Lose yourself in the beautiful pop hooks and electric noise of Danish alt-rock duo, the Raveonettes’ latest album, In & Out of Control! Sharin Foo’s pixie-ish vocals declare “kids wanna bop, out in the street / fa-fa-fun all summer long” as the power chords reach sugar overload. Of course, the palpable sense of excitement and happiness is obvious [...]
Continue reading...11. November 2009
Have kids and a DVD player in your car? Let them listen to their favorite episodes of Sponge Bob or Justice League Unlimited on headphones designed just for them. These smart MyPhones headphones from accessory vendor, Griffin Technology, are sized for smaller heads, have cover plates which allow you to customize the graphics and most [...]
Continue reading...14. September 2009
The perfect mash up of the 3 things you love? Well yes, if Feed the Beasts’ new project Mugo, has anything to say about it. Expected to drop in mid-October, Mugo is a flash based MP3 player and storage drive wrapped around an urban vinyl skin by acclaimed artists such as: Julie West, Shin Tanaka, Tougui, [...]
Continue reading...24. August 2009
The Gothic Wedding Collection is a pretty cool spin on the music you grew up listening to in the 80’s, as performed by Los Angeles based string quartet– Vitamin. Vitamin’s mission is to offer fans exciting versions of their favorite songs performed in new musical contexts. From the label’s first album, “The String Quartet Tribute to Led [...]
Continue reading...4. August 2009
I must admit, I’m not familiar the Eels, but when I heard them on the radio, I quickly became a fan. Grimy, blues-inspired, howling vocals, sweet lulls describe the tremendous range. Their newest release, the seventh studio album from the ever-changing project led by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett (aka E). Hombre Lobo was [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2009
The Fleet Foxes are a rock band that sounds like no other — imagine a pastoral choir overwhelming a sweeping folk-rock band, in the middle of a sunlit forest in the spring. That’s about the sound of the Fleet Foxes’ self-titled debut album — it’s a stream of lush, jangly folk pop, edged with a touch [...]
Continue reading...21. December 2008
Portishead’s Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997’s dark, distinctly underrated albumPortishead. Importantly, though, they’ve shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead’s 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky [...]
Continue reading...21. December 2008
Talkie Walkie reunites us with the Air that we love: two hopelessly indulgent romantics with an ear in the past and an eye on the future. It’s meltingly good stuff–a collection of cool, cosmic pop songs that dispense with notions of time and space, wallowing instead on a cloud of poignant psychedelia. With vocal duties this [...]
Continue reading...21. December 2008
Goldfrapp’s Seventh Tree feels like the ideal album for the morning after. Beginning with the gentle, pastoral finger-picked acousti sounds of “Clowns,” the album glides through ambient electronic textures with a heavy focus on Alison Goldfrapp’s warm whispers. Like a cosmic fusion of Air and Kate Bush, Goldfrapp prove that they can conjure up a [...]
Continue reading...20. December 2008
Pure aural pleasure. This NY four-piece draw on their diverse backgrounds and interests, experimenting with African guitar music, the Western classical canon, hazy memories of Cape Cod summers, winters in upper Manhattan, and reggaeton. “Equal parts shruggy New York indie strumming and groovy Afro-pop, Vampire Weekend’s organ-and-drum runs highlight narratives about relationships, punctuation, and sometimes both” [...]
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