January 2012
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New Bloc Party album set for release later this... →
Last year Kele courted controversy by claiming that while he was busy with his solo career, the remaining members of Bloc Party would be auditioning new singers to allow them to continue playing together…
…It was then suggested that the four members had been in cahoots to whip up publicity for the band and ‘get one over’ on the media.
Happy to hear that Okereke will be staying in the frame...
December 2011
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November 2011
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Top 25 Video Game Soundtracks of Our Lives (or... →
While some may prefer cruising to the sounds of Springsteen, true gamers roll to the “Song of Storms” – here are the 25 soundtracks to our lives (or lack thereof).
There’s a few suspect games that I would not count as being classics for their soundtracks, (I especially disagree with including ‘Guitar Hero’ as its a game that makes you play rock classics on a dance-mat within a guitar neck)....
October 2011
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Video: The Civil Wars - I've Got This Friend...
The Civil Wars are a two-piece consisting of singer-songwriters Joy Williams and John Paul White from Nashville, Tennessee. I’ve been listening to their album ‘Barton Hollows’ for a few months after discovering it jumped straight to No.1 on the U.S iTunes chart, and narrowly missed out on a top 10 spot in the Billboard 200 when it was released.
Their music is a lovely blend of progressive and...
September 2011
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The Sennheiser CX-150's: The best £15 I've ever...
We consume music through a variety of mediums: a radio, a television, iPods/MP3 Players, Headphones, Speakers etc. and every individual has their own personal tastes when the matter is brought to the table. I have always thought highly of the way we enjoy music and I personally believe the quality of how one listens to it reflects upon how one appreciates it.
Naturally, a first post on the...
August 2011
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A Big Day
It’s been a while Euphony readers. I wish I didn’t feel the need to apologise for every time I seem to leave 3 weeks between blog posts. With that said, you have been given time of your own to inform yourself of some quality sounds that I probably won’t know much about - I hope it worked out well for you.
Today is a big day for me, an end of an era that I am sad to see draw it’s final breath....
July 2011
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TV Girl - Benny & The Jets EP
Benny and the Jetts EP by TV Girl
Loving the 70’s throwback sounds and samples from their new EP, Benny & The Jets. A real summer-chiller album in my books.
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June 2011
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BBC Philharmonic Presents...Nero Symphony 2808 →
Actually one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard. A true example of why you shouldn’t slag off electronic music producers for having no musical knowledge/expertise or talent, and that everything they do is just a few noises that they have put together on a computer.
Nero have done the Dubstep scene justice as one of real musical significance in my book now, whereas in earlier...
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Sam Walton's Tumblr: Let's Do Rock Steady →
samwalton:
A little while back I started a love affair with ska and reggae music. Since then I’ve had an interest journey, discovering new artist, sub-genres, and some tunes I’m surprised I hadn’t heard before.
Rather than explaining this all to you - however - I think it would be best if I took a small…
Sam Walton is a long-time friend of your truly and has an excellent and unique...
May 2011
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Bon Iver reveal their long awaited second album,... →
Great little interview with J.V.
April 2011
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Fleet Foxes Maida Vale Session [Download] →
From Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show on the 20th.
Giddy about this new album so much more now.
March 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Klaxons Free EP - 'Landmarks Of Lunacy' →
Worth the download.
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Listen to the New Iron & Wine album
Iron & Wine’s new album ‘Kiss Each Other Clean’ will be released world wide by 24th January.
Incredibly good stuff, going straight on my iTunes as soon as I wake up on Monday.
December 2010
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The Power of Music
I love the feeling of nostalgia that you find with old songs when I was younger.
The song ‘Rise’ by Flobots is an excellent example of this for me; bus riding into Leeds city centre to going to the cinema to meet a girl that I was seeing.
Weird how certain songs recreate images like that.
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Listen: The Streets - Going Through Hell (Iink) →
This is the first single from The Street’s new album, Computer & Blues.
I’ve always quite liked the Streets for trying to add a little bit of social commentary to the U.K Garage/Grime/Jungle scene. This track is definitely a move away from the typical genre Mike Skinner is associated.
November 2010
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Updates on Sleepless Musical Discovery
Recently, for reasons that you need not know of, I ain’t sleeping so good. It’s 5:45am here and I should really be snoozing in preparation for finishing a presentation tomorrow for university.
My cure for insomnia is almost always 3 or 4 songs from a Bon Iver record. They get me relaxed and stops me from thinking about stuff too much. This recent re-discovery of Bon Iver has made me...
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Plan B considering giving away his next album for... →
Ben Drew says hip-hop record will be an underground affair.
October 2010
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John Lennon to appear on new £5 coin →
The late Beatle won a Royal Mint public vote with 92%
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The Gardener - The Tallest Man On Earth →
This is a tune I really loving at the moment. Very Bob Dylan, but somehow much more than just that. Check it out.
P.S Visit TheSixtyOne.com, there’s always some great tracks on it and quite often are free to download, always a bonus.
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Review: Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown
After the highly acclaimed, multi-award winning and world touring behemoth that was 2008’s Only by the Night, Kings of Leon’s follow-up album ultimately leaves us with only a small taste of what was two years ago.
However, Come Around Sundown starts in promising fashion; the reverberating guitar motifs that open the first song, The End, immediately paint the pictures of crowd-surfing lunacy and...
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Mt. Desolation self-titled debut →
The new alt-country side project of Keane’s Tim-Rice Oxley and Jesse Quin, release their debut album ‘Mt. Desolation‘ this Monday. The project was hatched over many a pint of Guiness on a blustery and cold September night in Dublin by the two friends. In a wildly animated conversation about music they decided to make a country album..
..You can sample a taster of the album for free on Spotify...
September 2010
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An Epic Crescendo
This post has little meaning behind it. I just wanted to share what I believe is the coolest, most well produced little ditty of music I’ve heard for a while. It’s by Brian Eno of Roxy Music. There’s not a lot to it really, it’s just a bit of fun that keeps you engaged throughout. Please enjoy:
Brian Eno - 2 Forms Of Anger (taken from Small Craft On A Milk Sea) by Warp...
Fleet Foxes finish recording new album →
Frontman Robin Pecknold says fans will hear ‘a song or two soon’.
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Paul McCartney's son James to release debut EP →
James McCartney has also covered Neil Young on the collection.
Very interested to see what this E.P will be like..
August 2010
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Blink-182: ‘We will record a new album after this... →
Even though I thought Blink-182’s Leeds and Reading set was not too great from my perspective, I can’t deny that I’m excited about a new album. It’s been seven years since the last one and I still find some of the songs some of the best in existence.
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Is the album of the future going to be an app... →
A haunting realisation of what could happen to the music world.
June 2010
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(via The Guardian)
Music Weekly with Alexis...
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John Butler Trio LIVE from Red Rocks →
This Friday, the John Butler Trio are playing one of the biggest shows of their career at the prestigious Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. With sold out performances over the past two years across the globe John Butler Trio have reaffirmed their show’s status as one of the premier live concert events. Butler says,”Our first headline at Red Rocks…is gonna be sublime and for us is a total...
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Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsills
The first time I ever saw Stornoway play live was last year on Later.. With Jools Holland, along with Sting, Norah Jones, Jay-Z and Foo Fighters. To say that the Oxford band were at the time unsigned, that is a big a very gig to play: and they were fantastic. Their performance sort of undermined the acts of both Foo Fighters and Jay-Z who were I guess the ‘main stage performers’ on...
May 2010
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Update - 31/05/2010
Hello all,
So it’s all starting to run smoothly. Posts are almost becoming a regular occurrence, and the popularity that some of these posts have been getting has inspired me even more to create quality content for this blog. So thank you if you have commented, reblogged, or liked any material I have done, I truly appreciate it.
I am now offering you the chance to show me some music that...
tumblklaat asked: check out his skreamizm albums...theyre all dope but skreamizm 2 has a special place in my subwoofers heart.
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Skream reveals solo album details →
The Magnetic Man band member and La Roux remixer, real name Ollie Jones, will release the album ‘Outside The Box’ on July 26.
Skream’s remix of ‘In For The Kill’ was a big nightclub hit in the U.K, and I really did enjoy the minimalist sound he gave to it. However, it was spoilt massively by a universal over-playing by the country. Along with that track I enjoyed...
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(Courtesy of 88Nine: RadioMilwaukee)
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April 2010
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