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Janelle Monae sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos. Janelle Monáe: The ArchAndroid. Janelle Monáe's The ArchAndroid immediately dazzles you with its ambition.

Janelle Monáe: The ArchAndroid

It's a 70-minute, 18-track epic comprising two suites, each beginning with an overture, telling a futuristic story starring a messianic android. It's not even the beginning of the saga-- the first sequence was her debut EP, Metropolis: The Chase Suite. The songs zip gleefully from genre to genre, mostly grounded in R&B and funk, but spinning out into rap, pastoral British folk, psychedelic rock, disco, cabaret, cinematic scores, and whatever else strikes her fancy. It's about as bold as mainstream music gets, marrying the world-building possibilities of the concept album to the big tent genre-mutating pop of Michael Jackson and Prince in their prime. Monáe describes The ArchAndroid as an "emotion picture," an album with a story arc intended to be experienced in one sitting, like a movie. The success of the album is also due to Monáe's raw talent as a vocalist.

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Beach Fossils sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos. Beach Fossils: Beach Fossils. If you've followed indie's trade winds over the past year and a half, you can probably predict what a Brooklyn band called Beach Fossils sounds like to a staggeringly accurate degree.

Beach Fossils: Beach Fossils

In this case, please set aside the prejudices: Beach Fossils aren't merely trying to evoke the feeling of sand between your toes, and even if you think you've mentally checked out of anything summery and lo-fi, this is a wonderful record. Dustin Payseur's Captured Tracks band claims influence from improvisational jazz, classical music, and Stereolab, and his songwriting owes more to loop-based composition than garage-bound woodshedding. From the functionality of the song titles on down, Beach Fossils has purpose and economy. It's built on cleanly picked single notes stacked over complementary bass patterns and unobtrusive drums. Despite working in generally constricted song patterns-- there's little in the way of verse/chorus structure-- Payseur has no problem letting his vocals and guitar craft hooks.

The Depreciation Guild sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP. It's only November, but Mariah Carey is already getting ready for Christmas <p class="entry-lead-paragraph"><strong>"Santa, it's time...

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,"</strong></p><figure><img width="300" height="191" src=" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="Mariah Carey won’t play ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ until after Thanksgiving" srcset=" 300w, 768w, 1024w, 320w, 620w, 920w, 1220w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-image-id="2403846" /><figcaption>Mariah Carey won’t play ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ until after Thanksgiving</figcaption></figure><p>It’s only been a day since Halloween, but Mariah Carey is already getting ready for Christmas. The ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ singer has marked the start of the festive season by sharing a video clip which sees her receiving a phone call from Santa. The Depreciation Guild: Spirit Youth. The Depreciation Guild - Spirit Youth. Tracklist: 1.

The Depreciation Guild - Spirit Youth

My Chariot2. Crucify You3. Blue Lily4. Dream About Me5. Style: Dream Pop, Shoegaze While you might know Kurt Feldman and Christoph Hochheim best for their work in The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, they are also members of the dream-pop trio The Depreciation Guild. Available in your standard formats, as well as limited vinyl edition, starting May 18th through Kanine Records, Spirit Youth will look to embody the band’s “very own blend of 8-bit beats, clanging chords, and heady hook.” It will also contain disembodied voices and distorted guitars. James Blake sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos e.

James Blake: CMYK EP. CMYK is only the third release from London electronic producer James Blake, who is only 21-- and the reason I keep saying "only" is because I get a little dumb thinking about how much ground he's covered in so few steps.

James Blake: CMYK EP

His style is already recognizable: progressions of thick soul and jazz chords (a product of years of piano lessons), pitched-down and mangled vocals (often his own), and mid-tempo beats that balance synthesized sub-bass with handclaps, snaps, and other humanizing soundlets. James Blake - CMYK EP [2010] 320 kbps. THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratu. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Now I Got Worry. Given the congenial pose he strikes with his current rockabilly outfit Heavy Trash, it's hard to remember a time when Jon Spencer was the most polarizing figure in American indie-rock.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Now I Got Worry

Sure, Vampire Weekend may catch message-board flak over the socio-economic disparities between their privileged upbringings and the impoverished African musicians who've inspired them, but they've never been labeled a minstrel act or, worse, racist-- tags that dogged Spencer and his band, the Blues Explosion, through their mid-1990s heyday. Really, Spencer adopted black musical tropes and affectations-- be it the hysterical hoots and hollers of Little Richard or the self-referential shout-outs of Flavor Flav-- no more flagrantly than Elvis or Mick Jagger or Captain Beefheart before him.

Jon Spencer & The Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry -96 2005 b ( The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Controversial Negro (download. Ellen Allien sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos. Ellen Allien: Dust. Ellen Allien - Dust [2010]