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Bempology – July 2011
Hey kids – before I ramble about songs from July, take and subscribe to Bempology HERE. This way, I’ll shoot you an e-mail right when the playlist publishes so you don’t forget to grab it when you’re stressed out creating that totally impeccable g-chat status. Onto the music: ♦ Pompeya is the best band I [...]
Bempology – June 2011
Sorry for the late post — was down in Florida power-ramming manatees in a kayak. Here’s what I enjoyed in June: ♦ Bad Lamps popped up on my radar thanks to 32 ft/s and convey that same type of spastic, energetic, and wildly simplistic indie pop that fueled a lot of sold-out Darwin Deez shows over [...]
Bempology – May 2011
You’re the kid on the slide. This is your soundtrack. ♦ Things kick off with Frank Ocean ‘Novacane’, one of the numerous R&B throwbacks that have gained steam the last few months and probably the best – “Girl I can’t feel my face / What are we smoking anyway / She said don’t let the [...]
Bempology – April 2011
Bempology April 2011 – hoping mom doesn’t read this post. ♦ Can’t say I loved a ton of what I heard in April, so turned back to a few tracks from 2010 I forgot about to supplement. Sarah Jaffe ‘Clementine’ gets better with every single play and could ignite a Lilith Fair crowd if that [...]
Bempology – March 2011
Here’s my favorites from March – listened to a lot due to SXSW and some great releases so I broke it all out into two parts rather than go for a 50 song monstrosity. Too much to write about all these songs but will fire from the hip ♦ 2 minutes and 14 seconds into Reptar [...]
Breaking: Lord Huron
Not too much is known about LA’s Lord Huron and while press release sentiments (or lack thereof) shouldn’t forecast preconceived notions of a band’s sound or coerce any type of opinion, the mystique works perfectly here. The music itself, a serene blend of calypso tinged folk-pop that calls to mind a sun-bronzed Great Lake Swimmers, [...]
Bempology – February 2011
Check out what I’ve been listening to over the last month with Bempology – February 2011. The first installment with many more to follow, this is more or less a snapshot of what I’ve been listening to over the last month (January as well, so this one is a long playlist but pretty solid). This [...]
Breaking: Bastille
As a rough estimate, I’d probably gauge my music consumption per week around 35-40 hours. Between Spotify, consistent hours on music blog aggregators, releases for work, occasional trips on Last.fm and Pandora, albums on Itunes, around 30 individual music blogs, and the usual online publications (P4K, Guardian, Drowned In Sound, NME, etc.) I feel I [...]
Breaking: The Jezabels
The formula for most music blog band introductions is pretty straightforward – Band X sounds like established Band Y with a dash of Band Z mixed in to create ______ sound. I kind of love this game, as does any informed music dork. Yet, with The Jezabels, references and this type of music journalistic posturing [...]
Breaking: Stepdad
For my first Breaking Artist I’m excited to write about Stepdad, a group featuring two electronic masterminds from Grand Rapids, MI. The group recently released their first 8-song EP, Ordinaire, which channels crossover upbeat indie electro scene through a prism of DIY-bedroom chiptunes. A lot of people will be quick to lump this into the [...]