As we have previously reported, Spanish Prisoners are getting ready to self-release their second LP of psychedelic pop, Gold Fools . Back in July, we posted a stream of this song , but now we have it available for download. Listen. Downloadable: Know No Violence (mp3) ( as seen ) You can also pay-what-you-want for the Spanish Prisoners ' Los Angeles Guitar Dream single w/ remixes from RAC and Blind Man's Color : Streamable: Los Angeles Guitar Dream [...]
As you probably know, some time this fall, Spanish Prisoners are going to self-release their second long player of psychedelic pop, Gold Fools . Multi-instrumentalist Leo Maymind has been crafting the album over the past couple years along with drummer Michael DiSanto. Here is the first track from the LP that is currently available as a pay-what-you-want digital single @ bandcamp.com right now. Listen. Streamable: Know No Violence (bandcamp) (as seen: here and here ) Know No Violence single by Spanish [...]
Robbie, Lindsay, and Chris of Radical Dads sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? r: Turn Around (mp3) by Lunch . l: Birds of Paradise Lost (mp3) by Conversion Party . Not only did I hear them play it live the other weekend at Cake Shop 's 6th birthday party, my manfriend insists on scatting the bass line, so [...]
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How do I know the summer is officially over? Because all the music industry folks are working. How do I know all the music industry folks are working? Because the Consequence of Sound inbox is chock full of emails, many of which feature brand new mp3s. Thus, our Friday Mixtape is again jam packed. We have new singles from Kanye West, Memory Tapes, Fang Island, and The So So Glos, plus remixes from Ariel Pink and The Gaslamp Killer. And, as always, our partner site, Cover Me , provides a whole bunch of quality covers. So please enjoy everything [...]
by staff Pop Out Player I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. ► Groucho Marx [...]
Not long back we posted a couple of tracks by oddball, indie experimentalists Ball Of Flame Shoot Fire that came from their acclaimed debut album Jokeland . Now, fresh from a couple of shows at the Northside Festival, they've given us this - The Glaive - the first single from their, as yet untitled, new album due out in a few months time. The band most often draw comparisons to bands like Animal Collective , Yeasayer and Man Man and it is easy to see why, [...]
The L Magazine's second annual Northside Festival took place this past Thursday-Sunday, taking over the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods of Brooklyn with an exciting program of music, art, film and theater. On the first two days, we caught Thao & Mirah, Tame Impala, DOM and more. More like it: Northside Festival Day 3, 6/26/10 REVIEW: Northside Festival, Brooklyn, June 11-14, 2009 Live Review: The Hundred Days at The Uptown
by kate maxwell The L Magazine's Northside Festival begins next Thursday, June 24 showcasing more than 300 bands at dozens of venues in north Brooklyn over 4 days. Quiet Color will be curating a show at Bar Matchless on the festival's opening night and we've put together a spectacular lineup; including two bands from the L Mag's 8 Bands You Need to Hear 2010 list. Getting the night started will be Miniboone at 8:30pm, followed by [...]
New Yorkers Ball Of Flame Shoot Fire defy easy classification. Having released their well received, but little heard, debut Jokeland in 2008, their sophomore full-length is due in the autumn. They've spent the time since playing with a range of acts such as Yeasayer , Grizzly Bear and Mates Of State , and they will also be playing Brooklyn's Northside Festival later this month. We have a couple of tasters for you from the debut album, two of their very fine singles: Mugs and Patience . With a [...]
People will tell you that, when writing, never use an exclamation mark if you want humour to be taken seriously. People are stupid. Because if one band ever cried out for an exclamation mark, it's Ball Of Flame Shoot Fire . Perhaps agonising over the punctuation of a band's name is endlessly petty, or, frankly, autistic - or both - but there, I've said it: Ball Of Flame Shoot Fire! is just better. But then if you're a band that writes songs as frolicking and carefree as Patience , [...]
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You can always count on Matt at You Ain't No Picasso to find a sweet bootleg or two, and he's come through for all Radiohead fans again. He's got a link to the band's Haiti benefit show at L.A.'s Music Box last Sunday, and now you have it, too. The setlist spans the band's career (except for Pablo Honey ) and features just a single new track, "Lotus Flower". Still it's a great live set, and it was all for a good cause. Cheers to Matt for passing it along, and a big shout-out to "hardlylurkin" from [...]
With much of the evening's "star power" focused just down the road at the Bell House's Haiti benefit show, Wednesday's wonderful bill at Union Hall nearly went under the radar... nearly . But courtesy of an inspiredly cohesive lineup and an exclamation point of a headlining set by Wild Yaks , all our focus was front and center. Ball of Flame Shoot Fire kicked things off, blending and swapping time changes, genres, instruments, and vocalists to maximize the same sense of crazed disorientation that accompanies hearty doses of Frog Eyes [...]
You know it, we know it (though sometimes we're too wordy for our own good), nowadays it's best to just streamline the message, and our message is this: we get lots of submissions from various artists, labels, and PR folk, and it's honestly impossible to stay on top of it all. There's a ton of good music out there, and the following five bands are just some of the latest to jump out from our inbox; now, we pass them on to you in the simplest format we know: 5 + 5 = 10. Five bands, five songs, 10 words [...]
27 January, 2010 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm Who: Wild Yaks, Steel Phantoms, I'm In You, Ball of Flame Shoot Fire Where: Union Hall Show Info: 21+, 7:30pm, $8 Listen: Steel Phantoms - "The Bleeds"
Pittsburgh and New York City area band Ball of Flame Shoot Fire sound intoxicatingly manic on their new LP Jokeland (pronounced like Oakland). Especially compelling is the spacey and energetic "Patience" which builds slowly into a monster of wailing harmonies, crashing drums and echoing guitars—a moment where the exceptional loudness turns absorbing and reflective. Ball of Flame Shoot Fire - "Patience" (from Jokeland ) Download their first EP for free here .
There was a time (it may still be going on, in fact), when the sheer act of contacting me directly through my Fear of Arthropods email address about your band basically obliged me to listen to whatever music you sent along. See, just as what you wanted was to be in a band and to have that band be successful and heard by lots of people, what I wanted was to be a music journalist and to write about bands and hear music before it releases and have what I write be read by lots of people. When individual artists [...]
Two Pittsburgh bands in as many days and with the Van Allen Belt threatening world domination could it be that the city is about to announce itself on the rock atlas? Hope so because we may get to hear acts as jumpy and chaotic as Ball of Flame Shoot Fire. Now the vocals may approximate the first practise session of the serengeti hyena barber quartet but they gel so seamlessly with the instrumental skidadle all you gotta do is thank the heavens they were ever conceived. 'Mugs' is daft and very loveable so all that's really left to [...]
Ball of Flame Shoot Fire are a group of friends from Pittsburgh making a push to become your new favorite freak-rockers. Following the steps of bands like Animal Collective and Man Man, Ball of Flame enjoy pushing boundaries with their unique brand of alternative music and have created a solid album in the process, Jokeland, which the boys self-released late last year. The record covers all sorts of bizarre territory in 46 minutes, combining bits of classic rock, progressive pop, and a heavy dose of strange in an attention-grabbing debut that deserves some consideration even among the more [...]
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