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Review: Eden James – Going Down
It’s hard to get inside my ears; it’s even harder to get inside my brain. If anything I have ever written for Love is Pop consists in pure, unaltered fangasm or clearly a cry for help, sometimes, it feels good to focus on someone with talent, who sends you music just because they can, that…
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REVIEW: LITTLE BOOTS: NOCTURNES
It seems like just yesterday Little Boots — otherwise known as Victoria Hesketh — released her amazing debut album Hands, but it actually came out in 2009, and so four years have passed between Hands’ release and the release of her sophomore effort Nocturnes, which was released on May 3, 2013. There are a couple…
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REVIEW: GABRIELLE APLIN: PANIC CORD E.P.
Singer/songwriter Gabrielle Aplin’s new single, “Panic Cord,” is taken from her album English Rain, which was just released in England today on May 13, 2013. (She is, in fact, English.) It’s the opening track on the album and for good reason: it’s a highly addictive song that showcases Gabrielle’s ability to write poignant lyrics and…
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REVIEW: THE JOY FORMIDABLE: A MINUTE’S SILENCE
The Joy Formidable’s “A Minute’s Silence” was released on vinyl on Record Store Day this year. An exquisite piano ballad, it doesn’t have any percussion or guitars, but it’s easily one of their very best songs to date. The melody is beautiful but melancholic and the piano is rather dark. The song also uses keyboards…
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Review: The National – Trouble Will Find Me
This might be one of the most anticipated releases of 2013. The National’s sixth studio release is a beacon of what Brooklyn-based indie rock can offer: it features appearances from Sufjan Stevens, Sharon Van Etten and Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry. Following 2010’s highly praised High Violet, Trouble Will Find Me has slowly leaked through…
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Jack White covers U2’s Love Is Blindness… Again
Today, Bono turns 52. Today, the world finds out that Jack White’s cover of Love Is Blindness is part of The Great Gatsby’s soundtrack. Today, I need to revisit a few of my basic rules. Achtung Baby is unequivocally one of the most visited and revisited U2 albums, considered a landmark in alternative rock and…
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VIDEO: VANESSA PARADIS: “LOVE SONG”
They’ve finally made Vanessa Paradis’ new video for her single “Love Song” viewable from within the States. The song is taken from her exquisite album Love Songs, which will be released in France on May 13th.
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VIDEO: THE NATIONAL: “SEA OF LOVE”
Here is The National’s first video from the album Trouble Will Find Me, “Sea Of Love,” out May 20(UK)/21(US).
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Sarah Factor: “I wanted to learn how to be great at being myself and create that way.”
New York City is a place filled with unfulfilled dreams, unrealised hopes, and infinite potential. It is both exhausting and exhilarating. It’s difficult to find who sounds best and who matters in the general cacophony of the city, from open mics in the West Village to that one amazing once-in-a-lifetime concert at the Bowery Ballroom.…
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VIDEO: IMAGINE DRAGONS: “DEMONS”
Here’s Imagine Dragons’ latest video, “Demons”…
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REVIEW: YEAH YEAH YEAHS: MOSQUITO
It’s funny that the opening track on this album is called “Sacrilege” because that’s what I initially felt about this album. Oh, like the rest of the world, I thought “Sacrilege” was a fantastic track. It’s truly amazing, the way it builds and builds, becoming something greater and more emotive as it goes on, and…
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REVIEW: SHE & HIM: VOLUME THREE
When I see She & Him in concert in Boston this July the opening act will be Camera Obscura and I can’t think of a better match. For it’s Camera Obscura that immediately comes to mind when I listen to She & Him’s new album, Volume 3. A mere ten seconds into the opening track,…
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VIDEO: LAURA MARLING: “MASTER HUNTER” NSFW
“Take me somewhere I can grow, give me something, let me go, or tell me something I don’t know,” she sings, armed with her acoustic guitar, with the tongue of a poisonous viper. You do not want to fuck with her. “I am a master, I am a master, I am a master, hunter,” she…
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SINGLE REVIEW: WE THE KINGS: “FIND YOU THERE”
Bradenton, Florida’s finest are back with a red hot new single every bit as infectious as past hits like “Secret Valentine,” “Heaven Can Wait,” “Party, Fun, Love & Radio,” and “Friday is Forever.” It begins with twinkly guitars then the drums and vocals kick right in and immediately hook you. “I’m all alone / holding…
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REVIEW: MAJOR LAZER: FREE THE UNIVERSE
Until recently, I thought that Diplo and Major Lazer were two different people. Alas, I was wrong. Diplo is Major Lazer, Major Lazer being his reggae-ish alter-ego. Although many of the songs on Free the Universe stray pretty far from reggae. And I have to say — this is a very difficult album to digest.…
Thank you for your comment. I don’t know what to think about Marilyn Manson and the Evan Rachel Wood thing…
I met Marilyn Manson twice. I was probally 24? Blonde hair and skinny. He had someone film each one of…
I enjoy getting lost in the gentle aesthetically psychedelic dreamscape that Still Corners creates. I’m an old man who lived(s)…
Greetings! I just released my vocal and songwriter debut today called The Kryptonite EP and was reaching out to send…
Thank you for posting this clip. Truly one of the most astonishing perfoances I’ve ever seen. Kudos to James Cordon…