npr: nprmusic: Listen: Austin 100 To get ready for SXSW 2016, we listened to more than 1,800 artists. Check out the app we made of the 100 musicians we’ll be keeping an eye on this year in Austin. 100 new songs to discover! 🎧 -Emily OMG, the best moment of every music year is here: The …
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Car Seat Headrest: Vincent
Damn, this is good The build up is amazing, reminds me not only of Television but also of Travels, the middle part got a twang and a groove that reminds me of Cake, and the lyrics really resonate with me. The songs is on one level about being at a party, as Car Seat Headrest’s …
Wednesday Night Melody
This week in “punk bands I discover on NPR:” Bleached with "Wednesday Night Melody. The sound reminds me of pre-midlife crisis Weezer, the video is an alt. Weekend at Bernie’s, part unsettling, part fun. Hauntingly catchy. http://cache.vevo.com/assets/html/embed.html?video=USJ5G1610514 Their new record Welcome The Worms is out April 1 on Dead Oceans.
The New Torres Album is Even Better than the Hype
The new Torres album Sprinter is even better than the hype by NPR Music had me believe.Strange Hellos is still one of the biggest songs I’ve heard in quite a while with an amazing musical breadth and emotional depth.A Proper Polish Welcome is as intimate and enchanting on the record as it was as a …
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http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=394023874&mediaId=394023950 Thank you, NPR Music, for making my day week year. All Songs Considered introduced me to Australian singer Courtney Barnett. For the last couple of weeks they’ve been hyping her debut LP Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit beyond the pale. Today is the release day, and man, is this …
put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappointyou tell me I’m exceptional and I promise to exploit you give me all your money and I’ll make some origami honey I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny “Pedestrian At Best” is another slacker garage rock anthem by Courtney Barnett, first …
Ibeyi – Mama says – liveIbeyi are French-Cuban twins Lisa- Kaindé und Naomi Diaz. They create beautiful music based on their Cuban and Yoruban roots that sounds both really contemporary and timeless. I am enthralled. My first big discovery of the 2015. (found via All Songs Considered)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/eqs9LIVgZKs Zammuto: “Hegemony” I first heard this brilliant new track on All Songs Considered, I instantly knew: This is the song form of my first semester of my master degree. The instrumentation is just a bit off. A chorus of wonderful women figuring out how to pronounce hegemony. The percussions are pretty much my heart …
//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CzHUNNzfHjw I first heard of Lydia Loveless via NPR Music’s Austin 100. Her rocker “Really Wanna See You” is a great intro into her current work: The great voice, the lyrics full of honesty and wit, and her backing band that takes her “classic country music success story” and gives it more of an musical …
Katie Presley from Bitch Media called Lowell “Canadian misandrist cheerleader” on NPR’s All Songs SXSW preview show, so of course I had to check her out. I like what I hear: The pop sensibilities of Lykke Li with the swagger of M.I.A. and a trace of Peaches’ attitude, especially in this hit “Cloud 69” Other …
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