March 2010
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Gorgeous First Introduction to New Ólafur Arnalds...
Via Arnalds’ Twitter account, word of our first taste from …and they have escaped the weight of darkness, arriving May 7th on Erased Tapes. The full opening track is streaming at the top of the label’s homepage and previews of the rest of the record are located here.
Previously on Slowblog:
Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið (Official Music Video) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo.
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I Should've Gone to Big Ears Fest After All
maura:
“Combining the essences of different kinds of music used to be a stroke of creativity. Now it’s almost a rule of commerce. The word eclecticism has been used so much for the last 30 years that it has become meaningless — a sad, grasping pile of obstruents and sibilants, like a dying fire’s last pops and hisses.”
— Ben Ratliff, in an excellent piece for the New York Times about the Big...
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Milktooth: Nashville's Not All Christians and... →
Funny thing about this feature I wrote for Performer’s March issue: It’s the tale of two great friends who started a standout band in Music City (harder than it sounds), which quickly grabbed NPR’s attention … Only to go their separate ways by press time. OK, maybe not so funny. But, I’ve been in the music industry long enough to know better than to be surprised.
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My Week at MAGNET: A Round-Up
I’ve been striving to do a better job of synching the online content I’m contributing elsewhere with Slowblog, but heretofore it just hasn’t come together. In an effort to ameliorate this, and because Friday seems like an appropriate day to do a ‘round-up,’ below are truncated versions of a few MP3 and video reviews I’ve written for MAGNET over the last week,...
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SLEEP ∞ OVER: “Sun Spots”
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Video: Jónsi, "Go Do" →
I recently began contributing to MAGNET, so will be on occasion cross-pollinating Slowblog with content that’s relevant here, too. First up, a few words on Jónsi’s fowl-centered gem, “Go Do.”
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New Helios: “Goodbye”
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New Damien Jurado – “Arkansas” →
Just rounding out the coverage from tweet to blog to release date (and spectacular first-listen, “Arkansas”) of Damien Jurado’s upcoming May 25th release, Saint Bartlett (Secretly Canadian). Loving the vaudeville piano, rustic percussion and Phil Spector beat/strings combination on “Arkansas” and greatly anticipate the rest of Saint Bartlett.
A quick Google search...
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A Tale of Two Libertarianisms
“Accidents of intellectual and institutional history have linked as “libertarian” a set of thinkers with deep disagreements on important questions of both the preferred role for government and the intellectual justification for their political and ethical beliefs. All of them were bound by opposition to the post–New Deal Keynesian consensus of government spending and planning; all were...
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