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  • My Violaine Morning – Lost

    My Violaine Morning – Lost

    Last time we heard about them, they were releasing debut album: The Next Episode of This World (2011). Been pretty quiet in 2012, My Violainé Morning send me a good news about preparing their next album. It’s a mini album, titled Episode #1 as they mentioned on their press release. After a while we’ve been busy with preparation of Episode #1 Mini Album we realized that we need to publish our new sounds to all of you as the audiences. So here [...]

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  • Crimsound – Bang!

    Crimsound – Bang!

    There’s no much indie rock band we’ve heard from Bandar Lampung, Crimsound is one of Lampung folks that smart enough spreading their first single through the internet. Bang! falling to my lap in an early Sunday morning, my first thought was: it has pretty danceable sounds. The electronic influence that layered their music that become its selling point, those made an appealing intro with a kicking bass after it. I need to give a positive thought about that particular part. Vocal [...]

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  • The Neighbourhood – Let It Go

    The Neighbourhood – Let It Go

    The Neighbourhood seperti sudah saya bilang dalam post sebelumnya, adalah salah satu band yang patut diberi perhatian tahun ini. Para Californian ini sukses membuka telinga para penikmat musik minor dengan EP debut mereka pada Agustus lalu, The Neighbourhood dikabarkan sudah siap merilis satu album penuh dalam waktu dekat. Salah satu single dari album yang akan diberi judul Thank You tersebut adalah Let It Go, dan kabar baiknya kita bisa mendengarkannya melalui Soundcloud player dibawah ini:

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  • Bob Dylan – Duquesne Whistle

    Bob Dylan – Duquesne Whistle

    Bertepatan dengan peringatan tragedi 9/11 nanti, legenda folk Amerika Robert Allen Zimmerman atau yang lebih dikenal dengan nama Bob Dylan akan merilis album ke 35-nya. Album berjudul Tempest ini disebut sebagai album perayaan atas 50 tahun karir Dylan dalam bermusik sejak album debutnya rilis di tahun 1962 lalu. Tempest akan berisi 10 lagu baru dari Dylan, salah satu single dari album tersebut adalah Duquesne Whistle yang dapat didengarkan lewat pemutar video di atas. Sebuah video musik juga baru saja dirilis dan bisa ditonton [...]

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  • Conveyor – Maine

    Conveyor – Maine

    I’m so sad, I don’t have much time for the blog. Many thing happened in the past three weeks that took almost all of my time, not to mention works and thesis. I believe our contributor friends are doing pretty busy either. I’m so sorry for those sent me their music, I will try to post them one by one. Now, let’s give something a listen today. Maine is a B-Side of new 7″ vinyl from Conveyor, Mane. Don’t get [...]

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  • Dirty Projectors – The Gun Has No Trigger

    Dirty Projectors – The Gun Has No Trigger

    First of all, that title are catchy. Yes I did clicking the play button on their track from my Soundloud stream just because the title are catchy. I was wondering about the lyrics, I thought it would be very depressing, something about a guy who have problem telling something to someone. Another romance cliche, with emo style. But then, I was wrong. The Gun Has No Trigger might be part of the upcoming album, Swing Lo Magellan. Dave Longstreth, the [...]

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  • Of Montreal – Feminine Effects

    Of Montreal – Feminine Effects

    The fifth Record Store Day is coming this year with Iggy Pop as their Official Ambassador, some artist start promoting their special release for the occasion, Of Montreal is one of them. On the third week of April, Of Montreal will release this track on a 7″ split with Deerhoof, the 7″ titled A Filthy Fifth. The track actually recorded on 2008, been performed few times on Of Montreal’s gigs and its raw material already hitting YouTube. Feminine Effects is another [...]

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  • Sharon Van Etten – Life Of His Own

    Sharon Van Etten – Life Of His Own

    Her name is Sharon Van Etten, an American singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. Sharon started her music career on 2009 when she released her first album Because I Was In Love, singles like For You and Much More Than That played around the world after Pitchfork giving her a rating of 7.7. Her debut album also received very warm welcome and positive reviews from many music critics. People love her voice, while her songwriting skills are blowing everyone’s mind. [...]

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  • Hip Hatchet – Sing Me A Reprise

    Hip Hatchet – Sing Me A Reprise

    Back to 2010, many music blogs told us about someone who sing and write songs like Leonard Cohen. They are talking about Philippe Bronchtein, the man known as Hip Hatchet. His debut album Men Who Share My Name gain many good reviews back in 2010, its pure folk that hit music critics on their first thought. While the deepness of Hatchet’s lyrics simply told us about life and all its hardship. Moreover, Bronchtein playing folk on its basic shape, a simple accoustic [...]

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  • Nite Jewel – In The Dark

    Nite Jewel – In The Dark

    Series of female musician I’ve reviewed before this seems likely turn me into specific genre-oriented or just simply a fanboy of a certain “things” in music. Well I’m not. What happening here are how I find difficult not to see a good music without brought by majority. The fact is there are less male musician surfacing rather than female musician these days. Well, I hope I’m wrong about that. It’s only first quarter of 2012, nobody knows what’s comming, yes? [...]

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