Every week, Hype Monitor wades through the most buzzed-about bands all across the Internet.
The Band: Crystal Stilts
The Buzz: Gloomy New Yorkers drench guitar-pop in echo, making songs that are both dour and irresistible.
Listen If: You like your pop songs slow, dark, and low low low.
Key Track: "Shattered Shine," where caverns of guitar become a showcase for lovable, off-key vocals.
The Band: Mammut
The Buzz: Icelandic quartet goes for the sterner stuff, kicking out tense, terse post-punk.
Listen If: You always wished Bjork was just a tiny bit angrier.
Key Track: "Svenfnsykt," where vocalist Kata pouts and huffs and coos over loop after loop of razor-wire riffage.
The Band: Little Boots
The Buzz: London vocalist makes hyperkenetic dance music with fat streaks of synths and big, booming beats.
Listen If: You want your electronic music to be imposing instead of inviting.
Key Track: "Meddle," fast and frantic, full of odd synth squiggles and dubstep bass booms, all window dressing for Little Boots' little pout.
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rainbows | November 14, 2008 3:20 PM
BRAD IS HOT
ADLERSFAN69 | November 2, 2008 1:04 PM
Yes, you gotta love that JB Townsend's loveable vocals! The way he sings and everything! I love the music and the sounds! One tip: LET ANDY ADLER SING SOME MORE SONGS!!! ANDY ADLER!!!!! ADLERSFANNNN
Sandro Bello | October 25, 2008 8:25 AM
What do you say about this:
YONLU
(adapted from an article in the March 2008 issue of Rolling Stone Brazil)
" The story of Yonlu has many angles. Yes, it is a story about music – of the continuing heart-spilling tradition of lo-fi troubadours, of post-rock’s melodic imprints, of an ancient sadness lurking in the new-century and manifesting itself as modern Bossa Nova. But it’s more than that. It is a story about how such music comes to be in a world where technology and communication hide feelings and emotion, but songs can’t. It is about how the Internet can change an idea of what music means, of whom its creators are, and of what its creators can and can not do. More than anything, it is a story of a single young man, who lived all those angles and found it increasingly hard to do so -- but whose music transcended mere angles.
16 year-old Vinicius Gageiro Marques lived in the Southwestern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the only son of university professor and psychoanalyst Ana Maria Gageiro and second child of Luiz Marques, doctor of Political Science and Secretary of Culture of the state of Rio Grande do Sul between 1999 and 2002. He was a bright inquisitive young man, a polyglot adolescent who spoke French (he lived with his family in Paris from 3 until 7 years old), and wrote and spoke English without ever taking classes (he learned by watching TV). He began reading Kafka at 12, and at 13 dedicated himself to recording daily life using a photo camera. Vinicius also had an impressive musical aptitude. He demonstrated a knowledge and a critical sense in his analysis of pop music, always written in English and available on various websites. And he recorded hundreds of songs, playing guitars, bass, drums and sound effects in one of the rooms in his house he transformed into a studio."
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