We have once again invited some folks whose opinions we trust to share their favorite releases of 2011. Check out the artists on these list and the folks recommending them (most of whom are in bands of their own). You should be able to purchase each record through the attached link or visit your local independent record store and buy it there. Matt Jarrard of Oryx and Crake and Book Club is the first to share his list with us which makes it the first we will share with you. Check back for more. Enjoy. [...]
New trakcs this week from Two Suns , We Were Promised Jetpacks , The Features , Lightouts , and more: Two Suns – Five Months Gone By [mp3] (from Self Addressed EP ) We Were Promised Jetpacks – Act On Impulse [mp3] (from In the Pit of the Stomach , out Oct. 4) The Features – [...]
We've already given you two excellent tracks from psych-folkies Efren's new album, Rise On Up And Melt . Now we have a third, and this time it is the seven minute mini-epic of Mr Greene . Efren is led by Scott Low who fell into a dark marital separation as the record was being recorded. A new outlook on the album came about. Though not the original intention, Rise On Up And Melt became a songwriter's story of lost faith in love and trust. Get a copy [...]
Here is our regular Best of the month mix - more than twenty tracks of all shapes and sizes to get your ears into, plus a few new ones that we think you'll love! So we're off and running with... Download The Virgin Passages – Horizon mp3 (from Horizon) Euphoric, unhurried, hazy and hypnotic. Download St. Vincent – Kerosene (live) mp3 (Big Black cover) Visceral and stunning live cover of a stonewall classic. Download The Coathangers – Trailer Park Boneyard mp3 (from [...]
By Matt Jarrard Efren's new LP Rise On Up and Melt is a clear sign the Athens based band has found its footing. Evident in these 10 tracks is the over 100 dates that the band has spent on the road since releasing their EP Al w ays Been A Bleeder just last year. Also evident is the marital strife front man/songwriter Scott [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 63 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by Sundress, The Irrepressables, The Young Things, DATE: 06-30-11 WRITER: Don Loder Arightcha bum-rushin', no account junkies, Yeahyeahyeah, I know I'm late gettin' you yer fix, but I was laid up. Some junkie jumped me inna alley down on Avenue B witta knife an' laid me up fer a coupla days. Mangy bastid won' be doin' 'at [view more]
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mp3: Efren - "Like A Coat" somewhere i heard the new bon iver is overrated, haven't heard it myself, so who knows(?) but man, likin this new efren track. efren is from athens, georgia you know they have good music comin outta that place and efren is no different, chalk this up to the likes of great lake swimmers or iron and wine, maybe with some more psychedelic elements, but no one knows that in "like a coat," this is all tender and nice, i prefer this type of bedroom pop. efren is [...]
At the end of last month we posted about the debut album from psych tinged folk band Efren , titled Rise On Up And Melt . The album is released today and the band have made available a second track from the album - grab yourself some melancholy Moonshine below. Get a copy of the album here . Download Efren - Moonshine mp3 (from Rise On Up And Melt) Download Efren – Like A Coat mp3 (from Rise On Up And Melt) [...]
Efren started as the solo project of Scott Low, but tomorrow, the Athens, Ga., outfit is releasing its first full-band album. Rise On Up And Melt (Slo Pro), the follow-up to last year's Always Been A Bleeder EP, is informed by the dissolution of Low's marriage. Though he and his bandmates all have jazz backgrounds, [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 58 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by artists including Zombi, Wax Museums, Tidelands, The Shivers, The Cool Kids, Scattered Trees, Roadside Graves, Raekwon, My Goodness, Miwa Gemini, Kidcity, General Monks, Company Of Thieves and more! So much more! DATE: 06-01-11 WRITER: Don Loder 'Ey youse, Awright, I'm runnin' late today (sue me) so I'll keep this short so ya can make wit' the thievin'. Yer gonna thank me though - ya filthy junkies youse - cause I got [...]
On June 28th Efren will release their first full length, full band album, Rise On Up And Melt . Efren began as Scott Low, who wrote and recorded the debut album Thunder and Moan in the spring of 2009. With friends Low performed the songs live and the band was born. Playing almost 100 shows in the first year and recording and releasing a full band EP Always Been a Bleeder , (see our original post here ) the band took the songs to stages across the southeast. [...]
"The New" this week features Fair Ohs, Golden Leaves, and Pillars & Tongues: Fair Ohs - Eden Rock [mp3], Summer Lake [mp3]from Everything Is Dancing (out July 26th) Golden Leaves - The Ornament [mp3] from The Ornament (out August 16th) Pillars & Tongues - The Making Graceful [mp3] from The Pass and Crossings (out June 28th) Teen Daze - Surface [mp3] from A Silent Planet (out August 9th) [...]
Memorial Day is meant to be the holiday in which we do without the grand gestures associated with other holidays, like stuffing our faces, decorating our homes and yards with over-sized representations of capitalist deities like Santa Claus, and exchanging gifts we neither need or want (unless it's a Nintendo 3Ds). But when it comes right down to it, Memorial Day is just another excuse to have a day off in the early dawning of summer and to sleep in and, once more, fill our faces with the dead, burned flesh of animals. If you are the type, however, to [...]
Let me be candid. This is not a venue where I usually recommend seeing a band. It's a cool place to play pool and get a nice brew, but it isn't Atlanta's finest music room. However, Athen's swamp folksters, Efren , make it to town too infrequently to pass on this. I caught them late last year at Wonderroot and they impressed with their southern songcraft and precise musical execution. They are tight, well-rehearsed, and well worth your time.
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Efren: Oryx & Crake: [...]
For Flagpole : Efren Always Been A Bleeder Slo Pro In a quiet eddy where gothic Americana, psychedelia and straight-up country swirl together, Scott Leon-O'Day of local band Efren sits holding a guitar. Armed with only his breathy voice, he sings of the hand he's been dealt ("Check It Down") and watches the brackish waters, at times assisted by a trio of instrumentalists...[ Read more ]
The Vita Ruins - " Seven Suns " (mp3) from A Day Without A Name Betsy Fanck & The BareKnuckle Band - " Lowdown " (mp3) from Still Waiting Efren - " Stay High " (mp3) from Always Been a Bleeder The Lonely Forest - " Live There " (mp3) The Moondoggies - " It's a Shame, It's a Pity " (mp3) from Tidelands
Here is our usual round-up of the best songs we've posted in August together with a couple of our favourite covers and three new songs to tempt you. Another perfect mix tape we think. Black Angels – Telephone mp3 Gentler psych-pop approach from new album calling to mind classic era Zombies Dreamend – Magnesium Light mp3 Superb psych-folk from the loosely joined and hellish story of a serial killer The Migrant – [...]
Full disclosure: I had ambitions to write more about the August 17 My Morning Jacket show in Chicago. I felt like I had 1500 words in me on the show and the experience. Generally, I like the opportunity that the blog affords me to (in the words of Cousin Marty) organize the experience through writing. Then I sat down to bang this one out. The show stands burning in my brain as a perfect event, almost too pristine to capture with something as ephemeral as an "internet blog post." I saw one [...]
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