Ourvinyl http://blog.ourvinyl.com Our Generation. Our Way To Listen. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:31:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sparklehorse’s “Dark Night of the Soul” (produced by Danger Mouse) Danger Mouse may have broken into the music game by using his production talent for the good of hip hop, but recent history tells listeners his skills are better used in the rock genre.  His latest in a long line of collaboration albums, of which has spanned from The Black Keys to Cee Lo Green to Beck, is a tag team with veteran rock group Sparklehorse.  While the album, titled Dark Night of the Soul, is billed as a collabora…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/07/29/sparklehorses-dark-night-of-the-soul-produced-by-danger-mouse/ We Review Camp Bisco 9 As The Disco Biscuits step on stage for their fifth and final set of the weekend, bassist Marc Brownstein jokingly states, “It wouldn’t be Camp Bisco if it wasn’t Camp Bisco. You know what I mean? I know at least some of you know what I mean.”

On the surface it seems like he is just a little spun, but for regular attendees of the upstate New York festival Brownie is speaking truth. Simply put, it just wouldn’t Camp Bisco witho…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/07/29/we-review-camp-bisco-9/ The Heartless Bastards @ Chicago’s Bottom Lounge

If there is one thing everyone can agree upon about The Heartless Bastards show at Chicago’s Bottom Lounge, it is that it was a thoroughly sultry experience. Even with the AC on and the fans at full RPM the ambiance was decidedly sweaty. It was a July evening that called for cold beer, an occasional cup of ice, and some rock n’ roll.

The last two times the Heartless Bastards played Chicago was when they opened for Wolf Mothe…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/07/27/the-heartless-bastards-chicagos-bottom-lounge/ The Roots’ “How I Got Over” Currently the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Roots started with only Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson back in 1987. After adding three other members and changing their name from The Square Roots they released their first album in 1993; seventeen years later, the band known for their funky, sophisticated brand of hip-hop has come out with their ninth album, “How I G…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/07/26/the-roots-how-i-got-over/ The Chemical Brothers’ “Further” Comprised of only two members – Tom Rowland and Ed Simmons – with six albums already under their belt, The Chemical Brothers have a pretty sturdy reputation for making quality, big beat electronic tracks. It’s safe to assume that their more recent music is held to a standard that the band set for themselves when they started consistently producing chart topping records. The pressure to improve exponen…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/07/26/the-chemical-brothers-further/ A review of Stone Temple Pilots’ self titled album Veteran grunge rockers Stone Temple Pilots are back.  On May 21st, STP released their self-titled 6th album and their first since 2001.  The band has been rocking since 1992 and, upon first listen; you will see they have in no way compromised their sound in order to keep rocking until now.

After achieving commercial success with a solo album and two albums with rock supergroup Velvet Revolver, Scott Weiland comes bac…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/07/15/a-review-of-stone-temple-pilots-self-titled-album/ Sleigh Bells’ “Treats” Sleigh Bells a ringin’? More like screaming loud and clear. This hot new noise pop duo is surely attracting quite a lot of attention recently, especially after their album debut “Treats” was released June 1, 2010. There are eight songs on the album, each one being just as enchanting as the next.

Alexis Krauss’s petite, high- pitched voice matched with Derek Miller’s (ex member of Poison the Well) catchy and straight f…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/07/10/sleigh-bells-treats/ Devo’s “Something for Everybody” Twenty years since releasing their last album and following the anticipated completion of a fan-involved album production process, the new-wave band Devo has come out with “Something for Everybody”. Having emerged from the shadows of their wildly popular tune “Whip It,” the now nearly sixty-year-old performers (in addition to the considerably younger drummer, Josh Freese of Nine Inch Nails and G…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/07/09/devo-something-for-everybody/ The Main Street Gospels’ “Love Will Have Her Revenge”, The Dirty Blues Movement Expands… The art of electric, dirty, folk blues is on the way in.  Over the last 2+ years Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys have perfected the sound and been one of the lone carriers of the torch.  Enter The Main Street Gospel from Columbus, Ohio.  With their debut album hitting shelves June 29th, expect them to hit the ground running and take off with great momentum.

Love Will Have Her Revenge is a nice combination o…

]]> http://blog.ourvinyl.com/2010/07/06/the-main-street-gospels-love-will-have-her-revenge-the-dirty-blues-movement-expands/ Black Mountain @ Lincoln Hall | 7.1.2010 Excitement was the mood in Chicago’s relatively new – yet completely fun and well designed – Lincoln Hall; as the band Black Mountain was gearing to take the stage, smoke machines billowed and signaled the band’s imminent arrive. It wasn’t a sold out crowd, but not too far off, creating for that terrific balance of crowd-energy yet with a bit of precious personal space.

Black Mountain brings to the table a sort o…

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