Lay back on your (fake!) polar bear fur and listen to a Fireside Chat with (the real!) Jane Birkin. 60s icon and muse to the genial Serge Gainsbourg, Jane witnessed swinging London, the beau monde of Paris and has remained a tasteful and opinionated recording artist to this day.
It’s been a while, musicphiles…here’s a few you might have missed over the holidays…Snoop Dogg did a kid’s album…who would’ve thunkit…Lars von Trier and indie darling Charlotte Gainsbourg is back with another solo record…Nero welcomes Reality…Jonsi does the soundtrack for We Bought a Zoo…Common Gets Some rave reviews over The Dreamer/The Believer…LA-based rockers, Archer Black make their debut…
Anthony Hamilton – Back to Love
Archer Black – Forgiveness is a Weapon
Young London – Tooth and Nail
King Kobra – Legends Never Die
Plug in Stereo – The Patience EP
Snoop Dogg – Mac and Devin Go to High School [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Whisper
White Denim – Last Day of Summer
Nero – Welcome Reality
Young Jeezy – TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition
Jonsi – We Bought a Zoo (OMS)
Common – The Dreamer/The Believer
Quantic has made himself a name as a tasteful producer of dancefloor bombs as well as a musical director of the Latin-infused Quantic Soul Orchestra. Here he talks about his life story in a Fireside Chat with Red Bull Music Academy Radio.
UK-born, Colombia-based Will Holland is definitely one of the most prolific artists in the world of alternative dance music today. Recording under various guises, he first found acclaim as Quantic and The Quantic Soul Orchestra.
Boozoo Bajou are widely respected around the globe for their unique blend of modern electronica with blues, jazz, soul, latin and dub elements. Catch a selection of their choices on a Train Wreck Mix for Red Bull Music Academy Radio.
Florian Seyberth and Peter Heider, aka Boozoo Bajou, earned international attention with their breakthrough single, “Night Over Manaus,” in 1998, their 2001 debut album, Satta, and its 2005 sequel, Dust My Broom.
If your car is in the front yard, and you’re sleeping with your clothes on, then you know what I’m talking about when I say its time to get LIT.
Although they may be known for being their own worst enemies, the guys from Lit have teamed up with the notorious Producer/Singer/Songwriter Butch Walker to complete their latest opus, as yet untitled. I dropped in on the boys at Walker’s studio in Santa Monica to have a listen and catch up.
Love lazers from Lincoln’s heart, aliens and dancing for world piece… Things get a little weird when your hanging out with Ghostland Observitory and the Urban Nomad #teluwut. See for yourself and enter at your own risk.
The Gym Class Heroes are sharper than ever. After spending nearly the past two years pursuing other musical side projects, the hip-hop rock quartet returns in full force with their forthcoming album “The Papercut Chronicles II” and they couldn’t be any more excited.
Another year, another batch of albums and singles, another 5 pounds on the old waistline. As we do every year around this time, writers like myself like to put an exclamation point on the last 365 days with painstakingly authored documents that seek to validate our roles as impartial curators of music…when in actuality we’re just amassing a list of songs that resonated with our own self-interests. (Hooray for music we like!) That being said, I’ll put the 11 selections below—and the 12 singles at the end—up against anyone else’s material. These are strong bodies of work, and even though the album as we know it is turning into a bit of a lost art form, you won’t need to cherry-pick through iTunes to get the good bits.
WARNING: There is no mention of M83, Odd Future or “Pumped Up Kicks” anywhere on this list, and there is only one item remotely resembling dubstep. If you’re not put off by this, please read on.
If I told you that a group of married, middle aged men recorded an album in their garage that went to number one in America, then caused an earthquake with the music from that album, what would you say? I’d say welcome to the world of the Foo Fighters.
The fast turnover rate in the music industry makes novelty into a baton passed around from this band to that band. Bands become lost socks sucked into a black hole with no location. For today’s “Whatever Happened To…” we will probe the mystery that has befallen band the Shocking Pinks.