Beautiful street performance. If you want to impress your lady friends, guys, learn how to do this. Most incredible at 2:40.
The Dig, “I Already Forgot Everything You Said”
for a melancholy winter night when the ground is cold and your bones are damp.
Kiev
If you like Radiohead (but maybe weren’t crazy about their last album) then you’ll love Kiev. This is frankly the best music I’ve heard in a long while. Hints of Muse and the Grateful Dead pepper their tunes. Still waiting on a full-length debut album, but I suspect these guys will find a lot more…
Rhye
Give these guys a listen. Classy electro soul that’s perfect for cocktail nights in dark purple lounges. Sexy vocals over strings and beats. “Open” “Hunger” “3 Days” rhyemusic.com/ facebook.com/RhyeMusic
Lawrence Arabia | Travelling Shoes
Sounds a bit like a cross between Andrew Bird and Talking Heads.
Lord Huron | Auld Lang Syne
Happy New Year!
Vulfpeck | Beastly
Funkiest bass line I’ve heard all year…
12 Hippest Songs of 2012
I’d like to apologize to all the fine tunes I had to leave out, but these dozen were the ones that I listened to the most. Enjoy. alt-J, “Breezeblocks” Father John Misty, “Nancy From Now On” Grizzly Bear, “Yet Again” Hospitality, “Eighth Avenue” Mansions on the Moon, “Darkness” Miniature Tigers, “Female Doctor” Patrick Watson, “Quiet…
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Winter jazz, the bright night sky reflecting snow, bathing everything in violet hues. Easily my favorite holiday music ever. “Christmas Time Is Here” is so beautifully sad.
Take Forever | R.I.P. Dave Brubeck
The classiest cat jazz has ever known.