Another great week! What better way to cap it off than with a few lush tunes & a pair of headphones? Who's with me? Let's chill. I'm starting to get a decent following on my Spotify playlist so any fans of SNC should check it out: http://spoti.fi/ChillWithMe . I try to post a couple songs on here every day. Illustration art from Poked Studio . [...]
It's been a good week for music discovery. Here's 10 tracks to prove it. Get to chillin'. New feature: 3 descriptors for each track + genre for easier selective listening. Beautiful HDR photography from Elia Locardi of Blame The Monkey . Tutorials, gear suggestions, and hi-res photos over on his site. [...]
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For the first time in over three years, Neon Neon , the collaborative project between producer Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys , are set to release a song, titled "Wheels." The song will be included on Lex Records ten-year anniversary compilation Complex Vol. 1 , which also includes the Dave Sitek remixed " Rhymin' Slang ." The previously unreleased track was written during the duo's Stainless Styles sessions, their debut concept album which dealt with the automobile icon John DeLorean. Following the influence of said album, "Wheels" concerns "Johnny [...]
I'm giving away a pair of tickets for the Boob Bip, Sisu, Square on Square show tomorrow...
Artist: Boom Bip (with guests Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction and Josh Klinghoffer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) / Useless Keys Who Should Go: People who liked his Neon Neon stuff When: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Where: The Satellite Tickets: $10 ( here or at the door) Other Noteworthy Shows: Cass McCombs @ The Echo ($14) Ras G @ Airliner ($10)
► Cass McCombs winds down a busy and profilic year when the folk singer and his band play the Echo behind his new album "Humor Risk," the second full-length he's released in 2011. That's Albert Herter's video for "The Same Thing," above. White Magic supports. ► At the Bootleg, Duniven celebrates the release of its album "I Need to Try for Her" [ see our preview from earlier this year], and Liquid Love Letter marks this week's release of "If/Then" [ see yesterday's post ]. Also playing: the Bixby Knolls, who have [...]
OK, this qualifies as an insanely busy night on the show circuit: ► Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds do the first of two nights at UCLA's Royce Hall behind their big-selling debut album. That's the video for "AKA... What a Life!," above, featuring Russell Brand and (at the 4:16 mark) a Low Flying Owls T-shirt. I loved that band. ► It's a fountain of folk-rock at the Music Box, where locals Dawes and the Belle Brigade join Portland's Blitzen Trapper , touring in support of their new album [...]
Bryan Hollon aka Boom Bip is, at this stage, a prolific producer having reworked an impressive list of artists such as M83, Four Tet, Daedelus, and even Danny Elfman. Hollon was first noticed for his work with rapper Doseone with whom he produced the album for Mush Records. That was 11 years ago though, and Hollon has come a long way since including a stint leading the Delorean-themed electronic pop project Neon Neon which along with chief collaborator Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys also featured Spank Rock, Har Mar Superstar and Yo Majesty. His latest album, Zig [...]
The Magician, his breast bare, stands before an altar on which are his Burin, Bell, Thurible, and two of the Cakes of Light. In the Sign of the Enterer he reaches West across the Altar, and cries: Hail Ra, that goest in Thy bark Into the Caverns of the Dark! He gives the sign of Silence, and takes the Bell, and Fire, in his hands. East of the Altar see me stand With Light and Musick in mine hand! He strikes Eleven times upon the Bell 333 — 55555 — 333 and places the Fire in the Thurible. I strike [...]
Californian Producer Boom Bip – now living in the shadow of being the non-Gruff Rhys half of Mercury-nominated Neon Neon – has released his third solo album Zig Zaj with the obligatory collaborations that go with such things. Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos, Money Mark, Cate Le Bon, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, and Bon Iver's Michael Noyce all join the former DJ and multi-instrumentalist to help create an album bursting with creative flair and skilfully advocated moods. Producer-led atmospheric albums can frequently be difficult to listen to, but Boom [...]
Given the renaissance that glitchy, ambient electronica has enjoyed of late with the likes of Gold Panda , Mount Kimbie , and Seams garnering widespread laudation, it'd be all too easy to gloss over the perennial ability of Boom Bip to fling forth similarly blissful joy. However where he once daubed droplets of synth wizardry atop atmospheric minimalism his sounds now ooze ominously, like mercury dripping from a shattered thermometer, evoking a more extroverted strand of delight. Having spent recent times in the company of melancholia mastermind Gruff Rhys, the pair [...]
The best of new album streams in A-Z form. Plenty more in the Streams category . Boom Bip - Zig Zaj DRC Music - Kinshasa One Two ( Damon Albarn and more ) DJ Shadow - The Less You Know, The Better ( alt link ) Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams Land Lovers - Confidants [...]
El músico Bryan Hollon , también conocido bajo su pseudónimo artístico Boom Bip , ha sabido aliarse con grandes nombres en la escena indie, como Gruff Rhys , frontman de Super Furry Animals y director del film Separado! que pudimos apreciar en el BAFICI de este año. Esta vez, Boom Bip colabora con Alex Kapranos , [...]
The concept of The Weezer Cruise , sailing the seas from January 19th through the 23rd 2012, was attractive from the get-go: a four-night cruise from Miami to Cozumel featuring performances from Weezer and a slew of indie favorites including Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, Wavves, Ozma, and Yuck. Now, a boat load of new details have emerged, and this winter excursion is looking better than ever. First on deck is the music schedule . The aforementioned acts, along with many others, will be playing various indoor and outdoor stages in rotation over the [...]
With a name this awesome it is only right that Boom Bip (real name Bryan Hollon... Not as cool sadly) makes great music. It's epic electronic stuff with a healthy amount of genre crossover. This comes thanks to his ability to get cracking collaborators on his songs, all of whom add their own take to the music. He has got a new album coming out at the end of the month, which is his first since last years Stainless Style with Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys (which is very good. But you probably already know that). [...]
The 13th annual Eagle Rock Music Festival has it wired. The daylong neighborhood affair along Colorado Boulevard will feature 11 scions of the L.A. beat scene — the Low End Theory stage boasts performances by Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing and the Gaslamp Killer, among others — and enough of this city's top indie music to make a junction function. Health, Shadow Shadow Shade, Rooney and Mia Doi Todd are among the artists playing the festival's eight stages. The festival runs from 4 to 11 [...]
There was a time when one man armed with a sampler and a few crates was enough. It was an era fondly referred to as "instrumental hip hop" and the records it produced smelled of nag champa and took listeners deep within their hanging tapestries. Boom Bip comes from that time. His record with Dose One entitled Circle remains one of the most daring and challenging records from the early Aughts, predating Anticon's "advanced hip hop" era. Like his contemporaries from that e...
The last Boom Bip track we listened to was "Last Walk Around Mirror Lake," which by the way, Boards of Canada did an awesome remix of: It's a pretty fitting remix because Boom Bip and BOC have a similar sound to us, but they both have their own unique flavors. Here's the teaser for the forthcoming Boom Bip release: Lex Records will release Boom Bip's Zig Zaj September 27, 2011. Zig Zaj features guest spots from Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Money [...]
The Los Angeles underground has always been a sprawling, gnarly place, and a new collection titled "Beat L.A." goes where few covers albums have gone before. The project — from Narnack Records and Greatmind Records — is a charity effort benefiting Doctors Without Borders and that organization's relief efforts in earthquake-torn Haiti. The compilation (out Aug. 2) sees artists from L.A.'s indie present covering songs from L.A.'s punk past, and with some remarkable results, especially Devon Williams' "Yellow Pills" (20/20), Imaad Wasif's "Go Insane" (the Doors), Josh Klinghoffer's "Anymore" (Thelonious Monster), Night Horse's "Lie [...]
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