Category: rock
you know the year has flown by when you have to check the song to make sure it’s the right year…saying that it’s been a great year for good music not to mention decade (ooh that might mean another compilation to follow!!). SXSW 09 really set the tone for the year so much that we [...]
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thug_wife_best_of_2009 - Listen now |
I’m over a week into 2010, but here is my best of 2009. I have seen about 80% of the groups on this play list, and the hope is to see the rest in 2010. My highlights would be The XX and Yacht. Notable omissions for ‘09 would be the Silversun Pickups, Muse, the bay [...]
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pop_rocks_2009 - Listen now |
I’ve had this compilation in my head for over a year, so I’m really pleased to finally put it somewhere else. Not sure why these two bands merged in my mind – musically they don’t have a great deal in common, apart from being filed in the ‘indie’ or ‘alternative rock’ section. I suppose what [...]
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BearQuartet_vs_Fall - Listen now |
I recently learnt to record music on the internet with this free (and legal) sound recorder: http://applian.com/sound-recorder/. If you download the toolbar you can simply record any streamed music online and save it as an mp3 file. Thanks for the tip Mr Galvin – very nifty. So here’s a bunch of bands I’ve been meaning [...]
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northernlights_freecorded - Listen now |
Here it is. Thug Wife digs out some seeeerious classics from Austin this spring. Miss Lucifer – Primal Scream Voices In My Head – K’naan Daniel – Bat For Lashes Ankles – Chris TT Nyet Spasiba – Handsome Furs Mad Dogs And Englishmen – Late Of The Pier It’s Impossible – Daniel Johnston Country Mile [...]
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sxsw09_thugwife - Listen now |
After an hour with Dan Deacon it’s easy to forget which way up is normal. This guy just does not follow the rules. Don’t believe me? Just look at this blatant disregard of the way things work on the indie/dance/rock scene: Rule #1 Let someone else build your stage. Following the support acts, a crowd [...]
Let’s get the disclosure out of the way first: I’ve been a big fan of Chris T-T for some years having been a fellow Brighton neighbor back in the day (the mighty Rifa did a good job on the promotion front). We were witness to some blinding performances with and without the full Chris T-T [...]
Not all of these were released in ’08, however these all rocked my boat in the year that was. Young Folks (Peter Bjorn And John) – The Kooks Time to Pretend – MGMT That’s Not My Name – The Ting Tings L.E.S. Artistes – Santogold I Kissed a Girl (vanderbilt remix) – Katy Perry Crying [...]
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thugwife_xmas08 - Listen now |
Here’s part two of my top tunes of 2008. One Month Off – Bloc Party Sometime Around Midnight – The Airborne Toxic Event Viva La Vida – Coldplay I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You – Black Kids Machine Gun – Portishead Many Shades of Black – The Raconteurs Paris Is [...]
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xmas08_part2 - Listen now |
Here’s part one of my top tunes of 2008. Some of these names are a blast from the past, but all the music was released in 08. Troublemaker – Weezer So What – Pink Missing Cleveland – Scott Weiland Gamma Ray – Beck The Only One – The Cure Always Where I Need To Be [...]
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xmas08_part1 - Listen now |
