I’ve opined about the conflagration of indie / alternative duos so I will digress in expounding on Phantogram’s musical configuration. “Mouthful of Diamonds” is the first song I’ve heard from this Saratoga Springs group. It is a dark, lush, almost symphonic pop song that lingers in me brain. Not since Ice Cube on N.W.A’s “Dopeman” [...]
Australia’s Tame Impala is what I’ve been waiting for. The alternative music scene is bustling with lush pop songwriters, nifty duos, and electronica hybrids which are all great, but sometimes a dude needs a little rock! It is nice to hear a fresh treatment to straight-forward guitar rock and Tame Impala is able to do [...]
Trent Reznor announced that Nine Inch Nails would be shelved indefinitely in order to pursue other musical interests. How to Destroy Angels is the new group which includes his wife, Mariqueen Maandig and long-time co-conspirator Atticus Ross. The video for “The Space in Between” is creepily awesome and the band’s EP is available for free [...]
Duos, duos, duos – what the fuck? They are everywhere, crowding the music scene with interesting variations of electronica, pop, and rock. Of course there are The White Stripes and The Black Keys, but it goes way beyond that. Let me see, there’s The Big Pink, Sleigh Bells, Phantogram, Crystal Castles, The XX, Ratatat, Dirty [...]
Wow. Passion Pit is pretty popular. The long line in front of Firestone and down Orange Ave. told the story. That and the fact that I, personally, digitally molested about 394 people on my tedious walk from the front door to the back bar, and for that I’m sorry. Tokyo Police Club was in their [...]
This was indie buzz bonanza weekend for Firestone in Orlando. Friday night saw West Palm Beach’s own Surfer Blood open for 80’s pop-sters The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Actually, a last minute switcheroo had Surfer Blood headlining. The Firestone is a challenging place (at best) to sound good in. It sucks because of [...]
This was one of my favorite songs when I hosted The Red Eye on 91.5 WPRK at Rollins college. It is “Evil Scurvy Love” by Jonny Polonsky, a short and bitter little ditty about yearning for a toxic love.
Yay! Music videos. I almost completely forgot they were making them again for the Interweb. I will try to make this a regular feature and bring back the mind raping time-suck of watching videos.
This is “The Ghost Inside” from Broken Bells, the second release from Danger Mouse and James Mercer. I think the chick in [...]
