Deep Elm Records Deep Elm Records is pleased to announce that we are now offering downloads of every album in our catalog (200+) on a Name Your Price basis. Fan support of our artists is a key element in the creation of music that inspires, excites and consoles you. It's about bands and fans coming together as one and experiencing music's awesome ability to move the soul. It has always been Deep Elm's intention to get the music of our family of artists into the hands (and ears) of as many people as possible. We're not just making music together, we're making history. (read the full press release) Enter Coheed And Cambria First Listen: The Flaming Lips, 'Embryonic' STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO Bob Gruen, Rock and Roll Photographer - The Files ©2001 Bob Gruen - No image or material on this site may be reproduced, copied or distributed in any way without written permission from Bob Gruen
Alternative Music, Hard to Find Music, Rare CDs, LPs - Alternati SoundsHunter | MSTRKRFT Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Wild Beasts: Two Dancers In a day where Hot Topic peddles guyliner to millions of male teenage mallrats, it's hard to imagine a time when glam-rock was truly shocking. But there remains one gender-bending device whose provocative, polarizing power remains undiminished: the falsetto-- a sound that tends to elicit both laughter and skepticism, if not outright hostility. Still, it remains a highly effective weapon in the endless war against safe, overly earnest indie-- and few bands brandish it so wantonly as UK art-pop quartet Wild Beasts. On the band's striking 2008 debut, Limbo, Panto, frontman Hayden Thorpe unleashed his shrill, glass-shattering shrieks as a means to project both the vulnerability and depravity of his sexually frustrated protagonists, and he didn't care if he went hoarse in the process (you can practically hear his vocal cords disintegrate on the galloping single "Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants").
Pitchfork: Album Reviews: The xx: xx The xx are four 20-year-olds from South London who make predominantly slow, furtive pop music, mostly about sex. They are also one of the stranger recipients of UK hype in recent memory. They have no calling-card song; members of the Pitchfork staff have ID'd no fewer than four songs ("Basic Space", "Crystalised", "Islands", "Infinity") as "the one." They are not fashion plates, nor likely to be. Strongly influenced by modern R&B-- the group made hay with an early cover of Womack & Womack's "Teardrops", while UK copies of xx come packed with their version of Aaliyah's "Hot Like Fire"-- the xx use a drum machine to complement their copiously tidy compositions. Singer-guitarist Romy Madley Croft in particular seems all but incapable of uttering a line that isn't a come-on, a post-coital musing, or a longing apology for a lack of one of the former. Croft's sparring partner, bassist Oliver Sim, usually fills in the other spaces via either his responsive vocals or ever-present bass.
Jean-Marc Onkelinx - En avant la musique ! - Blog de Jean-Marc O Année Richard Wagner oblige, je me plonge depuis quelques temps déjà dans un énorme travail qui va m’occuper tout l’été. En effet, le Cercle belge francophone Richard Wagner m’a fait l’honneur de me charger de rédiger les textes qui illustreront le numéro spécial de la revue anniversaire. Lourde tâche, vu l’abondance des écrits spécialisés en la matière, que je veux mener avec mon esprit didactique et pédagogique. Ces travaux littéraires sont précédés, ces prochaines semaines par plusieurs exposés sur le sujet. Lorsqu’on évoque la musique de Richard Wagner, on pense immédiatement au terme, encore souvent nimbé de mystère, « Leitmotiv ». Le mot allemand, apparu vers 1860, se traduit par « motif conducteur ». Début de Parsifal et grand leitmotiv, partie des cordes C’est bien la première définition qui m’intéresse ici, même si l’analogie avec le discours mériterait à elle seule un article détaillé, voire une conférence. D’abord, il ne faut pas confondre thème et leitmotiv.
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