Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 21, 2010, 1:21 pm
And it gets really tough when it’s December; Even tougher when you’ve had a tight-scheduled school work for the past 4 months in a new country. I’m flying back to my home for holidays. That must be fun. I’ve luckily had 3 free days to breathe a little and come down with my end-year lis...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 20, 2010, 12:55 pm
Hear the entire new Ryan Adams and the Cardinals double disk album III/IV! A collection of 21 rock 'n roll shakers. It features previously unreleased material from 2007's Easy Tiger (I just bought it today after listening to it for three years.) Here are also another two tracks dedicated by th...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 16, 2010, 3:32 am
This post-hip-hop psychedelia is intended for two groups of humans/undead: Those folks who were mesmerized by Mulatu Astatke's peculiar painfully-atmospheric jazz back in the 70s and those who got lost in Bill Murray's aimless attempt to find the woman who wrote that pink letter in Jim Jarmusc...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 13, 2010, 6:00 am
The Lovable Tulips are Pia and Pernilla and this is their first single, They are planning to write more stuff (singles and a tentative album) in early 2011. But meanwhile, this song is as solid of a pop tune as an indie incarnation of Fleetwood Mac and it can be as vibrant as an ABBA hit. Mint...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 9, 2010, 5:05 am
Formerly part of a 90s San Francisco college radio band called Vinyl Devotion, Shalini has also been doing well on her solo. Her music can be best described as an aural diet of early rock, Motown, and 80s art-rock. Magnetic North is her latest 6-track EP that also brings us the following free tune. ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 8, 2010, 3:36 am
"Feel that Night Air flowing through me." sings Jamie Woon in an apt R&B manner emphasizing on his subtle post-00:00 remainders of darkness. "Night Air" is a heedless swim into the outside view of your bedroom window. Somewhere safe. A wise taking advantage of the simplest dub moments to injec...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 7, 2010, 3:06 am
(originally written in Oct 2010) Is this already the pop sensation in 2010 (a companion to Janelle Monáe and stating again that I should stop comparisons) or what? A not-much-of-a-pop guy like me can find pleasure somewhere in those rhythms. She’s Marina and you’re the diamonds. There are no...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 7, 2010, 3:05 am
(Originally written in Oct 2010) “The Manics are back to form!” I disagree. The Manics actually never lost it. What’s with those people still yearning for Richey Edwards years? Those years was golden I know. But get a grip! This Welch band has had numerous astounding and eclectic rock...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 7, 2010, 3:02 am
(originally written in Oct 2010) Those who feared the return of Kanye West would resemble his precedent singings in 808 are going to be wowed by this vulgar potent and quality rap. “Monster” is filled with guests and wordplays. It’s one of those collaborations that, other than bring an art...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 5, 2010, 3:54 pm
Here's a humming channel of whispers in your ear that's so full of denial. The Phantom Family Halo was formed in 2007 by members of Sapat and The For Carnation. Monoliths And These Flowers Never Die 2XLP is released through Karate Body Records. Alive And Well by karatebody
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 4, 2010, 4:35 am
(Originally written in Sept 6, 10)  As of October 11th and 12th, the new Belle & Sebastian album Write About Love will be released. The band had also previously warmed the fans up with a twitter contest in which you got a chance to be the first to hear a new song and get the vinyl for free. All ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Dec 3, 2010, 5:57 am
Mayday! Mayday! We have a problem here. We’re back! The Ghost is back. I finally settled down – even though partially – in Sweden. I’m here for my master course as I’ve mentioned zillion times before. I think I’m going to be 4 folds busier than before. Hope I find time to write...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:59 am
This nigh 3-min song basically sits on a simple acoustic country melody and it creates a slow soothing and kindergarten-style merry-go-round ride on a pink unicorn. This is half the aesthetics you get, the other half is in Jack Steadman’s voice that may not represent a thing from Crouch End, L...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:58 am
Something has been keeping my mind pretty hectic on Watchmen for the past month. I read the whole 12 episodes and watched the movie again. Great adaptation I have to say. Everything about the doomsday, everything revolving around the apocalypse can take my breath away. It’s probably stupid bri...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:57 am
It must be pretty simple to calculate: We have Neko Case + AC Newman + Dan Bejar + some other people that add up to the charisma. Even when one of these faces underachieves, there are back-ups. What I’m trying to say is that The New Pornographers, even at their most mediocre state, can write a...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:56 am
For their 4th LP, NYC electro-pop duo Mike Stroud and Evan Mast have used the same material they did back with their other previous records. The question is whether these guys have an alternative? We instantly recognize the sound of Ratatat with those crystal guitar sounds and the hip-hop essenc...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:56 am
Well, I wouldn’t have said it if it was three years ago. I guess even back in heydays of Cryptograms people like I didn’t cogitate that deeply into either the domain frequencies or inner layers of a vague phrase called “ambient punk”. It all was revealed with Microcastle. That was when I...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:54 am
I approached Marilyn Roxie through her tasty music blog A Future In Noise. She has the flare to scribble excessively on what inspires her. It was on this very place that I discovered The Horrors and their flabbergasting nightmarish shoegaze. Next thing I knew upon reading her latest personal jou...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:53 am
Let’s ride the night train again. Three girls have decided to play music for our rapid eye movements. SLEEP ∞ OVER is Christa, Sarah and Stefanie coming from Virgin Islands, US. If you found comfort in Beach House, “La Rose” can be your post-2-AM resort. Colored with lo-fi gooey-synths an...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:52 am
In 2004’s Funeral, we were children in our neighborhood devising escape plans through building tunnels connecting our chimneys and our parents were fighting in the other room. We dreamed vicinity with corrupted power lines and talked about our past and shared our fears. In 2007’s Neon Bible ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:50 am
Gavin Rossdale has been once in the mid-90s wrongly accused of adhering what Nirvana has accomplished. While despite the public appeal both as a musician and an unblemished physical alt-rock avatar, he and his band has never been fairly scrutinized by the critics. Bush has been tagged as post-N...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Nov 17, 2010, 12:49 am
Mountain Man is not a man at all. It’s the ethereal voice of three high school girls and one of them is a nanny. By the first strum on that acoustic guitar, you’re already homeward bound with the delicate folk of peasant mouths, three angelic ones. The threesome can generate a cloudy comfort...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 20, 2010, 11:19 am
Imagine an evening, filled with TV and popcorn. You hear a big crowd chanting outside but you ain’t got energy enough to stand up and go take a look outside. Or maybe you’re used to this stuff since they established a stadium just across the street and not only football matches is held there, bu...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 4:08 am
If you’re about to hear the new Liz Phair album Funstyle, here are two pieces of advice. Cause she’s going to make a big mess of herself: one. Forget about Exile In Guyville; two. Forget about who Liz Phair has been in the 1990s. Now you’re set I guess. I’m not even sure sh...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 4:06 am
Radiohead drummer Phil Selway releases his first solo album Familial. He likes to share the first tune on the album with everyone. “By Some Miracle” like many other solo projects from big time rolling band members resonates far from the hype. If there’s any sign of Radiohead on the song, it...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 4:04 am
The quieter half of Outkast is finally set to sail. The vet MC’s solo is here after years of delays and anticipations. Big Boi, to me was the part of Outkast I could never catch up with in singing. No matter which song it was, “Bombs Over Baghdad” or “Ms. Jackson” or anything else, the on...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 4:02 am
Nathan Williams, the man behind the garage-rock outfit Wavves is back with a new approach to his lo-fi indie rock. This time hiring the late Jay Reatard’s backing band to sound psyche-pop in a garage! What you get is a Wavves-y interpretation of songs inspired by the surf sound of The Beach Bo...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 4:01 am
Michel Gondry’s expertise in depicting subliminal states of mind are all well filmed in his alluring i.e. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And to make it all sound apt and ready to digest for an already lost truth seeker, the movie is decorated with Jon Brion’s genius composing and vision...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 3:59 am
There must be a special kind of condiment, a special kind of sauce that Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie can blend. Last year he worked with Telekinesis on their self-titled debut and this year he’s behind the upcoming third album by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and how strongly the...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 3:58 am
It’s a hazy afternoon. Jenny’s out and you have the whole yard to waste. Some 60 minutes ago, you had verbally invited some neat folks over for free tequila and film talk. You had plans and you customized the whole night. It’s 2200 now and they didn’t turn up. The small sprinkler in...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 3:56 am
The Toronto based Canadian country blues rock vets have embarked to venture out so insecurely and uncertain. I guess that clears out grounds for a full-circle indie experiment. Cowboy Junkies have promised to release 4 albums in the next 18 months and they’re allegedly dead serious about it. T...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 3:54 am
Taking a look at her stunning fashion career appearance, you expect much less thoughtful moments on her debut album. You may think of her as an instant pop shock, slow fading and doomed. That’s really not true. Karen Elson’s first struggle will be escaping the shadow of her husband Jack Whit...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Oct 13, 2010, 12:16 am
one I’m losing my mind to this mind-fucking ghostly mixtape from Forrest Swords. I heard about him yesterday. Don’t hesitate! Features two of his own works + Liars, A Grave with No Name, These New Puritans, Madlib, Burial, etc. two Read this radio ghost story from Scotland. I stumbled upon it t...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Jul 17, 2010, 11:14 am
Hey there everyone! Sorry for the delay.You can now follow my musical thought balloons on Ghost FM! All you have to do is push that play. Thank you for your patience.
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Apr 21, 2010, 11:55 am
Folks! I think I need a break. It may pass. I may come back. Focus is absent. Brain cells go arbitrary paths. And if you want to find me, I have my Milk Parade journal where I'm free to freelance. I also created this Formspring.me thing so you can ask anything. Be gentle though! Take good care...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Apr 19, 2010, 11:13 am
First I need to nota bene that don't expect these guys to follow you back unless you're Jeff Mangum or his agent. But if they somehow did, smile! The following is a compact list of indie music bloggers/sites you can safely start following on twitter. These are the huge names, not just any so...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Apr 18, 2010, 9:51 am
My lava lamp died! Didn’t last long. Only a week; the lava bubbles don’t float around anymore. Well, I can’t say it’s completely dead yet. Let’s just say it’s vegetable now, in a coma. I used to stare at my lava lamp for 20 minutes and listen to psychedelic stuff or sometimes dubstep. No...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Apr 12, 2010, 11:02 am
Lord! They’re in the act of keeping on giving away and therefore we can (just for the sake of argument) conclude NY is not the best city to sign a record contract and then you can laugh at my superficiality. Yes my dear nieces and nephews, free music is always a delight and there’s always a heav...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Apr 8, 2010, 5:59 am
Dee Dee, the main girl behind the new “blissed-out buzz saw” garage-rock medium-fi act Dum Dum Girls is in company with an ex-member of a very similar band: Vivian Girl’s Frankie Rose on drums. But they have elevated from a Dee Dee solo noise-punk to a full band now. There’s however distinct...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Apr 6, 2010, 10:21 am
(September 2005) I'm making an awards show for myself at home by Powerpoint, and I'm gonna take my Best Alternative Album award to The Dissociatives, where real talent of 2k5 is given away!! I don't know who Paul Mac is but i know Daniel Johns from Silverchair and i wasn't a big fan...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Apr 3, 2010, 3:31 am
Courtenay Green is the vocalist, guitarist, percussionist and the girl behind synthesizer in See Green: The L.A. resident indie pop outfit. She’s the sunny L.A. girl, blond hair spilling over a form fitting retro dress. She’s not really into borders of any kind but in the end she would like to ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Mar 30, 2010, 2:16 am
Some 9 months ago, you couldn’t imagine the world around you without Michael Jackson. Well, we lost him a little early. He couldn’t write another song like “Thriller” or “Smooth Criminal” I know, but he was still MJ and he was around to inspire almost the entirety of pop culture. When M...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Mar 27, 2010, 1:31 pm
Whatever Cut Copy’s “Hearts On Fire” did to the dark discos with black lights in 2008, Hot Chip’s “I Feel Better” does in 2010. Although it takes almost two minutes to construct and settle as a danceable thing, the song has almost all the elements a year-end best list demands. There are ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Mar 25, 2010, 9:36 am
One. An interview with me by GigHive, happened a couple of weeks ago. If you click this you can read the whole story right there. Two. Lest you can read in Persian, I also write for ZirZamin underground magazine on a monthly basis. Here's my latest entry on the music of Die Antwoord. You can al...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Mar 21, 2010, 9:44 am
Jónsi of Sigur Rós will have his solo debut released on April 5th, namely Go. Yesterday he appeared on BBC1 Radio (Jo Whiley Show) to perform a piano-driven cover of MGMT's "Time To Pretend". You don't hear Sigur Rós' frontman sing in English much, so here's a chance! And followin...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Mar 20, 2010, 4:12 am
The trip-hop entrepreneurs make a comeback after 7 years. Now is there a reason to WOW or not? Despite their sparse presence in a gravely competitive music scene, only few bands can encapsulate a syndicate of loyal fans that stay with a particular act. Music is now too widespread and excessive ever...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Mar 18, 2010, 4:02 am
Sadly, I wasn't lucky enough to follow Big Star through their career. So my knowledge base was limited to their biggest hit "Thirteen", an innocent teen-love charmer that will linger on everybody's mind the moment they hear it due to its grave frankness. The song is inspired by The Beatles d...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Mar 18, 2010, 2:36 am
Yesterday I received this 4th super-eclectic Verbicide mixtape from Jackson Ellis. That is a collage of electronics (Neon Indian), acoustic pop (Jenny Owen Youngs) and even hip-hop (League510). So you'd better just expect surprises coming from one single mixtape. The mix will also introduce you ...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Mar 17, 2010, 10:22 am
Ian Curtis' epileptic restless soul and his modern style of poetry undertook a journey that was so hard to embark. Joy Division was not a band of big hits. I think it's even safe to say they never intended to write a hit song whatsoever. They were in the era of punk and they were too early p...
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Pedram M. posted an article on This Winki's - Mar 16, 2010, 3:03 pm
What you may find regularly amusing on This Winki’s is it’s downright killing honesty that can sound contemptuous sometimes and I’m aware of that and then can’t help it at the same time. I can’t just praise an album just because it’s indie and they don’t get paid that much. Some really...
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