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“Black Christmas” by Venom (Parental Discretion Severely Advised!)
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Full Story“Save all the Toys for the Little Rich Boys”: “Father Christmas” by The Kinks
“Father Christmas” was released as a single by The Kinks in 1977. It failed to chart but remains popular at Christmas time. So here we go!
Full StoryAnd One Boss You Don’t Have to Worry About. Happy Birthday, Bruce!
From those of us who are on these Philly streets, Happy Birthday, Bruce.
Full Story“The Highway’s Jammed with Broken Heroes!”: Top Five “New Jersey” Songs
Not songs about New Jersey, per se, but songs that conjure life and times in New Jersey, high, low, good, bad.
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“My Apocalypse” by Arch Enemy
“Originally regarded as a ‘supergroup,’ featuring former members of such seminal bands as Carcass, Mercyful Fate, and In Flames, Arch Enemy have managed to permanently shed that title, as each new album has elevated the band to new heights of metal stardom. Led by ace lead guitarist Michael Amott, his brother (and fellow axeman) Christopher, and the supremely skilled drummer Daniel Erlandsson, Arch Enemy started out following the example of both Michael’s former band Carcass and Swedish greats At the Gates, creating unrelenting, no-frills Scandinavian thrash/death metal, but it wasn’t until vocalist Angela Gossow joined the fold for their third album, 2001’s Wages of Sin, that the band first got a taste of the big time.” – Adrien Begrand
Full Story“Elephant Gun” by Beirut
“Beirut’s received quite a bit of pre-release buzz. He deserves some of it. His tuneful Balkan stomp is fairly unique within the indie realm, an aesthetic shared with Man Man, Gogol Bordello, and Barbez but few others. That, and for a 19-year-old from Albuquerque (now living in Brooklyn), he sounds like an old man sipping vodka and humming along to Tchaikovsky while the neighborhood kids play stick ball or drink egg creams. The sound is there, but beneath the atmospherics his themes of war, fallen curtains, bunkers, life on the Rhine– his song titles are more fixated on Germany (and Slovakia and an imaginary Eastern Bloc) than Russia– and Gulags, are vague and sometimes less than effective. That makes sense: He doesn’t have the lived experience for those situations. Perhaps he studied W.G. Sebald to add some color, and in a very Sebaldian move the album’s anonymous cover photos were found in a library in Leipzig, Germany. In the liner notes, Condon asks if anyone knows the photographer’s whereabouts.” – Brandon Stosuy
Full Story“Bizness” by tUnE-yArDs
“This is not an act with any interest in politely conforming to expectations. tUnE-yArDs is the music project of Merrill Garbus, a songwriter, vocalist, percussionist, and ukulele player who has fused elements of acoustic folk, R&B, funk, Afro-pop, and rock into a bold, uncompromising hybrid all her own. Garbus is blessed with an extraordinary voice, and she wields it with great confidence, always coming off in total control of her phrasing while seeming totally uninhibited in her expression. There’s an authoritative quality to her voice–she often sings with a commanding, full-bodied boldness, but even at her softest, Garbus sounds assertive and forthright.” – Matthew Perpetua
Full Story“Sylvia” by The Antlers
“Brooklyn’s indie scene can feel like a series of bands each trying to be hipper than the next, but thankfully nobody told Pete Silberman. In the dog days of 2009′s deadbeat summer, the Antlers frontman emerged from his bedroom with his third LP, Hospice. On it, he unfashionably embraced hackles-raising choruses and concept-album ambition, and he pushed the button on emotional nuclear options: abortion, cancer, death, all that fun stuff. Now a trio, the Antlers have claimed the influence of ‘electronic music’ for Burst Apart, a typical omen for a typically ‘difficult follow-up album.’ But while Burst Apart sheds the PR-bait bio and Arcade Fire aspirations that made its predecessor a word-of-mouth success, it’s still tethered to a magnanimity and expressive clarity that makes it almost every bit as devastating.” – Ian Cohen
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“Terrible Things” by April Smith and the Great Picture Show
“In a style that has been described as ‘spaghetti burlesque’ and ‘melodramatic pop,’ April Smith and her band combine indie pop, folk rock and swing, citing a wide range of influences, from The Beatles and Queen to Edgar Allan Poe and Wes Anderson.”
Full Story“The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)” by the Walker Brothers
“I’ve become the Orson Welles of the record industry. People want to take me to lunch, but nobody wants to finance the picture . . . I keep hoping that when I make a record, I’ll be asked to make another one. I keep hoping that if I can make a series of three records, then I can progress and do different things each time. But when I have to get it up once every 10 years . . . it’s a tough way to work.” – Scott Walker, in an interview for The Independent, April 1995
Full Story“Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe” by Okkervil River
“Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe,” the first video for Austin, Texas-based Okkervil River’s The Stage Names, was directed by Margaret Brown, whose acclaimed documentary about Townes Van Zandt, Be Here to Love Me, was released theatrically in 2005 by Palm Pictures.
Full StoryUmmmmm, Ha, Yeah, Why Not? Check This Song Out: “I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper” by Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip
From Wikipedia: The song is a lightweight space disco track that cashed in on the media hype surrounding the original Star Wars film: the lyrics include the lines “And evil Darth Vader has been banished to Mars” and “Or are you like a droid, devoid of emotion.” The song also samples music from Star Wars, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (from 2001: A Space Odyssey), and the “spaceship communication” melody from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Many of the lyrics contain mild sexual innuendo; for example, “Take me, make me feel the force.”
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“Me and my friends are like / The drums on ‘Lust for Life’”: “Constructive Summer” by The Hold Steady
Already a classic summer song.
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“It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning . . .”: “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth” by Meatloaf
A goofy, overproduced, indispensable summer classic!
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“Summertime Girls” by Y&T
Corny? Hell yeah. 80s schlock? Sure. Great summertime song with classic video? You better believe it!
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“We f**kin’ rocked, didn’t we?”: Daniel Nester Goes Backstage with Judas Priestess
We love our all-female heavy metal tribute bands. Their emergence marks an important step in the evolution of the genre, and I’ve even taken to writing poems about some of them. Here in Philadelphia, we can’t get enough of Misstallica and Queen Diamond down at the Trocadero. Our far-flung correspondent Daniel Nester now adds to the tradition with his article on Judas Priestess, the latest Defenders of the Faith!
Full Story“Tropical Iceland” by the Fiery Furnaces
Fiery Furnaces Discography
Gallowsbird’s Bark (2003)
Blueberry Boat (2004)
EP (2005)
Rehearsing My Choir (2005)
Bitter Tea (2006)
Widow City (2007)
Remember (2008)
I’m Going Away (2009)
Take Me Round Again (2009)
Top Five Lead Singer / Lead Guitarist Pairings
They go together in the popular imagination, rivals for fans’ devotion, pulling the band apart with their spats, and, when all is well, leaning back, sweatily, to rock out side by side before adoring stadiumsfull of fans. Here are the top pairs.
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