She taps her guitar happily
I got to spill my guts, NYC’s Marnie Stern is my new obsession with her furious debut “In Advance of the Broken Arm” on Kill Rock Stars. Just as you think every musical aesthetic has been covered, someone comes along and shows you that the human creativity has no bounds. [...]

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Carrying on the good songwriting ethos from the previous post, I should quickly mention Alela Diane to you. Portland’s Holocene Music released her self-released second album in October, after she made 650 copies by hand, that is “sewing lace and paper bags for the case, drawing golden ships, lettering ink, and burning each cd“. So [...]

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One of the albums I’ve been coming back to these nights is Rameses III’s Matanuska on Music Fellowship. After listening to music for some time during the day, I don’t want to hear any beats at night before sleep. However most of the drony/ambient music is either dark and noisy or too new age. There [...]

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Hello guys, I’m on a trip to Germany since a few days, that’s why it’s been a slow week here. I am in Aachen now, a small town on the Holland, Belgium, Germany border after a trip to Rotterdam, and I’ll be back in Frankfurt soon, so I’ve been to 4-5 cities in 5 days, [...]

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“Tales of Robert Dickson” is the latest solo album, from Teemu Viinikainen, the talented Jazz guitarist and band leader from Helsinki jazz scene, who’s playing list includes Finland Trio and U-Street Allstars. He’s the winner of many awards, including the Sony Jazz Award on 2004 (which is won by Jukka Eskola on 2005 another [...]

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Now I know Tunng has been featured on many other mp3blogs however they deserve every bit of coverage on every media. We’ve all been obsessed with ‘Pool beneath the pond’ since our first listen!. I’m particularly struck with the medieval feeling, somewhere along Sopor Aeternus without the gothic feel. Small European towns under snow, ponds [...]

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Continuing the sound that I began with today here’s Lokai, the Austrian duo from Mosz records. I tried to remember where I heard Mosz before and realized my fellow Error101 reviewed Gustav a few weeks ago.Lokai is formed by label boss Stefan Németh and guitarist Florian Kmet. Like Pekler’s music there are tense and eerie [...]

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New Headman track on Daughters of InventionSonic clothing roundup on Create Digital Music, and by sonic he means wearable, interactive clothing with integrated electronics that respond to or generate sound.
This netlabel blog I’ve encountered last week called Sonic Walker
Some more Latin American minimalism from Cyan Recordings, Mexico. Their first release is a label showcase with [...]

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With the lack of any nice electronica to post, and general return to more guitar music for me for the last week, I think I would post some nice rock music..
I was going to mention Trail of Dead’s Worlds Apart which is a great song, but Think Tank has got it covered, I thought about [...]

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