To round off the Music Liberation's Writers takeover week we have Moker ... "Well this is a little surprising. Looking back at the artists I've managed to review in 2011, the one thing that's abundantly clear is that I've heavily favoured music with female vocals and showgaze, layered guitars. This must be some kind of subconscious shift in my tastes as I'd never have normally ticked such boxes if I had to describe my favourite music. [...]
We begin our round up of this year with our top 5 tracks that we reviewed in 2011. This will be followed later this week by our top 5 EPs, Music Liberation writers picks of the year, and finally our top 10 albums of the year... 1. Cloud Nothings - No Future / No Past // Reviewed November 18th by Jon Sidwell "Beginning in a haunting fashion with distant [...]
It was the year of the reunion/comeback. So many big artists came back together to put out one more album. Maybe I'm just getting older and there are more bands under my belt who have the potential to reunite...but this honestly has to be the most reunions I can remember in awhile. The strongest outing by far was by The Cars...and they seemed to have the most stacked against them. Missing
Their set featured: Nightwatch Asian Pear The Catacombs Download all tracks here. Acrylics recently debuted a video for 'Sparrow Song'. Purchase Acrylics items via Insound. MP3: Acrylics - Sparrow Song
It's Friday, at long last. Not because I've been working so hard (I'm currently jobless) but because shit is happening this weekend and I've been bored. As I've not been working I've been able to catch up on all sorts of music, new and old, and I thought I'd share some of it with you. It's a varied mix, from Swedish alt-rock to some West Coast lo fi to one of my favourite Latin songs. Anyway, peruse, listen, browse and do any number of other things with the music. Finally, be sure to buy anything you like. To [...]
A few years ago I went to New York. Whilst there I spent a night or two in some indie clubs to get hideously drunk and to see what the city's own take on the whole indie-rock thang was. Turns out it's almost exactly the same as here (the toilets are just as disgusting) but the major difference was that they played a lot more alternative British music. I guess as it wasn't home grown it was seen as more exotic, which was surprising as this was when The Stokes were huge, people were still excited about [...]
Brooklyn duo Acrylics recently released their debut album 'Lives and Treasure' on Gung-Ho! Recordings in the UK . They sent along their first single "Molly's Vertigo" which they are giving away as a free download and it is one pretty indie pop track with a little disco tinge that could get it some dance floor love. They've gotten some great reviews so far including one on NME where they called their music "Teen heartache [...]
Theres been plenty of significant interest in what Kurt Feldman has been doing over the last couple of years. You may recognize him from his drumming in The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart or for his guitar/vocal work in Depreciation Guild . You may not, however, know that hes teamed up with Raphael Radna( Depreciation Guild ) as well as a couple others and formed himself a little electro-pop band called Ice Choir . While Ice Choir still has yet to release anything formally, they have recorded [...]
Theres been plenty of significant interest in what Kurt Feldman has been doing over the last couple of years. You may recognize him from his drumming in The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart or for his guitar/vocal work in Depreciation Guild . You may not, however, know that hes teamed up with Raphael Radna( Depreciation Guild ) as well as a couple others and formed himself a little electro-pop band called Ice Choir . While Ice Choir still has yet to release anything formally, they have recorded [...]
Recorded for Japan is a compilation album containing songs recorded between April and June 2011 to aid the victims of the earthquake, resulting tsunami, and nuclear emergency that happened on March 11th, 2011 in Japan. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this compilation will go directly towards the continuing recovery and reconstruction effort, specifically the Japanese Red Cross. The album features the contributions of Acrylics, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Beige, Chairlift, Erika Spring, Ice Choir, Kurt Vile, K. Heasley, Kuroma, Pablo Picasso, Patrick Cleandenim, Regal Degal, R. Stevie Moore (feat. Members of MGMT), and Violens. [...]
Brooklyn band Acrylics have made their single 'Molly's Vertigo' available to download for free. The unashamed pop track is taken from the band's debut album, 'Lives and Treasure', which is out now.
Hey! Thought we forgot about this, eh? Nah... Next time I leave the country for a month, I will also leave access to the hard drive where all my files are located. So we're still aiming to re-post all of the Blogophilia volumes by summer's end. Today we have volumes 5 & 6, which feature promotional MP3s available during May and June of 2009. As always, these are gapless mixes with cover art. These are only up for a limited time, so get them now! - [...]
Esta vez disfrutamos de las últimas ediciones musicales de Bon Iver ( Bon Iver ), L'altra ( Telephatic ), The Leisure Society ( Into the murky waters ), Acrylics ( Lives and treasure ); Emanuele Errante ( Time elapsing handheld ) y My Dad Vs. Yours ( Little symphonies ). MP3: Super45 Podcast # 625 (19 junio, 2011) Suscríbete al Podcast de Super45 Suscríbete al Podcast de Super45 en iTunes
Domingo 19.06.2011 Radio Duna 89.7 23:00 hrs. En una nueva edición de super 45, podremos disfrutar de las últimas ediciones musicales de Bon Iver ( Bon Iver ), L'altra ( Telephatic ), The Leisure Society ( Into the murky waters ), Acrylics ( Lives and treasure ); Emanuele Errante ( Time elapsing handheld ) y My Dad Vs. Yours ( Little symphonies ). Recuerden que pueden suscribirse al podcast de Super 45 desde Radio Duna o copiando esta URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/Su per45Podcast en [...]
I don't know if this Brooklyn based duo deliberately set out to look and sound like the 802s but they've achieved it none the less. And in keeping with relics from that decade it seems Acrylics signed to an old fashioned label. The label in question, Terrible Records, is run by Chris Taylor from Grizzly Bear and together they produced a 10-inch white vinyl archival of their 'All Of The Fire' EP. Perfectly quaint I think you'll agree, but then it had to be to house such pastoral delights as 'Counting Sheep' (used for blog effect as the song only [...]
I know it's wrong to do things this way, but I knew when I saw their name, that I would like Acrylics. When I listened to a couple of songs, and then the whole album Lives & Treasure (which can be bought here or here ), I quickly decided that I was right. The vocalists, Molly Shea and Jason Klauber play off of eachother in their duets and also create beautiful songs when singing alone. I think my favorite Jason song is called Counting Sheep (which I don't have permission to [...]
Photo Gallery: Junip w/ Acrylics at El Rey Theatre Live on May 6, 2011 Photos by Tony Molina for The Scenestar
Catch Acrylics on their North American tour. Watch 'Sparrow Song' here. Lives & Treasure is out now. Follow 'em on Twitter. Purchase Acrylics items via Insound. This Awesome Guy Runs Cedar Cultural Center In Minneapolis Junip - True Swedish Nationalists Doing The Mister Natural Walk [...]
Date Tuesday, May 10th Location Mohawk Doors 630 pm Tickets $12 from Transmission Most people might not recognize the name Junip , as it hasn't quite become a household name, but surely you'll all recognize one of the principle songwriters in the band, Jose Gonzalez . The Swedish group [...]
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