Happy New Year, y'all. To say I'm glad to see twenty-ten in my rearview mirror is a massive understatement. To summarize my year: Personally = hellish; Professionally = excellent; Bloggingly = weak. Musically = pretty damn good, actually. Speaking of which, I'm taking a quick break from pulling together my post of 2010 faves to share a few songs that kept me company over the holiday break. Last December, Brooklyn trio City Breathing gifted fans with "Have [...]
Well, here it is, now pulling into the station... the caboose at the very end of the too-long train of "best of 2009" music blogger posts, three weeks into the new one. And, as ever, it most certainly is not a "best of", but simply a "my favorites" - the albums that soundtracked my own personal year. But you knew that.I've said it before, and I'll say it one last time for emphasis: My 2009,
by RiftDweller This Labor Day Weekend marks the tail-end of the summer of 2009; savor it with this little gift from us at Kata Rokkar... Click Here To Download Full Mixtape The XX – Intro from XX The Notwist – Pilot [...]
If you're anywhere near Boston, and you've been following me on Twitter, you've probably been pleased with my recent flood of fairly exciting Boston-area rock show announcements. If you're elsewhere, well then, I'm assuming you're a bit jealous. Rather than relegate all that good info to 140-char info-blasts, I figured it was time to neatly pull it all together so you can get your tickets and
From their EP My Apple IIe is Singing Sad Songs to Me on Roses & Hello Their new release, My Apple IIe…, includes four tracks and clocks in at over 20 minutes of the band's signature mix of ebullient pop melodies and epic post-rock crescendos. Especially recommended for fans of Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, or M83. Rather than wait until an entire full-length's worth of material was ready, Arun Antonyraj (guitars/keys), Ron Tucker (drums/programming), and Marwan Kanafani (vocals/bass), have opted to share their latest tunes with you right now in the easy-to-digest EP format. [...]
City Breathing follows up their 2008 debut Look How It's Snowing Upwards, Look How They Move Toward Heaven with a brand new EP called My Apple IIe Is Singing Sad Songs To Me. It contains 4 tracks of their usual beautiful instrumentation along with great indie melodies. It is cinematic and perfectly orchestraic for your dramatic or happy moods. The Brooklyn trio is giving us one of the best EPs I've heard all year. Get it here on April 14th. Also if [...]
«My Apple IIe is singing sad songs to me» – als ich diesen Titel las, war mir klar, dass ich diese Band unbedingt in meinem Blog vorstellen muss, völlig egal, ob die Musik was taugt oder nicht. Schließlich war mein erster Computer anno 1985 (meine Güte, ist das lange her...) ein Apple IIe! Aber ich habe Glück – die Songs, die City Breathing aus Brooklyn auf ihrer neuen EP vorstellen, sind richtig gut, so dass ich meinen Ruf hier nicht aufs Spiel setzen muss, wenn ich sie Euch empfehle. Ihre Plattenfirma verortet die Band stilistisch zwischen Explosions [...]
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These three songs should give you what you need, provided what you need is to forget, move on, for your fear to disappear or to bury old mistakes. Barzin -- "Stayed Too Long in This Place" mp3 off Notes to An Absent Lover ( buy ) Barzin writes some of the sweetest somber music around. He has a beautiful way of depicting the sense of loss and the emptiness of spirit that come [...]
We Can Retrace The Sinking Sky - City Breathing Posted in Leftovers
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alexandra Hope : "Invisible Sunday" [mp3] from Invisible Sunday (out April 7th) Alexandra Hope : "Perhaps a Fantasy" [mp3] from Invisible Sunday (out April 7th) other Alexandra Hope posts at Largehearted Boy City Breathing : "A Place to Bury Old Mistakes" [mp3] from [...]
Geeky sentimental post-rock? Brooklyn trio City Breathing named their new EP My Apple IIe Is Singing Sad Songs To Me . It contains four lush songs that don't have much to do with computers. With soft spoken vocals accompanied with tinkling keys, subued guitar and surpsingly straightforward drums this an album to listen to to when you are enjoying your first cup of coffee on a lazy Sunday morning. City Breathing : Arun Antonyraj: guitars, keys Ron Tucker: drums, programming Marwan Kanafani: vocals, bass [...]
I am starting to get back into the swing of things now that the semester is over. Here is another mix for you to enjoy. Slaraffenland - I'm a Machine The Atomica Project - Gravity Sunny Day Sets Fire - Brainless Motocade - Soap Opera The New Frontiers - Black Lungs Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez - Mostly a Friend Mason Jennings - In The Ever Extra [...]
If you can imagine a dancier John Vanderslice , you are probably thinking about Alan Wilkis . Mr. Wilkis is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist who makes some pretty interesting music. The more I listen, the more I realize just how many influences he uses in his music. The most obvious is Prince ; his voice has this lofty sound that goes very well the bouncy electronic music he creates. It seems that most people only talk about making 'different' music and Alan Wilkis just does it. [...]
City Breathing , an experimental indie-pop band from Brooklyn, recently released Look How It's Snowing Upwards, Look How They Move Towards Heaven , a perfect, indie freshman release with a title I like almost as much as These United States' A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden . They're offering the CD, on their website, for whatever you'd like to pay and the same goes for t-shirts. On the verge of hypnotizing, City Breathing live up to their poetic title. They manage both solemn and [...]
>> While we were mucklucking around the Internerdzez Sunday looking for information about Shannon Worrell (because of our most recent Muxtape) we happened upon Ms. Worrell's MySpace dojo . And there we found information that surprised us: the former fronter of September 67 is making a return to recorded music after about eight years of relative silence. The set will be titled The Honey Guide and one song intended for it, "Driving In The Dark," is posted at the aforementioned MySpace destination . The tune is more traditionally country-sounding than September [...]
things often accumulate in my inbox and i don't listen to as much of them as i should. but even with the stuff i do listen to and enjoy, i sometimes forget to share the goods with you guys. and sometimes i feel bad about that. so here's a few recent items you may be interested in checking out. they are, overall, a bit different from the usual sonic territory explored here, but it's always good to branch out... a silverjewssmogdestroyer agenda can only take you so far. [...]
What's up everyone! Sorry for the post delays, I've been extremely busy working on a short film which I'm super excited about. But we're back with an amazing triofrom Brooklyn, NY. Look How It's Snowing Upwards, Look How They Move Towards Heaven , the 51-minute debut full length from City Breathing is out now via the Roses & Hello Label . City Breathing rocks a more heartfelt loopy post-rock sound with subtle lyrics and reminds me of my early favs the Mercury Program. It's beautiful, it's very cinematic and your mind gets [...]
You Should Know The press release on Brooklyn's City Breathing was intriguing to me because the description of the band compared them to Owen, Explosions In The Sky, and Band Of Horses. Considering how much I love those artists, and how different they all are, I was pretty curious as to how City Breathing could meld such diverse influences. After listening to the band's new album Look How It's Snowing Upwards, Look How They Move Towards Heaven , I definitely hear the Explosions In The Sky influence, [...]
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