The South by Southwest Festival in Austin begins today, showcasing the best of contemporary music, art, film, and technology. In honor of the event, iTunes is offering a free 21-song playlist features artists performing at the event.
I'm listening to mix right now, and I gotta say: there's some stuff here that's gonna have a big impact in 2011. You want to know these… read more
Over the past few years, I've sorta developed an obsessive hobby of trying to find non-Andy Williams or Nat King Cole Christmas songs to soundtrack the kind of holiday that I've come to love as an adult.
I've now got a collection of almost 400 (nearly a day's worth) of holiday and winter songs by indie and modern rock artists, as well as a few classics that get ignored by soft rock stations, that have come to sound like Christmas to me.
I've assembled a free playlist of some of my favorites; just click the play button below and settle in for a long winter's… read more
A fall friendly collection of five albums, totally worth your time.
Hey Rosetta - Into Your Lungs (Sonic Records)
Canadians have been hip to this album since 2008, but its just been released in the U.S.
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Last Tuesday brought us "Together," the fifth album by Canadian powerpop supergroup, The New Pornographers, and I scooted out to the record store to grab my copy just before the hail and freezing rain hit over the weekend.
After listen four: it's good. Really good. Besides a few more noticeable R&B references (the just-behind-the-beat pizzacato strings that open the album on "Moves," for example) it doesn't really push into any new territory. And its doubtful that any fans will really care. The formula is great - super catchy, soaring melodies mixed with the odd dissonant chord or change, and arrangements that provide… read more
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