Joanna Newsom’s recent trifecta of an album Have One On Me has been wooing critics and fans alike since its release this past February 23 (via Drag City); nonetheless, she has now inadvertently one upped herself by winning over fellow indie folkie Robin Pecknold (aka the Fleet Foxes’ lead singer/songwriter).
Pecknold recently posted an excellent cover of [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Psych-folk trio Akron/Family is going straight communal these days. Case in point, their recent Woody Project where they have asked their fans and friends alike to contribute their own version of an unreleased Akron/Family song “Woody Guthrie’s America” that has been their favorite set closer as of late (see a video of them playing it live [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
In case you haven’t heard about it yet, Broken Bells is the new collaborative group between The Shins frontman James Mercer and multi producer Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse. Broken Bells will be releasing their debut self titled album on March 9, 2010 via Columbia Records. However, if you look in the right places you [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
After a few years of rabid anticipation and rumors, the members of Animal Collective and director Danny Perez are finally ready to unleash their collaborative “visual album” film that we now know as ODDSAC (and just in time to be invited to the Sundance film festival this past January). The film will be released in digital/DVD format [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Prefuse 73 aka Guillermo Scott Herren played a concert not too long ago on February 2, 2010 at Slims in San Francisco, CA. The Gaslamp Killer opened the show with a high energy DJ set that sprawled through a multitude of music spanning all sorts of genres new and old (which definitely exceeded my expectations). [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Los Angeles’ woozy beat maker supreme Steven Ellison aka Flying Lotus is readying his third full length album, Cosmogramma (see album art above) which will be released on May 4, 2010 on Warp Records (pushed back from an originally fitting planned 4/20/10 release date).
In a fairly recent interview with Pitchfork, FlyLo explained in his own [...]
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Madlib played a DJ Set to a hyped crowd at The Mighty in San Francisco, CA this past Friday, January 29, 2010. Given the billion or so projects the man has going on at any given time it was no surprise that Madlib aka The Beat Konducta spun a pretty healthy variety of music. The [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Dear Grammy’s, MTV VMA’s, AMA’s, and every other music related awards show out there. If you want to impress, surprise, bewilder, shock and/or give the public something to talk about, you better get working right now. The bar for award shows has been raised to a whole new level.
Sweden held it’s annual P3 Guld Public [...]
