Thursday, July 23, 2009

Jorjick

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ARTIST / BAND: Jorjick

MP3: You Lose You Get

ALBUM: Jorjick - You lose you get EP

FILE UNDER: Techno

LABEL: CUMBO records

INFO: (by PISO RECORDS)

Georgian native Jorjick is a pioneering and respected techno and minimal techno music producer and DJ.

He is well known for always bringing technical and creative originality and skill to his work. He never stops searching and always around music. Starting from his early teen ages – Jorjick has been searching for unique sounds and ended up experimenting on different instruments, thus developing his passion to become a music producer. Early 90's young musician left for Germany, grabbing the world of opportunities and challenged by the fresh inspirations Jorjick produced all kinds of music from alternative to art-rock.

Late 90's producer explores the new sounds coming from the simple dram machine. He experiments again. His production seems to be a whole laboratory of music,

searching for the unique, groovy sounds in post soviet world. Music produced by Jorjick is impossible to box into just one genre; his discography features a wide variety of releases,

offering sounds that are identifiable as exclusive Jorjick style. 2001, he moves to Moscow, where he founded his own music lab – ARC Laboratory, for two years he produced more then 20 tracks, experimented with vocals and started spinning the turntables.

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This time Tbilisi (Georgia) clubbing arena was just developing and he started to earn a big respect as DJ, still pioneering and offering the innovative and fresh sounds. 2003, together with the group of artists founds one of the first, underground, stylish clubs "Lift011". This was the only club on 11th floor of office building in the downtown of the city.

During couple years of its live "Lift011" gave the opportunity to many young Georgian DJs to stand up on the deck and try themselves as real DJs.

jorjick is one of the (if not only one) founder of georgian underground techno scene. 2004 Jorjick established his own record label Cumborecords, one of the first Georgian (International) record labels in the country.

jorjick is founder of Master school program “Master Cumbo” for electronic music, which is till now only one in Georgia.

kiketi1 Till now, Jorjick is one of the most famous music producers and respected DJs in Georgia, introducing his experimental sounds of techno and minimal/techno. 2008 Jorjick established his own production studio in Berlin City, where he
is working on collaboration projects with musicians and friends like : Thomas Brinkmann, Andrei Oid, Dasha Rush, Strom und Technik.....etc.

Releases:

2005 JORJICK OI, cumborecords (CD-Album)

2006 JORJICK_13 EP (Piso Records)

2006 JORJICK_Netto (Cumborecords) (CD-Album)

2006 JORJICK_Spring EP (Systemrecordings)

2006 JORJICK no EP (Systemrecordings)

2007 JORJICK Zero EP (Cumborecords)

2007 CUMBERTO aka Jorjick Ladana EP (Cumborecords)

2007 JORJICK You Lose You Get EP (Cumborecords)

2007 JORJICK 33-33 (Cumborecords) CD-Album

2008 JORJICK Midi Cumbo Live EP (Cumborecords)

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2008 JORJICK You Lose You Get Remixes EP (Cumbo)

2009 Hammerschmidt & Lentz - Sketch EP_jorjick remix(Front)

Upcoming Releases:

jorjick_Single Ben EP

jorjick_schuler EP

cumberto aka jorjick_YUGO EP

jorjick_everyday's revolution EP

jorjick_wassergasse EP

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Dirty Projectors

ARTIST / BAND: Dirty Projectors

MP3: "Stillness Is The Move"

ALBUM: Bitte Orca

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Domino Records

INFO: Bitte Orca is a studio album by Dirty Projectors. It was released on June 9, 2009. The album leaked to the internet two months before its official release. The word "bitte" is a German word for "please," and "orca" is the carnivorous whale. Frontman Dave Longstreth said that he liked the way the words sound together

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Pomegranates

ARTIST / BAND: Pomegranates

SONGS (MP3): “Everybody, Come Outside”:/ “Beachcomber”:

ALBUM: Everybody, Come Outside!

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Lujo Records

INFO: KEXP and WOXY, among others, fell for the band's quirky and charming blend of pop rock, and listeners followed suit, blogging the band up to #11 on Elbo.ws blog aggregate.  The band also caught the attention of their peers.  Artists such asFrench Kicks and Islands responded to Pomegranates' dynamic live set by inviting them out on the road.  Everybody, Come Outside! shows a marked improvement both creatively and sonically from its predecessor, channeling influences that range from Talking Heads and Brian Eno, to French Kicks andFela Kuti.  It's a conceptual album of sorts, weaving an interesting tale of a man who leaves home, only to be abducted by a time traveler.  Each of the 11 tracks ofEverybody, Come Outside! add to the mystique, as well as reveal a bit more about this unusual tale.

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Felix Da Housecat

ARTIST / BAND: Felix Da Housecat

MP3s: We All Wanna Be Prince

ALBUM: He Was King

FILE UNDER: Electro / Electronica / Indie

LABEL: Nettwerk

INFO: Felix Da Housecat and Beatport have teamed up to bring you the exclusive download of "We All Wanna Be Prince" Pt. 1. Click here to check it out and download. These tracks aren't available anywhere else, so make sure to click here to download. Look out for Pt. 2, a video, and remix contest coming soon.

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Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

 

ARTIST / BAND:Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

MP3s: Nikorette

ALBUM: Outer South

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Merge

INFO: While touring in support of last year's debut Conor Oberst, Conor and The Mystic Valley Band began writing new songs. The result is the first album credited to this group. Oberst's songwriting and delivery remain an engaging presence, but the addition of songs by Taylor Hollingsworth, Nik Freitas, and Jason Boesel make for a multi-textured and colorful collaboration. The Mystic Valley band also includes Macey Taylor and Nathaniel Walcott.

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Sunday, July 19, 2009

DOCTOR ROSEN ROSEN

ARTIST / BAND: DOCTOR ROSEN ROSEN

MP3s (RMXes):   Fuck You / Never Gonna Happen /Fear /

Lisztomania

FILE UNDER: Remixer/Alternative / Pop / Electronica

INFO: I grew up in Hailey Idaho, which is a small town outside of the Sun Valley Ski Resort. My Mom is a teacher, my Dad is in the auto-parts business, and my older brother is a musician (He gave me my first sythesizer, which was a Yamaha DX-100; I still use it 20 years later).  It was a great place to grow up - I snowboarded in the winter, skateboarded in the summer, and partied in canyons.  For college, I went to the University Of Montana, where I snowboarded, skateboarded, and  partied in canyons.

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Data

ARTIST / BAND: Data

MP3s: So Much In Love

ALBUM: Skywriter

FILE UNDER: Club / Pop / Soundtracks / Film music

LABEL: Naïve

Friday, July 17, 2009

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Katastrophe

ARTIST / BAND: Katastrophe

MP3s: Big Deal

ALBUM: The Worst Amazing

FILE UNDER: Alternativ / Hip Hop / Progressive

LABEL: 307 Knox Records

INFO: The Worst Amazing is Katastrophe's third full length release and finest work to date. This album is a snap shot of the end of adolescence and the precipice of adulthood.

The songs are intricately crafted tales of anarchy, revolution, peace and the constant search for hope. The verses are dense labyrinths of tongue twisted word play, while the hooks are polished pop and serve as the grounding force for each of these stories.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Jeff Merchant

ARTIST / BAND: Jeff Merchant

MP3s: "Crazy Ship" / "Disturbance Call"

ALBUM: City Makes No Sound

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Pop / Progressive

LABEL: Tropical Mall Music

INFO: After the release of his well-received record, the orchestral indie-pop sounds of Window Rolled Down, Jeff Merchant went back into the studio and emerged with a unique, fully produced fifteen-song recording called City Makes No Sound. It’s a melodically lush, bright and dark, richly bold, eclectic pop feast that you won’t easily forget.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Ariel Abshire

ARTIST / BAND: Ariel Abshire

MP3s: Exclamation Love

ALBUM: Exclamation Love

FILE UNDER: Americana, Indie

LABEL: Darla Records

INFO: One of the most impressive debut albums I’ve heard this year is Ariel Abshire’s Exclamation Love. Abshire, a 17-year-old singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas, is in possession of a wonderful and versatile voice and a presence that demands your attention. The album is filled with excellent songs (more so on the first half) which bear repeat listens. Hearing her, you can hear echoes of pop, country, Texas soul and more – but it’s all of a piece and it’s all Abshire. This is truly a young artist to watch.

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Veils

ARTIST / BAND: The Veils

MP3s: The Letter

ALBUM: Sun Gangs

FILE UNDER: Indie Rock

LABEL: Rough Trade Records

INFO: Sun Gangs is the third album by the UK/New Zealand band The Veils. It was released on 6 April 2009 in the UK and 7 April 2009 in the US, in both CD and LP formats. The LP includes a code for a free download version of the album in the US, and a free CD of the album in the UK.

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Sunset Rubdown

ARTIST / BAND: Sunset Rubdown

MP3s: Idiot Heart

ALBUM: Dragonslayer

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Jagjaguwar

INFO: Sunset Rubdown was once the moniker under which Spencer Krug released low fidelity solo recordings. The project has long since evolved into a full band, and Dragonslayer is the third full-length recorded by the whole group. Besides Krug, it features the three musicians who originally signed on: Jordan Robson-Cramer on drums, guitar and keys, Michael Doerksen on guitar and bass, and Camilla Wynne Ingr on keys, percussion and vocals. And now, for the first time, newest member Mark Nicol can be heard on bass, drums, and percussion.

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Holy Ghost!

ARTIST / BAND: Holy Ghost!

MP3s: I Will Come Back

ALBUM: I Will Come Back

FILE UNDER: Electro Pop

LABEL: DFA Records

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Mew

ARTIST / BAND: Mew

MP3s: Repeaterbeater

ALBUM: No More Stories Are Told Today

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Columbia/ Sony

INFO: 'Repeaterbeater' continues the Danish band's tradition of epic prog-rock, in this case anchored by a pulsing, four-to-the-floor beat. Complex instrumental arrangements showcase the band's technical prowess, while soaring vocals deliver a hooky chorus that demands repeated listenings.

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Voodeux

ARTIST / BAND: Voodeux

MP3s:Bones / Voodeux “The Paranormal” Promo Mix

ALBUM: The Paranormal

FILE UNDER:  Techno / House / Experimental

LABEL: Mothership

INFO: Described as ‘Halloween on wax’ Voodeux is the human manifestation of creepy house and techno. James Watts (AKA KiloWatts) and Tanner Ross’s collaborative black magic goes back six years when they met online at a website devoted to music synths and production and have been collaborating ever since.

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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

My First Earthquake

ARTIST / BAND: My First Earthquake

MP3s: Cool In The Cool Way /Vow To Vowels

ALBUM: Downstairs

FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock / Powerpop

LABEL: Self-Released

INFO: Chad and Rebecca became friends through an acquaintance. After hearing some tracks of Rebecca singing over electronica beats and hearing about the sheer ridiculousness of Ice Queen, Chad convinced her to quit the band and start a project with him. During their first songwriting session,Rebecca experienced her first earthquake. They liked the sexual / geological double-entendre, and after some debate (other contenders: Sleep In The Sea, Tufte, Teenage Girlfriend, EXACTO), the name was deemed destiny.

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Monday, July 06, 2009

THE JUNCTION

ARTIST / BAND: THE JUNCTION

MP3s: Level with me

ALBUM: Another Link in the Chain

FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop

INFO: No strangers to the Canadian music scene, singer-guitarist Brent Jackson, bassist Matt Jameson and drummer Mike Taylor have played hundreds of shows across Canada - including EdgeFest, and The Virgin Festival - and have toured with the likes of Moneen, The Planet Smashers and Bedouin Soundclash, to name a few. With their forthcoming follow up to 2007’s debut, Another Link in the Chain, The Junction has pushed themselves in new directions while taking the east coast-influenced, indie-pop elements that make The Junction’s songs so great and finally, boiling them down into something much more unified.

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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Slaraffenland

ARTIST / BAND: Slaraffenland

MP3s: Meet and Greet

ALBUM: We're on Your Side

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Rock / Folk

LABEL: Hometapes

INFO: "We have waited a while...still it'll take us some time" begins "Meet and Greet." Vocal harmonies ring out to the pulsing beat of a delayed floor tom. A guitar wakes up the reeds. The subtle organic percussion of handclaps punctuates the amplified air, the music becoming a distinct human synthesis. This is a pop song. This is Slaraffenland.

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Friday, July 03, 2009

Lightning Dust

ARTIST / BAND: Lightning Dust

MP3s: Never Seen

ALBUM: Infinite Light

FILE UNDER: Folk Rock / Melodramatic Popular Song / Psychedelic

LABEL: jagjaguwar

INFO: Infinite Light, Lightning Dust's sophomore album for Jagjaguwar, finds duo Amber Webber and Joshua Wells (both of Black Mountain) calling upon the powers of classic pop arrangements and making the most of five days with a Steinway Grand piano. While Webber and Wells met through their involvement in what they described as two of the saddest bands in Canada, the songs written for Infinite Light found the two moving away from the uniformly downbeat. Rather, the songs were more suited to lush and melodramatic arrangements. Cue the strings. Lightning Dust have delivered a cosmic record about the adventure in finding love and the journey in losing and rediscovering "the light."

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Malcolm Middleton

ARTIST / BAND: Malcolm Middleton

MP3s: Carry Me

ALBUM: Waxing Gibbous

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Pop

LABEL: Full Time Hobby

INFO: Malcolm Middleton (born 31 December 1973) is a Scottish musician best known for his work with Aidan Moffat in post-folk indie band Arab Strap as well as his solo career writing and producing. To date, Middleton has released five solo studio albums, with his most recent, Waxing Gibbous, released on 8 June 2009. [1]

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

God Fires Man

ARTIST / BAND: God Fires Man

MP3s: A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun | | Kill the Pundits |

ALBUM: Life Like

FILE UNDER: Indie Rock

LABEL: Arctic Rodeo Recordings

INFO: Formed in the summer of 2006, GOD FIRES MAN promptly recorded and released an online-only 5 track EP to a great success, followed by a UK tour in January 2007 with Hundred Reasons and Kids In Glass Houses. Shortly after came a record deal stateside and in the UK.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

La Roux

ARTIST / BAND: La Roux

MP3s: In For The Kill (Skream´s Let´s Get Ravey Remix) / Fascination]

ALBUM: La Roux

FILE UNDER: synthpop

LABEL: Polydor

INFO: La Roux (pronounced "La Roo") are a British electropop synth duo band made up of singer and synth player Elly Jackson, and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid, with Jackson describing their respective roles as "very much a half and half sharing situation... not like a singer producer outfit", but also recognising that it often can "look like a solo act".[1] Their music is influenced by 1980s synth pop including Human League, Heaven 17, Blancmange and Yazoo.

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Monday, June 29, 2009

His Clancyness

ARTIST / BAND:His Clancyness

MP3s: "So Bored" (Wavves cover)

FILE UNDER: shoegazer

LABEL: We Were Never Being Boring

INFO: His Clancyness hails from Italy, but his Myspace says he also spends time in Canada. This dude has been tearing up the blogs lately with his haunting cover of Wavves’ “So Bored”.

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Discovery

ARTIST / BAND:Discovery

MP3s: I Want You Back (The Jackson Five Cover) / Orange Shirt

ALBUM: LP

FILE UNDER: Electronic / Pop

LABEL: XL Recordings

INFO:Discovery features Vampire Weekend keyboardist/producer Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot singer Wes Miles. Started as a fun, electro-pop hobby four years ago, the duo are finally ready to release their debut album, simply called LP, on July 7 via XL.

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THE DELFIELDS

ARTIST / BAND: THE DELFIELDS

MP3s: "Fawn Fight" / "Ogres"

ALBUM: Ogres

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: (Self-Released)

INFO: A presence since early 2006, The Delfields have been altering the musical landscape in New Jersey for almost four years. In their hometown of New Brunswick, the term “indie” is used loosely to describe anything which doesn’t smack of the town’s long love affair with metal, punk, and more recently emo. This makes The Delfields’ self-proclaimed categorization of indie pop virtually non-existent.

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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Youth Group

ARTIST / BAND: Youth Group

MP3s: Two Sides

ALBUM: The Night Is Ours

FILE UNDER: Indie Rock

LABEL: Ivy League

INFO: Any journey to a heart of darkness requires a sturdy boat, and Youth Group – a band never afraid to circumnavigate the glowering cliffs and rocky shoals of the human heart – needed, to paraphrase Roy Scheider in Jaws, a bigger boat for the bold voyage of their fourth album, The Night Is Ours.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Darlings

ARTIST / BAND: Darlings

MP3s:  If This Is Love /  Teenage Girl

ALBUM: Yeah I Know

FILE UNDER: Garage pop

LABEL: famous class

INFO: Darlings formed in the front room of an apartment on Bleecker Street in New York City. Peter Rynsky, Matt Solomon, Maura Lynch and Joe Tirabassi all met while they were killing time in college. They practice a brand of guitar pop that's equal parts sun-soaked '60s melodies and the noise of their hometown

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Minus 8

ARTIST / BAND: Minus 8

MP3s: Last Nite

ALBUM: slow motion

FILE UNDER: Downbeat, Drum & Bass, Nu-Jazz

LABEL: Compost Records

INFO: Minus 8 masters the whole spectrum of Downbeat, Drum & Bass and Nu-Jazz. There are only a few internationally known DJs, producers and remixers from Switzerland. Robert Jan Meyer, aka Minus 8, is one of them. As a leading man in this group, his name is mentioned together with the names of Alex Attias (aka Beatless / Mustang / Catalyst / Bel Air Project) and the Straight Ahead label posse

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Miss Platnum

ARTIST / BAND: Miss Platnum

MP3s: Drink Sister, Drink

FILE UNDER: Balkan-Pop-und HipHop

LABEL: Four Music

INFO: Miss Platnum (born Ruth Maria Renner in 1980), formerly known as Platnum, is a Romanian-German singer, songwriter and musician, currently signed to Four Music.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The Honey Brother

ARTIST / BAND: The Honey Brother

MP3s: Demonstration

ALBUM: Demonstration EP

FILE UNDER: indie-pop

LABEL: velourmusic

INFO: The Honey Brothers like to tell people they formed one dog year ago at ukulele fantasy camp, then took to the streets of New York City, serenading street people and pretzel vendors with their whimsical new-wave folk tunes. This anecdote might tell you something about the spirit in which The Honey Brothers were conceived, way back in 2001 in the wake of 9/11. “The band began as a way to find joy in life,” says Ari Gold, who, with his college friends Andrew Vladeck and DS Posner, formed the group’s original nucleus.

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Black Moth Super Rainbow

ARTIST / BAND: Black Moth Super Rainbow

MP3s: "Twin of Myself" (The Go! Team) Remix / "Twin of Myself"

ALBUM: 'Eating Us'

FILE UNDER: Experimental / Pop / Psychedelic

LABEL: Graveface / Memphis Industries / moamoo / Rad Cult

INFO: After a year of eerie, stilted silence, the sun shines and the shadows reappear. Black Moth Super Rainbow has crept from the forests and cities to make Eating Us, their dark bubblegum freakout for 2009. The first fully hi-fi BMSR record, Eating Us, adds space and dimension to the band's sticky, off-kilter melodies. This isn't an album about witches and woods, and this time around the band isn't letting on to what it all might mean. Because to them, it's just better that way.

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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Morrissey

ARTIST / BAND: Morrissey

MP3s: Maladjusted

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: Universal

TINY VIPERS

ARTIST / BAND: TINY VIPERS
SONG (MP3): Dreamer
ALBUM: Life On Earth
FILE UNDER: Tropical / Acoustic / Zouk
LABEL: Sub Pop

INFO: A new recording by Tiny Vipers calls out to the void for an answer or a reason. Tiny Vipers is Jesy Fortino, a musician living in Seattle. Creating and performing the music for her new album with a singular approach, Life on Earth is a private vision unfolding, at times crystal-clear and at other times shrouded in a mystical fog. People and times past wander through these songs like ghosts looking for a home. And questions arise for anyone listening: Where did they go? Where have they been?

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Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Legends

ARTIST / BAND: The Legends

MP3s: You won

ALBUM: Over and over

FILE UNDER: Indie / Alternative / Electronica

LABEL: LABRADOR

INFO: Over and over" is a brilliantly modern mix of white noise, 60’s girls pop, indie, ambient and krautrock.
The album includes contribution from Club 8's Karolina Komstedt, The Mary Onettes' Philip Ekström, Tralala's Liane Moccia and more.

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Cassettes Won't Listen

ARTIST / BAND: Cassettes Won't Listen

MP3s: "Into The Hillside"

ALBUM: Into The Hillside

FILE UNDER: Rock / Electronica / Pop

INFO: Cassettes Won't Listen (a/k/a Jason Drake) has been recording, producing and remixing in the depths of New York for many years, amassing fans and critical acclaim by the likes of Spin, MTV, Perez Hilton and many more. New York City has always been home and the main focus of inspiration for CWL....until now. The warm tones of Los Angeles are now home to Mr. Drake and his nom de plume.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Lightning Dust

ARTIST / BAND: Lightning Dust

MP3s: "I Knew"

ALBUM: Infinite Light

FILE UNDER: Folk Rock / Melodramatic Popular Song / Psychedelic

LABEL: Jagjaguwar

INFO: Infinite Light, Lightning Dust's sophomore album for Jagjaguwar, finds duo Amber Webber and Joshua Wells (both of Black Mountain) calling upon the powers of classic pop arrangements and making the most of five days with a Steinway Grand piano. While Webber and Wells met through their involvement in what they described as two of the saddest bands in Canada, the songs written for Infinite Light found the two moving away from the uniformly downbeat. Rather, the songs were more suited to lush and melodramatic arrangements. Cue the strings. Lightning Dust have delivered a cosmic record about the adventure in finding love and the journey in losing and rediscovering "the light."

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Dodd Ferrelle

ARTIST / BAND: Dodd Ferrelle

MP3s: "I Can't Wait"

ALBUM: Lonely Parades

FILE UNDER: Rock / Indie / Americana

LABEL: Two Sheds

INFO: For anyone who has followed Dodd Ferrelle's music since the critically-acclaimed album A Carriage On the Hill, it will seem like he has come full circle with the release of Lonely Parades. The new CD not only features the return of players who appeared on Carriage, including Jon Mills, John Neff, David Barbe and Betsy Inglesby, but also comes closer to capturing the feel of Carriage. Dodd's familiar wail is upfront and center onLonely Parades, but with even more exuberanence.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Lord Cut-Glass

ARTIST / BAND: Lord Cut-Glass

MP3s: "Even Jesus Couldn't Love You"

ALBUM: Lord Cut-Glass

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Chemikal Underground

INFO: Alun Woodward is a singer/songwriter from Motherwell, formerly of the influential Glasgow based band the Delgados. As a solo artist he has contributed two tracks under the moniker of Lord Cut-Glass. The first, A Sentimental Song, released in March 2007, was part of the Scottish indie/folk compilation Ballads of the Book with lyrics written by the author Alasdair Gray. It was released by record label Chemikal Underground which, as part of the Delgados, Woodward helped create in 1995. Woodward has subsequently released one further track Maybe as part of the compilation Worried Noodles.

He played his debut solo set as part of Tigerfest in Dunfermline on 16th May 2009 where he premiered material from his first solo album.

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Sugarplum Fairies

ARTIST / BAND: Sugarplum Fairies

MP3s: First Rate Show

ALBUM: Chinese Leftovers

FILE UNDER: Indie / Down-tempo / Folk Rock

LABEL: Starfish Records

INFO: The Sugarplum Fairies are comprised of Vienna natives Silvia Ryder (vocals) and Ben Bohm (guitars, background vocals), supplemented by an array of rotating guest musicians. The sound of SPF bridges the transatlantic gap with an amalgamation of European guitar pop and Americana folksiness, all tied together by Ryder's sultry, hypnotic vocals.

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

The Honey Brothers

ARTIST / BAND: The Honey Brothers

MP3s: Demonstration

ALBUM: Demonstration' EP

FILE UNDER: new wave folk

LABEL: Self-release

INFO: The Honey Brothers like to tell people they formed one dog year ago at ukulele fantasy camp, then took to the streets of New York City, serenading street people and pretzel vendors with their whimsical new-wave folk tunes. This anecdote might tell you something about the spirit in which The Honey Brothers were conceived, way back in 2001 in the wake of 9/11. “The band began as a way to find joy in life,” says Ari Gold, who, with his college friends Andrew Vladeck and DS Posner, formed the group’s original nucleus.

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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Soft Black

ARTIST / BAND: Soft Black

MP3s: The Lions / I Am An Animal

ALBUM: The Earth Is Black
(and Other Apocalyptic Lullabies for Children)

FILE UNDER: folk-psych rock

LABEL: Plays With Dolls

INFO: "The Earth is Black," Soft Black's second LP, was recorded to analog tape over an eight month period. Vincent Cacchione, the bands principle songwriter, began tracking in the New Jersey basement of a dear friend, Nick Coleman, on modest 8 track home recording gear.  Most of the basics carved out in just a few takes, the duo of Cacchione and Coleman meticulously crafted each track, orchestrating the album with bursts of noise and melody.

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Friday, June 12, 2009

LITTLE TYBEE

ARTIST / BAND: LITTLE TYBEE

MP3s: Glass Brigade

ALBUM: I Wonder Which House The Fish Will Live In

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: Self-Released

INFO: Little Tybee was formed in the winter of 2009 by Brock Scott, Josh Martin and Ryan Gregory. The roots of LT stemmed when Brock Scott and Josh Martin met during college and began writing instrumental music together, which culminated as their first band, Fountain. After one house show, Fountain disbanded and a lull couple of months followed. A year later, with the addition of Jason Ussery on drums and Ryan Donald on bass, The BSQwas formed.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Color Turning

ARTIST / BAND: The Color Turning

MP3s: New Hooligan

ALBUM: Good Hands Bad Blood

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Softdrive Records

INFO: Good Hands Bad Blood is an auditory adventure and introduction to modern indie/experimental rock. Displaying flagrant mastery of their instruments and genre, The Color Turning represents an expansion of Los Angeles’ indie psyche with dancing musicianship and detailed composition. Orchestrating their instruments in a fashion of a movie score or soundtrack, the band rarely begins any track at 11 but rather draws their listeners in with curious melody and progression. Providing an auditory blueprint of communication between vibrations and emotions, reacting to each other and growing to a common core and evocation. Structuring the album around the rising download culture in music, the band creates a visceral experience to be listened to in its whole as a story or broken into its chapters of tracks.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The Cubists

ARTIST / BAND: The Cubists

MP3s: She's Got Blood

ALBUM: Mechanical Advantage

FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Shoegaze / Experimental

LABEL: Semi-Precious

INFO: True to their name, The Cubists are taking a Picasso and Braque approach to pop. All the structures and strictures remain intact – the chorus and verse, the bridge and hook – but they have been bent, twisted and manipulated, expanded and enhanced beyond expected boundaries.

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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Deaf Judges

ARTIST / BAND: Deaf Judges

MP3s: Deaf Sentence / Space Cadet Setlist

ALBUM: All Rise

FILE UNDER: Hip Hop

LABEL: Emerald City Ruins

INFO: Deaf Judges are a four man Hip Hop crew out of Athens, Georgia consisting of three MCs (Rorshak, Produce Man and Louie Carlysle) and one DJ/ producer (Cubenza). This conglomeration of talent pulls together vast influences from all over the musical map into a secret formula that exhibits the freewheeling fun of the old-school eighties together with the grimy lyric-driven pulse of nineties NY underground. All of this is spiced with a distinctly Southern flavor that is undeniable, while at the same time far removed from the regional sounds of their dirty south contemporaries.

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Monday, June 08, 2009

Hermit Thrushes

ARTIST / BAND: Hermit Thrushes

MP3s: "Snowflake Heart" / Push

ALBUM: Slight Fountain

FILE UNDER: Thrash / Folk / Experimental

LABEL: Joyful Noise

INFO: Harsh chords, complex rhythms, strange orchestration and awkward melody interchangeably weave throughout the songs of Hermit Thrushes. With their sophomore album "Slight Fountain", this Philadelphia-based five-piece displays touchingly naive bedroom lo-fi juxtaposed with disjointed arrangements, noisy multi-instrumental blasts, and nasty pitch-shifts - offering a thoroughly artful blend of indie rock. This is what the Magic Band would have sounded like if they were raised on Joan of Arc and Polvo, and had a singer that was void of any serious mental illness (though probably not the less serious kind).

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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Royal City

ARTIST / BAND: Royal City

MP3s: A Belly Was Made For Wine" / Royal City - "Can't You Hear Me Calling"

ALBUM: Royal City

FILE UNDER: Alt Folk

LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

INFO: In October of 2000, a little band changed my life. The rock-tinged folk (or folk-tinged rock-it was never clear) four-piece in question called themselves Royal City, after their Canadian hometown of Guelph, and I accompanied them on their first-ever U.S. tour, their road manager by default. While Royal City’s greatest artistic achievements were yet to come (please pause to go listen to Alone at the Microphone), over those three weeks I saw the band find their feet and create a lasting chemistry. When I listen to this collection of unreleased songs, I’m taken back to that formative tour where much of this material-and Royal City itself-took shape.

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Friday, June 05, 2009

Bygones

ARTIST / BAND: Bygones

MP3s: Click on That (Smash The Plastic Death)

ALBUM: By

FILE UNDER: Punk, Indie

LABEL: Sargent House

INFO: What can be said about Bygones? Have you heard of Hella? Tera Melos?
These bands don't need words to get their point across. So logically, a project bred from their members Zach Hill (drums, vocals) & Nick Reinhart (guitar, bass, vocals) is equally successful at rendering listeners speechless.

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