Jihae (pronounced “jee-heh”) has been at the creative helm of the artistic realm for years; having acting, composing and songwriting in her background. She was born in South Korea but was raised in Nigeria and Sweden. Jihae has also spent some time living in the UK before settling down and making New York City her home.
On her acclaimed debut album “My Heart Is An Elephant” (2007), Jihae collaborated with visionary filmmaker Michel Gondry on percussion and kicked off …
Surrounding their SXSW 2010 debut, everyone’s new favorite band from New York City, The Freelance Whales, will be playing a ton of dates surrounding with fellow buzz bands Cymbals Eat Guitars and Bear in Heaven.
The Audition has been around for a while. I’ll never forget when I first saw them live in 2005 – I thought, “If I was to be in a band, this is the kind of band I would want to be in.” They had the fresh energy of a legitimate group of musicians really trying to make it.
1. The Children
The clunk and clank of a mysterious forced march of caught bandits in some futuristic landscape bring in the reverberations and voice manipulation of Chris Keating, very similar to what you might hear from The Knife, rendering him almost completely unintelligible. From an instrumental standpoint, you’ll hear some nice pianos, xylophone and even a faint horn. This is such a unique and interesting way to start off, I’m convinced the song is used as a secret code to …
A Gil Scott-Heron release is an event to be lauded and explored, for this review I will try to move away from my knee jerk reaction for the former and attempt the latter.
Gil’s latest release I’m New Here, released on independent label XL Recordings and produced by label owner Richard Russell is a well crafted work. The creative influence from the owner of perhaps the dopest label around is clearly apparent on “The Crutch” and “Your Soul And Mine.”
This is …
Stirring up a big boiling pot of industry buzz is a most prolific DJ and nephew to the late great Alice Coltrane, Flying Lotus.
The famed beat master is all set to release his third studio album, Cosmogramma, April 4th of this year.
There are several concrete reasons this album is generating so much buzz:
First off, Radiohead front-man Thom Yorke lends his vocals to the track “…And the World Laughs With You”.
Secondly, this is FlyLo’s 3rd studio album. While …
Photo by Laura Heffington
My first entry into this SXSW blogging extravaganza is a California band on the 2010 SXSW roster called Princeton. When I first listened to the beginning bars of their song “Calypso,” my first thought was, “ok, here’s another Vampire Weekend soundalike.” But as the Kivel brothers’ deep vocals drifted over the uplifting twang of Princeton’s backing instrumentals, I was pleasantly surprised. Princeton incorporates several individualist details in an oracularly pleasing way, which, rather than sounding chaotic, works.
Philadelphia’s doom synth trio Cold Cave have released a new video “Life Magazine”.
Currently, the trio is delivering up their dystopian melodies to countless hoards of disaffected you (dates after the jump).
Cold Cave are slated to release a full length on Matador records in 2010 – highly anticipated.
Life Magazine…enjoy
This spring Broken Social Scene will release a new LP on May, 4th (title still pending) via Arts and Crafts .
The new album comes five years after their last self-titled release and will feature contributions from Leslie Feist, Evan Cranley, Emily Haines and former singer/drummer of Death From Above 1979 -Sebastien Grainger.
Said album was produced by John McEntire (member of Tortoise and the Sea and Cake) who has previously recorded Stereolab and Teenage Fanclub.
The list of people involved …
FYF Fest and San Diego’s The Soft Pack are gearing up for a 10 show marathon across Los Angeles on Saturday, January 30th.
Starting at 10 am the four piece will be traveling via FYF Fest’s veggie-bus to 10 different locations around LA.
As the day progresses, and people get more wasted, additional bands Avi Buffalo and Crystal Antlers will join the mayhem.
The marathon commemorates the release of The Soft Pack’s self-titled LP, out February 2nd, via Kemado Records.
Fans are …
