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Wine and Alchemy: World comes to Flag
Today I walked into Bookmans (a local used book store and internet cafe) today, which is a pretty regular occurrence, and I was greeted by something a little irregular. A world band called Wine and Alchemy had invaded dressed as Gypsies.…
Spotlight: Mokshya
Mökshya (Pronounced Moke-she-ah) is, simply put, a metal band. Hailing from Flagstaff, Arizona, they combine a message of acceptance and love with anger and disdain toward the core of this countries beliefs and systems. When I put their…
Spotlight: Team Genius
Ah, gentle-but-active pop music — Team Genius, who released the Hooray EP on Feb. 26, are the perpetrators of some fairly simple music, but that doesn't mean they don't create something addicting, too. Of course, this much is likely…
Released This Week: The OaKs - Songs for Waiting
The OaKs Songs for Waiting Self-released March 4, 2008 The OaKs, previously the subject of a MusicGeek.org spotlight , self-released Songs for Waiting Tuesday. Opening track, "The Two Calls (of Dietrich Bonhoeffer)" — posted below for…
Spotlight: MGMT
Several tracks I've been into recently are by the New York-based duo MGMT. "Weekend Wars" starts off as a nice acoustic piece, with melodies and drums not out of place in '60s music. At :51 the tracks starts to move into different…
Spotlight: Colin Stetson | Frantic jazz evocative, but dangerous to public
New History Warfare, Vol. 1 Releases March 4 on Aagoo Records Let's get one thing straight: it's not everyday one runs into music like this — nor should it be. Colin Stetson performs a frantic, solitary-instrument jazz on the bass clarinet…
Spotlight: MEN
JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of Le Tigre fame are making music under another name: MEN. Funny, I thought only one was a man. All bad joking aside, MEN produce a distinctive, fun electronic sound. "Make It Reverse" and "Shake Off," both…
Spotlight: Apillow | Ambience, minimalism make mark in small-run release
Let's get one thing straight: I like ambient, I like shoegaze, and boy, do I like post-rock. That said, you may have found many of the posts here to be of such a nature. What can I say? At any rate, today's spotlight focuses on Apillow, a…