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February 4, 2009 | New Music | by Zolton |
Australian rock band, Fiasco Burning, play melodic, soulful music infused with off beat lyrical hooks and bursting with singalong choruses. Their debut album, Place, is a feisty, summery sound, described by their engineer as ‘chocolate rock’. We checked in with drummer Anthony Brookman and asked him what the hell that refers to: ‘It’s flavoursome, smooth, fruity, occasionally funky and occasionally sexy. At the end of the day, it rocks, but its not one-dimensional; it has colour and groove. The term evolved from a moment we were all listening to a particular take of a song, and Russ, the engineer, said, “Aah, there it is, there’s the sexual chocolate”. We all cracked up. It kinda went from there’.
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December 28, 2008 | Video | 
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Now, this will be fun. Swedish-Japanese singer Maia Hirasawa’s album, Though, I’m Just Me, is set for release on February 17 on Thrive Records. She gets a lot of comparisons to Regina Spektor and Lykke Li, and Bust recently compared her to Feist and a ‘less-angsty Bjork’. And, watching the video for her single, And I Found This Boy, it’s not hard to see why.
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August 8, 2008 | Cool Travel | by Marcos Chin |
Summertime at McCarren Park in Williamsburg is picturesque. It’s often filled with a mix of people, old and young, picnicking or sitting in the shade, running along the track or playing soccer (or football, depending on where you’re from). It’s also connected to a now defunct McCarren (swimming) pool which transforms into an outdoor concert space on Sundays during the summer. In the past, performers such as Leslie Feist, M.I.A., The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Broken Social Scene have performed. Read more
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March 31, 2008 | New Music | by Monique Rothstein |
Things are happening almost too quickly for Sally Seltmann, the bashful Melbourne balladeer who plays under the guise of New Buffalo and who wrote Feist’s 2007 hit single, 1,2,3,4. Read more
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March 26, 2008 | New Music | by Ari Stein |
Like a breath of fresh air, Thao Nguyen is a totally independent voice from San Francisco. With a dash of Modest Mouse, a splash of Feist and an eye for the quirkier side of life. Read more
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January 6, 2008 | New Music | by Zolton |
Syracuse group Ra Ra Riot call their sound ‘healing’ and ‘easy listening’. Others have labeled them as Nu Wave. Whatever. We spoke with Alexandra from the band to get the lowdown: ‘Whenever we are asked by strangers, like the security people at airports, we always say we’re ‘rock n’ roll’. We might even throw in a ‘baby!’ at the end of that. But really, I would think that it is rock. Who knows? All those approaches to music are so blended and you can really justify any one of them to fit your band. How about post-booyeah rock?’ The album artwork is beautiful. Yet very dark. It might scare the kiddies, no? ‘Kids love kitty cats. They appeal to little girls, and what little boy doesn’t think a panther is cool?’ Create a bill from any acts past and present and insert yourself into it. Where are you playing, who is it with, and which act would have the most demanding rider? ‘Ok. We are playing at Iceland Airwaves with Tokyo Police Club and Radiohead; Feist too. How about instead of most demanding I say that all of us have cute fuzzy animals to play with after the show’.
Listen to the Ra Ra Riot song, Dying Is Fine.
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December 6, 2007 | Video | by Zolton |
What is it about a full moon that scatters the collective, latent neurosis of a million broken hearts into a whirlpool of dogged urban mayhem? I don’t know. Maybe Feist has the answer. Soothe. Soothe. Soothe.
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October 31, 2007 | New Music | 
by Zolton |
Gonzales’ gentle piano reworking of the beautiful Feist soliloquy, One Evening, trickles through my headphones like the sweetest sprinkle of mid-winter sunshine.
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October 12, 2007 | New Events | by Marcos Chin |
My summer officially ended on August 29 this year when Feist came to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to perform at McCarren Pool. It was a perfect evening — the weather was fine, the sky was clear, everyone was in good spirits, and the music was easy. Read more
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August 26, 2007 | New Music | by Zolton |
This is week two of our big subscriber drive. As we noted in our earlier post, we really want more people to check into the site and sign up to the newsletter, and to encourage you to spread the word, we have a stack of CDs to give away. And when I say a stack, I mean a wobbling, teetering stack. The grand prize, which will be dished out to one lucky, randomly selected winner, comes courtesy of our good friends at Universal Music [check the list of albums at the bottom of this post]. On top of this, for the next two weeks, we’ll also be giving away new Basement Digs / Stones Throw releases thanks to our good friends at Creative Vibes to randomly selected people who help to spread the good word. Let’s face it … sharing really is caring. Read more
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August 17, 2007 | New Music | by Andy |
We’ve gushed over Feist plenty of times before, but it’s time to talk about Feist’s ‘1234′ music video entered by Patrick Daughters in this year’s Portable Film Festival (oh by the way, the festival is now open). ‘Shot in one take, it has been cleverly choreographed to create a quirky stream of colour and movement’. We love it.
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August 14, 2007 | New Music | by Zolton |
This week kicks off a big subscriber drive on Lost At E Minor. We really want more people to check into the site and sign up to the newsletter, and we’re prepared to pay you to help us get there. Well, in CDs anyway. And only one of you. Chosen at random. But it’s a bumper of a prize featuring a stack of albums from our good friends at Universal Music. Read more
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July 5, 2007 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
It’s the fourth of July here in New York, a day of patriotism, fireworks and hotdogs; sleep-ins, strong coffees, and rooftop barbies. Yup, god bless America and this damn pleasant national holiday. [illustration by Marcos Chin]
Listen to the Feist song, My Moon My Man.
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May 31, 2007 | New Music | by Kate Barnett |
If you haven’t heard the Peter Bjorn and John song Young Folks you’ve been under a rock. Or at least somewhere far away from the radio, which is lucky for you because I’m well over it. However, I do like this cover. Kentucky-born New York performer and sound engineer Dawn Landes has recorded a version with a genuine bluegrass band from Austin and the results have been floating around the internet for the last few weeks. Don’t be scared by some intense banjo in the beginning though. [see also Feist takes the bus]
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May 27, 2007 | New Music | by Zolton |
Ok. Get past the cheesy Americanized intro and you’ll see a startlingly good live performance of the Fiest track, Feel It All. We linked to the MP3 of this song a week or so back. But this is her rough and raw, singing like a whiskey beaten angel as the bus trawls its way through the winding backstreets of surburbia.
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New York photographer Sarah Wilmer creates dark, nightmare-inducing photographs that have a strange sense of innocence about them. They’re like movie stills, a cross between Lost Highway and Pan’s Labyrinth. We interviewed her recently to get the inside word on the inspirations behind her work. Read more
Too beautiful to simply pass by, this is the Ring House by young Japanese architectural firm, TNA. Read more
It doesn’t transform or actually play music, but this watch with a face that looks like a cassette tape, is still pretty cool. Read more
Ze Frank’s iconic videoblog may be long dead, but he’s been plugging away, filling his little corner of the interweb with awesome stuff. His latest invention is a little voice-based face drawing toy that creates lines that differenciate according to the volume of the user’s voice.
I really don’t understand cat haters. Most of them claim that our feline companions are aloof and distant, graceful and mysterious to a fault. In my opinion, cats are just as goofy as dogs, which is why any documentation of them acting like spazzes makes me chuckle uncontrollably. Read more
The Deal sisters have dropped off the indie-rock radar of late, but this clip of them covering Hank Williams’ I Can’t Help It reminds us why we all loved them so much back in the day. Incidentally, the Breeders are set to release their new album, Mountain Battles, in April.
Major Stars are another throwback ’70s rock band, playing Sabbath-flavored, guitar-driven psych tunes. But what sets them apart from the horde of Zeppelin-worshipping clones is vocalist Sandra Clarkson, whose voice is clean and feminine, but loud and aggressive — she doesn’t try to affect a Janis Joplin rasp. The band’s music also skews heavily towards the Acid Mothers Temple end of the ’70s revival thing rather than the Wolfmother side, another plus. Nope, rock still isn’t dead.
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