It took a year after Merriweather Post Pavilion’s release for my favorite track off the album “Brothersport” to finally get a video. When I first sampled the album I was certain this feel good jam will get its video released around the booming summer, where it’s best suited, but I guess I can’t complain. Later is better than never, even though the winter chilly vibe doesn’t suit the song at all. Check out the very…
Album name: Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die Artist name: Phantom Family Halo Genre: Rock Released: October 2009 Label: Crash Avenue ZME Rating: 5/10 Website: myspace.com/thephantomfamilyhalo Um. Phwwwr. Chhhhk. Ahem. It’s not that there are no words to describe the Phantom Family Halo’s recent offering: it’s just hard to string whatever words come to mind into a working sentence. Let us be quite clear: the Phantom Family Halo are a bit mad. Deliberately so, perhaps,…
We’ve been waiting for new material from behalf of orchestral experimentalist Owen Pallett, more know by his Final Fantasy moniker, for a very long time, and now, a mere one month away from it’s highly anticipated release, “Heartland” is almost upon us. If you’ve joined him at one of his live gigs from this past summer, you might have been graced enough to listen some of the new tracks off “Heartland”, like this epic performance…
Grizzly Bear just released this very soulful remix of The Notwist’s “Boneless”, off the later’s 2008 highly praised “The Devil, You + Me.” If you’ve been following indie blogs for the last couple of years, you might remember another Boneless remix, which has since become quite famous , namely Panda Bear’s very dramatic take on the song. Actually Panda Bear’s remix, rehashed to such an extent that it became a whole new track, was featured…
At the beginning of the month, I was simply psyched by Yeasayer’s new song “Ambling Alp”, off the band’s upcoming 2010 new album “Odd Blood.” Back then I said “The song, as a whole, makes for an incredible uplifting experience, packed with memerising electro beats and a bright pulsating rhythm. So far, it seems a lot more sharper, defined and focused than anything on their debut, which can only make me wonder what gems I…
Since Belle & Sebastian released their last glorious album, “The Life Pursuit”, in 2006, the band has not only stopped releasing any new music, but they haven’t even hinted of plans of a new album whatsoever. When Stuart Murdoch, the band’s lead creative force behind the band, started working on his God Help the Girl project any plans for the band to make any new albums had been scrapped, until today that is when the…
Although Beach House’s new record, “Teen Dream”, is slated for a January 25th official release, last week the record leaked all over the web, and guys let me tell you it’s simply brilliant. It’s so deeply warm and sounds so very sincere, that it’s impossible to resist the record’s invitation to roll back and go to a place far, far away from it all. I swear the Baltimore duo is getting better and better with…
A story of departed buddies and nonreciprocal farewells make up the music video for Headlights’ reminiscent “Love Song for Buddy”, which premiered today on The Music Slut. The video was Illustrated by Scott Marvel and edited by Matthew Hane. Love Song for Buddy is off the band’s recently released album Wildfire (ZME rating 9/10) out now on Poly Vinyl Records. On a similar note, check out our interview with Brett from the band that we…
Bill Nershi, String Cheese Incident front man and his acoustic duo Nershi-Law are making the final stop of their U.S. tour with rockers Van Ghost tomorrow November 25th at Chicago’s own Subterranean. And, this is not a show to miss! “Nershi-Law contemporizes the storytelling tradition while paying impressive homage to the genre. Featuring String Cheese Incident founder Bill Nershi and Melvin Seals collaborator Scott Law, Nershi-Law released the album Honkytonk Homeslice in 2005 and continue…
Guns N’ Roses | “There Was A Time” | 2008 Yes, I know how divisive Chinese Demoracy was. Unlike critics who were, let’s say, blinded by the audacity of this monumental clusterfuck, I actually found the album passable. Barely so, but passable nonetheless. In the review, I argued that the one saving grace of Democracy was the collection of slower, epic songs, as the rockers were basically, um, garbage. And of all the….compositions on the…
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