IS THIS SO GOOD SO MANY YEARS LATER?! I STILL think that NO DJ is fucking with this. The drums, technical scratching, sampling genius. The story that Shadow is conveying. No words can even express how i feel about this. UGH!!! EVREMPNDIVACOIC!!
James Blake is going on a rather extensive tour coming hot off of the release of his latest LP, “Overgrown”. Check out the video for the title track, as well as the tour dates listed below, provided courtesy of Pitchfork:
05-24 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound Festival
05-29 Madrid, Spain – Sala Capital
05-30 Porto, Portugal – Optimus Primavera Sound
06-01 Dublin, Ireland – Forbidden Fruit
06-04-05 Tokyo, Japan – Studio Coast
06-06 Nagoya, Japan – Club Diamond Hall
06-07 Osaka, Japan – Hatch
06-22 Istanbul, Turkey – Efes One Love Festival
06-23 Hvar Island, Croatia – FOR Festival
06-30 Pilton, England – Glastonbury Festival
07-04 Paris, France – Cité de la Musique
07-05 Amsterdam, Netherlands – PITCH Festival
07-06 Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
07-07 Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07-14 Montreux, Switzerland – Montreux Jazz Festival
07-16 Athens, Greece – Ejekt Festival
07-19 Berlin, Germany – Melt Festival
07-21 Beccles, England – Latitude Festival
07-25 Perth, Australia – Astor Theater
07-26 Perth, Australia – Astor Theater
07-28 Byron Bay, Australia – Splendour in the Grass
07-29 Sydney, Australia – Sydney Opera House
07-30 Sydney, Australia – Sydney Opera House
07-31 Melbourne, Australia – The Palais Theatre
08-02 Auckland, New Zealand – Town Hall
08-09 Oslo, Norway – Øya Festival
08-10 Gothenburg, Sweden – Way Out West Festival
08-17 St. Pölten, Austria – FM4 Frequency Festival
08-31 Zurich, Switzerland – Zurich Openair
09-13 Portmeirion, England – Festival No. 6
09-18 Glasgow, England – O2 ABC
09-20 Manchester, England – Ritz
09-21 Birmingham, England – Institute
09-22 Oxford, England – O2 Academy
09-24 Bristol, England – O2 Academy
09-25-26 London, England – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
10-06 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
10-08 Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom
10-09 Munich, Germany – Muffathalle
10-10 Cologne, Germany – E-Werk
10-12 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
10-13 Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
10-14 Paris, France – Trianon
10-22 Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern
10-23 Los Angeles, CA – The Hollywood Forever Cemetery
10-24 San Diego, CA – House of Blues
10-25 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
10-27 Dallas, TX – House of Blues
10-28 Austin, TX – Emo’s
10-29 Houston, TX – House of Blues
10-30 New Orleans, LA – Republic
10-31 Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
11-02 Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club
11-03 Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club
11-04 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
11-05 Boston, MA – House of Blues
11-06 New York, NY – Terminal 5
11-07 New York, NY – Terminal 5
11-09 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis
11-11 Ann Arbor, MI – Michigan Theater
11-13 Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
11-14 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
11-15 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
11-16 Iowa City, IA – The Englert Theatre
11-19 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theatre
11-20 Seattle, WA – Showbox Sodo
11-21 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
I am moving from the house I am currently in. I know it will be a better move for my family. However, I can’t shake the feeling of being kind of sad that I am leaving. My uncle wants me to tell him how I feel, but how can I possibly do such a thing? It will break his heart if I tell him I don’t want to move.
My aunt has been pushing this move, but she does not understand. I grew up here, over the last 7 years. Through my Junior High and High School graduations and most of my collegiate life. My music tastes have evolved here, my first girlfriend knew this house as her own. She is not connected like I am.
Then, I realize the World is Mine. As well as your’s. And everything in it. And you do not have to stay somewhere if you don’t want to. This song remains one of the cornerstones of Hip-Hop greatness, as well as a mental medicine for my cerebral cortex.
Is great. Mexican Summer is killing it this year. Music has been great and its not even half way through the year yet.
Read my review of Mexican Summer labelmate Lilacs & Champagne’s sophmore LP, “Danish & Blue” here:
Cream yourself when you hear this info:
Savages (one of best debuts of this year)? Check.
Portishead? Check.
Iggy Pop? Check
On tour…..wait huh?
That is RIGHT, 2 pioneering groups coupled with a soon to be pioneering collective on tour, for the summer….Be excited.
05-07 Nottingham, England – Bodega
05-09 London, England – Ministry of Sound
05-13 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique-Orangie
05-15 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
05-16 Cologne, Germany – Geb9
05-17 Berlin, Germany – Lido
05-19 Frankfurt, Germany – Zoom
05-20 Zurich, Switzerland – Kinski
05-21 Milan, Italy – Magnolia Club
05-22 Nimes, France – TBA
05-23 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound Festival
05-25 London, England – Field Day Festival
05-29 London, England – Red Gallery
06-01 Porto, Portugal – Primavera Sound
06-06 Paris, France – La Maroquinerie
06-08 Manchester, England – Parklife Festival,
06-18 Berlin, Germany – Zitadelle *
06-19 Prague, Czech Republic – Tipsport *
06-20 London, England – Yoko Ono’s Meltdown #
06-22 Hilvarenbeek, Holland – Best Kept Secret Festival
06-28-29 Pilton, England – Glastonbury Festival
07-04 Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07-11 New York, NY – Webster Hall
07-12 Boston, MA – Middle East
07-13 Washington D.C. – Rock ‘n’ Roll Hotel
07-14 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
07-15 Montreal, Quebec – La Tulipe
07-16 Toronto, Ontario – Mod Club
07-20 Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival
07-21 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock
07-23 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theater
08-30 North Dorset, England – End Of The Road Festival
10-04-06 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
10-11-13 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
* with Portishead
# with Iggy Pop
Also, check out my review of the new Savages LP, “Silence Yourself”, here on my Tumblr:
A “New” obesession. And by “new” I mean that I finally took the time out to listen to this great band, that goes by the name of Mazzy Star. Apparently they are back together….year of comebacks man, the FRICKIN year of comebacks.
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That’s different from the last one. This one is about a more joyous time in my life. 2007: after a tough year in high school, I had finally started to see life more positively. This was a good time of spiritual cleansing for me.
I had always been into old school hip-hop, but during this year, my ability to analyze it grew even greater. Out of the myriad of songs I was listening to, OC’s “Word…Life” helped me to understand the art of MC’ing even more, something that went beyond just a “genre” in music. It was something for the street people, a new age folk tradition. This song remains a timeless classic, with the jazzy production (that would sound great if performed live), along with OC’s veteran OG-like fluid flow and commanding cadence.
This is something I feel that I have to share: the Christmas of this year, I received everything I had wanted. Not just material possessions, but also an understanding of a collective conscious. I was young, and while I am only 20, I feel as if that understanding has changed into something different. I cannot explain the feeling of 2007, but whenever I listen to this song, it sure does do a hell of a good job bringing me back to that time.
Word….Life.
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It seems as if this is the year of comebacks. My Bloody Valentine, Deerhunter, The Stooges and NOW Boards of Canada and (you guessed it) NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL.
YES. BREATHE. FOR A SECOND. DON’T DIE. INFO BELOW:
http://pitchfork.com/news/47783-neutral-milk-hotel-reunite-for-tour/
All we need now is for The Smiths to get back together….
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It was winter of 2010, right after I finished high school. My grandfather died, I broke up with my girlfriend, couldn’t get into college on time, shit was a mess to be frank. I was listening to a lot of 90′s “alternative” music, a term that has since become a joke. While my other colleagues that graduated were celebrating and having fun in college, I was miserable on cold, dark and dank Staten Island.
There were a couple of things keeping me sane: dancing, my best friends Angelo and Brandon and music. Since that year, my music tastes have grown and evolved at an accelerated rate. While I do not hold every band in high regard like I used to (for example, I love Dirt by Alice in Chains, but I think Facelift has some pretty corny moments), there is one band that still stands out to me. If you have not figured it out by thumbnail, that band is the Smashing Pumpkins.
Looking back on it in retrospect, this band has been a very important one in my life. Not only are their first four albums some of the greatest albums in modern rock, they introduced to my favorite band of all-time, My Bloody Valentine, and for that I am eternally grateful.
If you ask the average Pumpkins’ fans what is the band’s magnum opus, chances are you will hear “Siamese Dream” or “Mellon Collie…”. Indeed, these would be the pratical answers, however, the band’s debut, Gish, is most certainly underrated and a song like “Daydream” shows that. This beautifully mornful acoustic ballad moved me to tears when I first heard it and I still come close to crying when I hear it now. Somehow it just gets better as it ages.
I watched a video of Billy Corgan not too long ago. And while he is still a talented musician, I can tell that he is hurting; hurting from the fact that he knows he was once a part of one of the most prominent and beautiful bands in the recent history of rock music, if not all time. He still uses the Smashing Pumpkins name, but the sound that he is trying to capture ends up being nothing more than a Daydream.
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