October 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
The Cure (35)
Small Black (35)
Phantom Power (30)
Disco Inferno (26)
Extra Happy Ghost!!! (17)
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I am listening to Chromatics
New single “Kill For Love” : http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12663-kill-for-love/ - th…
Chromatics on GetGlue.com
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I Spell It Nature - “Empty Places, Smiling Faces”
Stumbled across this one while checking out local stuff from here in Ottawa on Bandcamp.
This one’s a nice postrock track with Frippertronics styled guitar intro, builds to a pretty rockin’ finish. Looks like its a teaser for an upcoming full-length.
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Saåad - “Southberry Tower”
Drone transcendence.
This is the epic closing track on the Pink Sabbath EP, available as a name your price download.
Grab it and then go put this track on repeat.
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Gem Club - “Lands”
Boston-area slowpokes Gem Club provide a mournful, mysterious sound on their debut LP Breakers, released last month via Hardly Art.
The record, available for streaming on the group’s bandcamp, is a basically a set of piano ballads. Never faster than a funeral dirge, with minimal accompaniment (a few drumbeats here, some strings there) and ethereal/sad vocals....
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Zebrassieres - “Magazine Seducer”
Rockit like it’s 1978! short sharp shocked pop-punkin’ new-wavin’ sounds that don’t take themselves to seriously. Bonus points for being an Ottawa band!
This track’s from the 6-track Black Brainwave EP, recently issued on Zebrassieres’ bandcamp as a streaming only release. Every track’s a winner, folks.
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Stagecoach UK - “We Got Tazers”
Big Like. Fun lovin’, indierockin’, pizza-gobblin’ young lads based in London. I gather they are blowin’ up a bit in the UK.
RIYL: Japandroids or Male Bonding, with mandolin.
More tunes by the band at their Soundcloud.
[h/t heilewelt, who posted some older stuff by the band the other day]
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Delorean (36)
Nico (30)
Ty Segall (15)
Procol Harum (13)
The Eversons (9)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Cut Copy (100)
The Eversons (73)
Sebadoh (26)
Male Bonding (14)
Viernes (12)
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Feist oughta cover "Paparazzi"
So I was getting my coffee this morning and overheard Feist on the shop’s soundsystem. Next thing I know I’m walking down the street humming Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi.” Dunno why - guess my head figgers there’s a connection there, maybe it thinks the melody is somewhat Feistian…?
So anyhow, the more I think about it, the more I think a Feist cover of that...
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And, here’s a bizarro stat that got some attention: the average CD is...
– Digital Music News
Not so bizarro IMO. I’d assume a power law (long tail) distribution would apply to listening habits, as well as purchasing ones. So a very few CDs get a huge number of listens while most get almost none at all.
I’ll bet it holds true in terms of digital formats in...
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The Eversons - “Gravy Rainbow”
Another fab track from The Eversons, who I gushed about recently. This tune’s a mid-tempo burner.
Available as a “name you price” track via bandcamp.
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Talkdemonic - “Revival”
This is kinda cool. It’s an instrumental postclassical indietronic folk jig.
The band’s new album Ruins has just been released on Glacial Pace Recordings.
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'Cassette Tape' removed from Dictionary →
Making way for the vocabulary of a new generation has led to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary removing ‘cassette tape’ from its pages.
Replacing old-school for new-cool will see words such as ‘retweet’ take a place on the dictionary’s pages instead as its editor-at-large Jesse Sheidlower branded the cassette tape “so past its prime that it was not worth keeping it in.”
BTW -...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
The War on Drugs (156)
The Delgados (38)
Miracle Fortress (19)
The Telescopes (12)
Panda Bear (10)
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