After taking its sweet time last year, summer has struck back with a vengeance. At least here in the midwest, 90+ degree temperatures and clear, sunny skies are quickly becoming the norm. Of course, with the changing of the seasons not only comes trips to the beach and increased slushie sales but exuberant, feel-good summer jams. As is our tradition here at Music For Ants, we're providing a mix that will hopefully soundtrack some of your 2012 summer memories. Download below or take a listen at Spotify . Enjoy! MP3 Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built [...]
Even though I'm adjusting to my new schedule at my new job and that's making it hard to do my other normal postings, I have enough experience making these podcasts that I can do them in one sitting if I put my mind to it. I should have a new laptop sometime this summer and I think that's going to mean a renaissance for this blog. I will have email submissions, my external hard drive, and my recording location all in one place. It's going to be killer. So. I made you a countdown. Hope you [...]
Photo Credit: Andrew Reynolds, OnlineAthens Reptar came back to Milwaukee on May 13, as a supporting act for Grouplove. Andrew McFarland (Drums), Ryan Engelberger (Bass/Keys), and newly-added member Jace Bartet (Guitar) were kind enough to take some time (after melting the faces of some 'tweens) and sit down with FPT's own Kellen Nordstrom, for a laid-back conversation chock full of nerdery and laughter. Kellen: Congrats on Body Faucet, guys, it's an amazing album. [...]
Yes it's true. I don't always knock countdowns out in one sitting. Usually it's more like two. Sometimes three sittings. This time it was three, but the third very nearly didn't happen at all! Thank goodness I have a routine where I look at the blogs before I go to bed (is that what people will do instead of "reading the paper" in 20 years? Is it actually what people mostly do now?) and that jarred the idea that I publish on Sunday mornings! But here it is in all it's glory. 103. Countdown [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Bag Raiders, Xaphoon Jones, Grouplove Song: The Knocks - Learn To Fly [download here ] What's so good? Not [...]
Los Angeles-based outfit GROUPLOVE is about to freak you out, Minneapolis. They hit the Varsity Theater this Tuesday on a headlining tour with support from Athen's dance dudes Reptar . MFR is giving away a pair of tickets so one winner can get a little (or a lot) crazy; if you want to become that lucky person email laura@minneapolisfuckingrocks. com with your answer to the following question: If you were to choose a slogan for GROUPLOVE, what would it be? Tuesday, May 15 2012 7pm [...]
So MCA (Adam Yauch) from the Beastie Boys died on Friday. He contributed so much to music right up to the very end. And he will be missed. The show this week pays tribute to him and the Beastie Boys in general. Enjoy it! Countdown #102 ***Featuring*** Beastie Boys The Black Keys fun. featuring Janelle Monae Gotye featuring Kimbra Grouplove Linkin Park M83 Neon Trees Of Monsters and Men Red Hot Chili Peppers The Shins
May 5: ► Hard to imagine there is a more Angeleno way to observe today's "holiday" than with L.A. icons Los Lobos . They headline Cinco de Mayo Festival at the Greek Theatre, joined by Neko Case, Alejandro Escovedo and Flaco Jimenez, with guests X and Mariachi El Bronx opening. Doors open at 3 p.m., with three local bands performing on the plaza outside the Greek: La Santa Cecelia, Ollin and 44s with Kid Ramos. ► Seattle folk singer Rocky Votolato headlines the Troubadour behind his fine new [...]
Whoa. So Blogger's all weird now. I know that probably most of my listeners don't blog themselves (you should though!), but I guess they've changed the setup of what it looks like when I write a blog post. Things are in different places. It's like someone cleaned my house and moved all my stuff around. Eh, I'm sure I'll get used to it. So, we're in the 2nd 100 episodes now, huh? Pretty sweet. :) Enjoy this week's show! Countdown #101 ***Featuring*** The Black Keys Foo Fighters fun. [...]
Canadian electro songstress Grimes will join indie-pop and folk luminaries Grouplove , Milo Greene , Cults and Soko on the bill for this year's Make Music Pasadena , the free daylong festival that draws more than 30,000 to the City of Roses. The diverse bill also features electro-funk guru Dam-Funk , Cambodian psych-rockers Dengue Fever , French chanteuse Jessica Fichot and Mexican singer-songwriter Gustavo Galindo . MMP goes off from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, June 16, at various venues in and [...]
The sweltering heat festival-goers have come to know and loathe descended on Part II of Coachella's doubleheader in the desert last weekend. But it didn't seem to dampen the enthusiasm of L.A.'s Grouplove (top photo). Photographer Debi Del Grande captured some of Friday's performers in this gallery.
So, this is the 100th podcast I've made that I've labeled a "Countdown". There are Flashback Countdowns and Off the Charts podcasts and stuff, but this is the 100th proper countdown of current chart hits. It's chock full of bonus songs, movement and perhaps for the first time on ANY podcast...Counting to 100 by 6! Enjoy this one! Tell your friends. Countdown #100 ***Featuring*** All-American Rejects AWOLNATION The Black Keys Foster the People Fun. featuring Janelle Monae Gotye featuring Kimbra Grouplove Hoobastank Keith Urban M83 The Mars Volta [...]
I felt like I was on a first date with this week's podcast. I was talking too loud sometimes, too quietly other times, I was nervous, forgetting the points of stories...... But the music is great! :) It always is. Countdown #99 ***Featuring*** AWOLNATION The Black Keys Foo Fighters Foster the People Fun. featuring Janelle Monae Gotye featuring Kimbra Grouplove M83 Rise Against Oh, also, in honor of #99....wasn't Barbara Feldon a knockout on Get Smart?
Ever heard of Dover, Delaware? You know, the capital city of that first U.S. state, located just under Pennsylvania and New Jersey and cut off from Maryland by one clean eastern border...The one with Dover International Speedway, Silver Lake, a quaint, down-home feel... And Firefly Music Festival ? In late July of this year (the 20-22, to be exact), more than 30 of the most prominent indie/alternative artists of today will be meeting up in Dover, Delaware, to play the young music festival known as Firefly. Firefly is akin to most [...]
[Blog Tapes] - Coachella from metrojolt on 8tracks . About a year ago, some of us blogger folk decided to band together for a series of Monday Mixer playlists. We've proudly joined forces again to restart the series - bigger and better than ever before. Blog Tapes , the new mixtape collective featuring our favorite music blogs on the Internet today, kicks off today with its very first mixtape: 8 hand-picked songs from artists that are all playing at this year's Coachella festival. Give it a listen above! [...]
[Blog Tapes] - Coachella We've joined up with a whole host of our favourite music blogs around the world to start putting together a regular mixtape series - Blog Tapes . With Coachella festival starting this weekend in the US, for this first mixtape we've all picked one of our favourite acts playing this year and rolled it all together into a mixtape on 8tracks which you can play above. DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt It's rare in music for something to completely transcend the strict [...]
photo by Krystopher Beiro Sad to be missing Coachella this year? YouTube is streaming a large chunk of the 2012 music festival this weekend. Highlights for Friday's YouTube schedule include The Black Keys , Neon Indian , Grouplove , Yuck , Pulp , Frank Ocean , Explosions in the Sky , and M83 . A full schedule can be found here. In other Black Keys news, one person they don't view as an asshole [...]
Next week, Chicago's own Company of Thieves will join forces with Grouplove for a two-week U.S. tour. Want to attend? You're in luck. Consequence of Sound is giving away a pair of tickets to each date of the tour. To enter, simply send us an email with your name and email address. Winners will be selected at random. Company of Thieves are touring in support of their Top Star earning sophomore LP, Running From a Gamble , while Grouplove will showcase tracks from their 2011 [...]
I'll be heading to Bonnaroo for the first time this year, and in preparation I'm checking out some of the bands on the line-up that I haven't heard. My favorite so far is L.A. indie pop band, Grouplove . Somehow despite being in an iPod commercial last year, I missed out on the incredibly effervescent "Tongue Tied" from their debut album, Never Trust A Happy Song . With a killer bassline catchy-as-hell chorus, it's an exhilarating, summery pop anthem that should be a blast to sing a long to live. [...]
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