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Lessons in Post-Rock, Episode One: Red Sparowes

I hate calling it Post-Rock. Not in a self-important “categorization of art kills it” way, I just don’t think it really captures what it is. Other people might call it experimental metal, post-metal, instrumental metal, metalgaze, but I just call it what it is: contemplative experi-instrumental post-metalgaze.

This is part one of six, where I will be examining one band per post. I would recommend using headphones when listening to these bands (or any music for that matter) and, in most cases, cranking it. Sure, I’m probably Continue reading →

Tags: At the Soundless Dawn, Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Sun, experimental, hipster, In Illusions of Order, post rock, Red Sparowes, The Pain is Excruciating But Therein Lies the Answer

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Author corymerchant

Great songs about robots…

29 Nov

There are some great songs about robots out there. There are also some not-so-great songs about robots out there, go figure! Some of these songs might fit rather loosely into the ‘robot’ category, but they’re all good songs regardless.

If you have trouble listening to any of the songs below, you can find the playlist on my Grooveshark page. Continue reading →

Tags: Deltron 3030, Flight of the Conchords. Grandaddy, GLaDOS, Jed the Humanoid, Kraftwerk, One More Robot, robots, Still Alive, The Flaming Lips, The Robots, Upgrade

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Categories Mixes/Playlists
Author corymerchant

Keira Rathbone is Such a Hipster…

23 Oct

So, there’s this British chick, right? Keira Rathbone. She makes art with a typewriter. A typewriter. How hipster is that? She runs the paper through the typewriter, typing on it, changing which character she uses depending on what kind of texture she is looking for. Peep this: