Late last fall while recording “Midnight Aria” with Belle Boussole, the group let me listen to a cover they were working on. It was an unusual song choice – “Love in Outer Space” by the eccentric and eclectic jazz musician Sun […]
Dave Matthews Joins Blue Man Group Founders in Fundraiser for NYC Blue School
The ever-innovated Blue Man Group will be celebrating their 20th Anniversary Reunion this coming April 13th by performing at a benefit gala they’ve organized in support of the New York City Blue School, a trailblazing pre-K and early elementary lab school currently located on the Lower East Side is building a permanent home near the […]
Radio Morillo’s Top 10 Songs of 2010
This year’s top 10 was particularly difficult; just rummaging through the songs and albums I listened to in 2010 seemed daunting enough. But alas, it wouldn’t be the end of 2010 without a top 10 something and continuing where I left off last year, I shall bring it to your attention once again. In no […]
New Kanada – The Valley (Marshall and Milosh)
Canadian electronic musicians Adam Marshall and Michael Milosh have teamed up to produce “The Valley”, an electronic song that, much like the video suggests, is perfect for late night drives. Check it.
Single: Thot – The Hour Speller
Thot, the alter ego of Belgium musician Grégoire Fray, has released a new single called “The Hour Speller.” Their sound is a post-industrial in the same vein as NIN, Qosta, and Radiohead. Check out the tune below and pick up the single from their Bandcamp page. enjoY! Thot – The Hour Speller (Edit)
Rita Indiana y Los Misterios – El Juidero
Rita Indiana y Los Misterios, fronted by multimedia artist Rita Indiana Hernandez, is touted as one of the most amazing musical exports from the Dominican Republic and is quickly becoming a celebrated and respected act outside of the Caribbean. Rita Indiana is an unlikely figure to be celebrated in Dominican society; she is openly in […]
globalFEST Comes to NYC in January 2011
Being pretty bummed about missing this year’s Rainforest World Music Festival, I perked up as soon as I found out about globalFEST, a one-night world music festival taking place at Webster Hall in New York City. Featuring acts such as the Creole Choir of Cuba, Diblo Dibala, Mustafa Özarslan and Novalima (who performed at the […]
69 Year Old DJ Mamy Rock – Still Rocking
2010 has brought us an onslaught of really talented DJs, but for obvious reasons we tip our hats to Ruth Flowers aka DJ Mamy Rock, a 69 year old grandmother from Bristol who has become a sensation. She was introduced to dance music when she accompanied her grandson to a London club and fell in […]
Snow & Voices – So Freely
Los Angeles based band Snow & Voices are releasing a covers album soon and have shared the first single, “So Freely”. It’s a cover from Tir Na Nog‘s 1972 release A Tear and a Smile. Here’s “So Freely” by Snow & Voices:
@AtomicTom – Take Me Out (iPhone performance)
I can always count on a newspaper from Jakarta, Indonesia (approximately 9,000 miles away) to tell me what’s going on on the B train in my own backyard. Brooklyn’s Atomic Tom have come to the world’s attention for performing one of their songs, “Take Me Out”, on the subway using iPhone apps instead of live […]
Ray – I’m About to Whip Somebody’s Ass
I watched Ze Frank’s TED talk this evening after a friend posted this video and I couldn’t believe it. An audio clip of a preacher from St. Louis named Ray went viral and became the subject of a number of remixes. He created the song in order to life his daughter’s spirits. The result is […]
Logan Lynn (@LoganLynn) – I Killed Tomorrow Yesterday
Portland’s finest indie-electronic musician, Logan Lynn, is back with a new record. I Killed Tomorrow Yesterday was produced by Bryan Cecil and is much more darker than his previous release, From Pillar to Post. That, and it sounds as if it were sent here straight from 1985. The synthpop sound suits Lynn’s voice well and […]
Antony and the Johnsons – Swanlights
How to describe Antony and the Johnsons’ new album, Swanlights, and how it makes us feel? Bewildered, initially – that’s how I felt upon first hearing Antony Hegarty on “The Dull Flame of Desire”, a song found on Bjork’s album, Volta. You aren’t sure quite what to expect, but that doesn’t mean the album is […]
Flashback : Neil Young – Transformer Man
Ok, this song recently flashed across my social media radar, and falls squarely into the “How did I not know about this?” bin. Maybe the result of an out-of-control 80s-style bender with Giorgio Moroder, or perhaps a sage-like commentary on the direction of music at that time, here’s Neil Young like you’ve never heard him […]
East Village Community School – Songs from the East Village
If you had the opportunity to participate in an arts program in elementary school, count yourself as extremely lucky. We’ve all heard the stories of school budget cuts and schools being strapped for resources. All to often, along with those budget cuts and demands on time for standardized test preparation, arts education programs are the […]
Janice Whaley (@blackpiano) – The Smiths Project
Janice Whaley’s The Smiths Project is a feat made possible by cheap technology, the Internet, and sheer willpower. I have a deep love and appreciation for DIY artists and projects, and this project is quite unique. Unlike other artists who have endeavored to write and record a song a day for 365 days or a […]
Welcome: Útidúr
Útidúr, a self-described “dirty dozen indie pop orchestra” from Iceland, will be releasing their debut album, The Mess We’ve Made, in Iceland this month. So far, the two songs featured on their Bandcamp page are quite delightful; while they are talented musicians, they don’t seem to take themselves or their music awfully serious, and that’s […]
Far East Movement ft. The Cataracs and Dev
Los Angeles electro hip-hop outfit Far East Movement have teamed up with fellow Californian musicians The Cataracs and Dev to create a sure club hit called “Like a G6”. The Far East Movement, made up of Asian-Americans Kev Nish, Prohgress, J-Splif, and DJ Virman, started in 2003 and has since grown to be a widely […]
Golden Eye, naturally synced
“Golden Eyes Forever“, the debut 5-track release from Alec Feld‘s project Golden Eye is described by himself as being about “the disintegration of summer and the construction of the fall months…the cyclic nature of psychosis”. As Fall now makes its presence felt at the cost of Summer’s warmth, this collection of tracks makes for perfect […]
Baba Brinkman – The Rap Guide to Human Nature
I first saw Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman perform when I was in college in support of his show, Rap Canterbury Tales (in case you missed that – a rap version of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales). A self-described “rap troubadour” with a master’s degree in English, Brinkman has toured the Fringe Festival circuit extensively and has embarked […]