Female vocalists singing like Sarah McLachlan over lazy, rainy day electronic instrumentation are a dime a dozen these days. You have the ones who do it right, Bat for Lashes and Lykke Li, and those who just disappear into the crowded scene. Holly Miranda is one of the former. Her latest solo album, The...
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The fifth annual Pitchfork Music Festival has been announced. This fest started in 2006 with The Walkmen, The Mountain Goats, Band of Horses, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Devendra Banhart, Mission of Burma, The National and many others. About 35,000 people showed up. In 2007 they added the Friday night line-up with Sonic Youth, GZA...
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If you follow this blog, you already know about my newfound love for Yeasayer. Their new album is a complete 180 from their debut and I’m really enjoying the new direction. Sleigh Bells is another band I have come across lately that I find very entertaining. I wrote about them in a Found Stuff...
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The Knife has put their new album, a soundtrack to the electro-opera Tomorrow, In A Year, up on their website. This is not the proper follow-up to their modern classic, Silent Sound, but should be interesting. Stream and/or purchase Tomorrow, In A Year (via theknife.net) (also, check out Fever Ray‘s appearance at the P3...
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I posted links to two new jj songs from their upcoming n° 2.1 vinyl LP a few days ago. And now these two songs have been posted from the upcoming album n° 3, out March 9th. from previous entry Thanks to gorilla vs. bear for posting two new songs from jj’s n° 2.1 vinyl...
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Ernest Green is Washed Out. Washed Out is Ernest Greene. He makes electronic music under the new chillwave subgenre. As much as I hate to admit it, I think I like chillwave. I liked it before I knew it had a name. Being drawn to Neon Indian, Memory Tapes/Cassette and the first single from...
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Thanks to gorilla vs. bear for posting two new songs from jj’s n° 2.1 vinyl LP. jj has become my favorite mysterious band out of Sweden. We now know a little more about them than we did last year (which was pretty much nothing but their blood splattered logos). The band consists of Joakim...
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Brooklyn-based Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller represent everything that is wrong or right with music today. The answer depends on who you ask. As Sleigh Bells, they are performing and posting some lo-fi material that will either get your head bobbing or have you running out of the venue or hitting delete before you...
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Every so often I will be posting under the ‘Derailed’ heading. This is for posts that are outside my normal comfort area…indie rock/pop. As most of you know, I have no love for electronic music. Sure, I like electronic elements to my music, hence The xx, Animal Collective, jj, Miike Snow, Soulsavers and even...
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