By tiffany | Published:
June 5, 2009
For anyone who has the itch for a sweet summer mixtape of new jams, you must check out Nylon magazine’s free iTunes playlist. Download the tracks and turn them up! Like a cool glass of lemonade - here are our top picks off the 22-track listing. You can listen along with the playlist below:
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By tiffany | Published:
March 20, 2009
Okay – so here’s the deal, we have a lot to do. Seriously. Releasing updates, preparing and engineering exciting features, and overall making sure TuneUp is as rad as possible means that no one could be pulled away from the HQ to go to the awesome festivities in Austin for SXSW 2009. Of course that [...]
By tiffany | Published:
March 4, 2009
The Red Hot 2-disc Compilation of ‘Dark Was the Night’ has thirty-one tracks. Thirty-one. That’s a typical classroom population, more than a few handfuls, and pushing usual audio overdose. And yet, somehow, all thirty-one songs are good; some of them great, and even more importantly, they all correspond atmospherically with one another. ‘Dark Was the [...]
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By tiffany | Published:
February 25, 2009
We stumbled onto one of the coolest live performance concepts we’ve seen in a long time; shove a musician into a cab, make them play one song all the way through, and video tape it from the front seat. There is just something charmingly intimate about these videos. The claustrophobic acoustics and stupid simplicity [...]
By tiffany | Published:
February 16, 2009
Familiar imagery of cold weather and private conversations, but this time – Bon Iver (the project of singer-songwriter Justin Vernon) journeys further out of the bitter isolation of For Emma, Forever Ago and moves into different, more defined soundscapes.rnrnThe title track from the EP, makes donating blood seem like the perfect setting for romantic intermissions, [...]
