By Marvin Marks on Jun 13, 2008 in Retro Reviews | 0 Comments
“Don’t Be Light” is possibly my favorite song from what is definitely my favorite Air album; 2001’s 10,000 Hz Legend.
I’d like to tell you why I like it so much but I’m not very good at that sort of thing, and speaking of that; We are looking for blog contributers. If you can use […]
By Marvin Marks on May 12, 2008 in Features | 1 Comment
Oasis is one of the bands that hipsters and indie kids most love to hate. In fact I’m sure my fellow blog contributers here quite hate them, or at best they may be indifferent.
In the ’90s they were one of my favorite bands. And no this is not a story about how I hate them […]
By Mozart Breath on May 12, 2008 in Retro Reviews | 2 Comments
We all know about the new Beck record, right? 10 songs, each song roughly three minutes…what is this middle-aged man trying to attempt? Is he attempting Sunshine Pop in the 21st century, you know, like The Turtles or something? Beck and sex don’t go together, as he works best while being cryptic […]
By Mozart Breath on May 10, 2008 in Retro Reviews | 5 Comments
I recall losing my virginity the year this album came out in 1993, I was only forty-three years of age and all was right with the world. On “In Utero”, it is a situation where the pleasant young chaps in Nirvana wanted to totally back away from the finely tuned production work of the […]
By Marvin Marks on May 9, 2008 in Song Reviews | 3 Comments
“Norwegian Wood” is the second track from The Beatles 1965 album Rubber Soul.
It was their first song that made use of a sitar. Sitar, which is an Indian instrument that George Harrison had become fascinated with in ‘65, would also be featured on 1966’s Revolver and 1967’s Sgt. Pepper. The song has a mature […]
By Marvin Marks on May 6, 2008 in Features | 0 Comments
MBV tour dates have been announced:
06-20 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-21 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-22 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-23 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-24 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-28 Manchester, England - Apollo
06-29 Manchester, England - Apollo
07-02 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
07-03 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
07-03-06 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-09 Paris, France - […]
By Marvin Marks on May 6, 2008 in Features | 0 Comments
This is a pretty incredible video. It was created by director Alex Rutterford who said the idea for the video came to him during an LSD trip. It features abstract objects which are synchronized to the sounds of the track “Gantz Graf” by Autechre. There’s a visual counterpart to every sound in the song.
“Gantz […]