Only Dubstep Saturdays #1
It’s rull nice outside today, so why not go sit in a park and liquefy your eardrums with some filthy dubstep? I’ve got just the tracks to help you do that…
Marmite (Doctor P Remix)
Serial Killa ft. Beezy- Eddie K & Minus
Bonkers- Dizzee Rascal (Doorly Remix)
-Trev
Kanye West: Monster Ft. Everyone In Rap And… Bon Iver?
I’ve been mad slow on my music tip these past few days with packing for school and what not. But here’s the newest track from the busy Kanye West. “Monster” features Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver. I’ve only listened to it a few times, but it’s pretty good and Kanye continues to impress, garnering more hype for his next album slated to drop in September. Also, Nicki Minaj straight up murders this track.
-Trev
Listen Here:
For Keeps:
Kanye West- Monster Ft. Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver
Your Easy Loving Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothing
Since Jules post (which was wonderfully written; that’s some damn fine journalism as well) left such a bad taste in my mouth, I decided that something that wasn’t heartbreaking and infuriating needed to be posted. So here’s a music video.
Say hello to Detroit born (it shows in the music, doesn’t it) and L.A. based singer/ producer Mayer Hawthorne, real name Andrew Mayer Cohen. I love this song. I love the video (it was shot all in one take) and I love all the pretty girls. Hope this song helps you guys forget about how much you want to go burn down Irving Azoff’s house. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday!
-Trev
Lupe Fiasco- Go To Sleep
I don’t know where Jules or Lars are, but I don’t think they’ll mind a little usurping on my part. Here’s a new track from Lupe Fiasco that I was mad hip to a little while ago by the fine people over at Ear Milk. The songs called “Go To Sleep” and its mad chill. I really like Lupe’s flow on this one and the backups mixed with the piano make this a very well produced track. I’m definitely hype for some more.
-Trev
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Pretty Lights For Friday Nights
I know that I’ve already posted quite a bit today, but when I stumbled across these tracks while perusing the blogosphere, I just couldn’t keep them to myself. I have The Wet Blog to thank for bringing these bomb-ass Pretty Lights tracks to my attention. Both are pretty nutty, but the “After Midnight Mix” is a straight killer. After hearing these live tracks, there’s absolutely no way that I’m missing Pretty Lights when he hits up Philly on November 3rd, The Electric Factory be damned! All of Pretty Lights music can be downloaded for free! over at his website.
Enjoy these bangers and party it up. It is Friday night, after all.
“After Midnight Live Mix”
“Final Countdown Live Mix”
New Music Barrage 3 of 3: “I’m on my Van Gogh, I don’t hear shit.
So here’s the last serving of fresh tracks for the day. If you follow along here at the Experiment, you probably know that I usually don’t cover hip-hop. Not that I dislike hip-hop or am incapable of writing about it, I just see it more fit for me to differ to Jules and Andy on the subject, they do know the genre a good deal better than I do. But I just couldn’t help myself from posting these two tracks that just hit the web within the last 24 hours.
First up is Cee-Lo’s new track “Fuck you”. Though it’s much more along the lines of a funky soul song, it’s still from Cee-Lo, who is a rapper. Cee-Lo posted it on his own youtube channel, promising a full video next week, with a single on sale October 4th. “Fuck You” is slated to be on Cee-Lo’s upcoming album The Lady Killer.
Last night Kanye dropped a remix of “Power” featuring Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz. I like a lot of Kanye’s music and I think that his super ego thing is mad entertaining and interesting. This remix here is a certified banger and is sure to help you start your weekend off right.
New Music Barrage 2 of 3
I could just as easily of put all this new music into one long post, but I felt that it was more appropriate if I grouped them together in their own posts. This one is solely dedicated to Sufjan Stevens and the new EP he just released on the internets like an hour ago. All Delighted People is what it’s called. It’s 8 songs that sprawl across 60 minutes. I never was a huge Sufjan fan, I appreciate what he did on Illinois, but a lot of his lyrical indie-pop just sounds the same to me. I know a lot of people do like him though, and what I’ve listened to of the EP so far isn’t bad at all. The title track is a sweeping epic that spans emotional tones.
You can buy the entire EP for a mere 5 dollars over at Sufan’s bandcamp page, or you can stream it in it’s entirety bellow. Enjoy all of the new music!
New Music Barrage 1 of 3
I’m still recovering from the Crystal Castles show. I’ve come to realize that my muscles (especially the ones in my neck and knees) are not used to the kind of raving that Hard Fest demanded of me. That’s alright though because it was totally worth the discomfort I’m experiencing now, and I’ll be better prepared for next time something like that rolls through Philly. There’s not much I can say that Jules or Andy didn’t already cover in their write-ups, so I’m not really gonna get into it.
It’s Friday. Normally I’d want to play something to get you hype about it being the end of the work week and time to party for a few days. But I’m still all partied out. I just want to chill out for the rest of my summer. I’ll have to do plenty of partying next week when I start school again.
So here are some tracks that came out recently that I feel we can ride out the rest of this summer on together.
A kind of bittersweet song from the twangy indie/surf group Real Estate. “Out Of Time” is their new single and is set to drop October 12th. It’s a nice, pretty little song that about sums up how I’m feeling now that summer’s coming to a close.
Next up is an 80′s song given a chillwave makeover. Experimental psych act Golden Ages took on Toto’s 1983 #1 hit “Africa” and released it with two other songs as The Africa EP. The song becomes a distorted mass of synth washes, hard hitting beats, and buried vocals. A great remake of a song that is a little dated. Here’s the whole EP:
The original by Toto:
-Trev
Album Art Phreak Out No. 1
I was downloading music tonight and just browsing through my itunes library when for some reason I got engrossed in album covers. I only have covers for maybe a quarter of the songs in my library, leaving about 5,ooo naked tracks. That never really bothered me before, it’s just so tedious to get the album art for all those songs when you don’t have an itunes store account. I don’t know why I don’t have one, I guess I just never got around to it.
But tonight I decided to take a stand against the unkempt nature of my library! There’s no way I’m gonna be able to get them all in one night, but I figured if I space it out and do a handful every other night or so, things would start to come together nicely in an ok amount of time. Then I got to thinking that somehow I could tie this random burst of obsessive compulsion into the blog. So I am happily introducing a new (bi-weekly?) feature on The Illadelph Experiment called “Album Art Phreak out”, wherein I will write a little about and post tracks from albums I discover (or remember) have really sweet cover art. I figured this would be an interesting way to talk about some albums that I otherwise might not get to touch on, but are fantastic nonetheless. So with no further ado, heres the first installment of “Album Art Phreak Out”!
I defy you to find an album that has a cover even approaching this in sheer awesome.
I don’t actually have that Big Bear album (though Beitcher does because we made him download it, and he also has a thing for bears) but it is pretty amazing.
But yeah, covers I actually got for my library.
I’ve known abut Fang Island for a few months now, but I don’t think I’d ever seen the album cover for their first and only self titled LP until tonight. Fang Island make very anthemic and intricate instrumental punk/math rock.The songs soar, but are don’t get too above or heads that are banging along with them.Their album cover is pretty fucking cool. I like old pictures. I like playing make believe. And I like crazy (and possibly dangerous) costumes. This his cover has all of those things awesomely collected.
Another discovery I had was when I went to get artwork for the several Del Tha Funkee Homosapien albums I have. The cover for Both Sides of the Brain struck me the most out of all the others (though I do love the colors and picture on No Need for Alarm) It’s simple, but it get’s the point across.
A lot of Hip Hop record covers suffer from over hyping themselves on the front of the record. I understand that that’s a part of hip hop, and don’t get me wrong, I do love hyping myself up like I’m the greaterst motherfucker on the planet every now and then, but when it gets to the point of every album looking pretty much exactly the same for the sake of your ego, I start to care just a little less about whats on the record. (Whatever, I’m kind of judging a book by it’s cover)
This Del album is engaging though understated, while still featuring the rapper himself. Also, I just think that Del is one of the coolest fucking people alive.
And as for this last one, well, who hasn’t wanted to take a shotgun out of an actual shotgun?
That’s The Radio Dept.’s Clinging To A Scheme. It’s a really fun dreamy, poppy album from the Swedish indie vets.
Well that’s all the covers I have for now, but there are plenty more out there,and if you know some album art that’s bonkers or just really neat, drop me a line and I’ll make sure it finds it’s way into a future post.
-Trev
One Way Streets, The Fall of Rittenhouse, & Twee Pop
So Andy, Jules and I just got back from our adventure into Philly. Jesus do I hate driving in Philly, especially during rush hour. I may have turned the wrong way on a one way street, and we may have driven in some small circles, but now worries, we got to the Electric Factory’s box office with a whole 15 minutes to spare. These are the lengths to which I will go in order to avoid the robber-barons over at Ticketmaster and their outrageous “convenience” fees. Mother fuck Ticketmaster. But in the end I have my ticket and will be attending the Crystal Castles show with Rusko. I will be raving my face off and I hope you’ll be there too. Tickets still aren’t sold out (surprisingly) and it’s an all ages show, so there is no reason short of you having an aneurysm and dying face down in your oatmeal the morning of the show. But I digress.
There are in fact other shows going on around illy Wednesday night. If you feel like George Dubbing it up and crossing the Delaware then you could go see Ke$ha and Rihanna at the Susquehanna Bank Center. If that’s not really your bag, then you could make your way to Rittenhouse and take in a pleasant (and free!)evening with A Place To Bury Strangers. This is where I’d be going if I hadn’t got my Castles tix today.
You know what I find amusing? Last week’s free concert at Rittenhouse had the cops called to make sure the show ended very promptly because all the rich crotchety neighbors (guess what, you don’t live in the upper east side) complained about how much the guy in Gang cursed too much. So I really don’t know how well APTBS are going to fair, seeing as they’re one of the loudest bands on the east coast right now. Rittenhouse will crumble with a huge distorted wall of sound. I’m a little sad that I’ll miss that mayhem.
In music news, all of you twee lovers can rejoice, Belle & Sebastian have released details on their first studio album in 4 years. Yes, I do have a soft spot for Belle & Sebastian, so I’m kind of excited about this. B&S are responsible for two of my favorite albums while I was in high school: The Boy With The Arab Strap and If You’re Feeling Sinister. The new album is to be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love and is slated to drop October 12th in North America and on the 11th in “most other countries” according to front man Stuart Murdoch over at the bands website. The album cover was also released. See below.
That’s about what I’ve come to expect from Belle & Sebastian. I was really hype on this falls album releases before I read about this one, but it seems like the autumn months are just looking better and better. Here are some tracks to bump while you enjoy the rest of your Monday night. Peace!
Tasty Of Montreal Tracks Courtesy of Waffles.FM
So I don’t have a whole lot to say tonight, I’m still kind of out of it from last night’s party, which was pretty dope. At the party I got to talking to some kid I went to highschool with about Bonnaroo and music in general. He eventually steered the conversation in the direction of a website I’d never heard of before, Waffles.Fm. Cleverly disguised as a recipe wiki, the site requires an invite in order to make a profile and join the ranks of this secretive torrent sharing website. He hyped the site up so much that when he offered me an invite I couldn’t refuse the opportunity to have another site to check out when demonoid fails me. So I got all see up earlier this evening and started browsing the massive archives of seemingly anything I could ever want. I knew that this Waffles.FM site is a keeper when I found a great quality copy of Of Montreal’s yet to be released False Priest. It’s pretty good so far, I’m like 8 songs into it so far and I am enjoying it. It’s pretty much what you’d come to expect from Kevin Barnes and co by now; this kind of consistency is definitely appreciated, especially when it’s associated with the high quality music that Of Montreal has been producing for so long now. Be sure to grab yourselves a cop of False Priest when it drops September 14th. In the meantime, here are some songs that you may not have heard from the new album yet and an unfortunately muddled version of “Sex Karma.”
-Trev
Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
It’s finally here. Today sees the official U.S. release of The Arcade Fire’s third full length studio album, The Suburbs. If you haven’t heard it yet then download it now or go get in your car and drive to the closest music dispensary and buy this fucking album. Right now!
Ok, now that you’ve got the album and you’ve listened to it, let’s talk about it. It’s really fucking good, right? Yeah, well, I would assume that goes without saying, but it has to be said at least once, for posterity’s sake or something. But yeah, The Suburbs.
It’s been 3 very long years since we last heard in full from the Montreal-based indie giant. Spring of 2007 saw the release of Arcade Fire’s sophomore album Neon Bible, a decent showing after the now classic debut, Funeral. That album launched them into indie stardom, garnering them rave reviews from even mainstream media outlets like “Rolling Stone” and “The New York Times”. The follow up was a bit of that dreaded sophomore slump, but honestly, how could you possibly conceive of being able to release something that could stand up anywhere near Funeral? Expectations ran high (I know I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Neon Bible) and the album turned out pretty decent. It had some really good songs on it like the single “Keep the Car Running” and. It was a good album, probably better than I give it credit for, I was after all expecting a lot after having fallen so hard for the band on Funeral, but it just didn’t have all the right parts in the right places, ya know? It was in need of a certain… je ne sais pas. What that album was really lacking was the fact that it wasn’t nearly as grand or as powerful as the Arcade Fire can truly be. That is not the case on The Suburbs.
The Arcade Fire have crafted a sweeping (dare I say sprawling) epic on a scale the size of the American Dream. They capture something that most people don’t really think about, though it’s all they really know; living in the suburbs. The Arcade Fire express clearly many of the same things that I’ve felt about living where I do: exhilaration, frustration, desperation, and, thankfully, hopefulness. It is apparent that much of the past three and a half years have been spent thinking about and planning for how this album was going to be constructed. And it shows. The album itself is heartfelt and honest, Win Butler and gang don’t feed us any bullshit, this is what they know and how it’s made them who they are. Obviously, this is probably their most “mature” album to date.
It’s not just a mature album though, it’s an album that matures as you listen through it. The album starts out unbelievably strong, filled with all of the boundless energy and vitality of youth. Songs like the single “The Suburbs” and “Empty Room” are undeniably catchy and, especially the latter of the two, pack the punch of a rebellious punk song along the lines of early The Clash. Tracks like “Modern Man” and “Rococo” are two of the more epic and stretching songs on the album. I mean epic more in literary terms rather than “epic pwnage” for instance. The story that they tell us is on a much grander scale than usual, transcending simply the life of one person, but instead appealing to a multitude of us; anyone who grew up in the suburbs can relate to at least some of what Win Butler is singing about. The whole album is epic in this sense.
There is a noticeable shift in tone at the track “City with No Children”, the album seems to start to settle into itself a little more around this point. “Suburban War” comes across as one of the band’s most mature tracks to date with its driven yet infectious riffs and inspired lyrics. This great song leads into the fast paced “Month of May”; I gotta admit, it’s weird hearing The Arcade Fire attempt something approaching a punk song. I do like hearing Win Butler sing “Now the kids are all standing with their arms folded tight” over the quick and bouncy beat.
After the near anarchy caused by the oddly placed “punk” track “Month of May”, “Wasted Hours” is one of the more assuring and uplifting songs I’ve ever heard The Arcade Fire make. I feel that the juxtaposition of these two tracks was purposeful and they are meant to feed off of eachother. We can see evidence of this when we take a look at some of the lyrics. “Month of May” leaves us with the image of wires being blown away in chaos and an orchestral cacophony accompanying it. “Wasted Hours” picks up, much more calmly, after the storm, with “Spent the summers staring out the window/ The wind it takes you where it wants to go.” These self-referential lyrics appear again later in “Wasted Hours” when Win Butler sings about driving “around and around”, a reference to the same word being repeated over and over again on “Month of May”. Every time I listen to the album I feel like I pick up on more of these little nuances that the band worked into the album, its actually really fucking cool.
The album has a great build-up going for it after those two songs, “We Used to Wait” is a nice ride through familiar Arcade Fire surroundings while the frailty and near hopelessness of “Sprawl I (Flatland)” work to make the album’s jewel shine that much brighter. The album has its emotional and musical crescendo with the catharsis that is “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” Régine Chassagne really outdoes herself here and totally kills this track. She sings with honesty and emotion throughout, complimented by the wonderful new-wave inspired synths and beats. The song still gives me slight chills whenever I listen to it.
Yeah. So this album is definitely an experience. One that does require most of your attention though, if you want to get the most out of it. Give it the time and thought it deserves, you really won’t be disappointed.
-Trev
A Day of New Beginnings
Here’s a little story about what happened to me earlier this afternoon in lieu of an actual review or something useful. Full review either later tonight or tomorrow for sure so stay tuned.
So today I found out that it’s possible to reset your “listens” on Last.fm accounts. I decided to go ahead and do that because I haven’t used my Last.fm account in more than a year and what I’m listening to right now isn’t anywhere close to what I was listening to when I was a freshman (Way too much synth and indie pop like the magnetic fields and the postal service). So I guess I just decided it was time to start my playcount anew. The reset went off without a hitch, but then I saw that my tags hadn’t reset along with my listens. So I went to reset those two but I wasn’t really paying attention to what I was doing and accidentally nuked my whole profile. Yeah, kind of a bummer. I’m not too pissed about it, but I did lose all of my “friends” that I had on that account. So, if we were last.fm friends before, or if we weren’t and you would fancy being last.fm friends now, then please request my friendship.
P.S. Let me know if its embarrassing that the first song on my new account is…
What’s “Mines” is Yours (And You Can Keep it)
It’s been quite a while since I’ve thought about Menomena, and even longer (almost 2 years now) since I’ve actually listened to the experimental indie band. Friend and Foe was at the top of my playlist for pretty much all of the summer between my dramatic escape from high school, and the beginnings of my campaign to conquer the wilds of college life. To say the least ,I had some good times with that album. It was the Portland, Oregon band’s third official release (the two preceding full-lengths the band recorded and produced on their own, to relatively warm reviews) and it continued strongly in the DIY vein. It was their most solid and entertaining effort so far and I remember enjoying it tremendously when I first heard it and for a while after.
Most things fade with time though, my interest in Menomena being one. Here it is the ass-end of July, 2010 and I’m just now getting to listen to Menomena’s fourth full-length, Mines, released on Barsuk records. Chances are you don’t remember when the last Menomena album came out. I couldn’t remember it for the life of me, so I had to look it up. January 23, 2007. Two thousand and fucking seven. That’s right; it’s been about three and a half years since Friend and Foe was officially released. I know you’re a busy guy, Danny Seim, but come on, three and a half years between releases is just a tad ridiculous, especially in this, the fast paced digital-age of music. I nearly forgot about you. The world did see two releases from Seim’s solo-project Lackthereof, (2008’s full-length Your Anchor, followed by the best of album, A Lackthereof Retrospective 1998-2008, or I was a Christian Emo Twentysomething, a year later) that is if anyone listened to either of these in the absence of any new Menomena material ( were you really that desperate?); I hadn’t even heard of Lackthereof until I sat down to write this review a few days ago… Staggering lapses in album releases aside though, let’s talk about Mines.
The album starts off rather promisingly as we’re greeted by the unique voice of a seemingly long lost “friend”, the voice that was a big part of the reason I started listening to Menomena in the first place. “Queen Black Acid” carries along for the first verse on a sparse drum beat and simple guitar riff, until the chorus breaks in and we see the drums picking up and are introduced to a pretty sweet piano line. The song takes on a kind of twisted alt-country feel here and I’m sold. I’m down with this song and eager to see what the rest of the album has in store. That’s a shame though.
After this quick (though none of the songs on this album can really be considered “quick”, the shortest one by far clocks in at 3:30) re-introduction to our “friend” that we haven’t seen for a while, we begin to realize that he’s not the crazy fun guy that we went to college with anymore (you’ve changed, man. What happened to you, you used to be cool?) but instead he’s settled down and probably has a family or something now. He’s boring and dull and I can’t really get myself to listen to what he’s saying about his 401k. This is a close approximation of my feelings toward this Menomena album. What was once rather original and disorienting (in the good, funhouse way) has given way to predictability and repetition. Songs like “TAOS” and “Tithe” meander along and tend to linger around about 2 minutes too long. Kind of like if that “friend” of ours started to tell us a story, got to the point of the story within the first few minutes of its telling and then continued on, detailing unnecessary and boring specifics. That’s what most of these songs do, I get where they’re going (it’s an ok place, doesn’t look much too different from Friend and Foe though) but I don’t really want to listen to a watered down version of an album that came out 3 and a half years ago. Where the odd arrangements were fun and kept me guessing on the last album, they don’t serve as much of a purpose on Mines, instead they just remind us that oddly placed horn/ guitar squeals and creepy lyrics are Menomena’s “thing”. I enjoyed them on tracks like “Wet and Rusting” and “Muscle’n Flo” but this time around, it’s just not enough. Really, what this album is lacking is some muscle; songs like “Dirty Cartoons” and “Oh Pretty Boy, You’re Such a Big Boy” are just straight up anemic.
One stand out track, and probably my favorite off of the album, is the second to last “Sleeping Beauty” which is probably the only song on the album that is improved by the drony build up, which yields a pretty cool electro-psych pop song that recalls elements of MGMT via Congratulations. Other than that though, the album falls pretty short for me. I don’t hate this album; it’s not terrible, it’s just that it is boring and maybe even a little uninspired. It is summer though, and this certainly is not a summer record. It had that going against it from the very beginning, so I do apologize for my biases, Menomena, but I really need something bouncier and sweat-inducing (Major Lazer ep, anyone?) for this last stretch of heat-stroke inducing days. Maybe I’ll come back to you when I start unpacking the sweaters and the leaves are falling.
-Trev
Les Savy Fav and Grinderman Tracks? Oh my!
I just woke up and it it’s looking like I don’t have work today. Sweet. That’s definitely one way to make Monday a little more bearable. You know what else makes Monday better? New music from two awesome bands! I got mad excited to see that the internet had blessed us with tracks from the new Les Savy Fav album, Root For Ruin, and the new Grinderman album, Grinderman 2.
The Les Savy Fav track, “Let’s Get Out of Here” rocks in LSF’s signature, post-hardcore way. Though this song isn’t as splintered and jarring as some of LSF’s previous stuff, it is a really good song. Tim Harrington’s vocals are oddly comforting the whole way through, allowing for you to really get into a groove with this one. I’m happy to see the band continuing to infuse their brand of post-punk with melody and pop sensibilities.
The album itself isn’t supposed to drop until September 13th, but of course it leaked, ever so slightly, onto a few pages of the interwebs. No, I won’t tell you where you can download it, you can search for yourself if you want it that bad. I will link you to the website that the band set up for you to donate money to them via Paypal for “stealing” their new album though.
On the other hand, all you’re going to hear from the new Grinderman album is the first single, “Heathen Child”. It’s dirty, it’s bluesy and chances are it will tear your face off. I wouldn’t expect any less from Nick Cave and company. If the image that accompanies the track is any indication of what we’re in for, then I better start preparing myself for bleeding ears this coming fall. Grinderman 2 looks to make you a writhing, god-less heathen when it releases the same day as Les Savy Fav’s album, on September 13th. Mark your motherfuckin’ calendars!
Here’s your share of these bitchin’ tunes. You’re welcome.
-Trev
R5, Stop Breaking My Heart
Trev here. Ever since I was old enough to hop on SEPTA and go into Philly to see a band without any parental supervision, R5Productions became my go-to guide for planning much of my life outside of school. If you’re from around the area (Philly and its ‘burbs) then chances are you know of R5 and have attended a show that they brought to you. Before anyone gets the wrong idea, let me put it out there right away, I love R5 and this city’s music scene would be exponentially worse off without them and all of the wonderful bands that they bring to you at very reasonable prices. It is this excellence that just exacerbates the hurt that R5 causes my musical soul; I am, of course, talking about the dreaded 21+ show. I’ve missed way too many great bands to count because of damned 21+ shows at venues like Johnny Brenda’s and Kung-Fu Necktie.
I’m not writing this as a plea, or an attempt to get things changed, really I just wanted to reach out to others who have experienced the thrill of reading that one of your favorite bands is coming to your city, only to have crushing disappointment sweep the rug right from under your feet when you see that 21+ tag. It fucking sucks, I know.
I’ve realized that even thinking about trying to get some change to occur is beyond futile, for two reasons mostly. One: You gotta be 21 to drink. I don’t think that’s going to change anytime soon (no matter how much any of us think the drinking age should be lowered to match the rest of the civilized world)It’s not really even about the drinking age itself though. A while ago a friend of mine explained to me exactly why R5 has so many shows at places like Brenda’s or Necktie. The reason is that it is hundreds of dollars cheaper to put on a show at a bar (the bar’s gonna make it’s money regardless of whether or not anyone actually watches the band played, the booze covers those costs) compared to somewhere like the First Unitarian Church. I’m still going to complain about all of the shows that I can’t go to, that is, until I actually turn 21 in December. But I will continue to feel for those of you who still have months (or years) to go until you can actually see your favorite band live in a bar. In the meantime though, at least we can enjoy all of these bands in the comfort of our own bedrooms, headphones on and heads bobbing. Here’s a small mix of some of the bands I really wish I could be seeing over the next month, but alas, they are all playing 21+ shows.
And here we go
Whats good, internet? The illadelph Experiment is a blog (of course) that my friend Andy and I decided to start up. Andy will probably be posting an introduction and possibly a review later today sometime. I, on the other hand, don’t really know what I’m doing yet. I’m Trev, by the way. I like music a lot, and I talk about it way too much. Which is kinda what led me here, to the blogosphere. Almost every day I’ve got something different bumping and I want to share those tracks with whoever wants to hear them. I want to get you as hype about the music I’ve been grooving to as I am.
I’m going to be a junior at the very prestigious liberal arts institution Ursinus college… really though, it’s a tiny ass school about 40 minutes out of Philly. I’m an English major there, so most of my time is spent reading and writing, so having a blog seems like it shouldn’t be too much of a stretch from what I already do (though with music instead of books). I don’t want to get into school really, but I’ll say that it suffices for my lifestyle. Other than that, there’s not really a whole lot I have to say about myself right now, though I’m sure I’ll talk about myself at greater length the longer this whole blog things goes on. now onto the music…
I don’t have a review or anything planned right now, but I should have something together for the first half of the week. (you can read a review I wrote of Baths’ debut album Cerulean over at my boy’s blog The New Montreal) I got my grubby hands on the new Arcade Fire album The Suburbs, yesterday, so I’ll probably be talking about that a lot. But here’s a small taste of what I’ve been spinning lately:
Big Boi – Fo Yo Sorrows (Ft. George Clinton, Too Short & Sam Chris)
