This weekend the publicity firm I work at is celebrating 15 years by bringing in some of our favorite acts we've gotten to help throughout the years. The Bear In Heaven guys are staying with me for a few nights. I love those dudes, and I only get to see them every so often, so I wanted to get them a little something special. I was planning to give them all house keys so they can come and go while I'm running around working festival events, and the leather man at the J&J [...]
It's human nature to struggle with personifying an inanimate object, but Vito De Luca is as much Aeroplane as he is Belgian, i.e. very much. While down in Australia playing some shows off the back of the release of his personally curated and mixed compilation In Flight Entertainment , Patricia jumped at the offer to talk Linkin Park and bogans with the man. In Flight Entertainment which features contributions from the likes of Poolside , Moonlight Matters [...]
So first things first, the elephant in the room, Suzanne Kraft… the man from LA? What’s the story? I feel kind of bad when I get this question because I don’t really have an exciting answer. There’s no real story. Just a name I came up with years ago. I liked the sound of it – I never really considered it a girl’s name as a whole. [...]
scroll up for Marcus Marr In anticipation of the imminent release of his much hyped new material, Marcus joined Patricia for a brief aside from his hectic life as one of the most influential and avant-garde electronic artists in the UK. Marcus' most recent EP Well Alright came out in 2010 and is available both digitally or on vinyl . - Is it true you’re old [...]
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The 90's are back !... in Akron, Ohio. Forget the DeLorean , Drummer's sound will take you back two full decades and leave you asking: What the hell is an iPod and why won't it play my Guns N' Roses tape? Drummer was initiated by the Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney. In total the band is made up of five members (Gregory Boyd, Steve Clements, Jon Finley and Jamie Stillman). There are zero gimmicks associated with this music. Why is that? This music is good enough that it will promote itself. I have only heard the six [...]
Normally, when you put five drummers in a recording studio all you get is a bunch of drummer jokes -- How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb? How do you get a one armed drummer out of a tree? A drummer, a pirate, and a priest walk into a bar...Not so with the Akron based band Drummer, a super group of sorts featuring a who's who of musicians who have spent time behind the kit for a variety of Northeast, Ohio rock outfits. Patrick Carney, who needs no introduction as the drummer of [...]
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Written by Fense Wait a second. Hold on. Stop. Huh? I'm confused. I do not know where this song came from. I do not know where this band came from. All I know is that last week I sat down with a bottle of wine and ran through about 125 emails and that somewhere in this process a song called "The Day Will Come Around" by a band called A Man For All Seasons happened to find its way into the pile of mp3s I decided (yes, over half [...]
After a long hiatus The Rock Insider Monday Mixtape is back and n0w available in PODCAST FORM!!!!! After last week's history making election Republicans are no doubt sinking into a funk (Heidi and Spencer I'm worried about you. Seriously.) I decided to extend the olive branch by making a upbeat mix tape that everyone can enjoy. Download the podcast below as well as individual tracks!! [MP3]
Akron Ohio's hardest drinking working band is kicking off their Mid-West tour tonight in Cleveland, Ohio. These guys are out in support of their October release, Welcome, All That's Difficult. The album includes "There We Go The Day" which you can download below Mp3: Houseguest - There We Go The Day
To paraphrase a quote from the very much underrated Rocky and Bullwinkle movie, "Two wrongs don't make a right, but two rights make a u-turn, and two u-turns make a circle, and two circles make a figure eight, and two figure eights make a butterfly." Listening to the Akron band Houseguest, one could get similar sense of confusion. Their songs never move in the way you'd expect them to move. The minute they land on a good hook they take a right turn. They find another good hook, and take another turn. You anticipate the chorus to kick in, and [...]
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Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Blue Eyed Blacks : "The Wrong Thing" [mp3] from Black Eyed Soul (out October other Blue Eyed Blacks posts at Largehearted Boy Dead Confederate : "Free the Rat" [mp3] from Wrecking Ball (out September 16th) other Dead Confederate posts at Largehearted Boy Frida Hyvönen [...]
Yes, yes ya'll, we are back. Great time to get our weekly mixtapes back up and running for everyone to enjoy, as I am no longer planning my wedding or on my honeymoon. Yup, Tracy and I have been happily married for two months now, thankyouverymuch ! Here's some new stuff that trickled into our offices or that stumbled blindly into my Google Reader that I couldn't ignore. In this edition: Kings of Leon , Bat for Lashes , The Faint , Houseguest , Jem , [...]
House Guest - Iron Oar Soft Targets - Something Else * Emiliana Torrini - Me & Armini * Electric Touch - Who Put The Fire Out? Bowery Boy Blue - Come Closer, Scissors
Jamey Carroll , I'm there for you, man, and so is the Akron band, Houseguest. All you did was play solid defense and hit better than Asdrubal Cabrera and Josh Barfield, but while everyone else is getting their chance on the last place Cleveland Indians, you've found a new home on the bench. Wedge and Shapiro don't respect you. They think of you as nothing more than a utility infielder, good for a spot start, but not a long term solution. John Fogerty never wrote a song about being an 8th inning defensive replacement, or going 10 games without an [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Dawn Chorus is celebrating the release of its album, Florida St. Serenade by making its first two albums available as free and legal downloads. I first heard the band after reading Quinn Dalton's Book Notes essay for her short story collection; Stories from the Afterlife , and have been a fan since. Stream Florida St. Serenade [...]
Those upbeat, jangly guitars! That odd, addictive voice! It can only be Houseguest ! A surprising gem in a sea of twee pop, messy garage rock, and electronic promo albums laying on my desk, Houseguest's High Strangeness was one of my favorite albums that I received in 2007. Quick, short, and to the point, High Strangeness is a high-energy pop record whose most interesting feature, its skewed, subversive tone, is carried strongly by singer Ted Mallison's unique voice. Upon first listen, I remember thinking, "Wow, these guys...actually know how to write a good [...]
My hotel in London only carried a few channels, so I couldn't see much, but on the other hand, this gave me a more accurate picture of the typical TV viewing experience in England. In general, the television seemed far more low-key than American television, just as English movies seem much smaller in scale than American ones. We're a big, loud culture. If you've ever seen the movie About A Boy , you may recall they watch the show Countdown every afternoon, but they don't really [...]
The Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney is big on embracing his roots and, more appropriately, enriching them. A few hours away from my hometown sits Akron, OH where Carney has been taking a handful of Akronite musicians from around the Ohio vicinity and putting them on his Audio Eagle label. Yet Akron remains the town where the wildly successful Keys hail from and it's the same origin where up-and-coming Houseguest call home. This seasoned rock outfit are proving that the midwest isn't some drab crossroads of America but a place with quite the character. They [...]
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