Remember when all I did was talk about remixes? Man, those were the days. Except not, because then how could I have overshared about my proclivities for dishwasher sex and Fleetwood Mac, or gotten all weepy at an Okkervil River show? I even wrote a snarky draft review of the Pitchfork review of Father, Son, [Read Full Post...]
One of the best games is re-listening to artists you completely forgot about because you liked one single and then they didn’t release anything else for four years or something. I give you Keren Ann Zeidel, who perferms simply as Keren Ann: Franco-Israeli singer-songwriter of sultry pop bent. Her “Lay Your Head Down” was a [Read Full Post...]
In my very first remix roundup, I whined about how Metronomy DOES NOT do it for me, and in fact encompasses almost everything I hate about late-aughts electro. But that didn’t stop Kris Menace from whipping their “Heartbreaker” into an icy all-time Amanda favorite remix. Metronomy have a new album out, The English Riviera, and [Read Full Post...]
Much is made of Christian AIDS‘ propensity (choice? need?) for anonymity. Mention the Manchester-based act (for this is something we do know) on any Internet music resource and in the same breath will follow a great deal of panting about “he/she/it/them” and rave beats. I don’t particularly care that “he/she/it/them” are shrouded in mystery, of [Read Full Post...]
Internets, it’s been too long. It’s all I can do to sneak a few precious moments in the shadows with you while I’m at work. I have so many new obsessions, hopes and dreams to confess to you but I am too too busy! Please accept, as a token of goodwill this wonderful track, and [Read Full Post...]
- March in Seattle brings comically unpredictable weather, universally pasty, grouchy people. I call this state “March Face.” It happens to everyone in town: we’re all cranky because there are finally enough daylight hours for us to see just how ugly five months of wet cold can make a person. However, March is also notable [Read Full Post...]
Buzzbands, yo! First up, some hot action from Sebadoh-fankids Yuck and Scottish rock mainstays, Mogwai. In keeping with Yuck‘s grunge-melodic vision, Mogwai‘s take is more a fine-tuning. They twist the knobs and fiddle with the antennae on fuzzed-out swooner “Rubber” to unearth its ghosted vocals and spare beauty. Both songs are stupefying in their intensity [Read Full Post...]
In which I bring you every good remix ever. Hold on to your hats. For this week’s dose of celestial beauty, we look to LA’s Active Child and Phantogram, of upstate New York, who both toy expertly with a couple of songs off School of Seven Bells‘ spring release, Disconnect from Desire. Bells’ Cranberries moment [Read Full Post...]
I won’t lie, I haven’t been giving the remix-osphere its due these days. Partly we can chalk this up to autumnally crisp temperatures (and the need for corresponding soundtracks: hello, local folk-pop acts!); the rest of the blame lies at the feet of scarce blogging time and a dearth of quality remixes. But the ol’ [Read Full Post...]
Just in time for the weekend, here are some remixes for all your parties and debauched exploits. Okay, none of these songs are really bangers. And it’s a bit late to be trolling the internet for tonight’s pump-up jams (yeah, losers, get off the webs, it’s Friday night. Oh.) but perhaps you little hedonists can [Read Full Post...]
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