“But smoke speaks of fire and the five-headed phoenix Zounds is Dappled Cities’ masterpiece, a sophisticated, grown-up opus epic. Lyrically it’s introspective, full of the unusual, but wonderous, Dappled metaphors. But it’s also a big, deep muscular album.
Zounds opening salvo ‘Hold Your Back’ is the most adventurous track of the band’s career – a deep, brooding magnificent bastard anthem which is “barely even a song, more a collection of ideas.””
“Influences as disparate as the Band, Randy Newman, Carlos Santana and Spank Rock inform the soundscapes, but the vibe is too coherent to be called eclectic. Technicolor Health invokes the synthesized Latin percussion that plays outside the band’s apartments every night as they’re trying to fall asleep, and the classic rock radio they listen to with hilarious regularity.”
“Much like Blur fused English pop traditions and contemporary sonics to forge Brit Pop, Harlem Shakes meld the Great American Songbook with unmistakably contemporary textures, creating what one might call “Am Pop.”….Above all, the album is about surviving abject shittiness. But it’s also about what new-wave bands and new-wave revival bands call, “modern life”“
“Rhino Bucket once again delivers their distinct brand of three chord boogie rock n’ roll unlike any other on their latest release….”I always come back to the rock. Maybe I’m just a one trick pony, but I really like the trick I know.”“
“It was just last year that married couple Thomas and Dede informed Darren about the name of a new band they’d created and as Darren says “basically on the strength of the name I was like right I’m in!” Indeed he is not the only one, the Guardian and NME recently wrote about how brilliant the title of We Have Band works, with the former discussing all possibilities of franchising the We Have bit and using it as a generic brand. Maybe one day, but for now the guys are focussing solely on their music.”
“”Traditionally, a haiku poem is a seemingly insignificant observation about the natural world that unfolds into an epiphany concerning some larger mystery,” he continues. “I thought it’d be a funny exercise to imagine a poet in an environment like a movie theatre that demands nothing of his imagination, that forces its own hyperactive images and observations onto him, and then ask him to write a haiku. The poem would most likely begin with a wide angle on the world and shrink, in the end, to something constricted and banal.
“The characters in each of the songs on ‘Movie Theatre Haiku’ are all lost in this kind of confined space. They fumble in the darkness to feel the four walls closing in on them. They must measure distances in a shrinking world, and find a way out.”“
“Hello, I’m a Japanese girl loving pop music. I always introduce the artist whom I liked.
Recently, I discovered the British pop indie band, “Burgess & Maclean” which is very catchy while being enthusiastic.
I wanted to tell this to the person who seems to like such a music and sent this message.
In their Official Site, you can Free Download their All ALBUMS!”
(I have received this identical email every two weeks for the last 3 months)
“As FHM says, “There’d be no Sugar Ray, Nine Inch Nails or Robbie Williams without these boys.”“
“She hummed her way through folk music camp, through Smith College and a theater degree, through anarchist puppet training, through brazen, all-women a cappella singing, through heat rash in Kenya, through deeply scrutinized puppet performances in Europe, through her lonely, swirling 20’s. The hum seems to have become a yell.
In 2008 she released BiRd-BrAiNs, which she had recorded over a span of 2.5 years on a hand-held voice recorder. Sampling snippets of her life as a nanny on Martha’s Vineyard and later as a young musician in noisy urban settings, she weaved sounds together to make substantial rhythms and then layered her ukulele and vocals over top.”
“Krishna… moved here from southern India, at the age of 5, with his entire family. It’s an East-meets-South thing…even we don’t understand it. You’d have thought we’d gravitate toward a guy who could play a good shuffle, but instead we drifted into an unknown polyrhythmic universe.”
