Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Bill Frisell: All Hat
Mid-May brings a beautiful country-Western soundtrack from Bill Frisell, neoclassical strings and mid-’90s alt-rock from Skeletonbreath, modern acoustic jazz and African sounds from Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings, and precise, über-melodic math rock from Upsilon Acrux. (more…)
Tags: Bill Frisell, Black Earth Ensemble, Black Earth Strings, Cuneiform, Delmark, Earth, Emarcy, Ernest Jenning, Exploding Star Orchestra, Frequency, Hella, Indigo Trio, Minus the Bear, Nicole Mitchell, O'death, Paul Motian, Robert Pycior, Shellac, Skeletonbreath, Tera Melos, The Jesus Lizard, Upsilon Acrux
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Diamond Watch Wrists: Ice Capped at Both Ends
Diamond Watch Wrists headlines this week’s picks with an unconventional pop collaboration between Guillermo Scott Herren and Zach Hill.
The duo’s debut is followed closely by the hiatus-breaking mixtape from Themselves, the stunning debut of an Austrian singer/multi-instrumentalist as Soap&Skin, the interesting cover EP from heavy/ambient duo Nadja, and the multi-genre jazz of Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse. (more…)
Tags: A-Ha, Abstrakt Pulse, Aesop Rock, Anja Franziska Plaschg, Anticon, Aphex Twin, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bjork, Busdriver, Bygones, Corey Wilkes, Delmark, Diamond Watch Wrists, Doseone, Elliot Smith, Guillermo Scott Herren, Hella, Jel, Kevin Nabors, Lester Bowie, My Bloody Valentine, Nadja, Pi, PIAS, Prefuse 73, Savath & Savalas, Scott Hesse, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Slayer, Slug, Soap&Skin, Subtle, Swans, The Cure, The End, Themselves, Warp, Yoni Wolf, Zach Hill
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
John Zorn: Film Works XXIII: El General
In a slow week for tunes, our favorites of the week include John Zorn’s Mexican melodies, Mountains‘ electro-acoustic serenity, Rob Mazurek’s new quintet, and Steven Wilson’s solo debut. (more…)
Tags: Black Earth Ensemble, Delmark, Exploding Star Orchestra, Isotope 217, Jason Adasiewicz, John Herndon, John Zorn, Josh Abrams, Kscope, Matthew Lux, Mountains, Porcupine Tree, Rob Mazurek, Rolldown, Sao Paulo Underground, Steven Wilson, Thom Yorke, Thrill Jockey, Tortoise, Tzadik
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