You know it, we know it (though sometimes we're too wordy for our own good), nowadays it's best to just streamline the message, and our message is this: we get lots of submissions from various artists, labels, and PR folk, and it's honestly impossible to stay on top of it all. There's a ton of good music out there, and the following five bands are just some of the latest to jump out from our inbox; now, we pass them on to you in the simplest format we know: 5 + 5 = 10. Five bands, five songs, 10 words [...]

Gambit has made some back door deals with Limewire and some prominent underground New Orleans bands to come out with a compilation consisting of some new songs and some songs that are a few years old. Some of the artists they got to do the compilation, titled Ear to the Ground: New Orleans , are up and comers Givers , Giant Cloud , and the Pharmacy to current established names like Caddywhompus , Generationals and MyNameIsJohnMichael to legends like Rotary Downs , White Bitch [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: April Smith and the Great Picture Show : "Colors" [mp3] from Songs for a Sinking Ship (out February 23rd) other April Smith posts at Largehearted Boy Brother Gruesome : "NakedGirls.com" [mp3] from Brother Gruesome EP other Brother Gruesome posts at Largehearted Boy [...]

If you're a longtime reader, you're probably familiar with our ongoing love affair with New Orleans' Park the Van Records . It's pretty rare that PTV puts out a record that isn't up our street. Floating Action, Golden Boots, The Peekers, Generationals and (although they're now with ANTI) Dr. Dog are all PTV artists that tickle our collective fancies in one way or another. (There is some internal variation amongst us dicks; James is probably our hardest core Golden Boots supporter, while I'm on a bit of an island with my unabashed Peekers-ophilia, but you get the idea.) Suffice [...]

New Orleans band Giant Cloud has released their debut EP, Old Books, available everywhere digitally. Giant Cloud are recording their debut LP in February at Dr. Dog's studio in Philadelphia. The forthcoming LP will be produced by Rick Flom of National Eye and engineered by Bill Moriarty, who engineered the first 3 Dr. Dog albums. sound: Fingernails Old Soul Bright [...]

photo by wesley swinnen Today, Park The Van Records launched it's new PTV Delicacies series with the release of Giant Cloud 's debut EP. PTV Delicacies is a new way for the New Orleans based label to introduce a "new engine for releasing music from developing artists". Old Books is the debut EP from the New Orleans based, via Ruston band Giant Cloud, and is available everywhere music is sold digitally. They are recording their debut LP in February at Dr. Dog's studio in Philadelphia. The forthcoming LP will be produced [...]

This past weekend I was able to head down to New Orleans for a few cold nights filled with great food and friendship. I was also able catch Giant Cloud for the first time this Saturday at One Eyed jacks at an awesome show that Jason from Live New Orleans put on. I want to make a proper post for them in the coming weeks because I really enjoyed them. Until then, enjoy these pictures I took! GIANT CLOUD [...]

These come thanks to Tamara Grayson. FRIDAY, 11/20/2009, ONE EYED JACKS VOX AND THE HOUND ONE MAN MACHINE AND THE POWERS [...]