Mar 31 2009

Beep Beep – Enchanted Islands

Category: Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 07:00

Beep Beep
Enchanted Islands
Saddle Creek; 2009

Guest Contributor: Marc Brubaker

Bands are often mislabeled, and part of that blame can be shed upon the music journalism community. When striving to describe new artists, terms like “unique” and “groundbreaking” are tossed around more frequently than kids are diagnosed with ADD. Beep Beep, Saddle Creek’s latest musical discovery from Omaha, might not be able to escape those two loaded words, yet they have fulfilled those very expressions on their new release, Enchanted Islands.
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Mar 30 2009

Media Monday – 03/30/2009

Category: Media & More, Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 12:00

My offering to you this week is a bit thin, but let’s go ahead and attribute that to the post-SXSW lag in immediately pressing music news.

1) Music:
a. Green Go Remix Project Vol. 1 – Green Go (remixes of tracks from Born Ruffians, the Rural Alberta Advantage, Women, Gentlemen Reg, and The D’Urbervilles)
b. “Blood Into Gold” – Peter Buffett & Akon (If you enjoyed the track via free download, please consider downloading the track from iTunes, as all proceeds from downloads go to fund this worthy cause: Is There Something I Can Do?.)
c. “Mercedes Marxist” – Living Things
d. “The Green Word” – The Lava Children

2) Video:
a. “Blood Into Gold” – Peter Buffett & Akon (for Is There Something I Can Do?)
b. Living Things sends up a video post-SXSW regarding the band’s guerrilla-style protest activity at SXSW and how people can further help protest in/regarding our current economic climate.

Mar 30 2009

Fever Ray – Fever Ray

Category: Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 07:00

Fever Ray
Fever Ray
Mute, 2009

Fever Ray

First of all, I don’t want to beat a dead horse with my review of Fever Ray, the self-titled debut solo record from Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife. Both the musical taste-makers at Pitchfork and my friends at Culture Bully have already penned stellar, incisive accounts of what they love with this dense, creeping, gothic-pop project. However, I wanted to take a stab at providing a bit more coverage for this album, mostly because I could not ignore the intense atmospheres that Andersson has created here.
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Mar 27 2009

Dent May – The Good Feeling Music Of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele

Category: Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 12:00

Dent May
The Good Feeling Music Of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
Paw Tracks; 2009

Guest Contributor: Matt McKechnie

From the very first notes of barbershop vocal harmony in Dent May’s opening track ‘Welcome” (which serves as somewhat of an intro to the record), the listener knows that something interesting is about to happen. Whether that sense of interest is mixed with a little bit of annoyance and hypnosis is questionable – but one thing is certain: Dent May is an artist who makes music the way he wants.
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Mar 27 2009

Bon Iver – Blood Bank EP

Category: Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 07:00

Bon Iver
Blood Bank EP
Jagjaguwar; 2009

Guest Contributor: Michael Dallas Miller

Not in my recent musical memory has such an uninteresting album as For Emma…Forever Ago garnered so much critical and popular acclaim. Now, it should be noted that I have never said that this album was not “enjoyable” or “good”. Moderately, it is both of these things, and I’ve found myself putting it on plenty of time in this past year. But, it was not that good or that enjoyable. It was just a tiny collection of sweet songs with some sweet lyrics, and a quiet, slightly mysterious vocalist with a blonde mustache and an undeniable sense of loneliness.
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