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Tweet As the story goes, when Frànçois Marry arrived in Bristol, England from France in 2003, he wrote a note accompanied by a picture asking for people to make music together with, taped it in his window, then proceeded to check out local car boot sales for instruments. Starting out with a hodgepodge of found instruments (including a keyboard he played with his foot), Frànçois began playing live in Bristol in early 2004. 2005 - 2007 saw him collaborating with various local [...]
Words by Rick Moslen I recently overheard some old lady on the bus spew some nonsense about how 2012 marks the end of the world. Maybe she's a Glenn Beck fanatic or the wife of some cult leader, but she was more-than-likely confusing "end of the world" with 2012's other important event: "the 30th anniversary of K Records"—obviously. Avoiding aging traits like receding hairlines, bedwetting, and excessive ear hair, the graceful label still holds its charm thanks to an array of hip songwriters ( Karl Blau, Mirah, Atlas Sound, Jeremy Jay ), [...]
Just in time for Valentines Day, you can pick up this incredible reissue of the Tronics classic Love Backed by Force . Sure, it came out decades ago, but you can definitely throw it right into the current mix, and it would fit right along side bands like Beat Happening or Television Personalities -both solid bands in my book. The good people over at Whats Your Rupture will be releasing the album February 14th for all you fans of art-pop, [...]
Cry for a shadow - Beat Happening Yeah... Now to put all my Beat Happening stuff on to something portable so i can take it with me Friday.
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Tweet "Who is that anyway?" Answer: Kim Ki O ! Hailing from Istanbul, Turkey, electronic musical duo Kim Ki O (which, if you haven't guessed from my incredibly witty opening sentence, means "Who is that, anyway?" in Turkish) is made up of Ekin Sanaç on synths, keys, vocals, beats and Berna Göl on bass, vocals, beats. The two friends have known each other for over fifteen years, and have been hard at work making music as Kim Ki O since 2006. Their music is [...]
​No, you're not imagining anything. After a long, brutally hot summer, autumn is finally upon us. The foliage is brilliant, the wind has a bite, people are wearing skull caps and fuzzy boots legitimat
I decided to beef up my collection of Ted Leo covers and man were there a lot to be found! I added over a dozen, including this gem. MP3: Ted Leo/Rx - Freeway (Aimee Mann) Download over 70 covers by Ted Leo!
Í ljósi þess að sumarið virðist vera að kveðja landið, er rjómalag dagsins söngur Calvin Johnson og hinna krakkanna í Beat Happening um indverska(eða indjána?) sumarið. Beat Happening var þríeyki frá Olympia, Washington í Bandaríkjunum, stofnað árið 1982, starfaði í áratug og gaf á þeim tíma út 5 breiðskífur og allskonar gúmmelaði. Related posts: Rjómalagið 19. ágúst Rjómalagið 22.ágúst: Love The Way You Walk Away með Blitzen Trapper Með [...]
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Among other things, a great tribute often leads to a revisiting of the source material and in the case of Yellow Ostrich's cover of Beat Happening's "Left Behind," that would be Dreamy, the 1991 album the original was pulled from. Yellow Ostrich's debut, The Mistress, is being re-released this week via Barsuk Records. MP3: Yellow [...]
*SPOILER ALERT* Yellow Ostrich will be on my year-end Best Of lists. Their album The Mistress is a fantastic piece of pop craftsmanship. That's why I'm super thrilled it's getting a wider release via Barsuk Aug 16. To promote it, they're offering this cover of Beat Happening for free. If you pre-order the album online [...]
Listen to and download Yellow Ostrich's brilliant covers of Eiffel 65's 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' and Beat Happening's 'Left Behind.'
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Knick knack - Beat Happening In this day of pop star adoration and that bedroom-wall-on-show-for-every one that is tumblr, it is always swoonings and pictures of Calvin i see pinned up, never Heather. If it is her, it is always in a group publicity shot, far from the microphone-holding, shirt-pulling, can't-bear-being-him pictures of Calvin, and the reason and desired effect with which they are posted. That is the image that sums up Beat Happening for everyone and what they get out of it. It's a [...]
It's ten years since Michael Azerrad first published his defining DIY '80s scene portrait Our Band Could Be Your Life , which covered an independent music culture that changed irrevocably a decade before that with the release of Nevermind . Round anniversaries make apt opportunities for retrospectives, and in the case of Our Band , this year has been a sort of meta-reflection: between a panel at SXSW, and last night's show at Bowery Ballroom, 2011 has seen a few organized moments of the present "indie" culture celebrating and reflecting on how the blueprint Michael [...]
It's ten years since Michael Azerrad first published his defining DIY '80s scene portrait Our Band Could Be Your Life , which covered an independent music culture that changed irrevocably a decade before that with the release of Nevermind . Round anniversaries make apt opportunities for retrospectives, and in the case of Our Band , this year has been a sort of meta-reflection: between a panel at SXSW, and last night's show at Bowery Ballroom, 2011 has seen a few organized moments of the present "indie" culture celebrating and reflecting on how the blueprint Michael [...]
Last month Death Cab For Cutie returned to the spotlight with "You Are A Tourist," the great first single and video from their forthcoming Codes And Keys . A sunny addition to our spring playlist, it recalls brighter moments of mid-period Cure when it's not channeling "Float On." That's fitting given how Ben Gibbard's got five Cure covers in his live repertoire. In fact I can't remember ever seeing seeing the guy perform without hearing some other band's song in the set. So before we gear up to collectively prematurely evaluate Codes , here's a listen back at [...]
The Halo Benders — Don't Touch My Bikini (1994) The Halo Benders never stood a chance. Formed in '94 by Doug Martsch ( Built to Spill ) and Calvin Johnson ( Beat Happening ), the group was a lovably sloppy force of off-kilter hooks and interlocking vocals. "Don't Touch My Bikini" (from God Don't Make No Junk ) is possibly their finest moment, pitting Johnson's baritone against a dusty, foot-stomping melody. A forewarning: you will be [...]
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MP3: Beat Happening - Run Down The Stairs I challenge anyone to come up with a better/cheaper Christmas present than these Calvin Johnson-curated mixtapes available for $10. They range from "Bump Your Booty: Disco 45s on Independent Labels '74-'793 to "The Cavern Stomp!: British Beat and R&B 45s 63-65." Snag one for the Beat Happening [...]
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