Discovery: Mean Creek
While it goes against everything we believe in as music journalists—that stringing together a series of pivotal reference points for a young band is about as lazy as it gets—in the case of Mean Creek, their catch-all grocery list of inspiration goes a long way toward explaining why they're the band most likely to break out of the fertile field of Boston rock this year. It's meant as a testament to the vibrance of the four-piece, not a slight, when we say that there are echoes of everything from The Replacements to Echo and the Bunnymen, The Pixies, Buffalo Tom, The Talking Heads and Bruce Springsteen to be teased out of their just-released second record, Youth Companion, on Old Flame Records. Sorry to break the rules....Read the rest at Interview.
While it goes against everything we believe in as music journalists—that stringing together a series of pivotal reference points for a young band is about as lazy as it gets—in the case of Mean Creek, their catch-all grocery list of inspiration goes a long way toward explaining why they're the band most likely to break out of the fertile field of Boston rock this year. It's meant as a testament to the vibrance of the four-piece, not a slight, when we say that there are echoes of everything from The Replacements to Echo and the Bunnymen, The Pixies, Buffalo Tom, The Talking Heads and Bruce Springsteen to be teased out of their just-released second record, Youth Companion, on Old Flame Records. Sorry to break the rules....Read the rest at Interview.
A day won’t be enough for me to squeeze in enough listens of this fevered seduction that quietly exposes its heart, and body, one slowly discarded garment at a time. I don’t know what’s wrong with me here, even the lyrics, rather pedestrian lovey dovey stuff on paper, seem like the most devastating declaration. Read the rest at Bullett.
Get Up And Dance With French Horn Rebellion + Database’s “Poster Girl”
This new track, a collaboration of New York brother duo French Horn Rebellion and São Paulo producer Database, (a follow up to last year’s “Beaches and Friends”) is the timeless love story about a boy who grew up fantasizing about a famous starlet, made it to the big time, then started dating her in real life. Who hasn’t seen that happen a million times? Read the rest at Bullett.
Oh Yay Elisha Cuthbert Stars in the The New Gaslight Anthem Video So Let’s All Watch It
Elisha Cuthbert, famous actress from television and movies, stars in this new video “Here Comes My Man” from the professional rock and roll band The Gaslight Anthem, a fact that’s important to point out right at the top here because otherwise I never would have watched the thing. Good move on the band’s part, having a pretty woman whose visage I associate with fond memories of previous entertainments walk around in front of a camera and then subsequently editing that footage with bits of them performing the song in question, because now I’ve listened to it a couple times. Read the rest at Bullett.
Angel Haze Takes Bold, Creative Step Forward On New Eminem Track
On the new track from her forthcoming mixtape, buzz-blurthy rapper Angel Haze has written a song called “Cleaning Out My Closet”, on which she raps in the same cadence over the same beat Eminem used in his song of the name. In honor of that effort I am going to copy and paste another music writers review here and change some of the words around, because if these musicians aren’t going to try why should I? Read the rest at Bullet.
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