Some bands deserve more than just a paltry mention. So let me start over again…Portland indie rockers The Decemberists make fantastic music that pauses every 20 seconds to consider metamorphosing into something more menacing. Sometimes it does and with sound and fury, gnashing its teeth and escaping most clichés; and sometimes it doesn’t, but [...]
Archive for September, 2009
When indie rock decided to move on…
Posted in sound, tagged Becky Stark, Chris Funk, Colin Meloy, Decembrist uprising in Russia, indie rock, indie rock 2009, Jenny Conlee, John Moen, keyboardist Jenny Conlee, Lavender Diamond, Led Zeppelin’s The Battle of Evermore, My Brightest Diamond, Nate Query, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Patti Smith, Shara Worden, The Crane Wife, The Decemberists, The Hazards Of Love, The Hazards of Love 3, The Queen’s Rebuke, The Who’s Tommy on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh mother, these handsome bands torture me
Posted in sound, tagged Broken, Cannibal Ox, Company Flow, David Harrington, Hank Dutt, Jeffrey Zeigler, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet, Mark Lanegan and Soulsavers, Mindstate, Mos Def’s new album, Mystery Repeats, Pete Philly and Perquisite, Remindstate, Requiem For A Dream, the real godfather of grunge, Tom Waits, Zilveren Harp on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The film Requiem For A Dream and a distinct lack of sobriety once introduced me to the haunting sounds of Kronos Quartet. Violins gratuitously meshed with their fellow strings and beat themselves to a bloody, self-loathing pulp that spoke of the mistakes made by the film’s sordid characters. In a perfect world, I’d be amazed [...]
Movie review: Alien ghettos, overrated stars and UK’s most violent
Posted in film, tagged Aliens in films, Bill Murray, Bleeder, Bronson, Bunny Breckinridge, Charles Bronson, Charlie Bronson, Christian Bale and Johnny Depp, Collateral, Criswell, dark knight, District 9, District 9 movie review, Ed Wood, Elliot Goldenthal, ET sucks, independence day, Jeffrey Jones, johnny depp, Martin Landau, Michael Mann, Multi National United, Neil Bloomkamp, Nicolas Winding Refn, Public Enemies, Pusher trilogy, Sharlto Copley, The Black Stallion, Tim Burton, Tom Hardy, Wikus Van D Merwe, worst film director ever on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
District 9: Aliens have been at the rear end of the deal with cinema. Films with aliens in them fall prey to either predictability or patriotism, both of which have been known to cause unparalleled damage to its kind. Steven Spielberg’s ET made me want to eat my face inside out. I wanted to chew [...]
Soundtrack to a newfound fetish for weekends
Posted in personal, sound on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have faith, will post.
Until then.
Watch
Marta De La Aldea & Toledo Quartet – Moon Over Bourbon Street
Housemartins – Caravan Of Love
They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Eagles of Death Metal – Eagles Goth
Bob Dylan – Desolation Row
Gogol Bordello – Start Wearing Purple
Thermal And A Quarter – Origami
MS Viswanathan and Crew – Mazhaithuli
SP Balasubramaniam and [...]
Incoming messages from the Big Giant Spleen
Posted in sound, tagged adam cohen, badly drawn boy, british pop rock, chutes too narrow, coldplay really sucks, coldplay sucks, damon gough, franz ferdinand, hallelujah, have you fed the fish, hour of the bewilderbeast, indie music, indie pop, indie rock, irvine welsh trainspotting, m ward, mark rentboy, mathew stephen ward, nick drak, oh inverted world, saint simon, sharedmp3.net, spleen donor, the shining, the shins on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My first introduction to The Shins was through their sophomoric Oh Inverted World album. A friend of mine shared a few mp3s and well, I wasn’t too impressed with their cutesy, willfully ironic indie rock. It was almost as though Franz Ferdinand had been playing their brand of music for many years, but with a [...]
Footprints…
Posted in meet the people, tagged beware of the blog, Chennai Express original articles, Department Of Eagles, Duncan jones, moon, murderous monkeys, shark guy on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yeah, it’s that time of the month
Chennai Express has carried an article (thankfully, not sourced) by some good soul on indie darlings Department Of Eagles
How can you not love a list of top 10 films about pissed off primate and murderous monkeys? Browse through Shark Guy’s website; its co-owners wrote The Man Who Scared A [...]
Do tube #1
Posted in sound, tagged donald where's your trousers, irish folk, random youtube videos on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Considering the motherload that is Youtube, I think I’ll do this bi-weekly.
