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Here is your music meme of the week.
The eagle eyes ears over at Ginger Ninja have dissected Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals on a track-by-track, sample-by-sample basis. When you click your favorite song from the album (“Still Here”), the songs sampled to create it appear to the right in real time.

We live in the future! [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 05.18.10
by Joshua Krage
Some familiar returns this week and many of them are in top form, but the real gravy is to be found in the grooves, especially the sampled vinyl. Read on to find your own gravy:
Mindi Abair
Timothy Andres
Band of Horses, Infinite Arms – there’s something strangely therapeutic about BoH [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 05.11.10
by Joshua Krage
Whole lotta head-scratching to be done this week, with the strange concoctions from the likes of Cocorosie and Gayngs to established acts like Keane and U.N.K.L.E. changing up their winning formulas for art’s sake and beyond. You’ll see what I mean…
As I Lay Dying
Marco Benevento, Between the Needles [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 05.04.10
by Joshua Krage
Lots of live albums out this week, but we’ll summarily ignore those and get right to the really good stuff, starting with one of the biggest bands (literally, at +/-18 members) in indie rock and continuing on through a carnival of various beats, fiddles, remakes and Italian operas. [...]

As his newest LP, Compass, amply demonstrates, if there’s another artist anything like Jamie Lidell, we haven’t heard ‘em.

In mid-April, Band of Horses let you stream the track “Laredo” from their forthcoming album, Infinite Arms. Now the band is upping the ante and giving you a new song from the album–with a music video!
The video for “NW Apt.” was directed by Christopher Wilson. It looks like the video was (fittingly) shot in [...]

With a new band comprised of Jake Aron (guitars/bass), Ludwig Persik (drums) and Guillermo Brown (percussion, keys), Jamie Lidell called upon the directorial talents of Lindsey Rome to show them off, via video.
So says Jamie:
“New York City, 1968.  Oh wait – 2010! A nostalgic glimpse into the now as 70s tech hangs with the laptop, [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 04.27.10
by Joshua Krage
I’ll call this week for the imported releases. Every domestic band out this week just isn’t doing anything for me, but the world beat and UK rock releases on the roster have serious promise and surprising versatility. Don’t just take my word for it, check it for yourself:
Avi Buffalo
Balkan [...]

Sorry to leave you Audioholic Media-less for so long, audioholics! We’re an independent venture, so sometimes (oncetimes) other journalistic duties call and we have to answer those calls. But we’re back and intend to report some news you’ve already heard but hopefully some you haven’t heard and still want to hear. It’ll be great!
While we [...]