The third volume of the Circle Into Square Compilation has been out for a little while now. It's a sampler of new and unreleased tracks from our favorite downtempo electronic/folk record label based in Portland, Circle Into Square (which is partnered with Fake Four, Inc. ). Listen. Tracklisting: The Harvey Girls / 222 Sealions (mp3) Big Pauper / Eleven Years After (mp3) COHO LIPS / Everyday Was A [...]
We are proud to bring you the premiere of the third label compilation from Portland, Ore.'s Circle Into Square, an indie that mainly brings the world new and exciting folk and electronic music. There are also some solid doses of hip-hop on this third volume on tracks by acts like Cars & Trains , Big Pauper, Loden , and Not The 1s. The folk-tinged jams are just as exciting, though, especially the way they seamlessly fit in with their drums-heavy brethren. You can stream and download the entire project below. And, yeah, it's free . Download: [...]
DAN DEACON, HEIGHT WITH FRIENDS, CHESTER ENDERSBY GWAZDA, ALAN RESNICK ( Hawthorne Theatre , 1507 SE 39th) Read our article on Dan Deacon. SERENGETI, CARS & TRAINS, BIG PAUPER ( Berbati , 19 SW 2nd) Read our article on Cars & Trains. ROBYN HITCHCOCK, YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, PETER BUCK ( Doug Fir [...]
For your streaming pleasure, here is our seventh installment of Friday Night Vids for the year numbered 2012... Streamable: Wet Blanket (youtube) by METZ Downloadable: Wet Blanket (mp3) Streamable: Weird Mirror (youtube) by Dope Body Downloadable: Weird Mirror (mp3) Streamable: Cruel Summer (youtube) by Black Marble [...]
"Fallout & Fire" from R. Ring "A Mere" (demo) from The Sea and Cake "Wet Blanket" from METZ "Isolation" from YoungHearts [...]
As with the past few weeks, there is no shortage of solid, accomplished album releases, so many so that there are more than a dozen standout tracks from the stack of albums that officially dropped for the week of September 18th. There are excellent singles from familiar bands such as Grizzly Bear, Dinosaur Jr., Band [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Acoustic meets digital on songwriter Tom Filepp's third album. Fake Four Inc., 2012 6.2 / 10.0 Tom Filepp, the mastermind behind Cars and Trains, picks up where his 2010 album, The Roots, The Leaves, left off. You can expect pretty much the same intimate meeting of analog and digital [...]
This week finally sees the U.S. release of An Awesome Wave , the awesome debut of Alt-J . We've been playing the U.K. band regularly on KEXP for months, but today you can pick up a copy for yourself. Also topping this week's list of new releases - not quite as long as last week's but still pretty dang long - is the anticipated new album by Grizzly Bear . Our Music Director, Don Yates, calls the Brooklyn band’s fourth album "a little more raw and aggressive than previous releases, giving their latest batch of complex, shape-shifting [...]
Cars & Trains, the project of Tom Filepp, will release the new album, We Are All Fire, tomorrow (September 18th) through Fake Four Inc. The new album is deeply personal and thematically revolves around family – whether it’s those related to us or the ones that we adopt into our personal lives. Appearing [...]
The week leading up to this week's radio show was spent taking it easy. It's almost the end of summer, and after several consecutive weekends of house projects that overlapped into weekday evenings, it was a needed break. The resulting playlist was a mix of randomly-pieced together new releases paired with some classic favorites such as Belle & Sebastian (circa 1996), The High Dials (2006) and old The Fresh & Onlys (2009). Favorites on the new side include a recently announced new 73-single on Suicide Squeeze by Gap Dream, the opening track [...]
Cars & Trains, the project of Tom Filepp, will release the new album, We Are All Fire, on September 18th through Fake Four Inc. The new album is deeply personal and thematically revolves around family – whether it’s those related to us or the ones that we adopt into our personal lives. Appearing [...]
This week runs strong with blues tracks and it's not your father's blues either. The Record Company and Lord Huron arrive with tracks laced with funk and Southern pizzazz. For The Record Company, they released their Superdead EP last month while Lord Hudson is slated to release Lonesome Dreams on October 9. "Tickle" from Eyes Lips Eyes provides the sunniest track this week with some dancing, lightheaded rock. The Provo, Utah group recently released a single for " Don't Blow It " a few weeks ago [...]
yeah, der typ hinter circle into square , einem rührigen wie hochwertigem kleinen label, tom filepp, macht auch in solo weiter, "we are all fire" hat der multiinstrumentalist sein mitte september erscheinendes album genannt: cars and trains - nations hier braucht man nicht auf die band gleichen namens zu setzen, sondern auf die solonummer des roy shakked, der am 25. september sein bereits viertes album "complicated simplified" herausbringen wird, unterstützung hat aber auch er bekommen, antesten: [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Angel Snow : free and legal Live at Eddie's Attic album [mp3] search for more Angel Snow posts at Largehearted Boy Brendan Hines : "Could've Sworn" [mp3] from Small Mistakes (out September [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 108 with freebie downloads for mp3s by Jason Collett, Metz, Slam Donahue, Vonnegutt, Theresa Andersson, The Everymen, Shoot The Image, Modern Rivals, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and more! So much more! DATE: 08-09-12 WRITER: Don Loder Heya goons, How's it goin'ere junky? Time is gettin' short fer some o' youse, those chippy habits ya picked up ova da summa are gonna hafta go fer da school year comin' up, othawise yer gonna be dozin' off in class come Septemba. Ya [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the July 2011 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Slime [...]
It is time for the next volume of the Best Downloadables of 2011 . You can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) or you can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom left of the page. If you are using Chrome you should really think about installing the awesome ex.fm extension (especially if you use last.fm ). Listen. Downloadables: ( ) [...]
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