Looking through posts tagged ‘music review’

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La Roux | 3rd Jul 2010

As I browsed through The Hype Machine Zeitgeist 2009, I came across La Roux. As soon as I heard the first song on her self-titled album coupled with the good reviews on The Hype Machine, I knew I should probably just go ahead and buy it. The Hype Machine helped me discover an artist I [...]

Begin To Hope | 30th May 2010

I probably first discovered Regina Spektor years after most other people in the country. It was only a few months ago that I was captured by her song “Us” featured in the movie 500 Days of Summer. As I went searching for more of her work, I found that she was already a fairly well-established [...]

Sansa Clip Plus | 30th Apr 2010

My aunts gave me a gift certificate to Amazon.com for Christmas. I like to spend gift certificates on something I want rather than something I need (like a text book) because I don’t always get a chance to do that. I had been thinking about buying a portable music player to use in my car [...]

The Sound of White | 3rd Jan 2010

My first encounter with singer-songwriter Missy Higgins was so positive that I had to check out her debut album, The Sound Of White. I have been eying this album for a while now, and I finally got it for Christmas this year. I was turned on to this album after hearing All For Believing, Higgins’ [...]

Honeysuckle Weeks | 31st Dec 2009

I discovered The Submarines as many people did, even if they did not realize it. Their music plays in nearly every iPhone commercial, namely the songs You Me and the Bourgeoisie and Submarine Symphonika. I went in search of other music by The Submarines only to find that I liked a lot of it. For [...]

On A Clear Night Review | 28th Mar 2009

Every week Amazon MP3 offers up the Friday Five. They sell 5 popular MP3 albums for $5 each. I grabbed Missy Higgins‘ album On A Clear Night on the Friday Five two weeks ago. I had actually been thinking about buying the album after hearing the song Steer on the music blog Ryan’s Smashing Life. [...]

Vampire Weekend Review | 25th Mar 2009

I discovered the band Vampire Weekend on The Hype Machine Zeitgeist 2008, where their self-titled album came in as the #3 album of the year according to hundreds of music bloggers. I sat down and listened to it all the way through using their lovely built-in player, and I found myself pleasantly surprised. Even though [...]

The Hype Machine rocks my world | 24th Mar 2009

I recently discovered The Hype Machine when browsing Ryan’s Smashing Life. I didn’t exactly understand what it was at first, but it’s actually really cool. So people have these music blogs all over the Internet. They review albums and usually post free promotional mp3s in their reviews. Record labels give out these promotional downloads to [...]

Ryan’s Smashing Life | 9th Mar 2009

After reading a post on Ars this morning, I got turned on to a new music blog called Ryan’s Smashing Life. I’m really liking it so far. In the past few years, I’ve become a bit disgusted with modern music, but I’ve perked up these past few months. Maybe I was just sick of the [...]

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