With a touchingly strong voice and an emotional deliverance similar to a break-up from somebody who still loves you but isn’t completely heart-broken, Oblio caught my notice with the song ‘Anna Nicole Smith.’ Somewhere in between electro, trip-hop and pop, it reminds me of something a really sexy, dark featured girl would strip to in [...]
February 20, 2009
Categories: Artist Watch List, Bands We Love . Tags: samuelroy, Xiu xiu, Antony and the Johnsons, bjork, coco rosie, David Bowie, shaw and the shaws, Oblio, Anna Nicole Smith, The Stud, Cat Power, Yoko Ono, Zapp and roger, bowie, lil kim, madonna, handsome furs, Jamie Stewart . Author: tarnation1 . Comments: 2 Comments
So okay, I was just asked to release my EP ‘Pi11 Bits’ on Casey Chisholm’s ‘Ascension Recordings and Publications‘, and I’m maybe a tad bit excited. But hey, in credit to my own back-scratching, I was a fan of Casey Chisholm’s own music, Religious Girls, Brother, and other stuff released on Ascension well before this [...]
February 18, 2009
Categories: Bands We Love, Record Review, Uncategorized . Tags: 100 swans, anti-folk, Asecnsion Recordings, blood bones and tissue, brad feilder, Brother, casey chisholm, chirp, goodman, j irvin dally, jonathan sarenana, kevin facey, kite flying robot, new rave, Religious Girls, shoe gaze, tashina tucker, the mountains, travis brooks, up mine sunshine . Author: tarnation1 . Comments: 1 Comment
So one of MinorProgression’s favorites now has some video’s up on youtube that haven’t really been seen. Anyway, I encourage you to beef up the view counts on these cute short live videos to hopefully inspire Akiine to make really cute music video’s that only someone with her quirky sensibilities could create:::::
February 17, 2009
Categories: Artist Watch List, Bands We Love, Video Magic . Tags: akiine, Videos . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: Leave a Comment
I can’t stop watching Fever Ray‘s new video for “When I Grow Up.” Karin Derijer Andersson ( of The Knife fame ) seriously takes the cupcake for this one. The costume design is so perfect, it’s exactly how I like to imagine that crazy girl we all went to school with (you know, the one [...]
February 17, 2009
Categories: Bands We Love, Video Magic . Tags: Fever Ray, the knife, When I Grow Up . Author: tadizoinneon . Comments: Leave a Comment
Though the song is good and the video carries it’s own torch, part of the fun in watching Mirror Mirror‘s ‘Eugene’ is finding out how strangely the audio to visual match up in this colorful, casual boy-fest. “What was that?”, I found myself asking the first time. Then I watched it again. I couldn’t help [...]
February 16, 2009
Categories: Artist Watch List, Video Magic . Tags: Black hole sun, mirror mirror, soundgarden . Author: tarnation1 . Comments: Leave a Comment
Sometimes I am a truly lucky son of a bitch. I just got to take a trip to Oakland California for a week, leaving behind a colder than a well diggers ass Brooklyn, to bask in the surprisingly warm and consistent Bay Area weather and spend time catching up with both popejohnpaul12 and Tarnation1. Aside [...]
February 16, 2009
Categories: Artist Watch List, Bands We Love, Interview . Tags: Brother, Free mp3, House of Nostramo, Mr. Floppy, Oakland, The Ghost of Agony's Past, the mae shi, Trees . Author: brokenbrooklyn . Comments: Leave a Comment
It’s that time of the year again. When I was young my Grandma told me to get rid of romantic relationships between Xmas and Valentines day to save money. Did it. Now I’m super lonely. Going to drink it away and try to find a one night stand.
February 13, 2009
Categories: Bands We Love, Party Time! . Tags: Elliot Smith, happy valentines day, mp3 . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: 1 Comment
The official MinorProgression stance on the horrendous unwarranted murder of Oscar Grant“ by BART police is FUCK THE POLICE!!! Since we don’t support police brutality and the violence they stand for, we’re urging all bay area residents and those in the vicinity that can make it, to do what police officers cannot do, and that [...]
February 12, 2009
Categories: Festival, Video Magic . Tags: Fuck the police, Ice Cube, Love-In, mp3's, Nina Simone, Oscar Grant, Valentines Day . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: Leave a Comment
Ta – da!! This guy named Marshall who does this event-organizing thing called Pretty Blue Presents posted this bird announced land video on myspace, asking for people to repost it around. I thought it was pretty cute, so I figured I would be an asshole not to carry the torch for this lovely little ukulele [...]
February 11, 2009
Categories: Bands We Love, Video Magic . Tags: akiine, bird announced land, Pretty Blue Presents . Author: tarnation1 . Comments: Leave a Comment
Last Friday night, February 6th 2009, was the first official MinorProgression party at the Flophouse in Oakland. On the bill: visual art by Justin Swaby; performance art by Ariel Goldberg; Music by Debutante, Casey Chisholm, our very own Samuelroy, and Shaw and the Shaws (a write up of Shaw and the Shaws is coming soon)… [...]
February 11, 2009
Categories: Artist Watch List, Dance and Performance, Party Time!, Poetry . Tags: ariel goldberg, kenneth goldsmith, mass media, mp3's, new york times, news, tracey thorn, Tracy Chapman . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: 2 Comments