Musicovery Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius - 43 Pics Click Here For More Genius Ideas Cool Tattoo Designs | Cool Tattoos - Part 12 New Indie Music - Five Albums You Should Be Listening to Right Now, with Royal Bangs, Generationals, Surf City, Mazarin, Aztec Camera This week's curator: Mara Schwartz of Bug Music. By Mara Schwartz Every two weeks, titans of the mediasphere give Nerve their music recommendations. My life features a soundtrack of near-continual music, whether I'm deciding which of our company's artists to suggest for an upcoming film, checking out new songwriters we're considering signing, or just listening for pleasure. 1. This Nashville-based electro-indie trio takes all the cool hybridization of dance-punk bands like The Rapture and !!! Listen: "Poison Control" 2. Last year's debut from New Orleans act Generationals (which rose from the ashes of the indie-pop band The Eames Era) is all over the map, careening between '60s-inspired boy-group pop, wonderfully twee bounciness, and guitar-laden indie rock. Listen: "Nobody Could Change Your Mind" 3. Listen: "See How The Sun" 4. Listen: "Another One Goes By" 5. On the slight chance you're not wondering, "Who?" Listen: "All I Need Is Everything"
The 50 best uses of songs in movies Pulp Fiction Colloquially, it used to be called the "needle drop"—when a Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino picked a piece of preexisting music and laid it down under a dramatic scene, with seismic results. We've thumbed through our stacks of wax (i.e., Blu-ray collections) to collect cinema's most potent examples, allowing for iconic uses of classical music and jazz along with the expected pop hits. One parameter, though: no songs composed for the movie itself. Listen to the best uses of songs in movies playlist on Spotify 51 New Bands That Will Make 2014 Awesome First things first. Yes, we are fully aware that not all of the below are bands. But what else to use? Secondly, the wording is important once again. There are fifty-one acts listed below, and we’re not making a single claim that any one of them will be any bigger in 12 months time than they are today. These are the 51 new bands that will make 2014 awesome. Ladies and Gentlemen, the class of 2014 Who? Why? Check out: ‘Young Blood’ – their ‘take us seriously’ moment, on which melody and youthful angst combine to great effect. Who? Why? Check out: ‘Sideswiped’ – the start of the love affair, and the smoothest of his songs to date. Who? Why? Check out: ‘Waiting Game’ – the song that had us enthralled from the offset, intimate, emotional and full of subtle bass. Who? Why? Check out: ‘Emmanual’ – their first single and the quintessential cut from their self-titled EP. Who? Why? Check out: ‘I Believe’ – the feel-good summer anthem that should have been. Who? Why? Who? Why? Who? Why? Who? Why? Who?