NickWolynsky
These are tracks from NickWolynsky's favorite music blogs
Fluxblog ❤ Tricky @ Irving Plaza 9/4/2008 The Love Cats / Past Mistakes / Black Steel / Puppy Toy / Pumpkin / Council Estate / Veronika / Lyrics of Fury / Bacative… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Brightblack Morning Light "Hologram Buffalo" - Brightblack Morning Light's debut album feels a bit like watching moonlight shimmer on water in slow motion, and it sounds best when you can… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Little Pictures "I Wish I Could Keep You" - In my day to day life, I don't have the greatest appreciation for codependency, or patience for people with a crippling… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Big Dipper "Loch Ness Monster" - The conceit of this song is very thin, but I think that's half the point, and that we're meant to see right through the… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Sonic Youth @ McCarren Pool 8/30/2008 Thurston's new song ("I don't care...") / Kim's new song ("take you down") / The Burning Spear / The Sprawl / Cross The Breeze… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ of Montreal "Nonpareil of Favor" - Right at the end of the first phase of "Nonpareil of Favor," Kevin Barnes sings something so earnest and thoughtful that it makes me… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Nine Inch Nails @ Izod Center, 8/27/2008 999,999 / 1,000,000 / Letting You / Discipline / March of the Pigs / Head Down / The Frail / Reptile / Closer… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Solange "Would've Been The One" - Solange has a great, powerful voice, but she's not Beyonce. They're in the same genre, and in the same family, but they have very… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ The Mummers "March of the Dawn" - There are some people who live their lives as if it were a story, and their obsession with their personal narrative more often… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Yo La Tengo @ McCarren Pool 8/24/2008 Mr. Tough (with horns) / Do The Swim (with horns) / Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind / Stockholm Syndrome / Pablo… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Empire of the Sun "Walking On A Dream" - The groove is gentle, and the tones are clean, cool, and relaxed, but there's a bit of reckless, fiery passion in… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Gang Gang Dance "House Jam" - It's probably a good idea for the Gang Gang Dance to tighten up. Their previous records have had interesting moments, but generally suffered from… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Parenthetical Girls "A Song For Ellie Greenwich" - Aside from the hollow, airy silence at the core of the arrangement, the vocals are the calmest element in this composition. Suitably,… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ James Rabbit "She Speaks, Rings, and Chimes" - The really lovely thing about "She Speaks, Rings, and Chimes" is how when the band sing "closer, closer, closer!" on the chorus,… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Electric Six @ The Temptress (A BOAT!) 8/14/2008 We Were Witchy Witchy White Women / Gay Bar / Down At McDonnelzzzz / Be My Dark Angel / Dance Pattern /… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Wilco @ McCarren Pool 8/13/2008 Via Chicago / Blood Of The Lamb* / You Are My Face / Hummingbird / I Am Trying To Break Your Heart / A Shot… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Fujiya & Miyagi "Knickerbocker" - "Knickerbocker" plays out like the sort of inscrutable, confounding dream that knocks you of sleep in the morning, and resonates in your head for the… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Marit Larsen "If A Song Could Get Me You" - Marit Larsen specializes in modern fairy tale ballads; songs that renders simple, relatable emotions and experiences in the magical tones… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Rox "My Baby Left Me" - Rox is part of the Mark Ronson-verse, and so you know what you're getting here: Strong, assertive vocals; a direct, immediately ingratiating melody; an… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ The Faint "Machine In The Ghost" - The Faint are at their best when they side-step rock music, and simply imply rock dynamics with their synthesizers and programming. "Machine In… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ White Pony featuring Josephine Philip "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" - I wish that I were not posting this so soon after the indie folk version of "Ass N Titties," but so… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ The BPA featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal "Toe Jam" - Norman Cook writes music like an advertising genius. His best songs hit the listener's pleasure centers with a sort… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ The Matt Smith "Ass N Titties" - A little over a week ago, Vicky had a status message on her IM that read "I have the dulcet tones of "Ass… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Deerhunter @ McCarren Pool 8/3/2008 Calvary Scars / Never Stops / Spring Hall Convert / Hazel Street / Nothing Ever Happened / Fluorescent Grey / Operation / Saved By Old… Read full post »
Fluxblog ❤ Women "Black Rice" - In 2008, any semi-competent person can make a recording that sounds pretty good for a relatively small sum of money. No one needs to be "lo-fi"… Read full post »