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Over the next 10 days, more than a quarter-million of motivated artists and industry personnel will descend upon Austin. New York musicians will speed 26 hours and 1,500 miles to Texas’s capital, while Los Angeles filmmakers will make the three-hour flight into Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Some start-ups will walk to the festival, while other musicians will travel halfway around the globe. They all come for one purpose: the 27th annual South By Southwest . The 10-day festival, which includes music, film, and interactive segments, unites credential-wearing hordes in a party-hopping, buzz-building extravaganza. Some registrants will partake in [...]
Words by Brendan There are plenty of great shows happening in town in the next five days. I wish I could see them all, but I can't, so I'm counting on you folks to check them all out and tell me how great they were. Into spacey psych rock? Check out Guardian Alien on Wednesday, or Heliotropes on Thursday. Dig the indie rock/folk vibes? Definitely see Rah Rah on Wednesday, with excellent locals Arlo Aldo . Into the singer/songwriter types? Don't miss Brooke [...]
Brooklyn postpunks YVETTE have covered Italian psychpop trio Father Murphy as part of Aagoo 's Anyway, Your Children Will Deny It remix series (which was released yesterday). The series features a 7” with Indian Jewelry and Philippe Petit and a 123 with the following tracks. Tracklisting: Happy New Year - How we ended up with feelings of guilt W-H-I-T-E - His face showed no distortions Zulus - It is funny, [...]
Noisemaker Dan Friel has shared another track from his first post- Parts & Labor full length LP, Total Folklore . The LP is set for release on February 19th via Thrill Jockey . Listen. Downloadable: Thumper (mp3) ( soundcloud ) Friel has also been crafting some hand-made music boxes. Thrill Jockey is giving one away that plays the song "Thumper". Here is a little demo . Watch. To be entered to win it all you [...]
Noisemaker Dan Friel has put the finishing touches on his first post- Parts & Labor full length LP, Total Folklore . The LP is set for release on February 19th via the venerable Thrill Jockey label. Reportedly, Total Folklore was recorded on a computer purchased in 2001 running OS9 and it features: thriftstore pedals field recordings made while walking around various cities Friel's first musical instrument, a Yamaha Portasound keyboard from 1984 Here is an edited version of the album's [...]
[Photos by acidjack] The drummer Greg Fox is in rare company; simply put, he is one of the absolute best rock drummers in New York. After parting ways with the band Liturgy last year, Fox has continued to pursue his own vision through projects like GDFX and now, Guardian Alien . Freed from the strictures (such as they are) of the traditional rock song format, Guardian Alien gives Fox free rein to follow his most avant-garde instincts. It takes guts, and a great player, to build an entire band around drums, and Guardian Alien succeeds [...]
Hey NYC cats, I hope you're getting back to some degree of normalcy since Hurricane Sandy, and that you have - and continue to - lend support to those still suffering . Well, if you've been a bigger homebody than you're used to the last couple weeks like I have since trains have been fucked, then get back in the NY groove by seeing some excellent live music on Friday night with Psychic Ills , Guardian Alien and Starring at the Knitting Factory . [...]
Slap-bracelet koozie // Photo by Jeremy D. Larson There's some vestiges of Magellan that still run through our blood, but the pioneering spirit in music has a habit of leading to dead ends, or sending us around in circles, or retreating toward the safety of civilization. Loathe as I am to say, there is a large circle of people who will never read this - people who don't possess that need for discovery at all, and who see music as a passive or incidental thing in their life like the hum of cicada or the refrigerator kicking in at intervals. I [...]
Dan Friel (ex- Parts & Labor ) knows a thing or two about manipulating sound. Friel 's first release on the venerable Thrill Jockey label is evidence of that. The Valedictorian/Exoskeleton EP is presently scheduled for release on October 16th. It features two brand new songs as well as remixes from Moss of Aura and Peaking Lights . This here is track number one. Listen. Downloadable: Valedictorian (mp3) You will be able to preorder the Valedictorian/Exoskeleton EP at some point in [...]
So we typically toss a video onto a post when highlighting a new band or a show preview or something and let you draw your own conclusion about it. Sometimes we throw a change-up... strike that - let’s call it a round up. Most of these videos are of bands we have previously talked about here on Draw Us Lines, so we won’t be telling you much about those bands themselves, just some musings that really aren’t worth a damn. If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a video must be worth a million. Hold on to your hats! [...]
Birds chirrup, insects click, and the soft tap of gongs recline your mind into a lush, soft bed of grass and… YES! A gigantic alien spacecraft made entirely of drums and madness crashes in flames directly onto you. This is the first 3 minutes of ‘See The World Given To A One Love Entity’ by Guardian Alien, led by space cadet drummer, Greg Fox, a man who clearly knows how to construct an arresting intro. According to the record label, this album is concerned with ‘opening the heart, healing, forgiveness, and visualising and manifesting [...]
I just watched this far-out magical Guardian Alien video and just had to share it with you! First of all, if you don't know, Guardian Alien is a free wheeling ensemble who have found just the right balance between structured arrangements and wild abandon. Helmed by Greg Fox, who has lent his percussive force to the likes of Teeth Mountain, Dan Deacon, and Liturgy, the ensemble was initially an extension of his solo music. It rapidly took on its own identity and expanded to a core group of Greg (drums, vocals, electronics, arrangements), Alex [...]
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Guardian Alien's new album is one song - "See The World Given To a One Love Entity". Spanning over 37 minutes, it seems impossible to put a video behind the epic track. Instead of tackling it as a whole, Guardian Alien have broken the song into different videos. Part one was directed by [...]
New York's Guardian Alien shoots for the stars on this new album, and delivers a chaotic, psychedelic 37-minute song. WATCH THE REVIEW
We envy you. When you go into your favorite record store today or hop online to your trusted music merchant, you are about to buy your favorite album of the year. Or one of them, anyway... there's a lot of competition this fall! Purity Ring , though, the Halifax/Montreal-based duo, have finally released their full-length debut, which our Music Director, Don Yates, calls "a remarkable album of beat-driven electro-pop, blending elements of atmospheric dream-pop with modern hip hop and R&B on lush, sharply executed songs combining sparkling and warped synths, cavernous hip hop beats, sugary melodies, ethereal, occasionally auto-tuned [...]
A little while back , I blogged about the forthcoming LP from experimental rock outfit Guardian Alien. The forthcoming LP is a single, 37-minute track that moves through multiple phases. You can hear the first part of the track here, but the band has seen fit to release the second movement of the song via the video above. Enjoy! Look for this LP, See the World Given To a One Love Entity , on July 24th via Thrill Jockey . Guardian Alien is also in the midst of a tour at the moment. Check [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Beach House : "Myth" [mp3] from Bloom search for more Beach House posts at Largehearted Boy Debo Band : "And Lay" [mp3] from Debo Band [...]
Hace poco les informaba que el ex-baterista de Liturgy , Greg Fox , estara poniendo a la venta un nuevo material con su nueva banda de nombre Guardian Alien, de la que les vine a dejar la primera parte del track que le da titulo a "See The World Given To A One Love Entity" y ahora, es turno de darle una oreja a la segunda parte de este corte por medio del video oficial que acaban de presentar, con motivo de que el 24 de Julio esta practicamente a la vuelta de la esquina, el dia [...]
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