Clipse backstage at SXSW 08
I realized last night that I was slipping behind on the monthly mp3 picks. So here’s what’s been going down nicely at the Moose HQ lately.
Apache Beat - Tropics (CFCF Mix)
Cadence Weapon - 30 Seconds
Cut Copy - Lights & Music
Kristin Hersh - Slippershell (Pocket Remix)
Ratatat - Cherry (Easter Egg Remix)
Santogold - [...]

For years now I’ve been pitching the idea of “feels free” and I’m sure that I’m not alone in proposing the idea as one solution for the drop in music sales that the music industry is currently enduring. It’s a simple concept - buy an iPod that is pre-loaded with say, the latest Gang of [...]

Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Post Radiohead’s unique way of releasing their album others followed; the most successful appears to be Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails ‘Ghosts’ project. Part of these bands strategy has been to withhold all of the new music from the press, or anyone else for that matter, to ensure that a tight control is [...]

Pharrell at the Fader Mag Party, SXSW 2008. Photo Nilina Mason-Campbell
I didn’t need to attend any of the music panels at SXSW this year to feel the malaise that is sweeping the music business. One five minute trek through the trade show proved to me everything that I already know - the cornerstone of this [...]

from http://musicisart.ws
“…they share an electrifying intensity that can only be described best by the sounds of their atari 5000 sound chip.”
Debut album comes out tomorrow. March 18. Get it on Amazon.
For now check out Crime Wave:
Crime Wave
And the best recorded screaming ever:
Alice Practice
Parting words from their myspace page:
“we are named after She-Ra’s home”

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Lou Reed and Moby at SXSW 2008. Photo Nilina Mason-Campbell
So we have Van Morrison and REM complaining about new technology and now here’s the one person who I would have thought knows better using his keynote speech at SXSW to point out that he’s obviously forgotten that when he was growing up he listened to [...]

There’s nothing like daddy berating you from the stage….This from the NYT blogs - “Sometimes you can mark a generation gap with gizmos. At any SXSW event, a significant part of the audience is texting, taking digital pictures, or talking on a cell phone. It bothered rock elders like Van Morrison and R.E.M., who complained [...]

Justice at SXSW 2008. Photo Nilina Mason-Campbell
If I had half the energy and the guest list grabbing ability of Nilina we’d have twice the content here at the Moose. Hit up her Flickr site for more SXSW photo love….
Justice - Genesis

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