Richard Melville Hall (aka Moby) is back with his 11th album and continues his deft broad stroke artistry utilizing electronic music as the backdrop for his tales. For this album he’s enlisted a some interesting choices for guest vocals. Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, QOTSA), Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips) and Cold Specks are just a few of the names to drop by. He has a script and sticks to it. The album opens with an echoed/syncopated set of notes that […]
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The Best Albums of 2012: Koomdogg’s Favorite Things
Koomdogg runs down his favorite albums and other cool stuff from 2012.
Spin Cycle: Mark Lanegan Band’s “Blues Funeral”
We here at Popblerd get so excited about certain albums that we can’t contain our excitement in just one review (have you seen the Van Halen thing that we posted?). Mark Lanegan is such an artist that evokes such a response in some of our writers that one opinion is not enough when it comes to his latest record, Blues Funeral. So here you go with Lanegan Shenanigans (AKA: A few different ways of saying Blues Funeral is the bomb) […]
The Viewfinder: Mark Lanegan’s “The Gravedigger’s Song”
Mark Lanegan’s been a busy man these past few years: he’s released albums with the Gutter Twins, Soulsavers and Isobel Campbell, collaborated with guys like Bomb the Bass and UNKLE, and even contributed an excellent Bob Dylan cover to the I’m Not There soundtrack. Still, Blues Funeral will be his first proper solo album in almost eight years, and the Popblerd family is damned excited to hear it. The official video for “The Gravedigger’s Song” debuted a few days back. Directed by Alistair Legrand, it […]
The Popblerd Staff Picks Their Most Anticipated Albums of 2012! (Part Two)
One thing a new year brings more than anything else is promise. Whether you feel as though this is the year you’ll get that book deal you’ve been dreaming of, or that the cross-country road trip you’ve been planning for the past two years will finally happen THIS summer, the future, much like Natasha Bedingfield sang about in that Pantene commercial, is unwritten. With release dates only set a couple of months in the future, this is also the time […]
Dynamite, indeed! (Twilight Singers are stil awesome.)
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I never thought I would like a song that Ani Difranco had any part of but here I am bobbing my head along to “Blackbird and the Fox” off of Dynamite Steps, the latest from Twilight Singers. Thanks a lot, Greg Dulli. It’s been almost 5 years since their last, Powder Burns, dropped and it sounds as if Dulli and co. haven’t skipped a beat. Twilight Singers make the kind of music I love: hard to describe. It’s a mixture […]