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Blacklist - Midnight of the Century (Wierd Records)
May 25Blacklist’s medium is a message not only of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, but of geo-politics, socio-cultural dynamics, and revolt.
The Gypsy Genre
May 14“It has become a huge topic lately. Everyone’s talking about what is gypsy music and who has the right to use it, so I think about it all the time.”
Automelodi
Apr 4Montreal’s Xavier Paradis may have the French connection, but is actually a forerunner in the distinctly North American movement of minimal synth that has been seething below the surface since the 1990’s.
Something Wicked This Way Comes: New York City’s New Dark Sisterhood
Mar 23Destiny, Tamaryn, Zohra, Anastasia: New York City’s rising coven of seductive sirens, ladies of the new church of post-apocalyptic song.
Sophe Lux - Hungry Ghost (Zarathustra)
Jan 30While the EP is only two songs long, there is enough seduction and redemption for an entire record.
New York Dolls - Irving Plaza (New York) - Saturday, December 27, 2008
Dec 31This post-Christmas fix of the New York Dolls live at The Fillmore might just be the best show I’ve seen them play since the 2004 reunion.
Metronome The City - Electric Elements Exposed (MTC)
Oct 27Metronome The City is a rare find: a band able to maintain a unified sound whilst jumping between disparate genres and tempos without missing a beat.
Kristen Sollee’s Top Ten — August 31
Aug 31New Tunes for a New Season
Releases both new and new to me…
Tamaryn - Led Astray, Washed Ashore (Tamaryn)
Aug 10Somber and seductive, brooding and atmospheric, Tamaryn’s debut EP is filled with the kind of shimmering songs that alto chanteuses like Nico and Siouxsie Sioux offered us in years past.
Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music (Wierd)
Jun 24The set focuses on analogue electronic music with the requirement that it be synthetic yet organic and created through a symbiotic relationship between man and machine.
Kristen Sollee’s Top Ten — May 18
May 18Graduation & School Songs
To set the mood as I finish up grad school, here are a few songs inspired by school days and moving on…
Kristen Sollee’s Top 10
Week of April 5
Excellence & Oddities
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Blacklist – “Flight of the Demoiselles”
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Telepathe – “So Fine”
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Throbbing Gristle @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
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Extra Golden – “Anyango”
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The Faint @ Webster Hall
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Christopher O’Riley – “Paranoid Android”
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Automelodi – “Schema Corporel”
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Revel Hotel @ Wierd
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Rasputina – “Clowns”
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Tobias Bernstrup – “Midnight Blue”