Told through swelling instrumentals and gossamer vocals, "Ghostory," the third album from indie-pop band School of Seven Bells (or SVIIB), which was released on Feb.
That old American Bandstand adage "It's got a beat and you can dance to it" comes to mind when listening to "Something," the new album from Brooklyn electronic pop duo Chairlift, and at first you don't know why.
As my high school's resident music snob, I remember quite a few instances in which I tried to explain how Wyclef Jean got his chorus for "Sweetest Girl (Dolla Bill)." "Cash rules everything around me" and "dolla' dolla' bill, y'all," I would explain, are lines from the Wu-Tang Clan's track titled "C.R.E.A.M." Furthermore, the line "I'ma tell you like Wu told me" is almost directly lifted from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Notorious B.I.G.'s "Notorious Thugs." My classmates seemed less than willing to lend an ear to my enlightening words and told me to get a life and/or girlfriend.
With vocals often as high and nasally as Urkel, and lyrics about subjects as eclectic as lighthouses and the 1964 World's Fair, They Might Be Giants is far from the coolest rock band out there.
Courtesy of Collider.com The chill synth-pop soundtrack of the movie "Drive" (2011) blew me away.
Last year I experienced a minor addiction to Pandora Internet Radio. I would create stations upon stations of my favorite artists, discover new artists on those stations and create new stations based on those artists in an endless chain reaction.
Neon Indian's new album "Era Extraa," released Sept. 13, features driving synth kick-drums, Nintendo-like beeps and clicks and wall-of-sound instrumentals.
In last week's review of Wilco's "The Whole Love," which drops on Tuesday, I used the term "alt-country" multiple times to describe the band's early sound.
Having accumulated over four million views in just over a month, the commercial for Ojai Valley Taxidermy might be the most popular local commercial of all time.
Courtesy of About.com "The Whole Love," Wilco's eighth studio album, plays like a "Best of" album run through a blender set to "puree." Track by track, it is diverse in sound and consistent in quality.