This year, the Shortlist Organization has announced ten award finalists for the music prize. Among the finalists Feist, Arcade Fire, Stars, Burial, Working for a Nuclear Free City, Justice, and M.I.A. are international artists. Spoon, LCD Soundsystem and Wilco, groups from the USA are also in the running for the prize. The finalists this year have more international artists than in previous years. More information on the finalists and the nominated albums can be found at the Shortlist website, www.shortlistofmusic.com.
If music blog fanboys served as any indication of the real worlds taste in music, Burial would be bigger than Beyoncé. But since that isnt the case, it’ll take some time before people wake up to Untrue, the conceptual refinement of last years acclaimed self-titled album that introduced the media-silent artist to listeners beyond those immersed in UKs dubstep underground.
Sounding like the excavated ruins of two-step, Burial’s all too appropriate name plays off the final procession of British electronic music. Sidestepping the age old preoccupation with the future, tracks like “Ghost Hardware” are propelled by an underlying noise and slack that defies pinpointing the creation date (not that the production relies on textural smoke and mirrors). Burial has the same innate knack for long-brewing melody that helped wedge groups like Boards of Canada and Tricky into mainstream consciousness. On the …
The anonymous producer behind the work of Burial is letting his dubstep sounds progress and on his impressive sophomore album he can be found chasing the transient hints of beauty to be found in the confines of urban desolation. Untrue is dark puddles, broken shadows, cracked brick and the tinted nighttime sky explained in sound. Burial takes his beats far from the club, layering things up with asphyxiating bass, low strings, hisses, clicks and detached vocal passages that he builds into unearthly choruses. Sometimes dubstep's signature breaks become an ...
The NAACP has decided to hold a funeral for the n-word, much in the way Rick Rubin held a funeral for the word “def” some years ago. Kurtis Blow and Eric B. will be amongst the pallbearers; Master P is starting a new n-word-free label; radio stations pledge censorship, I mean self-policing; no word on whether Rev. Al will officiate as he did with the Rubin thing, or whether millions of American youths will attend the funeral and recognize said demise of term… As always, from our desk to yours, here's the press release: RAP PIONEERS JOIN NAACP IN FUNERAL FOR THE N-WORD, SIGN ON TO 'STOP' SNITCHIN CAMPAIGN
It only takes five minutes inside Crash Mansion, the current host of NYC’s dubstep party Dub War, to see the telltale signs of a new scene taking form. Everyone is learning to dance again; midair hand chops and a pseudo-skank bounce replace years of codified junglist head bobs. The music sounds rawer, more unpredictable than most of these people are used to; a sludged-out bass crawl one moment can flash into a bleepy synth arpeggio the next. Even the DJs seem as psyched as the crowd-when certain tracks drop, these grown men suddenly look like 10-year-olds with a PS3.
On this night, Dub War’s “FWD vs. Dub War” lineup represents a cross section of the success both the UK and U.S. dubstep scenes have experienced over the last year. Youngsta and Hatcha represent the UK’s FWD weekly, which, aside from the …
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