Music Makes Us

The Flashbulb – Arboreal

This is a pretty awesome album from a pretty awesome guy. If you haven’t seen videos of how he creates music I recommend looking them up somewhere. Benn Jordan is an idm musician operating under many pseudonyms. Since 1999 his most widely distributed and eclectic music has been released under the name of The Flashbulb, [...]

Fire on Fire – The Orchard

Fire on Fire are an experimental folk band from Portland Maine, formed from members of Cerberus Shoal and Big Blood. In 2007 they released a self-titled ep on Michael Gira’s Young God Records. Fire On Fire used to be the art-punk-prog-chaos collective Cerberus Shoal, but they ditched their electric instruments, went into hiding for a [...]

Portugal. The Man – American Ghetto

I am a bit late with this release as it came out February of this year, but here it is in case it slipped past you like it did me. Portugal. The Man is an experimental indie rock four-piece centered around frontman John Baldwin Gourley’s abstract musical approach and corresponding upbringing. He was raised in [...]

Sleigh Bells – Treats

Eh, pretty good album, and Pitchfork had good things to say about it. The initial meeting between Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells sounds almost like a scene out of a movie: He was working at a Brooklyn, NY restaurant during the summer of 2008; she, a fifth grade public school teacher, was [...]

Dosh – Tommy

Here is some electronic music to throw into the mix. Not my favorite, but my girlfriend likes them and recommended I put his new album up. Pretty good music, but I prefer more of a ’65 Days of Static’ feel. Dosh grew up in the Twin Cities. At a young age he also took piano [...]

Yeasayer – Odd Blood

Yeasayer (pronounced “yay-sayer” /’jeɪseɪ.ər/) is an experimental band based in Brooklyn, New York. Live performances sometimes include trippy, psychedelic visuals projected in the background. The band members are Anand Wilder, Chris Keating, and Ira Wolf Tuton. They describe their music as “Middle Eastern-psych-snap-gospel”. Yeasayer recently revealed in an interview with Pitchfork that they had finished [...]

Tom Waits – Rain Dogs

Tom Waits (Thomas Alan Waits, Pomona, California, December 7, 1949 ) is a prolific American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit ‘n’ sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation (novelists like Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs, poets like Allen [...]