This stream comes to us by way of the fantastic UK music blog, The Line of Best Fit. Sleep Party People is a dream-pop (little bit of nightmare-pop?) outfit from Denmark, driven by the song-writing of Brian Batz, the only full-time member of the project. The live ensemble dons bunny heads for press photos and [...]
Sufjan Stevens has been hopping genres since he got his start, but his latest project finds him teaming up with Anticon’s smart, funny slacker-rapper Serengeti and arranger/producer/crooner Son Lux. Stevens and Serengeti have worked together before, on Buck 65′s remix of “You Are the Blood” for the Dark Was the Night benefit compilation a few [...]
The Books, a duo who spent the last decade making remarkably coherent and accessible sound-collage/pop-song hybrids, is calling it quits. I became an instant fan when I caught a live performance a few years back, and what struck me most was the joy they seemed to take in discovery. The Books were archivists, librarians, curators—found-footage [...]
We already pushed Singing Saws and the Nostalgic Prose of an Alcoholic Poet on you, here’s a helping of a few more highlights for you to stuff into your ears- A Familyre Christmas Volume 4 – Available now (and being updated every day, advent-calendar style) from the wonderfully creative Sounds Familyre Records (owned and operated [...]
He thinks you’re talkin’ ’bout Dylan Thomas, whoever he was… “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is one of Dylan Thomas’s most beloved works, and rightly so. Thomas gives us a picture of Christmases that are so far removed from department stores and television sets, and apparently so much better for the distance, that it’s tough [...]
Look for a few similar posts here over the course of the next few weeks, as we share some of the more creative festive projects we’ve come across. I’ve gushed about The Music Tapes here before, and the man behind that wonderful project, Julian Koster, is also pretty big on Christmas. A few years back, [...]
Just this morning, Fleet Foxes shared a brand new video for “The Shrine / An Argument,” the eight minute mini-epic (yep, the video is just as long) that stands out as one of the prettiest and most elaborate tracks on this year’s fantastic Helplessness Blues. The video is a delightful, hazy mix of old-world folk [...]
Brace yourself, nerdy children of the ’90s. I recently stumbled upon some real finds on the 50¢ rack. Christopher Pike books. I never got into The Boxcar Children series as a kid; thrillers were my thing. Books were only worth reading if they gave me nightmares and made me paranoid of normal teen activities. (Mall [...]