Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
El Obo
ARTIST / BAND: El Obo
MP3: Vrgn Evl
ALBUM: Oxford Basement Collection
FILE UNDER: Indie, Folk, Psychedelic
LABEL: Esperanza Plantation
INFO: It’s time! We’re kicking off our 2011 release schedule with a record several years in the making. May 10th will see the debut release of El Obo, the solo side-project of Colour Revolt frontman Jesse Coppenbarger. The ten tracks that comprise Oxford Basement Collection were recorded over a five year span during Jesse’s spare time between Colour Revolt releases and tours, and highlight his quick development into the accomplished songwriter heard on their 2010 release, The Cradle. The El Obo project is a singer-songwriter venture that focuses on Jesse’s talents as a vocalist, so fans of Colour Revolt tracks like “A New Family” and “Moses of the South” will feel right at home. To capture the warm tones of this debut, we are releasing it in a deluxe vinyl edition, that features the album on blue vinyl plus a copy of the record on cd (with 3 bonus tracks) in the LP jacket. Pre-order your copy today in our e-store!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Grimes
ARTIST / BAND: Grimes
MP3: Vanessa
ALBUM: Darkbloom EP
FILE UNDER: Avant Pop
LABEL: Arbutus Records/Hippos in Tanks
INFO:
Grimes is weird pop influenced by styles such as R&B, Industrial, goth, hip hop and Western medieval organum. She is noted for simple but strong percussion, vocal virtuosity, and addictive melodies. Despite having little acquaintance with music before the age of 18, Grimes (born 1988) has overcome this barrier and used it to her advantage, exploding onto the music scene with a sound that is that is far different from that of her peers, and extremely broad in it’s references (Mariah Carey, Salem, Cocteau Twins, Gang Gang Dance, The Smiths, Prince). And yet, while all Grimes songs are different and genre-bending, there is a strong sound that is fully her own, characterized primarily by her chameleonlike voice.
She cannot read music and has no understanding of theory or notation, so her attempts to imitate often fail. Rather, the result is particularly unique, strangely beautiful, sometimes scary, frequently melancholic and catchy as hell.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Thao & Mirah
ARTIST / BAND: Thao & Mirah
Download: “Eleven” from Thao & Mirah via Pitchfork
Download: “How Dare You” via Kill Rock Stars
Listen: NPR First Listen Exclusive Album Stream
FILE UNDER: Indie
LABEL: Kill Rock Stars
INFO: With most collaborations come a push and pull between what each artist brings to the table. The most successful musical partnerships use those differences, and occasionally opposition, to force each musician out of a comfort zone and create something new that neither would have come up with by his or herself. That's certainly the case with Thao & Mirah, a new record from Thao Nguyen and Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn that finds a lot of common ground between the indie-folk singer-songwriters, while also delving into new territory for both.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The Knocks
ARTIST / BAND: THE KNOCKS
FILE UNDER: electro
LABEL: Neon Gold Records / HeavyRoc
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (The Knocks Remix) by The Knocks
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Henry Clay People
ARTIST / BAND: Henry Clay People
MP3: California Wildfire
ALBUM: This Is A Desert EP
FILE UNDER: Classic Rock / Indie / Rock
LABEL: TBD Records
INFO:
Fresh off the full length release of “Somewhere On The Golden Coast” and months of touring with The Drive By Truckers, Against Me, and The Silversun Pickups, The Henry Clay People wasted no time diving back into the recording studio and surfacing with “This Is A Desert”, a five track EP to be released in May on TBD. “This Is A Desert” is a collection of the familiar and a daring exploration of the new.
On the opening track “The Honey Love He Sells” The HC Peeps show off their punky side, like an early Replacementsesque kick in the teeth. On the other end of the spectrum the track "The Winter Song” displays a fresh, dense, and relatively bizarre production of what would otherwise be a straight ahead slacker ballad, kicking off with a doozy of an opening line:
"If you're feeling lost then maybe we'll get found...we'll kill some time watching cars drive by...we'll make some messes just to clean up...drink our faces numb or maybe fall in love for the first time since the last time..."
Zeroed in on this earnest spunk, we find The Henry Clay People writing their most mature music yet. “This Is A Desert” acts as both an addition to The Henry Clay People’s already impressive discography and acts a an audible evolution of their approach to indie rock and roll.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Friday, April 08, 2011
Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells
ARTIST / BAND: Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells
MP3: Cages
ALBUM: Everything’s Getting Older
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Folk Rock
LABEL: Chemikal Underground Records
INFO: Some partnerships just work, even if it takes time. Eight years in the making, the debut album by Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat is a special thing, full of gorgeous, jazz-inflected love songs fleshed out with a mixture of spoken word pieces and vocals delivered in Aidan's distinctive rhotic singing voice
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Monday, April 04, 2011
Mount Moriah
ARTIST / BAND: Mount Moriah
MP3: "Lament"
ALBUM: Mount Moriah
FILE UNDER: Americana / Classic Rock / Folk
LABEL: Holidays for Quince Records
INFO: Heather McEntire (of post-punk veterans Bellafea) and Jenks Miller (of heavy-psych/metal outfit Horseback) met in 2005, while working at a record store in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. After collaborating as Un Deux Trois on the stripped-down, pop-inflected Lovers EP (2007), they established Mount Moriah as an outlet for their mutual interest in classic American folk and rock music. Mount Moriah’s 2010 EP, The Letting Go, highlighted the band’s thematic range, moving from delicate acoustic narratives to a dark, fuzzed-out, soulful stomper in just three tracks. Mount Moriah’s long-awaited, self-titled debut -- featuring guest instrumentation by members of St. Vincent, Megafaun, and many other North Carolina-based musicians -- is cut from the same cloth, offering a far-reaching and non-traditional take on classic folk themes like devotion, tribulation, redemption, and an indelible sense of place.
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Sunday, April 03, 2011
The Extraordinaires
ARTIST / BAND: The Extraordinaires
MP3: "Laugh Out Louder" / "The Big Show"
ALBUM: The Postcard EP
FILE UNDER: Powerpop / Rock / Zouk
LABEL: Punk Rock Payroll
INFO:
The Extraordinaires were formed in 2004 by beard enthusiasts Jay Purdy and Matt Gibson. Joined last year by Smoker, Zach, and Koof, they spend their time perfecting the art of space travel.
Music is the only thing keeping the members of The Extraordinaires alive. Going on tour not only allows them to try new fast foods, it is a good cover for their ongoing search for the Holy Grail. "Writing a song is easy", says Jay Purdy, "I usually take care of it in the bathroom."
Between their naturally high IQ's and there onstage antics, the Extraordinaires always pack a punch! available for bar mitzvahs!
Aside from theater, film, and visual art they play music. "We would describe our music by saying "swoosh", or with a picture of Shaq slamming a dunk." says Matt.
Friday, April 01, 2011
Nat Baldwin's
ARTIST / BAND: Nat Baldwin
MP3: "Weights"
ALBUM: People Changes
FILE UNDER: Free jazz /Experimental / Minimalist
LABEL: Western Vinyl
INFO:
Double bassist/singer-songwriter Nat Baldwin’s forthcoming album People Changes, out May 24 on Western Vinyl, is much like the stark Maine setting which it was created. Of course, his fourth full-length shows welcome markings of his experimental bent from years as the Dirty Projectors bassist and former disciple of free jazz legend Anthony Braxton, but the serene isolation of 17 million acres of New England forestland make this cabin-born set intimate and sincere. The album follows A Split EP with Extra Life (2008, Shatter Your Leaves) on which earlier versions of “Weights” and “Lifted” appear,Most Valuable Player (2008), Enter the Winter (2006) and Lights Out EP (2005) on Broken Sparrow Records, and his experimental free jazz debut Solo Contrabass (2003, Peacock Recordings). In addition to Dirty Projectors, Nat Baldwin has performed on Vampire Weekend’s Contra andDepartment of Eagles' In Ear Park. He will tour behind the album’s release this spring.
Head over to Brooklyn Vegan to check out the video for “Weights” from People Changes.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Country Mice
ARTIST / BAND: Country Mice
Download: Festival
ALBUM: Twister
FILE UNDER: Garage / Psychedelic
LABEL: Wao Wao Records
INFO:
What does Country Mice front-man Jason Rueger have in common with less than 300 people in the US? Growing up in Beattie, that’s ruralest of rural Kansas. On a farm of course, that was passed down through three generations of his family and old enough to be on the Pony Express route. “Family, friends, and working the land gave us a good wholesome life”.
Walking dirt road paths, working and living off the land, squinting his eyes at the sun, but with headphones on, it is not the bucolic atmosphere but music that most inspires him. At an early age, Rueger sets his sights for something different than the surrounding dirt and milo that stung his eyes and cut his hands.
Breaking away from the close-knit ties of friends and family, Rueger moves east, not to Nashville, where you might expect a country boy to venture, but to Brooklyn. It doesn’t take long to hook up with fellow Midwest transplants Ben Bullington (guitar) and Kurt Kuehn (drums) as they all quickly band together, finding comfort in their shared sense of displacement. Eventually, as the trio becomes more assimilated to their new surroundings, they recruit upstate New Yorker Mike Feldman (bass).
As Country Mice, they rally together to craft apocalyptic ballads through amplifier hazes that thicken into funnel clouds, drums that stomp-clap sedately before the storm peaks, and bass tones that thicken the bloodstream. Rueger draws on his small town rearing with sophistication beyond the ordinarily romantic and reductive Americana troubadour, and his songwriting is anything but dime a dozen.
Strong traces of Neil Young and Wilco are mixed into modern experimental guitar sounds that any fan of mid-90’sSonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. will love. Living and gigging in Brooklyn, Country Mice begin to fully develop their sound, which becomes by influenced the other hardworking bands of Brooklyn's fast-paced scene. With the release of two 7” singles and a limited edition cassette on Brooklyn-based indie labels, Country Mice embarked on several national US tours, recorded and recently released a Daytrotter Session, played CMJ and is heading to and touring around SXSW.
For the spring, they will unleash a new single “Festival” on March 28 and their debut album Twister on June 7th, a record that sonically chisels through the calloused shell of glossy rock & roll to find the dissonant live wire beneath and play it for all its worth. It tells a tale of strained memory: the hardships, joys, and love of growing up in a small town in the Midwest, with the hopes and dreams of traveling the world – a record for every kid seeing the big world from his small bedroom window.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Communipaw
ARTIST / BAND: Communipaw
ALBUM: Big Blue
FILE UNDER: Acoustic / Folk Rock
LABEL: s/r
INFO: Born and bred in the Hub City’s infamous basement scene, Communipaw formed after singer/songwriter Brian Bond and drummer Keith Carne played an impromptu performance in 2007. Since then, with the additions of bassist David Esterman and guitarist Justin Gaynor, Communipaw has developed a reputation for scene-defying originality in their old hometown. By mixing a classic songwriting sensibility and a bit of alt-country with their love of soaring, anthemic indie rock, Communipaw has crafted a dynamic brand of insightful rock’n’roll.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
ARTIST / BAND: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
SONGS (MP3): Locomocion Capillar (Solar Gambling) / Shake is for 8th Graders (Cryptomnesia)
ALBUM: Telesterion
FILE UNDER: Experimental / Psychedelic /
LABEL: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
INFO: Immensely prolific Grammy Award winning recording artist Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) announces the spring 2011 release of a quadruple LP / double CD collection culled from his multiple solo and collaborative albums. In celebration of this, Rodriguez Lopez's eponymous band will perform at this year's Coachella Festival and SXSW Music Festival (Sargent House/Rodriguez Lopez Productions showcase). Headlining tour dates are also in the works for late spring.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Sister Crayon
ARTIST / BAND: Sister Crayon
MP3: "Anti-Psalm"
"Anti-Psalm (Dam Mantle Remix)"
ALBUM: Bellow
FILE UNDER: Soul / Trip Hop / Visual
LABEL: Manimal Vinyl.
INFO: Something small and quiet at first, Sister Crayon began with vocalist Terra Lopez playing classical guitar and pre-programmed beats on a loop pedal to attentive house crowds. With the addition of members Dani Fernandez (MPC 1000 and Microkorg), Genaro Ulloa (Keyboards and Synths) and Nicholas Suhr (Drums and Percussion), Sister Crayon has emerged as a four-piece whose emotional live performances along with their styles of ambience, hip-hop, and “hysterical” have created a stir with their upcoming EP release, “Enter Into Holy (or)ders”. Inspired by the late French writer Jean Genet, “Holy (or)ders” is a sexual lament and sigh to the popular criminal.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
New Jared Mees & the Grown Children
ARTIST / BAND: New Jared Mees & the Grown Children
MP3:"Hungry Like a Tiger / "Limber Hearts"
ALBUM: ONLY GOOD THOUGHTS CAN STAY
FILE UNDER: folk rock, indie, soul
LABEL: Tender Loving Empire
INFO: Despite its title, Only Good Thoughts Can Stay is not an anthem for blind faith in simple pleasures. Pairing sometimes dark lyrical matter with uptempo major-chord progressions, the newest album from Portland, Oregon’s Jared Mees and the Grown Children examines the give-and-take inherent in struggles for self-fulfillment while walking a tightrope between naive exuberance and cynical skepticism. This balancing act results in a sound that is joyful yet introspective; a rollicking Americana tale of modern life, be it hellish or heavenly.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Jeniferever
ARTIST / BAND: Jeniferever
MP3:
Waifs And Strays (MP3)
The Beat Of Our Own Blood (MP3)
Dover (MP3)
ALBUM: Silesia
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Gothic / Atmospheric
LABEL: Monotreme Records
INFO: Monotreme Records is very proud to be releasing ‘Spring Tides’, the second full-length album by Jeniferever.
Jeniferever is a 4-piece band from Uppsala, Sweden. They have previously released 4 eps and one album since 2002, and have played over 250 live shows across Europe. Over the years, they have gained an ever-growing band of admirers, who have bestowed descriptions such as ‘lush’, ‘melodic’, ‘swooping’, ‘glacial’, ‘beautiful’, ‘shimmering’, ‘sublime’, ‘electrifying’ and ‘atmospheric’ on their music.
Some have compared their sound to the physical beauty of their native country, with its aural landscapes of slow-paced melodies which build to orchestral-like climaxes.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Monday, March 07, 2011
Little Tybee
ARTIST / BAND: Little Tybee
MP3:
ALBUM: Humorous To Bees
FILE UNDER: Folk Rock / Indie
LABEL: Paper Garden Records
INFO: “Little Tybee is something of a mini orchestra with its ever-evolving five to ten members all engaged in intricate musicianship. Their name comes from a tiny island off the coast of their native Georgia, where legend has it, an undetonated atomic bomb from the 1950s lies missing. They jokingly attribute the quirkiness of their debut album Building a Bomb to the long-term effects of eating radiation-drenched seafood, but it’s more likely they were just born that way” -Lavinia Jones Wright, ASCAP
Sunday, March 06, 2011
Gypsy Treasures
ARTIST / BAND: Gypsy Treasures
ALBUM: Buried Goods
FILE UNDER: electronic, alternative, exotic
LABEL: Not Not Fun
INFO: Gypsy Treasures is a project from Aria Jalali (aka Railcars), his release on Not Not Fun "Buried Goods" is the sole document of his mid-2000s basement raga project in which blown-out faux-modal guitar lines snake and coil under a cavernous reverb chamber while bizarre bunker electronics whirr and oscillate in an opiated haze on a bed of zoned tambo & hand percussion. "Buried Goods" sounds like a lost Sublime Frequencies demo as played by a bunch of So-Cal teens obsessed with German Oak. Completely awesome and wholly apart from whatever else is/was going on, scene-wise when it was recorded.
The title "Buried Goods" refers to the accidental rediscovery of these tracks by Jalali on a recent Railcars tour in Europe. When pressed for more material to play for various encores, he found forgotten 6-7 year loops on his boss pedal which they improvised upon. Realizing that these 'jams' were worth revisiting, it inspired the collection to be re-recorded and mastered. All four tracks were 4-tracked (the exception being “Four Horsemen,” which was recorded live) with various guest personnel and inner-chemical agendas. Being lifelong fans of contextless cassette curveballs, "Buried Goods" appealed to Not Not Fun instantly who have now released it a limited pro-dubbed tapes in cases with pitch-shifted regal furniture art/design by video-maker du jour, Megazord.
Friday, March 04, 2011
Easter Island
ARTIST / BAND: Easter Island
MP3: "Better Things" / "Proud"
ALBUM: Better Things
FILE UNDER: lo fi, indie pop
LABEL: s/r
INFO: Easter Island‘s progressive sound is one of the leading revivalists re-forging the yuppie angst pop that defined the mid 90s and early 00s. This impressive group, of classically trained guys hail from Athens, GA and have been playing together in a carousel of revolving bands since 2005, when vocalist Ethan Payne met lead guitarist Nathan Thompson. Payne (formerly of The Cubs, Union & Corduroy Road) has worked in the film industry for the past three years as a freelance shooter/editor/boom operator. Recently, he produced the Soundie: a series of lo-fi music videos featuring mostly local musicians and bands inspired by Vincent Moon’s takeaway shows.
Kreidler
ARTIST / BAND: Kreidler
MP3: Kremlin rules
Kreidler - Kremlin rules by Tapete Records
ALBUM: TANK
FILE UNDER: Electronica
LABEL: Bureau B
INFO:
- Kreidler were formed in Düsseldorf/Germany in 1994.
- They have been asked to remix artists such as Einstuerzende Neubauten, Depeche Mode and Faust among 20 others and cooperated with artists like Klaus Dinger (NEU!), Add (N) to X, Young Gods, Theo Altenberg, Momus, Leo Garcia, Pyrolator and Chicks on Speed.
- Their music has been used for high profile fashion shows (Chanel, Lacoste, Giles Deacon), films, theatre and dance performances.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Matthew Friedberger
ARTIST / BAND: Matthew Friedberger
MP3: Meet Me in Miramas
ALBUM: Solos
FILE UNDER: experimental, electro, pop
LABEL: Thrill Jockey
INFO: Matthew Friedberger is a Rock-N-Roll Goings-On Person-From-Chicago.
Born many years ago now, his interests--his "likes" as we say--include the following. Mediterranean Matters; Old Phone Books; "that beautiful place where the White Sox play baseball" (Dominic Pacyga); Jean Paul; James Brown; the IBM building; Chicagoism in General; Rhetorical Capitalization; the SNCF jingle that plays immediately before any announcement; Old Blind Writers from London; the Sidney Siblings and their Friends; what's written on some The Fall album covers; the Brontë Brother, Branwell; Lonely Trailer; I Love You, Big Dummy; Johnny Hodges; Jaki Byard; The Who in 1972; John Culshaw; The City of Bridges; magasin général; Music Written Down in Old Books from Old Shops in the Lands of Yesteryears; So Forth; and so on.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Warm Ghost
ARTIST / BAND: Warm Ghost
MP3: Let My Angst Unfold In The Water Like A Hounds Tongue
ALBUM: Uncut Diamond
FILE UNDER: Experimental / Pop
LABEL: Partisan
INFO: A band and multi media duo based in Brooklyn, NY - Paul Duncan and Oliver Chapoy.
Paul Duncan is currently recording and performing under the moniker Warm Ghost. It finds him taking a step beyond traditional instrumentation and one toward that of electronics, synthesizers, drum machines and processed field recordings.
Warm Ghost has now evolved into a band in collaboration with Oliver Chapoy, where the sound is an intricately arranged shimmering sonic world of twisting words and melodies inside dense environments where there are elements of 80′s new wave, cold wave and synth pop from Solid Space to OMD to Depeche Mode, late 70′s disco, synth programming sharing ground with Autechre and AFX, and experimental textures reminiscent of Fennesz. The payoff is beautifully executed, lush pop songs that beg for repeat listening.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
The Luyas
ARTIST / BAND: The Luyas
ALBUM: Too Beautiful to Work
FILE UNDER: Experimental / Indie
LABEL: Dead Oceans / Idée Fixe
INFO: The Luyas are four musicians named Jessie Stein, Mathieu Charbonneau, Pietro Amatro and Stefan Scheider. They made a record called Too Beautiful to Work at 6 Nassau in Toronto, Ontario, and call Montreal, Quebec home. r
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Glorie
ARTIST / BAND: Glorie
MP3: "Highrise"
ALBUM: Glorie
FILE UNDER: Experimental / Rock
LABEL: Makeshift Music
INFO: Instrumental band Glorie was formed in Memphis, TN in the spring of 2009 by Jason Paxton, former frontman of The Satyrs, after an eight-year hiatus from playing music.
Jason was joined by Jonathan Kirkscey (cellist with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra who has composed arrangements for and performed live with Jay Reatard, Cat Power, and Al Green) Andy Saunders, Jeff Hulett (member of Makeshift Music label-mates Snowglobe and Jeffrey James & the Haul) and Rob Brimhall.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Adebisi Shank
ARTIST / BAND: Adebisi Shank
FILE UNDER: dance instrumental punk rock
LABEL: Sargent House
INFO: Imagine it's 1985 and you're making a movie that takes place in 2011. You picture myriad technological devices that simplify our lives -- every mundane activity can be accomplished with the push of a button -- freeing us to travel the globe, living a life of total awesomeness. The anthemic optimism of your era, you assume, will eventually enrich the entire world and create a global new form of music. This Is the Second Album From A Band Called Adebisi Shank is just the type of futuristic-utopian sound of a parallel 2011 universe breaking through the time-space continuum to guide us all to perfection.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Storms
ARTIST / BAND: Storms
MP3: Wolves and Bells
ALBUM: Lay Your Sea Coat Aside
FILE UNDER: Experimental / Folk
LABEL: Plancha
INFO: Lori Scacco and Eva Puyuelo first met through mutual friend and collaborator Guillermo Scott Herren when Lori was asked to tour as part of the Savath & Savalas live band. Years later as Lori was writing new solo material and Eva was in New York recording with Savath & Savalas, she invited Eva to join her on one song for her new record which, at the time, was intended to be mostly instrumental. They soon discovered that they had a deep-rooted creative connection and a shared love of 70’s psych-folk one-offs, so they made a plan to bring Eva back to the states in the coming months to begin work on a full-length. Lay Your Sea Coat Aside is the result of 5 weeks spent sequestered in New York City, immersed in a wholly collaborative exchange. Inspired by Linda Perhacs, Extradition, Nico, and Elis Regina’s most stripped down collaborations with Milton Nascimento, they poured over a number of guitar pieces Lori had amassed throughout the initial writing stages and developed an explorative practice
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Moving Units
ARTIST / BAND: Moving Units
MP3: Until She Says
ALBUM: Tension War EP
FILE UNDER: post punk, inide dance
LABEL: Post Modern Records
INFO: Hailed for pioneering post-punk, indie–dance music – a sound often reflected by today's contemporaries, Los Angeles' Moving Units, now ten years into their career, are set to release their EP, Tension War.Tension War references the existential personal struggles we experience when we attempt to harmonize the dualities in everyday life. From the push and pull that ensues during an unspoken attraction, to the dynamic of living in Los Angeles - a city full of symbolism and paraphernalia of glamour versus the desperation and disillusionment of the people who aspire to such entrapments...tension is everywhere.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Le Butcherettes
ARTIST / BAND: Le Butcherettes
MP3: "Henry Don't Got Love" / "New York"
ALBUM: Sin Sin Sin
FILE UNDER: garage punk
LABEL: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
INFO: The garage-punk trio Le Butcherettes are like the brilliant offspring of surrealist Luis Bunuel and intrepid rock icon PJ Harvey. Led by 21-year-old vocalist/guitarist/pianist Teri Gender Bender (a recent transplant to L.A. from Guadalajara, Mexico) Le Butcherettes bring a brazen intensity and playful, hook-laden simplicity that hacks to pieces all forms of pretension and excess.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Jookabox
ARTIST / BAND: Jookabox
MP3: "Drops"
ALBUM: The Eyes Of The Fly
FILE UNDER: Indie
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty
INFO: A band whose imagery echoes ghosts, zombies, decay, and the afterlife, inspired by life in the post-industrial land of white flight, now writes its own epitaph, carves its own headstone, and sings its swan song. May the funky frenetic compositions of Jookabox rest in chaos as beautiful as that which they created.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Discodeine
ARTIST / BAND: Discodeine
MP3: 'Synchronize' Feat. Jarvis Cocker
ALBUM: Discodeine
FILE UNDER: dance, electronic, pop
LABEL: DFA Records
INFO: DISCODEINE is a french duo born in 2007 from the sick minds of Pilooski and Pentile. They have separatedly released some acclaimed records in the last past years (Pentile was involved in Octet and France Copland, Pilooski has remixed LCD Sound System, Mystery Jets and the infamous Frankie Valli) before finding a mutual ground around their love for sci fi movies, weird club music and south western french cooking style. Discodeine is signed on french imprint DIRTY, home label of the well known "Dirty edits" (a collaborative project between Pilooski and Dirty Sound System) and some other cool and weird compilations projects.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Jail Weddings
ARTIST / BAND: Jail Weddings
MP3: I Thought You Were Someone I Knew
ALBUM: Love Is Lawless
FILE UNDER: Melodramatic Popular Song / Pop / Soul
LABEL: play white noise
INFO: Love Is Lawless the new album from Jail Weddings that the LA Weekly calls “a big, fine mess of weepy, quavering, hiccupy hurtin’ hurt, plowed through with a way-tough punk-rock theatricality and welcome good humor” is out today! Get it on-sale for only $7.69 (until 11/1) from Insound, with every order receiving a bonus CD containing songs from Jail Weddings first two out-of-print 7″ singles as well as a live cover of The Cramps’ “Beautiful Gardens”.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
La Resistance
ARTIST / BAND: La Resistance
MP3: Understanding / Isolation
ALBUM: Philosophy
FILE UNDER: Rock, Indie, Pop
LABEL: Superphonic Records
INFO: La Resistance is the brainchild of Greg Summerlin, who after releasing several solo albums on Superphonic Records formed the new Birmingham, Alabama band with three friends that have played with him over the past several years. The band's debut album, "Philosophy", will be released through Superphonic Records this February and recalls various musical influences from the last three decades. Greg is joined by Wil Drake on drums (formerly of Moses Mayfield - Columbia Records), Jake Blount on bass and Erin Tumlin on keys and vocals.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
RYAT
ARTIST / BAND: RYAT
ALBUM: Avant Gold
FILE UNDER: Indie / Live Electronics
LABEL: Obvious Bandits
INFO: Ryat is a cutting-edge producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, who transfers her compositions into an improvisation based live looping project featuring guitarist/composer Tim Conley. Compared to artist like Panda Bear and Bjork, Ryat's multidimensional musical approach is an array of effects processed raw organic pop.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
The Caribbean
ARTIST / BAND: The Caribbean
MP3: Mr. Let's Find Out / Outskirts
ALBUM: Discontinued Perfume
FILE UNDER: Indie
LABEL: Hometapes
INFO: Quite possibly the best demo we will ever receive came in the mail from our nation's capital thanks to The Caribbean. Originally in D.C. area bands Townies and Smart Went Crazy, the boys followed up their astounding album on Tomlab and Endearing (History's First Know-It-All) by coming to Hometapes and recording the William of Orange EP with studio collaborator Chad Clark (Beauty Pill / Silver Sonya Studios). After a few brief tours on America's coasts they have returned with Plastic Explosives, again recorded with Chad Clark and at their own home studio. They consistently amaze us with their musical knowledge, witty charm, epic email threads, and skill at navigating the murky waters where pop and not-pop collide. They make lovely house guests and would love to play your local venue at the nearest convenience.
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