Archive for September, 2009

Memory Tapes…

Producer Dayve Hawk, who has created dreamy electro soundscapes as Memory Cassette, Weird Tapes, and Memory Tapes, arrives with an achingly gorgeous dance-pop album that captures both the joy of nostalgia and the melancholic sense that we’re grasping for good times increasingly out of reach. Initially, Seek Magic ‘s power derives from an intensely personalized ability to unlock hidden chambers in our memory banks. But in the end, Seek Magic is something of an inhabitable universe that proves there’s far more to Hawk’s sound than a way with reverb and passing familiarity with dance loops.

Matt Graham

This young fellow is a folk singer from Austin, Texas.

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Lady Gaga – Paparazzi (Version 2)

Paparazzi (Version 2) Artist: Lady Gaga Label: Interscope, Cherrytree, Streamline, KonLive Director: n/a Album: The Fame

Girls - Album

Girls have been the subject of a steadily building buzz based on some excellent singles, and they deliver on that promise here in a big way. Musically, Album is mostly sunny Beach Boys pastiche, but it’s not the kajillionth indie attempt at orchestral Pet Sounds majesty.

Volcano Choir…

After For Emma, Forever Ago ‘s deserved success, the nifty stopgap EP Blood Bank , and a long stretch on the road winning new fans, the next move for Justin Vernon of Bon Iver proves to be another welcome curveball: teaming with the post-rock outfit Collections of Colonies of Bees for a short album of experimental pop as Volcano Choir. Vernon’s voice is one of the most distinctive going right now, so you can always hear him in this music

Raekwon…

Yes, it exists, and yes, it’s as good as fans have been hoping for. The last time a Wu-Tang record came together with this kind of personnel and succeeded under a grand conceptual vision, we got Fishscale , and calling Cuban Linx II Raekwon’s equivalent to it isn’t out of the question.

Video Premiere: Hatebreed – "In Ashes They Shall Reap"

Jamey Jasta checks in to present the new Hatebreed video, watch the full clip below… “In Ashes They Shall Reap” is the first song we decided to focus on from our new album.

Video Premiere: Kittie – "Cut Throat"

Morgan Lander was 14 when she formed Kittie, her all-female metal group. Over ten years and four albums have passed since then, and Kittie are in the process of getting ready to release their fifth album In The Black. Check out below for some insight from Lander into the meaning of “Cut Throat”, the first video from Black.