In which another indie band shares their impressive tribute to the über-influential New York outfit.

Requested by jamal • Compiled by Alice of New York Your oh-so-specific title doesn’t really give much to work with, but I decided it could be interpreted as, “Make me a mixtape to be my personal anthem/soundtrack”. I tried to select songs which, together, form a theoretical depiction of “you” as as seen by a complete stranger. Dearest “MY MIXTAPE”, you appear to be individualistic (emphasis on “MY!”), passionate (ALL CAPS!), and taken to flights of whimsy (in that you expect someone to be able to fill a request like ‘MY MIXTAPE’). Here is “YOUR MIXTAPE”: 01. NHB (Pryde ...

Unsafe At Any Speed - Nina Gordon (mp3) You’re at this party. You’re knocking back a few drinks. The music is good. Conversation is at the perfect pitch, a healthy combination of friendly debate, life-sharing, and pop culture referencing. Everything about the night and the company hits the right notes. And then he shows up. Suddenly the party becomes about trying to avoid him . But you can’t, because he is the kind of guy who knows just how to screw up a good party. Right as you’re backing away from a great conversation with a coworker’s ...

Before their appearance at Splore 2012, the fellow producers talked about their palettes of sound.

Posted at 11:35am, 2/7/2012 Our new album release list for the coming week goes up every Tuesday. Check out what's dropping February 7th, grab mp3s and catch up on what you missed from previous weeks. Tuesday, February 7th: A Place To Bury Strangers: Onwards to the Wall EP [ *new* mp3 ] Air: Le Voyage Dans La Lune [ mp3 ] Battles: Dross Clop 1 vinyl [ mp3 ] Chairlift: Something vinyl [ mp3 ] Chuck Prophet: Temple Beautiful [ mp3 ] Deer Tick: Tim EP [ mp3 ] Fucked Up: Year of the Tiger vinyl [ mp3 ] Goldfrapp: The Singles Lindstrom: Six Cups of Rebel [ *new* mp3 ] Mark ...

Lana Del Rey 's meme buzz album cycle was an important GAME CHANGING business case in the music industry that we are only now starting to see the lasting effects of. She changed every thing Del Rey proved that no one really cares how the music sounds. Instead, people love prettiness, controversy, and the construction of the idea of 'fame.' By 'tanking' on SNL, she became a household name. It was worth it 2 achieve 'mad album sales' and propel herself into the lenses of paparazzi cameras everywhere The LDR 'buzzslut' strategy will be copied by many females eager 2 ...

If you’ve been paying attention to the NYC music scene (and you should be) you know that Brooklyn-based Australian transplants   WAZU   have been generating heaps of buzz as of late. And if you’ve heard their new single “ Murder 1 ,” you understand why. It’s synth-heavy, post-apocalyptic pop that tips its hat to dark wave gothic gloom while shimmering with a healthy dose of neon (Ziggy) stardust.  In 2011, WAZU released a series of self-produced singles, three of which were re-recorded, re-mixed, and re-mastered with legendary producer Kevin McMahon (Titus Andronicus, Real Estate, Swans, The Walkmen) and re-released as ...

HT faves Umphrey’s McGee used halftime of the biggest football game of the year, Super Bowl XLVI, to announce the return of their football-themed UMBowl concert . UMBowl III is set for April 27 at Park West in the band’s hometown of Chicago. For the third year in a row Umphrey’s will play four “quarters,” each with a different theme, at an interactive concert in which their fans have a say in aspects of the group’s performance. The theme of this year’s quarters and ticketing information will be revealed in the coming weeks through the event ...

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Austin band Hundred Visions is led by singer-guitarist Ben Maddox, with Eric Loftis on drums, Wes Turner on bass, and Johnny Krueger on guitar. The band is three parts Corto Maltese, the Arcade Fire-meets-Wolf Parade inspired band that showed so much promise just a couple of years ago. (See articles in Soundcheck ,  Austinist , Daytrotter .) With a lineup change and a redefined sound that bears comparison to David Bryne starting a garage band with Joy Division, Hundred Visions hit the scene in 2010. In April of 2011 they offered up their debut release in the form of a three-song 7" that ...

From now on, at the end of each month we'll be sharing with you some cover art from albums and EPs that have recently been released, and making a good old fuss over them. For now, as an introduction, we're showing you some albums from any period of time, just for the fun of it. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money – Will Slater Some might say that Frank Zappa's best early sign of peculiarity was when he appeared on television playing the bicycle, which he took very seriously. For me, it's this album sleeve, simply because the sight of him in a dress reminds me very fondly of his famous response to a journalist's question, "You have long hair. Does that make you a girl?" The response was of course, "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?" David Bowie – Lodger – Tim Boddy It's taken a while for Lodger to dismiss the cheap ideology that it was the runt of the so called 'Berlin trilogy', the final release (1979) in this iconic series, though iconoclastic types will dispute it ever really existed as such a series. The most Brian Eno fingerprinted of them all (he barely got to touch Low in all honesty), this post-Thin White Duke/post-cocaine Bowie album is one of the most experimental he procured and was alarmingly successful and focussed with it, bridging the gap between Neu!, reggae and Talking Heads (acting somewhat of precursor to them in fact). But ah yes the album cover; it's taken on a Polaroid SX-70 type camera with stale lighting, and then crudely blown-up out to create an amateurish low resolution effect. The image itself features Bowie on his back with limbs sodden and uncomfortably spread on the bathroom ...

When we heard about the celestial lineup that The Electric Pickle had in store for Miami the last weekend of January we knew right away that we'd be ending every night of the weekend there, or beginning every morning. What we did not realize was that we were in for a early and heavy dose of Winter Music Conference . One thing that was definitely confirmed Monday afternoon by just about everyone we interacted with, was that we looked like we had a lost weekend! JESSE ROSE :: Friday, Jan 27th The London native Jesse Rose is attributed with having kick ...

Here's a fresh high quality rip of a top shelf post-punk LP from 1982 that you may or may not already be familiar with. Hailing from the UK, there's some excellent guitar and synth work here, highly energetic and vital. Reminds me a lot of The Sound atimes, really emotive and passionate vocals (with a sly sense of humor) mixed with buzzing synths, sax, and the incisive guitars we all know and love. Released on the same label as Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor, Kan Kan, and Normil Hawaiians, to name a few. This is one of three ...

Der Filmregisseur Jim Jarmusch veröffentlicht gemeinsam mit dem niederländischen Komponisten Jozef Van Wissem ein neues Album "Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity", welches in Amerika am 28. Februar über Important Records erscheinen wird. Jarmusch spielt auf der Platte die Gitarre und Van Wissem mit der, für ihn typischen, Laute. Der Sound der beiden ist sehr minimalistisch, verzerrt und hat einen eher melancholisch bis psychedelischen Charakter. Macht euch an dieser Stelle selbst einen Eindruck: Jim Jarmusch/ Jozef Van Wissem - "The Sun Of The Natural World Is Pure Fire" Die Kreativität des US-amerikanischen Regisseurs Jim Jarmusch kennt wenig Grenzen. Neben seinen Filmen interessiert ...

Fellow Southern son Anthonie Tonnon of Tono and The Finance Company talked with Williams about his band's take on country music and the effect of the Christchurch earthquakes on Lyttelton's tightknit music community.