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Thursday, February 5, 2009

My Crazy Music Blog

CD Review: Winter Gloves "Let Me Drive EP"

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 12:00 PM CST

Reversing the David Hasselhoff paradigm of last generation's rock stars, that of rapid success in the states followed by equally rapid cooption in other countries like Germany and Japan, Winter Gloves have quickly accumulated critical and popular support across Canada's adjacent indie-rock scene before now turning to the lower half of North America. After transitioning to Montreal from rural

New Mandy Moore Album to Drop May 26th

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 03:14 PM CST

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I absolutely LOVE Mandy Moore. Read the full press release after the jump... Following her critically-acclaimed previous album, Mandy Moore returns with the highly anticipated, Amanda Leigh – to be released May 26, 2009 on Storefront Recordings – a new partnership with RED Music. Primarily co-written by Moore and Mike Viola, Amanda Leigh was recorded at engineer,

CD Review: E.K. Wimmer "What Was Once Veduta is Now Found"

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 03:00 PM CST

E.K. Wimmer's What was once veduta is now found represents the first eponymous project for the mixed-media artist, following a series of similarly solo, "electronic/goth" albums released under the name Veduta. Wimmer has cited The Cure as a pervading influence, particularly that band's compositional concentration on complimentary minimalism rather than competing solos. Wimmer is probably safe

Contest: Remix Wallpaper.'s Music; Come to San Jose!

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:51 PM CST

At the end December, Oakland club destroyer Wallpaper. released T REX RMXd, a four song ep featuring remixes by friends of tracks off their ep, "T Rex". There was one glaring omission though - a remix of "Txt Me Yr Love" was nowhere to be found. After having their hand at (and winning) Passion Pit's competition by remixing "Sleepyhead", the duo have decided to let the fans show their skills by