I'm a bit ambivalent about all these Caucasian bedroom slo-jam dudes. Seems like an incomplete co-optation — solid pop and smooth enough, but something about the breathy slinky sexiness seems kinda by the numbers. Like they're taking seriously what was once a joke, but still not ready to go full-on R Kelly about it. Having said that, let's get those lights turned down.... Beacon - See Through You
Last night I was lucky enough to see this duo named Beacon out of Brooklyn, NY open up for Tycho in Atlanta. I couldn't find much on these guys except that they have released an EP titled No Body. Beacon has got a pretty contemporary sound that I think is going to get pretty popular over the next 3 or so years. In the middle of their set Beacon played these amazing cover of the R&B classic, "So Anxious," from Ginuwine. I may be bias because during my junior high years I loved R&B and this song was a huge [...]
Speaking of openers on larger tours playing Mercury Lounge shows, Beacon , who are currently on a tour with Tycho , which hits MHOW on February 4 with Oneohtrix Point Never ( tickets ), just announced a show at the NYC venue happening on March 2 with Xylos and Grimace Federation . Tickets , currently on AmEx presale, go on public sale Friday (1/27) at noon. Tycho [...]
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[NEW EP] Beacon - No Body Every week I get a beautiful email from Ghostly's listening service Drip.fm . It's currently in beta, but I would highly suggest requesting an invite. About a month ago they sent me over this gorgeous EP and I'm sad to say I haven't had the chance to write about it even though I've been listening non-stop. I think "Exhale" is my favorite track, but the whole EP is perfection from start to finish. Beacon is currently on tour with another Ghostly artist who I'm sure you've heard all [...]
The Brooklyn duo take on "The Rip".
Almost none of us are at work this week, so almost none of us are getting fired. And with the holidays coming to an end, we don't have to keep the good-cheer veneer up for much longer. So: Time to wade into some of the past year's sickest shit! When she wrote her list last year, departed Stereogum comrade Jessica wrote that 20092s NSFW clips trended away from joyous, vaguely innocent sexploits toward darker, more disturbing fare. 2011 continues that progression in a more extreme and possibly more unwanted direction: Away from sex entirely, toward [...]
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Tweet Watch the new video for Beacon's song "Storm Dub" below, taken from the EP "Storm Dub" . It was all hand-made! Connect with Beacon - Facebook / Twitter / Soundcloud ( via )
Tycho Tycho (aka Scott Hansen) last toured North America this past October in support of his new album Dive , which is out now . Though he headlined MHOW during that tour, most of the dates were opening for Little Dragon , whose track, "Little Man," he has since remixed (listen below). Tycho will go on his own headlining tour of North America in early 2012 which brings him back to Music Hall of Williamsburg [...]
The Brooklyn duo reveal the stories behind their new songs.
Here's a new video by ambient R&B duo Beacon from Brooklyn, USofA. " See Through You " features a lot of hot animated pixel ladies but don't expect to see some hentai stuff. No explicit nudity, it's more like Dead or Alive (is it DoA?), so it's kinda save for work. " See Through You " is taken from No Body EP out on Bandcamp . Beacon - Facebook Beacon - Tumblr
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See Through You from BEACON on Vimeo . deepgoa.blogspot.com underground music guide _________ © dg , 2011
When most-recent BTW Beacon aren't walking their sense for sensual R&B through a long, luxe hall lined with Warp LPs and bass music mixtapes, they work together at their own video production house. They've hand-crafted this video for "See Through You," explicitly as a hat-tip to the "intuitive and passionate" genre of amateur-made videos, and certainly as a hat-tip to explicit imagery of CGI ladies riding poles and jiggling in bikinis. There is no nudity, but there are some cyber-thongs, so let's call this one NSFW. Read More...
"Fan Made", a Beacon video playlist Brooklyn-based duo Beacon have been piquing our taste buds for a hot minute . Their recent EP, titled "No Body" , came out on LA's Moongadget and is a satin-friendly, effortless blend of r'n'b nodding synth pop, smooth virginal vocals and subtle electronic flutters. The guys have graciously contributed the latest installment of our weekly YouTube playlist column, which due to a few missed deadlines happened last about a year [...]
Pinch and Shackleton Pinch and Shackleton // Jay and 'Ye's Watch the Throne was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of collaboration, a meeting of the minds between minds that, considering their respective stations in life, seem essentially unmeetable. But the album worked precisely because the pair played to their respective strengths: Jay was the gracious host to Kanye's increasingly bracing pronouncements about fame and fortune. As a sort of underground analogue to this dream team, Pinch and Shackleton have released an eponymous album that functions kind of like a Watch the Thrones for the theoretical bass set. And [...]
photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin Ray Davies & choir @ The Wellmont Theater 67-year-old Davies brought out 46 members of the Dessoff Choir in the second half of his concert at the Wellmont. Davies started the evening with an acoustic guitar before adding a rock band and then the choir, in a two-and-a-half-hour performance that covered most of his musical career (although with only a five-second snippet of The Kinks hit, "Lola"). And yes, [...]
[RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] After mostly doing darker shows with Araabmuzik , Salem , OoOoo , etc. Beacon has released a melodic and passionate EP that translates into an amazing live set, i've caught their shows a handful of times this past week and its got hints of different style for everyone packed into one. They have a great sense of humor and their visuals unveil that at times, the rumbling dirty south low end makes it easy to loosen up, and both Jacob and Tom are really into performing [...]
by Andrew Sacher DOWNLOAD: Beacon - "No Body" (MP3) Beacon 2011 has been a pretty big year for the marriage of R&B vocals and downtempo beats with debuts from Jamie Woon, The Weeknd, and many other post-James Blake singer/producers. One of the more recent groups to embrace this trend is Brooklyn duo Beacon (Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett), who played Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival [...]
Je ne comprends plus pourquoi mes efforts, quand c'est tout le temps à sens unique.Beacon - See Through You
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