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The music of Contre Jour

Imagine Cut The Rope meeting Angry Birds Space somewhere in French children's literature, and you're getting close. If you've got a smart phone, you owe yourself a copy of Contre Jour for several reasons,...

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free download: Symptomatic EP, by La Machine

In March we met La Machine, concluding, "Sung through a pulse jet and stripped down to the sub-bass." Their dark-as-a-cave, quick-as-a-Zoloft releases continue with the Symptomatic EP. The title track sets paint-can percussion...

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video: “Same Old,” by Audioley

TMIM regulars are already familiar with Francois Peglau, who has been releasing a track-by-track follow up to The Imminent Failure of since December 2010. His singalong verse, campy wit and upbeat revolutionary politics are...

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video vault: “Snow,” by Pooma

How is this for degrees of separation? Desiree's new Finnish obsession leads us to a month-thence Soundcloud upload of a toddler-aged remix of a five-year old track. It's "Snow," by Pooma, from their...

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profile: John Harrison of Cedar Lines

Sunday, January 29, 2012, 11:45am John Harrison can’t find a kit that he likes. The drum line is already written: a smudged, industrial arrangement that summons Cleveland, not Cincinnati. It would work just fine on its own,...

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

by Fred From Tyler Cowen:The dirty secret of the Billboard classical charts is that album sales figures are so low, the...

Discuss.

by Fred Ann Althouse reminds us of something she said back in 2005, being:To be a great artist is inherently right...

Tomorrow Becomes You by Slow Six

by Fred Strings. Guitar. Drums. And home-grown computer software. The eyebrow-raising equipment list belies their simple, gorgeous, and impeccable...

The Irrepressibles

by Patrick Some musicians are just more inaccessible to the listening public than others. For example, Antony and The Johnsons. It...

New Music Tuesday

by Fred We've only given Los Campesinos! qualified praise before (for example here and here), but so far their new release...

"The Great Skua (Plover demo)" by British Sea Power

by Fred Catch it while you can at, well, Caught By The River. (No "stream" jokes, I promise.) The...

Fever Ray Delivers Best Acceptance Speech Ever

by Patrick Fever Ray's Karin Dreijer Andersson is never one to shy away from leaving a few onlookers in shock and...

"Ou Marye" by Wyclef Jean

by Fred That track tops Tyler Cowen's "Introduction to Haitian Music." Read the rest, and follow the links, here.

[mp3]Yeasayer – "O.N.E."

by Patrick We've already heard the dazzling first single from Yeasayer's upcoming release Odd Blood. Now we have single number 2...

"Odessa" by Caribou

by Fred Swap an email address for an MP3 track here. It's high-altitude psychedelic dance, probably mixed a bit colder...

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