A laid-back groove with some fine flow for your Thursday. This is my first experience with Oddience, but they describe themselves as “a L.A based music collective that has been recently banging out a sound all our own,” and if this single offers a slightly more familiar take on R&B-laced; hip-hop than you might expect

Sur RPUT on aime alterner entre oldies et groupes actuels, je déroge un peu à ma règle qui consiste à ne pas enchainer deux disques du passé de suite pour ce magnifique album des Cleaners from Venus intitulé Midnight Cleaners et initialement sorti en 1982. Il vient d'être réédité dans un chouette coffret (vinyle ou cd) chez les toujours fiables Captured Tracks et avait été précédemment réédité sous forme de cassette chez les non moins géniaux Burger Records dans son format d'origine: une cassette, les deux labels ont réédités d'autres disques du groupe également très recommandés (6 ...

HEALTH, a L.A. noise-rock quartet, have certainly aged well over time, and ‘Tears’ is the best example of this. The song is expansive, a wall of distortion that threatens to absorb you at any second. Listening to the pounding rhythm of the song, you’ll feel like you’re being taken through a walk of the world [...]

Fischer-Dieskau reorientated our listening experience, writes Daniel Barenboim in a personal tribute to the great baritone There are many wonderful composers whose works we appreciate greatly but who did not make a significant impact on the historical development of music. Only a select few were able to at once sum up everything that had existed in music before them, and to pave the way into the future. Bach, Schoenberg, Wagner and Beethoven are outstanding examples of such revolutionaries. The situation is similar when it comes to performers of classical music: before Pablo Casals, for example, it was widely accepted that ...

Très occupé / Very busy                          ——————————————————————————————-           A l’approche de la fin de l’année universitaire, nous sommes vraiment très occupés. Apparemment pas suffisamment pour devoir abandonner le blog, mais juste assez pour faire des playlists peu inspirées. Après tout, c’était cela ou un n-ième article sur la politique française.                          ——————————————————————————————-           As the end of college year is approaching, we are really busy. Obviously not sufficiently to abandon the blog, but just enough to make not-very-inspired playlists. After all, we had to do this or an n-nth article about French politics.                          ——————————————————————————————- 1. Calm Like You - The Last Shadow Puppets 2. Plans - Grizzly ...

i am in the mid way through reading amanda lears story of her time with salvador dali in 'my life with dali'. she writes brilliantly - her life sounds so exciting yet she is filled with melancholy. she even subtly addresses the transsexual issue by saying that dali gave male nicknames to all his female friends that the rumour started that his court consisted of transvestites. he then told everyone amanda was moses and a masculine angelic being! so then a newspaper ran the story that amanda was infact a boy. When she spoke to dali about this he exclaimed "but ...

The tenor pays tribute to the legendary baritone, who died on Friday aged 86 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a titanic figure and a mirror of his age. Hearing of his death today at the age of 86 it was the singing I thought of, of course, and the little of it I managed to hear live. Recitals on the Southbank in the 80s – a Meeresstille (Becalmed at Sea) of Schubert, so whispered that every member of the audience leant imperceptibly forward to catch the thread of sound he so miraculously spun. The most terrifying Erlkönig I have ever heard or, indeed ...

Virna Lindt The Windmills Of Your Mind Virna Lindt The Dossier on Virna Lindt Virna Lindt Attention Stockholm The Woodentops Get It On Before Portishead and other vitamin-D deficient Anglophone producers set to a wholesale plundering of the work of film composers  John Barry and Bernard Hermann , in turn giving the world the unwelcome gift of Trip Hop and the adjective "cinematic" as a critical term denoting the addition of vinyl pop & hiss sounds and postmodern ennui - the equivalent of a sepia filter (or hey, Instagram!) - a relatively gorgeous Swede translator by the name of Virna Lindt  infused the icy cold archness & languid irony of Cristina and Amanda Lear (ex-models' musical output, a genre unto itself) with human warmth and her own appreciation of the big-room orchestral pop of soundtracks gone by. The three songs here don't accurately represent the range of Ms. Lindt's output - the lumbering cover of Michel Lagrand's The Windmills of Your Mind , the absurd dead-eyed naivete of  The Dossier on Virna Lindt , and  finally, her Tot Taylor-produced debut single, Attention Stockholm -  virtually a template for 3/4 the output of  Belle and Sebastien ...  Great songs, yes, but there are other songs, more adventurous, sort of like Sparks and Yello Magic Orchestra, especially on 1985 Play/Record, which was, predictably, a hit in Japan. Had Lindt's influence been felt more deeply, Trip Hop might have a more noble pedigree and not reached its nauseating limit in the studied melancholy of Mono's 1996 sap-fest Life in Mono   The song, a barely concealed rewrite of The Windmills of Your Mind , was a prominent part of (the not-unloveable overwrought) fever dream melodrama of Alfonso Cuarón 's film adaptation of Great Expectations .  Or not...  Who knows if we would have been spared the existence of Black Box Recorder - an ignoble and wholly reprehensible musical clusterfuck that has forever tarred the name of Jesus & Mary Chain 's John Moore .  (The wholly calculated effort to get famous and to get into Sarah Nixey 's pants succeeded on one count, at least.) But Trip Hop will continue to live on forever, along with drum & bass, in the scores of police procedurals on American network television, and in the dusty CD-piles buried in the back of a closet by Unmarried Women of a Certain Age. Note: When I think of Dickens style of writing, I think of the Book of Mormon, a tedious a Holy Book as I've ever read...  An entire post-Christian mythology written by a group of autistic people sitting around a table playing Exquisite Corpse - and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass... I've spent countless hours, if not days, searching through the Trouser Press , dollar bins and the back-alleys of Discogs.com , and it's very rare that I come across a chart-topping song or artist in the new wave/post-new wave pop genre that I've got no familiarity with.  (Even rarer that I actually enjoy the song).  In this case, I came across the Woodentops in Oliver Assayas ' 1986 film Disorder - a film that presents with weightier issues than those that make up a subgenre of post-punk trainspotting films- the Clash's  Rude Boy , Penelope Spheeris ' Decline of Western Civilization and Suburbia .  As anthropological curios & points of reference for context-hungry teens they serve their purpose -  as an illuminating or even halfway interesting piece of art, not as much.  Assayas' meditation on the corrosive of guilt and murder without consequence , each in their own way, are Cliff-notes Dostoevsky for their respective class/subculture. This song shares the same manic urgency of  The Feelies  or  Human Switchboard , but has more adventurous production and instrumentation.  The obvious touchstone for Rolo McGinty's brashly confident voice is Echo & The Bunnymen 's Will Sergeant. Alright, it's back to R&B; for a little while, so I don't end up investigating bands that shared bills with the Housemartins .

Artist: Apparatjok Album: Square Peg In A Round Hole Released: 2012 Style: Electronic Format: MP3 224Kbps Size: 83 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Timepolice (feat. Auto Goon) 02 – Cervux Sequential (feat. Lisa A) 03 – Tell the Babes 04 – Signs of Waking Up 05 – Do It Myself (feat. Auto Goon) 06 – Blastlocket (feat. Ceto A & L Gortex A) 07 – Pakt 08 – [...]

Out of Focus We all know that famous saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. Nowhere has it been more true than at Out of Focus, the new photography exhibition at the Saatchi – wall to wall of mounted stories, each enclosed within four-sides. Containing works by an assortment of artists, it’s a walk-in wardrobe of colourful tales – all ready and waiting for you to slip out of your daily life and into something a bit more intriguing. Here are a few multi-coloured stories from the exhibition that I tried on for size….: Katy Grannan’s polished portraiture of ...

devious \DEE-ve-us\ adjective deviating from a straight line : roundabout behaving wrongly : errant tricky, cunning; also : deceptive. get it A phrase having many different meanings but usually "congratulating" someone else for something they've achieved (usually in the sexual realm but for pretty much anything). A: "I just aced my physics exam!" B: "Get it, girl!!" A: "Why is Nicole smiling so much today?" B: "You know she got some from Eddie last night!" A: "Get it, Nicole! you better GET IT!" Trivia What sports venue was the first to sell its naming rights? Sportsman’s Park, home of baseball’s ...

This week marks the first time I have ever wanted to purchase an issue of Rolling Stone . That "Adam Lambert's Wild Journey" story sounds fascinating. We've posted some new reviews. You can check them out below: Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods Daytrader - 12 Years Moss Icon - Complete Discography Melvins / OFF! - Sugar Daddy Split Series Vol. 3 [12"] Chuck Dukowski Sextet / Mike Watt - My War / Sweet Honey Pie [7"] Burning Love - Widow">Black Widow [7"] Horseback - Half Blood GnarBoots - A.L.B.U.M. Rebel Yell - Live From My Parent's Basement The Smiths - The Smiths You can ...

Filed under: News Jason Merritt/Getty Images Timing, as the expression goes, is everything. And sometimes, timing can be inadvertently terrible, like lawsuit leveled against the Beastie Boys that's rubbing salt on the still-fresh wound of Adam Yauch's passing. On May 3, one day before Adam 'MCA' Yauch died following a three-year cancer battle, record label Tuf America hit the Beasties with a l awsuit for copyright infringement over their two most acclaimed albums, their 1986 debut License to Ill and sample-centric sophomore LP, 1989's Paul's Boutique .

A l'occasion du Record Store Day (Disquaire Day en France) qui a eu lieu le 21 Avril dernier, une boxset de 4 vinyls a été éditée à très peu d'exemplaire et dessus on pouvait retrouver … Read More →

The Left Coast buzzmaker fantasizes about making the world "Suckafree" on a new single off his L.O.C.A.L. LP.  Click the link for the stream.