Blog Profile / Music for Robots
| URL : | http://music.for-robots.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Music / Rock & Pop | |
| Posts on Regator: | 474 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.7 | |
| Archived Since: | February 2, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Beacuse Sound Matters
We'd like to take a second and welcome our new friends Because Sound Matters to our tiny little blogroll over there on the right. They're a new vinyl-only venture from the Warner Bros. family, offering reissues from all kinds of sick catalog titles. Show More Summary
Yarn Owl.
Yarn Owl - Bicycle. It isn't until the refrain in the back third of the song that it really wins you over. The beginning, begging to be sound in a round, or at least with some harmonies, is the kind of mossy, woodsy thing we expect and love from the Pacific Northwest. Show More Summary
The Family Band
Family Band - Hatred. Staring down the barrel of a move on a rainy day, why not throw on some Family Band. It's cold, it's wet, there's a mountain of crap in the room that needs sorting, filing, boxing, tossing, remembering. Each object is given a piece of my time as I try to remember why I had it in the first place, and whose memory it was keeping. Show More Summary
Just outside your reach
Real Estate - Beach Comber. I'll be honest - I wanted to post a different track. Real Estate's song "Snow Days" has burrowed itself in my brain, and I've been listening to it a few times a day, marveling at how it's like a little narrative, with characters, plot arcs. Show More Summary
Menomena's "Queen Black Acid"
Having spent the morning making a series of totally unwanted phonecalls and dealing with math of all things, it's so refreshing to sit down to a fresh new video from Menomena. Look at that stance, at the swagger. These are not the little boys who were once coughing coughing, puffing up their chests to be the strongest in the world. Show More Summary
The Golden Hour Box Set
Air Waves - Knockout. Today, on what's likely the clearest day we've had in Los Angeles in months, seems like a good a day as any to pull out the tenderly crafted box set from 1928 Recordings, the Golden Hour. With a straight-shot view...Show More Summary
Party Hard
So I'm going to this......
We could be lazy without conditions
This song has been rattling around in my brain all morning, through an endless commute that involved rain, a couple of faulty subway cars, and too much wind for one umbrella. Anders Ponders - Slowest Motion Miracle. "Slowest Motion Miracle" is on the new Anders Ponders record Nodes Of Overtones, and it got me through my morning. Show More Summary
Laughin' and dancin' all around the Christmas tree
It's that time of year again, folks. It's finally the time when I get to gush about my favorite Christmas music. Lucky everybody! J.D. McDonald - Boogaloo Santa Claus. This track is from the awesome new compilation In The Christmas Groove, out now on Strut Records. Show More Summary
That makes two of us, that makes two of us
Destry - Big Mouths. Destry's Michelle DaRosa must get compared to Jenny Lewis pretty often, and I bet that gets old. But That Voice, with its surprising depth no matter the pitch, is what DaRosa's got in spades, and it's what drives this song towards its eventual demise. Show More Summary
We gotta look good tonight
Boy, am I a sucker for songs about astronauts. Globes On Remote - Space Camp. Well, aside from "Looking For Astronauts" by The National. Ugh. But this one? It's really fun. It's a little synth-pop number about going into outer space....Show More Summary
It's alright, I've got the seaside
deVries - The Darkest Summer. Seattle's deVries is the brainchild of Travis deVries, also a member of the Turn-Ons. Their record Death To God is a good one. It's a weird, unpredictable mix of your favorite bands, but it's still strikingly original. Show More Summary
Did you feel like I do?
Bass! The Hush Now - Hoping and Waiting. It's not very often you hear a song in which the bass drives everything forward, propelling the song toward that last second. It's especially effective in Boston band the Hush Now's "Hoping and Waiting", because it starts with that plaintive organ, and you're thinking to yourself, ah, okay. Show More Summary
Up there on the hills
Here's another one I've been waiting for. Basia Bulat's 2008 record Oh My Darling was a sweet little album, full of winding melodies, thumping percussion, and, best of all, lots of autoharp. Basia Bulat - Gold Rush. Basia Bulat is back. Show More Summary
Thao!
I've been looking forward to this one for a long time. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better, Learn Faster. I loved Thao's last record, We Brave Bee Stings And All, which jumped around like it was up too early on Saturday morning. Show More Summary
Radiohead contest!
Aw man, look at those guys. Someone must have told a Radiohead joke! Or maybe they're laughing because you're about to take free music from them, and they didn't even announce it mysteriously a few days ago. Music For Robots has a set...Show More Summary
Oh La La in Los Angeles
The Shoes - People Movin'. Jamaica - Cross the Fader. Last week I had the absolute pleasure to attend an event at the French Consulate in Beverly Hills. We all know what a consulate is, right? Right. So it turns out they're throwing a festival here in Los Angeles to promote some French music and generally have a good time. Show More Summary
The Walls Are Gold
Le Loup - Beach Town. Driving home last night from Santa Monica, with the slightest of chills in the air and a whole bunch of promise on the horizon, I took a gamble and put in the new record from Le Loup. I know this mp3 has been knocking around for awhile but the full length only came in the mail yesterday. Show More Summary
Exclamation point!
TGIF, robots, am I right? It's Miller time. High fives all around. Darlings - If This Is Love. God only knows why I started thinking about this (a long commute makes you do the damndest things), but the other day, I began wondering what punctuation marks different bands would represent. Show More Summary
Couldn't I?
Parts making up a whole. tUnE-yArDs - Sunlight. That's obviously what music is - hell, that's what everything is, but thinking about it at length is freaking me out - but I'm liking these recent bands who have exaggerated the difference between the sum and the parts. Show More Summary