For the love of music
In the early 1940s, French composer Pierre Schaeffer developed a revolutionary recording technique that would later become a staple of the electronic and hip hop genres. His experiments in sound collage, utilizing gramophone and proto tape recorders, preempted much later activity by everyone from Eno to Bambaataa. In this digital age, the … [Read more...]
It's a classic coming of age story. Four teenage friends from Copenhagen, Denmark form a band. They can't play their instruments all too well, but are damn well angry enough to try. Angry about what, you may ask. There might be a number of reasons, but what better way to propagate anger than in the form of a punk band? The group, calling themselves … [Read more...]
These days, singer/songwriters are a dime a dozen, and it’s rare that one is able to craft pieces unique, touching, and fully realized enough to truly stand out from the pack. Fortunately, Greg Laswell is one such needle in the haystack. His newest LP, Landline, is a delightful and sobering experience full of poignant melodies and lyrics, … [Read more...]
Every March music-hungering hordes swarm Austin, Texas for the South By Southwest Festival, an event that offers up a veritable smorgasbord of artists and record labels to sample over the course of a week. As appetites are sated and thirst is slaked, the big question upon everyone’s lips is - Which hotly-tipped artists will set the music world … [Read more...]
DOA receives too many submissions for our staff to ever review them all. There are a lot of discs that are overlooked, not because they aren’t good or lacked something particular, but simply because there are only so many reviews we can crank out in a given week, month, or year. "Short Takes" attempts to showcase a bunch of releases that we may … [Read more...]