The second leak from Tom Waits‘ upcoming Bad As Me is a ballad called Back in the Crowd and it features the Spanish guitar stylings of Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo. Read more →
Just a Track
Alabama Shakes: You Ain’t Alone
If you weren’t convinced after my last post, watch the video below. I cannot stress how much you need to hear this band. If this clip for You Ain’t Alone doesn’t convince you, should stop listening to music altogether. Read more →
Lana Del Rey’s Video Games and Blue Jeans
Is it the music? Is it these amazing videos she puts together? Is it the 50’s style photoshoots and pouty cigarette smoking lips? Does it really matter? Lizzy Grant aka Lana Del Rey came out of nowhere (because the web has been wiped clean of her previous efforts as Lizzy Grant) and if you can believe the girl herself, you… Read more →
Wugazi = Doomtree + Wu-Tang + Fugazi = Awesome
In these days when most are too jaded to even waste their time claiming ‘hip-hop is dead’, the Minneapolis-based Doomtree collective continue to put out exciting releases from P.O.S., Dessa and most recently Simms. Today they leaked the first track off their Wugazi project. Joining the likes of Danger Mouse‘s Grey Album and Jaydiohead‘s mixtapes, Sleep Rules Everything Around Me… Read more →
2011.5 (mid) Year in Review
Who does 2011 think it is? Is it a teenaged, skateboarding gang who wants to shock everyone with stories of murder and rape? Is it a sensitive singer-songwriter trying to create something that can hold up under the weight of legendary stories concerning abandoned cabins and cancer wards? Is it ‘transcendental black metal’ or does it rebel against the term… Read more →
‘stripper booty and a rack like wow, brain like berkeley’
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted about a single song, but I feel Frank Ocean’s “Novacane” deserves a permanent spot here…he deserves more than a lost Facebook post. Ocean was transplanted to L.A. from New Orleans when Katrina hit and it was there that he hooked up with the Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All crew. At first… Read more →
Fever Ray and The ‘Big Bad’ Wolf
I’m beginning to think Fever Ray is more than just a solo project for The Knife‘s Karin Dreijer Andersson. It almost seems Fever Ray has taken the place of what we knew as The Knife. Even though they did release the elecro-opera Tomorrow, In a Year with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, I’d still say it’s been 5 years since we’ve… Read more →
‘your imperfection benefits no one’
This guest post comes from Mike Scarola from New York. Mike sends out a weekly (or monthly) e-mails that resemble the distribution list ILSUDH2 sent out before creating this blog. There’s something about guitar distortion that speaks to me. It started the first time I heard Communication Breakdown from Led Zeppelin. The opening riff hooked me immediately and I’ve been… Read more →
‘out here with the losing kind’
When we saw Lucero last month, Ben Nichols started the encore by performing a new, untitled song. Later in the night he informed me there were about 17 songs written but they had to get off the road to record. Well, they arn’t off the road, but today we can hear one of those new songs (the one they played… Read more →
Atlas Sound – Artificial Snow Worktapes
It might be a little late to be posting my favorite Christmas song of 2010, but today brought the first real snow of the season to Denver, so I figured it was fitting. Bradford Cox released 5 versions of Artificial Snow on December 22nd and as soon as I listened to the Notown Version, I realized that his music is… Read more →
Houses News and Your Ghost download
One of the first bands we stumbled across this year at the Westword Music Showcase was Houses. I had seen their name on the marquis quite a few times but had never taken the time to check them out. We only caught the last few songs of their set, but they really peeked the interest of my buddy and brought… Read more →