If there ever was a buzz band, Danish rock n roll band The Raveonettes are it, whose sound is ‘hard-edged electric guitar overlaid with liberal doses of noise’.
Wu Tang Clan / Bring Da Ruckus An extremely intoxicating song, RZA’s production is awe-inspiring and real. I can still listen to this song over and over and over again. I firmly believe RZA could produce a genius Raveonettes album.
The long-awaited debut EP for Australian band Lions At Your Door is finally out and it’s a very happening dancefloor filling indie-punk-jazz-rock recording which captures the raw energy of their live shows. Recorded at Sydney’s Linear Recordings (Teenager, Empire of the Sun, Lost Valentinos, INXS) the independently funded release was produced and mixed by the band themselves. Working with engineer Chris Vallejo, all tracks on the EP were recorded live to tape using analog recording equipment.
Beck / Lost Cause Apparently Beck wrote most of the Sea Change album after breaking up with a long-term girlfriend. I don’t wish ill on the guy, but if songs like this come out of his broken relationships, I hope it happens again.
It’s been an action packed journey for Tiny Masters Of Today. Almost overnight, the band went from a few homemade recordings on a MySpace page to collaborating with Karen O and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fred Schneider (B-52s) and Gibby Haynes, being remixed by CSS and Liars, and touring the world. David Bowie even praised their first homemade single as ‘Genius’. Not bad for a band that double as full-time students in the New York Public School System. Their new album, Skeletons, has just been released on Mute.
Green Day / 2000 Light Years Away My favorite Green Day love song. I have a Green Day pillow case of this album cover.
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