Here's our latest month-in-review mix collecting some our favorite new (or new to us) songs recently posted on the website. So much good stuff came our way in April that we've actually got a two-part mix of blog songs this time. As always, we've included links below to download each of these songs individually. Mixtape: Best of the Blog April 2012 (Part 1) Mixtape: Best of the Blog April 2012 (Part 2) Tracklisting: [...]
Sempre houve algo de fantasmagórico e implosivo no universo dos norte-americanos Clipd Beaks. Tantas vezes colocados sob uma conotação tão vaga como é o pós-punk, desde o magnífico EP Preyers que a banda não cessa uma exploração sónica que facilmente excede formatações imediatistas. Prova de persistência e criatividade, é o novo disco Wake , aqui disponível para escuta e revelador das últimas experiências de cave dos Clipd Beaks. All the Way Devil é uma das peças-chave neste álbum; tensão em crescendo, reminiscente de um Drum's Not Dead dos Liars, em direção [...]
According to their Facebook page, Clipd Beaks ' new album WAKE is "the Super Mario Bros 23 of their discography. That's a bold claim. Let's unpack it. Oh wait, shit... I have no idea what that means. But I can tell you that the album is six tracks of ambient free jazz drone, sounding more suited to wigging out on psychedelics than playing video games. Even the song names suggest the otherworldly and trips into the unknown: there are tracks called "World Exhaust" (which you can watch [...]
Drowsy new offerings from Oakland purveyors of layered psychedelia, Clipd Beaks . Proving to be a nice accompaniment to this gloomy LA afternoon. Evil jazz tangents and erratic drum machine paint a beautiful landscape in "All The Way Evil," download the track below and check out the album Wake . Clipd Beaks - All The Way Evil
Oakland, CA's own Clipd Beaks dropped their new 6 track LP of experimental psychedelia, WAKE last week. What is it like? Maybe the album's bandcamp tags will give you an idea: alternative world ambient dark jazz psychedelic trance . Here is a new track that was recently posted to the band's Soundcloud page. If you put this on, you are in for a trip. Listen. Downloadable: All The Way Evil (mp3) You can [...]
Alright, let's make this an experimental/ psychedelic music Monday! Last week the Oakland-based trio Clipd Beaks released a new album called Wake , which you can download right now from their Bandcamp - only five dollars "for a trip to outer space". That would be a pretty accurate description, Clipd Beaks go all the way evil on this one. Download one of tracks: All the Way Evil Clipd Soundcloud . Unrelated - Clip Beaks made a mix for us two (!) years ago. [...]
LA-based Warrior Line is comprised of Maria Gonima and Greg Pritchard (ex- Clipd Beaks ). They draw influence from the "discordant guitar sounds of Manchester" and the drum machines of "Detroit techno". Their debut EP is set be released via Tigerbeat6 sometime later this year. Here is one track from said EP. Listen. Downloadable: Spies (mp3) More EP details and preordering info TK. Warrior Line is on the internet Warrior Line is on Soundcloud [...]
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: Get That Girl [...]
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: Get That Girl [...]
Noah and Rick of YVETTE sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? n: A while back I happened on Tristan Perich 's 1-Bit Symphony . It's a battery, a microchip, a couple switches, a volume knob, and a headphone jack simply wired together and mounted in a jewel case. The idea of it is pretty wild - that you can participate in [...]
This Thursday, Weekend will be performing once again at The Independent in San Francisco; this time around, the post-punk rockers will be headlining. Their first show back after playing gigs in Europe and opening for Wire, the show will be their last for a few months here in the city. Weekend - End Times Weekend - Coma Summer Clipd Beaks - Hard Daze
Live This Month: May 2011 In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. May features a couple of local festivals - S.S. Records' ten-year anniversary celebration and SF Popfest (which we'll be discussing later this month in a separate mixtape) - as well as the usual slate of touring bands coming through town. Veterans like Cass McCombs and The Raveonettes both recently put out what might be the best albums of [...]
Watch the beautiful new Clipd Beaks video for 'Home', directed by Nathan Budde and Eric Luken. The song is taken from their latest album To Realize , out now on Lovepump United . If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. Clipd Myspace .
This week was one of those weeks that's puts things into context. Covering music is a bitch. Between Sasquatch! , Arcade Fire , Belle & Sebastian , The National , Smashing Pumpkins , and all the festival lineup announcements , I think I speak for everyone here at CoS when I say we're a bit tired. And that's even after a four-day work week. So, while we catch our breath, use this time to check out the following mix of music's best new singles, covers, and remixes, along with mp3s from some up-and-comers you [...]
Clipd Beaks have a new hour long 14 track cassette which includes outtakes, demos, and early versions from To Realize . Listen to "Alien" from A World Without End . http://www.myspace.com/clipdbe aks
A huge part of me wishes that that headline had zero to do with the LA noise outfit and everything to do with how you and I are feeling right now. A) Because it'd be funny and B) Because Clipd Beaks, an Oakland band whose latest I like very much , likely has a lot of interesting ideas on the matter. Perhaps as many as they had for this cleaned, gutted and appropriately hypnotic take on HEALTH's "Death+", a Get Color highlight. (via Stereogum ) HEALTH, Death+ (Clipd Beaks Remix) [...]
The three dudes (lines on their Facebook page like "ate our weight in burritos," "stop being a weenie," and "band trip to the bar to watch the Vikings game," sarcastic or not, confirm their dude-ness) of Clipd Beak s seem to love whatever kind of pedal, instrument or electronic gadget they can pick out of a pawn shop, thrift store, or junk heap. The way they put these sounds together certainly owes a lot to the "noise" world, but rarely seems as chaotic as some noise. They certainly aren't clean or clear-cut in their instrumentation, but there's a method [...]
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Abe Vigoda - "Dead City / Waste Wilderness" (MP3/download from Skeleton cassette tape ; FANTASTIC) Abe Vigoda - "Lantern Lights" (MP3, also from Skeleton ) If Abe Vigoda were a shotgun, [...]
This has been a tough week as a literature teacher. Brian alluded to the heartfelt loss we feel as a reading community at the loss of Howard Zinn and JD Salinger this week. Zinn was a seminal author for Brian, and understandably so. For me, however, Salinger's writing marked a pivotal change for me. My initial reading of Catcher in the Rye didn't spark much interest, and in fact, probably pushed me away. I could identify with Holden Caulfield immensely, but didn't essentially tie all the language and aphorisms together into something meaningful until much later in life. [...]
This has been a tough week as a literature teacher. Brian alluded to the heartfelt loss we feel as a reading community at the loss of Howard Zinn and JD Salinger this week. Zinn was a seminal author for Brian, and understandably so. For me, however, Salinger's writing marked a pivotal change for me. My initial reading of Catcher in the Rye didn't spark much interest, and in fact, probably pushed me away. I could identify with Holden Caulfield immensely, but didn't essentially tie all the language and aphorisms together into something meaningful until much later in life. [...]
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