Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
admin on Sep 20th 2007
High-brow indie purists beware: if you’ve been dreading the day when Animal Collective outgrow their cult following, now is the time to resign to such a fate. Continue Reading »
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La Blogothèque Take Away Shows – Interview
admin on Sep 11th 2007
Parisien guerilla video bloggers Vincent Moon and Chryde (aka The Take Away Shows) bring music and film out of the venue, onto the streets, and onto your computer. Cian Traynor tracked them down on the streets of Paris.
Whether it’s squeezing Arcade Fire into an elevator or getting Grizzly Bear into a bathtub, French music site La Blogotheque has a way of capturing bands in a moment of haphazard beauty. The Take Away Shows are a series of vignettes that lure artists, with instrument in hand, out to wander the streets of Paris under the gaze of a loosely held camera.
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MIX CD: Summer in a Small Room
admin on Sep 8th 2007
A New Mix to Download:
1. Caribou – Melody Day
2. Vetiver – Angel’s Share
3. Shuggie Otis – Inspiration Information
4. Andrew Rothbard – Indigo Continue Reading »
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O’Death Interview
admin on Sep 6th 2007
The drummer rises from his stool, wailing, bare-chested, whipping chains from the grip of each hand against a kit of rusty old canisters, spurring on the rest of the band like an infuriated slave driver. The tempo is driven by a hardcore-punk ethos, the lyrics are tinted with the macabre, and the songs sound old enough to be yellowed and smoke-stained. This is O’Death: the sound of an Appalachian apocalypse, a band of musical misfits that escape classification and outpace tradition – a set of parameters bound to cause trouble. Continue Reading »
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