We all come to music differently, but it never ceases to amaze me when I discover an artist from an unlikely source. I had been hearing this voice in a television commercial for weeks before I finally decided to check it out. It was just a tiny snippet of a song in some smart phone [...]

Sometimes there are bands that I’ve heard of, and read things about, but never actually heard much of. This is the case with The Pop Group, a late 70s, early 80s post punk band that falls in the same wheelhouse as bands I already love like Joy Division, Gang of Four and Talking Heads. I [...]

Earlier today, my friend and co-worker Lars tweeted:
“Accidentally typed “Punk Moon” instead of “Pink Moon.” Oh, Nick Drake, the world would have been so different.”
Which got me to reply:
How hasn’t there been a punk tribute to Nick Drake yet? We got the title right there! How do we make this happen?
Thanks to another friend, and [...]

Whoa, how did I manage to miss this one for at least a few years? Awhile back you might recall that Radiohead released “stems” for their song “Reckoner” from In Rainbows. These stems basically are individual tracks from the song, not quite the raw multi-track recordings, but rather they were grouped into different pieces like [...]

File this one under “This seems like something I should have known… but didn’t.”
This morning I was listening to the wonderful Seattle radio station KEXP online and heard a moody, grooving song by David Holmes called “Don’t Die Just Yet.”
(Holmes, you might know from being the musician, producer and DJ behind many film [...]

All summer Beck has been slowly trickling out tracks from his Record Club as he Nigel Godrich and cast of other friends and musicians have covered The Velvet Underground & Nico in its entirety. He has also been releasing ‘acoustic’ versions of his 2008 album Modern Guilt, interviewing Tom Waits and Will Ferrell and unearthing [...]

So I’ve heard some of The Beatles’ remasters coming out next Wednesday (9/9/09!!!) and all I can say is that they’re stunning. I’ve heard a handful of tracks from all the albums — standouts from what I’ve heard seem to be “I Am The Walrus,” “I’ve Got A Feeling,” “Daytripper,” “She’s Leaving Home” etc — [...]

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Lately I feel like this has become some sappy Flaming Lips fan blog, but this one was too good to pass up, and what can I say? I am fan.
Anyone who knows me even a little knows that I love a great cover song. One that’s not only a [...]

Tonight I was watching last night’s Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and in a joke about NASA accidentally taping over the original tape of the moonlanding, they showed a brief clip of this beauty:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo[/youtube]
I don’t know what else I can say about this. It’s amazing. The end.

Today I’m doing some research on a band for an upcoming review. While surfing around the internet for articles and official bios, I found many passing references and comparisons to two other bands, both I had never heard of before, as being influences. Those bands are The Deep and The Seeds; both relics of [...]