Tag: music

  • A QUICK WORD ABOUT PAPERTHINWALLS.COM

    Did you think Paper Thin Walls was a piece of instal­la­tion art too? What else could a new music start-up with no rev­enue stream be? Appar­ent­ly it was­n’t. I knew it was too good to be true. It paid! Now it’s gone. I was there in the begin­ning. I don’t remem­ber exact­ly how I got involved.…

  • A QUICK WORD ABOUT “FAKE EMPIRE”

    When I first heard the Nation­al’s “Fake Empire” used dur­ing the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion, I was­n’t sure if the Democ­rats quite under­stood the reflex­iv­i­ty of its use, i.e. that the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty has been half awake in a fake empire since Sep­tem­ber 2001. It’s time some­one — or some­thing — woke them up.

  • FAVORITE SONGS OF 2008: SOLANGE — “SANDCASTLE DISCO”

    Bey­on­ce’s lit­tle sis­ter Solange is prov­ing to be one of the most pleas­ant sur­pris­es of the year. “Sand­cas­tle Dis­co” is anoth­er one of those songs that should’ve been released the moment it was clear that there’d be noth­ing fun on the radio between May and August. I mean, how could a song this fun be…

  • FAVORITE SONGS OF 2008: TORCHE — “ACROSS THE SHIELDS”

    Some peo­ple are dis­ap­point­ed in Torche for record­ing an album that has crossover poten­tial. That might both­er me, too, if it were still pos­si­ble for met­al bands to crossover. To me, “Across the Shields” exem­pli­fies what makes Torche’s Mean­derthal such an excit­ing album: not only are they mak­ing catchy, hooky music, they’re still going for…

  • FAVORITE SONGS OF 2008: SANTOGOLD — “LIGHTS OUT”

    It’s easy to under­stand why San­ti White aka San­to­gold would be upset with crit­ics for call­ing her music hip-hop or R&B, as any­one who’s lis­tened to her lat­est sin­gle, “Lights Out,” would know. It’s a great new wave track that could’ve, nay, should’ve been one of the sum­mer’s under­sung hits. Then again, with a new…