For a country smaller than the state of Florida, England incessantly burgeons with musical talent. A modern “British Invasion” has emerged on this year’s music front, with radio charts offe...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2012/11/24/songstress-delilah-peaking-the-charts-and-piquing-your-interest/
RIYL: Dirty Projectors, David Bowie, anything on Kompakt Though he may be more known for his role in indie rock supergroup the New Pornographers, Dan Bejar has been enticing people into his stran...
I would like to preface this list by saying that I have not yet listened to Cee-Lo Green's new album nor Kanye West's latest - which everyone and their mother is telling me is a freaking masterpi...
It was an interesting year for me music-wise. So much great stuff passed my desk or by e-mail from publicists, but something odd happened: my old PC started getting so slow that I literally could...
RIYL: Roxy Music, Thievery Corporation, The Blue Nile Bryan Ferry’s post-Roxy Music solo career exists in a coccoon of sorts, with few fingerprints from the outside world sullying their beauty ...
RIYL: Zero 7, Sade, Wire Daisies It might feel like an eternity since lead singer Skye Edwards left Morcheeba (2003), leaving the brothers Godfrey to experiment on a couple of albums with differe...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/10/14/morcheeba-blood-like-lemonade/
RIYL: The KLF, Pink Floyd, LSD When the Orb first broke through into somewhat mainstream appeal with their 1991 epic The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, some critics immediately drew co...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/10/08/the-orb-featuring-david-gilmour-metallic-spheres/
In this final installment of our recap of Lollapalooza 2010, we cover the stars of tomorrow, or what is known in baseball circles as the Futures Game. Well, most of them are potential stars of to...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/08/12/lollapalooza-2010-the-final-recap-iii/
RIYL: Susan Tedischi, Lucinda Williams, Sheryl Crow, On her second album, Broken Promise Land, Anne McCue delivers a tightly produced group of songs that is well paced and refreshing. For the r...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/07/29/anne-mccue-broken-promise-land/
RIYL: My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Chapterhouse Neil Hannon recently quipped in his song “At the Indie Disco” about how “we’re dancing to the beat, and staring at each other’s feet.” On...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/07/20/school-of-seven-bells-disconnect/
RIYL: Coldplay, Aqualung, Passion Pit Not everyone can lead. It’s just a fact of life. Some will lead, and the rest will follow, and you will find no greater place to observe this behavior in a...
Note to self: never go away for the weekend. Had 160 emails waiting for me when I got back. Ugh. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Vocal Chords Fans of Robin Williams comedy album Reality, What a Concep...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/07/14/me-myself-and-ipod-71410/
!!! – AM/FM I am admittedly late to the !!! party, as I spent a good year trying to figure out how to even say the band’s name (Jason Thompson finally set me straight by going “Ch-ch-ch”)...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/06/23/me-myself-and-ipod-62310/
RIYL: Fatboy Slim, 808 State, Crystal Method After briefly flirting with the mainstream in 2005 thanks to their Indian-riffing rump shaker “Galvanize,” one would forgive the Chemical Brothers...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/06/17/the-chemical-brothers-further/
Mark Olson – Little Bird of Freedom As a longtime fan of the Jayhawks’ 1995 gem Tomorrow the Green Grass, I’ll do anything for Mark Olson, Gary Louris and Marc Perlman. The three are occasi...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/06/16/me-myself-and-ipod-61610/
Vicki St. Elmo – Champion Between this and last week’s song from the Protomen, it’s clear I have a weakness for songs that sound like they should be from a lost ’80s soundtrack. Of course...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/05/12/me-myself-and-ipod-51210/
The original title of this post was going to be “Free Crowded House!,” as in I have their new single “Saturday Sun,” which they briefly made available on their web site. I’d repost it h...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/04/28/me-myself-and-ipod-42810/
RIYL: Leftfield, Faithless, Infected Mushroom I’ve been in love with Hybrid ever since first hearing “Finished Symphony” on the soundtrack to the PS2 snowboarding game “SSX Tricky.” I�...
RIYL: Hammock, Death Cab for Cutie, Pink Floyd It’s hard to believe this is the Album Leaf’s fifth album release, and that the group, led by mastermind Jimmy LaValle, is celebrating 10 years ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/03/18/the-album-leaf-a-chorus-of-storytellers/
RIYL: early Nine Inch Nails, Massive Attack, Portishead This is one branch in the music tree that we didn’t see coming: adult contemporary trip-hop. X: The Human Condition, the brainchild of Mi...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/03/17/x-thc-x-the-human-condition/