Sometimes I get exhausted just putting this list together, let alone trying to figure out how I can be in 20 places at once... Thursday, May 16th Janelle Monae with San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall Janelle Monae is the single most exciting thing happening in R&B right now. Actually, she could be the [...] The post Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/16/13-5/22/13 appeared first on Spinning Platters .

"Cindy + Me" is the latest single from Caged Animals (aka, Vincent Cacchione), and will appear on a forthcoming album that is due out later this year via Lucky Number. From Vincent Cacchione: "‘Cindy + Me’ is my attempt at capturing some sinister version of the adolescent dream. It’s an outlaw love song, based around a sample from synthesizer-pioneer Raymond Scott’s 'Cindy Electronium'." Take A Listen: Cindy + Me from Caged Animals

Just thought I'd drop by the ol' KCRW Music Blog to play my latest song-of-the-minute for you. "Cindy + Me" is a new single from Brooklyn's Caged Animals . Built around a sample from Raymond Scott's "Cindy Electronium" (1959), this track is just the right combination of catchy, novelty and creepy. On Caged Animals ' Facebook page, Vincent Caccione says, "It's a song I wrote about stealing cars and running away from home when you're a teenager." Add the theme of enticing a former lover to come back [...]

"Cindy+Me" is the first taste of Caged Animals' sophomore album which will be released later this year. The single will be released June 17th on Lucky Number and I look forward to hearing more from the caged one.

In a week that presented us some great new hopes for summer, the buzz news cycles found us giving some heart while scratching our heads in aggravation and ambivalence. We send our best to Abraham Orellana, aka AraabMuzik, who is recovering after getting shot as a victim of an attempted robbery, continue to mourn the loss of Slayer's founding guitarist Jeff Hanneman and Kriss Kross's Chris Kelly, and roll our eyes at another bloated exercise of bottom-of-the-barrel branding polemics with ...

In a week that presented us some great new hopes for summer, the buzz news cycles found us giving some heart while scratching our heads in aggravation and ambivalence. We send our best to Abraham Orellana, aka AraabMuzik, who is recovering after getting shot as a victim of an attempted robbery, continue to mourn the loss of Slayer's founding guitarist Jeff Hanneman and Kriss Kross's Chris Kelly, and roll our eyes at another bloated exercise of bottom-of-the-barrel branding polemics with ...

Caged Animals @ Bowery Ballroom 4/3/2013 (more by PSquared Photography) Caged Animals recently wrapped up a tour with Darwin Deez and are finally about to unleash some new songs on the world. While the Brooklyn crew haven't revealed details on their new album, due sometime this year on Lucky Number, they have just released the first track from it, a catchy, synth-driven number called "Cindy + Me." Says frontman Vincent Cacchione, "It's a song I wrote about stealing cars and running away from home when you're a [...]
Caged Animals is New Jersey-rooted Brooklyn denizen Vincent Cacchione, maker of homespun indie-pop that leverages electronics and guitars in the pursuit of sweetly endearing pop awkwardness. To date he has an album titled Eat Their Own and EP called The Summer , both for UK label Lucky Number, and he's back here with a new single in anticipation of a full platter due later this year for the same label. The clattering, theremin-y synth-bounce of "Cindy + Me" is built on a sample from Raymond Scott's "Cindy Electronium," and [...]

photos by PSquared Photography Darwin Deez / Caged Animals @ Bowery Ballroom, 4/3/2013 Darwin Deez 's tour with Caged Animals rolled through NYC last night (4/3) for a show at Bowery Ballroom. Darwin's set featured songs from both his debut album and this year's Songs for Imaginative People , plus a little choreography and other theatrics. For Caged Animals it was a chance to debut [...]
Indie rockers Darwin Deez play the First Unitarian Church tonight. The Asheville, North Carolina band formed in New York City in 2009, feeling at home at the Sidewalk Cafe, a launching pad for off-beat pop acts including Kimya Dawson and Adam Green. The band released their self-titled debut of upbeat, dance-along tracks shortly after in ... Continue reading
Photo gallery of Darwin Deez, Caged Animals, and Dan Croll at Echo, Los Angeles, CA (March 8, 2013). Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photo s/darwin-deez-caged-animals-da n-croll-echo-los-angel/

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Tony Molina has never suffered a shortage of musical outlets over the years. He was the frontman of the late, great SF band Ovens . He played in Sopors . He's the lead guitarist for Violent Change and also sings for Caged Animal . Now he's back with his first solo effort, a punk-infused indie rock record called Dissed and Dismissed , out yesterday on SF label Melters . Dissed and Dismissed 's 12 tracks live up to the record's outsider-oriented title, reeking of disenchantment [...]

While everyone else goes ape sh*t over EPs by Lana Del Rey and Ke$ha, well, we took a different approach and didn't listen to those artists this year. Instead, last night, I ran through my entire library on iTunes and settled on my top 15 EPs of 2012. Yeah, as these lists go, I'm sure I'm missing some pretty great ones in here that will leave me slapping my forehead later, but whatevz. It's all subjective anyway, right? We begin with New York band Beast [...]

@CagedAnimals Género: Indie pop, psychedelic pop. Cuarteto de Brooklyn del que comenté por aquí su estupenda Girls on Medication que se quedó pegada en mis auriculares una temporada. Pues bien, me entero por Man o lito , que tienen nuevo EP, desde el 12 de junio. Quizás menos psicodélico y experimental (dejando de lado la infantil y robótica ^^ & Away ) que trabajos anteriores, más fresco, más tropical, claro se titula This Summer . Cinco cortes, con un inicio [...]

by Bill Pearis Part Time San Francisco's Part Time released their debut LP, What Would You Say? , last year on Mexican Summer which plays like a hazy remembrance of '80s memories that were probably originally held by Ric Ocasek. It's very sports jacket with pushed up sleeves kind of music (aka very Ariel Pink) and you can stream it below via Rdio. The group will be on the East Coast for a show at Glasslands [...]

Nuno Leal Um festival de boa música estival. Dreamwave, chillwave, qualquer coisa-wave, soa a verão, não soa? É a wave, a onda, a vontade de levar com uma em cima que nos arrepie, refresque e que se repita logo a seguir. Verão é isso e outras coisas clichés e lamechas que nos afectam os ouvidos, que se tornam mais tolerantes, entrando numa espécie de férias no que toca a critério, tornando menos agressiva a apreciação de uma música que nos soe a [...]

photos by Amanda Hatfield ; words by Bill Pearis Caged Animals at Fulton Stall Market 8/19/2012 Sunday (8/19) was the third installment of this year's Sound Bites Series (that I curate, full disclosure) that happened down at Fulton Stall Market. Caged Animals , who've played the BV-curated Brooklyn Night Bazar show and SXSW showcase in the past year, did a someone stripped-down acoustic show for a mix of fans and tourists [...]

It's a Very Special Edition of the Sound Bites Series this at Fulton Stall Market this Sunday (8/19) . Don't worry, no one tries drinking for the first time and nearly dies. In this case it's Brooklyn's Caged Animals getting very especially acoustic. Which could all maybe use after Eternal Summers so awesomely destroyed our ear canals last weekend. Caged Animals make manage that rare tightrope walk of being heartfelt without sap, with big catchy choruses you'll be singing along to after first listen. Which is to say they're a great pop band! The [...]

You remember the first time you hear a single like "Girls On Medication" . Pat Curry's percussion propelling forward as Vincent Cacchione throws out verse after chorus after verse, coming in at 2 minutes and 40 seconds. It's a perfect single - the kind that makes you want to hold it in its physical form. By now, this band is beyond introductions, as Caged Animals have been exponentially building a name for themselves over the last couple of years. They've got a solid pitch: from the art direction on their [...]