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Weekly Album: “Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead” by Rockabye Baby!

By on April 29, 2008 in Music

Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead by Rockabye Baby!
If you’re not familiar with Rockabye Baby, they cover well-known rock bands in lullaby versions. It’s quite an interesting twist. They currently have 23 albums released (plus Pixies album on the way), with everything from AC/DC to Coldplay to Bob Marley to Tool. I only have Radiohead and it’s great. (I might need to pick up Bjork soon!)

Rockabye Baby! transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. The delicate sounds of the glockenspiel, vibraphone, and other instruments will lull your little one into a sweet slumber.

These versions of Radiohead are sophisticated enough for people of all ages, but sweet enough to introduce your child to rock’s smartest band. Their album Kid A imagines the scope and power of music created by a newborn child. What will your baby dream about while drifting off to these serene interpretations of Radiohead’s best-loved songs?

I am aware this is quite a random thing to pick, but I’m a Radiohead nut… It’s a great album to work to, I can drift off day-dreaming, or I can sing along.

Find their full library of “lullabied” rock songs on their official site

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elpuoC ddO ehT

By on April 25, 2008 in Art & Design, Humor, Music

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This made me laugh pretty hard. I love it when artists really have fun with their music, even if it’s at the expense of pissing off some listeners.

Since their ‘Run’ video was apparently banned in the US because it induced epileptic fits, those crazy kids Gnarls Barkley have served up another treat (gimmick) with their album The Odd Couple. They’re offering the entire album to you free of charge. But that’s not all! Not only is the 38-ish minute album is yours for nothing, you get the album backwards. Backwards.

It’s a one track mp3 and is actually a kind of fascinating listen. And now we’re kind of waiting for some creepy cult church to list all of the Satanic messages included.

Quoted from Life Lounge & Download “elpuoC ddO ehT” @ fronttobackbacktofront.com

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Weekly Album: “My Secret Lover” by Private

By on April 22, 2008 in Music

My Secret Lover by Private
I consider myself to have fairly good taste in music, lord knows I’m picky about it, and some might even call me a snob. But, every now and again, I need my fix of sugary sweet and tacky pop music. I don’t even remember where I picked this album up from. Private is this random Danish I found last year and have been dancing around to, ever since! “My Secret Lover” is a wonderful 80′s throwback, combining the sounds of Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna. Enjoy a delicious pop snack!
Private’s MySpace page

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For this fabulously lazy Sunday

By on April 20, 2008 in Entertainment, Music


What a gorgeous weekend and there’s no better way to enjoy it than with some jazz! This is my favorite rendition of Georgia On My Mind, performed by the talented Dave Brubeck.

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Weekly Album: “Blue Train” by John Coltrane

By on April 15, 2008 in Music

Blue Train by John Coltrane
There’s not too much I love more than a nice warm spring breeze and jazz drifting around my home. This album, along with Kind of Blue, Ella and Louis Again, some Gershwin and Brubeck were the soundtrack for the past weekend. Lovely!

‘Blue Train’ is the best thing that could have possibly come out of Coltrane’s first attempt at leading and composing his own group. His later works such as ‘Giant Steps’ and ‘A Love Supreme’ may be well-known, but this album is on the same scale if not greater considering his inexperience as a leader and a composer. Its influence on jazz is extraordinary. This band’s and this album’s sound is different from most of jazz and revolutionary and the title track is commonly used as an audition piece. Highly recommended for anyone who even remotely likes jazz. I give this album a huge 5 stars.

Quoted from Sputnik Music

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Weekly Album: “Hercules and Love Affair” by Hercules and Love Affair

By on April 9, 2008 in Music

Hercules and Love Affair by Hercules and Love Affair
I was having a tough time trying to figure out what to post this week (thus the late post), until I got my hands on the self title album by Hercules and Love Affair last night. At first I was worried, due to someone labeling this a “experimental,” which lead me to think it would be along the same ambient, disappointing lines as Deerhunter and The Field. But, after considering it for a moment, I though, what the hell does “experimental” even mean, when it comes to anything creative? …And this is why I sometimes really dislike genres. If pushed, I would say “Hercules and Love Affair” is dance-jazz-pop. Full of energy, Hercules and Love Affair has made a great, great album, I highly recommend!

Rating: 9.1
Forget disco for a second. The most significant thing about the debut album from New York’s Hercules and Love Affair has less to do with revival than arrival– that of a compelling new voice in American dance music. Not Antony Hegarty’s, of Antony and the Johnsons, even though his pipes are an integral part of Hercules’ aesthetic, but Andrew Butler, a twentysomething resident of New York who has made one of 2008′s great albums, and one of the best longplayers from DFA. (DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy surely deserves some of the credit as well, as the album’s co-producer and the programmer behind most of the record’s beats.) Butler got his start writing music for art projects in college– “like a remake of Gino Soccio’s ‘Runaway’ done in the style of Kraftwerk,” he told Fact magazine– but Hercules and Love Affair’s music doesn’t require Fischerspooner-type theatrics. This debut album is a self-contained, self-assured, 10-song set that runs vintage styles through a restless compositional imagination to create something joyfully, startlingly unique.

Quoted from Pitchfork. Check out Hercules and Love Affair’s site.

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Weekly Album: “Paper Planes: Homeland Security Remixes” by M.I.A.

By on April 1, 2008 in Music

M.I.A. - Paper Planes: Homeland Security Remixes
Both Jack and I have mad love for M.I.A. (as you can see in the side bar, right now) so it felt it time to post something by her. I don’t even remember how I came across her two albums, Kala and Arular, but I’m sure it had something to do with someone putting either one of those albums at the top of their “must-listen” list. Anyway, this here is just an EP, but a great EP, none-the-less. I could listen to DFA remix 100 times and not get tired of it!

You’ve heard it all by now: M.I.A. flies like paper, gets high like planes, samples Combat Rock and gets stuck in your, er, brains. “Paper Planes”, the Kala standout– and, when joined by Diplo, Bun B and Rich Boy, Pitchfork’s #4 track of 2007– has been ringing out from every Hummer and hot dog stand since its release last summer. Now, M.I.A. has collected five fine remixes of the gunslingin’, kid-singin’ track for the Homeland Security Remixes EP.

Quoted from Pitchfork

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Weekly Album: “Animals” by Pink Floyd

By on March 26, 2008 in Music

Pink Floyd - Animals
I keep slipping further and further back in time with these albums, but trust me, this one is truly worth it. My little brother went through a hug Pink Floyd phase and it was something I never really understood. I mean, I enjoyed “The Wall” and “Dark Side of the Moon” and the bits and pieces of other albums I would hear, but there was nothing to really grab me and keep me. Probably about a year and a half ago I was searching for new music to add to my ever-expanding collection and for some reason I was looking through Pink Floyd’s discography. I recognized most their albums, but had never remembered hearing anything about “Animals.” I decided this was the album I should look into, and boy am I glad I did!

Rating: 10.0
…It is the acute anthropomorphic fantasy, possessing a timeless quality that has thrust it into the category of “classic,” though it may remain forever in the shadow of its more commercially successful older brother, Dark Side Of The Moon. Consisting of three tracks each longer than ten minutes and two tracks under two minutes, Animals is not for the attention- span- deficient. However, within this impenetrable fortress of radio- unfriendly tracks, we hear Dave Gilmour’s guitars at their absolute best, get a full-on dose of Roger Waters’ powerful lyrical imagery, and are presented with the worst elements of our own humanity- packaged in the skins of “Sheep,” “Dogs” and “Pigs (Three Different Ones)”. For those weaned on The Wall and Dark Side, you’ll find Animals to be a whole new bag of feed. Where Floyd’s two most recognizable albums made their mark with operatic aggression and fear, Animals deals in dirt- under- the- fingernails reality, the common smallness that simultaneously binds and repels us all. “Dogs,” a 17-minute study in the commonest of all faults, lazily dispenses bite after venomous bite into the desires that drive us to seize the fast buck and screw anyone that gets in our way…

Quoted from Pitchfork

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Weekly Album: “Morning View” by Incubus

By on March 18, 2008 in Music


I know, “wow, what an oldie!” I just recently got my hands back on the album, and I had forgotten how much I loved it! This may be one of those albums tied to good memories, and thusly becomes a great album, to me, but I really do feel this album has a lot to offer and can be enjoyed by a lot of people.

4 1/2 Stars (out of 5)
‘Mexico’ is a sparsely arranged acoustic ballad that gives lead singer Brandon Boyd an opportunity to demonstrate his formidable vocal range. ‘Are You In?’ is an upbeat, funky tune reminiscent of Sugar Ray (and that’s meant in a good way). The most offbeat track is the album closer, ‘Aqueous Transmission,’ a tranquil, exotic-sounding ballad that sees the band successfully experimenting with Middle Eastern string arrangements.

Quoted from All Music

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Weekly Album: “Anti-Anti” by Snowden

By on March 11, 2008 in Music

snowden - anti-antiI’m starting a new thing here: going to have weekly music recommendations! So, to kick things off, I’m starting with Snowden, from Atlanta GA (peace up, A-town down!). I downloaded the album on a complete whim, a week and-a-half later it was still, pretty much, all I was listening to. Really impressive stuff, here! They’ve got some cool videos, too.

Rating: 7.2
Their name may come from Joseph Heller’s famously satirical Catch-22, and their record may be called Anti-Anti, but Snowden’s full-length debut is as flat-out passionate as you used to expect from Jade Tree. The title track is the manifesto, unabashedly enjoying its catchy/dumb intro and guitar smolder in a way that pleasantly betrays its origins far from the potentially stultifying self-consciousness of the only city that really matters, even as it bitterly mocks your “fashion drugs” and too-cool silence. “One time we believed, but now it’s passing and cliché,” Jeffares’ deep voice tells me, “And she’ll say anything to make you move again.” Fuzz-bass-smoked “Between the Rent and Me” cuts closer: “What do you think I am/ Or do you think at all?”

Quoted from Pitchfork

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