Black Out Birthday Summah
on September 6, 2011
Which song are we talking about, Katy Perry’s “T.G.I.F.” or DOM’s “Happy Birthday Party?”
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Lou Reed: Stepping back from The Velvet Underground
on September 5, 2011
If Reed was holding anything back with his song lyrics in Transformer, the world might not have been able to stomach it.
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Bandcamp Hunter: Weekly Picks (09/03/11)
on September 3, 2011
The Bandcamp Hunter from Australia chooses Tyler Lyle, Single Twin and Fire Spoken by the Buffalo as his picks of the week for August 27, 2011. A weekly Pop ‘stache feature.
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Call Your Girlfriend, and Tell Her About Robyn
on September 2, 2011
Robyn’s single, “Call Your Girlfriend,” is a prime example of Robyn’s true prowess, and why she truly is the most killingest pop star on the planet.
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Top of The Pops: Artists Cover Top 40 Tunes
on September 1, 2011
In an effort to change the negative stigma of covering a Top 40 song, here are four pitch-perfect examples of alternative entities spinning Top 40 to their own whims most excellently.
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The Spirits When They Need You: The Battle for By The Way
on August 31, 2011
With By The Way you can feel the breath of the album, its dirty, yearning heart beating beneath every arrangement. There is a masterful use of space, harmony, layering and auxiliary instrumentation, the band employing everything from strings to Rhodes pianos, trumpets, to melodicas, all while maintaining a spirit of escapism, an immortality, an “Everyone knows/Anything goes,” attitude that is so befitting of the band.
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Is Online The New Way To Broadcast Radio?
on August 30, 2011
Is radio a dinosaur, destined to become extinct from relevance by the asteroid-like impact of the Internet and the ubiquity of mobile devices?
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Q&A with YAWN
on August 29, 2011
Recently, Pop ‘stache chatted with Adam Gil and Daniel Perzan of Chicago-based band YAWN. The band’s debut release, Open Seasons, drops this Tuesday, August 30, with a release party at Schubas. Stop by if you’re in town, but in the meantime gain an idea of what you’re in for here: Pop ‘stache: I’ve been reading […]
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Bandcamp Hunter: Weekly Picks (08/27/11)
on August 28, 2011
Yes Know – Place Sandy Gilfillan recorded this beautiful bedroom music under the name Yes Know. These are slow-paced songs that have a lulling ethereal quality. The reverb applied to the vocals and guitar never overpower the sentiment of the slightly warped folk-pop though. Gillifan has a laconic approach to his craft, creating spacious lo-fi soundscapes with minimal techniques. An […]
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Fostering Contempt
on August 25, 2011
Beyond the hook and the dark subject matter, “Pumped Up Kicks” may have struck another nerve.
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Give It Away: RHCP Gives It All
on August 24, 2011
Released the same day as Nirvana’s now-legendary Nevermind, the Chili Pepper’s fifth album would become the band’s most important.
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This Milkshake Brings All the Boys to the Oil Yard
on August 24, 2011
“There Will Be Blood” uses so much of Greenwood’s compositions that the two become interlocking pieces of the puzzle.
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