01.Easter - Somethin' American This might be the first time such an unknown song by such an unknown band has ever been given top spot on any of my end of year lists, but they were absolutely brilliant live when they played up here in September, and this song is just fantastic, as are the other two songs on their Soundcloud page. It's less lo-fi than a lot of the DIY stuff I've listened to this year, and the squalling solos which tease Easter's songs to an end evoke loads of old school US indie music. This gives quite [...]
11.David Thomas Broughton - Ain't Got No Sole The first song we heard from DTB's fantastic album, and perhaps the poppiest of the lot. Catchy, unusual and immensely hummable. 12.Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms Another album from which it is tricky to extricate just one song as a highlight, but for some reason I'm giving this the nod above Jesus Fever or Puppet to the Man . I think it's the most late night and glass of red winey song on the album, but it's close. 13.The [...]
Here we are at the penultimate podcast of the year, and the one immediately preceding Christmas. I really don't like 99% of Christmas music so there's pretty close to none of it at all on here, although I have made a couple of exceptions as a lazy sort of nod to the season. Let's face it, if the druids can be arsed dancing about like idiots around Stonehenge and people can fall out over half-defrosted turkeys then I can probably make the effort to shove a couple of token musical nods onto a single podcast, can't I. I [...]
Right, all the amateurs have had a go, and we've seen disturbing amounts of Bon Iver and PJ Harvey on lists from Bradford to Boston this year, but it's time for those of us who really know what's good and what isn't to step up and set the record straight. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the definitive list of what's been good this year, so you can all stop pretending to care what Drowned in Sound or Pitchfork think, and find out what you should really be thinking about music. That's all bollocks of [...]
Sonny Smith, of Sonny & the Sunsets fame (or by now, in our house anyway, I should probably say 'of Sonny & the Sunsets legend), has gone from my not even being aware of his existence in 2010 to suddenly becoming something of a musical icon, and we're only half way through 2011. I first heard about the 100 Records project when I was contacted about the absolutely brilliant Earth Girl Helen Brown EP (the 500 copies of which they seem to have torn through at a pretty brisk pace), and through [...]
Number 36 and possibly the best artwork by Left Overs yet (grab the wallpaper ). Hey, the tunes aren't bad either. Right Click Radio 2XM's Aoife Mc presents. Tracklisting and links after the jump... Download: Nialler9 Podcast #36: TUnE-yArDs, Solar Bears, Lone, Abner Jay... Subscribe to the Podcast via iTunes Podcast #36 -Tracklisting TUnE-yArDs - 'Bizness' - [...]
No, no, don't worry this isn't some sort of chillout special (although we did actually do one of those once upon a time). The only reason this is called the Chillcast is because on what was a beautifully sunny day for the rest of Scotland, Edinburgh performed its age old trick of drawing a freezing sea mist off the North Sea - the haar, as it's called - and turning a lovely Spring day into a damp, chilly sulk. Bastard. I realised a while back that I don't actually cover all [...]
Brad Oberhofer - hanging out with a room of friends A NIGHT OUT WITH OBERHOFER, SONNY & THE SUNSETS, THE SANDWITCHES, and EARTH GIRL HELEN BROWN Friday night I showed up early to catch east-coast sensation OBERHOFER for their first (but definitely not last) west coast tour date. Though the evening was frustrated with technical difficulties, main-man Brad Oberhofer spoke the truth when musing that " breaking three strings and two pickups in a single show is a night to remember, but I will remember I was [...]
A Month of Mondays: Monday Mail What is Monday Mail? Earth Girl Helen Brown's biography reads like a Lifetime made-for-tv movie waiting to happen. Don't believe me? Check out this note from Tyler at Banter: Helen Brown was born in Vancouver, Canada, but raised in an Athens, Georgia-based religious cult, and was blinded in one eye from a childhood baseball injury. As an adult, she dropped out of Evergreen and traveled the country for a while as a nomadic psychedelic folksinger, before forming her [...]
Mp3: Earth Girl Helen Brown - Hit After Hit
Tweet Here's a look at four Bay Area bands and artists who all released new records this week. While he's well known as a studio wizard, what struck me most in recently seeing Papercuts perform was that Jason Quever can also write a hell of a pop song. His first album on Sub Pop is the brand new Fading Parade . Papercuts - "Do You Really Wanna Know" [...]
Today's song is "Hit After Hit" by Earth Girl Helen Brown . Helen Brown was born in Vancouver, Canada, but raised in an Athens, Georgia-based religious cult, and was blinded in one eye from a childhood baseball injury. As an adult, she dropped out of Evergreen and traveled the country for a while as a nomadic psychedelic folksinger, before forming her first band One Eyed Tramps. For years, she lived alone in a mountaintop in southern Alaska, where she befriended a Cherokee Shaman (later revealed as a fake) who encouraged her to pursue a frustrating academic career. Rampant drug [...]
What are you doing this Sunday? Brunking and then finding your way to a big screen somewhere in your respective cities to watch some excellent live music performances? Us too! There will be winners and losers, and some folks that weren't even nominated. But at the end of the night, we'll all be talking about the winners. So here is a mix of who we think should be the winners - and songs that are about winning. WIN. "Cee Lo - Fuck You" "Earth Girl Helen Brown - Hit After Hit" [...]
February may be the shortest month of the year, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have enough love for two Turntable Kitchen mixtapes! Yup, two new TK mixes comin' at ya. In a few weeks I'll unveil the Turntable Kitchen :: Cover Mix that we prepared for our now sold out dinner party that we [...]
Earth Girl Helen Brown Drop EP via Forest Family"Hit After Hit" mp3 link: http://bantermm.com/tracks/EGH B-HitAfterHit.mp3Helen Brown was born in Vancouver, Canada, but raised in an Athens, Georgia-based religious cult, and was blinded in one eye from a childhood baseball injury. As an adult, she dropped out of Evergreen and traveled the country for a while as a nomadic psychedelic folksinger,
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One of the seemingly infinite amount of things that are great about the ever-changing world of music, aside from its constantly evolving sounds, are the ways in which people come up with to market it in innovative ways. Earth Girl Helen Brown is the latest in line to pleasantly surprise me. At the risk of spoiling Sonny Smith's expertly underhand scheming, it turns out that Earth Girl Helen Brown isn't actually real at all, or at least not further than the songs she's recorded. Helen Brown is actually just the artist name on one of the vinyl records of Smith's [...]
Here is our regular round up of the best of January's posts plus a couple of new tracks for your listening pleasure - all beautifully designed to make one perfect mixtape. Download Wooden Wand – The DNR Waltz mp3 More classic down-tempo folk from greatly underrated MM fave. Download Phosphorescent – Are You Ready For The Country? mp3 Riff-heavy, mean-assed cover which brilliantly captures the double-edged viciousness of Neil Young's original. Download Akron/Family – So It Goes mp3 A soulful [...]
Quiet Lights My in-box is overflowing you track you need to hear and videos you need to watch. Here's my Saturday morning gift to you: The Soulphonics & Ruby Velle - "Heartlite" Holy Ghost - "Do It Again" Blair - "Hearts" Mogwai - "San Pedro" Keith Canisius - "The Beach House" Quiet Lights - "No More Canyons" [...]
Per requests, we're going to try something new this week. Now, not only do we offer a mix of this week's best new singles and remixes, along with covers hand-selected by Cover Me , in bullet form below, but we also took said mix and uploaded it in zip file format, which you can now download by clicking here . You're welcome! And please enjoy! NEW Singles: "The Roller" by Beady Eye "My Father's Eyes" by Ben + Vesper [...]
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