
Howth – Only Right Turns [mp3] (from Newkirk , out now on Mecca Lecca Recordings ) With a Minnesota heart and a Brooklyn head, indie folksters Howth make what they refer to as "Loud Space Folk". If you like Great Lake Swimmers , check out Howth . Mission of Burma – Dust Devil [mp3] (from Unsound , out July 10 th on Fire Records ) [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Every Sunday Daily Downloads features 10 performances that span a single artist's music career. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Arc in Round : "Hallowed" [mp3] from Arc in Round (out June 26th) search for more Arc in Round posts at Largehearted Boy [...]

So many new releases, so little time. Here are a few guaranteed to brighten up a Friday. Loving this new track, Yatton from Beak> in all its hypnotic, krautrock inspired glory. From a new album due in the summer. a In a similar vein, Arc In Round's self-titled debut LP, being released June 26, by La Société Expéditionnaire , reflects a sensibility garnered from endless hours of studio tracking and hypnotic experimentation - think Stereolab meets Broadcast with the [...]

Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending April 29 - May 5. This week's #1 goes to a split single with Xiu Xiu that was recently released on Record Store Day. It is Dirty Beaches with a Francoise Hardy cover. The song is dark, gloomy and creepy which is what I love! There are four new debuts from Purity Ring and The Danks. (whose debut album "Are You Afraid Of The Danks" is getting a release in the USA on May 22, 2012) Check it out! [...]
Here's the playlist from today's My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! Turn your dial to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM at 12pm ET to listen! You can also listen tonight Midnight ET. Listen online with a free trial here . Check out this week's playlist below! Suckers - Turn On The Sunshine Burnt Ones - Meet The Golden One Arc In Round - Hallowed [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Grooms, Women, Young Prisms Song: Arc in Round - Hallowed [download here ] What's so good? Philadelphia's Arc in [...]

This piece of new music from Arc in Round has left us winded. It's called Hallowed and it's like a sonic punch to the stomach that you can't help but enjoy. It's taken from the band's forthcoming self-titled album, which is due out soon via La Société Expéditionnaire . Have a listen to it here: Hallowed

I'm really excited by the possibilities in music nowadays, especially with the layering of various instruments and the varying movements within tracks. With that in mind, take a listen to this new jam from Arc In Round ; you'll find this song on their self-titled debut, which hits stores on June 5th via La Societe Expeditionnaire . There's all sort of things occurring within the track, not to mention the actual main piece of music itself, and it all works, it's all unified. Perhaps I just like to see how [...]
What's with this thematic time of the year thing being totally off with artists' releases? A couple days ago we got some new tracks from Wintermitts, and now we're getting a helluva dark song from Arc in Round called "Hallowed." This would have been a perfect release on, say, October 31. But noooo, indie musicians have to buck the norm and we have to expected the unexpected. Whatever, yo. Check out "Hallowed" below, featuring Kurt Vile on trumpet (which sounds awesome in this song), off Arc in Round's forthcoming s/t album. The album will be out June 5 on [...]

Philly's purveyors of krauty darkpop, Arc In Round are getting ready to release their self-titled debut LP. It comes out on the 5th of June via La Société Expéditionnaire . This here is track number six. It features Chris Ward from Pattern is Movement on drums and Kurt Vile on trumpet. Listen. Downloadable: Hallowed (mp3) Arc in Round will be available @ la-soc.com at some point in the near future. The LP looks something like [...]
Take a listen to the rad, eerie first single from Arc In Round called "Hallowed" off their forthcoming self-titled LP that will be released on June 5 via La Société Expéditionnaire. The track also features Kurt Vile on trumpet. You can check out the album's track listing below. Enjoy! Arc In Round track listing: 1. || 2. One-Sided 3. <<>> 4. Said Astray 5. Volume Sets All the Time 6. Hallowed [...]

Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the January 2011 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Constant Future [...]

>> Mike Quinn was smoking with the boys upstairs when he heard about the whole affair. And then he recorded a warped version of Steely Dan 's "My Old School," which seems like a nice way to kick off 2012 here at Ye Olde Blogge. Mr. Quinn's version shuffles slowly, drunkenly, a bit like the title track to Arcade Fire 's The Suburbs , slack-key guitar briefly trading spaces with Richardsian licks. It's highly enjoyable. We last heard from Quinn in July, when he issued the charming solo set Magico , which we wrote [...]

Bleeding Rainbow performs at The Level Room on Dec. 31st FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30th Gandalf Murphy And The Slambovian Circus of Dreams at World Cafe Live (7:30 p.m., $30–$40); Mock Suns + Music Box Dynamo, Phantasm, Man The Fire at Milkboy Philly (9:30 p.m., 21+, $8–$10); Orbit to Leslie + The Circadian Rhythms, Your Children Is Beautiful (9:15 p.m., 21+, $10); Thursday + mewithoutYou, Screaming Females, Make Do And Mend at Theatre Of Living Arts (6 p.m., SOLD OUT) SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31st [...]

Over here at The Key, we've been vocal supporters of the Bands In The Backyard gang. Needless to say, I was pretty psyched when they invited me to DJ at their December party (this Saturday at Little Bar ), and thought I'd extend the same courtesy by inviting one of the bands on the bill to guest DJ on XPN22s Philly Local Second Shift. The group that took me up on it was Streetwalkers , featuring BITBY co-founder Kyle Costill on keyboards, and tonight the fivesome takes to the internet / HD airwaves with a fine [...]

The War on Drugs Three smoke-'em-if-you-got-'em reasons to hit up Lincoln Hall tonight... 1. Philadelphia indie rockers T he War On Drugs may not be from Chicago, but the outfit is certainly reminscient of local Americana-rockers Wilco with its penchant for alt-country rhythms. Frontman Adam Granduciel takes from plenty of influences including Bob Dylan and even the spacey tones of shoegazers My Bloody Valentine to create a sound you never knew you wanted to hear, synth-folk. WATCH: " Baby Missiles ." [...]
Photo by Kristie Lee Krause Philadelphia dream-pop quartet Arc in Round has signed to Pennsylvania's La Société Expéditionnaire record label. According to the band's Twitter, the group plans to release its first full-length LP early next year under the label. Since offering its second EP, II , earlier this year, the group has since been gaining traction around town and touring nationally with The War On Drugs. (Thanks to The Deli for the heads up.) You can listen to Arc In Round's Key Studio Session (from earlier this year) here .
From the BITBY site : You can read John Vettese's interview with Dave Kain and Kyle Costill of Bands In The Backyard here .

Photo by Madeleine Lesperance The Key Studio Sessions Compilation Volume 2 —which you can download for free here —features one exclusive track recorded at the WXPN studios by 17 local acts, including Arc In Round, Dutch, The National Rifle, Denison Witmer, Hop Along, Matt Duke, Catnaps, Penrose, Arches, Lantern, Nicos Gun, Restorations, Ages, Sisters 3, The War On Drugs, Sonni Shine And The Underwater Sounds, and Work Drugs. Want to hear more? Click here to listen to the full sessions by all 17 local acts. You can also download [...]