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,...

^{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...

^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...

^{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...

^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,...

Archive for May, 2010

"Sparrow," by Adam Hurst

May 4, 2010 | by Fred

by Fred (follow me on Facebook) From his LP Elegy, released April 20. The composition is beautiful, as always: Tobias first turned...

Tags: Adam Hurst, Elegy, Sparrow

Categories: New Releases, Video

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It's about that time

May 4, 2010 | by Fred

by Fred (follow me on Facebook) Yesterday we had a brief preview of our famed Texas heat. Highways started to sag,...

Tags: Anna Rossi, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Beachcomber's Windowsill, Bloodbuzz Ohio, Crushing Limbs, Efterklang, High Violet, Magic Chairs, Modern Drift, On The Rocks, Round and Round, Stornoway, The Big Pink, The National, Tonight, Tonight Remix EP

Categories: Featured, Free Downloads, New Releases, Remixorama, Upcoming Releases

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"please stop reading and throw 'plainsong' from 'disintigration' into your speakers. if you don’t have it, download it. and you know what? just get all of disintegration if you don’t have it and let it play… you’ll thank me, it’s one of the best records in the world."

May 3, 2010 | by Fred

by Fred (follow me on Facebook) The Cure will reissue their timeless 1989 gothic masterpiece Disintegration on May 25. Across the...

Tags: Amanda Palmer, Delirious Night, Disintegration, Homesick, The Cure, untitled

Categories: Upcoming Releases, Video

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From The Vault: Geek Rock

May 2, 2010 | by Patrick

As I was looking for something to post on today I stumbled upon Geek/Nerd Rock which seems to be...

Categories: Music Culture

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Plants and Animals – La La Land

May 1, 2010 | by Desiree

Let’s open the weekend with some good news: Hailey’s, a favorite venue of mine, is hosting not one, but TWO...

Tags: Arcade Fire, Hailey's, La La Land, Parc Avenue, Plants and Animals, Polyphonic Spree, Video

Categories: New Releases, Video

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From The Vault: Sucker For Auto-Tune

May 1, 2010 | by Patrick

Auto-Tune is basically the mutant child of a technology called a phase vocoder that was originally developed in the...

Categories: Music Culture

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