In an era of cynicism and snark, Lambke is shockingly honest and straight forward. He refuses to hide behind cliches, opting to forge a connection with the listener on equal footing. That clarity help Lambke deliver his metaphors with the impact of Thor's hammer. Sonically, Bone Soldiers is of the moment, but lyrically, these songs could be bound and pressed. Headphones could just as easily be replaced with licked thumbed page turns. It's too easy to hear the grit and the sinewy textures The Proud Mothers offer up and label this output [...]
In case you missed Part One of this week's Best New Releases, you definitely what to start there first. That playlist offers terrific new singles from The Magnetic Fields, Andrew Bird, Said The Whale, White Rabbits, Bowerbirds, and many others. For the most part, this playlist features all of the other new singles from albums [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
An interesting crop of new releases this week. Here is what we're raiding the change jar for. Baby Eagle & The Proud Mothers; Baby Eagle & The Proud Mothers; Brave Women Bowerbirds; The Clearing Bowerbirds; Tuck The Darkness In Ceremony; Zoo Ceremony; Hysteria Dinowalrus; [...]
March roars in like a lion with this week's release by Ceremony - yeah, there are like two or three bands with that name, but this is the thrashy hard-core one, rather than the mopey shoegazy one. On their fourth album, produced by Seattle's own John Goodmanson, this California band evolves into what our Music Director, Don Yates, calls "an intense and expansive blend of classic '70s punk and bristling '80s post-punk, with bands like Wire, Mission of Burma and the Sex Pistols being major touchstones on this consistently stellar set of songs ranging from explosive punk ragers [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Baby Eagle & The Proud Mothers, Bowerbirds, Kitty Clementine, Tim Foljahn, Good Old War, Paper Beat Scissors, Elfin Saddle, Jonathan Segel, Said The Whale, Juston Stens and Lissy Trullie. Also, vote for your favorite of today's new releases.
Imagine if you would, an album, where the songs have anthropomorphized, each with its own personality and style. They could be sitting around a boardroom table, or standing with champagne flutes in hand at a swanky party, but this particular group of songs is most likely sitting on mis-matched patio furniture around a bonfire pit in someone's backyard on an August night, beer in hand, ball cap pulled down low. There's an easy banter, a back and forth conversation between the songs, not completely linear, but most definitely connected. They're each on the same wave length, but they've all got [...]
Milton Nascimento - "Cravo e Canela" . With his spice shop, Luis thought that he would get all the girls. Pots of nutmeg, jars of cinnamon peel: all this latent eroticism, he thought, all this sublimated sex. Instead, the spice shop was mostly hard work. It was mostly figuring out the cash-register. This was not some garden of earthly delights; it was a business of shavings, powders, pods, seeds, euros per gram. At first Luis was disappointed, returning home at the end of the day, but then his wife turned him around. [ buy ] [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. NoiseTrade has quickly become one of my go to destinations for free and legal music from a variety of genres, here are 10 recently added releases. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Baby Eagle & the Proud Mothers : "Brave Women" [mp3] from Bone [...]
If you're a frequent visitor here, then you'll no doubt already be familiar with You've Changed Records and their impressive catalogue of releases these past few years. Someone once accused my of only writing about the label's music because co-founders Daniel Romano and Ian Kehoe are from my hometown of Welland, Ontario. My response: "Get your head outta your ass, and listen to these records and try telling me You've Change isn't putting out some of the best Canadian music in a decade." Like Arts & Crafts before them, the inter-connectedness of You've Changed's roster has been steadily building a [...]
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