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Dan Auerbach, Get it?
Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid (Nonesuch) Andrew Dice Clay has a joke where he makes “Hour Back” the punchline and follows it with “get it?” So when I heard Dan Auerbach, I couldn’t help but recall that hilarious joke. With that said, let’s review his music. Auerbach is half of the Black Keys and […]
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Tags: alt, black keys, blues rock, country, dan auerbach, guitar, solo project, track listing
Nickel Eye – Time of the Assassins (Rykodisc) With a deep steady bass line, Nikolai Fraiture introduces himself as a solo performer (away from the Strokes). While his singing sounds lackadaisical, the bass line is tight and inviting. Mixing rock/pop with some folk and blues, Nickel Eye creates a sound different from the Strokes, but […]
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Tags: accoustic, Albert Hammond Jr, bass, blues, nickel eye, nikolai fraiture, Rock, solo project, strokes, vocals
Escape to a Dreamy Landscape
Cotton Jones – Paranoid Cocoon (Suicide Squeeze) I know there are influences of blues rock, alt country and indie pop, but I still don’t know what Cotton Jones is! The opening track “Up This Tree (Went This Heart I Have),” starts with a simple bass line and the mysterious line of “all around, all around […]
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Tags: alt country, bells, blues, cotton jones, dreamy, indie pop, Maryland, paranoid cocoon, Rock, suicide Squeeze, whistles
Trippin’ With Howlies
With blues guitar solos, phrases and words as choruses, they bring back a classic style with some unclassy content. They have proclaimed themselves as the first real rock band of the 21st century. By the end of the album, any arguments regarding that statement are more difficult to defend. Kicking off with “Sea Level,” Howlies […]
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Tags: atlanta, howlies, over under, rock and roll, southern rock, trippin
DJ Signify – Of Cities
(DJ Signify – Of Cities – Bully Records) We’ve heard DJs like him before (i.e. RJD2, DJ Shadow), however, there is something very unique and compelling about Of Cities. It has a mood. It has a theme. It even has a story. How does that sound to you? How do you think an album with […]
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Tags: aesop rock, Bully Records, DJ signify, Hip Hop, low tide, Of Cities, RJD2
AC Newman’s Get Guilty
(A.C. Newman – Get Guilty (Matador) Here’s the thing. Get Guilty is filled with the simple, upbeat, a little catchy, but easily forgotten indie pop songs that have been on his previous release, 2004’s The Slow Wonder. There has been no evolution. Don’t get me wrong – it’s easy to listen to, but there’s really […]
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Tags: ABBA, AC Newman, get guilty, indie pop, let down, matador
When discussing with a friend about what she thinks of the album, she said she heard one song and it was upbeat and fast tempoed. So I ask which song was it “My Girls” or “Summertime Clothes”, two of my favorites? She said no. But the fact that there are multiple upbeat songs on an Animal Collective means something has changed. Does it make the album the best album of the decade?
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Tags: animal collective, domino, Electro, electro-psych, merriweather post pavilion, My Girls, panda bear, Pop, psychadelic
Top 50 Albums of 2008
To be completely honest, this list is missing a lot. Some albums were lost in the great iTunes deletion accident of ’08, other albums I never got, but through thick and thin, I’ve developed a top 50. After spending hours and hours going through over 5,000 songs, I carefully chose and ordered the albums. To […]
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Fleet Foxes are the next big indie band from giant indie label, Sub op. After years of bringing great indie artists to the spotlight, it’s only expected they bring another “soft, but hard” and “quiet, yet unexpected” and other contradicting cliché type group into indie acclaim. Enter Fleet Foxes, with their self-titled EP. With a […]
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Tags: Classic Rock, Fleet Foxes, Folk Pop, Harmonize, Seattle, Self titled, Shins, Sub Pop, Suburbs
Skamper makes me skamper… away
The first time I heard Skamper was on a compilation someone sent me in an attempt to court me (the song being “She Called It Happy”). It was electro-based but crazy contagious. But that was ages ago, and the courting attempt did not work. And really, that was the first and last time I’ve come […]
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Tags: CD mix, courting, glam, glitter, grit, gunge, los angeles, second floor noise, she called it happy, skamper, thunderbeast
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