stuff for your ears
Artist: Robert Glasper Experiment Album: Black Radio Label: Blue Note Release Date: Feb. 28th Rating: 5/5 (Disclaimer: I must admit that I have a bias for socially conscious rap and experimental jazz.) My musical interests vary. From The Gaslamp Killer to Cocorosie, I really do enjoy listening to a coalescence of sound that changes the [...]
Don’t be surprised when you have to slap away a pair of gloved hands slowly inching towards your delicate lacy garters. Satirical musical project Without A Face has raised $5000 on Kickstarter to film a video with Okie improv impresario Eric Webb. Henry Dillard’s wryly composed R&B slow jam about feeling up airline passengers is [...]
French electronica duo AIR, comprised of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, are no strangers to film scores (Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette), so it’s perhaps not surprising that they were asked to compose a film soundtrack for Georges Méliès’ innovative 1902 film La Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon). [...]
After recently reviewing DEERPEOPLE’s latest EP Exploragasm, I decided to go see them play the Opolis this past Friday. I was not disappointed. They play true to sound and they put on a hell of a show. Frontman Brennan Barnes has the stage presence of a mountain goat covering Iggy Pop, scrambling atop speakers [...]
A quick scan of DEERPEOPLE’s biography reveals they: “…simultaneously emerged from a sticky, moist womb and proceeded to rock.” Their interests? “optimism.” In short: they’re quirky. I love quirky. I’m always searching for music that has an element of playfulness, even if it does skew enigmatic. Extra “quirk” points are awarded if the band has [...]
I may have a new favorite record store. Scratch that; I have a new favorite record store. Actually, I have a new favorite store. Or, I have a new favorite store besides Second Chance Books and Comics, which I visit probably between 1 and 3 times a week. (I like to think of it as [...]
[Disclaimer: This is probably going to be far more honest and neurotic than I’d like it to be, so skip to the lists if you don’t want to read me wax poetic about music.] There’s a thought that my mind keeps turning over that goes something like, “Why should anyone care about what’s on your [...]
Alright, the music business is hard to put your finger on sometimes. As the radio phases out and becomes less and less relevant and the internet expands to envelop people in its warm computer-y embrace, it becomes harder to find out about new bands and albums that don’t suck and are in fact awesome. But [...]
A Very She & Him Christmas has really been an album waiting to happen. Many of the characteristics of She & Him: nostalgia, kitsch, a honey-voiced vocalist- are already elements that allow classic holiday standards to connect with listeners across generations. Add to that, a vocalist who co-starred- and sang- in one of the most [...]
“I felt the winds come sweeping through the plains of Okla—homa.” High in the mountains of Colorado, Cameron Neal, Danny Rose, Preston Greer and Cody Fowler hiked the Horse Thief Trail. Back at Neal’s family cabin, the quartet was recording a new album, but it was on the trail that the bond of brothers formed [...]
