Brokechella , the one-day music and arts event that bills itself as "A Fest for the Rest of Us," returns to downtown L.A. on Saturday with three stages of music, as well as a potpourri of activities including installations, a photo booth, food trucks and assorted vendors. The music offerings are highlighted by a host of local favorites, including garage-blues trio the Dead Ships , art-rockers Body Parts , electro maven Mystery Skulls and indie-folk duo yOya . Goofball Bay Area funksters Planet Booty join the fun, along with L.A. artists Krea & [...]
Filed under: Video , Video of the Day Artist : Hello Echo Video: "Why Are We Waiting" Highlight: "A few years ago I was working a staff job and after a while I got completely sick of it," Sean Aylward tells Spinner. "It was a fine job but it grew monotonous and I wrote a few songs about my 9 to 5 hatred and general out-of-place feeling. 'Why are we waiting' is one of them. I really wanted to do a claymation [...]
The multi-talented guitarist and vocalist Sean Aylward of Hello Echo , has created this short, sweet, and impressive claymation, stop-motion video for the song, "Why are we Waiting?" With a sound reminiscent of a more laid-back Fleet Foxes, this video is a perfectly endearing masterpiece for our short attention spans. - Jacqueline Caruso Hello Echo "Why are we Waiting?" Official Video from Hello Echo on Vimeo .
Hello Echo share a claymation dream LA-based trio Hello Echo has released a new stop-motion video for its 0.51 second song "Why Are We Waiting?" from their debut album, Hello. The claymation video was created by member Sean Aylward in the band's practice space with his own tools and props. The [...]
A pretty scary show lineup: ► The 13th annual Dia De Los Muertos Festival goes off at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, featuring Ozomatli , La Santa Cecilia , Very Be Careful , Las Cafeteras and Tribu . ► KCRW’s annual Masquerade Halloween costume ball and dance party gets festive at the Park Plaza. Z-Trip performs at the fundraiser, along with Hanni El Khatib , Mexican Institute Of Sound , Dustbowl Revival and more. ► Massive club shows everywhere, [...]
'Don't Blow Your Cover' lets you determine whether a band breathes new life into an older, established song. In this edition, indie band Hello Echo covers Neil Young 's title track to his second studio album, "Everybody Knows this Is Nowhere". Fun Facts: * "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" is the [...]
The Brian Jonestown Massacre are in Berlin working on a new album. Here is a track from those sessions, Everything Fades To White. Enjoy.
I've mentioned my love before for "Birdbeat," the 2011 single from Santa Monica-based indie rockers Hello Echo , but haven't previously dedicated a post to it here on Given and Taken in Ink. "Birdbeat" was my introduction to the band, and if I had only discovered it sometime last year, it definitely would have ranked quite highly on GTI's Top Songs of 2011 list. Hello Echo's vocals really shine here. Lead singer and guitarist Sean Aylward has the ragged delivery that all good rock frontmen must possess, as on other songs like "Coffee [...]
Hello Echo’s new 3 track EP, Coffee Cups, is a formidable, stout brew that’s simply irresistible and has perked my excitement for the band’s upcoming sophomore album due out early 2013. 2012, Self-released 7.8 / 10.0 Hello Echo released their debut album, Hello, last year, and unfortunately we didn’t [...]
Coffee Cups is like one of those movies that takes place in one 24-hour period – but instead of two hours of film, the L.A. trio Hello Echo these guys pack the feelings of dusk ‘till dawn on a Saturday night into three songs. Their East Coast roots knotted around their West Coast vibe to created grooves encapsulating Americana, folk-rock, and ‘60s fuzz on their 2010 debut Hello. The title track kicks the experience off with a similar feel, as a fuzzy, jangling punk jam whose mug runneth over. “Coffee cups and Adderall, now calm me [...]
This week's drop of nearly two dozen fantastic, and some highly anticipated, albums continues to deliver memorable new singles from a mesmerizing range of artists, styles and genres. Yesterday, we posted the first half of this week's Best New Music Releases, featuring spectacular new singles from the latest albums by music giants like The Raveonettes, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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After releasing their debut LP in 2010 and the killer single "Birdbeat" last year, Hello Echo have somewhat reinvented themselves in their brand new EP, Coffee Cups . It's not a dramatic shift, but the "reckless spirit" mentioned on Hello Echo's bandcamp page is certainly an apt description here. Coffee Cups sees the band donning a punkier version of itself, mixing the urgency of surf rock with the ragged wail of Sean Aylward's vocals. On earlier releases, Hello Echo tapped into the eccentric brilliance of Modest Mouse, but that influence is [...]
Here's what's on our radar from this week's list of new releases; Neil Halstead; Palindrome Hunches Neil Halstead; Digging Shelters Hello Echo; Coffee Cups Hello Echo; Country Helvetia; Nothing In Rambling Helvetia; RyBro The Raveonettes; Observator The Raveonettes; She [...]
It's a mind-blowing list of new releases on perhaps the biggest release date of the year, so let's get started. You're going to need all the time you can get to pick these up. First up, the long-awaited second album by The xx is potentially KEXP listeners' album of the year. While it's but one of a number of hotly anticipated this year - others come from Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and Grizzly Bear - The xx strip down their sound to a sultry murmur, like a whisper in your ear. Oliver Sims and Romy Madley-Croft never sounded [...]
photos by Morgen Schuler Formerly a guitarist for Boston band Apollo Sunshine, Sean Aylward broke away and headed west. Soon, his intended solo project grew into a full trio after an impromptu jam session with fellow Boston musicians Mike Silva and Mike Sarno in Baja, Mexico. Now, based in Santa Monica, CA, with Silva on drums and Sarno on bass, Hello Echo (yes, the name come from an Airplane quote) combines East Coast sensibility with a laid back West Coast style. Closing our first day [...]
The Waning Days of Summer (2012) from gtimusic on 8tracks Radio . Well, here we are. Kids are going back to school, and the weather has turned into a muggy, hot mess. The days are getting shorter and summer is clearly on its way out. GTI's Sad Songs for Summer mix was the most successful mix we've done on 8tracks, and The Waning Days of Summer is even better! Boom! In all seriousness, I really dig this mix. Like all my 8tracks mixes, it includes [...]
There's something in the let-it-rip methods of L.A.-based Hello Echo that will appeal to fans of the edgy alternative rockers of the 1990s as well as exuberant nu-folkies of today. Singer-guitarist Sean Alyward, who once toiled for the mid-aughts buzz band Apollo Sunshine, has found a happy place between garage-rock, surf-pop and Americana; the band's "Coffee Cups" EP (out this week) has a couple come-out-of-your-shoes moments that made us dart back to 2010 for their "Hello" debut album (which somehow we'd completely missed). Alyward and fellow Bostonians Mike Sarno on bass and Mike Silva on drums and vocals [...]
LA-based trio Hello Echo has announced a West Coast tour in support of their new Coffee Cups EP , a quick mix of alternative, punk, surf, blues and folk (out Tuesday 11th September). Have a listen to the first single from the EP, Country . a Tour Dates 8/18 - Visalia CA - Cellar Door 8/23 - Pismo Beach CA - Cliffs Resort 8/24 - San Diego CA - Tin Can Alehouse [...]
Hello Echo I'm a sucker for pyschobilly and any other amalgamation psychedelic rock and country, so you best believe that I'm posting the newest track by Hello Echo "Country" from their Coffee Cups EP, out August 21, 2012. Listen to it in this post. The Los Angeles-based trio will be playing West Coast dates in the coming meets in support of the EP. Tour Dates 8/23 - Pismo Beach CA - Cliffs Resort 8/24 - San Diego CA - Tin [...]
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