Flashback: It's July 2011. Summertime is running full steam, and great new songs and albums are coming in from all directions. New releases from Beirut, Washed Out, Memory Tapes, and others are burning up the blogs. This July playlist mix - officially, Best Songs of 2011, Vol. VII - highlights one of the things that [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

ARTIST: The SWAG Report 91 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by artists including Violet Lights, Elliott BROOD, The Delta Spirit, Rusko, Royal Canoe, Mansions On The Moon, Eax Autres, Cuff The Duke, Cherri Bomb and more! So much more! DATE: 01-21-12 WRITER: Don Loder Happy Christmas Two Junky, Well, I think that's what John Lithgow called it anyway, an' we'll call it that on accountabecause "The Biggest SWAG Report I done in a while, ya lucky punk" doesn't exactly roll off the [...]

Cymbals Eat Guitars continue to get some of the most amazing touring slots. Their latest batch of shows will have the band performing with Cursive ; it seems like a pretty good spring gig. The two bands plays two dates at Bowery Ballroom on April 3rd and 4th. The full list of scheduled dates are below. Cymbals Eat Guitars tour dates: Dates marked * w/ Cursive 3/22 - The Mill - Iowa City, IA * 3/23 - The 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN [...]

Cymbals Eat Guitars have announced tour dates with Saddle Creek staple Cursive. I wonder if there will be any yelling. Check out the dates below. Read more »

Cymbals Eat Guitars Cymbals Eat Guitars will be joining Cursive on a Spring 2012 North American tour. The band's album, Lenses Alien , is out now. Tour Dates 3/22 - The Mill - Iowa City, IA * 3/23 - The 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN * 3/24 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI * 3/25 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL * 3/26 - High Dive - Champaign, IL * 3/27 - Blind Pig - Ann Arbor, MI * 3/28 [...]

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trespasserswilliam.com The new year is traditionally held as a time for fresh starts and new beginnings, but it can also be a symbolic time for drawing things to an end or perhaps more appropriately, wrapping up something to begin something else. Not that that was the only reason it wasn't a complete surprise when Seattle duo Trespassers William took to Facebook this week to announce that the band would be shelved for the foreseeable future. Despite completely winning me over with their second album Different Stars [...]
For the holidays, Cymbals Eat Guitars ' buddy Noel of Hooray for Earth remixed their song 'Keep Me Waiting'. You can grab it here. We've been remiss not to post the actual promo video for the song, so watch it in the embed below. (Warning: youth hooliganism - of both sexes - up ahead.) Martin reviewed the whole of 'Lenses Alien', which you can read over here. Click here to view the embedded video.
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by Andrew Sacher DOWNLOAD: Cymbals Eat Guitars - "Keep Me Waiting" (Hooray for Earth Remix) (MP3) Cursive at BV-SXSW in 2009 ( more by Leia Jospe ) Cursive will release their seventh full length album, I Am Gemini , on February 21 via Saddle Creek. The album was recorded with Matt Bayles , and according to a press release , tells the story [...]

Tumble these Singles Here's our Top 5 singles of 2011. Sometimes a band has a song where just by itself it's the shit. Everything else around the album is sometimes window dressing and we're just not aware of anything else. In some cases more than others we think ok there's the hit or crap the band just releases a few songs so it's a bunch of EPs. Anyway, here's a few jems worth bring to your attention. Happy New Year and Enjoy! 05) " Don't Think I'll Make It Through Another " MP3 [...]

Hooray For Earth recently performed in Brooklyn. Watch 'Keep Me Waiting' here. Purchase Hooray For Earth items via Insound. MP3: Cymbals Eat Guitars - Keep Me... (Hooray For Earth Mix)

After presenting you our 10 favorite videos , EP's and 50 favourite albums of this year, it's now time for our forth and last round-up. So, here is the first half of our 100 favourite songs of 2011! Next to come: December 21 | Best Songs Of 2011 #50-01 December 24 | Christmas mixtape #100 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. | Skeletons #99 The [...]
Cymbals Eat Guitars' sublime track "Keep Me Waiting" gets the youthful video it so deserves.
A raucous evening takes a turn for the worst in "Keep Me Waiting" by Cymbals Eat Guitars.

By Alex Brenner Best of 2011 (in no particular order) Well it's been a pretty good year for music I guess. Some real strong releases and of course some real turds, thanks Metallica. So here is my list of what I liked about 2011. 1. Wye Oak - Civilian . This band is phenomenal, live they are amazing. Great songs but also very dynamic and sonically always surprising. I guess a great mix between country and shoegazing [...]

#25) Oh Land - Self Titled This is the sort of pop album a teenage girl would certainly like, and yet I'm not even a little ashamed to admit that I think it's a pretty great effort. Granted, it took me months to get myself to say such a thing, but surely that just shows the record's staying power, right? : Oh Land - Sun Of A Gun : #24) Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming [...]

The first video from Cymbals Eat Guitars latest full length Lenses Alien
Como habitual, fica por cá o resumo do que de mais importante se passou na minha página alternativa do Facebook. A semana foi preenchida de boas propostas musicais, algumas delas consideradas mesmo como canções do ano, constando na lista Top 40-2011. Logo a abrir, um tema que tem lugar na lista acima referida, "Collateral" dos britânicos Worship, seguido de um delicioso cover dos também