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New Mix by Dr. Sleep DrIslandFever-LateOctober2010 by drsleep

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A Classic is a ClassicThanks to my friend Claire for putting this on a cd for me 6 years ago. I've worn that cd out many moons ago, but, still know the tracklist by heart.I think I prefer Buddy's version to the original Allman Brothers version.Buddy Miles - Midnight RiderGreg Allman - Midnight Rider

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CreepDJ/Producer Lauren Flax has a new electronic music project with fellow Brooklynite, Lauren Dillard, called Creep. They're releasing music on the awesome label Tri Angle Records which also happens to be home to the amazing San Francisco artist, oOoOO (I've also heard they're going to release Denver-based Pictureplane?! Stevie has never sounded so good, watch).If the video below is indicative

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New MixI recorded a mix in preparation for the Dirty Talk party on Saturday night. It's an hour of house, nu & classic disco, plus a Herbie Hancock track for good measure.Listen & download. DrDirtyTalk-October2010 by drsleepTracklist:stand on the word - joubert singers (larry levan mix)is the word - ron basejamwon't let go - hot toddytrouble is a friend - lenka (eli escobar disco mix)dr.

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Diamond RingsWho's cute? The boy (John O'Regan) pictured above, that's who! Diamond Rings appears to be Canadian, has released a few 7-inches and a 12-inch, got a Pitchfork review, is in a band called the D'Urbervilles, and, will be touring this Fall in support of his full-length debut landing on October 26th. That's about all I know, and, that's about all there is to find on his website and

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1999At the tail end of the '90s, I was obsessed with ye olde stalwarts of the indie world, Stereolab (RIP Mary), Yo La Tengo, The Sea and Cake, Tortoise, Trans Am, and Sonic Youth. I used to trudge through the snow to the record store 5 blocks from my apartment in Minneapolis and promptly spend all of my money on indie rock CD's (this was a departure from the mid-90s when I used to trudge through

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A PartyI'm helping throw this party in San Francisco on October 9th and am so excited! The space is awesome, the other dj's are amazing, and, being a part of it is really pushing me in ways I wanted to be creatively pushed. In other words, I'm terrified and nervous, but, if I wasn't, I would be worried about myself.Adonis - No Way Back

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Perfume GeniusI just discovered Perfume Genius this morning as I muddled my way through the daily YouTube k-hole, looking for new music and Corgi videos. Perfume Genius is Mike Hadreas from Seattle, a kid in his 20s dealing with a "life of darkness," according to the Matador site. It sounds like he's had more crap to deal with than a lot of us, and it's no small feat to put your pain out into

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Folsom Weekend, San FranciscoIt's the Folsom Street Fair this weekend in San Francisco, and, every bear and fetishist in the Lower 48 will be converging on a several-block radius wearing assless chaps and little else. As long as I can remember, no matter what the weather has been like for the weeks leading up to the festival, inevitably Folsom Weekend will be hotter than blazes. It appears this

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Take Two of These and Call Me in the MorningI LOVE the classic, "Shame, Shame, Shame" by Shirley & Company. The man in the video below is clearly on drugs. I think I should just have a blog dedicated to hilarious YouTube videos because this is VISUAL GOLD. Coke? Poppers? Speed? Any guesses? According to the YouTube comments, the guy in the video is not the original singer, so, maybe he is nervous

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ColdwaveI have a bone to pick. Was anyone going to tell me about coldwave? No? You were just going to let me live my life without knowing an entire genre of music existed? You were just going to watch as I blindly mingled at soirees, dj'd at clubs, even slept peacefully at night - all without knowing any of this. Well, you know what? You guys suck! Did you know coldwave is French and started in

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Rise All Ye Walk DancersWe all know the Biggie sample from this tune by Herb Alpert, but, can we just vibe out on the whole jam for a minute? It is sooo smooooooth! Plus, this video is HILARIOUS. I would also like to point out that in my extensive research on the topic, this is one of the first music videos IN HISTORY to feature "walk-dancing." I love "walk-dancing" and although it is more fun to

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Soy Como SoyA friend turned me onto this song by Viennese electronic producers, Mokossa & Megablast (featuring vocals by the amazing Cleydys Villalon), and, I haven't been able to stop listening to it since. It's also a real dancefloor pleaser. It got people acting realllllll tribal when I played it out.Watch the video:Makossa & Megablast - Soy Como SoyAnother amazing song by Cledys & Makossa/

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Soul ClapI first heard about the Boston-based dj/production duo, Soul Clap, from their AMAZING edit of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams." I'm a HUGE Mac fan, and, besides providing us with probably the ONLY non-cheesy Mac edit/remix EVER, the track is actually really nice to listen to and I, for one, would love to dance to it (but I'll dance to almost anything, read below). The MIND-BLOWING part of this

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Always DancingI've had a dancefloor addiction since my early 20's when I started going to gay clubs in Minneapolis. My friends and I had a rotation of several nightclubs we would hit up on any given weekend, and, although the players were different (or were they...), the music was largely the same (verrry deep house and cheesy diva "homohouse," as I like to call it). I would dance for hours along

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DJ Bobby Viteritti & The Trocadero TransferSan Francisco's Trocadero Transfer was THE city's disco venue in the 70s and 80s. It was of the caliber of the large New York disco clubs (Studio 54, Paradise Garage), but, because it was in SF, it had a more bohemian "anything goes" vibe (maybe less coke, more poppers and shrooms?) with a choreographed light show to add to the journey. The venue and its

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GigameshOne of my favorite producers and remixers of the past few years is Minneapolis (soon to be Miami)-based Gigamesh. Gigamesh is a man of many synths blessed with a golden ear, and, he can turn any tune into a gorgeous stomper brimming with warm analog and chunky bass. He is part of the remix group, Discotech, which has released some of my personal most-played-in-a-dj-set edits and remixes

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Tommie Sunshine Tackles Urban Sprawl with the Arcade FireThe new Arcade Fire album, The Suburbs, just came out and I haven't given it proper attention yet, other than the iTunes snippets. I HAVE listened (and listened and listened) to Tommie Sunshine's disco remix of one of the stand-out tracks, Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), and, he absolutely nailed it. It's a gorgeous epic with

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I'd be remiss not to mention Lissie, the midwestern-born, California-living singer-songwriter who is probably one of the better musical discoveries I've had over the past year. Generally, my tolerance for humdrum folk went out the window years ago, but occasionally an artist will come along and put a new twist on an old standard in such a brilliant way that you can't help but wake up and take

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EPIC SWELTERIn a word, the Summer Mixtape by Jazzy Jeff & Mick Boogie is epic. It's got every rnb, hip hop, and soul summer jam you EVER wanted to hear, brought to life by two legends. It's like you hired two of the best dj's in hip hop to play records at your backyard bbq and they actually showed up! Summer has officially arrived, now where is my strawberry lemonade?

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CandiShe always hits the spot. That voice. This song makes me feel crazy in a very good way. Love you, Candi!

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OnraSchool is really giving the phrase "dog days of Summer" new meaning for me right now. I don't have enough time to do the things I love, it's all Dewey Decimal, MARC, and, other extremely anal and boring topics. One thing that bothers me is I don't have time to obsessively track down music like I usually do. I'm trying to make some more time for it, though, because I hate being behind when it

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My Favorite Forever & EverIt's been awhile since I've posted, but, wanted to remind you of the genius of my favorite female performer, Stevie Nicks. Stevie has said in interviews that "Stand Back" is one of her favorite songs to perform because she gets to dance. AND DANCE SHE DOES. I love that whenever she performed this song live, she would have a dancer come up halfway through, during the

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Sure, you've probably heard of Dominique Young Unique, the 18 year-old Tampa,FL native making serious waves in the blogging community. And with good reason, too-- her rapping, often laid over frantic, jaunty synth-based beats, is, well, unique and completely unlike anything out right now. Not much to say about this one besides LISTEN TO HER, because no doubt she's gonna blow up REALLY soon. As of

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Holly Miranda I'm a big fan of Holly Miranda but I didn't know it before I saw her in Minneapolis at the 400 Bar on Monday night. I had never seen her live and only knew a handful of her songs. Basically, I didn't have a ton of expectations going into it, I was mostly intrigued and curious. After she sang the first note, however, I knew it was all over and I stood, transfixed, reveling in every

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Just a quick drive-by posting of the following video, which has been floating around online for the past few days...I've always quite liked Jazmine Sullivan, and thought her debut album Fearless, was a great collection of songs that are quite different to a lot of the other monotonous R&B on the radio currently. There's no doubt Jazmine has a big voice, and that she's been doing this for a long

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Mixtape Monday!1. DJ House Shoes is one of the biggest reps of Detroit hip-hop around. He was also a close friend of J Dilla and knows beats as well as any dj or producer working right now. He just released a free beat mixtape, which is fresh and inventive and even features Karen O on a track.You can also listen to his podcasts and dj sets (including a set from the infamous outdoor LA party, the

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Angus & Julia Stone have come a long way since 2006, the year they released their debut EP Chocolates and Cigarettes. While always representative of the unique Australian folk scene, the early songs were somewhat cutesy, without much to distinguish the brother/sister duo from other, more maturely established acts. Cut to 2010, which sees the release of their second full-length EP, Down The Way.

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The Minneapolis Sound for One Small Sound!In honor of the creator of this blog visiting my temporary residence, I would like to present the official Minneapolis Welcoming Committee! There have been significant bands and artists that call the 612 home since THE PURPLE ONE, but, really...Prince and his roster of minions is what people remember (unless they also remember Husker Du & the Replacements

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Stussy's 3-Part J Dilla Documentary is Now AvailableTheeeeeee best beat maker in history? I'd give the crown to the late J Dilla. When you think about every hip hop song you love, Dilla was probably behind it. Slum Village, Pharcyde, Tribe, De La, Busta, Common, Badu, his collab with Madlib (Jaylib), and, of course his genius beat releases, most notably Donuts, was released a few days before he

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Rhymesayers, the Hip-Hop McSweeney'sThe packaging for Freeway & Jake One's Stimulus Package from indie hip-hop label Rhymesayer's is so amazing, it propels them into McSweeney's (i.e., indie publishing design GENIUS) territory. Have you seen issue 33 of McSweeney's Quarterly? Awesome.Watch & listen to the new release from Freeway & Jake One!

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Among the many things we here at OSS are fond of is Jack Splash-- beat maker, rapper, and a very successful producer in both the hip hop & mainstream pop sectors. Still, I can't help but feel like Splash doesn't quite get the attention deserves. After all, he doesn't even have a wikipedia page. This is a travesty of epic proportions; the man is a genius. You may remember his previously released

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Gil Scott-Heron ReturnsIt's been 16 years since Gil Scott-Heron has released a proper studio album (1994's Spirit album released on TVT). Having been in and out of the NY state prison system for the last decade, as well as wrestling with his own demons, Scott-Heron's artistic output had been put on hiatus (save for the hip-hop album cameos and rare live performances when he was out of the pen).

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On the CornerBecause they deserve their own post...On the Corner is an amazing soul, hip hop, funk, jazz, & rnb radio show that throws down every Wednesday night from 8-10 (CST), via the University of Minnesota's amazing college radio station, Radio K. Last week OTC featured a Sam Cooke tribute. This week is a celebration of J Dilla. These dudes seriously do not mess around. They frequently have

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Authentic Sh*t, Delancey Music Service, & The RubWe are big fans of the musical taste of Mark Ronson. BIG fans. I've heard so much amazing music (new & old) on his Friday night East Village Radio show, Authentic Sh*t, it's unbelievable. J.Period & K'Naan, the amazing Joker remix of Simian Mobile Disco/Beth Ditto's "Cruel Intentions," Penguin Prison, Theophilus London, Jay Electronica, Primary 1,

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JJEveryone loves a mystery. Not only is there very little info on Swedish band, JJ, but their sound is also a bit of a mystery (in the best way). Some songs offer gentle twee stylings with the ethereal vocals to match, others employ everyone's favorite global rhythm phenomenon, and then there's the Lil' Wayne sample? What? Who are you guys/gals, and, where have you been all my life? The band has

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Dre Day ApproachethFeb 18th is Dre Day and if you're in or near any city of substance, chances are you can hit the party (Minneapolis, the party is at the Triple Rock, with DJ sets by King Otto and Jimmy Two Times). To get everyone warmed up, we're giving you two dj sets by the man himself from 1986. These mixes have been floating around the Internet for years and every couple months someone

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Magical Mystery ChambersNot necessarily breaking news (http://community.nytimes.com/comments/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/roll-up-the-beatles-meet-the-wu-tang-clan-in-magical-mystery-chambers/), but, last week Tom Carauna (who?) and his record label, Tea Sea Records (http://www.teasearecords.net/home.cfm) released a free download of a mashup album setting the Wu-Tang Clan against the

dr. sleepnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617773.post-15154933942831745652010-01-27T23:41:00.005-05:002010-01-28T18:27:50.892-05:00

Reading, Writing, and ArithmeticNot a proper post, but, this song brings back so many memories. Harriet Wheeler and 120 Minutes FOREVER!The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends

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I (Still) Love Mixtapes!Now that EVERYONE from every different music genre in the game has released a mixtape, on any given day you can find a blog hyping a new mix from the obvious hip hop to electro to mashups from either established artists who are trying out new material on the new world or the up and comer's who are anxious to get their music out to the world. Mixtapes are genius. Maybe it's

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DessaAlthough people outside of Minneapolis might still reminisce over the Replacements, Husker Du, or even Prince and Morris Day when thinking about the city's musical offerings, hip-hop has always been on the minds and in the souls of its residents. The city's hip-hop rep might still be considered underground on the national level (or, is it), but, people in this town are as passionate about

dr. sleepnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617773.post-40104421154823510692010-01-21T12:54:00.003-05:002010-01-21T13:07:18.995-05:00

We're big fans of Ellie Goulding here at OSS-- but then again, who isn't? Anticipation is building for the release of her debut album, entitled Lights, on 1 March, and the new darling of the British music industry (from the BRITs to the BBC) is well on her way to becoming one very successful pop star. Of course we've all heard the songs that have been floating around online for the past year, but

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Since 2005, Rio's Baile Funk movement has had a thriving European base with the help of Daniel Haaksman and his Berlin label, Man Recordings (www.manrecordings.com). Dubstep and B-more aside, I can't think of a more talked-about genre in the past few years. This music is huge!Besides promoting Brazil's best producers, artists, and dj's (Edu K, DJ Sandrinho, DJ Edgar, DJ Amazing Clay, etc.) to the

dr. sleepnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617773.post-73150555826910170072010-01-13T21:32:00.002-05:002010-01-13T21:43:37.724-05:00

No one can argue Florence + The Machine had one of the most interesting, beautiful albums of 2009. One of my favourite tracks from Lungs was 'Hurricane Drunk', a boozy dream of a song. I kinda thought it couldn't get better, but then suddenly, it did-- The Horrors remixed it.Flo played this version on the BBC yesterday, where she hosted the Takeover for Zane Lowe on Radio 1. The .mp3 is a radio

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DJ AM was found dead in his New York City apartment yesterday afternoon, which, needless to say, has been a huge blow to anyone who knew him and his work. No one had the technical skills that AM did, or the feel for so many different genres. He was a mentor to many of the most amazing DJs out there these days, and he will never be forgotten. Below, some links to a few DJ AM sets. Listen, and

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While I'm on about Mark Ronson's show, that reminded me about how much I really wanted to talk about Ellie Goulding. Surprise surprise, she's from the UK! I was initially introduced to her by a friend who thought I might like her, and I immediately got addicted to "Starry Eyed", a electronic meshing of teenage romance that could be the soundtrack to a first kiss. It's that perfect mix of

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You've probably heard of Miike Snow by now-- the Swedish electropop band that The Guardian describes as "Ah-Ha meets Animal Collective". Their music is melodic and incredibly pleasing to the ear; sweet summer sounds that you just want to lie back and put on your headphones for. It doesn't hurt the band's immediate credibility that two of its members wrote the Britney Spears hit "Toxic", but Miike

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Well, it's been a long time, but One Small Sound is back, and ready to get serious. Stay tuned for some great music!

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It was a few years ago when I first heard the voice of one Gemma Hayes, the Tipperary-born & raised singer/songwriter who has since become one of my very favourite voices. At the time, Gemma was touring with the Counting Crows to support the US release of her first LP, Night On My Side, an impressive collection of songs full of love, loss, and an unmistakable air of calm which seems inherent to

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The wave of young talent never quite stops-- just last entry I was saying what great acts the UK fosters, and now I bring you 17 year old Laura Marling, an ethereal singer/songwriter whose voice and lyrics are well beyond her tender years. Often described as part of the "alt-folk" genre (a description I find vague and often unattractive), Marling's songs are well-crafted and sharp, often

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It's a sad state of affairs when only twenty people are in a room to see Sarah Blasko. Sure, she has spent the majority of her burgeoning career in her homeland of Australia, where she is becoming more and more well-known, selling out big venues around the country and touring pretty non-stop for the past few years. However, Sarah's phenomenal talent-- her voice alone will do you in-- and her

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Chances are, if you're outside of Australia, you've never heard of Eskimo Joe. It's unfortunate that previous to now, to attempt has been made to bring the guys overseas, besides the tiny blip on the radar that was CMJ 2006. However, with the US release of their latest album, Black Fingernails, Red Wine, things may begin to change for the band, who has already received tremendous success with the

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I don't remember how I happened upon Kate Nash, but it was sometime last winter. The track was "Merry Happy", a kitschy piano number with cutesy vocals-- does this sound familiar? If you heard the track and thought "Regina Spektor?", you weren't alone. Nash herself admits that Spektor is a heavy influence on her own songs, which both made me automatically love her music and also kind of made me

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Dappled Cities (formerly Dappled Cities Fly) have the energy of ten bands put together. You can tell just by listening to their latest record, Granddance, which finally sees statewide release this August after having been out for a while in their native-- you guessed it-- Australia. This energy only became more evident last week at the Mercury Lounge, where the boys played an hour long set full

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I don't think there are any words for the greatness that is Augie March. For a band that's been hard at work in their native Australia for ten years now, it's amazing to be able to see them at such a small NYC venue like The Mercury Lounge. But finally, the band's 2006 award winning album, Moo, You Bloody Choir, is being released State-side, so I was able to do just that, and all I can say is...

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The buzz has slowly but steadily building about Irish singer/songwriter Fionn Regan. The tale is a familiar one-- a guy with a guitar singing folksy songs that make the girls swoon. This was what I originally thought when I sat down preparing to listen to his album, The End of History. And that is indeed what I got, but that's not all. What saves Regan from the droll passivity of becoming just

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Having been a Ryan Adams fan for quite a few years now, I feel like we've been through a lot together. From dramatic spats with Jeff Tweedy and answering machine messages left for Jim DeRogatis that border on harassment to the drug-addled Rock n' Roll phase, to the even more recent, also drug-addled Grateful Dead phase, it hasn't always been easy to defend his honour. Now with the release of Easy

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Listen, I like A.C. Newman and all, but I'll be honest in saying that Neko Case was my initial inspiration in giving The New Pornographers a listen when Mass Romantic came out years ago. I could write endless paragraphs on my love for Neko and her smokey, intense voice that just cuts into you and sits in the middle of your chest, anchoring the world around itself. But instead, I'll give The New

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Being a complete musical fiend, I'd heard of Bat For Lashes' a few times but had never really listened to her. It wasn't until the feature in the most recent Nylon magazine that I decided to grab a copy of her album and give it a listen. I haven't turned it off since. Natasha Kahn, in addition to being absolutely gorgeous, has managed to compose mystical, beautiful songs with haunting vocals and

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I just can't help myself-- Tegan and Sara are irresistible. Granted, they've gotten to their above pictured glam from this:which is what they looked like when I first heard them back in 1999, with their extremely acoustic, adolescent folk LP, Under Feet Like Ours. I found them immediately addicting-- I liked their voices, and since I was 16, I really appreciated that they "played their own

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Laura Veirs @ Gramercy Theatre, 16 May 2007Despite the rain, the crowd queued at the Gramercy Theatre on E. 23rd Street on Wednesday night to see Laura Veirs was long, if not slightly wet. After two openers-- Seattle shoegaze-esque band Lake (think Camera Obscura, but less polished) and one man funhouse Charles Bissell of The Wrens-- Laura took the stage around 10pm with her backing band, The

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Okay, I admit it: it took me a really, really long time to "get" CocoRosie. I really got into the title track from 2005's Noah's Ark-- it was catchy in a non-sensical, silly way and overtly likeable. The rest of the album I kind of, well...didn't really care about. To the untuned ear, CocoRosie are, at best, an art-rock/dream-pop duo who go out of their way to be weird and misunderstood. They're

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Good old Bob Evans. You might know him as the singer/guitarist from pop rock outfit Jebediah, under his real name (which is Kevin Mitchell, for the curious). Or you may not have heard of him at all, which, if you live in America, is probably the case. In 2006, Bob (or Kevin, if we wanna get technical) released Suburban Songbook, a collection of acoustic pop numbers that were the kind of songs

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The Arctic Monkeys don't need even one more blog entry dedicated to them or their slightly annoying/extremely addicting (depending on which way you look at it) music. Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not garnered so much press it's insane, and quickly became the fastest selling UK album of all time. Here in the States it didn't do too shabbily either-- it sold 34,000 copies in the first

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Laura Veirs is everything I like in a musician: unconventionally poetic, slightly quirky, and well-read without seeming pretentious. Year of Meteors was the soundtrack to the fall and winter following its release in 2005; the album saw me through a lot of emotional ups and downs, and soothed me in a way that I was both awed by and could relate to. Her new album Saltbreakers, released in the

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A friend of a friend of mine really dislikes musicians who sing in a way that you can hear their speaking accents; he doesn't, therefore, like Missy Higgins. In fact, 95% of people reading this, if they're over 21 and from Australia, probably also don't like Missy Higgins. It's not that she's untalented-- quite the opposite, actually. It's just that she's almost like Britney Spears over there--

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Because I'm a little bit slow, I only recently figured out that Amy Winehouse is playing a show at the newly opened Highline Ballroom here in NYC this May. However, because I only recently figured it out, my only hope of getting tickets is buying them for $150 a pop on craigslist, which I refuse to do. Looks like I'll have to settle for going into my local H&M and listening to "Rehab" blasted

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It's only a matter of time before Melbourne's The Basics hit it big. Already, the blogosphere is picking up on their fun, catchy tunes, and the band has a dedicated (if not relatively small, still) following back home in Australia. Not to mention their drummer/lead vocalist is none other than Wally De Backer, the one man band known as Gotye, who released one of the best albums of 2006, Like

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Chances are, you've either never heard of Sarah Blasko, or you're head over heels in love with her. I am obviously in the latter party, and haven't been able to turn off her latest album, What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have for months. It's quite a departure from The Overture and the Underscore, a synth-heavy, heavily produced record full of songs that were, perhaps purposely, a bit rough

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It's been nearly three years since my last music blog. You may or may not remember the poorly written, slightly apropos Nit-Pick. If you don't, you're not missing much, but I have been feeling a bit nostalgic as of late for the days of adding my voice to the chorus on this band or that. That being said, hopefully we'll get going around here with some good music, and it'll keep going for a while.

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