Oh shit! I found this post queued and realized it never posted! Well, last month Noise Pop closed the 20th Anniversary of their ongoing and much beloved festival with a dynamite set by The Dodos which started out with a somber dedication to former touring bandmate Christopher Reimer (also known as the guitarist for noise-rock band Women), who passed away earlier last month. The song? A cover of Tea Lights by Lower Dens , which turned out to be Chris' favorite song. The rest of the set was explosive, passionate, and a tribute to the [...]
Their set featured: Companions All Night The Season Download all tracks here. Live In Amsterdam is out now. Purchase The Dodos items via Insound. MP3: The Dodos - So Cold
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Can you believe Noise Pop has been going on for 20 years? Neither can anybody in San Francisco. According to the festival's program, the whole thing started out as a "random one-off show put together for an open night in the slow touring month of January 1993." Years later, the festival has evolved into a citywide event that's now a Bay Area tradition. It nurtures the area's creative spirit, and what better locale than San Francisco, a city that has always encouraged people to do their own thing and be themselves. Noise Pop champions those ideals and keeps it interesting. [...]
Download link is in the original post Sounds like: The Morning Benders, Born Ruffians, Bowerbirds Song: The Dodos - Black Night [download here ] What's so good? [...]
Date : Saturday, February 25th and Sunday, February 26th Number of Noise Pop Shows : 10 shows, 38 bands Already Sold-Out : Hopefully you already got tickets if you wanted to see Surfer Blood 's hooky fuzz-pop, and, given that the band's next album is on a major, they might never play an Independent-sized venue again. Meanwhile, Atlas Sound 's touring behind the excellent Parallax , joining SF's Seventeen Evergreen and others. Atlas Sound – "Te Amo" Check [...]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: The Dodos Video: 'Good' Highlight: 'Good' is the third single from 'No Color,' the third release from the California indie-folk duo the Dodos. The track is a celebration of everything that makes the band exciting: pulsating percussion, out-of-the-box guitar progressions and soulful indie crooning from vocalist Meric Long. [...]
With the Super Bowl and the Grammys in the rear-view, there's been plenty of opportunity for advertisers to boost their indie cred by filling ads with the latest buzz bands. So that brings us to another edition of Commercial Watch , where you can see which of your favorite bands and songs are being harvested for mass consumption via beer, phone, clothes and car ads. The commercials are embedded below with MP3s included. Make sure to click the continue reading link to see the full post. The Grammys: We Are Music [...]
Download link is in the original post Sounds like: Capybara, The Dodos Song: Django Django - Firewater [download here ] What's so good? Django Django have [...]
Mixtape: Twenty Bands at Noise Pop 20 (Podcast #271) Noise Pop 20 is just weeks away. From February 21st through the 26th, over one hundred bands will take over SF's venues for six days celebrating independent music. True to form, this year's Noise Pop Festival includes an eclectic mix of veterans and emerging artists, and you'd be wise to buy your tickets soon, because many shows are starting to sell out. To get familiar with many of the bands performing at Noise Pop this year, here's [...]
photo by Brittney Bollay Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription . This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Each and every Friday we offer songs by local artists. Today's selection, featured on the Morning Show with John Richards, is "So Cold" by The Dodos from a 2011 previously unreleased track on Frenchkiss Records . The Dodos - So Cold ( MP3 ) [...]
Here are 50 songs that defined 2011 for me. Listen. Enjoy. Tell me what you think. And yep, that's my ugly mug on the cover. Given and Taken in Ink's Top 50 Songs of 2011 from gtimusic on 8tracks . Here's the playlist: 1. Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) 2. City Reign - Anywhere Anyway 3. The Mountain Goats - Never Quite Free 4. Zaac Pick - Whitewater 5. Yuck - Holing Out [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars The folk soundings of Laura Gibson are marked by a variety of sounds. While the words simple yet elegant seem fitting to describe such an artist, I think intricate and raw also have their place in the description of La Grande . However, through all of this soft and roughness, Gibson's sugary vocals remain constant, serving as the syrup to run between the sounds. In its folk genre, this album seems to go a lot of [...]
Mixtape: Twenty Years of Noise Pop (Podcast #269) In February, the Noise Pop Music Festival turns twenty by gathering over one hundred local and touring bands from across the indie spectrum for a week of exciting concerts all over the City. Two decades of championing independent music is an accomplishment worth celebrating, and this mixtape collects twenty bands that have performed at Noise Pop events in years past. As you'll hear, a whole bunch of big names graced Noise Pop bills before achieving fame, as past festivals [...]
Portland experimental pop act AU will release its third full-length album, Both Lights , on April 3rd via Hometapes. According to a press release, the album's 11 tracks are a reaction to the time between their last album, 20082s Verbs , and their subsequent lives and careers. It further adds: "More than a mere accompaniment, it's a gleaming mirror. It's an exaltation, an exhalation, a monument of extreme composition, the child of collaboration and isolation, a preamble to a wild live show, a statue intact in the violent wind of art and commerce, and, simply, a [...]
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For many people, 2012 arrives with much uncertainty. But one thing we can pretty much always look forward to is music. There will be great music that gets a lot of buzz, and other terrific music that, for the most part, flies under the radar. There will be the predictable hype of new albums by [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
I've been thinking a lot about the list-making process. Someone recently asked me: What is the purpose of making a list? My initial reaction - because it's fun - is actually somewhat shallow. Is it really? Yeah, probably...somewhat...maybe? But if so, still: Why? In listening to me think out loud about this, my wife commented that she doesn't make lists for fun. Why, then? "To keep myself sane. To make sure I don't forget things I need to do." In other words: To make order out of chaos. To provide structure to an unstructured world. As [...]
post featuring albums 50-40 we promised that we would have the next 10 albums ready for you tonight and we're making good on that. We have two more posts coming you way tomorrow and then we'll be serving up the Top 10 right before new years. Just in the knick of time! If you have an exfm account get your heart buttons ready because you'll be wanting to keep these all safe and sound in your profile for easy access listening. You can follow us on exfm too! ex.fm/musicvagabond [...]
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