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We’re about halfway through 2011 and there have already been some phenomenal albums this year, and Glasvegas’ new album Euphoria /// Heartbreak \\\ is easily one of my favorites. I was a huge fan of their first album and was lucky to see them from onstage at Lollapalooza a few years ago when we had [...]
View Photos – Godspeed! You Black Emperor I got to see Godspeed! You Black Emperor tonight at The Vic in Chicago, and like many people never thought I’d get to see them, well, ever. I don’t think they’ve toured in ten years. There’s no new album, not even any new songs. Just the massive beauty [...]
February 17, 2011 by mg33 Mogwai just released their newest album this week, entitled Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. A perfect Mogwai album title as always, though I have to say that’s the strangest cover art of theirs ever. It’s just not very “Mogwai,” although I absolutely love the photo. I’ve had this album on heavy rotation since [...]
February 17, 2011 by mg33 I cannot wait to see this newest movie from Red Bull including Travis Rice, John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Scotty Lago, Jake Blauvelt, Nicolas Muller, Gigi Ruf, DCP and Pat Moore. The filming looks phenomenal; it’s got to be one of the biggest budget snowboard films made in recent years. Too bad we have to wait until [...]
February 14, 2011 by mg33 It’s official, I’m on the James Blake bandwagon and I’m loving every second of this guy’s music. I could listen to this song all day and overall all of his songs are some of the best headphone songs I’ve heard in a long time. In fact, after a morning of doing exactly that while on [...]
February 11, 2011 by mg33 I just found this over on another site tonight and it blew me away. M83 are by far one of my favorite bands out there, and seeing this song – one of their best – merged with the pivotal “arrival of aliens” scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind is just brilliant. The emotional [...]
This song has been on steady repeat since I found it over at iso50 recently. It’s pretty much the best song I’ve heard in forever. Sounds like it should have used in the eighties in some kind of sci-fi, post modern battle movie with skyscrapers crumbling and the outfits from worst of 80s New Wave [...]
UNDERCITY by Andrew Wonder on Vimeo I have been fascinated by underground exploration of urban environments for as long as I knew there was something below us other than dirt and rock. Riding the subway here in Chicago always leaves me wishing I could get off the train inside the tunnels and see where the [...]
View Photos – 2011 Chicago Blizzard Here in Chicago, we just experienced the third worst blizzard/winter storm of all time. In the nine years I’ve lived here, I’ve been dreaming about something like this. Just once I wanted to see what it took to shut the city down and see a massive amount of snow. [...]
I picked up The Abbasi Brothers‘ album Something Like Nostalgia on iTunes last night after it came up in a recommendation and could listen to this song alone for hours. Really good stuff, always great discovering something new like this. Slightly like Explosions In The Sky but with flourishes of synths and sampled sounds.
