Recommended Show: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2011 PITBULL @ ROSELAND BALLROOM 239 W 52nd St New York, NY 10019 $55-$75, 8PM It's been a good year for Pitbull , but it's sure to get even better when he performs tonight at Roseland Ballroom. Fab Faux @ City Winery Stunna @ Knitting Factory Pitbull @ Roseland Ballroom Duwende @ Highline Ballroom Particle @ Gramercy Theatre Sophistafunk @ Brooklyn Bowl Patti Smith @ Bowery Ballroom The Bad Plus @ Village Vanguard Phish @ Madison Square Garden Arena Space Capone & KNTRLR @ Mercury Lounge Squeeze Rock, Ife Sanchez Mora, & Nesmusic @ Cake Shop Sepalcure, Machinedrum, & Heathered Pearls @ Cameo Gallery Julian Lynch, Amy Klein and ...

70. Lana Del Rey — “Video Games” 69. Gang Gang Dance — “Romance Layers” 68. Chad Valley — “Fast Challenges” 67. xxxy — “Ordinary Things” 66. Nas — “Nasty” 65. Cults — “Abducted” 64. Twin Sister — “Kimmi In A Rice Field” 63. Future Islands — “Balance” 62. Cloud Nothings — “No Future/No Past” 61. DJ Quik — “Luv Of My Life (feat. Gift)” 60. Megafaun — “Hope You Know” 59. Estelle — “Break My Heart (feat. Rick Ross)” 58. Julian Lynch — “Terra” 57. Curren$y — “This Is The Life” 56. Elite Gymnastics — “Close To Paradise” 55. Kendrick Lamar — “A.D.H.D.” 54. The Neighborhood — “I Won’t Get You ...

In celebration of our 'Albums of the Year' list we decided to get in contact with all the artists on our top 30 for a short Q&A.; We sent them all the same five questions, from what their favourite album of the year is, to what they'd change about their album. Every day during the voting period we'll post a couple of these interviews so that you can get to know the artists a bit better. Remember, you can vote on your favourite album of the year here . Looking back on the album, how do you feel about ...

by Andrew Sacher Julian Lynch at Glasslands in 2010 (more by Erez Avissar) Julian Lynch's impressive LP, Terra, which came out this past Spring, was filled with different sounds; gently reverby acoustic guitars, airy jazz sax, eastern percussion, and some...

Five years of doing this. 1,834 tracks written about. When do I get my prize? Gutbucket - Fuck You And Your Hipster Tie Thrangh - Erzefilisch Blyth Power - Katherine's Will Jono el Grande - Borrelia Boogie The Chap - Baby I'm Hurt'n Dobet Gnahoré - Pygmées Seven That Spells - Space of Eights Bert Jansch - The Swan">Black Swan Mondo Cane - Storia D'Amore Three Trapped Tigers - 1 Dave Douglas - Facing West A Silver Mt. Zion - Could've Moved Mountains The Beta Band - She's The One Ensemble Modern - Moggio Zs - In My Dream I Shot A Monk Robin Kenyatta - We'll ...

Another week, another cardboard box full of vhs tapes thrown at your doorstep. This week we have new ones from Big Troubles, JEFF The Brotherhood, High Places and Julian Lynch. Big Troubles - She Smiles For Pictures from Slumberland Records on Vimeo. I got to admit this video featuring the throwaways from that 1990s RPG Shadowrun and [...]

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Watch a video for the song "Back" from the Julian Lynch LP Terra

Julian Lynch’s music is complex and sometimes challenging, but it’s also comforting. There are general good vibes floating around every song, so even in the one violent moment when the colorful dude smashes his keyboard … read more »

Julian Lynch’s Terra was a low-key highlight from earlier this year, and the singer has now made a video for “Back” from that record. There’s a haunting feel to this song, which is positioned somewhere between the tender balladry of Elliott Smith and the lo-fi thrum of Sebadoh in acoustic mode. The video is a low budget clip that follows a featureless figure who ends up playing the song’s central synth line on a rooftop under orange skies. At least Lynch tried to do something other than a straightforward performance clip here, which would have been the ...

Julian Lynch | Back I just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls.

In the video for “Back,” a song by the lo-fi artist Julian Lynch, a mysterious silhouetted figure sits on riverbanks and mountains and rooftops, playing music. He also smashes a keyboard in impressive fashion. Ezra Ewen directs. Watch it below. Lynch’s album Terra is out now on Underwater Peoples.

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Julian Lynch's music often sounds like it's the score to some long lost film we're not seeing, so it's fitting that he's scoring a film: It's called How Mata Hari Lost Her Head And Found Her Body, an experimental animated film about a Dutch exotic dancer and accused World War 1 spy. Soft Abuse is releasing the score in October, and you can hear a new cut from it below. It's called "Temple Dance" and its all low clarinet, hazy atmospherics, and tapped bells. It's just like Lynch's studio material, but ...