8:05 AM on Fri Dec 11 2009 by Robbie Daw
It’s been quite the high profile week for The-Dream. Not only did a wedding photo of the hit-making songwriter-producer and Christina Milian just surface, his Love vs. Money was also singled out in Time’s picks for the top albums of the year. Hopefully this calms him down after his recent Grammy snub.
Dirty Projectors, a favorite of Solange Knowles, ranked pretty high on the list, as did Lilith Fair 2010 performer Miranda Lambert.
Lady Gaga just managed to scrape in at #10 with The Fame Monster, and the publication notes “there’s still a little too much filler for global domination to be a real goal. But the hits… are towering and undeniable.”
Hop below the jump to see the 10 albums that Time magazine felt were worth their salt in 2009. More »
10:00 AM on Fri Oct 16 2009 by Maura
Our look at the closing lines of new music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to the New Moon soundtrack, the indie-kid-pandering tie-in to the forthcoming Twilight sequel that arrives in stores and online today: More »
1:30 PM on Mon Sep 21 2009 by Maura
The soundtrack listing for New Moon, the latest installment in the fangirl-insanity-inducing Twilight series, has been released, and as previously insinuated, it is pretty indie-tastic, with the likes of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, Swedish enigma Lykke Li, the Jay-Z-beloved Grizzly Bear, and the one-two punch of Bon Iver and St. Vincent backing up Death Cab For Cutie’s lead single “Meet Me On The Equinox.” Muse is also contributing a remix of a song from their new album The Resistance, although Matt Bellamy sure sounds like he wanted to take the path of least, um, resistance when getting on the record: “He wants a rendition of that, but the only thing with the new film is they want the songs to be exclusive to the film. So he’s asking if I mind doing, or if we mind doing an alternative version of it.” Um, OK then! Full track listing after the jump. More »
11:00 AM on Mon Aug 31 2009 by Maura
Yesterday, the harmonizing, indie-kid-beloved Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear played an outdoor show on its home borough’s waterfront, and at around 6 p.m. Twitter lit up with news from the show—not about the band’s performance, mind you, but about the appearance of Jay-Z and his lady Beyonce in the crowd, as documented by the above blurry cameraphone shot. Reactions included “!!!” and “OMG” and “Dammit!”, but honestly, why were people surprised? Five reasons why you all should have seen this coming after the jump. More »
10:00 AM on Wed Aug 19 2009 by Maura
I don’t know about you, but the dog days of August are making me long for some levity. And what better way to bring in some hilarity than to think about the late Boots Randolph’s delightful “Yakety Sax,” a.k.a. “that Benny Hill Show song,” a.k.a. the best way to make any YouTube clip hilarious? Noted “Yakety Sax” enthusiast Jess Harvell and I put together a pair of lists related to the song—namely, a top 10 countdown of artists who need to cover the song soon, and a counterpoint list of 10 artists who should never get within a 25-mile radius of its implied hilarity, for fear of ruining it for all time. The countdowns after the jump. More »
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4 Non Blondes,
Baz Luhrmann,
Brokencyde,
Cat Power,
Creed,
Dave Matthews Band,
Grizzly Bear,
James Taylor,
Kronos Quartet,
Mariah Carey,
Mighty Mighty Bosstones,
Phish,
R. Kelly,
Rahzel,
Slayer,
Sting,
Tom Waits,
Weird Al Yankovic,
Wendy & Lisa
2:00 PM on Wed Jun 3 2009 by Maura
I haven’t reported much on the album charts lately, because, frankly, “another sucky week of sucky sales” isn’t really news, and really there needs to be a move toward a better way of gauging popular interest in music, if only because actually going out to buy an album is an experience that fewer and fewer people are even able to engage in, let along want to. But the news that Grizzly Bear’s much-hyped, long-ago-leaked Veckatimest had landed in the top 10 this week is notable, if only because of a note buried in this week’s Billboard story running down the mag’s top albums: More »
9:30 AM on Tue May 26 2009 by Maura
Is it just me, or does the dollop of Best New Music stew that Pitchfork’s Paul Thompson ladled out to Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest today read less like a rave and more like a justification: “Sure, they seem kinda boring (and they def. need to quit it with the microphoblogging), but you should see them live! They try really hard! HARMONIES, OK!” It’s like Danny Gokey’s “A for effort” after The Scream, only with a Chinese Democracy reference in the opening paragraph and more references to being “fascinated.” Props to the guy in the MBV comments for calling the nine point oh score in that site’s predictatron game, btw. [Pitchfork] More »
3:00 PM on Mon May 4 2009 by Maura
Dear New York: Please get back to me six months after the promo cycle for Veckatimest has ended so you can test the staying power of your Grizzly Bear profile’s subhed, which states that the foursome (whose new album comes out next week) is “everybody’s favorite New York band.” More »
12:00 PM on Tue Mar 3 2009 by Christopher R. Weingarten
Last night, Brooklyn indie-rockers Grizzly Bear had a little problem with the pipes in their Yellow House… they were leaking all over the place! Their album Veckatimest—which has a release date of May 26—hit the net in a glorious 128kbps rip, which is essentially the equivalent of a MySpace stream underwater. Twitter-happy Grizz dude Edward Droste let loose a hesitant (albeit since-BALEETED) statement on the leak, and his Twittering fans came to his aid… in the form of squealing, spoiled, entitled brats begging for more hand-outs!
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10:00 AM on Wed Dec 10 2008 by Maura
The rise of the artist blog as official mouthpiece in 2008 may have been in part because record labels can’t afford to hire decent PR staff anymore, but hey, you take the good with the bad. And there was a lot of good to come out of artists hitting up Tumblr, MySpace, et al; these blogs were really effective at humanizing the vacuum presented by endless paparazzi shots and press releases, whether through “clarity posts,” in which artists put gossips on blast, or posts explaining what life is like when bands graduate to bigger tours, or just posts about how they liked shoes. After the jump, nine examples of why more artists should make a tour stop in Blogtown. Not only is the trip entertaining, its fruits give people like me great material!
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Animal Collective,
Courtney Love,
Fall Out Boy,
Grizzly Bear,
Gym Class Heroes,
John Mayer,
Lily Allen,
Perez Hilton,
Pete Wentz,
Tracey Thorn,
Travis McCoy,
Weird Al Yankovic
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