One of the best things to come out of the expansion of the monthly RUMBLE parties is the discovery of each city's rising talents. Of all the towns we've set up shop in, which has just hit seven a month, the one I had regarded as the least promising in terms of talented acts, has jumped to the front surprisingly. Right now, the hottest music city NOT called Brooklyn is San Diego, California. [...]
Photo by Deb Caponera The lights are on and they're not turning off anytime soon. San Diego's five-piece, Lights On, keeps us whimsically peachy with their garden of tracks. "John and Anne" is a soft personal love letter duet coated with youthful bliss. Making #14 on HypeMachine's charts, this band reminds us of the bright artists on your summer playlists, including Elefant, Polyphonic Spree, Stars, and even Modern English. One Kind Radio blog reviewed their EP, "Waiting for the Heart to Beat", as "varied, solid sounding, and [...]
Last night I headed over to Union Hall (or tried to anyway...) to see Lights On and Drink Up Buttercup. Unfortunately, the MTA was not on my side yesterday and after literally spending most of the day on the train getting stuck, re-routed and otherwise inconvenienced I missed the first two bands (the first of which was Lights On).I was sad to miss San Diego band Lights On (thanks MTA), whose
by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Lights On - John and Anne (MP3) Trashcan Sinatras Glasgow's Trashcan Sinatras have been with us for 20 years now, having perfected their brand of sparkling, literate guitar pop that initially garnered them comparisons to The Smiths. Like fellow Glaswegians The Blue Nile, the Trashcan Sinatras take their time between albums -- the brand new In the Music is only [...]
Here are some of the show highlights for the week here in NYC (Brooklyn is, as always, representing pretty hardcore):TuesdayTV on the Radio @Prospect Park (Celebrate Brooklyn BENEFIT)Middle Distance Runner @ Union HallWednesdayMiracles of Modern Science @ Union HallBat For Lashes @ Webster Hall - sold out!ThursdayBLONDIE, PAT BENETAR and THE DONNAS @ Asser Levy/Seaside Park (Seaside Summer
Monday 8/10 * Forest Fire, Shilpa Ray, Hologram @ Union Hall * xx, Holly Miranda @ Monkey Town ( MP3: "Slow Burn Treason" by Holly Miranda ) Tuesday 8/11 * TV on the Radio, Gang Gang Dance, Chin Chin @ Prospect Park Bandshell ( MP3: "Dreams" by TV on the Radio ) * The Budos Band @ City Winery Parking Lot [...]
If you are going to be in San Diego this weekend for THE NORTH PARK MUSIC THING , then you'll end up at the launch of our RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO party that will be the closing night finale show at The Casbah on Sunday. The 2nd year music festival has a lot of panels and activities and showcases happening around North Park, check out more info HERE . Future Sounds is teaming with the local SD mafia, SEZIO , M-THEORY RECORDS , [...]
Now we've done it, we've slipped down to San Diego and will be opening up THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO on August 9th at THE CASBAH , and it's going to be the grand finale of the NORTH PARK MUSIC THING conference. Our first one is going to be FREE and the entertainment features some of the hottest bands in Southern California. Coming down from Long Beach, it's THE GROWLERS . [...]
If you ever find yourself in the middle of a huge open field on a warm sunny day, lay on your back, face the sky... and listen to these: Lights On - John And Anne Eric Sarmiento - Alejandra Coconut Records - The Summer
I feel like a old man right now. Did two laps around Wash. Park in the rain yesterday, plus; dodging puddles, ninja grass flips, racing this chicks black lab and jumping jacks. Plus, later in the night I got in a wrestling match over chess and had a dictionary dropped on my head. I am not sure what is worse, the action of the dictionary making impact with my head, or the annoying metaphor of such act. That makes an excellent segway for my word of the day!!!! Encomium- Expression of praise. I would first like [...]
Makes your ventricles bulge doesn't it? Funny really as 'John And Anne' is taken from an EP called 'Waiting For The Heart To Beat'. The band are Lights On from San Diego and they love acts from Sweden who write songs about young folks. This will not only have you whistling but it may also encroach on normally mundane routines. Sweeping to the left could suddenly involve a rapturous hip shake while taking the dog for a walk may see said mutt being swung overhead by the lead. Make sure you take him down before he's hurt mind, can't have [...]
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The beauty of SXSW is that at any given hour, there are so many contrasting options and events sprawled across the greater Austin metropolitan area that there's always something for everyone. Friday and Saturday certainly proved this, offering a perfect balance of stadium-sized swagger (Metallica and Echo and the Bunnymen at Stubb's), laid-back lounging under the sun (everything at the French Legation Museum), and nearly everything else in between. Don't believe us? Check out the following photo recap from Days 3 and 4 of SXSW 2009 and see for yourself, and make sure to stay tuned for our full SXSW [...]
Há novos sons online para ouvir: Nuno Lupi | Hugo Paquete | TrYangle | Bruto And The Cannibals | Out Level | Larkin | One Love Family | Submix | Anifernyen | Minta | Ella Palmer | Ludovic | L'homme Manete | Micro Audio Waves | Manuel Fúria | Aqui del-Rock | Rod Of Ruin | Esteban Device | Morbid Death | Light's On | wOMAN iN pANIC | Criatura [...]
Ele está de volta; ele é o NetlabelFest'08 . O maestro voltou a meter a mão na massa e preparou uma jukebox representativa da maior parte dos projectos nacionais já editados em 2008 via netlabel , nacional ou internacional. Para já, são 152 temas vindos dos mais diversos pólos: @c, a naked lunch, A Paranoid Android, Aires Ferreira, Aacano.zero, Autodigest, Azevedo Silva, b fachada, Boiar, Cancro, CR Moreira, Daily Misconceptions, DNP X-Citer, Emanuel Salvador, Ideas For Muscles, Is Kya, João Triangular, Katabatic, Katzgraben, Kinder Mecanique, Kubik, Lights On, Long Desert Cowboy, Macadame, Mikroben Krieg, [...]
Depois de "Save The World" , "Words of Nature"... É a mais recente edição da XS-Records, segunda de Lights On (a.k.a. Pedro Marques) nesta netlabel . São seis temas de uma electrónica ambiental em busca das palavras do som. Aqui, são os sons da natureza; do mundo. Tudo livre, claro... "Words of Nature" - Light's On "Words of Nature" - Lights On (XS-Records, 2008) Electrónica/Ambiental [...]
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the first ever (hopefully first of many) What to Wear During an Orange Official Mix Tape entitled Orange Pulp has been completed! The finished product has turned out way better than I expected, and that is largely due to the efforts of Jill Summers and Stray Dog Studio's , the team at Team Concept Printing & Thermography , Chris Szostek for the above cover, and the recording skills of one Mr. Ben Tanzer . Tracklisting: [...]
Someone said to me over the weekend that indie had gone stale. I couldn't but mostly agree before adding that there were lots of darkened bedsits producing the most weirdly inventive music possible. From such garages of creativity could yet spring Music 2.0; when such inventive probes as Dan Govier are rightly recognised as the forerunners of audio's second coming. Govier is one half of Canada's
I was going to start this post with, "I guarantee if you looked through the blogs yesterday, they most likely all talked about Dan Paul Govier's new solo project lights.on", but the more I searched, the less I found. That, my friends, is a shame indeed. Dan Paul Govier is one half of the band We Will Build, which I've talked about before time and time again. They were even #31 on my top 50 of 2006 list. So, upon receiving news from Dan that he's gone solo as lights.on and that all his music was free to download at [...]
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