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Even more new music on the first hour of this week’s Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM includes Portland band The Standard plus new music from School Of Seven Bells, yet another Radiohead Reckoner remix and TV On The Radio. I’m on air with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and [...]
Towards the end of David Byrne’s sleevenotes for the recent reissue of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - the album the former Talking Heads singer made with the band’s producer and mentor, Brian Eno, in 1981 - he describes the duo encountering a novel problem. The vocals on the album had been taken [...]
[Update: I removed the video of Byrne discussing the album as, rather annoyingly, I was unable to undo the auto-play function.] It’s been many years since Byrne and Eno released the ground breaking album ‘My Life In The Bush of Ghosts‘ an album that was an analog precursor to the sampling habits of today’s musicians. [...]
Ryan Dombal in a review over at Pitchfork gives the hollow and twee Coldplay a 6.5 out of 10 on those now famous P4rk rankings for the band’s new album, ‘Viva La Vida.’ He also has the balls to call them a rock band [his italics]. If Coldplay can seriously be called a rock band [...]
Coldplay return with their Brian Eno-produced album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends. Make up your minds.
Coldplay - Violet Hill