12/17/2007
Top 10 Albums of 2007: No. 8, Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Panda Bear's Person Pitch could easily be compared to a somewhat rocky, but ultimately strong long-term romantic relationship. The album, like any truly loving relationship, has it's fair share of peaks and valleys. The self-proclaimed panda ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 12/17/2007 5:43 PM EST in Experimental, Top 10 Albums Of 2007 | Permalink
12/13/2007
Electronic Mountain Music: Alaska In Winter's "Rain On Every Weekend"
Most indie kids are familiar with Zach Condon and Beirut, but another band that he contributes to, Alaska In Winter, may be less known. Aesthetically, both bands are cut from the same cloth, except Alaska In Winter experiments more with sparse o ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 12/13/2007 10:21 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Electronic, Experimental | Permalink
12/07/2007
King At The Controls: Dub-Master, King Tubby
After getting into the roots of Reggae and Ska, I have discovered the most experimental of Jamaican generes: Dub. I've been a fan of one of the genre's greats. King Tubby, for sometime now and he never disappoints. In the late 60's and ear ...
Read MorePosted by Joe on 12/07/2007 3:45 PM EST in Experimental, Dub | Permalink
12/06/2007
Arthur Russell Does The Moonwalk
Arthur Russell is a dead disco cellist, but his spirit is very much alive in this hidden YouTube gem, passed on to me last week by a good friend. Simultaneously soothing and a bit creepy (read: other-worldly), I have found myself addicted to ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 12/06/2007 10:40 AM EST in Experimental, WTF?, YouTube | Permalink
12/03/2007
Klaus Nomi Drinks Campari
Truth be told, the music of Klaus Nomi was inspired by after-dinner cocktails from Italy. How do I know this? Well, today I stumbled upon this swanky 80's commercial from Greece featuring his song "Total Eclipse." Hmm, I guess the target audienc ...
Read MorePosted by Joe on 12/03/2007 1:08 PM EST in Experimental, WTF?, New-Wave, YouTube | Permalink
11/16/2007
The Perfect Mix: New Music From Dose One, "Overchoiced"
If Mos Def is The Miles Davis of Hip-Hop, then Dose One is the genre's Brian Eno. He and the Anticon collective explore ambiance like no other artists in the genre today, and they succeed at almost every turn. One may argue that sometimes they ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 11/16/2007 10:15 AM EST in Experimental, Hip-Hop | Permalink
11/15/2007
Armand Schaubroeck: They Call Him the RatF*cker and He Sells Fun
Labeled as "The best song that Lou Reed never wrote," by AllMusic, Armand Schaubroeck's 1978 "Ratfucker" is a cross between Lou Reed's Street Hassle and John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13...or how about a pissed off, vigilante version of Jo ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 11/15/2007 10:50 AM EST in Experimental, 70's Punk, YouTube | Permalink
11/13/2007
Alexander Skip Spence: Literally Schizophrenic Psych Rock!
If mental-illness induced psychedelic rock is your thing ala Syd Barrett, or Daniel Johnston you need to know about Skip Spence. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, Spence first appeared on the radar as a guitarist in the Quicksilver Messenger Se ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 11/13/2007 3:05 PM EST in Experimental, Rock, 60's Psych, Lo-Fi | Permalink
11/12/2007
Re-Arranged: Prefuse 73 Hints At a New Direction
Along with each album release, Prefuse 73 occasionally includes a bonus disc of extra material, and it tends to be stronger than the main release. I'm a big fan of artists that take risks and try new things and the music featured on the Prep ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 11/12/2007 2:40 PM EST in Electronic, Experimental | Permalink
11/09/2007
MENOMENA: Live at The First Unitarian Church - With Video!
The temperature in Philly was falling rapidly, but not inside the First Unitarian Church on Wednesday night. I arrived just in time to catch headliners MENOMENA of Portland, OR. This was my first time going to a show at The First Unitarian C ...
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