Time to show some love for the local musicians out there. Believe it or not, despite the fact that most acts skip over Detroit on their tours, we've got a pretty vibrant local music scene. Below is a really great song/video from a new local project called lettercamp which is a new electro-pop project from Liz Wittman (who plays bass in Friendly Foes , a pretty big local band). Lettercamp will be releasing a 103 later this summer on Five Three Dial Tone Records and will be labelmates with another dailybeatz favorite, [...]
Photo Credit to Jerry WaldFriendly Foes - Couch Surfing mp3Friendly Foes - My Body is a Strange Place to Live mp3from Born Radical,their 2008 releaseon Gangplank RecordsWe're loving the pure pop of this Ferndale, Michigan outfit.MySpace | eMusic | Amazon | CD Baby
This week's Friday Fix features tracks from some of our favorite Detroit bands who are playing PHONOTROPIC'S WICKED AWESOME BARBEQUEDMUSICAL SAFARI...YESSS!!! show this weekend at The Crofoot. The PHONOTROPIC'S WICKED AWESOME BARBEQUEDMUSICAL SAFARI...YESSS!!! promises to be an amazing event with more than 15 musical performances and DJ sets as well as some great art from Detroit artists, as well as [...]
I had been looking forward to seeing this line up for the last couple of weeks. I had heard a lot about Sebastien Grainger from friends and Dinosaur Bones has been on my iTunes list for a while. I love having friends who will pass stuff over to me if they think I will like it and Dinosaur Bones was a gift I really appreciated. If I'm not familiar with an artist I like going to the shows without any previous knowledge of what their music is like, that way I can get an unbiased opinion and [...]
Recommended show: FRIENDLY FOES @ PIANOS 158 Ludlow Street New York, NY 10002 $10, 8PM Though The Faint play a second night at Webster Hall tonight, I've got to give my recommendation to another one of the vast array of shows going on in the City. Friendly Foes is the side project of the frontman of Thunderbirds Are Now! and will be hitting the stage at Pianos tonight. I'm recommending on the strength of TAN!'s live shows, and the general quality of Friendly Foes songs. A whole host of things are going down tonight. Click [...]
DOWNLOAD: Friendly Foes - Full Moon Morning (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Real Estate - Suburban Beverage (MP3) Friendly Foes @ the Bell House ( more by Tim Griffin ) The new band from Ryan Allen of Thunderbirds are Now! , Friendly Foes - not to be confused with Friendly Fires , is currently on tour and visits NYC this Saturday night (4/11) for a show at Pianos . "I have multiple [...]
Monday 4/6 * Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) @ Monkey Town * Garotas Suecas @ Union Hall ( MP3: "So Bored" by Garotas Suecas) Tuesday 4/7 * Here We Go Magic, The Antlers, Hymns @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ( MP3: "Fangela" by Here We Go Magic) * Thurston Moore, Okkyung Lee, Ikue Mori, Fat Worm, Noise Nomads @ Santos Party House [...]
Every Friday we bring you our weekly batch of uploads. Download all the songs that went up the week of 3/9-3/13 right here, right now. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [ [...]
By now you know the drill: we are passing along a list of FREE and LEGAL MP3s and albums (or EPs) that have come our way in the past week. They're all posted below and free for you to enjoy... just click the band name for the band's site and the song name for the MP3. EAR FARM: giving you more of what you want. MP3s Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound : "Two Birds" BEADS : [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Balky Mule : "Range" [mp3] from The Length of a Rail (out March 24th) other Balky Mule posts at Largehearted Boy Chin Chin : "Some Like It Hot (Power Station cover)" [mp3] other Chin Chin posts at Largehearted Boy Floating Action : "50 [...]
It's that time of year again. Blowout Twelve begins Wednesday with the Opening Night Pre-Party, continuing Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, ending Sunday with you sleeping in till two in the afternoon, completely exhausted, but satisfied. And another guarantee I'll guarantee: even with plenty of rest on The Day of Rest, you will still [...]
Most Likely To: give your light therapy lamp a rest. Songs get stuck in my head for two reasons. At best because they are good, inspiring songs that I can connect to on an out-of-body-experience level, and at worst because they are catchy songs. And even the worst reason isn't bad. With its first full-length release, Born Radical, the band Friendly Foes brings the worst to the table –and I mean that in the best way possible. Am I confusing you? Well, if your brain has trouble handling what [...]
Do you prefer fires or foes to be friendly? Your tigers mini or republic? Your Sebastiens with or without the acute accent (é)? Confused? You're not the only ones. For as many bands as we listen to on a daily basis and try to keep neat and organized in the muddled recesses of our brains , from time to time we can't help but become hopelessly and utterly confused between similarly named artists. But it doesn't have to be that way! Below, we countdown our top 10 mental stumbling blocks and try to assess the subtle [...]
Yes sir! The original title of this mixtape was "I Could Have Danced All Night" but then I decided to update it for the LOL-cat generation. These songs are for a fancy-casual dance party. For those of you who don't know what that means, it's when you wear what you normally wear and do some fancy dancing. Duh. Ideally, some drinking should happen before this playlist is broken out. People should catch the buzz, but they shouldn't be smangled. Their general level of drunken-ness should be fancy, you know? Unless you're under 21. No drinking should [...]
Hear that? It's the calm before the storm, as next week finds the first major week of releases to start off the year. But until then, there are still a few releases this week to comb through. I haven't listened to a lot of these, outside of maybe one or two, just enough to include them on the Graboid. If there is anything else you can recommend this week do feel free to let us know in the comments. Angil + Hiddntracks [...]
Finally things are starting to almost look back to normal after the holidays. But wait for next week. It is shaping up to be a veritable musicsplosion in your face. I recommend checking out Lymbyc Systym's album if you can find it. I'll check out City and Colour too, mostly because their name keeps getting thrown about and I don't think I've ever heard them. And, for you Hold Steady fans, Franz Nicolay is their keyboardist so go support your favorite top 10 list-charting band, albeit [...]
With the second week of the year, things are beginning to pick up. Here are The Wheel's Still In Spin 's suggested new releases for this week: Friendly Foes – Born Radical | CD MP3 Download "Couch Surfing" (mp3) Born Radical was released digitally last year, but it sees the physical CD get wide distribution today. The three-piece band puts [...]
EAR FARM's Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted whenever the mood strikes us. Today's songs come to us from Terrorbird Media . Click on the band name to visit their site, click on the song name to listen to the song. Listen: Friendly Foes - "My Body (Is A Strange Place To Live)" Mike Bones - "What I Have Left" French Miami - [...]
The albums below are the ones I kept turning to when I just wanted to kick back and enjoy some tunes. Sure, there was more artistically challenging stuff released this year than some of the selections below - and I certainly do appreciate that sort of thing - but my year end lists reflect which music ultimately did for me what I think rock and/or roll is ultimately meant to do to any listener: it grabbed me by the heart and/or crotch and wouldn't let go. TOP 21 ALBUMS OF 2008 It [...]
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