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Free MP3: Wilco & Fleet Foxes Join Forces
It's all about Palin vs. Biden and Obama vs. McCain and big bands feel too political sometimes as you might have already realized. Springsteen went for John Kerry, Arcade Fire goes for Obama. Well Wil...
Joy Division - The Best of Joy Division: Or May I Say Post-Punk Defined?
Joy Division’s lightning speed career followed by the horrifying demise of Ian Curtis the front man might have been of a great concern for other members of this influential band. But what they achie...
Five Star Albums: FIGURE 8 by ELLIOTT SMITH
The reason I chose this album and preferred it to Elliott Smith’s XO (which I love and worship by heart) is its state of being underrated. Mostly referred to as Elliott Smith’s pop effort, most of...
Ben Folds - Way To Normal
Ben Folds has been trying many costumes but has never gotten rid of his sweaters. That’s why his world has always remained the very old Ben Folds world whether he was dicking around under Ben Foldâ€...
Top 10 Chemical Brothers (Celebrating Brotherhood)
In celebration of Brotherhood, their greatest hits collection, here are my top 10 Chemical Brothers songs based on how genuinely groundbreaking they sound!10 One Too Many Mornings09 Under the Influenc...
TV On the Radio - Dear Science,
Prolific! That word is quite a mouthful thing to say. I can use this word for many million albums now. Back in the late 70s to name a few, David Bowie’s Low, The Clash’s London Calling, Television...
Air France - No Way Down EP: It's Sorta Like A Dream, No... Better
They’re not French, but they can probably do magic while air traveling in your ears. Gothenburg, where Air France comes from, is the seaport city of Sweden and when you hear the word Sweden, I can a...
Song Surgery: "Jammin'" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
Bob Marley might be thought as God to many people but he hated to be labeled with such nonsense. What matters the most about Bob Marley is his justified soul and his superb music. Yeah, I have also re...
Foals - Antidote
Normally, it takes a few listens for me to come up with a review for an album. But I don’t know why I preferred to listen to the Unicorns’ Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? instead of Foals...
Just Because It's Oasis
And now for a breath of fresh air, on this "Just Because" session, I'm revealing another one of my favorite videos i.e. Oasis' "Masterplan". Yet another marvelous work Noel Gallagher (see my top 10 No...
Black Mountain - In the Future
Yes, again they’re from Canada. This time they probe in indie hard rock. Wolfmother didn’t disappoint (good for Australia), neither does Black Mountain. This might not be quite musically interesti...
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
If Canada has been an undeniable base for indie-pop and indie-rock history makers, Scandinavian countries have been its rivals in its European parallel universe where people worship peculiar electric ...
The Bug - London Zoo: Taken Control By Greedy Insects
Kevin Martin is again the guy behind the Bug, the hip-hop/dance/dubstep (and let’s add industrial) project of his eclectic and stark mind. It’s the third project named The Bug after 1997’s Tappi...
Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
“I just remembered it [That Lucky Old Sun] from when I was a kid. I bought a copy of Louis Armstrong's version at the store. At the record shop. And I took it home and learned it, and I made a new a...
Winki Roundup: Peter Bjorn and John/Titus Andronicus/Willie Nelson/Les Savy Fav
Not a great day for Pink Floyd fans, Richard Wright died! He was 65 and according to PF’s website: “The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness, that Ri...
CLASS 6: 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sound Of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966)
As promised, here we go starting the new Class 6 feature on this blog. Our first item will be one of the cornerstones of today’s (especially today’s) psychedelic music. The Psychedelic Sound of th...
Top 10 The Doors Songs
I don't think I'm that late: only 37 years. There are some interesting trivia stuff about James Douglas Morrison: He died even before Queen and Freddie Mercury were recognized, before the glory days o...
Animal Collective - Water Curses EP
Whether you like it or not, Animal Collective is reluctant to stick to a simple rule in creating their music. Panda Bear’s Person Pitch (by Noah Lennox of this very band) was only ONE aspect to figu...
Music 2.0 By Gerd Leonhard (Free PDF)
It’s been quite a revolution in the scene of music consumption (!) in the last few years. By emerge of indie artists to the surface, music industries have slowly faded away. This is of course nothin...
(If You Ask Me) Vampire Weekend Sucks!
A couple of weeks ago, NME published the name of 25 bands making America cool again. Well, I’m not an American but I partly know what’s cracking over there (at least in music and films). Everybod...
Deerhunter - Microcastle
You don’t easily get drawn into that stark ambient-punk disease that Bradford Cox and bandmates create. Of course I could never realize the definition to a phrase such as "ambient punk". But when yo...
Metallica - Death Magnetic: Ride the Schadenfreude Vessel
Patient people they are, and loyal, Metallica fans I’m talking about. Not because their grotesque superheroes release only one album every half-a-decade, but because by every new record, they just g...
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Carried To Dust, although sounds refreshing and charming is the record Joey Burns and John Convertino where destined to make. The Tucson, Arizona band is back with an album that probably won’t meet ...
This Winki's 5 Star Albums: NEON BIBLE by ARCADE FIRE (A Lost Soul In the City of Pagans)
Speaking about Neon Bible is a bit hard for me personally for it may instantly become involved with prejudice and I was never about that. But anyway, I couldn’t help putting this album in my 5 star ...
A 3Q Interview w/ Elks
You have probably never heard them before, because just like any other blooming band that has finally found their path, Elks have chosen the good old MySpacey approach to present themselves. Singed to...
Top 10 David Lynch Films
Once addicted, always addicted! Even at his lowest moments, he makes sense. Using Nicholas Cage as a leading role on Wild At Heart was his biggest mistake. The rest is all astounding and remarkable. L...
The Walkmen - You & Me
The Walkmen are back with their fourth LP and have received positive reviews upon arrival. As you can predict from the album art, there’s too much vintage material involved. Well, that can be true i...
Song Surgery: "NYC" by Interpol
I guess this lonely Thursday is a suitable time to talk about another song… about solitude. I might not have experienced long night walks on a nightly basis but who can say he/she hasn’t? And I’...
Noah And the Whale - Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down
From what I had heard, Noah and the Whale’s debut would be the long-awaiting folk album that meets your requirements. The fact that the band played the whole LP during their live shows to promote t...
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
...And I still have no clue if I can hear another regular song ever again. But I have my hopes. Right now, at this moment all that can smooth me down a little in this abnormal country of cannibalism a...