Monday, February 08, 2010
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Life Magazine by Cold Cave is soaring electro pop dance track with just a touch of something sadder underneath the chords. The video for it definitely fleshes out the darker aspects of it. Focused almost entirely on an older woman painted in makeup, the video is a bit campy but more than a little captivating. The core of the music video is made up of a montage of the older woman dancing and fixing her makeup, with shots of mannequins and old pictures of naked women appearing from to time to time. But the amount of depth that the image of that possibly sad, possibly proud older woman longing for youth adds to the chorus' lyrics "I'm never going back" is almost heartbreaking. Whether it is a comment on beauty, age, or time, there's definitely something deeper underneath and it haunts the video beautifully. ...Keep Reading...
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Monday, February 08, 2010
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A good music video should add a dimension to a song you never knew was there, like turning on the lights in a dark room. Dawn Landes' video for "Young Girl" does precisely that. Building off the fuzzed out and twangy hoedown hook of the song, Landes' video builds a southern noir atmosphere around it. Helped by 1960's style directing and a dark and grainy film filter, the video for "Young Girl" bridges the two worlds Landes is writing from: her Kentucky past and her New York City present. What's nice though is as enveloped in a Deep South atmosphere as it is, it never takes itself too seriously. ...watch the music video...
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Monday, February 08, 2010
| Contemporary ballet + White Stripes music = I'm confused. Chroma is a ballet by choreographer Wayne McGregor, featuring music by the White Stripes as interpreted by an orchestra. Just the kind of weirdo stuff the internet would eat up. [via P4K]
...keep reading...
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Monday, February 08, 2010
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"When we start losing the roots, we become terrible pop music." It's a little slice of wisdom (not to mention fantastic reasoning as to why country music has careened down a scary, scary course the last decade or so), courtesy of a Tennessee songwriter who is doing his part to preserve a piece of country history.
By his namesake alone, Justin Townes Earle pays tribute (whether he likes it or not) to two titans of country songwriting. But Earle's fascination with the genre is a bit more antiquated, escorting him a bit further back than the work of both his father Steve and Townes Van Zandt. Leadbelly, Emmett Miller, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Buck Owens; these are singers it's evident the 28 year old singer-songwriter holds dear. Their passion, urgency, and absolute authenticity is written all over the batch of country folk songs JTE prepared for a recent visit to the Guest Apartment. ...watch the guest apartment...
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Monday, February 08, 2010
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Monday, February 08, 2010
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Monday, February 08, 2010
| The odd-father of rock is one of indie's most interesting personalities. Now you can take a peak inside the misty mind of the Magnetic Fields frontman in the documentary about him and his band, Strange Powers.
...keep reading...
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Monday, February 08, 2010
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When first confronted with Teen Dream, the surprisingly fleshed out new record from notoriously lo-fi Beach House, I was pleasantly surprised at the young bands growth. The best example of their development came in the form of "Used To Be", a single which noticeably morphed from simplicity (on the single) to the complex world of the new record (on Teen Dream). When I asked singer/keyboardist Victoria Legrand about the change, her answer made sense. "The song didn't fit. It wasn't good enough." ...keep reading...
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Monday, February 08, 2010
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I think I might be too young to like Massive Attack. I suppose I should put that out there first. Of course, with their style of music being what it is, I can't imagine many people the age it's intended for liking it either. ...keep reading...
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Monday, February 08, 2010
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The follow-up to Jim is another change in direction for Jamie Lidell. Compass features help from a few notable friends, and promises to be Lidell's most eclectic and raw release to date. ...keep reading...
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Monday, February 08, 2010
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It must be remix day because the blogosphere is jam packed with covers and remixes. Which would be a really cool internet theme day, like "Rework A Song day" where artists put out remixes or covers in a show of inter-band fraternity.
But this Phoenix remix by Delphic is pretty cool, taking Phoenix's already pretty cool sound and uh making it... cooler? There's a new funk bassline and some really cool pads thrown in there and makes the whole thing sound like the soundtrack to a detective movie.
It's a bit long, but aren't all remixes? ...keep reading...
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Friday, February 05, 2010
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Thom Yorke of Radiohead fame, it's been announced, will be featured on the upcoming Flying Lotus album.
Lotus' new album, Cosmogramma, is out May 4th from Warp Records. Along with Yorke, the band is also featuring guest work by Erykah Badu, Laura Darlington, and Outkast string arranger Miquel Atwood-Ferguson. ...Keep Reading...
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Friday, February 05, 2010
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Friday, February 05, 2010
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Everybody has a bad week every now and then. Sometimes you are bad and mom sends you to your room and you miss the party at Chuck E. Cheese, and everyone talks about the ball pit all week. Sometimes you total your car and have to take the bus to work. Sometimes you are homeless for five days. Sometimes you drop your sandwich at lunch. These things happen to everyone. * Luckily, we all have our ways of dealing with stress, and one of them is mixtapes. So let's listen together! ...listen to the mixtape...
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Friday, February 05, 2010
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Edited by Bajir Cannon and shot by Brendan Fitzgerald, Fucked Up's first official music video, for their track "Crooked Head" is terrifically fitting. Comprising of exclusive live footage, it showcases what Fucked Up are the most proud of...their live. It's fitting for the track too, with so much shoegazey feedback it almost feels like the waves of distortion you can guarantee to feel at a Fucked Up show. Plus, it just looks like so much fun doesn't it? - Ryan Broderick...watch the music video...
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Friday, February 05, 2010
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Editors are just in time for a cycle of throwback in vogue, filling the need of late eighties futuristic Brit-rock and John Hughes smoke-filled flashback montages. From the somber pastoral rock of the 60's, to acid-wash, to disco-infused, it seems time that one band should emerge to take the naughties spin on this specific slice of the twentieth century. Problem is, it's been done already many times... White Lies, for example. Good news is, Editors take the lessons of alternative rock between 1982 and now and tie them all together in a cohesive, compressed snapshot of the past thirty years. The trick is they do it like they are still in the eighties, subtle and undetected but ever-present, through the choices of synth to the arrangement of tracking. ...keep reading...
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
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Hot Chip is a strange band. From the looks of it they're just a group of really weird dudes from England that make dance music. But after getting a chance to hear the tracks of their newest upcoming release One Life Stand they're working with a bit more depth and range then in the past. This track, "Alley Cats" is probably the best example of that. It's got a real quiet bounce to it but the lyrics are what sealed it for me. Definitely not your typical Hot Chip but still a really solid song. ...Keep Reading...
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
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There is a franticness about your early twenties. There is a jittery claustrophobia that can pulse behind your eyes and make your breathe short and make your chest tight. On Romance Is Boring it seems Los Compesinos! are writing strictly from that cloisterous, failing universe of early adulthood. Manic and frenzied Romance Is Boring blisters with swells of strings and horns and crunching unapologetic guitar and explodes so sublimely on every track that you can't imagine they made fifteen of them. ...keep reading...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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Joanna Newsom has been rather odd in her press for Have One On Me, releasing cartoons as hints and telling the world it will be a triple LP (whoa). First song "81" was a nice teaser, quaint and cushy, and now we've got "Good Intentions Paving Company", a bit more uptempo, bossanova and as Stereogum aptly put it "kind of Peanuts". For those of us who haven't really dipped into the pool of Newsom tunes, this is a big sign that Have One will be a diverse collection of tracks instead of one big long harp solo. For the fans, this only solidifies their excitement. Listen after the jump. ...keep reading...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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On 2/19 in New York and 2/27 in LA, odd-rockers The Dirty Projectors will play The Getty Address, an "unsettling mix of jokes, high concept and existential urgency play[ed] out over heavy sequenced beats, choirs of women and orchestral arrangements that sound as if they've been sourced from a Jodorowsky film." We're going to need a bigger "eyyyyyo wehooooo" (see: "Cannibal Resource"). ...keep reading...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
| I guess these guys were watching Lost and decided to flash forward their polar bears, or something. Today is was announced that the lineup for Bonnaroo would be announced 2/9. It will be a very special unveiling.
...keep reading...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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Photography by Maureen Pitz. Check out more photos from this show and others HERE.
In terms of musical venues, there are few places more iconic than the most famous park in the world. The Supremes, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Simon and Garfunkel, Bon Jovi; New York City's Central Park has played host to a variety of legendary concerts, creating monstrous cultural events that are now a rich part of the city's historical fabric.
Though musical events of this scale (tens of thousands of people) are understandably few and far between, the everyday legacy of the park's musical heritage lives on in the carefully curated programs that take over Rumsey Playfield during the warmer months of the year. SummerStage; an absolute NYC institution...a place where performers and audiences alike revel in a unique, shared concert experience. So when Passion Pit asked us to film their second night of a weekend run on SummerStage last Fall, well...we were smitten by the opportunity.
We of course have been yapping about the show ever since. But today marks our first opportunity to actually show it to you. The glitzy synthetic waves of sound, the addicting bubblegum beats setting thousands of heads in movement, those ever-present window-shattering falsettos; it's our great joy to present you with the first half of Passion Pit's mighty performance in Central Park. Since that time, the band has only gained momentum, acquiring a variety of award show nominations (mtvU, Q, etc), helping sell a boatload of Palm products, selling out 3 nights in a row at NYC's cavernous, Terminal 5, and of course touring...none stop touring. But the band's two night run on Central Park marked the beginning of the BIG things to come, in a way...and Baeble's exclusive concert video of the band pretty much sums up why. - David Pitz
We hope you enjoy Part 1 of Passion Pit - Live at Central Park. Stay tuned for Part 2 to air next week on Baeble....watch the first half of this exclusive concert video...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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Passion Pit's Ayad Al Adhamy and Jeff Apruzzese take a break from sound checking ahead of their show at Central Park to discuss their band's history, odd ball tour stories, and what it means to be playing their music to a sold out audience in Central Park. It's an interview with Passion Pit, and it's a Baeble exclusive. ...watch the exclusive interivew...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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The first thing you're likely to read about Corinne Bailey Rae's new record The Sea, is that it was recorded while she was dealing with the death of her husband to a drug overdose. From the time she achingly intones the question "Are you here?" on the album's opener, until she determinedly advises herself, "Don't you stand there wishing your life would fade away" on the closer and title track, the sorrow is palpable. At first, it's all you hear and it's hard not to interpret every lyric as having to do with her personal tragedy. ...keep reading...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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Heligoats bring to mind the time a friend called in to a college radio station in Boston pretending to be the long lost Jeff Mangum with a brand new song to debut. After losing their minds, the station agreed to play the song this friend recorded with his Powerbook in a dorm room, while someone was playing video games in the background (because college). The song was so awful, the lyrics had something to do with little babies eyes, and the production values were dwarfed by static and gun noises in the background. It took them ten minutes to realize it was fake... that is less time than fake Daft Punk got last week. I guess the moral of this story is that it is easy to imitate Neutral Milk Hotel, but it is very difficult to be taken seriously. Feel free to take these guys seriously, because they rock. ...keep reading...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
| The "weight of the world" indeed. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club recently had some very expensive, not to mention sentimentally important vintage gear stolen from them. Check out these pictures and let them know if you have any tips. Not cool, world.
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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Midlake mixes 1960's business with pleasure on The Courage Of Others, sounding like a record unstuck in time and universally appealing. Channeling acid rock, Jethro Tull, and their contemporaries, as well as weaving their well-veiled Radiohead influences boils into something thick and intriguing. This is a band that sounds like it has its own mythology, mellowed and very Fleetwood Mac-ish in their harmonic constructions, with rock flute, and full of fog. The guitar parts sound like intricate little steam-punk machinery. If you could bottle an aesthetic like renaissance paintings and listen to it, then you'd get something like Midlake. It kind of makes me want to run around in the woods for a while without a cellphone. As you can see, the details are all over the place. ...keep reading...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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Live in New York City? Tired of the bitter cold? Longing for the days of Summer(stage)? Need a drink? Look no further than Baeble's screening party for our full length Passion Pit concert, nabbed at the end of last summer in Central Park. We're screening the full show FOR FREE with an open bar from 7-8 at Public Assembly in Williamsburg. We'll have some drinks, some laughs, and maybe a tequila contest with our interns. DON'T MISS IT! ...keep reading...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
| Hate to say I told you so, but I was pretty sure Happy Hollows were going to be a sleeper hit when I saw just about everything they did at CMJ. Now they are in Samsung commercials and now (maybe) MTVu. They need our help! Show some love and go vote for their video "Death To Vivek Kamp" for The Freshman. Then maybe I'll tell you all about the time I met Vivek Kamp (he is real).
...keep reading...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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For Sigur Ros fans who are still reeling at the news of no new albums for a while (they are taking some time with their babies), falsetto singer Jonsi (will be) here to quench your thirst for Icelandic orchestral pop. A fan-only, password protected pre-sale starts next Tuesday, 2/9. It is said to include some "bonuses". Details are coming this week, so stay tuned. ...keep reading...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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Somewhere beneath the looming trend of whatever "chillwave" actually is, electro-rock has been paralyzed and pegged as either cheesy, nu-wave, or Passion Pit. That is why its good to see a keyboard-hungry electronic feet-mover like Woodhands coming to the surface. They made a splash at SXSW '09 according to the interweb, and wrote a song that was basically a big f&mdash you to P4K. (tell us more!) ...keep reading...
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Monday, February 01, 2010
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Hollerado play Super Man to Margot Kidder's Lois Lane in the Canadian quartet's video for "Juliette". The tune serves as an introduction to the band's debut album, Record In A Bag, out February 9th via Royal Mountain Records/Arts&Crafts.
"Juliette" is a poppy little sucker, bouncing along to the crunch of lively guitars and ecstatic screams of "Julieettt!" on the chorus. The video's a good time too, despite the fact that Kidder's seems to be playing either a) a stereotypical, spinster hippie, or b) possibly your ultra-cool, single aunt. ...watch the video...
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Monday, February 01, 2010
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Early reviews of the film are in from the blogosphere, and they include some of the material: ...keep reading...
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Monday, February 01, 2010
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LORDY. Most people who know us already know we're itching like crazy for this record to be out on the streets so we can encourage our grandmothers to send one to every cousin in the family (or is that just me?). Odd Blood has been called "front-heavy", yes, but anyone who denies the upbeat, quirky "Mondegreen" or the pensive chants of "Gizelda" is dumb. Quote me. The good news is O.N.E. made the rounds on the internet (legitimately) last week, so add it to your collection ASAP. ...keep reading...
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Monday, February 01, 2010
| New Orleans rap kingpins Ronald and Bryan "Baby" Williams Williams, cofounders of Cash Money Records, have started an "environmentally friendly" energy company, Bronald Oil & Gas. This is not an Onion headline. [via The Awl]
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Monday, February 01, 2010
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For the first time in five years, the entirety of the Broken Social Scene ensemble has a new release due out in May. Kevin Drew spilled the beans in a P4k interview! Now we get beans! ...keep reading...
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Monday, February 01, 2010
| Constantine Roussos, the founder of the ".music" Initiative, has already received one million signatures to get the ball rolling on this. The last time the music industry heard "one million" it was the foreclosure on their house (because record sales!). [via indiemusictech]
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Monday, February 01, 2010
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Concluding the "no-synth trilogy" The Magnetic Fields new release Realism sees a refreshing return to the clean tones and balanced mixing fans enjoyed for the ten years leading up to 2008's Distortion. The Boston quartet's continued synthesizer boycott&mdashwhich, tragically, will end when they enter the studio next&mdashhas succeeded in highlighting Stephin Merritt's comically cynical songwriting skills and earned the band unusual measures of esteem in multiple genres, including such polar opposites as noise pop and folk pop. But while the Fields are versatile enough for the one, Realism stands firmly as proof that the band excels at the other. ...keep reading...
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Monday, February 01, 2010
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The Grammy's took us to lavish world of make-believe (in 3-D), Pitchfork defended its honor, and some bands you might know endorse selling out (it's more complicated than it sounds). January is out, and February is just getting warmed up! (no it isn't). ...keep reading...
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