January 2011
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Jan 31st
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Spoon | The Ghost Of You Lingers // Got Nuffin’ (A Takeaway Show) via crumbler: pitchfork: Spoon play winsome acoustic versions of “The Ghost of You Lingers” and “Got Nuffin” in a Paris record store for pop-up performance show “La Blogotheque”. How did I miss this?!? Blogotheque keeps on serving up the gorgeous high-resolution performances of both well-known and obscure artists. Simply the...
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January '11 Music Roundup
January marked a change of pace for 1000x/minute, particularly in two ways: the new site layout (once again, done by my good friend fictionalhead) helped me feel a little bit more comfortable in my clothes here, and my decision to add more commentary to the music & videos has certainly filled the page out nicely (though it’s been a challenge for my writing skills). No matter the...
Jan 30th
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Dodos | Trades & Tariffs / Men Even if the set is a few months old and there are no new songs featured from the band’s upcoming No Color LP, Dodos are mesmerizing to watch. I can’t explain how two guys who barely move around on stage can convey such energy that it electrifies their performance. It may be that they seem completely sold out to every word of every song, every beat to...
Jan 28th
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Chris Bathgate | No Silver (Bridgehouse Session) The good people from Mostly Midwest recently posted a Bridgehouse Session featuring the awesome, awesome talent of Chris Bathgate. The above video is a compilation of great live video editing and an artist in his creative prime - each separate part in the song was individually played by Bathgate, including a great moment where he plays a cymbal...
Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Toro Y Moi | Still Sound Quite unlike any of the other artists who have been roped under the term “chillwave”, Toro Y Moi are different to me in the sense that I know what they look like. I mean, frontman Chazwick Bundick shows no reservations in being a dancy, up-front nerdy/cool guy - maybe it’s because I haven’t really sought out the faces behind bands like Washed Out,...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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The Beets | Watching TV Hey I’m comin’ over, we won’t have to talk Let all of the BRIGHT LIGHTS come out of the box. This may be my new theme song for those nights in. The Beets Stay Home LP features some more “tell it like it is” noise-punk along with some pretty fantastic cover art and is available (along with their Time Brought Age 7”) over at Captured...
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Aloe Blacc | I Need A Dollar (Live On Conan) Well, mark this under pleasant surprise for a Friday morning - my favorite song from last year apparently got some great exposure on Conan O’Brien’s new show last night! Aloe Blacc got a little dancy while belting out his (in my opinion) career-defining track off of Good Things, which hopefully will allow a whole new set of people to see...
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Cloudy Busey | Pound Your Town To Hell While the above track is credited to Cloudy Busey, it’s actually the similar-sounding (differently named) solo side project for Japan-based Ice Cream Shout’s frontman. While it’s technically not the same band, the music for both projects is new enough at this point that everything is kind of lumped together under the Ice Cream Shout label....
Jan 20th
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Daytrotter: Reader's Choice 2010 →
A few weeks ago voting began for the Daytrotter reader’s poll: Via their twitter account, listeners were asked to select their favorite song among all the gold offered in 2010’s Daytrotter concert series. I immediately wasted no time in voting for Gayngs’ By Your Side (Sade Cover), but figured there had to be some amazing sessions that had slipped by me. Well, turns out I was...
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S. Carey | In The Dirt Caught wind of this via musicforant’s twitter account. For anyone who hasn’t had the pleasure of experiencing S. Carey’s All We Grow I fully believe you’re depriving yourself. The video is a perfect complement to the song that captures how well Carey can find beauty in sparseness. All We Grow was one of the first album reviews I did for 1000x/minute...
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Wanda Jackson | Thunder On The Mountain (Bob Dylan Cover feat. Jack White) Was going to write a bit about this, but twentyfourbit already summed it up pretty well: As promised, the new video for Wanda Jackson and Jack White’s take on Bob Dylan’s 2006 Modern Times opener, “Thunder on the Mountain,” arrived this morning. In addition to sprucing up the arrangement with horns and scorching guitar...
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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We All Scream for Ice Cream Shout
Mark this under the list of bands who slip in to your music library one day unnoticed and then proceed to take over slowly until one day it clicks. It was last September, I think, after a fantastic summer in Kentucky and recent move to Michigan that I heard Tattooed Tears through the wonderful MOKB, who have been championing Ice Cream Shout for a good while now. The song itself wasn’t ever...
Jan 17th
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We All Scream for Ice Cream Shout
Mark this under the list of bands who slip in to your music library one day unnoticed and then proceed to take over slowly until one day it clicks. It was last September, I think, after a fantastic summer in Kentucky and recent move to Michigan that I heard Tattooed Tears through the wonderful MOKB, who have been championing Ice Cream Shout for a good while now. The song itself wasn’t ever...
Jan 17th
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The Pass | Walk Away Caught this one via the band’s twitter feed. Arguably the greatest music video about a group of dudes playing foursquare, EVAR (prove me wrong). Directed by Zach Hart, one of We Listen For You’s contributors. Grab The Pass’ debut album BURST at their bandcamp page. Previously: Colors
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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BBC Sounds of 2011: James Blake →
Caught wind of this via fellow blogger (and friend) hyakumimi - BBC has their Sound of 2011 series up right now which highlights 5 of the year’s “most promising new artists”. I’m sure they’re all good (have yet to check through the others), but James Blake comes in at a strong, strong #2 with three live offerings from his upcoming Self-Titled album, which I’m...
Jan 15th
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BBC Sounds of 2011: James Blake →
Caught wind of this via fellow blogger (and friend) hyakumimi - BBC has their Sound of 2011 series up right now which highlights 5 of the year’s “most promising new artists”. I’m sure they’re all good (have yet to check through the others), but James Blake comes in at a strong, strong #2 with three live offerings from his upcoming Self-Titled album, which I’m...
Jan 15th
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100-MIMI: Another 2010 mix →
Fellow music blogger and good friend (from my Japan days!) hyakumimi has an ear for the slightly more electronic side of things that, for lack of time, I have no hope of exploring as thoroughly as he does. But that’s okay! His 2010 mix of songs is guaranteed to have some tunes that you haven’t heard but wish you had. hyakumimi: …I’d never actually mixed anything before, so it...
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