Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the January 2011 Mix and find out. 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 just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Constant Future [...]
We are kicking off the GIMME TINNITUS best of 2011 coverage with our 19 favorite music videos from this year. Watch + Listen. Streamable: FT2 Theme (vimeo) by Phil Manley Streamable: Echo Chamber (youtube) by Parts & Labor Streamable: Slime (vimeo) by Sleeping Bag [...]
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: Know No Violence (mp3) by Spanish Prisoners [pay what you [...]
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: Know No Violence (mp3) by Spanish Prisoners [pay what you [...]
When I think about the most "American" artists - whatever that means - my consideration often gravitates toward authors like William Faulkner, whose emotional prose shaded a number of complex feelings in all of their bluntness, and photographers like William Eggleston, whose photography truly captured the decay of traditionalism and the prevalence of Southern melancholy. So, it's probably no mistake that these artists hail from Mississippi, and Faulkner from Oxford proper, where his home is a tourist attraction. So, whatever it is about Oxford that inspires people, it's still there, and it's given the Cats Purring [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate. What were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the September 2010 Mix and find out. Downloadables: Coma Summer (mp3) by Weekend Drifting (mp3) by Young Adults Fever Dreaming (mp3) by No Age Transparency Is the New Mystery (mp3) by Marnie Stern [...]
It dropped 25 degrees yesterday and now feels like Fall but that season doesn't technically drop for five more days, so here's the final Summer Fridays mix of 2011 on an autumnal tip. Which means some '70s folk, sad strings, and mellow grooves. But as always, there's some great new music on here: new singles from Django Django (the first in a year and a half), Still Corners and Radio Dept. offshoot Korvallren and Junk Culture (featuring Phantogram's Sarah Barthel). Plus some oldies, cult obscurities (Yes that's Matt Berry of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The IT Crowd [...]
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 their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you [...]
Deepak Mantena, or Junk Culture to you and me, has just released his new single. The rather brilliant 'Hang Roxy' is out now and features Lower Dens' Jana Hunter. You can listen to the song below, along with the B-side, 'Chippewa Kids' (featuring Sarah Barthel from Phantogram).
There's energy and earnestness flowing through each one of Junk Culture's tracks. Deepak Mantena, the one-man show behind JC, finds his muse by finding sound in everyday settings, or in grabbing a snippet of beats and melodies when they strike him. He has done so in the past with his own handheld recorder, a la [...]
Junk Culture, the highly infectious sample-heavy project of Deepak Mantena, has teamed with Jana Hunter of Lower Dens and Sarah Barthel of Phantogram to create a cheery, synthy digital 7", available for free download on Illegal Art. On side A, "Hang Roxy", Hunter and Mantena take on the roles of a couple who can't stay together (it begins abruptly with them singing "'I'm out of love to give,' we said said together on that evening"). Although t...
Aug 23, 2011, 6:04pm
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Junk Culture - Hang Roxy (feat. Jana Hunter) ( mp3 )
Oxford, Miss.'s Deepak Mantena is currently working on his first full-length release as Junk Culture after releasing two EPs on Illegal Art. And while he tinkers around in the studio making more bouncy pop numbers, he's released this pretty damn good free digital single. Hang Roxy features Lower Dens' Jana Hunter offering complementary vocals on the title-track, which danceable but not reliant on pulsing grooves. The same could be said for "Chippewa Kids," an infectious, slightly more downtempo tune driven by the vocals of Sarah Barthel, of Phantogram. I'm leaning toward "Chippewa Kids" as my favorite of the [...]
What's that sound? It's the sound of me quickly rolling down my car window and twisting the volume knob on the stereo as far as it will go to the right. Another Junk Culture creation... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
Watch 'Summer Friends' here. Like Junk Culture on Facebook. Purchase Junk Culture items via Insound. MP3: Junk Culture - Chippewa Kids
After a break of almost a week we're finally back. We've been enjoying For Noise Festival in Lausanne, a small festival with a lovely line-up. To start I advise you to check out this summery jam by Deepak Mantena a.k.a. Junk Culture . He just recorded a new song with Lower Dens ' Jana Hunter . In "Hang Roxy" they play the role of a couple struggling to keep their relationship going. "Hang Roxy" is part of Junk Culture's new 73 out via [...]
The lead up to Coachella (see the Coachella Mix) and Record Store Day (extensive RSD mixes with rare songs), meant that we didn't get to all of the Best New Releases for the week of April 12th. In addition to the regularly scheduled releases that week, there were the hundreds of limited edition vinyl releases [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Mantena's voice is the big draw here, because the music -- though cleverly patched together -- never quite asserts itself. For all its samples and layers, Summer Friends takes a relatively stripped down approach. These schizo-electro-pop songs rest, as many do, on a beat and keyboards, and sometimes the mix works. The sunburst of the title track is unassuming and sweetly hazy, but it's singer Deepak Mantena's raspy, rangy vocals that steal the show. The cooler tones of "Weird Teenage Vibes" show that he can tone his vocal dramatics down for sweet melodies. All in...
Mezcla libre de estilos y sonidos en la música de Junk Culture , la formación de este artista de Mississippi llamado Deepak Mantena. Summer Friends es su nuevo trabajo, editado en el sello Illegal Art. Mp3: Junk Culture. Summer Friends
Music Videos: - The Henry Clay People – "The Winter Song" - Three minutes of backstage fighting….but that doesn't make up for a career of playing in a band with one another. - Human League – "Never Let Me Go" - A grotesque kaleidoscope of the human body. - Deezuzz – "Ammo" - A reenactment of First Blood , but John Rambo ain't got shit on Deezuzz. - Junk [...]
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