The Knox Road email isn’t currently working on my computer, so a post about a band I’ve been listening a lot to lately will have to suffice. But don’t worry, you’re not getting gypped – my music taste is your music taste, right? Right?? Hmm… Regardless of your answer to that last (rhetorical) question, I… Continue reading Lights Out Asia
Month: October 2009
[MP3] Tape Deck Mountain: “Bat Lies”
So Tape Deck Mountain is releasing an album called Ghosts on November 17, and you guys should all legally purchase it. I’m rather excited myself because I’ve just heard “Bat Lies,” which you can stream below, and it’s a really nice track. The song’s slow, but in a really pretty, strummed electric guitar sort of… Continue reading [MP3] Tape Deck Mountain: “Bat Lies”
Yael Meyer to release new EP
Layered electronica. Acoustic guitar. Hushed female vocals. Yael Meyer. Oh, and bells, bells, bells. Meyer, a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, was born in Santiago de Chile and moved to the United States at 19 to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She’s no longer that wide-eyed 19-year-old, currently spending her time in LA, yet… Continue reading Yael Meyer to release new EP
Ólafur Arnalds creates some lovely, if unmoving, tunes on Found Songs
It makes sense that Ólafur Arnalds‘ newest, Found Songs, doesn’t pack quite the same punch as Eulogy for Evolution does. In April, Arnalds composed and recorded a song daily for seven days, releasing each one to the web immediately. As a result, we have ourselves some Ólafur lite — while this isn’t the worst thing… Continue reading Ólafur Arnalds creates some lovely, if unmoving, tunes on Found Songs
The Flaming Lips make beautiful, confusing art with Embryonic
The Flaming Lips are often called an “alternative” band by people like “Grammy award selection committees” and “moms who heard that one song they do,” but one look at any live show and one listen into their latest album, Embryonic, and you know the only way to classify this group is “art.” The band has… Continue reading The Flaming Lips make beautiful, confusing art with Embryonic
Knox Road Radio playlist for 10.11
Lee was playing soccer (how athletic!) so Jon and I flew this one solo AGAIN. But OH was there so much to talk about. Pitchfork’s top 200 list in retrospect, trying to name all the countries in the world and I guess a little about the music of the last week. We do like to… Continue reading Knox Road Radio playlist for 10.11
LOST Babies!
I’m assuming there’s a whole legion of about four people out there who still watch LOST, and have stuck with it through five seasons. I’m one of them, so for the three people out there who care, this one’s for you! So basically it’s LOST Babies, and while it’s mostly what you would expect from… Continue reading LOST Babies!
In Case You Missed It: Week in Review
I know you’ve been way too absorbed in the incredibly suspenseful baseball playoffs to read Knox Road this week. I mean, it’s great to see such parity in baseball with none of the big market teams in the playoffs! (Yes, I am being sarcastic about something that people have been sarcastic about for, well, ever.… Continue reading In Case You Missed It: Week in Review
[MP3] Digits: “Nonstop”
Digits, the electronic indie pop project of Alt Altman, released his first full album, Hold It Close, on September 22. Altman, out of Toronto, typically sings with deep, monotone vocals over his layered electronic beats, but the song “Nonstop” features slightly more ranging vocals – something we take to kindly here at Knox Road. “Nonstop”… Continue reading [MP3] Digits: “Nonstop”
Modest Mouse unleashes video for “The Whale Song”
I guess I’m a day late on this, but the awesomeness here completely outweighs the lack of punctuality. It’s a new Modest Mouse video! It’s for “The Whale Song,” and looks like exactly what I’d expect from a Modest Mouse video. There’s sub-primitive Iron Man technology, Isaac Brock playing the guitar while sort of floating,… Continue reading Modest Mouse unleashes video for “The Whale Song”