The line-up for this years Sasquatch Festival came out on Thursday night and it is a pretty decent looking list. Even though there is roughly a -12% chance that I will be able to attend this year, I thought it would be kind to preview some songs from artists that I would be excited to go see. This is just a small sampling so head over to The Official Site for more info about bands playing and how to get tickets. Enjoy! Free mp3: Active Child - Hanging [...]
Kurt Vile @ Converse Rubber Tracks (February 1, 2012) Brooklyn Bound ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photo s/kurt-vile-converse-rubber-tr acks-nyc/
The band The War On Drugs formed the same way many great bands start: two guys with shared musical influences met, had a few drinks together, and decided to sit down and write some music. In this case, the primary songwriter, Adam Granduciel found his creative muse by collaborating with Philly-guitarist and fellow Bob Dylan-fan Kurt Vile. As Granduciel explained in an interview with Slug Magazine : "Playing on each other's songs and having someone to bounce ideas off of is a beautiful thing in music. I don't think either of us would have made the records [...]
Here are 50 songs that defined 2011 for me. Listen. Enjoy. Tell me what you think. And yep, that's my ugly mug on the cover. Given and Taken in Ink's Top 50 Songs of 2011 from gtimusic on 8tracks . Here's the playlist: 1. Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) 2. City Reign - Anywhere Anyway 3. The Mountain Goats - Never Quite Free 4. Zaac Pick - Whitewater 5. Yuck - Holing Out [...]
War On Drugs new visuals for "Brothers".
Posted in Something For The Weekend 'Baby's Arms' by Kurt Vile is a tender and sweet track that deserves to be played on a lazy sunday. It's taken from Vile's album Smoke Ring For My Halo which was released in 2011. For the price of your email address you can download the track for free below.
Todos los años este festival nos sorprende con las bandas que conforman su cartel, en esta ocasión Thurston Moore y Lee Ranaldo quienes son 2 de los 6 integrantes de Sonic Youth presentarán sus proyectos por separado para complacencia de todos los fans de esta banda neoyorquina que sin duda marcó época para el rock alternativo en [...]
Here are my favourite songs that came out in 2011. The Wilhelm Scream - James Blake Otis (feat. Otis Redding) - Jay-Z & Kanye West I'm On One (Shlohmo Remix) - DJ Khaled featuring Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne Dat Ass - Earl Sweatshirt The Look - Metronomy Baby's Arms - Kurt Vile Hard In Tha Paint (Shlohmo's sit down remix) [...]
You don't have to be a long-time Swan Fungus reader to know about my infatuation with the television program Top Chef. Hell, I even feigned interest in one of the show's judges for years in what surely must be the Internet's most extreme case of long-term, long-distance faux-stalking. There's much more to take away from [...]
Prior to hearing Smoke Ring for My Halo in full, the two Kurt Vile songs I came across via numerous blogs were "In My Time" and "Jesus Freaks." Perhaps not coincidentally, these are the two most upbeat tracks on the album, and the two most focused. The majority of the rest of Smoke Ring depicts Vile as a smart but apathetic songwriter. Writing for Coke Machine Glow , Christopher Alexander said "Kurt Vile's music sounds like it was made entirely from bed on Sunday mornings," which I think is a pretty vivid portrayal of the [...]
El 2012 recién comienza y las buenas noticias también. Una de ellas es la octava edición de el pequeño gran festival, Indie-O Fest . Festival que desde el 2005 reúne a lo mejor de la música independiente, y queda muy claro que este año no es la excepción. Dicen los organizadores: "En esta ocasión, se trata de una curaduría más ecléctica y mutifacética, llena de coloridos musicales provenientes de emocionantes rincones de la escena independiente". Destaca la participación de 2 ex integrantes de Sonic Youth , [...]
News reaches us this afternoon that Real Estate and Sonic Boom have been chosen to open up for Kurt Vile 's forthcoming appearance at London's KOKO on February 21. This short trip (dates below) follows a hugely successful haul of end-of-year plaudits for the Philadelphian's latest long-player, Smoke Ring For My Halo, including a hugely respectable fourth place in our very own Albums Of 2011 list . February 19 - Whelan's, [...]
Kurt Vile has announced that Real Estate will be the main support for his forthcoming show at KOKO on February 21st. Sonic Boom will also support the Philadelphian at the NME Award show. His February tour dates are as follows: February 19th - Whelan's, Dublin 20th - The Haunt, Brighton 21st - KOKO, London (NME Awards show) 22nd - Le Nouveau Casino, Paris 23rd - Botanique, Brussels
Una vez más, y como lleva siendo habitual desde hace 8 años consecutivos, vuelve ** Indie-O Fest , un festival de música que nació en 2005 y que poco a poco ha ido ganando popularidad y por supuesto buenos artistas. Las anteriores ediciones destacaron por la inclusión de bandas como Los Campesinos, o Hello Seahorse!, que deleitaron a los asistentes en 2009, o Little Dragon y The Big Pink, que lo hicieron en 2010. Y esta nueva edición 2012 no se queda atrás, con interesantes grupos que acaban de ser anunciados. Los platos fuertes son sin duda Thurston [...]
A hibernation mix for your winter blues: --Click here to download the entire gapless mix of mp3s-- Radio for the Daydreamer – 01 Curl Up, Time to Die (from Mother Superior and Her Fields of Migraine ) The Black Heart Procession – 02 Blank Page (from Blood Bunny/Black Rabbit ) Matthew Dear – 03 Headcage (from Headcage EP ) Work Drugs – 04 Flying Zambo (from Aurora Lies [...]
Editor's Note Happy New Year! Some of you are probably wondering what happened to us. Well work, family, and of course organizing our little (not so little anymore) variety show Snob Theater has taken quite a bit of time away from the website. We've had probably the best year so far and I'm happy to announce my favorite records of 2011 to launch the reboot of Kata Rokkar. I don't review albums at all but i do listen to a shitload and it's been a great and surprising year for new music. [...]
<!-- --> Click here for download Sounds like: Kurt Vile, Real Estate, Youth Lagoon Song: The War On Drugs - Don't Fear The Ghost [download here ] What's so good? Jimmy Fallon seems to have a good ear for indie acts - as exemplified by the fact that The War On Drugs [...]
If rock 'n' roll has always tried to distance itself from popular culture/ industry as much as it can (which may not be much at all, despite Johnny Rotten's best efforts ), indie rock has been particularly adamant in its (usually doomed) refusal. Indie rockers only support independent musicians at small venues, with iPhones in the pockets of our Urban Outfitters jeans. When faced with these contradictions, some cringe, look away or maybe even pour out some PBR in mourning. However, sometimes it's simply too much to take, like when the superheroes of M83 licensed "Midnight City" to Victoria's [...]
Each of our writers who posted this year worked tirelessly to cover bands that normally don't appear on your FM radio stations, and in the true spirit of the season, here are their lists. All albums are linked to iTunes. To play all Soundcloud clips continuously, click on the play button in the bottom right of the screen. TOP 10 ALBUMS 10. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes 9. [...]
There was so much really great music that I heard this year, to the point that putting together these lists was quite difficult and time-consuming. But even so, there are still a lot more albums out there that were recommended to me by others that I simply never got the chance to hear, as well as some that I felt needed more listens for me to fully absorb them, so they sadly won't be showing up on here (Danny Brown, Julianna Barwick, The Weeknd, Fucked Up, PJ Harvey, Main Attrakionz, Tune-yards, Yuck…I could go on and on). I'll [...]
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