Do It. by HotChaCha / Summer People HotChaCha is a Cleveland-based art punk band composed of Jovana Batkovic (vocals), Greg Gebhard (guitar/keyboard) and Roseanna Safos (drums). The band does not have a permanent bassist, but utilizes fill-in bassists on tour. The band plays a progressive rock influenced by a blend of shoegaze and punk. -- Wikipedia HotChaCha has been touring incessantly over the past few years --- traversing the East Coast, the South, and Midwest countless times --- refining their over-the-top [...]
It is time for the next volume of the Best Downloadables of 2011 . You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Listen. Downloadables: Spinning (mp3) by Roomrunner Aorist (mp3) by [...]
It is time for the next volume of the Best Downloadables of 2011 . You can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) or you can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom left of the page. If you are using Chrome you should really think about installing the awesome ex.fm extension (especially if you use last.fm ). Listen. Downloadables: ( ) [...]
The summer may officially be over today with the fall equinox, but New York's Summer People are about to let the party of summer fade away just yet. The indie rockers will be hitting Strange Matter tonight with HotChaCha ( who I've written about before ), The Catalyst , Hoax Hunters and Jabroni . Summer People - Shallow Water People [...]
It's Labor Day weekend, y'all! It's time to celebrate our jobs by taking some time off from them to enjoy what little is left of summer. Because of the holiday there are festivals aplenty happening in the city. We've got North Coast Music Festival happening in the West Loop and Ravenswood Remix on the Northside. Plus shows by Save the Clocktower and Dark Fog . Let's get to it! FRIDAY [...]
We are always excited to hear something new from Cleveland's HotChaCha . Well, Do It is HotChaCha 's new split 123 EP with New York State's Summer People . It is available right now via the Exit Stencil label. This here is side one, track one. Listen. Downloadable: Aorist (mp3) You can stream the whole EP using the widget below. Streamable: Do It (bandcamp) Do It. by HotChaCha / Summer People [...]
We are always excited to hear something new from HotChaCha . Well, Do It is a split 123 EP featuring Cleveland's HotChaCha and New York State's Summer People . The EP is out now on Exit Stencil . This here is side one, track one. Listen. Downloadable: Aorist (mp3) You can stream the whole EP using the widget below. Streamable: Do It (bandcamp) Do It. by HotChaCha / Summer People [...]
After taking in Hot Cha Cha's recent performance at the Rock Hall with The Joy Formidable a few things were immediately apparent. One, and this one was very obvious, Hot Cha Cha are no longer a girl band. Mandy Aramouni has moved from guitar to bass, with new boy, Greg Gebhard now on guitar. Two, lead-vocalist Jovana Batkovic is still one of the area's premier performers, even when she has to keep her act to a PG-13 leve l, as she had to do on that night. And, lastly, whether inspired by those recent lineup changes, or not, Hot [...]
How can a young band who's new to the scene win over a crowd in less than 5 minutes? The answer is simple - Have fun up there. Maybe I'm too much of a hipster, and maybe I spend too much time at hipster bars and hipster music festivals, but bands these days, even the ones with the biggest buzz behind them, often falter in the most basic task of entertaining the crowd. The Welsh trio, The Joy Formidable, had no such problem Wednesday night in front of a packed crowd in the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of [...]
It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get there own individual posts on here on GIMME TINNITUS, if I only had the time. Listen. Downloadables: pink set of lungs (mp3) by Eleanor (d/l SOMEONE ELSE @ Bandcamp ) Night at the Movies (mp3) by DOOMSTAR! [...]
DOWNLOAD: HotChaCha - "Pleasure Cruise" In today's iTunes-centric world, I'm always impressed when a band and a label make the effort to give the listener a reason to buy music. Too many record companies seem to have forgotten the experience of holding the product in your hands and having a defacto "object d'art". HotChaCha's latest EP "Fantastic Static" is available on a limited edition vinyl pressing (300 uniquely colored vinyl with unique screened jackets) through Exit Stencil's website. On "Fantastic Static", the third release for [...]
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DOWNLOAD: HOTCHACHA - "Naked Glass" Cleveland art-punk band HotChaCha have a new EP, "Fantastic Static" (on Exit Stencil ), which is already getting great reviews. The new five-track EP is the first to capture the power of the band's live set -- The Heard said " I can hear, see, smell and even taste the raw power on Fantastic Static. " On "Fantastic Static", the third release for HotChaCha on Exit Stencil Recordings, the energy of their riotous live show has been captured and recreated [...]
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( Editor's note: Shit got real there for a while, internet. In the to-do-list that life occasionally becomes, "internet music blogging" got shifted way to the bottom for me for a couple of weeks. I miss your scent, internet, I miss your musk. ) Cleveland, in case you missed the update, rocks. We used to rock (see: Michael Stanley Band, The James Gang, Dink, Eric Carmen, The Mice and the motherfucking Pretenders, to cite a few obvious choices). More importantly for this forum, we also currently rock (see: The Modern Electric, Cloud Nothings, Afternoon [...]
Previously, when discussing the music of Cleveland's all-lady, post-punk band Hot Cha Cha, words like sophisticated and big-city weren't uncommon. Despite their Midwestern roots, their sound, with elegant and elongated guitar tones and vocalist Jovana Batkovic's occasional forays into her native, Bosnian tongue, had a very urbane feel to it. Of course, this didn't match their stage persona. Batkovic was and still is an over-sized personality, engaging members of the crowd who don't want to be engaged, and wearing things that few hipsters would wear (Those bright unitards and old-school swim uniforms come to mind). Now with, Fantastic [...]
The ladies of HotChaCha have some of the most fun punk/new wave music I've heard in a while and calling it "catchy as hell" is an understatement. They recently released their debut album "The World's Hardest Working Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars," which is incredibly dancy and full of enough energy to brighten anyone's day. HotChaCha will be playing at The Triple on Sunday, Sept. 5. Everything I've heard says that these girls put on one of the best live shows ever seen. I may have to check them out. [...]
* Hey Cleveland Rockers, if you have time for an extra click or two, head on over to the Limewire store where there's a brand new Cleveland rock comp available for free download. Ear to the Ground is presented by TV Land's Hot in Cleveland and curated the Scene's music and film editor, Jeff Niesel . Featured amongst the albums 19 artists are some names sure to be familiar to local music fans, including, This Moment in Black History, Prisoners, Afternoon Naps, Cloud Nothings, Megachurch, Hot Cha Cha, and The Suede Brothers. Download: Ear to the [...]
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