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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Ghost Bees

ARTIST / BAND: Ghost Bees

SONG (MP3): Vampire of the West Coast

ALBUM: Tasseomancy

FILE UNDER: Indie / Folk / Shoegaze

LABEL: Youth Club Records

INFO: Romy and Sari Lightman are the founding members of the Halifax based folk group, Ghost Bees. The twin sisters have been playing music together and writing songs for as long as they can remember. Their sound has been referred to by critics as an "eclectic brand of spooky folk", with musical comparisions to the avante garde, hand-spun tales of Joanna Newsom and the dark and playful harmonies of CocoRosie. Ghost Bees follow in similiar form, weaving delicate, haunting vocals accompanied by uncoventional, bold and poetic prose. They have been noted in reviews by Canada's Walk of Fame, as an up-and coming band involved
in the "midst of Halifax's musical renaissance" amongst the "stream of burgeoning folk-inspired bands who are carving out their own paths within the indie folk scene".

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David Ramos

ARTIST / BAND: David Ramos

SONG (MP3): Kings and Queens

ALBUM: This Up Here

FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Pop / Hip Hop

LABEL: Fake Four Inc.

INFO: I finished this record early in the summer. But, because of some personal situations I have not been really thinking about much besides my family. However, things are getting much better and I am once again starting to think about music. My brother and eye are playing and preparing for the never ending/never to be released new Anonymous Inc record. Ceschi is writing a lot of new songs that are sounding really "prog." Speaking of "prog," I was recently in Modern Drummer where they named me one of the top ten prog drummers. Its funny cause I don't really think I am a prog drummer, but its nice to be in a magazine that I used to read when I was 12. Anyways......my record is done, and I put up a song that Ceschi sang on. It is called "one last stop."
ok I hope someone listens.

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The Boy Bathing

ARTIST / BAND: The Boy Bathing

SONG (MP3): the beaches meet the sea

ALBUM: AFTMP MASTER v1

FILE UNDER: Indie / Emo / Folk

LABEL: Cuddlecore

INFO: The Boy Bathing is an indie rock, emo, folk band from New York City. Their music focuses on prolific lyricism, extravagant arrangements and dramatic live performances. The band is fundamentally comprised of four members who use a variety of sounds to create micro-worlds out of the story or imagery of each song.
The first full-length record by The Boy Bathing is called “A Fire to Make Preparations” and it was completed in the fall of 2007 after almost two years of recording. Other songs of theirs have been featured on several European and US compilations alongside The Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens and Jens Lenkman.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Anthem In

ARTIST / BAND: Anthem In

SONG (MP3): Hold on to me

ALBUM: Anthem In

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Quiet/Loud Records

INFO: Allen Orr and Ashley Proffitt met in the fall of 2000 in Atlanta and instantly became fans of each other’s music. Allen was in the band Igloo and Ashley was playing quiet solo shows. Over the next seven years the two of them each moved several times to different cities and countries, only to reconnect in New York. Allen had a bunch of songs, Ashley had a Wurlitzer and one thing led to another.

On September 15th of 2007, Allen and Ashley met in a rehearsal space in the Lower East Side, exactly seven years to the day after the two of them met for the first time in Atlanta. They bonded over a mutual love of Def Leppard’s Hysteria, and Anthem In was born.

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The Instruments

ARTIST / BAND: The Instruments

SONG (MP3): Ode To The Sea

ALBUM: Dark Småland

FILE UNDER: Indie / Experimental / Folk

LABEL: Orange Twin

INFO: McIntosh has been a staple of the Athens music scene for the past decade. She is a classically trained cellist and earned her bachelor's degree in music from the University of Georgia. She is currently a member of the Athens' bands Circulatory System, Elf Power and Japancakes and has also played or recorded with bands such as Superchunk, Of Montreal, The Gerbils, and Kevin Ayers.

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The Terrordactyls

ARTIST / BAND: The Terrordactyls

SONG (MP3): Overcast Summer

ALBUM: Mike Bowers EP

FILE UNDER: Indie / Powerpop / Acoustic

LABEL: Don't Stop Believin', Pankof, Rallytime

INFO: Originally a quartet, The Terrodactyls once featured Brendhan Bowers on drums and Scott Yoder on guitar. The two eventually left the band because they were no longer willing to participate in the rigorous daily regimens of weight lifting and jumping jacks required by the group’s image consultant, Extremeline.

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Constantines

ARTIST / BAND: Constantines

SONG (MP3): Hard Feelings

ALBUM: Kensington Heights

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Arts&Crafts:

INFO: The first pressing of the Constantines' self-titled debut (released on Canadian indie Three Gut Records in 2001) was fittingly packaged so that, upon opening the red cardstock booklet, you'd find a single strike-anywhere match. In an effort to not ruin the beauty and poignancy of a thing with a guided tour of its finer points and implications, suffice it to say that if your relationship with rock and roll is not fundamentally a quest for fire (elemental, transformative, consuming), you've utterly missed the point.

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Pattern is Movement

ARTIST / BAND: Pattern is Movement

SONG (MP3): Bird

ALBUM: All Together

FILE UNDER: Indie / Nu-Jazz

LABEL: Hometapes

INFO: Pattern is Movement is an American indie rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and established in 2001. The group's music often features repeating patterns that show their influence from minimalism. They have been categorized by some reviewers as a math rock group, and compared to groups such as Don Caballero, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Pinback. All of the group's members have a background in classical music.[1]

In 2006, producer/engineer Scott Solter (who has worked with John Vanderslice and the Mountain Goats) remixed the 2005 album Stowaway, which he had also recorded. This remix was considered unique due to its exclusivity to analog processes--Solter is credited on the album with "machines, razors, tape."[2]

As of 2008, Pattern is Movement are performing as a two-piece. The band are due to emerge with a new album documenting the lineup in the spring of 2008, also recorded with Solter.[3]

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Daniel Ahearn

ARTIST / BAND: Daniel Ahearn

SONG (MP3): Down for the count

ALBUM: Pray for me by name

FILE UNDER: Americana / Electroacoustic

Tilly and the Wall

ARTIST / BAND: Tilly and the Wall

SONG (MP3): Cacophony

ALBUM: O

FILE UNDER: Pop / Indie / Folk

LABEL: Moshi Moshi

INFO: The group formed in 2001 after the demise of several Omaha groups, including Conor Oberst's Park Ave., of which Neely Jenkins and Jamie Pressnall (then Jamie Williams) were members. Jamie brought along Kianna Alarid from another band that broke up called Magic Kiss. Derek Pressnall and Nick White, natives of Dunwoody, Georgia were drawn to the music scene in Omaha, Nebraska and moved. [1]

Their first show was an open-mic night at the now defunct Ranch Bowl. Their first release, Woo!, was recorded in Conor Oberst's garage, self-published, and distributed at shows around the Omaha area. The group released a limited-pressing eponymous 7" on Rue Royale Records, followed by their debut LP, Wild Like Children in 2004. It was the flagship release on Oberst's Team Love label and made with the help of Presto studios. Wild Like Children garnered the band a substantial amount of critical acclaim and propelled them to national tours with Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, and Of Montreal. In early 2005, Tilly and the Wall became the first "band in residence" at Omaha's Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, using the Bemis Underground's Studio T to develop their follow-up album to Wild Like Children.

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James Pants

ARTIST / BAND: James Pants

SONG (MP3): We're Through

ALBUM: Welcome

FILE UNDER: R&B / Rap / New Wave

LABEL: Stones Throw Records

INFO: THE YEAR IS 2001 AND THE PLACE IS TEXAS. Stones Throw head honcho Peanut Butter Wolf is DJing while a sharply dressed young man approaches the DJ Booth with his Prom date in tow to formally introduce himself. Thus begins the story of James Pants.

What began as a dream Prom night to see his hero DJ went to an internship at the label to eventually landing the ultimate fantasy by being signed to the roster and championed as the ‘next big thing’ by none other than Peanut Butter Wolf himself – on top of critics like Busy P, Urb, XLR8R, & Dazed & Confused Magazines.

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The Submarines

ARTIST / BAND: The Submarines

SONG (MP3): You, Me, & The Bourgeoisie

ALBUM: Honeysuckle Weeks

FILE UNDER: Folk / Shoegaze

LABEL: Nettwerk

INFO: The Submarines are an indie pop band from Los Angeles, California. Working as solo artists in Boston, the two members of the band, John Dragonetti and Blake Hazard, were introduced through a mutual friend. Dragonetti and Hazard soon become romantically involved, and toured Europe together as members of each other's band. The relationship lasted for four years, but ended in the fall of 2004 when the pair moved to L.A.^[1] After the break-up, both Hazard and Dragonetti continued writing songs, and because Hazard still recorded her music in Dragonetti's home studio, the pair quickly discovered the songs they had written were about each other and their sadness in having broken up. Knowing this, the duo decided to work on a few songs together and eventually got back together. Declare a New State, The Submarines' first album, is what came out of these recording sessions. The album was mastered by a friend as a wedding present, and released in 2006 on the Nettwerk label.^[2]

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Head of Femur

ARTIST / BAND: Head of Femur
SONG (MP3): Jetway Junior
ALBUM: Great Plains
FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop / Experimental
LABEL: Greyday Records
INFO: Head of Femur is a Chicago band formed in November of 2001 by Nebraska natives Mike Elsener, Ben Armstrong and Matt Focht. The band was initially conceived as a forum for the three to compose pop songs while awaiting the reformation of their previous band, Pablo's Triangle. As the weeks passed the reformation looked unlikely.
With a large catalog of songs already taking shape by early 2002, Head of Femur began to recruit musicians to flesh out the lineup for live performance. The nature of the music demanded more than the traditional rock band instrumentation, so strings, trumpet, and orchestral percussion were added along with drums and bass guitar. Head of Femur played their first show at a small club in Chicago in March of 2002. They made plans to record a demo with local producer Jim Bentley and perform at Chicago's Empty Bottle.
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Mostly Bears

ARTIST / BAND: Mostly Bears

SONG (MP3): Melancholyism

ALBUM: The Ed Mitchell Clinic

FILE UNDER: Rock / Experimental / Psychedelic

LABEL: funzalo records

INFO: Formed a little over one year ago, this eclectic and lively trio merged right into the Tucson music scene and seemingly took it over. Talent like this doesn’t stay a secret for long. What takes most bands years to achieved seemingly occurred overnight for Mostly Bears. They scored a record deal, signed with booking agency Lost Barrio Artists, began to chart on college radio with an E.P. and served as the supporting band for indie rockers And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead.

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Temposhark

ARTIST / BAND: Temposhark

SONG (MP3): Crime

ALBUM: The Invisible Line

FILE UNDER: Electronica / Pop / Rock

LABEL: Defend Music Inc

INFO: London-based electronic rock band Temposhark was formed in December 2004 by singer/songwriter Rob Diament and producer Luke Busby. The band immediately set up its own record label Paper and Glue as a means of releasing a series of limited edition singles; the first of which was the critically acclaimed EP Neon Question Mark. An instant hit with the UK underground, Temposhark, quickly collaborated on a duet with singer Imogen Heap (Frou Frou) and received club remixes from electro pioneers including Cursor Miner, Mark Moore (S'Express), Avril (F Communications), Metronomy, Melnyk, Crispin J Glover, Noblesse Oblige (Horse Glue) and hip-hop artists Border Crossing and Akira The Don

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Monday, April 14, 2008

MUZORAMA playlist 13 april

RADIO MUZORAMA IS BROADCAST WEEKLY ON RADIO FORTUNA (FM106.9 , TBILISI , GEORGIA) PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

LISTEN TO THE SHOW’S ARCHIVE

KITES - HEROES AND VILLAINS

THIS IS IVY LEAGUE - LONDON BRIDGES

LEMURIA - DOG - DOGS

LEE EVERTON - I FEEL LIKE DANCING

COMMON MARKET - BLACK PATCH WAR

CARTRIDGE - THE WOODS

MARBERT ROCEL - TTTICTICTAC

IN THE PINES - DRESS ON FIRE

MORNING STATE - OH YEAH

EVEREST - REBELS IN THE ROSES

JANE VAIN AND THE DARK MATTER - LOVE IS WHERE THE SMOKE IS

BESS ROGERS - SUNDAY

SHELLEY SHORT - SWIMMING

BROOKE WAGGONER - HUSH IF YOU MUST

LAURA CANTRELL - LOVE VIGILANTES

PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Laura Cantrell

ARTIST / BAND: Laura Cantrell

SONG (MP3): Love Vigilantes

ALBUM: Trains and Boats and Planes

FILE UNDER: Country / Alternative

LABEL: Matador Records

INFO: Trains and Boats and Planes features Cantrell’s first new recordings in three years, ending a temporary hiatus during which her attentions were focused on raising her new daughter. The new, all-covers collection adds a vibrant new chapter to the artist’s distinctive, deeply personal body of work, which has artfully merged her lifelong affinity for American country and folk traditions with an unmistakably contemporary sensibility. The result is timelessly resonant music that’s unmistakably personal and thoroughly original.

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SHELLEY SHORT

ARTIST / BAND: SHELLEY SHORT

SONG (MP3): Swimming

ALBUM: Water For The Day

FILE UNDER: Indie / Folk / Pop

LABEL: hush records

INFO: After recording Oh Say Little Dogies, Why? (Keep Recordings, 2003) in the desert of New Mexico and the industrial area of Portland, Oregon, Shelley Short left art school in the Pacific Northwest and headed eastward to Chicago for no good reason. Pressed in limited quantity, Oh Say Little Dogies, Why? reached an extensive musical network, building critical momentum along the way.

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Jane Vain & the Dark Matter!

ARTIST / BAND: Jane Vain & the Dark Matter!

SONG (MP3): C'mon Baby Say Bang Bang

ALBUM: love is where the smoke is

FILE UNDER: Indie / Electro / Pop

LABEL: rectangle records

INFO: From somewhere beneath the swelling strings and synths, the angular guitars and pulsating beats, cleaves the voice of Jamie Fooks of Jane Vain & the Dark Matter. In early 2003, Fooks started writing songs by her self in her basement apartment, to deal with the remaining demons of a reckless adolescence. Somewhat deterred by an open mic night that ended in tears, Fooks was encouraged to continue performing by the support of friends, and the interest of current guitar player Dillon Whitfield (of Raccoon). With the addition of Whitfield’s haphazard guitar playing, the foundation of Jane Vain & the Dark Matter was laid.

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Everest

ARTIST / BAND: Everest

SONG (MP3): Rebels In The Roses

ALBUM: Ghost Notes

FILE UNDER: Rock / Indie / Acoustic

LABEL: Vapor Records

INFO: Everest is a group of Los Angeles music community alumni and friends who decided to create music together. The result is the album Ghost Notes, to be released by Vapor Records on May 6, 2008. Everest was formed by Russell Pollard (vocals, guitar, drums), J. Soda (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Rob Douglas (bass, vocals), and Joel Graves (guitar, keyboards, vocals), with the help of friend and drummer Davey Latter. Kevin Bronson of the Los Angeles Times observed that the band members “sport resumes longer than the intro to ‘Cortez The Killer’” and it’s true – these guys have spent time in bands such as Sebadoh, the Folk Implosion, Earlimart, Mike Stinson, Slydell, John Vanderslice, and the Watson Twins.

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