of Montreal
Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Label: Polyvinyl Records
Release Date:01/23/2007
If you’ve been to of Montreal for long enough, you probably had a point where you realiled that this band isn’t just fun and poppy, they’re actually intricate, innovative, and brilliant. Sure, you may be cutting a rug to their harmonies, but they sure aren’t relying […]
The following Top Ten of 2006 list is a blatant plug for my show “Off The Record”, which you can hear every Friday from 3 to 7 PM at www.woduradio.com. (Yes, Virginia, Old Dominion University still has a radio station!) To give you an idea of what my show sounds like, I’ve submitted this “alternate” […]
Owen
At Home With Owen
Label: Polyvinyl Records
Release Date:11/05/2006
On that fateful rainy night in the year 2000, when my older sister’s boyfriend put on American Football while driving me to KFC, I fell in love with the music of Mike Kinsella. Since then, I’ve followed his musical career very closely, his departure from the technical jazzy indie […]
Volt
Rorhat
Label: Exile on MainstreamRelease Date: 09/11/06
It seems to me that most bands who are taking their cues from the first two Melvins albums and the late 1980s to early 1990s […]
1. CRIME IN STEREO
The Troubled Stateside
MP3 | MYSPACE
It’s been a while since I’ve heard an album that has made me want to detach from American landscape and find a way to cope with a suburban nightmare. While most bands within the melodic hardcore genre seems to showcase some self-important elitism over the […]
A New Dawn Fades
I Can See The Nightbirds
Label: NFI / AloneRelease Date: 01/09/07
A New Dawn Fades (yes that is a Joy Division reference) are a two-piece from Richmond Virginia, who has been kicking jams out for a while. The Guitar player P.J. […]
Photo by Barry Yanowitz*
I had the lovely privelage the other night to catch one of my favorite bands at the Bowery Ballroom for a show that would go down forever as one of my favorite holiday moments. I was also exposed to a very good new Sub-Pop act that I suggest you keep your eyes peeled […]
1. Joanna Newsom
Ys
MP3 | Myspace
One of the songs that struck me the most off of Joanna Newsom’s previous album Milk-Eyed Mender, was the song Sadie. One line in particular always stayed with me, “This is an old song, these are old blues. This is not my tune, but it’s mine to use.” This […]
* The Big
Sleep
Son of the Tiger
MP3 | You Can’t Touch the Untouchable
* Joanna
Newsom
Ys
MP3 | Myspace
* Pretty
Girls Make Graves
Elan Vital
MP3 | The Nocturnal House
* Genghis
Tron
Dead Mountain Mouth
MP3 | Myspace
* The Knife
Silent Shout
MP3 | Myspace
* TV on the
Radio
Return to Cookie Mountain
MP3 | Myspace
* Sonic
Youth
Rather Ripped
MP3 | Myspace
* Broadcast
Future Crayons
MP3 | Myspace
* White
Magic
Dat Rosa […]
1. Bonobo
Days To Come
Myspace Page
Call his (Simon Green) music what you want, Down-Tempo Lounge or Chill-Out just know he got his start In Brighton, England (Portishead & Massive Attack). This release is his first to incorporate vocals that make this album truly magnificent.
2. The Big Sleep
Son of the Tiger
Myspace Page
If you have not […]
