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#albumoftheday / REVIEW: SINDY: SELFIE
BACKGROUND: French singer Sindy is a member of a collective called Team BS, which was started by a highly successful French rapper/producer who goes by the name La Fouine. The group is called Team BS because the name of La Fouine’s record label is Banlieue Sale (translation: Dirty Suburb). Most of the team consists of…
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#songoftheday / REVIEW: Elliphant – Club Now Skunk (Official Video) ft. Big Freedia
OK, there’s no denying that this song is just plain silly. I nearly laughed the first time I listened to it. But, it’s pretty original, aside from being reminiscent of M.I.A., so I decided to make it song of the day for that reason alone. Thing is, I played it a couple more times before…
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REVIEW: BOSTON CALLING: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
Dirty Bangs opened the festival on Sunday, but I missed them because the trains from Lowell to Boston only run every two hours on the weekend. (You’d think they would at least run as often as weekdays with people going into Boston for sporting events, concerts, and other leisure activities on the weekends, but, nope.) I…
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#songoftheday / REVIEW: BOOTS – “I Run Roulette”
If you miss the days of ’90’s club music, you’re going to rejoice when you hear this one. Massive, jumpy beats that call to mind old school techno merge with trip-hop percussion on speed; it’s an audible Frankenstein’s monster, comprised of the best bits of so many things that were previously alive, died, and have…
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REVIEW: BOSTON CALLING: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2015
Looking around at Boston Calling on Saturday, I found myself in awe of how much work goes into making the festival happen. Never mind hiring the artists and determining who’ll play which slots, just erecting the two stages and everything else that has to be assembled to turn City Hall Plaza from a wide open…
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BOSTON CALLING SEPTEMBER 2015: DAY TWO PREVIEW
Boston Calling day two was a blast yesterday! We’ll have full coverage tomorrow, but for now a few words… DOOMTREE: High energy rapping with big beats… BC might not have a hip-hop headliner this time around, but Doomtree filled the rap void nicely. STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS: Malkmus and company rocked the house with…
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REVIEW: BOSTON CALLING: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Boston Calling kicked off its sixth edition of the three day, 23 artists festival last night at City Hall Plaza and it was spectacular. People were calling it “folk night,” since the line up consisted of Gregory Alan Isakov, Of Monsters and Men, who performed at the inaugural BC during May 2013, and The Avett Brothers, who…
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#songoftheday / VIDEO: V V Brown – LAZARUS
As always, she’s brilliant.
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#songoftheday / REVIEW: ERIK HASSLE: “NATURAL BORN LOVERS”
Erik Hassle does his best Michael Jackson impersonation on his new song, “Natural Born Lovers,” which is a sweet mix of R&B and synth pop. “Natural born lovers never die,” he sings in a most sultry manner, making your internal temperature rise. Boy, is this a hot one.
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#albumoftheday / REVIEW: CHVRCHES: EVERY OPEN EYE
I was born in ’70’s and grew up in the ’80’s with a fondness for synthy pop like the Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and so many others. Practically every song on the radio relied heavily on sythesizers. It was wonderful. Even when my beloved heavy metal bands (now called hair metal) came along,…
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KILLER AUDIO: FATHER JOHN MISTY: “BLANK SPACE” + “WELCOME TO NEW YORK” (TAYLOR SWIFT COVERS)
As you can see and hear above, Father John Misty has covered Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space.” But where Ryan Adams said he was covering Taylor in the key of The Smiths, Father John Misty has done Taylor in the key of The Velvet Underground, singer Lou Reed in particular. And he sounds almost exactly like…
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…