Album name: Life Artist name: Uniform Motion Genre: Folk-pop-cartoons Released: 9 February 2010 Label: Aahhh Records ZME Rating: 5/10 Website: uniformmotion.net I’m something of a deliberate philistine when it comes to fine art. Despite spending six years or so studying the subject in one form or another, I never really saw the appeal. I mean, sure I can appreciate it up to a point; I’ll give you your Da Vincis, your Rembrandts, your Dalis -…
The jovial Canadian eight piece band are set to release their fifth full length studio album “Together” in early May, and as a very sweet appetizer I’d like to invite all of you to sample their latest song “Your Hands (Together)”. It’s a typical Pornographers track – catchy hooks, pop friendly chorus and power chords. Not their best, by a long shot, but it’s still a very promoscing sign of things to come.[via Hero Hill]…
Tons of fireworks, dead unicorns, super heroes, Canadian Mounties etc. – you’re likely to find any of those at a Flaming Lips concert, where every town that guests it automatically becomes the international capitol of mind fuck for a whole night. This summer, Wayne Coyne will be leaving his extravagant lair to join the rest of the Flaming gang for a set of gigs around North America and Europe. Trust me, if you haven’t seen…
Models and music don’t usually make a good mix, but Jack White sure knows how to pick ’em, considering his wife, Karen Olsen, has some great set of legs pipes. Don’t believe me? Check out her first music video for the title track off her 12 songs debut album “The Ghost Who Walks”. Simple, yet strangely spooky, the video features Karen gently strumming her acoustic guitar unfolding a gentle ballad. The Ghost Who Walks was…
Thom Yorke’s solo project was seen with great enthusiasm by critics and fans alike when the all-star supergroup, composed of Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, R.E.M. drummer Joey Waronker, talented Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Mauro Refosco, and the one and only Flea, played two LA gigs at the end of last year. The band played the entirety of Thom Yorke’s solo debut album, The Eraser, as well as some new songs and Radiohead B-side “Paperbag Writer”. Today, it…
I knew this was gonna suck even before the nominations were announced. I knew it because I knew that they wouldn’t bother to have albums of quality – ya know, Merriweather Post Pavilion or Us or Wilco (the Album) or Cuban Linx II. No, they decide that the following are the supposed best of last year: TAYLOR SWIFT, FEARLESS Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D. Beyoncé, I Am…Sasha Fierce Lady GaGa, The Fame Dave Matthews Band,…
We’re living in an increasingly tiresome world where our attention and patience is constantly being put to the test. Buy 50$ Converse snickers because that’s what’s hip, read NME because that’s where all the good music is, love this band because Pitchfork gave it a 8.4/10 review. Brands, advertising, media, sex etc. – it all can take its toll and make us lose focus on what’s really important in life. Luckily, we can all find…
Tom Meighan, for those of you who may not know, is the explicit and unreserved frontman of UK alternative/ indie rock outfit Kasabian – a band that, for those of us who know well, like to say a thing or two about the state of our society. Meighan’s latest diatribe has come in the form of an attack on the most powerful outspoken voice of the modern world – the internet. According to the singer,…
This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) At the beginning of the decade, one of the nation’s most talented songwriters Sufjan Stevens endeavored in a project as ambitious as it was preposterous, called The Fifty States project. Sufjan intended to share his vision on American life and culture…
You know Phoebe from way back when she started performing and touring with Nouvelle Vague. No long introduction is needed for this artist, as I’m sure you all know about her totally original and impressive performances of Human Fly, Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Escape Myself etc., about her absolutely brilliant performance with Melanie Pain of Too Drunk To Fuck, where they dance and scream (in the most pleasant way) and give out Whisky to the audience…
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