by snoadmin | Dec 29, 2011 | Archives-old
Afuche – Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match Afuche dances. And I don’t only mean musically. I mean that if you look at videos of them they’re just boogying away. But that’s not what makes Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match a great...
by snoadmin | Dec 29, 2011 | Archives-old
Portugal. the Man – In The Mountain In The Cloud Portugal. the Man always releases albums that almost feel like a single giant song. Everything on the album has one overlaying tone that ties the whole thing together, which also seems the case even with their...
by snoadmin | Dec 28, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
#6 Album: tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l This year’s lists of best songs and albums feature a fair amount of work from solo musicians, or at least bands with a strong leading presence (your M83s and your Girls, for example). The bedroom-recording boom of the...
by snoadmin | Dec 28, 2011 | Archives-old
Vusi Mahlasela – Say Africa South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela achieved a certain level of global exposure when he became one of the featured musicians for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, an event which was (much to my delight) just as much an...
by snoadmin | Dec 27, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
#7 Album: Yuck – Yuck The main complaint against Yuck, as written by bloggers or lamented by WVAU executive board members (past and present), goes something like this: “I don’t know man, if I wanted to listen to music from the nineties, I’d listen...
