Selecting 53 MP3’s to summarize an entire year sort of feels like picking 53 touchdowns that defined an NFL season or 53 scenes that defined a year of cinema (cue the “wtf is up with these metaphors” comment). But considering my 10 year career with ESPN and my honorable appointment to the Academy, the music […]
While the calendrical division gets blurred by demo’s, singles, and self-releases, it’s safe to say these artists emerged from relative unknowns to fairly familiars through the past 12 months via proper album releases. It seems a bit asinine to try to select an arbitrary number of 15 awesome new acts, and moreover, put a numerical categorization on […]
If you’ve heard or seen Ghostland Observatory before, chances are you did not forget them. And as the Austin, Texas duo’s Thomas Turner himself has stated, it’s often a love-hate relationship. But that’s alright, because that’s just what Ghostland Observatory set out to do in the first place. Their unique melting pot sound of soulful, electro dance rock […]
For those Southern Californian readers of Apes on Tape, Bethany Cosentino and the lo-fi beach gems of Best Coast have probably found a comfortable home on your sonic rotation over the past five months since Crazy For You was released. If you’ve not yet given it a listen (iTunes link below), I could ramble on about […]
Much has been said, written, debated, ogled over and celebrated since Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion hit the intrawebs in December of 2008. The critically and fan acclaimed album delivered AnCo to the forefront of the blogosphere, hipster year end lists’ and the indie musicground as a whole. Since then, we’ve been treated with the […]