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The Needle Drop ❤ The UK-based record label Barely Breaking Even has commissioned Madlib to produce an album for their notorious Beat Generation series And the result is Madlib the Beat Konducta's WLIB AM:… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ We featured the album O Soundtrack My Heart back in August , and the album is nothing short of a synth rock epic. LPs like this tend to raise questions;… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Go outside and enjoy your labor-free day! Use this song to get yourself pumped: The Dead Milkmen- "Labor Day" Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ When it comes to music that's warm and encompassing, Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum knows how to pull it off as if it's second nature. But there's always a sense of… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ This week on the show, synthesizers smashin' and rock with passion. New York's the Walkmen have just come out with their new album, You & Me . And the band… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ From the upcoming Mirror Mirror LP comes a song as epic as the group chorus it features. How life-changing this song is really depends on the listener, but it's still… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Featuring members of Isis, the VSS, Angel Hair, and Halifax Pier, it's baffling as to why Red Sparowes isn't a more widely acknowledged post-rock supergroup. The LA quartet's last major… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Hip hop, since its inception, has been breathing new life into used musical ideas, and the most obvious route it takes in doing this is audio sampling. Some producers sample… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ This week, M. Ward's soft talk and NOMO's Ghost Rock .In honor of its reissue on Jealous Butcher Records, we're traveling through M. Ward's 2003 album Transfiguration of Vincent .… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Stones Throw Records is giving the remix treatment to one of their catalog's most celebrated hip hop LPs, Madvillainy .The collaboration between MF Doom and Madlib was originally released in… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Marking the fourth full-length studio effort by music personality Dosh, Wolves and Wishes arrives on the scene with a conspicuous stress on irregularity and cerebral free-association. Just as the release… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ As if gold were struck, every blogger and their mother is swooping down on LA's experimental rock scene these days. And the attention is specifically aimed at the Smell, an… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Who doesn't like listening to Man Man perform one of the most endearing songs in their repertoire while riding in a black taxi cab? For more info on Man Man,… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Portland's Au--just pronounce it "eh, you"--is another band getting in line to redefine what it is to play pop music and record it yourself. There are elements of Mount Eerie,… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Few bands come together with such a reverence for sound dynamics, and are then able to translate that so well to a record. If there's a proper place to hear… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ This week on The Needle Drop , we delve into two artists that have little to do with one another, or at least it appears to be that way on… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Brooklyn's Forest Fire have signed to New York's Catbird Records , and the label is releasing the band's first LP for free. Well, free? The label is putting fans and… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Starting tomorrow night at 11:30 PM, Middletown, CT's WESU will be broadcasting The Needle Drop every Tuesday night as a part of their summer schedule. When Wesleyan University is back… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ For a duo with almost indistinguishable lyrics, Allegories have a lot to say. Seriously, how many bands come out with a narrative of their albums? However, this tale of public… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Directing Hand, a project of Alex Nielson, drummer for many bands, recently released What Will the Blood , and it's damn amazing. "For P.B.," a vocal duet with Lavina Blackwell,… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ This week, some grunge-inspired pop rock from No Age, and the eclectic sounds of Tim Fite. The Texas shoegaze trio, A Faulty Chromosome, will be coming to New Haven's Cafe… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ Starting this week, the Terrordactyls are posting demos, demos, and more demos on their MySpace page. Every week, myspace.com/theterrordactyls will feature a new song demo. Some of these unpolished songs… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ The 90s will probably be remembered for a lot of things: grunge, gangsta rap, drum & bass, and the flannel, oh the flannel. But thin men creating albums upon albums… Read full post »
The Needle Drop ❤ This week, the show is chock-full of music! We've got new stuff from Tilly & the Wall, Crystal Antlers, Mount Eerie, and Norway's Truls and the Trees. Also, who else--besides… Read full post »
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