Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Et par af de sange jeg satte stor pris på i 2008.




MoxTape

Bonne Année Mr Steven Patrick Morrissey.





Im Throwing My Arms Around Paris - Morrissey

Seneste udspil fra Morrissey hedder "I´m throwing my arms around Paris" og er fra den kommende plade "Fears of refusal" som skulle være på gaden omkring d. 16 februar 2009.

In the absence of your touch
And in the absence of loved ones
I have decided I’m throwing my arms around all of Paris
Because only stone and steel accept my love

In the absence of your smiling face
I traveled all over the place
And I have decided I’m throwing my arms around all of Paris
Because only stone and steel accept my love
I’m throwing my arms around all of Paris
Because only stone and steel accept my love.

I’m throwing my arms around Paris
Because nobody wants my love
Nobody wants my love
Nobody needs my love
Nobody wants my love

Yes, you made yourself plain
Yes, you made yourself very plain

Playliste fra pitchfork/Godt Nytår!


The Forkcast

Monday, December 29, 2008

Delta Spirit.


Watch the full concert at baeblemusic.com

After the San Diego-based emo outfit Noise Ratchet called it quits in 2004, co-founders Jon Jameson (bass) and Brandon Young (drums) decided to ditch their punk-influenced songwriting for something more soulful and rootsy. The two left Rick Rubin's American label (which had signed Noise Ratchet several years prior) and joined forces with vocalist Matthew Vasquez, guitarist Sean Walker, and multi-instrumentalist Kelly Winrich to form Delta Spirit. Pitching their style between the indie rock and alt-country camps, the group issued an EP entitled I Think I've Found It in 2006 and hit the road alongside Cold War Kids and Dr. Dog. Delta Spirit's debut album, Ode to Sunshine, was released by the bandmates themselves in 2007, followed by a remastered edition in 2008 courtesy of the band's new label, Rounder Records.

Yoav

Thursday, December 25, 2008

2008/12/24/musik-med-ring-snuten-och-action-biker-med-venner/



Den sidste Julepost i denne omgang, syntes bare den var ret hyggelig. Og nu mod nytår.

Friday, November 28, 2008

No Blood In Bones


No Blood In Bones er Morten & Sven , psychedellisk Folk Duo.



Mp3: No Blood In Bones - I Am A Statue

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

BestTrackEverThisTuesday Benoit Pioulard: Ragged Tint


Benoit Pioulard.
His new (second) album is called Temper, and I recommend it...fascinated with the sounds of nature and tape decay—Thomas Meluch aka. Benoit Pioulard, chose guitar and voice as the primary instruments for his work as Benoît Pioulard.

Mp3: Benoit Pioulard-Ragged Tint

Ragged Tint Video

Thursday, September 25, 2008

MONKEY JOURNEY TO THE WEST

Mp3: Monkey´s World

In a mythical time, on the Mountain of Flower and Fruit, Monkey was hatched from a stone egg. So begins the tale of the Monkey King, our headstrong, self-important hero. After crossing the all-powerful Buddha, Monkey is given the opportunity to redeem himself by travelling to India with the young monk Tripitaka to bring the Holy Scriptures back to China.

Accompanied by a motley crew of helpers, the pair meet and overcome terrific challenges, finally returning with the sacred texts. Despite its playful, bawdy tone and colourful characters the story of Monkey is deeply serious in intent. It's a fable of spiritual change and growth, a 16th Century story which is still familiar to all Chinese schoolchildren.

Monkey: Journey To The West re-tells the 400 year-old tale for a new audience. This production is a triumph of collaboration - between old and new, sight and sound, East and West. Developed in conversation between Beijing, Dalian, Paris, London and Manchester it brings together traditional disciplines - acrobatics, singing, dancing - with emphatically modern technology including animation and dazzling video projections.


Monday, September 22, 2008

The Vampire Sound Inc.


I saw this a long time ago on Mtv´s 120 minuttes, and came across it again tonight by coincident. So here it is, A little piece of pscychedelic Vampire Groove!
Psychedelic fuzz box guitar, jazzy organ runs, strutting funkadelic drum and bass, and an occasional glockenspiel or sitar for freakout effect.

mp3: Vampire Sound Inc - The Lions And The Cucumber

Sunday, September 21, 2008

The Beatles- Rain.



Mp3: The Beatles - Rain

About A Son. Kurt Cobain Documentary.

Official Kurt Cobain About a Son Trailer


Kurt Cobain About A Son.

I saw this Documentary about Kurt Cobain the other day, that was released earlier this year on DVD. The documentary is from 2006 and is a bunch of interviews done with Cobain,in the period between December 92 and march 93 by author and journalist, Michael Azerrad. The documentary is put together with beautiful pictures from Seattle and Aberdeen, Cobain's place of birth and where he grew up. This piece of film contains no music by Nirvana, but don´t worry, the soundtrack, pictures and Kurt´s voice match each other very well, and is well thought
out.
Watching the movie was a very meditative and soothing experience for me, though a bit dark at times, I truly enjoyed myself in the company of Azzerad and Cobain. The movie is intimate, and Kurt tells about his upbringing in Aberdeen, that included Beatles records, A divorce of parents, and a supporting aunt that gave Kurt his first guitar.

I think the documentary works, and it is really nice to hear Kurt Cobain tell his own story, in his own words, and I think you get an insight, into another side of Kurt Cobain that hasen´t been documented before. I recommend it, and I think you should give it a chance, whether you are a Nirvana fan or not.

Mp3: The Vaselines - Son Of A Gun


Sundialing.

Tv On The Radio


Mp3: DLZ

Friday, September 19, 2008

The Future of Music Journalism

Ben & Jim

I came across this and had to post it here, I thought it was very funny.






Ben is my sister-in-law's brother, and ever since we met, we've talked about music. The first time I met Ben, he approached me with various questions on what I've seen and done in the music industry. Being a former VJ for a well-known music television station, I'll occasionally find myself knee-deep in these types of situations.

Many times, it seems, people will prod a little to see if I'm really into music, or if I am just a talking head with no clue. More times than not, the conversation will cut straight to the heart of independent music.

That's where I thought Ben was headed with his series of questions. No doubt the kid had a vast knowledge of music, but I was surprised to find out--when the conversation went full tilt--that Ben was throwing out names embraced by the pop-punk and emo rock world. As I vigorously and passionately threw out names familiar to the readers of Pitchfork Media, Ben did the same for frequent visitors to Absolute Punk. What we had here wasn't necessarily an argument about whose taste in music was better, it was a dialog about each other's musical interests, likes, and dislikes.

Do I favor indie-minded acts over bands that frequent the Bamboozle Festival? Absolutely. However, am I still interested in what's happening on that side of the world? Indeed I am--I just don't have the patience to sift through piles of albums until I find that one pop-punk gem that I love.

So that's where Ben comes in. Since we've known each other, he has become my one-man, Warped Tour-lovin' focus group. Because we usually end up talking about music every time we see each other, I thought it would be a good idea--and beneficial to some of our indie music die-hards who don't know what's going on outside their own music circles--to share our back-and-forth discourse with all of you:

I stopped going to the Warped Tour a few years ago. The tight-jean, over-grown bang wearing bands became a little too much for me to handle. I'm assuming you attend regularly? Right now, sell me on the Warped Tour. Why should I go?

I went to Warped Tour in '06 and '07, but I didn't go this year. I didn't go because I wasn't happy with the lineup playing at my date. I'm not going to spend all day outside listening to bands I don't enjoy and neither should you. The only reason anybody should go is if they like who is playing.

Bamboozle is a freakin' 3-day commitment, how are you going to get me to go to that?

First, I am going to make you walk outside of your apartment, because once you do you are practically there. Then I'll probably tell you that Bamboozle is not neccesarily a 3-day commitment. Bamboozle takes place on Saturday and Sunday, and the festival called "Hoodwink" takes place Friday night. Hoodwink is a group of about 20 bands that play under fake names. You can also buy tickets for just Sunday or Saturday.

Anyway the reason you should go is simple--there are nine stages with incredibly talented bands from all different genres. If you went this year you would have been able to see everything from The Hush Sound and Every Time I Die to Jimmy Eat World, Snoop Dogg, Bret Michaels, Thrice, Lydia, Valencia, etc. There is something for everybody.

When I was in college--crap, you were probably only four or five years old--emo music was an underground thing that occasionally popped up on college radio. A handful of years ago it surfaced to the mainstream. Just for clarification, I'm going to say that "emo" is a brand of music featuring sweet, sing-songy-high-pitched verses, with gruff, Cookie Monster-like choruses--or just to keep with the theme here--emotive choruses. I have a few questions for you, here's my first, why do you think so many emo bands never wanted to embrace the term emo?

A while ago some kid made a myspace called "Emo Sucks," or something like that. He friended Hawthorne Heights and then made a blog post bashing them for being friends with someone who hates "Emo". Hawthorne Heights responded with a blog explaining that they don't consider themselves emo, because they don't make "emo" music. They said that emo is basically a subgenre of hardcore punk that became popular in the mid 80's and ended in the early 90's. So Hawthorne Heights didn't want to be defined as something they are not, and I'm sure other bands don't as well. It also doesn't help that the word "emo" has such a negative aura about it.

Yeah, but you gotta admit that just a few years ago there was a surplus of bands that had the formula of sing-songy verses with hardcore-choruses, Hawthorne Heights included. Like it or not, they were playing what was defined as "emo" music. Gangsta Rap has a zillion negative connotations and you never heard Dr. Dre or Ice Cube complaining about it.

Yeah, but can't you say that about every music genre? Turn on any mainstream rock radio station and try to tell me the majority of those bands don't sound very, very similar.

And I would classify most of those bands as "modern rock radio" groups, but we'll save the Hinder and Saving Abel conversation for another day. Here's my second part of the question, is the term "emo" even applicable anymore? If an indie music critic wanted to quickly write off a band by using the term "emo," would that be lazy of him or her?

I don't think it's an appropriate term anymore. It can be used to describe so many different bands in so many different genres. It would definitely be lazy to lump a band into a group with a bunch of other bands that it doesn't sound like.

Over the last few years, what groups do you think were unjustly given the "emo" tag?

Pretty much every band that has gained the tag after the mid '90's. Emo was originally used to describe bands like Rites of Spring and Inkwell. Then it was used to describe post-hardcore/indie bands like Sunny Day Real Estate and Mineral. Now in the 21st century it is used to describe pretty much every single pop-punk/pop-rock band that has somewhat emotional lyrics.

Back to indie critics, I know many of them would consider a lot of the bands you listen to as training wheels for more important bands that you'll get into once your musical education develops. What would you say to this?

I would say that sounds pretty elitist. I may one day enjoy bands that people deem to be "important," but that would never mean the talented bands I listen to now aren't important. I'd also say that those people need to open their eyes and ears because there are a lot of talented bands out there that may not be important or mainstream enough for them to enjoy.

Believe it or not, I have not lost my love for pop-punk. If done right, I can appreciate any type of music. In your opinion, what pop-punk or emo (post-emo?) bands should I be listening to right now?

Fall Out Boy, Take This To Your Grave
Valencia, We All Need a Reason to Believe
Hit The Lights, This is a Stick Up...Don't Make it a Murder
Four Year Strong, Rise or Die Trying

Alright, what bands are rubbish?

Well generally speaking I dislike it when bands do everything in their power to market their music to pre-teen girls. Bands like Boys Like Girls, Metro Station, and Cute Is What We Aim For certainly fall under that category.

Are there any bands hailed in certain indie rock circles that you think are pure rubbish right now?

There are definitely indie bands I am not a fan of, but I don't have the knowledge of indie music to be able to neccessarily distinguish the great from not so great. I've listened to enough pop-rock/pop-punk/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, to be able to tell you that one band does it much better than another.

But isn't there one or two hailed indie bands that you've heard and thought, "Wow, this totally doesn't do it for me"?

Radiohead's Kid A doesn't do it for me

Me neither, although "Idioteque" is a pretty damn good song.

By Jim Shearer

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Björk & Anthony

The visions of three directors-- Christoph Jantos of Berlin, Masahiro Mogari of Tokyo, and Marçal Cuberta Junca of Girona-- come together in the video for this Volta track.

Back in April of this yea,r Icelandic experimental songstress Bjork held a fan-made video contest for her Volta single at the time, "Innocence." The video premiered and the lucky winners, French duo Fred&Annabelle, found momentary international fame. But it turns out that Bjork also appreciated the competition's runner ups, so much so that she tapped three of them for her latest video, "The Dull Flame of Desire (Featuring Antony Hegarty)."

Each independent director produced a third of the video, as Bjork's website explains:

"Björk and Antony performed against green screen in New York then each director was sent the raw footage to edit and create their piece. Christoph Jantos (Berlin) Masahiro Mogari (Tokyo) and Marçal Cuberta Junca (Girona) are the chosen directors. Each director was given their own section of the film, to develop how they wished - on completion the 3 films were edited together in London to make the final music video."

The outcome is a progressively realistic animation piece that cleverly matches the continual swell of Bjork's intensely percussive track. Overall, this a very watchable piece of fan-made video work.

Via Stereogum.

Volta
[Atlantic/One Little Indian Records; 2008]

Sunday, September 14, 2008

The Man Who Sold The World




"The Man Who Sold the World" is a song by David Bowie. It is the title track of his third album, released in the U.S. in November 1970 and in the UK in April 1971. It was later re-popularised and introduced to a new generation by Nirvana's cover on their MTV Unplugged in New York album. In the wake of this cover, Bowie bemoaned the fact that when he performed the number himself he would encounter "kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.

In common with a number of tracks on the album, the song's themes have been compared to the horror/fantasy works of H. P. Lovecraft. The lyrics are also cited as reflecting Bowie's concerns with splintered or multiple personalities,and are believed to have been partially inspired by the poem "Antigonish" by William Hughes Mearns:

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish that man would go away

The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Friday, September 12, 2008

Gila - Beach House
Choir of Young Believers - Riot.mp3 -

Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac Cover) - Vampire Weekend

The Fiery Furnaces, Six Star General, Helio Sequence.

The Fiery Furnaces-Ex Guru



The Fiery Furnaces are a U.S. indie rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000. The band's primary members are Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger. The brother and sister are originally from Oak Park, Illinois, a near-western suburb of Chicago. Six Star General is three guys from Rhode Island, The style is beer drinking indie punk, but it isent as stupid as that might sound I think it is really well delivered and cool..The track I posted is a Jordan Kitchen Mix And Is more mellow than the band usually is... check six star general out, it could have been one of your favourite bands in the 90´s. The Helio Sequence is an indie rock band signed to label Sub Pop. The band was formed in 1999 in Beaverton, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, and consists of Brandon Summers on guitar and vocals and Benjamin Weikel, who has also played for Modest Mouse, on keyboards and drums. The band produces an eccentric brand of electronica-tinged indie rock. To date, they have released two albums on Sub Pop, two on Portland-based label Cavity Search and a self-released EP.


Ex-Guru - The Fiery Furnaces

Sun Up Pants Down (Jordan Kitchen Sink Mix) - Six Star General

Keep Your Eyes Ahead - The Helio Sequence

Thursday, September 11, 2008

James Sumner/Dirty Projectors Animation video

This beautiful "storytelling" animation/real life video by James Sumner blew me away when I first saw it, and in my opinion music and image, melts together creating a perfekt union. It makes me think a little bit of the old Disney movies, where people and animation melted together. It is psychedellica, political, experimental and not least great music. The Dirty Projectors is a band I recommend people to check out.

Dirty Projectors: The Getty Adress

Crystal Antlers: Psych, garage, lo-fi?

Pitchfork wrote: Catch one of their cramped live shows and you'll get their in-it-to-win-it intensity but not their expansiveness. Hear their self-released EP, and you're getting closer-- besides existing at the cross-section of so many styles, the disc finds the band at a more important nexus of potential and realization. In person, Crystal Antlers look like outcasts from six different bands, and at various points on this record, they sound like it, too: Merging psych, garage, lo-fi, prog, and countless other influences.

I Say..

It still gives me that feeling of being a little bit of an ousider and not really caring, cause you know that you are so much cooler, than all those other guys, with girlfriends and jobs... hmm? well, when I come across bands like Crystal Antlers it confirms in my book that you can still play indie noise, and still be captivating and dear, so I´m posting four songs played at picthforks roof top in New York (Don´t look Down) So you can have a listen, and judge for yourself.

A thousand eyes.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Ike & Tina Turner: More Dirty Laundry





Mp3:

Joan as Police Woman


Any discussion of a new album by Joan as Police Woman will usually be couched in the same introductory notes, for the benefit of those who weren't already introduced to them in their 2006 debut, Real Life. Most are quick to point out that frontwoman Joan Wasser's ex-boyfriend was the late Jeff Buckley, who died of a freak drowning accident after only releasing one album, Grace. Ok, that's out of the way. Of course, she's been in the music scene for years, playing with various acts. In To Survive, we certainly see many musical sources, and that her sound extends far beyond the niche that female singer-songwriters have been carving for themselves over the past few years.

From the first track, listeners could easily mistake this album for another Feist work, or maybe even Norah Jones, with the piano-centered "Honor Wishes" and drums that keep simple rhythm to Wasser's voice. In these instances, the instrumental parts seem merely to serve as a compliment to the vocal track, but Wasser escapes the monotony that can arise from listening to chanteuse albums where multiple tracks blend into one. Wasser's voice can inspire auditory associations from the obvious Feist to Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, and even Jeff Buckley, as "To be Lonely" sounds like it could have been in the studio sessions for Grace.

Focusing on these songs, however, would be a disservice to the important deviations that the album takes at other points. When the piano takes a backseat, as in "Start of My Heart," we get something like Sinead O'Connor, or, as in "Holiday," a taste of Zero 7. "Magpies," a song that's probably the most upbeat and engaging in the album, utilizes a horn section that seems to come right out of a Chicago song.

To Survive certainly won't bring any followers who aren't fans of the smoky lounge piano adult contemporary sound that hovers in the background of wine and cheese parties, but it is far from being another in a growing pile of albums that become indistinguishable from each other. With incorporations from a few diverse, yet oddly related sources, To Survive feels like an ex post facto missing link in the evolution of the genre. - Source: eric silver/ Baeble Music

Joan as Police Woman: The Ride


Marilyn Jean Buck, an American Poet




Marilyn Jean Buck (born 1947 in Jasper, Texas) is an American, a self-described life-long anti-racist and anti-imperialist activist, and a convicted felon, convicted of conspiracy in a number of violent crimes. She has been convicted for her participation in the 1979 prison break of black activist Assata Shakur, as well as conspiracy to commit armed robbery as a participant in the Brinks robbery of 1981, in which members of the Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army used a car owned by her and apartments rented in her name; and for her role in the 1983 U.S. Senate bombing, "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence." Buck received an 80-year sentence for the Capitol bombing that she is serving at FCI Dublin in California. Her Federal Prison register number is 00482-285.

While in prison, Buck has contributed articles to Sojourners Magazine, Monthly Review (Buck et al. 2001, Buck 2004), and Social Justice, as well as other journals and anthologies (James 2003, James 2005), on the subjects of women in prison, solitary confinement, and related issues. She received a PEN American Center prize for poetry in 2001.


Poem by Marylin Buck: Revelation
http://www.freedomarchives.org/wildpoppies/mp3/43revelationDavidM.mp3


V-1 Gallery In Copenhagen



A gallery in Copenhagen

I know this guy called Jesper Elg, from back in the days when I lived in Aarhus. He and some friends have this gallery in what is called " ködbyen" at vesterbro/Copenhagen, and I just want to recommend it to everyone who is interrested in art. I think they have very interresting artists, and if you are in the area, you should go in and have a look.
V1 Gallery was founded in 2002 by Jesper Elg and Peter Funch. In 2004 Mikkel Grønnebæk joined the gallery. The gallery represents a select group of emerging and established artists and is committed to introducing art with something at heart to an international audience. Seeing art as a profound and competent media for social and political engagement, the gallery has a desire to challenge both the viewers, the norms and itself and aspires to create a space with no limitations other than quality and nerve. The artists represented by V1 gallery work in a variety of media.

http://www.v-1.dk/

Bowerbirds: In Our Talons Video



Bowerbirds : In Our Talons

This is filled with mouantains, trees, snow and animated birds, and I think the very olden days sound of this band goes very well with the video. It reminds me of childrens tv when I was a kid.