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What do post-modern sensibilities, shortwave radio static, September 11th, and alt-country-pop-rock have in common?
The correct answer is Wilco’s album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but I also would’ve accepted ...
... hardest rappers around. But if you listen to any of his latest releases (Camp and Culdesac) you know that Glover isn’t a slouch or a jokester when it comes to his music. As Glover defines it on his album , ...
... strains simultaneously joyful and somber. Each of Stevens' album s reveal unique regions of his imagination and surprise in their own ways: from the inventive, Americana-celebrating tunes of Come on, Feel ...
... to pay attention. Mumford and Sons, with their debut album Sigh No More, are a far cry from being the biggest band on the planet, but they certainly are positioned as one of the best new ones. Paste describes ...
When sifting through this year's favorite album s, it did not take us long to deem David Bazan's Curse Your Branches "Album of the Year." As we have already mentioned, recognizing particular artists/album s ...
... 2009 are listed by US release date rather than some ranking of 'greateness' - if they made the list, we think they are worth your time and money. Soon we will announce our rednoW film (and album ) of the ...
... our mantra since the inception of rednoW to simply point others to experiences of wonder. These two lists (music, film) are attempting to do nothing else.
Album s
Music has always possessed a certain ...
... track for The Low Anthem's second album , isn't a hymn per se. You won't find this haunting tale nor it's companions on the album bound and hidden in a pew rack, though this hasn't stopped the New England ...
... power matches up with all the brokenness in the world. Because of this, there are those who have describe Curse Your Branches as Bazan's "break-up album with God." But Bazan refutes that to some degree. ...
... Your Branches proves to be his most autobiographical (and theological) album to date. Though committed to shed the Pedro moniker, Bazan's captivating sound remains. Hypnotic vocals. Patient melodies. ...
... the film's soundtrack, including songs by rednoW-favorite Album Leaf.
Helvetica explores the way we create and interpret each others' creations. While each of us creates and interprets, Helvetica invites ...
... through the warm summer night. Lyrics like "Words mean more at night / light means more" from the song "Words" (I will leave you to assign or deny the profundity of that lyric) give the album both depth ...
One of the pioneers of the emo-rock genre, it is probably fair to call Jeremy Engik (melo)dramatic. His 2006 album World Waits is a huge, sweeping sound that can only be described as drama in instrumental ...
... to have had some dispute with his record label over a song on the album he is currently working on, "Stockholm Syndrome." Over the past few years Webb (the former front man of the Christian band Caedmon's ...
When it comes to bands from the other side of the pond, everyone knows the likes of U2, Oasis and Coldplay, but not enough are engaging with a band that has now released their fourth quality studio album : ...
... and sad songs helped us understand more about the country we were visiting. Having spent a few weeks listening to Lisa Hannigan's new album , Sea Sew, I have to imagine that she grew up listening to this ...
... about DWTN is the overall tone and quality of the album (s). The vibe of introspection, pain and hope is consistent through out the entire compilatioin. What makes this more than just an AIDS fundraiser ...
Every time U2 releases a new album , the rumors begin of it being another "throw-back" Joshua Tree. Fortunately, No Line of the Horizon continues the tradition of squashing such rumors. Sure, don't get ...
What happened to the pissed-off punksters from Dublin who were writing songs with titles like "I Threw a Brick Through a Window," "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Bullet in a Blue Sky"? U2's latest album seems ...
Bono used to be the subject. "I still haven't found what I'm looking for." But for the track "Moment of surrender" from U2's newly released album , No Line on the Horizon, Bono flips that around, singing ...
... explores this theme in the concluding song of his brooding album Nebraska as he recounts scene after scene - a woman waiting for her husband to come back after leaving her, a baby being baptized, a preacher ...
Sometimes it's hard to know how to take an EP. Is it a bridge between album s? Is it a look at what is to come? Is it a small group of songs that don't fit on the upcoming/past album ? I'm not sure I can ...
... gift was given in its fullest during Springsteen's performance in DC. Springsteen took the stage with a red-clad choir to sing the title track from his album The Rising. This song came out around the ...
... line up and jump at the chance to say, “boo!” They already are. I am of course talking about the release of U2’s new single, “Get On Your Boots,” from their upcoming album , No Line On The Horizon. It ...
... will catch. p.s. He is saying "dancer". - BD Human - The Killers MY ONLY OFFER (Mates of State) - This might be my (MB) favorite overall album of the year (or maybe Bon Iver's album ...still can't decide...) ...
... Clearly the chosen songs must reflect the nature of the occasion. But if we’re honest, these songs also say something about us, as the creators of these collections. Choosing our album of the year presented ...
... than some ranking of 'greateness' - if they made the list, we think they are worth your time and money.* But do check back in the next week, we will announce our rednoW film (and album ) of the year. Think ...
... - it is simply what we happened to engage with in 2008 that has caused us to think more about what is going on in this world, in our lives and the reality behind it all. Album s Thanks to transcendent sounds ...
Have you ever wondered what the show Seinfeld would look like if it was made into a hip-hop album ? Yeah, I hadn't either until I heard about Wale (pronounced wah-lay). Wale, the son of Nigerian parents, ...
... One of the singles off of her album , 19, "Chasing Pavements" is a song she wrote after breaking up with her boyfriend. (19 is the age Adele was when the album dropped.) The song does well on its own, but ...
... has created for many in our country. And therein lies the power of art. Art conveys an experience, while facts and numbers convey a debate. Maybe that's why Neil Young's latest album , "Living With War," ...
Say no! to being cool. Say yes to being happy. It sounds like a pretty good plan, or like a pretty good album title. In fact it's the title of the latest album from Softlightes, which is the home ...
... after their first album and he needed a more un-bias opinion. be that as it may…below i give to you 3 minutes and 50 seconds of peer joy. interestingly enough this comes from a group of Second ...
... nice, the lawns are nice, and if the suburbs were a band they'd have released Augustana's Can't Love, Can't Hurt. The album is just flat out "nice," with its melodic piano and ...
... "Pork and Beans," Weezer has buried the MTV era and embraced the network that matters most, YouTube. The first single on their red album is classic power pop: short, sweet, and anthemic. But ...
Attempting to describe the debut album from Bon Iver is not unlike describing the magnolia tree currently blooming in my back yard. I could write about the colors and smells and the way the lawn under ...
Counting Crows, in their latest release Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings walk the razor line between reinvention and recapturing the past. The album , built on the theme of frenetic Saturday nights ...
It usually takes me several listens to an album before I feel like I have even begun to process it. Considering that R.E.M.’s Accelerate just hit the market this Tuesday, I’m not sure where ...
... whole catalogs of the above artists. But it's hard to defend the majority of hip-hop, even the majority of the above artists' catalogs. That's why when Lupe Fiasco put out his latest album , "The Cool," ...
... It turns out that Beam's slow, rhythmic guitar playing on the album s is an artistic choice, as he proved on Friday that he is an absolute ninja with a six-string (the only other person I've seen live ...
... In other words, it needs a film. And in TCO's case, composition takes place minus the film....
Well... sort of.
The album has been called an "invisible" or "imagined" ...
... hip-hop off as lewd and non-redeeming it is a big victory for those of us who love finding wonder in unlikely places.
On the seventh track of his album Kingdom Come, which served as Jay-Z's ...
If you've caught Jose Gonzalez's new album , "In Our Nature," you know that Gonzalez is dealing with some large subject matter in a much more overt way than he did on his previous album , "Veneer." While ...
Anytime "the" is added before a category such as
"album ", it becomes a debatable topic. It is debatable because it reflects an
objective stance on something that is actually subjective. ...
