letdown -is that your list straight out of kexp? indierock overhaul, seriously... get off the wagon!

TV on the Radio = tasty on my stereo.

wow, what's going on in sweden? so many emerging artists coming from there these past few years.

also, i love how world music is beginning to seep into american popular music. listening to vampire weekend inspired me to check out african guitar players, and there are some really good ones! check out amadou and mariam's dimanche a bamako[/i, and i also really like loketo's [i]soukou trouble. really sharp guitar playing.

also, if your reggae collection consists solely of bob marley's legend (because i know everybody has that one), you should really check out bunny wailer's rock 'n groove which was reissued on cd and mp3 last year. key tracks are the title track, "cool runnings", "dance rock" and "rootsman skanking."

Just purchased the new Cat Power over lunch. Listened to it one way through already. She covers Bob Dylan and Billie Holiday. Love it.

yamK
great comment. as a matter of fact, i found most of those songs through pitchfork. ass face.
HA! now whos the chump...

i love this song.

yep, Cat Power is on it for sure.

Esthero is in my permanent list.

and away from the singer songwriters and back to some nice electronica
how about:

justice

i like justice.

i can't wait 'till technology gives us t-shirts like in the D.A.N.C.E. video.

they already have shirts like this:

so shouldn't be too difficult to make the next step in t-shirt technology.

or a local favourite from my hometown

Kraak&Smaak/Crack&Smack

check the video, it's European, whatever that means.

I meant t-shirts like this:

screw it, they are called t-qualizer shirts

one more try just because otherwise it keeps bugging me all day:

yeah, one of the student projects for the school i work for was a t-shirt similar to that.

these are pretty cool.



they detect wifi!!!

"yamK
great comment. as a matter of fact, i found most of those songs through pitchfork. ass face.
HA! now whos the chump..."


hahahaha. are you saying there's a difference between pitchfork and kexp?


"So if it starts to get you down
Just pretend
That you don't make your living
From selling advertising
Tracking trends
Coraling demographics
And maximizing traffic"

-david bazan, on pitchfork,

and back to music

how about covers that are very different from the original, such as for instance the Balanescu Quartet doing Kraftwerk

or nouvelle vague doing
joy division

is it sacrilege or are they honest tributes? at least they don't try and copy the original but make them their own...

it'd be great if joy division was covered, all of it besides love will tear us apart and atmosphere. ian curtis needed a little bit of vocal help on 90% of their music.

which reminds me:

best album covers ever, related to architecture or both.

let's start of with:



joy division - unknown pleasures (or as described by valdmont(dot)wordpress(dot)com: el Sgt. Pepper’s de Joy Division

grant lee phillips covers both the eternal and (related) age of consent on his cover album nineteeneighties. i like 'em.

the killers just did shadowplay...i've seen moby perform new dawn fades with new order live. and this release...

nine inch nails did dead souls

since we're on the subject now of album covers, i highly recommend factory records: the complete graphic album

this one's cool too...it has essays and an interview...

oooooohhh!!! that is so cool!

the backing tracks on the chorus of stockholm syndrome is crazy...

thom yorke on npr

Concert in Amsterdam next week:
Cluster

bump

because i'm bored and i'm looking for new music.

i saw george clinton and parliament funkadelic on friday night. those guys rock. their set was @ least 3 hours long.

so, what's new?

'version' is a recent favorite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ronson

terribly poppy and fun.

awesome. thanks steven. i'll definitely check this out.

what do you think of his radiohead tribute?

"because i'm bored and i'm looking for new music"

silence is the new music

(john cage is cool again)

I really like the latest release from Do Make Say Think. I listen to it first thing at work and it sets a good tone for revit-monkeying.

emilio, if i like philip glass, will i like john cage?

brer, is the album you speak of called "you, you're a history in rust"?

Check out the Embedded Records label, its a tight knit group of quality artists

dread, i like philip glass too. well, i think glass was influenced by cage, among others, especially his ideas of repetition, chance, and minimalism.
i was (eye-winkingly) referring above to cage's (in)famous piece 4'33" which is the most minimal of all: he basically came out and sat in front of the piano and played no notes, just closing and opening the piano lid to mark the three movements....hence the silence.

i think he stole that from victor borge...

fire...

dread, radiohead's 'just' is covered on 'version'.

very well done. much more fun than radiohead, really.

dread, i can go back and forth between glass and cage all day. however, lately i've been listening to a lot of steve reich and some terry riley.

if it's the minimal compostions you are grooving on, check out some of these:

autechre
taylor deupree
ricardo villalobos
biosphere
vladislav delay
richie hawton
matthew dear
onur oezur
skoltz_kolgen
frank bretschneider
robert henke
reinhard voigt
loscil


labels:
m_nus
l-ne
raster noton
mille plateaux

sweet. thanks guys. this'll keep me busy for a week or so.

some essential minimalist compositions for dread:

charlemagne palestine: "strumming music"
terry riley: "in c"
steve reich: "six pianos"
alvin lucier: "i am sitting in a room"
john cage: "in a landscape" (gorgeous, very satie-like)

itunes U!

whats this i hear about the mars volta's
new album being demonic and what not?
sure, theyre music takes psychodellic music
to a new level, but not devil worship!
ima good old christian boy, i cant listen to
devil worhsip, and i know that their first few
albums delt with some dark issues but
it wasnt that bad right?
anybody feel me on this?

me thinks you should listen to the album instead of pat robertson

-bart simpson