Mission Creek Headliners, Magnetic Fields Announce New Album

Mission Creek Headliners, Magnetic Fields Announce New Album

Magnetic Fields just announced the release of their latest effort, Love at the Bottom of the Sea. Their tenth studio album is scheduled to drop on March 6th, just a few weeks before their Mission Creek Fest debut at the Englert on March 28th. Stephin Merritt, the songwriter and driving force behind Magnetic Fields has [...]

Responding to an Opinion

Right below this post is another one from MC contributor Bernardo. In it, he talks about the fear that music has for turning the corner and moving into a new frontier. One of the main things that he notes is the music of now is a replay of the past because of future anxiety, or [...]

An Opinion – Food for Thought

Why today’s culture lives hooked to his past? Recycling and nostalgia have taken over everything. Ironically, our grandparents who, at this stage of the XXI century, thought we will be eating pills that taste like real food; wear monochromatic ware-droves and have flying cars. Instead, the spirit of nostalgic makes believe that in music and [...]

Reflections on the New M83 and Real Estate LPs

I don’t have a prolonged review of anything right now. I have albums for review, but I’ve got very little interest in listening to them. They are these rather generic rock albums. While I’m sure they are competent, they aren’t really grabbing my attention in any meaningful way right now. Although from first synth strike [...]

Esmerine – (2011) La Lechuza [Constellation]

As this is Breast Cancer Awareness month, I would like to acknowledge Lhasa de Sela. Lhasa de Sela was an amazing and unique artist who died of breast cancer on January 1 of last year at the age of 37. Lhasa was a multi-language artist with her own philosophy. She used her poetic gifts in [...]

Amon Tobin – (2011) ISAM [Ninja Tunes]

ISAM is the culmination of a trilogy by Amon Tobin in the past decade and his take on the purest form of electronic: Concrete Music, the fundamental pillar of electronic music. Pierre Schaeffer, French radio engineer of the 1940s, created the first electronic music studio in Paris and began experimenting with what he called “musique [...]

Born Gold: Bodysongs

Born Gold: Bodysongs

NB: Continuing the cavalcade of album reviews today, I post a new piece from a new contributor here at the blog, Steve Crowley. You may know who he is. You might not on the other hand. That being said, I’m sure that he can tell you who he is as soon as he gets blog [...]

Warm Ghost: Narrows

Warm Ghost is a duo hailing from the indie music hotbed that is Brooklyn, NY. Their music connects two very different worlds. The first is that of standard electronic pop like Au Revoir Simone, The Human League and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. In the other world are innovative abstract electronic artists like Christian Fennesz, [...]

Little Red: Midnight Remember

Little Red: Midnight Remember

I’ve been trying to cut down on the chattiness in my record reviews, as it doesn’t really take 700 words to describe an album thoroughly. To prove so, I will tell you about Midnight Remember, the first stateside release for Australians Little Red. There is nothing particularly fresh with regards to this record. I mean [...]

Updates to Your Face

So, hi everyone! It has been a busy time here at the blog (not really, but it sounds better if I say that it is). You will have noticed a couple of changes around these parts. For the staff, the blog software’s been updated. This doesn’t affect you at all, dear reader; we’re still spitting [...]