http://magazine.jamsbio.com Your Life Through Music Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/07/12/silver-apples-still-sparkle/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/07/12/silver-apples-still-sparkle/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:58:59 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=35101 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/07/12/silver-apples-still-sparkle/feed/ 1 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/04/26/grizzly-bear-back-on-the-prowls-with-veckatimest/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/04/26/grizzly-bear-back-on-the-prowls-with-veckatimest/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:21:27 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=23311 Veckatimest sees Grizzly Bear at their most mature. Combining both the inverted low-fi iconoclasm of 2004’s Horn of Plenty with 2006’s more austere and folkish Yellow House into a more complete sound.]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/04/26/grizzly-bear-back-on-the-prowls-with-veckatimest/feed/ 0 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/04/19/medeski-martin-wood-strike-back-with-radiolarians-ii/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/04/19/medeski-martin-wood-strike-back-with-radiolarians-ii/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:24:27 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=22811 Radiolarians trilogy.]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/04/19/medeski-martin-wood-strike-back-with-radiolarians-ii/feed/ 0 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/04/02/super-furry-animals-dark-dayslight-years/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/04/02/super-furry-animals-dark-dayslight-years/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:07:07 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=20791 Dark Days/Light Years, and you can tell the Welsh band seems more adventurously weird than ever.]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/04/02/super-furry-animals-dark-dayslight-years/feed/ 0 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/03/27/an-interview-with-larry-fast-of-synergy/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/03/27/an-interview-with-larry-fast-of-synergy/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:05:33 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=20231 Cords marries Larry Fast's incredible compositional skill with the synthesizer to a driving pop format. This final touchstone in our brief review of important 1978 recordings is yet another key entry in the history of electronic music during its most experimental and free-thinking heyday.]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/03/27/an-interview-with-larry-fast-of-synergy/feed/ 4 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/03/18/crystal-antlers-aural-assault/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/03/18/crystal-antlers-aural-assault/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:15:52 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=19091 Tentacles is garnering a great deal of hype in the indie blogosphere, and much of it is warranted. ]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/03/18/crystal-antlers-aural-assault/feed/ 0 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/03/05/faunts-look-back-while-moving-forward/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/03/05/faunts-look-back-while-moving-forward/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:28:59 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=16581 Feel. Love. Thinking. Of. is more than just a copy of your favorite dancefloor tear-jerkers.]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/03/05/faunts-look-back-while-moving-forward/feed/ 0 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/24/the-bad-plus-1/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/24/the-bad-plus-1/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:24:24 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=15181 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/24/the-bad-plus-1/feed/ 0 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/11/rock-and-roll-poetry-an-interview-with-david-wojahn/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/11/rock-and-roll-poetry-an-interview-with-david-wojahn/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:15:02 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=13531 Mystery Train contains a series of thirty-five poems that follow the development of rock music and American culture from 1956 to 1988, creating “a soundtrack to American history.” ]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/11/rock-and-roll-poetry-an-interview-with-david-wojahn/feed/ 0 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/04/tonight-franz-ferdinand-is-so-yesterday/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/04/tonight-franz-ferdinand-is-so-yesterday/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:01:35 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=12561 Tonight: Franz Ferdinand the band sounds so Franz Ferdinand-y that the songs sound as if they may already be part of our collective memories, tunes from the summer of 2005 that made chicks get up and dance at an otherwise dull bar. ]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/04/tonight-franz-ferdinand-is-so-yesterday/feed/ 0 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/03/that%e2%80%99ll-be-the-day-a-remembrance/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/03/that%e2%80%99ll-be-the-day-a-remembrance/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:57:30 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=12401 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/02/03/that%e2%80%99ll-be-the-day-a-remembrance/feed/ 1 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/22/the-bird-and-the-bee-in-outerspace/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/22/the-bird-and-the-bee-in-outerspace/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:08:16 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=10871 Rayguns Are Not Just the Future a love letter to the kitsch-pop of the mainstream ‘60s.]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/22/the-bird-and-the-bee-in-outerspace/feed/ 0 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/12/the-in-sound-from-way-out-animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/12/the-in-sound-from-way-out-animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:57:13 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=9401 Merriweather Post Pavilion, all of a sudden, the ferment and experimentation that has typified indie rock in the last few years has its historical marker: an eclectic masterpiece that gathers its myriad influences together and pushes them all in a new direction.]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/12/the-in-sound-from-way-out-animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion/feed/ 1 http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/04/the-end-of-selling-out/ http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/04/the-end-of-selling-out/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:09:09 +0000 Brian Castleberry http://magazine.jamsbio.com/?p=8031 New York Times, music critic Jon Pareles came to the conclusion that very soon, advertising and marketing campaigns will become the central end-point and inspiration for our popular music. It’s a compelling argument, and I’m afraid I might agree with him — to a point.]]> http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/04/the-end-of-selling-out/feed/ 2