Though the performance was distinctly missing the fragile descent of "To Be of Use" and some attention to diversity to keep the crowd engaged, Bill's choices remained appropriately stoic and unapologetic. Joanna Newsom galloped eagerly onto the stage next, dripping fresh from the fields of a prolonged Harvest dinner. Her immediately noticeable awkwardness bounded with the grace of a beautiful female Gollum, draped in a deeply medieval-puffed gown and the glee of the apparent success of a new hair replacement therapy.
She sat down, stretched her pale arms around the harp in a simulated hug, and perched her fingers on its rows of petite columns. On her own cue sprouted a dizzying outpouring of notes, arranged in angelic runs and rivaled in complexity only by the nuances of the words exploding from the right side of her crooked mouth.
Joanna's voice itself transcends a traditional timeline by sounding both like a chirping child and a squeaky old woman and more surprisingly, sounding both like the strangest and most beautiful noises ever produced.
I was sure that after a couple stellar singles from "Milk Eyed Mender" her fingers would surely tire Embellished by arrangements from legendary composer Van Dyke Parks , the live performance of the album boasted focused instrumentation that made much more sense with the warmth of live bodies than the cold of the studio recording.
And who would have guess that a harp would be so effectively complimented by a walking banjo and vulnerable performances from an accordion and musical saw? The collective opus was as personal as it was grand and lifted Joanna's strange sensibility to a level of creative genius that I trust will flourish in future symphonies.
Sleeping in the Aviary Phil Mahlstadt? It's all free, so put that money towards a trip downtown Mason Proper - Lights Off mp3 : This is the result of dramatically shaking a heterogeneous jar of polarized low-fi and high-concept instrumentation, with the pop guitar and clear vocals always rising to the top.
Maps and Atlases - Every Place Is a House myspace download : The ease with which this hyper chaos falls into rhythms should be successfully applied to my filing cabinet or behavioral therapy.
Sleeping in the Aviary - A Dream Confessed mp3 : Delightfully strange and honestly dynamic chordstorms are this premiere Madison band's interpretation of life's frustratingly ambiguous limbo Check out this video interview, complete with helmet-protected makeup application and living room thrash-rock.
Kyle PM 3 comments. Brendan Fletcher - Glossolalia "Too folksy" is a recent criticism being lobbed at me, but one I pick up and pin to my lapel.
Some of the most interesting musical parquetry can be found woven in the unassuming refurbished antique floors under the feet of consumers wrestling to secure products from the flashiest pop-centric displays. I guess that makes me the creepy janitor obsessing with a push broom and glaring at the passerbys who absentmindedly scuffle past with muddy feet. BUT, I understand that recent selections have been noticeably banjoed, so I've agreed to switch it up this week.
Because this may be a shock to regular readers, I'll ease the transition with songs that attempt to bridge prarie folk with the graffitied landmass of rap. It never struck me to dream of hearing these two favourites in harmony, but now the pairing makes perfect sense. His concepts are fun to an ear that doesn't listen too closely, but the shoddy construction can be terrifying. Hannah Starkey - Untitled Sebastian Krueger, cultivator of The Inlets , was himself grown with the water and toils of Madison WI and though his music is now rooted densely in the concrete of Brooklyn NY, it still reeks of the blushing charm that a true Midwesterner never loses.
Sebastian physically visits Madison often and his adult relationship with the city is self-admittedly a stack of observations from the eyes of his curious local childhood. Vestibule leads with the subtle passion and sanguine plucks of a Sufjan-esque visualization of a forest sprung from a tree, via an orchestration sprung from the viola of Marla Hansen another displaced Madisonian.
The entire MP3 album is available for free download through luvsound! Atelier van Lieshout - Hermann [of " The Heads " series] Furniture shopping is more like adopting a child than purchasing a product, and the decision is blessed with a similar gravity and intimacy. Before welcoming a leather-skinned object into my empty home, I first must accept its texture running past my inappropriately extended fingers and the thought of how its comfort will restructure my life for the better.
The difficulty explodes exponentially with the unreasonable expectation that the piece must already feel like it belongs, even before meeting me or my life. And that somehow in the context of a sterile-white show floor it must be able to clearly articulate why its bold, but understated style should be allowed to complement mine.
A foster-care return policy could ease the transition, but I'm sure the decision will be made after getting it up four flights of stairs and getting attached when it learns my name. In case there are any music-loving furniture salesmen reading: I'm looking for a squared, black-leather Ola Podrida that is resistant to spray paint and inspires impromtu black-tie parties, but worried I will be misled by an overstuffed, micro-fiber Jay-Z that won't coexist with an antique writing desk and can't even read music.
Dec 31, Authentic Sweetness Over Dinner. Dec 28, You're Gonna Love Me. Emily Bennett Beck - Best of Everything Overall, You Can Be Special Too offers a bracing and welcome corrective to the idea that pop music has to fit in a category.
Highly recommended. Toumani Diabate--Boulevard de l'Independance New. Although he came from a family of musicians, Diabate born August 10, taught himself to play the kora from an early age, as his father, who also played the instrument, was often away, touring.
He developed a style of playing which, whilst being strongly rooted in the Malian tradition, is also open to a wide range of other influences, such as jazz and flamenco. He has subsequently sought out other musicians from around the world who are willing to experiment with him, even performing a concert in Amsterdam with a classical harpist. His debut, Kaira, made history as the first ever solo kora album to be released. Stark, haunting, and full of breath-taking improvisational flourishes, it made him a star in his home land and an in demand performer internationally.
In the same year Songhai, a highly acclaimed collaboration between Diabate, the Spanish flamenco group Ketama, and British jazz-folk bassist Danny Thompson, also released their acclaimed debut. Over the next six years Diabate performed at festivals and concerts all over the globe, doing much to broaden the appeal of the music of Mali, in general, and the kora, in particular. In , a second Songhai album was released, as well as Djelika, on which he led a group of musicians featuring Keletigui Diabate, a veteran master of the xylophone-like balafon and no relation to Toumani and ngoni a miniature guitar-like stringed instrument player Basekou Kouyate.
He concentrated on performing in Mali over the next few years, before releasing New Ancient Strings, his collaboration with fellow new generation kora master Ballake Sissoko. The album was a tribute to their fathers who, nearly 30 years earlier, had released an album of kora duets called Ancient Strings.
In the same year, the very highly acclaimed Kulanjan was released. To promote the album, these musicians toured internationally at the end of Molotov--Apocalypshit and Recommended. No Manches Mi Vida2. Polkas Palabras4. Step Off5. Kuleka's Choice8. Let It Roll El Mundo Review-by John Bush Molotov's second proper album for the American market, Apocalypshit continues the bent on groove-laden hardcore with a bent for dark humor and social commentary.
The grooves are much better than average, and the wildman Spanish vocals of Tito Fuentes give the album an added edge. Aside from Rage Against the Machine and a few others, there's so little music in this style worth its salt, making Apocalypshit an excellent adventure through post-grunge metal.
Thursday, June 22, R. Man On The Moon2. Great Beyond, The3. Bad Day4. What's The Frequency, Kenneth? All The Way To Reno6.
Losing My Religion7. E-Bow The Letter8. Orange Crush9. Imitation Of Life Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, The All The Right Friends Everybody Hurts At My Most Beautiful Nightswimming Review-How do you condense 15 years of music down to 76 minutes?
In the case of this survey of the second phase of R. The dangling carrot for diehards is two new songs; the rapid fire "Bad Day" hurtles along like the kissing cousin of "It's the End of the World as We Know It," while "Animal" is anchored by a majestic drone reminiscent of the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows.
Billy Talent--II New. Devil In A Midnight Mass 2. Red Flag 3. This Suffering 4. Worker Bees 5. Pins And Needles 6. Fallen Leaves 7. Where Is The Line 8. Covered In Cowardice 9. Surrender In The Fall Perfect World Sympathy But by , the quartet — vocalist Ben Kowalewicz, guitarist Ian D'Sa, bassist Jon Gallant, and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk — had adopted a new moniker and were making their way in Toronto with the self-released Watoosh!
LP under their belt. The Try Honesty EP followed in ; it led to strong local buzz, exposure supporting larger touring acts, and an eventual demo deal with EMI.
The band entered the studio in early with producer Gavin Brown and emerged with its eponymous debut in July, which was slated for a September release on Atlantic. Billy Talent got the word out during that summer with a slot on Lollapalooza and a series of dates with the Buzzcocks.
Submitting to fan requests, the group re-released Watoosh! Billy Talent II sees the band taking punk to new heights, amplifying the explosive energy and earnest lyricism that made their debut an international sensation. Ella Fitzgerald--Lady Be Good!
New Thresholds for Digital Single Certifications As the digital music marketplace continues to mature, we recognized a need to raise the existing sales criteria for the Digital Gold and Platinum program to meet the physical sales levels that we have recognized since the program was created in All pending requests for digital single certification will be completed under the original certification levels and then adjusted to the proper category under the new system.
In the next week, all digital singles currently certified at Gold, Platinum, 2x Platinum, 3x Platinum, and 4x Platinum will be converted to Gold status. All 5x - 9x Platinum digital singles will be converted to Platinum status. Succotash 2. Triangle 3. Jack Rabbit 4. Jump Ahead, A 5. Instead of recording another multifaceted album like My Point of View, he explored a Latin-inflected variation of post-bop with a small quartet.
Hancock is the main harmonic focus of the music — his three colleagues are bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Willie Bobo, and percussionist Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez, who plays conga and bongo. It is true that the music is rhythm-intensive, but that doesn't mean it's dance music. Hancock has created an improvisational atmosphere where the rhythms are fluid and the chords, harmonies, and melodies are unexpected.
On every song but one, the melodies and chords were improvised, with Hancock's harmonic ideas arising from the rhythms during the recording. The result is risky, unpredictable music that is intensely cerebral and quite satisfying. Inventions and Dimensions displays his willingness to experiment and illustrates that his playing is reaching new, idiosyncratic heights. Listening to this, the subsequent developments of Miles Davis' invitation to join his quartet and the challenging Empyrean Isles come as no surprise.
Gnarls Barkley--St. Elsewhere and Recommended. Artist-Gnarls Barkley Album-St. Go-Go Gadget Gospel2. Gone Daddy Gone5. Smiley Faces6. Boogie Monster, The7. Feng Shui8. Just A Thought9. Who Cares? Storm Coming Last Time, The Review-by John Bush Who is Gnarls Barkley, and how did he ascend to the top of the British charts with a song that brings an eerie clarity to the cloud of mental illness? Hint: It wasn't just the fact that Britain began factoring download data into its chart equations.
If St. Elsewhere sounds like one of the best rap-based pop productions since the second Gorillaz album, then look no further than the common link, producer Danger Mouse. A pop album straight through, St. Elsewhere is as good as Danger Mouse's two earlier landmarks Gorillaz's Demon Days and Danger Doom's The Mouse and the Mask , but not because of any inherent similarities in the three records.
The reasons for greatness here include DM's uncommon facility for writing or sampling simple hooks that stick, his creation of productions that entertain but don't detract from the main action, and his ability to coax a parade of enticing vocal performances from Green.
The hit "Crazy" and the title track are perfect examples. Over detached backings, Green croons, growls, scats, and generally delivers fine neo-soul vocals while Danger Mouse blankets the tracks with choruses of disembodied harmonies and a well-placed string section or crackling organ to conjure an appropriately minor chord atmosphere.
The focus on instability doesn't end there — paranoia, suicidal tendencies, and multiple personalities are all in the cards, and there's also "Necromancer": "She was cool when I met her, but I think I like her better dead.
With the help of Danger Mouse's platinum ear and intricate vocal productions, Green is revealed as a top-notch post-millennial soul singer. Even when he's floating another mass of wise, serene gibberish, DM simply drops another production trick to keep things tight.
Much like DJ Shadow's Private Press, Danger Mouse relies on samples from the downcast end of obscure '60s pop — prog, psych, and Italian soundtrack music his most valuable lieutenant here, Daniele Luppi, has the requisite Italian connection. Although Gnarls Barkley topping the charts was a slight fluke, the excellence of St. Elsewhere could have been seen coming a mile away. Elsewhere European Top Albums St. Elsewhere The Billboard 14 St. Elsewhere Top Canadian Albums 8 St. Elsewhere Top Electronic Albums 1 St.
Elsewhere Top Heatseekers 11 St. Elsewhere Top Independent Albums 28 St. Elsewhere Top Internet Albums 14 St. Turbo Dreams 2. Way Out 3. Retina 4. Jet 5. Floating Points 6. Under 7. Edison 8. Leave Me Alone 9. Do Not Break Metric Both are iconoclastic with different approaches to electronic music in general and dance music in particular — though it should be noted from the outset that Orchestra of Bubbles is not their first collaboration—they've worked on remix projects together, and done one another's remixes for a few years now.
Allien has worked tirelessly to engage the club dancefloor with her albums and 12"s, where Ring has taken a more aesthetic and strategic approach. The end result is that the two don't square off so much as find a strange albeit delightful common ground between techno and IDM. Allien and Ring both share a sense of humor, though the latter's is a bit more wry, and both are applied here. Individual identities don't play that much a role, though Allien's trademark vocals and floor-central modality anchor the project clearly.
Ring, as Apparat, adds dimensionality, off-kilter beats and dynamic ambient spaces to offer the technocratic solidity some room to breathe and open out onto different vistas—and his moodier M. On tracks such as "Retina," Allien's post — futurism melds almost seamlessly with the dreamy and spacious exotica of Ring and his staccato beats. Elsewhere, on "Floating Points," the noir-ish electronica of Ring is lent weight and height by Allien's trusty Roland drum machine, TR drum machine, SH analog synth, and the ARP , along with other vintage synths, add pop and flow to the melancholy spectral warfare of Ring's skeletal, post-rave aesthetic.
Things get downright Bladerunner-ish on "Under," where Allien's TR drum machine and SH analog synth, along with the Nord Modular synths, are folded into Ring's heady and downright spooky atmospherics.
The track bleeds imperceptibly into the dramatic silence and tension of "Edison," a short flange-and-loop cut that embodies the very core of their duo's experimental sensibilities. Then there's the beautifully understated vocal appearance by Ring on "Leave Me Alone" that could be a single anywhere these days.
In sum, those looking for another Thrills by Allien, or the bleak post-techno clinicalism of Apparat's Duplexmay find this a bit underwhelming. For anyone sincerely interested in the open territory of electronic music and its possible futures, this is not only a microscope to examine the new bacteria with, it's the pulsing life form beneath it.
The file is uploaded by myself. Keb'Mo'--Suitcase New. Your Love 2. Itch, The 3. Eileen 4. Remain Silent 5. Still There For Me 6. Rita 7. I'm A Hero 8. This decidedly low-key mix of old-time instrumentation and pre-rock aesthetic surpasses costume drama and formal exercise to become a kind of one-woman subgenre. With its smoky speakeasy atmosphere, old-timey instrumentation, and pre-rock aesthetic, Jolie Holland's third album, Springtime Can Kill You , is a record-collection album that seems more interested in acetate than vinyl-- her sound reaches back to Prohibition, and these dozen songs seem soaked in hooch and hung out to dry with last night's flapper dress.
On one hand, she occasionally seems torn between the past and the present, but in a noncommittal way-- for "Moonshiner" she pointedly gives "props to Memphis Minnie and Freakwater" in the liner notes. On the other, she plays to her audience rather than trying to impress them, which makes Springtime surprisingly accessible-- at its best it surpasses costume drama and formal exercise to become a kind of one-woman subgenre.
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