For those of you that don’t watch the Weather Channel you might not know that here in Texas we’ve received the snow storm of the century. In the last 24 hours we’ve had somewhere around 10″ of snow fall. Normally we’re extremely lucky if we get 10″ of snow in a winter let alone all [...]
February 12, 2010
Categories: Video . Tags: Angel In The Snow, Coldest Winter, Divination, Elliott Smith, Faded From The Winter, fleet-foxes, Iron and Wine, Kanye West, Mastodon, Mew, Snow Brigade, White Winter Hymnal . Author: Patrick . Comments: Leave a Comment
by Fred. Damn! what a year. We lost Michael Jackson and we gained Girls. The Decemberists put out an LP almost as good as Picaresque, but what with the stiff competition you won’t find it on top 50 lists anywhere. Similarly, considering the new relative logic of the last twelve months, Muse and Mars Volta [...]
December 27, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009, Free Downloads . Tags: Apse, Fanfarlo, IAMX, Jonsi & Alex, Mastodon, Sea Wolf, Shinobu Nemoto, The Flaming Lips, Tune-Yards, Wildbirds and Peacedrums . Author: Fred . Comments: Leave a Comment
10. Loney Dear – Dear John Dear John was the first album I heard this year that made it onto this potential list. It also opened a great year for Sweden and all the amazing acts that are calling it home. Emil Svanangen turns a bit more to his darker and depressed side on this [...]
December 24, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009 . Tags: Beirut, Silversun Pickups, Loney Dear, Fanfarlo, The Mars Volta, Mastodon, Other Lives, Brendan Benson, AC Newman, BLK JKS . Author: Patrick . Comments: Leave a Comment
I’ve told many people that this year is far better than 2008 was for music releases. Maybe it has to do with just getting this blog up and going so I am more aware of releases and new musicians but it’s been a fun ride so far. Below are my contenders for album of the [...]
July 2, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009 . Tags: Dear John, Silversun Pickups, Swoon, Loney Dear, Mastodon, Crack the Skye, Other Lives, Barcelona, Absolutes, Get Guilty, AC Newman, The Slow Wonder, New Pornographers . Author: Patrick . Comments: Leave a Comment
Mastodon made an appearance on Letterman last night and as much as I don’t ever want to believe Fred, most of the time he’s right, especially when he says that Letterman really doesn’t mean it when he goes over to the musical guest of the night and says “Good job!”, “That was great!” or “It’s [...]
May 18, 2009
Categories: Tracks and Clips . Tags: Crack the Skye, David Letterman, Divination, Mastodon, Oblivion . Author: Patrick . Comments: 3 Comments
Not to be out done by Green Day, Mastodon or The Decemberists, Korn has announced their plans to release a concept album of their own. Leadman Jonathan Davis says: I have these five symbols that I’ve come up with that I think are the downfall of man. And each symbol is going to have a [...]
May 1, 2009
Categories: Music News . Tags: Concept Album, December ists, Green Day, Jonathan Davis, Korn, Mastodon . Author: Patrick . Comments: 4 Comments
Patrick’s post gets us thinking: where would music be today had Kurt Cobain gone into, say, tax accounting instead of music? And where would music be today had he not loaded that gun, and continued recording? I’m probably older than the typical tMiM reader; hopefully my insight will be worth the read. By September 9, [...]
April 9, 2009
Categories: Music Culture . Tags: 1982, 1988, 1991, Black Bart Blues, Black Sabbath, Bruce Dickinson, Cinderella, Front 242, Guns N' Roses, hard rock, In Utero, industrial dance, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Keith Richards, Korn, Kurt Cobain, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, Mastodon, Metallica, Ministry, Nevermind, Nirvana, Screaming for Vengeance, Skinny Puppy, Slipknot, Smells Like Teen Spirit, System of a Down, Warrant, Winger . Author: Fred . Comments: Leave a Comment
Last night I had my first music dream in a long time, certainly the first one since we launched tMiM. My parents and I were going through some old boxes and I tearfully came upon my collection of old vinyl records. This much of the dream has at least some basis in reality: from about [...]
March 26, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009, Misc. . Tags: American Idol, Anthrax, Arcade Fire, Barry Manilow, Beirut, Crack the Skye, Dream Theater, Flaming Lips, I Haven't Changed the Room, Kim Wilde, Looks Like We Made It, Mastodon, Ministry, Pete Yorn, Slayer, song written in a dream, Voivod, yet another futile Google search . Author: Fred . Comments: 1 Comment
Back to work, folks. The ever-weekly mardis gras known as New Music Tuesdays is behind us. There wasn’t much to celebrate, but it wasn’t an absolute loss: Mastodon put forth a very solid concept album about … no one is really sure yet. Papa Roach released Metamorphosis. The Decemberists issued a partial retraction of The [...]
March 25, 2009
Categories: Features, MySpace Music Mining . Tags: All Nights, Crack the Skye, December ists, Machinist, Mastodon, Metamorphosis, Myspace, Papa Roach, PBW, The Crane Wife, unsigned . Author: Fred . Comments: Leave a Comment
March has the potential to be a stellar month of album releases. Here’s a short list of LP’s being releases this month that I will be keeping my eyes on. With new releases coming out some of the band’s MySpace pages are being updated and are inaccessible but check back later. March 3rd U2 – [...]
March 3, 2009
Categories: New Releases . Tags: Bell X1, Coheed & Cambria, December ists, Great Lake Swimmers, Handsome Furs, Ida Maria, March CD Release, Marissa Nadler, Mastodon, Mono, Neko Case, Pearl Jam, Peter Bjorn & John, Propaghandi, U2 . Author: Patrick . Comments: Leave a Comment