Review : Various Artists - Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)
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Tinymixtapes
Oh, the benefit compilation. In the ’90s, it was a safe bet that any alterna-kid worth his or her weight had a copy of No Alternative filed right next to Nirvana and the Sweet Relief collection wedged right after Soul Asylum. Those compilations made a lot more sense then: Want that rare track from a favorite band of yours? Buy the record, help the cause! In today’s BitTorrent, pick and choose, who-pays-for-music-anymore world, it’s harder to see how this works. But if anybody can take the benefit compilation concept from doomed anachronism to successful fundraising device, it’s the people at the Red Hot Organization.It has been a few years since the folks at Red Hot — the leading international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture — have put together a compilation, let alone one that appeals to the indie rock set. The aforementioned No Alternative came out back in 1993, and the fantastic Red Hot + Bothered: An Indie Rock Guide to Dating was unleashed in 1995. But this year, they’ve teamed up with 4AD and Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National to release the much-anticipated, highly-blogged about Dark Was the Night, a two-disc (or triple vinyl) compilation of epic indie proportions....full text
Rollingstones
The Red Hot Organization, an AIDS charity, always makes top-shelf comps, and their latest is a smart, indie-rock-minded who's who. My Morning Jacket and Arcade Fire weigh in, but as usual the covers rule. Feist flutters through a Vashti Bunyan gem with Ben Gibbard, and Sharon Jones sanctifies Shuggie Otis' psych-soul classic "Inspiration Information." Conor Oberst covers himself with Gillian Welch; their "Lua" imagines George Jones and Tammy Wynette as Williamsburg druggies riding the L train into the night....full text
Spin
Produced by the National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner, the latest in the Red Hot series of AIDS benefit albums plays like a musically and thematically linked NPR broadcast from a gentle corner of indie-rock heaven. Appropriately, loss and survival are recurring topics, but well-matched collabos, obscure covers, and top-drawer contributions from the Decemberists, Feist, Sufjan Stevens, and Antony Hegarty prevent the largely somber proceedings from plummeting into unchecked sorrow. Meanwhile, Spoon, Arcade Fire, and a few other typically serious types get downright giddy....full text
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