The day has finally come: the first Colourist album is here. Fresh and more polished than their Lido EP, their first full length album is sonically poignant – a return to the hard rocking days of the 70s & 80s without Gen X & Y’s natural cynicism, in fact, quite the opposite. Adam Castilla (guitar & lead […]
Category: Pop
Kishi Bashi: Lighght
Another announcement of a future release arrived in the mail – a postcard that would make Kirocknroll/ShuaibaJ proud – this time from Kishi Bashi. It read:
Newton Faulkner: Gone In The Morning
My recent search for Sailing Naked turned up a great deal of porn. … I’d really really like that to be the extent of my post, but alas, this is about introducing a well known up-n-coming (or going); Newton Faulkner. I’m have no evidence that he sails naked, nor endorses the hobby, but with a […]
The Colourist: EP
I know several of you are bored by the exorbitant number of northeasty Ivy-League deliberpoppers that have been coming out of Brooklyn lately, many have been featured by PaisleyTunes due to the catchy, concise, and easy listening nature of their oeuvre*. Let me now tell you about a new band – one that will blow the […]
Chris Hadfield
A little over a year ago, PaisleyTunes celebrated the 1977 release into space of a golden platter, inscribed with earthly symbols, logic, and etched with the sounds of the earth, humanity gambling on the slim odds that ET will have built something between a Victrola-1 and a Technics SL-1210MK5. It’s still floating and we’re still […]
James Blake and Kwabs
I find myself reluctant to post to PaisleyTunes because I am afraid that the music I want to write about won’t be new enough. Then I was reminded by my fellow contributors that it’s not about being the first to find the music, it’s about the music and sharing your perspective. So, here goes, no […]
The Bicycles: Stop Thinking So Much
It’s been a strange week at PaisleyTunes East. We’re still around and we are still listening to tunes. Thanks for everyone’s concern. Today I’m playing some upbeat pop by The Bicycles – whatever it takes to get back into the pre-summer groove. The Bikes are a Canadian quintet who recently reformed after “an indefinite hiatus” […]
Plume Giant: Callithump
The snow fell the duration of the weekend. We hid ourselves away Friday, peering through smeared window panes, as inches upon inches of crystalized oblivion piled upon the landscape. With the snowfall came statewide directorials: NO DRIVING… until Sunday morning. No problem. Our plans were few; Saunter to Harvard Square’s newest nickelodeon, The Sinclair, and […]
PSY and his Gangnam Style
I know, I know, we’ve all heard this song already. PSY and his Gangnam Style, horse-dancing madness have reached 260 million people on YouTube, or at least 1 million people have watched it about 260 times. I know the Woolseyites have added about 50 views to that total, and from the live concert versions I’ve […]
Randy Newman: Bad Love
What I’m Listening To Today: Randy Newman: Bad Love. Newman took eleven years off between releasing Land of Dreams (1988) and Bad Love (1999). After co-writing the script (& penning several musical masterpieces) for the 1986 comedic smash-hit Three Amigos!, Newman scored dozens of films, including comedies: Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Parenthood & Major League; western action […]
The Beach Boys: Surf’s Up
Throughout my music collecting years, I (for some reason) have striven to collect catalogs – not the mere pittance offered by greatest hits – not the piece-mail approach held-out by lowly compilations either. Perhaps I want to witness human evolution, or in the off chance that a brief flicker from the past could illuminate one’s present […]
King Charles: Loveblood
I took a trip to New Hampshire this weekend and grabbed a handful of CDs for the ride. Included in this pile (of course) were my most recent favorites: Kishi Bashi, Brian López, The Shins, The Beach Boys, and King Charles. Surprisingly, one of our pals riding along in the car mentioned that he had […]