“After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub , Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until their […]
NEW2ME: Burial – Untrue
November 25th, 2007
Best tracks for Phase
November 21st, 2007
Music for Kids Who Can’t Read Good has a nice collection of downloadable tracks that work well with Phase, the iTunes/iPod video game. Personally, I’ve enjoying playing Phase with DJ Shadow, Depeche Mode, Death Becomes Even The Maiden, and Smashing Pumpkins. Oh, and Future Sound of London. I tried Battles, but it was a bit […]
RETRO: Skywave
November 21st, 2007
Ahead of the Neo-Shoegazing resurgence by at least 5 years, Virginia’s Skywave [1995-2003] channeled My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain and more. An experience they apparently parlayed into an effects pedal business, appropriately named Death by Audio. Today it would appear that they are producing records [scroll right] by some of the new breed […]
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New Gang of Four demos posted
November 21st, 2007
Via that non-carnivorous brooklynite comes word and mp3 of 2 new Gang of Four demo tracks. (courtesy of Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen’s wonderful blog, pampelmoose. more here.) gang of four – password
Call Me Jens…
November 20th, 2007
Jens Lekman does Paul Simon, live (sans chorus). Portland 11/7/2007.
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Songza: Listen. Now.
November 20th, 2007
Ever really wanted to a hear a song but not have access to your iTunes, iPod or iPhone? Enter Songza. Calling itself the “the music search engine & internet jukebox,” Songza allows you to listen any song they have in their database, rate it and possibly share or recommend it to a friend. Possibly a […]
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Blog of the Week: Get Weird Turn Pro
November 20th, 2007
Get Weird Turn Pro is an mp3 blog focused on featuring an assortment of remixes of songs by artists such as Architecture in Helsinki, The Killers, Bloc Party, and JUSTICE, even Hilary Duff, as well as providing a weekly Friday mix.