Ben W. | September 30, 2009
ARC-TIC MON-KEYS!! clap-clap, clap-clap-clap…
ARC-TIC MON-KEYS!! clap-clap, clap-clap-clap…
ARC-TIC MON-KEYS!! clap-clap, clap-clap-clap…
Yeah, I went to an Arctic Monkeys concert in Columbus Monday night, and an Ohio State football game broke out.
And boy did those fans at the Newport Music Hall want an encore. Or maybe they wanted the Buckeyes to go for it on fourth down. I [...]
Amanda Lee | September 30, 2009
Melodically, “The Book of Love” should be the kind of song you play at your wedding—sweet and soft with a chorus that swells in all the right places. But it’s not a cheesetastic love song. It’s a tongue-in-cheek look at all the fripperies that compose our ideas of love—swelling musical refrains, dancing under moonlight, goosebumps, [...]
Ben W. | September 24, 2009
It’s Midpoint Music Fest in Cincinnati this weekend. So all week, we’re gonna dedicate our 12:12 Tuners to great artists you should check out if you happen to be in town and have a spare $30 bill burning a hole in your pocket.
I don’t want today’s 12:12 Tuner to give you the wrong idea. Cincinnati [...]
Ben W. | September 23, 2009
It’s Midpoint Music Fest in Cincinnati this weekend. So all week, we’re gonna dedicate our 12:12 Tuners to great artists you should check out if you happen to be in town and have a spare $30 bill burning a hole in your pocket.
Let me just say that I consider The Koala Fires to be very [...]
Ben W. | September 22, 2009
MAYA BLUE – COLTRANE MOTION
It’s Midpoint Music Fest in Cincinnati this weekend. So all week, we’re gonna dedicate our 12:12 Tuners to great artists you should check out if you happen to be in town and have a spare $30 bill burning a hole in your pocket.
The adjectives “dancey” and “droney” would seem to be [...]
Ben W. | September 18, 2009
All that listing of Beatles songs got me excited last week.
All this talk of Pavement reunions got me excited this week.
So I decided to combine the excitements to form a giant explosion of excitement — my list of great Pavement songs.
Get excited…
Ben W. | September 18, 2009
Phil Spector is my favorite producer in music history. So wrapping my head around minimalist pop still doesn’t come naturally for me. But when the minimalist pop in question is as good as The xx, I suppose I can cope with the idea of not employing 16 piano players for one song.
Ben W. | September 17, 2009
Hey now, some good news! Pavement is getting back together! For at least one show (their first in 10 years) – Central Park SummerStage in NYC on Sept. 21, 2010. Start the countdown now!
Ben W. | September 16, 2009
Jay Reatard. Could a name get any more stupid? I’m going to venture a guess. And that guess is no.
But this guy’s name is about the only stupid thing going on with his music. It’s fast and furious and tuneful as hell. It’s kind of punkish. It’s kind of lo-fi indie rock circa 1990. But [...]
Ben W. | September 15, 2009
Jay-Z returned last week with the third installment in his Blueprint series, aptly named The Blueprint 3.
And it’s only the most anticipated hip hop album of the year. So we thought we’d review it, not once, but four times. Four different writers, four different perspectives.
We’ve got myself (natch), Rob Dowdy, Hilly Kenkel and Chris Collins. [...]
A borderline psychotic explosion of opinion.
