July 2010
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School of Seven Bells - Disconnect from Desire
“It’s crazy to leave a steady job in an area like music, but I had a feeling it was the right decision.” Stated former Secret Machine, and one-third of School of Seven Bells, Benjamin Curtis, in an interview following the release of the band’s debut. “I’m doing more than I ever did with my other band. It’s like a progression in my career… And I feel good about...
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The Internet: Ultimately Good or Bad for the Music...
My relative quietness here at A Future in Noise in recent weeks has been jostled from scanning through some on-line articles and having discussions with others on the subject of the impact of the Internet and new technology on music and vice versa. It’s 2010 – I don’t need to tell you, wise and cultured reader and consumer of music, about Napster and ‘the mp3 revolution’,...
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The Legend of Spiderland
Louisville, Kentucky has been my home for roughly three years. Within the time that I’ve lived here, I have found myself continually surprised by the broad spectrum of legendary icons and fresh talent that have risen from within the city’s jumbled hodgepodge of culture. Names like Hunter S. Thompson and My Morning Jacket are permanent staples among the city’s claim to fame. And...
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CLLCT Artist Feature: Your Yellow Dress
Though I had heard of CLLCT, “a lovely free music community”, previously, I didn’t get to browsing around it until Tim from Your Yellow Dress passed along the link to their album located on the site (as well as on Last.fm), Orange County, We’re Nothing at All Like the Shows. All music part of CLLCT, at the time of this article totaling 1,700+ releases and nearly 1,000...
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New Calvin Markus Video - "Enjoy This"
An on-going AFIN favorite and also previously appearing on the Vulpiano Records label with the soundtrack to Three Days of Sound, Calvin Markus, has a new music video out for “Enjoy This”, a song from his upcoming release The Abstraction of Calvin Markus. Shot in wide-screen (writing, direction, and photography by Elliott Sellers and Bryan Dos Reis), the video is as cinematically...
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Critically Underrated Albums - The Jesus and Mary...
Following Darklands was never going to be easy. Especially when the following is taken into consideration: a) The Reid brothers were the only two members left and b) the previous two albums were the extremes in opposite directions to each other, so Automatic would sit somewhere in between the two. Evidently, new ideas are few and far between, which is partly to blame for the negative press the...