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Monthly Archives: June 2008
On the Road
Richmond Fontaine make some the most expansive, richly textured alt. country around right now, but at the heart of their music are the powerful narratives of Willy Vlautin’s lyrics. Their most recent album Thirteen Cities includes tales about marginalised working … Continue reading
Resign the Simple Engine of Your Fears to Time
Over the course of three albums (plus a couple of odds-and-ends releases) Subtle have made music filled with conflict, representative of the confusing world we live in. The synthetic fuses with the organic; drum machines pound out tribal beats and … Continue reading
A Teenage Symphony to God.
I have been listening to the Fleet Foxes album, but didn’t want to post about it as just about everybody with a CD player and a pen has already reviewed it. BUT as a lover of nostalgic sound and hymnal … Continue reading
Exchanging All Kinds of Precious Gifts and Things
I enjoyed a lazy Sunday yesterday, watching the first part of Scorsese’s No Direction Home. As with his memoir Chronicles, it’s great to experience Dylan in his own words, talking about the artists who influenced him and his journey from … Continue reading
Friday Round-up
We have had a few nice bits written about us over the last few weeks on the internet. Here are some links: BBC Black country article about our launch at Lock Works and about what we do. Web 2.0 championeer … Continue reading
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Every Song Was Right, All That Wine Was Tight
The Hold Steady’s Stay Positive is all over the internet right now, just begging you to listen to it. It was posted as a stream on the band’s MySpace page last week and was released on iTunes yesterday. I suppose … Continue reading
J’Taime le pop music
A band that always pops into my head this sunny time of year is Tahiti 80. I bought their album Fosbury for a friend who loves French pop back in 2005. What is it about the French that mean they … Continue reading
The Printed Press
There’s a couple of great compilations free with both Uncut and bleeding-edge hipster bible Plan B this month. Uncut’s Long Time Gone collects together 15 “all-new American classics” and includes tracks by Isobel Campbell, Fleet Foxes, Silver Jews and Bon … Continue reading
Step Right Up
The Independent posted some great weekend reading yesterday – Tom Waits interviewing himself. Contained within are all the answers you would expect from one of music’s most enigmatic figures, a man who over nearly forty years has finely crafted his … Continue reading
