by Jesse Jarnow There's no real sport in arguing the semeticism of David Berman, who named his band the Silver Jews, and very publicly rediscovered Judaism himself after becoming sober around 2004. "Ain'tcha heard the news? Adam and Eve were Jews," he'd sung on 2005's Tanglewood Numbers. When the 15-year running outfit started to perform live for the first time in 2006, Berman brought them to Israel, where he was filmed at the Wailing Wall, wearing tefillin and weeping. One doesn't have to go hunting for it. Unlike Bob Dylan or Lou Reed or Neil ...

You may know local beatmaker Tarun Nayar from his very popular touring group Delhi 2 Dublin or from Beats Without Borders. This year, Tarun released a solo album 22º of Beatitude. Like all his projects, the record is a fusion of more mainstream beats and music from Eastern cultures. But the record also serves as a [...]

Balthazar B & The Beatitudes are an eclectic collective of musicians. The former name is a moniker for the Parisian artist Balthazar B. His collaborators, the Beatitudes, rotate between doctors, philosophers, and religious scholars. Maxwell and Ernest Beatitude are core contributors and childhood friends of Balthazar B. Each track on their new album, Like Shrapnel, [...]

I came across Pepe Deluxe in my formative years, way back when mix CDs from my more alternative friend Abi were about the only recourse I had to music other than Blink 182 and Slaves On Dope. Or it might have been a few years later when I was already starting to listen to electro that my DJ friend Paul dutifully supplied to me. Either way their joyous bounce and big beats won me over instantly, and 'Just Let Go' (from second album Beatitude ) sounds as effortlessly sexy and laconically cool now as it did then. Now onto their fourth ...

Of Gods and Men Dir. Xavier Beauvois [Why Not Productions; 2010] by Tim Terhaar Rating: I'll hand it to director Xavier Beauvois and crew, Of Gods and Men is well-crafted. It's paced nicely (even if it's long), the cinematography is nice, the characters sort of have character, all three acts have conflicts of appropriate gravity and solutions of appropriate conviction and tidiness, there's pontification and silence, etc. But that just doesn't cut it. Inspired by the "true story" of a French monastery of Trappist monks in Algeria at the beginning of the Civil War in ...

Vancouver-based DJ/producer Tarun Nayar is a member and producer of Delhi 2 Dublin, which we wrote about a couple years ago. While D2D gives us a unique brand of Indian and Celtic fusion, Tarun’s musical endeavors reach far beyond welding together two rich genres. His creative outpourings are driven by a humanitarian need to cross cultural boundaries and bring people [...]

In Support of 22º of Beatitude In Stores March 1st Vancouver, BC – Thank Delhi 2 Dublin for having a small break in their otherwise intense worldwide touring schedule to allow time for Tarun Nayar to showcase his beautiful new album live for Canadian audiences this spring, with dates starting in Nelson on April 7th. [...]

by Nick DeRiso Equal parts Summer of Love songcraft and heartland soul, the Shamus Twins’ Garden of Weeds is as apt to jangle as it is to twang. That’s reflective of the Los Angeles-based band’s founders, guitarist Jerry Juden and bassist Tim Morrow, two halves of the same genre-busting whole. They take turns with songwriting duties, recalling the long-ago heyday of the John Lennon-Paul McCartney partnership . But the Shamus Twins don’t stick to the Fab template for long. They are old school, but not unaware of what came after. So while there is a heaping helping of ...

"O Superman" Laurie Anderson to utwór niepokojący, drażniący i piękny (trudne słowo). Z jednej strony vocoderowe wokale i jego zdehumanizowane brzmienie aż proszą o kolejne elektroniczne interpretacje, z drugiej - fatalistyczno-apokaliptyczny nastrój sprawia, że próby przeniesienia go w kontekst klubowy dają nieco groteskowe efekty . Love will tear us apart. Jeśli jednak koniecznie chcemy zatańczyć z Laurie, bezpieczniej jest wyrwać utwór z kontekstu, znaczenia. Pobawić się jedynie wizjonerskim brzmieniem (1982!) i włączyć je w taneczny rytm. Fajowo robi to Riton. So you better get... Laurie Anderson - O Superman (For Massenet) !!!!!!! Riton - Oh Super! !!! ^^ ! /< @  PS Cieszę się, że znów trwa zajawka na Ritona ...

After relative public indifference towards Panorama's experimentation (while the album peaked at a respectable #5, it failed to chart a single any higher than #37), The Cars regrouped and retreated back to fizzy New Wave pop with 1981's Shake It Up , arguably the most calculated and least essential Cars album (yes, I'm counting Heartbeat City and Door To Door in making those pronouncements). For every crowning achievement like "Since You're Gone" or "Cruiser", there were kiss-ass concessions to Top 40 radio (title track, anyone?) and just plain filler ("Maybe Baby"). Be honest - when was the last ...

More from those Collective">Animal Collective fellas, this time in the form of a remix for Ratatat. The first half is all percussive glitch's and pops, the second is pure (beatless) beatitude . Get the full version when it's unleashed . Ratatat- Mirando (Collective">Animal Collective Remix) (Download) German industrialists D.A.F have announced a show in that London in March- Check out one of their finest moments, The Robber and the Prince, still an indispensable slab of dancefloor genius. D.A.F- Der Rauber und der Prins (Download) Pitchfork TV have the Joy Division documentary as their one ...

Christmas is coming up, in case anyone is wondering what to get me, cash, vinyl and sexual favors are almost always good. This post is heavy on the gay techno, which is weird considering I've spent all of today listening to Fucked Up . My shit is diverse. Erasure Chorus (Pure Trance Mix) Chorus (Transdental Trance Mix) Chorus (Agressive Trance Mix) I can't believe I never put up any remixes of Chorus before. I was going to put these up a while ago, but the song's lyrics are so sad and I was really riding a post Obama ...