Saturday, July 23, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Hess Is More
ARTIST / BAND: Hess Is More
MP3s: Creation Keeps the Devil Away
ALBUM: Creation Keeps the Devil Away
FILE UNDER: Electro / Folk / Jazz
LABEL: Nublu Records
Hess is More - Creation Keeps The Devil Away from Hess Is More on Vimeo.
INFO: Multi-instrumentalist, singer, and provocateur, Mikkel Hess has been hard at work on a new album since 2009’s Hess Is More - Hits was selected as one of Time Out Magazine’s Top 10 Albums of the Year. Having scored for theater, composed for films and collaborated with artists on performance pieces, Mikkel curates a process that resembles something akin to that of a collagist—taking inspiration and integrating references from art, film, music and magic. The resulting, all-encompassing approach has drawn comparisons to everyone from Erlend Oye and Jon Brion, to CAN and the music you might find on Smalltown Supersound. Hess has evolved this genre-defying project, collaborating with local musicians and fellow Dane, co-writer/producer Rasmus Bille Bahncke for the past two years on the exhilarating new album, Creation Keeps the Devil Away, which will be released October 11th, 2011 on Nublu Records. The lead single of the same name, "Creation Keeps the Devil Away," is available now for free download which includes a bonus track — a solo piano remake by Mikkel's brother Nikolaj Hess.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
DAAN
ARTIST / BAND: DAAN
MP3s: Your Eyes
ALBUM: Manhay
FILE UNDER: Indie, pop, Folk
LABEL: Heart of Berlin
INFO: Daan is a Belgian band and solo project, formed by Dead Man Ray member Daan Stuyven. When playing live, it consists of:
Daan Stuyven (lead and guitar)
Steven Janssens (guitar)
Otti Van Der Werf (bass)
Isolde Lasoen (drums)
Jeroen Swinnen (synthesizer)
Gregory Frateur (backing vocals)
The first album bearing the "Daan" label,"Profools", was released in 1999. It's a compilation from various tracks recorded by Daan Stuyven between 1996 and 1999. The Dead Man Ray rock-influence is obvious, though this album already contains some electro.
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Monday, July 18, 2011
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
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Thursday, July 07, 2011
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Small Sur
ARTIST / BAND: Small Sur
MP3: "Prettyboy"/ Small Sur - "The Woods"
ALBUM: Tones
FILE UNDER: Down-tempo / Folk
LABEL: s/r
INFO: Small Sur stands opposed to today’s quantity-over-quality stampede. The band’s patient, near-obsessive exploration of warmth, depth, and space makes each offering an experience rich in sensory detail—quietly compelling listeners to turn their iPods off shuffle and allow the entire release to envelop them from start to finish. Small Sur is the primary musical alias of South Dakota-born, now-Baltimore-based songwriter Bob Keal and current collaborators Austin Stahl and Andy Abelow. The project was born during the spring of 2005 in a friend’s Southern California bedroom, where Keal recorded the self-titled Small Sur EP shortly before relocating to Baltimore. 2008 marked the release of the band’s full-length debut, We Live in Houses Made of Wood, which garnered critical praise from the likes of Tiny Mix Tapes and NPR.
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Dave I.D.
ARTIST / BAND: Dave I.D.
MP3: 'Memory Loss'
ALBUM: Response
FILE UNDER: Industrial / Live Electronics / dubstep
LABEL: !K7
Friday, July 01, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Dope Body
ARTIST / BAND: Dope Body
MP3: "The Shape of Grunge to Come"
ALBUM: NUPPING
FILE UNDER: Noise punk, Indie, Ska, Funk
LABEL: Hoss Records
INFO: Since forming in 2009, Baltimore native sons Dope Body have evolved on a truly logarithmic scale. Moving from stark, primitve punk-metal to genre-swallowing, unabashedly-90's-referencing, poly-rhythmic brutes in less than two years, the band has created a bizarre new standard for the mutant art-punk-beaster set.
Nupping, their debut full-length, manages to recall the best of the heavier, more obtuse and rhythmically inventive elements of punk rock from the past thirty years, as well as the kind of formative-influence-stuff alot of current artsy, heavy bands don't wanna acknowledge: Rage, Wu-Tang, nu-metal, Michael Jackson, The Beach Boys, and contemporary pop radio.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Nurses
ARTIST / BAND: Nurses
SONG (MP3): "Fever Dreams"
ALBUM: Dracula
FILE UNDER: Indie
LABEL: Dead Oceans
INFO:Nurses return with Dracula, the follow-up to their 2009 homemade psych gem Apple's Acre. Dracula is steeped in the strange pop brew that bore Apple's Acre, with the band's unmistakable elastic melodies, heady pop hooks and unconventional knack for catchy songwriting that gets under your skin. But where Apple's Acre was an insular album, recorded primarily in an attic in Idaho using just an internal Macbook microphone and primitive recording software, Dracula is bursting. It's bolder, heavier, with deep grooves, dubby basslines and a focus on rhythm. It's an album with pure physical qualities. Apple's Acre was an album made for headphones; Dracula needs a sound system. What has not changed is the undeniable constant in Nurses' body of work: their immediate and catchy pop songs. The band embraces hooks and melodies--yes, they turn them upside down and inside out--but at their core, the band (and Dracula) are defined by pop songwriting.read more from the source...
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Witches
ARTIST / BAND: Witches
SONGs (MP3): "Count to Ten" / "Black Dog" /"Creature of Nature"
ALBUM: Forever
FILE UNDER: Indie, rock
LABEL: Bakery Outlet Records
INFO:Punk by allegiance and attitude, pop by virtue of their wistful melodicism, Witches are a band borne of singularly American originality. Cara Beth Satalino is a New York-born chanteuse with a rougher than typical edge. Michael Clancy, a fellow Yankee, is a self-taught drummer of natural ability and feel. Jared Gandy, veteran of Athens groups with both DIY punk and Elephant Six Collective pedigree alike, rounds out the band's lineup on bass guitar. The band takes touches of the Breeders' feminine boldness, Des Ark's brusque emotional stance, and the wide-open, true rock n' roll worldliness of Midwestern punk idols the Replacements. read more from the source...
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Yourself and The Air
ARTIST / BAND: Yourself and The Air
SONG (MP3)Trampolines
ALBUM: Who's Who In The Zoo EP
FILE UNDER: Indie Pop
LABEL: Hands Organics Records / lujo records
INFO: Hailing from Chicago’s lower west side, Yourself And The Air combine Midwest atmospherics with the sweeping sprawl of a skyward city built on electricity and steel. Take flight over Lake Michigan and this is your soundtrack. Songs to think to. Songs to dream to. At one moment the infinitesimal line between water and sky, the next the buzzing neons of the boulevard at night, escaping crowded bars for desolate alleys — you and a memory, Yourself And The Air.read more from the source...
Thursday, June 23, 2011
The Luyas
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Pepper Rabbit
ARTIST / BAND: Pepper Rabbit
MP3: 'Rose Mary Stretch'
FILE UNDER: Pop / Psychedelic
LABEL: Kanine Records
INFO: While they now live in Los Angeles, Pepper Rabbit was practically born in New Orleans. In fact, the NOLA sessions for their debut LP (Beauregard) left such a lasting impression on the young duo that it continues to haunt this summer’s Red Velvet Snow Ball album, from the surreal art on its sleeve to the cake-flavored snow cone that gave the mind-expanding record its name.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
The End Records Summer Sampler
2. Dreaming Light - Anathema
3. Unprofessional Wrestling - Art Brut
4. Utopia - Brendan Perry
5. Only Man - Audio Bullys
6. This Electric - Badly Drawn Boy
7. The Great God Pan! - Spirits Of The Dead
8. Beautiful Now - James Maddock
9. My Foolish Pride - The Charlatans UK
10. Underneath - Tarja
11. The Great Disruptors - Sweethead
12. Wicked Self - Too Late The Hero
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Peter Wolf Crier
ARTIST / BAND: Peter Wolf Crier
SONG (MP3): "Right Away"
ALBUM: Garden of Arm
FILE UNDER: Indie Rock
LABEL: Jagjaguwar
INFO:It is not so much a sound as a spirit. You don't need to name it to know it or to trust it. Peter Wolf Crier's second album Garden of Arms is a document that paints a vivid portrait of all the pain and beauty of growth. Written with the at-home repose demanded by performing a hundred shows in six months, these eleven tracks were nurtured from their hushed origins with a new-found footing of confidence and experimentation. Adapting the tenets of the grinding live show, the duo of Peter Pisano and Brian Moen transformed the fuzzy distortion, rolling and crashing drums, and laser-focused purposefulness into an intensely dynamic yet supremely polished album. read more from the source...
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Future Islands
ARTIST / BAND: Future Islands
MP3: Before The Bridge
FILE UNDER: post wave
LABEL: Thrill Jockey
INFO: Too many bands in the era of buzz and the blog are taken before their time. The spotlight hits hard and finds a group who has not yet developed, not yet put in the work to find their sound and hone it and make themselves better, and just as quickly they’re gone. Future Islands are not one of those bands.
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
HOLY OTHER
Holy Other is a Mancunian musician based in Berlin.
The sound he creates are hyper-aggressive, violent but amazingly calming that feels like slow, pulverizing pounds of lush, raw ambient surrounded by drones and screwed samples then drained by layers of orchestral soul enshrined in burial inspired dubstep beats.
mp3s:
Holy Other :: Touch
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
My Morning Jacket
ARTIST / BAND: My Morning Jacket
ALBUM: Circuital
FILE UNDER: Psychedelic rock
LABEL: ATO Records
INFO: “The new record, Circuital, is named after the title song,” explains Jim James, of My Morning Jacket’s sixth studio album. “On that song I sing about ending up in the same place where you started out. And that makes a lot of sense for this album… I hate the phrase ‘going back to our roots’, but for this record we came home and made it in Kentucky. And it just felt a lot like it did when we were first starting out…”
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Making Friendz
ARTIST / BAND: Making Friendz
MP3: "Situation" / Situation (Teen Wolf Mix)
ALBUM: Social Life
FILE UNDER: lo-fi punk/ pop
LABEL: Last Bummer Records
INFO: Nearly ten years after her two solo records, New York Times “Artist to Watch” Tami Hart is back with the debut album from the latest of her many projects, Making Friendz.Social Life, her much anticipated return, is a sweet, sweaty mixture of lo-fi punk and glossy pop, R&B and disco, rooted in a spirit of collaboration with fellow artists and friends. But make no mistake, Making Friendz is Tami Hart.
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