November 2010
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MAKING MUSIC WITH CHUNGKING
An unofficial sequel to Feist’s Let It Die
Photo: www.myspace.com/chungking20
MP3: Chungking - “Making Music” (from The Hungry Years, 2005)
nbeknownst to me until a couple minutes ago, this blog’s been a straight-up sausage party. So, in the name of Equal Opportunity, today the ladies get their due with a trio from Brighton known as Chungking.
Chungking came...
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TRUE LOVE ALWAYS
Resurrecting a band that existed before auto-tuned indie rock
Photo: www.myspace.com/officialtla
MP3: True Love Always - “The Losing Part” (from Torch, 2000)
t’s got to be a challenge for a three-piece band. As a small troupe, they’re always overcompensating for a shortage of sounds. I suppose it’s like when small-dicked dudes buy Hummers. Well, one band who...
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EDITORS CURED BY LULLABY
Post-post-punk Brummies cover my favorite Cure song on the NME’s “Godlike Geniuses” tribute compilation
Photo: www.last.fm/music/Editors
Editors “Lullaby” (The Cure Cover) (from NME’s Pictures of You: A Tribute to Godlike Geniuses the Cure, 2009)
would be a fool not to credit the Cure as the model for what I call make-out music — or at least its torch...
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MAKE-OUT MUSIC'S GUIDE TO...JUNIOR BOYS
With a new album just a week away, we present to you our ‘Best of’ spanning three LPs, numerous remixes, comps and side projects
MP3: Junior Boys - Make-Out Music’s Guide (from Various, 2004-09)
f for some reason you failed to hear 2006’s ubiquitious go-to electronic LP, So This Is Goodbye, now is your chance to catch up on one of the freshest, most detailed and romantic...
October 2010
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INTERVIEW: CUT OFF YOUR HANDS
New Zealand indie rockers make me like guitar rock again, dismiss the Aussie hate perpetrated by TV’s Flight of the Conchords
Photo: www.boudist.com
hile it may have been my New Year’s Resolution to swear off guitar-based music, New Zealand’s Cut Off Your Hands are just going to be a little too hard to ignore this year. For a band that’s been together only three years,...
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FLASHBACK: FAMED RÖYKSOPP VIDEO ILLUSTRATOR...
Tomas Nilsson, winner of the 2002 MTV Europe Music award for “Best Music Video,” is back, unfortunately not for Royksopp’s latest LP
Photo: www.royksopp.com
t’s been a few weeks since Röyksopp’s third LP, Junior, leaked and despite its strong line-up of guest vocalists, I’ve concluded it’s a snore. So, let’s take today to harken back to a time...
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LISTEN LISTEN TO PONY PONY RUN RUN
Questionable pedophilia aside, French four-piece shows off its falsetto, funk in “Hey You”
Photo: www.last.fm/music/Pony+Pony+Run+Run
Pony Pony Run Run “Hey You” (from You Need Pony Pony Run Run, 2009)
oday’s Friday, the official start of the weekend and if you’re looking for party music, cue Pony Pony Run Run. PPRR is a four-piece, falseto-loving band who...
September 2010
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NEEDS MORE SWEDES
So, the new Phoenix is kind of boring. Thankfully, we have Pacific!
Photo: www.musicpacific.com
Pacific! “Runway to Elsewhere” (from Reveries, 2008)
ecord labels are the ones to cull a writer’s words in sticker form and slap it on a sulafane-wrapped CD. But, if I may, cherry-pick allmusic’s Tim Sendra describing Pacific’s musical aesthetic and slap it in this...
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JOHN LEGEND OFFICIALLY COLLABORATES WITH MSTRKRFT
Remixed neo-souler lends voice on new MSTRKRFT song
Photo: www.myspace.com/mstrkrft
MSTRKRFT ft. John Legend “Heartbreaker” (from Fist of God, 2009)
ho would have ever guessed that Grammy-winning, Classics IV-ripping off John Legend would have been featured on a MSTRKRFT track? Well, I suppose remixes make strange bedfellows. “Heartbreaker” is the culmination of one...
February 2009
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PHOENIX'S NEW SINGLE ROCKS LIKE AMADEUS
French soft rockers find out amps can go to 11
Photo: www.wearephoenix.com
Phoenix “1901” (from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, 2009)
onsistency is usually good when it comes to things like an income, sex and a season of “Lost.” But with music, staying consistent is almost always boring. For its last two albums French band/pre-Daft Punk collaborators Phoenix have done just...
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LIST: THE 80s MEET THE 00s
Nostalgia never sounded this good
oday’s songs may initially bring your sexuality into question. And if they do, I must ask you to chill out, homophobe. They’re actually as close to the 80s pop sound we’d all like to remember than anyone this side of the Killers has gotten. Besides, the decade would have fallen to RATT had the music industry not turned a blind eye to sexually...
January 2009
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VIDEO MASH-UP: PLEJ - LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
Vampire obsession sweeps Sweden in Make-Out Music’s first video mash-up
Photo: www.plej.se
Plej “Safe Place” (from Home Is Where the Heart Was, 2008)
ot even Sweden was immune to the Vampire Revival Craze of 2008. Whereas goth tweens and their middle-aged Midwestern moms got wet for Twilight and HBO’s True Blood, Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In served...