
The Indie Machine is at it once again. Tomorrow night at the Silver Dollar they put on yet another of their stellar series of shows focusing on local indie rock. This time around the line-up may be the strongest yet. Here's what you'll be treated to: 10:45pm- Allosaurus 11:40pm- FIRExFIRE 12:30am- Polyester Heart 1:20am- hue Doors open at 10:00pm and cover is $6. Check out the video for hue's "The Bump" from their [...]
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Donny Hue and the Colors is back on the radar this summer, dishing out what he's dubbing fre(e)-singles. Two free digital singles per week; that's pretty darn impressive. Mike from The Kora Records passed a few my way and I've been jammin' to them for about half an hour now. "At The Garden Wall" has a light folk-pop shuffle somewhere between The Beatles and Dylan, but with modern folk-pop flare. On the contrary, "I'll Be On My Way" begins with a country-ish pop jangle with bolder, more [...]

This is called the Tapecast because last night, for the first time in about ten years, I made a mixtape. Because of the van having a tape player there is actually a point to making these bloody things now, so we got hammered and listened to records all night (again), only this time I recorded them all onto a C-90! There is something so stupidly fascinating about making tapes in the first place, but there is certainly something surreal in resurrecting what genuinely was dead technology. It is far from easy to actually buy blank tapes these days. [...]

Oooft. It has been a heavy week, and oddly enough I am going to be taking the weekend as an opportunity not to drink, which is a bit backwards. But then, that's how these things go sometimes I guess. The good thing about my current job of course, is that I don't have to be all that professional. So instead of sitting at a desk trying to look like I'm being efficient this afternoon, I can put a movie on talk shite on the Friday Fives and fold Cold Seeds inserts. It's work, of course, and it does [...]
Just because I’m not in the holiday spirit (...just yet, anyway) doesn’t mean others aren’t rockin’ the halls with Christmas cheer. On Sunday night (12/20), Galaxy Hut presents “An Ed and Donna Christmas” and we asked ‘Donna’...er, Olivia Mancini, for the low down on what we can expect and some background on that name. So, uh, Donna? "Last fall, old music buddies Ed Donohue (Donny Hue & the Colors) and Olivia Mancini (Olivia Mancini & the Mates) packed themselves, two acoustic guitars, [...]

I've written about Donny Hue, both with and without the Colors, on several occasions now and put his last two albums (one with, one without) in my best of the year lists for the last two years running, and yet I don't get the feeling that they are as much of a favourite with the Toad readership as they are with me myself. This is a shame because Mr. Hue has now released three superb albums in consecutive years and that level of consistency is beyond the vast, vast majority of bands and puts him at a pretty bloody high [...]

I am so far behind with basically everything that I can almost see myself coming around the other way. I should be finishing up my first lecture of the new semester, but I just can't bear spending much more of my Saturday on a talk that most of my students are going to doze through anyway. So instead, I'm offering you a long overdue edition of A Free Man's new music recommendations. Edinburgh quintet Cancel the Astronauts is hard not to love. They make driving, electronica tinged indie pop that is guaranteed to stick in your [...]
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Clouded in mystery is Donny Hue's new track "Steps" off Free Sides . It is filled with pop sensibilities yet is shrouded in psychedelic production, giving the song and the band those added... err, colors. "Steps", while pop-centric, is not necessarily a super upbeat song. It has echoing guitars masked with a lightly distorted reverb, and the percussion is consistent but downplayed. The vocals, on the other hand, are front and center: their prominence shines even when harmonies are not present. But perhaps the most telling sign that this song remains true to pop is the [...]

Brooklyn's "Donny Hue and the New Colors" just released their sophomore record earlier this week on Kora Records. The new album, Letter From New Virginia , was recorded in an old barn in the middle of Luray, VA. I haven't gotten the chance to hear the new album yet, but I just found this B-side from the album that they are giving away for free. Don't judge this song, just because it didn't make the cut. This is no second rate song. I encourage those of you that enjoy this track to listen to the rest of the album [...]

mp3: donny hue and the colors - sing-a-long donny hue and the colors new album letter from new virginia was released yesterday and with it the final free side "sing-a-long". a collection of the six free sides released over the past six weeks is available for free here . give them a listen if you haven't already... some great great free music.

mp3: donny hue and the colors - sing-a-long donny hue and the colors new album letter from new virginia was released yesterday and with it the final free side "sing-a-long". a collection of the six free sides released over the past six weeks is available for free here . give them a listen if you haven't already... some great great free music.

Har tidigare postat en del om folkpopgruppen Donny Hue and the Colors , ni kanske minns att man släppte en del låtar gratis och så vidare. Nu, idag, är albumet Letter from New Virginia ute i skivhyllorna (vet inte om den nått Svedala förpackad, men digitalt ska den väl gå att få tag i tänker jag) och i samband med det släpper man alla sex gratislåtar en gång till, i mer samlat format, här . Så för er som missat detta tidigare, klickar er vidare och njut. En god del Donny Hue [...]
The new album from Donny Hue & the Colors, Letter from New Virginia, came out today. It should be a good one.In the run-up to the release Hue has been giving away a series of "freesides" for download. Now all of those have been collected into one free six-song digital download. You can get it right here:"Freesides"- MP3sEnjoy free music!Donny Hue's websiteDonny Hue's Myspace

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1. Rock Plaza Central - "Panama" (Van Halen Cover)2. Luke Top - "Friends"3. Bowerbirds - "Beneath Your Tree"4. Graveyard - "Thin Line"5. The Slips - "3.O.3"6. Pirate Love - "Laughing Gas"7. The Honey Brothers - "Demonstration"8. Deluka - "Cascade"9. Mason Proper - "Safe for the Time Being"10. Donny Hue - "Singing with Guitar"

Friday is back and so is Ten Tracks You Need. After a week off, we've got a bonus post w/a few more tracks than normal and it's what I've been jamming to over the last week or so. I'm not going to ramble on here, but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who participated in our 300th post contest. Three of you lucky kids got a whole heap of stuff mailed to you. You know who you are. We'll have more contests and giveaways and all you have to do to participate is follow [...]

DONNY HUE AND THE COLORS myspace [mp3] Steps [mp3] Oh Lord [mp3] I Speak Of The Hayseed Cousins They're playing tonight at The Black Cat in Washington DC.
moved over the weekend... without internet for a few days... here's the video for the latest freeside from donny hue and the colors.... listen to the mp3 here .

Tons of stuff in this early month mailbox purge. Even as I compile this, more music is flooding the LICORICE PIZZA inbox, so with luck and proper organizational skills, I may actually get out another mailbox post this month. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed. You’re going to see a couple more than usual electro-dance sorta things. Everybody wants to be the next Lady Gaga. I usually just delete these and move on unless I think the song is catchy or somewhat interesting, or if I just happen to be in a good mood. Two of the [...]