I received a press release the other day about the new Orba Squara release The Trouble With Flying, a follow up to the 2007 release Sunshyness. This is good news for me because Orba Squara is a band that is right up my alley. A little bit folk with touch of lullaby to boot. I [...]
Sub Pop Quickstrikes
Sub Pop Records has teamed up with Nike to create a new Quickstrike SB. They are available now through OSneaker but you’d better open your wallets because these beauties are going to run you 180 clams.
Bleg: music composition applications for iPhone
Does anyone know anything about this or any other app? I do mean anyone. You there in the back row, hiding behind a copy of Julie and Julia? Any thoughts? No? Then let me sweeten it for you: I will post my own compositions on tMiM, and leave comments open for blunt force reviews and [...]
Dallas Texas, Bollywood
My post-rock fit lasted far longer than was expected. And was welcome. So now for something, as they say, completely different: The track is “Chaiyya Chaiyya,” from the film Dil Se. It was composed by A.R. Rahman, and sung by Sukhwinder Singh. But more on all of those later.
How About Some New Elliott Smith?
New music from one of the greatest musical minds of our generation is never a bad thing, so to hear that a new (old) Elliott Smith tune had been discovered really brightens up my Monday. Apparently there is some history to this track. It had been recorded twice, once slow and again fast, I believe [...]
“Kingdom of Rust” by Doves
In early April I lauded the title track to the new Doves LP as “edgier, roomier, trading in pitch-perfect for a touch of grit,” but as to the release in its entirety I concluded, “It’s their best record yet, but we still need better.” In the months that have followed — and at least in [...]
New The Dutchess and The Duke – “Hands”
The Dutchess and The Duke are Jesse Lortz and Kimberly Morrison, who perform what every body calls “campfire punk” whatever that means. Either way they are about to release their follow up to last years She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke. The album is Sunset/Sunrise and is due out October 6th on Hardly Art. The [...]
“…unless Dr. Brook wishes to deny the existence of belief or claim that social and psychological facts are not worthy of study, his claim that prayer is not worthy of study is at best in need of more justification and at worst nothing more than an ungrounded assertion.”
That’s from “Lame Skepticism,” by Nic Bommarito (April 5, 2006). Mr. Bommarito is an overachieving, overtraveled, altogether ambitious young writer, essayist, photographer, translator, and — pertinent to this discussion — musician. His latest offering is Harp Fragments, available for streaming and free download at Clinical Archives. This is overachieving, overtraveled, altogether ambitious, wall-of-sound post rock, [...]
Introducing Samuel Stewart
Samuel Stewart comes to us from Hollywood via London and mixes together small doses of electronica and gypsy rock. Kind go like a tamed down and calmer Gogol Bordello. He’s still very early on in his career. There’s no website (other than MySpace), he’s listed as the only band member and he is unsigned. The [...]
