelhouse—’60s soul and funk artists—are aging. “I’d like to be a privately held Smithsonian with a large acquisition department that’s saving music before these people start dying out,” says Shipley. “We’d love someone to give us $10 million to buy it all now and figure out how to monetize it later. But we understand that’s not a great business plan.”

via Numero Group: Soul Revivers

perpetua: Owen Pallett“Odessa” Live in Paris, 2011Pallett’s...

Thu, 10 May 2012 13:52:00 -0500

perpetua:

Owen Pallett
“Odessa”
Live in Paris, 2011

Pallett’s arrangement for this Caribou song sacrifices some of the deep bass feeling from the original recording, but is far more exciting and evocative in its discordant string parts and general atmosphere. Also, this is a great showcase for Pallett’s voice, which is a remarkable and underrated aspect of his music.

Really like the original, but this one is quite splendid itself.

Love me some Final Fantasy.

ofswoop: New Hood Internet mix tape is solid. Yeah it...

Wed, 09 May 2012 16:47:00 -0500

ofswoop:

New Hood Internet mix tape is solid.

Yeah it is.

Super tight.

“In Samoa he was taking courses and speaking with...

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:31:00 -0500

“In Samoa he was taking courses and speaking with therapists. He swam with whales and earned a scuba diving license, watched every episode of “The Mentalist” on DVD, put his classmates onto Lil B, began learning how to play piano. He read Manning Marable’s Malcolm X biography and Richard Fariña’s counterculture fiction. He wrote rhymes. Most of his verse on “Oldie,” his one contribution to “The OF Tape Vol. 2” (Odd Future), released in March, was written while he was in Samoa, before he knew if he’d ever have a song to put it on. Earl Sweatshirt arrived in Samoa resentful.

“That’s why I was gone for so long,” he said, discussing the stages of acceptance most of the participants in the program go through: resistance, false commitment, then finally, actual growth. “When the kids that got there at the same time as me were all leaving, it was like, damn,” he said. “There’s such a clear difference between someone who’s faking it and someone who’s like, ‘O.K., maybe I don’t hate my mom.’ ” He’d let his friends know where he was when he got to Samoa but was only able to communicate sporadically. Eventually his mother began sending him articles about the group’s success, and also a birthday card Tyler had dropped at his house in Los Angeles.He was soon communicating with Ms. Steinberg, who gave him writing exercises and perspective on what had been happening at home.

As part of the Coral Reef curriculum he also performed community service, spending time working at Samoa Victim Support Group, a center for survivors of sexual abuse, including children. “That was a pivotal moment,” he said one afternoon at Bristol Farms, a supermarket near his manager’s office. One of the things Earl Sweatshirt had been prized for as a rapper was his extreme imagery, bordering on vile. “You can detach imagery from words,” he said, adding that he “never actually pictured” the things he rapped about. (“Lyrics About Rape, Coke, And Couches Will Be Blaring In Your Ears,” was how “Earl,” the album, was advertised on Odd Future’s Tumblr when it was released in March 2010.)”

via Earl Sweatshirt Is Back From the Wilderness

Mad Men paid The Beatles $250,000 to play "Tomorrow Never Knows"

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:26:53 -0500

Mad Men paid The Beatles $250,000 to play "Tomorrow Never Knows"

ofswoop: One of the few great things Coldplay has ever...

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:26:27 -0500

ofswoop:

One of the few great things Coldplay has ever done.

That might be true, but what is up with C-Mo’s hair? Is he really rocking a high top fade these days? Didn’t think the old man had it in him.

pitchfork: Skrillex and Grimes and Diplo are touring Canada on...

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:21:47 -0500

pitchfork:

Skrillex and Grimes and Diplo are touring Canada on a train this summer.

HA! woah.

The Lumineers Just loving this record today.

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:02:18 -0500

The Lumineers

Just loving this record today.