December 2009
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st. vincent tour video no. 9
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st. vincent tour video no. 8
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st. vincent tour video no. 7
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st. vincent tour video no. 6
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st. vincent tour video no. 5
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st. vincent tour video no. 4
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st. vincent tour video no. 3
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st. vincent tour video no. 2
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st. vincent tour video no. 1
Dec 11th
Records Made of Glacial Ice
saladfork: “Katie Paterson is an artist who visited some glaciers in iceland and collected up 3 gallons of natural ice from them. She then took a recording of the ice, running water and other sounds from the glacier and took it all back home. When she got home, she melted the ice and pressed 3 records out of the re-frozen ice with the audio from her recordings of the glacier.” via twitter:...
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“What we do is relevant on a sub-culture level. And when you try to make that...”
– Bradford Cox
Dec 9th
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boneless (original by the notwist) - panda bear remix
Dec 8th
Myspace of Forest Magic. They have the entirety of Is Energy on their page, so check out the whole thing, but especially “Designed,” Teeth,” and “Back When…”
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Bands to Watch No. 2
The next featured band to watch is a local band from Chattanooga, TN and they go by the name Forest Magic. I heard about them back in late January/ early February of this year from a friend I’d met in the art studio at school. There was some music playing and I’d asked what it was. I can’t remember the band he mentioned, but we had struck up a conversation about the music we...
Dec 8th
Check out tUnE yArDs on myspace and listen to the track “Little Tiger”
Dec 7th
“I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes me feel that I’ve sung well, or...”
– Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-YaRdS, discussing her voice in an interview with Gothamist.
Dec 7th
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Bands to Watch No. 1
The first band profile for this week is tUnE yArDs. This is the sole project of Merrill Garbus. I’ve heard her track, Little Tiger last winter. The spelling of the band name made me want to skip over the track, but I decided to listen to it. The music sounded pretty good, but then the vocals come in and it caught me off guard. The swooning vocals had made me want to turn it off, but I just...
Dec 7th