Welcome to this week's edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy -- and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Staff Web Pick of the Week: Beck's "Replica" video If Beck's "Gamma Ray" redux video -- the one with Big Love's Chloe Sevigny dancin' her tail off -- was a kaleidoscopic explosion of color and images, then "Replica" is decidedly the opposite. The video, his latest off Modern Guilt, echoes the original "Gamma Ray" video in terms of its explorations with black and white color, light and dark, and geometrical shapes -- with only short, fleeting glances of the singer himself. The video looks and feels like art, and is a stunning reminder that nobody makes music videos like Beck these days.
Welcome to this week's edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy — and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Staff Web Pick of the Week: Chester French's "She Loves Everybody" video Hey, remember when we told you about Chester French two years ago? Well, the dapper-looking duo of Harvard graduates have finally resurfaced with a sleek-looking music video for their debut single, "She Loves Everybody," a.k.a. that song you heard on Entourage so, so many months ago. With a video now released, the band's oft-delayed, much-talked about debut album Love the Future must be nearing its release date (the band's publicist says it's scheduled for March 31). Their MySpace says the album will include collaborations with Talib Kweli and singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Science of Sleep), not to mention Pharrell's involvement -- Chester French is signed to the mogul's Star Trak record label. One to watch, perhaps?
Welcome to this week's edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy — and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Staff Web Pick of the Week: TV on the Radio on The Colbert Report
We'd probably have wound up grinning by the end of Stephen Colbert's interview with the Brooklyn art-rockers last night, even if his first question hadn't been about EW's Best/Worst 2008 issue…but it was, and we love this clip all the more for it. Plus, TVOTR's performance of "Dancing Choose" sounded a bit better here than it did on Saturday Night Live.
Welcome to this week's edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy — and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Staff Web Pick of the Week: The Lonely Island dude grooves to Fleet Foxes
And here we thought we might be Fleet Foxes' biggestfans. Not so! That
title has to go to Saturday Night Live writer/The Lonely Island member
Jorma Taccone, in light of recently leaked footage which shows him
dancin' and saxin' his heart out while the Seattle folkies rehearsed "Blue Ridge Mountains" for SNL a couple weekends back. Maybe Fleet
Foxes should consider bringing Jorm along on their next tour dates.
He'd be an invaluable addition to their stage show, the Bez to their
Happy Mondays. (Or is that the "Soy Bomb" to their Dylan?)
Welcome to this week's edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy — and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Staff Web Pick of the Week: "This Land Is Your Land" at the inaugural celebration The hands-down highlight of HBO's We Are One broadcast on Sunday came when Bruce Springsteen was joined by folk forefather Pete Seeger (and Seeger's grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger) for a choir-backed version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." Once upon a time, Seeger (pictured, right) was blacklisted in this country for speaking his mind freely. Seeing him stride triumphantly onto the Lincoln Memorial stage at age 89 to sing that song in full, including a few verses that are often left out by more timid performers, was a moment for the history books. Is there a petition we can sign to make this the national anthem? (Watch it below)
Welcome to this year's first edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy -- and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Staff Web Pick of the Week: Covers of MGMT's (pictured, above right) "Electric Feel" First Katy Perry gave the electro-psych number her own smoothed-out spin last fall. Then Solange Knowles started working it into a medley in her concerts. Most recently, Atlantan hip-hop troupe Holly Weerd found a way to take this already-funky song even farther out into space — a feat we once would have thought impossible. Where will it end?!
Welcome to this week's edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy — and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Staff Web Pick of the Week: Heartless Bastards, "The Mountain" The title cut from the Bastards' upcoming third album (due Feb. 3) is a steel-tinged Southern rock epic. See if you can make it through the first verse without getting goosebumps. (Check out a recent live clip below, or hear the studio version at Heartless Bastards' MySpace)
Welcome to this week's edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy — and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Staff Web Pick of the Week: Lily Allen's "The Fear" video The Brit wit skewers modern celebrity as only she can in her fun new clip, with some help from a cast of surreally-costumed dancers. (Watch it below, or click here)
Welcome to this week's edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy — and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Staff Web Pick of the Week: The Clipse's Road to Til the Casket Drops mixtape The last album the Clipse (pictured, right) recorded was infamously tied up in industry limbo for ages before finally hitting shelves in 2006. Fingers crossed, now: All signs suggest the duo's follow-up LP, Til the Casket Drops, will arrive on schedule in 2009. In the meantime, the Thornton brothers are keeping rap fans happy with another brand-new mixtape, laced with the venomous poetry that's kept them on top of critics' lists for the better part of a decade. (Click here to stream it online for free)
Welcome to this week's edition of EW's New Music Roundup,
a
regular post highlighting the "Download This" track recommendations
from the latest crop of music reviews found in Entertainment Weekly.
All songs are from albums that are in stores now, and most are readily
available via iTunes, eMusic, or similar services. Enjoy — and be sure
to share with your fellow readers if you've got opinions on any of the
following albums or singles...
Rivers Cuomo, Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo Genre: Rock EW Grade: A– Download This: "Can't Stop Partying" (Check out Rivers Cuomo online)
Staff Web Pick of the Week: Radiohead's "Weird Fishes" video Sunny pastoral settings and creepy stop-motion puppeteering collide in this clip, created by fan Tobias Stretch for an online contest curated by the members of Radiohead. Along with this one, two more fan-made animated Radiohead videos (for "15 Step" and "Videotape") will be rolled out throughout this week on MySpace Music. (Watch it after the jump, or click here to open it in a new window)
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