Posted in free, music, video, tagged 1970, 2007, 2008, acid girls, claws, crystal castles, dfa records, eargoggles, health, la, los angeles, orange county, pink skull, ski-jump, sunset strip, swiss, The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner, tigerbass, werner herzog on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Unlike most of the trendy-dance rock, flash-in-the-pan bands who “pay to play” on Sunset, these guys actually have some really fresh musical sense and weight to their music. They put together some noisy, abstract, energetic rock that would probably sound at home on both a label like DFAor some underground punk imprint from early 1990s [...]
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Posted in music, tagged music, 2008, nme, adem, nme.com, domino records, takes, miloco, album review, bedhead, pj harvey, lisa germano, pinback, deus, aphex twin, yo la tengo, smashing pumpkins, tortoise, bjork, the breeders, low, atp, nancy elizabeth, Laura Marling, brooklyn union hall on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
The NME have recently voted Adem one of the top 50 musical pioneers in the world at the moment. How come nobody knows who he is? You can catch a performance of hotellounge www.NME.com (click on media player then click next a few times as it’s been there for a bit).
Adem’s new record, Takes is out! At least [...]
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Posted in music, tagged music, eargoggles, 2008, the roots, stream, al green, ?uestlove, loretta lynn, bill withers, blue note, corinne bailey rae, john ledgend, tony bennet, santana, james poyser, okayplayer, rushmore drive, the white stripes, dap-king, adam blackstone, lay it down, 05/27 on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
“We’re doing it because we all idolize Al Green. Ever since word got out that we were doing this project our phone’s been ringing off the hook.”
That was the answer The Roots drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson gave when recently asked about one of his recent collaborations. While visiting his record company in 2005, Thompson picked [...]
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Posted in free, mp3, music, tagged free, mp3, eargoggles, 2008, album, gnarls barkley, danger mouse, cee-lo, the odd couple, throbbing gristle, genesis p-orridge, the second annual report, 1977 on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Throbbing Gristle, an Avant-Garde group from the UK, and Gnarls Barkley have something in common now. Other than the use of pre-recorded tape-based “samples,” and extensive use of special effects to produce a distinctive, highly distorted background, usually accompanied by lyrics or spoken-word performances by Genesis P-Orridge. Danger Mouse and Gnarls Barkley have oddly enough [...]
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Posted in free, mp3, music, rar, tagged 1999, 2000, 2008, astoria, at the drive in, atd-i, beejay, bootleg, eargoggles, free, live, louisville, mars volta, mp3, Prince, rar, sparta, texas, zip on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our first live experience with At the Drive-In was at the short-lived Goldenvoice outdoor concert series “Ain’t No Picnic” in Irvine, CA. July 2nd, 2000. While we were already fans of the band from recorded samples, it wasn’t until we saw the skinny-Afro-topped-Prog-rocking-kids-from-Austin that-wanted-to-play-salsa in person that we truly pledged our allegiance to the future [...]
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