I’d heard a few tracks from Denver band Tennis on various blog mixes, but hadn’t really paid too much attention to them until I heard their killer cover of the Brenda Lee song “Is It True?” That’s why when I saw this new track on Gorilla vs Bear. Called “Origins,” the song has all the [...]
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Youth Lagoon
A friend recently turned me on to Youth Lagoon, the musical venture of one Trevor Powers, and I’ve been listening to the debut album The Year of Hibernation on heavy rotation ever since. The album was recorded in Powers’ bedroom, and has all the requisite distortion drenched introspection that you’d expect. It’s a bit of [...]
Analogue Vinyl Sampling
Cut/Paste culture is an interesting trend to watch. As people’s online and offline presences become more and more integrated, the techniques used in the digital world eventually cross over to the physical world, and visa versa. That’s why I found this Analogue Vinyl sampling so interesting. Instead of digitally sampling music, or using traditional DJ [...]
Mountain Man
I’m an enormous music nerd. There’s no two ways about it. One of my perennially favourite artists is Leslie Feist, and I’ve been looking forward to her latest album Metals for a while. When looking for some live performances of her new stuff online, I found this video with her performing a new single on [...]
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