February 2012
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Best Song of The Year so far...
Hands down.
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Jordan Bolton - "Love Was Cruel, It Just Wasn't...
Since leaving Neon Musical Insight behind, I haven’t taken much time to discover music via my inbox. Recently, I felt motivated. I decided to sit down a few days at work and give these submissions the time of day and attention that they deserved.
Now the intention of this blog wasn’t meant to pick up where Neon left off - I do not have any plans to write numerous posts on a daily...
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Islands - 'A Sleep & A Forgetting' Album Review...
A Sleep & A Forgetting, the fourth album from Nicholas Thorburn’s most successful outfit Islands, finds the band conquering new territories and offering a previously unexplored level of maturity and first-person storytelling to their songwriting. Not only is Islands’ latest album rather bleak, but it is also the most personal.
Typically known for releasing quirky pop, A Sleep & A...
January 2012
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MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
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Porcelain Raft - 'Strange Weekend' Album Review...
After a few standout EP’s over the past couple of years, Porcelain Raft finally sat down and crafted his debut full-length, Strange Weekend. With the oh-so-familiar DIY Brooklyn mentality, Mauro Remiddi, the sole member of Porcelain Raft, managed to create a telling and heartfelt album that layers itself in murky reverb and occasional distortion. Musically, Strange Weekend does its best to...
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Chairlift - 'Something' Album Review (for BPM)
In the process of landing a major label deal with Columbia, Chairlift also managed to lose one of their founding members, Aaron Pfenning, after his relationship with singer Caroline Polachek went south. As unfortunate as it might be to say, this may have been the best thing that could have happened to the band, especially considering how much further the act has come since their 2008...