
The Orlando, Fla., kids with the second best football+indie rock name (you should remember the best one ), Band Marino , were gracious enough to float me some exclusive live tracks. The songs, Strangely Aware and Your Name Is Not a Palindrome , were recorded Sept. 22 at NYC's Pianos . Band Marino - Strangely Aware Band Marino - Your Name Is Not a Palindrome

Tonight in Baltimore don't miss The submarines and Aimee Mann at the Recher Theater or Band Marino and Straylight Run at Fletcher's. If you're in the DC/VA area you might want to head over to Iota to catch Juliana Hatfield and The Spoils Of NW. Photo by Rachael Swain mp3: The Submarines - Fern Beard mp3: Band Marino - Chasing Rainbows

There are two small time indie shows that shouldn't be missed tonight. At the Lo-Fi Social Club has Mystery Palace and Digitata while the Red and The Black in DC has Band Marino from down south. Enjoy! mp3: Band Marino - Chasing Rainbows --> website --> buy mp3: Mystery Palace - Nascar Survivor --> website --> buy mp3: Digitata - Spring Fever --> website --> buy

Photo by Richard Pearson. Source: Rapidview MP3: By the Time the Sun's Gone Down - Langhorne Slim MP3: Pray Enough - Wood Brothers MP3: Through Any Window - Wisely MP3: Make It Easier - Ghosty MP3: Left Me High - Death Valley Sleepers MP3: Dark Leaves from a Thread - Destroyer MP3: Serpentine - Chris Bathgaite MP3: Ten Dead Dogs - Wild Sweet Orange MP3: Every Time I Make a Girl Cry I Know I've Done [...]

You Should Know Florida's Band Marino has built a reputation as being one of the best bands in the Orlando area, and their creative blend of indie and folk has their fanbase expanding elsewhere. With last year's The Sea & The Beast , the band established themselves with a diverse collection of songs that was exploratory and refreshing. Utilizing a wide variety of instruments that include harmonica, keys, upright bass, banjo, accordion, and mandolin, the quintet's sound varies from bouncy pop to americana-tinged fare such as "Chasing [...]

The indie scenes are blowin' up like land mines in all cities big or small! Today we head on over to Orlando to check on the young 4-piece Band Marino . They're craftin' a rather catchy indie folk pop all mixed up with banjos, mandolins, and harmonicas which gives them a great range of sound. If you want some awesome spring time folk music combined with very energetic rock shreds all whipped over Beirut-y harmonies from Jesse and Nathan, you gotta get their debut The Sea & The Beast dropping in [...]

Hailing just down I-95 and I-4 from us, Band Marino's first nationwide release The Sea & The Beast is set to hit stores March 4th. If a covey of wide-eyed indie kids reinterpreted your grand pappy's record collection, it'd probably sound something like the incandescent Band Marino. A swirling carousel of guitars, banjos and mandolins, their whims come in an old-timey vernacular. But boring neo-traditionalists they're not. The folk trimmings, melodic verve and rock energy culminate in an effusive sort of carnival pop. Band Marino's energetic stage performances have turned them into a catapulting phenomenon in the on-the-cusp [...]

This feature marks the first in what I hope to be another consistent, exclusive offering from your friends at IndieHQ. As we continue to discuss what labels and bands look for in each other, we wanted to showcase from time to time breakthrough acts that are unsigned. Since a number of our readers come from various labels, we are hopeful that this feature will at some point help band(s) to get the attention of various indie labels. Corey Schmidt, music editor at Pastepunk , was kind enough to write this first feature. He originally wrote to tell [...]

Band Marino's bio reads, "Band Marino is a 5-piece rock band. They enjoy playing music and eating pizza." After spending almost a year and a half polishing off their self-produced debut album, The Sea and The Beast (with no previous music production experience), maybe there was no energy left for a more detailed description. The hard work paid off. The album is incredible and I would have never known the production was handled by a group of amateurs from Orlando. We first got wind of Band Marino after Rolling Stone crowned them as one [...]
Orlando, Florida's Band Marino are exactly the kind of band I hope to be in some day. Fun songs full of all kinds of instruments from banjos to harmonicas to mandolins. I find it hard not to compare them to one of my favorites of the year, Annuals, even though they really don't sound much like them. They just have that certain songwriting quality about them that separates their songs from the masses of generic music out there. Any time you have a slowly picked banjo with a violin behind it, then burst into a jamboree [...]