Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba // I Speak Fula
It’s a way of relegating this ‘thing’ into the realm of something exotic and therefore cute, weird but safe, because exotica is beautiful but irrelevant.” -David Byrne on the term “World Music”...
View ArticleSXSW ’10 Preview #3 // Happy Birthday
I’m going to go ahead and give the band Happy Birthday my recommendation based more on a hunch than on any built up reputation they may or may not have. Why is this? You see, this Vermont based garage...
View ArticleMemoryhouse // Sleep Patterns
They’re back… After their massive output of 2010 had been reduced to a trickle piano snippets and half composed songs at the start of 2011, my favorite Canadians, and recent Sub Pop signees,...
View ArticleMemoryhouse // A lot of Videos
Memoryhouse. 2k11 has been so absent without your wistful melodies and melodramatic whispers. Can’t wait for Sub Pop to wake up from the dream state you put them in with your music so that they can...
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