The Best Of The Velvet Underground – Words and Music of…

Like glimmering and uncertain gesture, Lali Puna’s “Remember” emerges as a series of loops and glitches that turn into something stunningly beautiful. The band, featuring members of The Notwist, is set to release its fourth LP, Our Intentions, a collection of pulsing and whirring electronic pop music. “Remember” implies a certain nostalgia, with warm guitars and hushed vocals, male and …read more

DJ/Producer RJD2 is set to release his new (and 4th) solo album called The Colossus on January 19th. Critically acclaimed and highly regarded RJ calls Philly his home after being raised in Columbus, Ohio. Since starting out in music in the late 90’s RJD2 has had significant influence in the indie/underground hip-hop world and many folks hear a bit of his music each week on the…read more

YOUR My experiences of Dusty, like Mine, go back years. My love of music comes from my parents, who had a wonderful collection of LPs (remember those?) My Dad was also a reel-to-reel tape fanatic and spent many hours recording huge selections of music. He borrowed, bought and begged music from a large array of sources and my…read more

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What is your worst nightmare? Nuclear war? Trapped in a dark basement full of spiders? Going blind? Or is it the one where you’re naked and….well, never mind. High up on the list of my darkest moments would be losing my entire music collection comprising as it does, not just LPs, CDs, Downloads and Cassettes but all those bootlegs…read more

We’re so excited about this month’s Music Alliance Pact we could explode since it gives us the exclusive privilege of inviting the world to download an incredible song by Scotland’s best new band of 2010 and makes us want to use exclamation marks in a frenzied fashion!!! As ever, each country’s mp3 selection and the words that go with them come courtesy of the individual blogs, who simultaneously post the entire collection you see below on…read more

Before Google shuts Some Velvet Blog down, I am declaring Some Velvet Blog shut down by the Blizzard of 2010. Follow me on twitter @somevelvetblog and www.http://somevelvet.tumblr.com/ For now. read more

Musically, I’m looking forward to 2010. I was going to do a list of music to hot bands to “listen” for (as opposed to watch, cause one doesn’t really watch music, unless it’s live), and limit to like 10 or so bands, but as you all know there’s a lot of music in the world. WTF? KWIM? Will these bands be BIG? Who the fuck knows. All I know is that IMO they’re doing something interesting; either …read more

Remember Jet ? Remember The Datsuns ? Remember Wolfmother ? They all partied like it was 1976 and no mistake. Riding on a wave of Antipodean rock and roll nostalgia, the opening years of this century bore witnesses to more boot cut jeans, big sideburns and Les Pauls than was frankly anticipated. But now it’s over does someone want to tell…read more