Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 25, 2009, 10:08 am
UK arena in 09 was the centerpiece to some valiant femme-charmed electro-pop with likes of Bat For Lashes, La Roux, Little Boots and of course Florence + the Machine (the recording name of Florence We...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 22, 2009, 3:10 am
Take a triangle walk in the midst of the gloomy horror-show woods of Karin Dreijer Andersson a.k.a. The better half of The Knife a.k.a. Fever Ray. We already discussed her debut eponymous solo before ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 20, 2009, 8:30 pm
Let's take a glimpse at some of the few-months-old releases that we didn't find time enough to write about them. Scroll a bit lower to get your tunes: It would be too unfair to dismiss Avett ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2009, 10:25 am
Case Study #1. Zach De La Rocha quits Rage Against the Machine, so what's left of the band hires the velvet-lung then-retired and intensely confused Soundgarden songmeister Chris Cornell to form A...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 14, 2009, 12:40 pm
The 5th official This Winki’s mixtape is a juicy selection of 10 tracks from the talented yet-to-be-discovered artists who have shared their art through our blog and we have spent time writing about...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 12, 2009, 8:49 am
Although I was moved by the cover art (due to my zest in simple killer designs), I overlooked the eponymous debut from Telekinesis! simply by the sheer tag of “a Death Cab rip-off junk band” and i...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 10, 2009, 3:58 am
Telekinesis! "Tokyo" The Magnetic Fields "Tokyo A-Go-Go"
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 9, 2009, 1:05 pm
Allegedly our freak-folk super star who can write songs about marrying little boys, becoming a seahorse, having Chinese children and Korean dog food, pretty much enjoyed his last year’s surf-friendl...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 8, 2009, 1:27 pm
It's been 20 years since the release of the classic college rock Pixies album Doolittle. And the band would love you to have a 4 song live EP just by filling out a simple form. The 21MB 320kbps EP...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 7, 2009, 7:16 am
A singer of paintings and a painter of songs; Joni Mitchell and her ethereal angelic voice have affected millions and inspired hundreds of artists. She might have played timeless folk songs and have e...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 5, 2009, 7:32 am
Being on hiatus for 8 years (since 2001’s self-titled debut), Will Cullen Hart pulls himself together to bring us the next Circulatory System album called Signal Morning. Hart, once one of the co-fo...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 4, 2009, 1:58 pm
The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas propels his band’s prosperous legacy in the decade with his solo debut Phrazes For the Young. And by unfolding these tracks, you are likely to find the strong...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 1, 2009, 6:30 pm
La Roux (pronounced) may not have won this year’s Mercury Prize (it went to Speech Debelle for her album Speech Therapy) but it was frankly a long freaking time since I don’t know when I heard an ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 31, 2009, 7:30 pm
Air’s previous effort, 2007’s Pocket Symphony was bound to be forgotten as the down-tempo French-electro darlings made the least possible amount of impression out of Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) and Neil ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 31, 2009, 2:26 am
Planet Earth, my home, my place A capricious anomaly in the sea of space Planet Earth are you just Floating by, a cloud of dust A minor globe, about to bust A piece of metal bound to rust A speck of m...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 26, 2009, 7:30 am
Right before William Goldsmith and Nate Mendel embark for the Foo Fighters and joining Dave Grohl they were members of one of the first emo indie-rock bands in Seattle and were signed to Sup Pop: Sunn...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 23, 2009, 2:31 am
We usually don’t have a post on Fridays. Despite the fact that I loathe this unholy day (and despite the fact that I don’t know why The Cure’s “Friday I’m In Love” is one of my all time sc...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 22, 2009, 7:30 am
Pursuing your musical career having an album like Illinoise in your discography as your previous effort must have been quite an ordeal. Sufjan Stevens has still doubts on his next proper LP. He has no...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 21, 2009, 7:30 am
Indie’s very own Aussie psychedelic hard rock figures return sturdily in full circle to fill the void of a classic-aura rock finger-licking ass-kicker band in the present tense. Cosmic Egg is the 2n...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 20, 2009, 7:30 am
G & D have been excessively unlikely to release music under the umbrella of Massive Attack. Time ticking out for the end of the decade and the trip-hop entrepreneurs seem to have a lightweight basket....
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 19, 2009, 7:30 am
This is the first time I’m using my Windows Live Writer to post an entry on TW, let’s see how it turns out. Hailing from Western Australia, Emily Barker and her band The Red Clay Halo will rele...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 18, 2009, 7:30 am
Despite the fact that Built to Spill and Grandaddy have emerged almost in the same era and that their masterminds’ vocals sound similar: innocent, withdrawn and pretty illegible to a listener withou...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2009, 7:30 am
... therefore shook a whole generation has not given up writing tuneful patriotic rock songs yet. But he surely deserves a mention on the blog, so until he makes something more worthwhile than these...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 12, 2009, 7:30 am
Vampire Weekend will return with their Sophomore album Contra this January. As you remember, I was not a fan. And by sharing this free new track on their website with apologies for being an ignorant r...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 11, 2009, 7:30 am
We’re Making Music For The Fun Of It! As the millennium came to an end, the best thing that could ever happen to music gradually became to reach its toll: the slow death of music industries and labe...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 10, 2009, 7:30 am
The Contradictions Pinnacle In the 90s The way 90s started was so promising. There were band’s making the mainstream that were not necessarily Simply Red pop. Grunge took over and Nirvana stole the ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 8, 2009, 7:30 am
Bucks vs. Art In the 80s So far, no one is to blame. There was nothing wrong with Janis Joplin and Neil Young. They completely deserved all the attention. But there has always been a dismal side to re...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 7, 2009, 7:30 am
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 6, 2009, 7:30 am
Why Adam Young’s basement recording project of Owl City is an instant grower? Well, probably because it’s something more than vibrant and swim-suit-friendly. This is Young’s first signed work w...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 5, 2009, 7:30 am
Liam Carey inhabits Brooklyn. On his new musical project called Secondstar he would be more than glad to bring his folk Bon Iver-ish vibes to the surface. But Bon Iver is just what happens when you he...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 1, 2009, 7:30 am
It’s all about his angelic sprawling and innocent tenor. Y(J)im Y(J)ames of My Morning Jacket paid tribute to his favorite Beatles member, George Harrison back in 2001 right after Harrison’s death...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 30, 2009, 7:30 am
With a near-unanimous vote, 2009 has well created a significant ground for indigenous female talents. So far, Fever Ray, Bat For Lashes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Camera Obscura, Gillian Welch, Neko Case and S...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 29, 2009, 7:30 am
Let’s bend our ears about New Jersey’s Glad Hearts. They’re out with their debut The Oak and the Acorn. The alt-country and artfulness of this new band reminds us of the playful times of The Ave...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 28, 2009, 7:30 am
Once again, there goes my weakness for lighthouses. And there’s one on the cover of the debut by Yorkshire singer/songwriter Laura Groves. It’s this irreplaceable solid feeling you get when you’...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 27, 2009, 7:30 am
So far, Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins have made our grey cells busy with almost everything they desired. From the nihilistic alternative rock days of “She Don’t Use Jelly”, the pla...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 26, 2009, 7:30 am
The follow-up to the massively lauded debut from Scotland’s Twilight Sad is just twice as sinister and violent as before. I couldn’t predict that not only they amplified their harsh nauseating shi...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 24, 2009, 7:30 am
Back in the glory retro days of the music vs. video struggles, MTV played the biggest role in presenting some of the best music videos that stood out as works of art in time. VMA has so far announced ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 23, 2009, 7:30 am
The disobedient siblings of American indie rock couldn’t wait much longer to confess they also can come down to business sometimes. Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger are known to fans with their music...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 22, 2009, 7:30 am
In 2007, Liam Finn, the son of Neil Finn (Crowded House) released a moderately good collection of bedroom folk tunes in I’ll Be Lightning. By then, I thought of Liam as a ripoff of Elliott Smith who...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 21, 2009, 8:39 am
It should have happened in 2004 but it delayed until just now. But whatever it is, it’s nothing but pleasant news to see the union of three of the most gigantic faces in contemporary indie folk alon...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 20, 2009, 1:37 am
Stuart Murdoch’s feminine ego this year led to God Help the Girl. Though, in case anybody has missed any Belle & Sebastian tune, the guys in Throw Me the Statue have done their best to act as substi...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 19, 2009, 7:53 am
Pearl Jam steps far away from their arrogant anti-Bush existence after years to come up with their 9th studio album Backspacer. Eddie Vedder used to be a man of metaphors and gibberish poetry. Now he�...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 17, 2009, 7:08 am
Early 2009 saw a potential dose of nostalgic noise pop with the serious advent of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (following their first EP that was never a news maker). Their debut LP was moisturize...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 16, 2009, 2:25 am
From blatant lo-fi alternative to full circle '80s synth-techno and killer grooves, Karen O and her band The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have averted their tastes and inspirations by the moment they became aw...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 14, 2009, 10:30 pm
Combination of factors led to the cruel understatement of Dangerous: Paparazzi was nearly killing Michael Jackson. His child-abuse scandal deteriorated his mental stability. And grunge wave was taking...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 13, 2009, 10:30 pm
For the time being, there's only 9 left:3 small, 3 medium & 3 large. "normal" sizes. No, wait a sec! I'm sorry. They are sold out ,too. And could you get the slightest clue even if you got one...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 12, 2009, 10:30 pm
This is the 2nd time I'm doing a live review. I once wrote one for Depeche Mode's Sounds of the Universe earlier this year. By design, a live review is spontaneous. Therefore it can merely ref...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 12, 2009, 6:30 am
Having two complementary notions in mind, you are not going to except a lot from Modest Mouse, only at this particular release. First, that Isaac Brock has modestly called this 8-track an EP, while it...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 10, 2009, 9:55 am
Queen and Freddie Mercury were always about grandeur. Small pleasures never quenched their thirst. With every song they wrote they wanted to conquer over all. I was never a fan, but who could ever esc...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Sep 6, 2009, 5:06 am
The hype began when in the midst of the lingering tragedy of Iranian Los Angeles pop in the public ear and the absence of a voice that speaks for the zeitgeist (caused by the the widespread imprisonme...
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