My Bloody Valentine "MBV" - 2013 LP

Holy turbo fuzz.....My Bloody Valentine is back...Audiophiles everywhere are freaking out...Matter 'o fact they've been waiting for years....Waiting so hard that when the album leaked MBV's website infamously crashed....Well, here it is, in all it's reverb/fuzz/shoegaze glory....and it's well worth the wait:

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My Bloody Valentine "If I Am" mp3

My Bloody Valentine "New You" mp3

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ON AN ON "Give In" - 2013 LP

Entire art shows are presented online.  People create their digital image and post it on some banal website and insignificant jurors pick a weiner.  How can they experience perspective? Depth? Annnnnd most importantly texture?  They can't.....Annnnd online you never will.  How do artists balance modern technology with technique?  Accessibility with practice?  Everynowandagain I love to find a band that gives a litmus test. Assess the current state of contemporary musack.  An album that balances computer programs with classic in form song writing.  ON AN ON is that band.  They use pro tools and electro elements but the tracks do not sound synthetic or over-produced....very hard to come by nowadaze......great blend of rocknelectro/layered vox/airy/blissful/former members of Scattered Trees/goooood:

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ON AN ON "Ghosts" mp3

ON AN ON "Bad Mythology" mp3

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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds "Jubilee Street" - Video

Link Wray "Fire and Brimstone" - 1971 track

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Brokeback "Brokeback and the Black Rock" - 2013 LP

One of my favorite paintings has no figure.  It has no face, no landscape, no animal, not even symmetrical shapes.....The painting is all black......Or so I thought.....At a closer look I began to see greys....reds.....even white hues coming through the under-painting....There was a lot going on.....Brokeback is a lot like the painting.  Subtle, no lyrics, ambient.....but a lot going on.  The songs tell stories.....odd stories....eerie stories.......A side project of Tortoise and Eleventh Dream Day (two of Chicago's finest).....post-rock/western themes/ambient/eerie/cool:

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Brokeback "Gold!" mp3

Brokeback "Don't Worry Pigeon" mp3

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