MusicJuly 27th, 2010 by Foxopoly Collisions and CastawaysThis comes out TODAY so go out and purchase. It’s really good, really heavy and you’d be supporting the home team. Win Win.
July 25th, 2010 by Shopping Bag Join the Record ClubLed by Beck Hansen, the Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record a reinterpretation of classic albums. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time, meaning the songs are rough renditions, often recorded on the first takes. What hooked me on the Record Club is Beck’s decision to interpret the INXS 80s pop masterpiece “Kick.” Check out this session featuring Annie Clark/St. Vincent:
Record Club: INXS “Never Tear Us Apart” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo. July 6th, 2010 by Shopping Bag Daytrotter Sessions“One band a day, every day, 28 Daytrotter Session songs each week.” Just listen to the performance of one of my favorite bands Far. They take away the many sonic layers that blanket the album version of “At Night We Live” and perform songs with guitars and trap set that sounds like it’s being played for you in your bedroom as you drift off to sleep. The space and airiness of the recordings are at once strange (to our used-to-hearing-over-produced-recorded-music ears), disarming, and totally gorgeous. I also have to mention comical but true to life illustrations of each band sketched by Johnnie Cluney. Classic! June 6th, 2010 by Shopping Bag Screaming Lights is your new favorite bandThe album “Like Angels” took two years to complete, but it was worth the wait. The sound is 100% classic dark Brit rock (these boys hail from Liverpool) in the vein of Idlewild and White Lies and Editors, with obvious influences from the originators of British gloom indie rock Joy Division and the Comsat Angels. Their debut album “Like Angels” features organs, dirty guitars, solid tempos and a singer whose voice carries beautiful melodies and the scratchy weariness of person who has been through the ringer a few times. Listening to the lyrics for “Hello Tomorrow” gives listeners a glimpse of the cynicism and anger that pervades their music in what is a choleric condemnation of the notion that every new day brings new opportunities: “You’re a butt face lie, a monster in disguise! I shook your hand, the purple veins, you’ve got shit for brains.” Check them out on MySpace.com or Facebook. June 3rd, 2010 by Foxopoly The Ghost InsideBroken Bells video for ‘The Ghost Inside” f. Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) June 1st, 2010 by Foxopoly HTDA EP
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