These are albums that have been on heavy rotation lately but I just haven’t had the time to write about. I still don’t have the time to write about them, so I’m taking the easy way out with a group post. Every once in a while I find a common theme in the...
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Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise (Circus Company, 2011) 21-year-old Brown University literature student/experimental musician Nicolas Jaar is proving my theory that all albums with black-and-white covers are worth your time. At least in 2011. But he doesn’t really want you to read about it, he wants you to hear it. If you...
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Grouper – A I A: Dream Loss / Alien Observer (self-released, 2011) Grouper is Liz Harris from Portland, Oregon. She creates the fractured soundtracks to your dreams (and nightmares). Over the past 5 years or so she has self-released her work on everything from CD-R to vinyl and really made a name for herself...
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ILSUHD2 will be on a posting hiatus for two weeks while on holiday in Cambodia and Thailand from March 26th – April 10th, but this does not mean you have to start listening to 106.7 KBPI or your city’s equivalent…we’ve got you covered! With all the interviews, features and live shows lately, we’ve gotten...
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The words ‘southern lord‘, accompanied by an image of a horned creature with a hook and a pentagram, can’t help but dispatch the mind to the fiery netherworld of the fallen one; the scapegoat for all that is vile, revolting and just plain evil in this world, including the unholy sounds of heavy metal...
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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...
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James Blake – James Blake (A&M / ATLAS, 2011) All I ever wanted was to find some electronic music with personality. Sure, we live in an age of technology and we all interact with LCD screens much more than living beings. Sure, the (arguably) best rock group on the planet seems to have forgotten...
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This is just turning out to be an incredible week in music. First I get to see a true legend of pop music for the first time, then my favorite black metal band makes a stop in Denver for the first time in almost 10 years, I line-up my first interview with an up-and-coming...
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WHITE HORSE – THE REVENANT GOSPELS volume I & II (self released, 2010 & 2011) Insomnia is a problem I suffer less often than I did in my 20’s, but there are still nights when I lay in the dark, eyes wide shut, mind in a constant loop of incessant information, listening to the...
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Radiohead‘s “Newspaper Album” The King of Limbs will be shipped in May, but the digital version will be crashing the Internet on Saturday!
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Broken Social Scene performed at Terminal 5 in New York on Tuesday night as part of the Bowery Presents webcast and the whole 2+ hour show can now be seen on youtube.
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