ARTIST: The SWAG Report 93 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by artists including Useless I.D., Copywrite, Cursive, Shigeto, Bonesetters, oOoOO, Real Estate, Escort and more! So much more! DATE: 02-01-12 WRITER: Don Loder Awright Junky, Yeahyeahyeah, I know whatcher thinkin'. My bag o' SWAG is a little lighta dis week right? Yeah, I heardja, but ya know what? What I missed out in quantity, I made up for in quality - le's get inta da SWAG Report. Once agin dis [...]
The fine folks at Portland's Into the Woods gave us the heads up on a brand new session featuring Iceland's Low Roar performing an absolutely stunning version of their song Just A Habit . The session was recorded at local creative agency in Portland called Instrument . The video was directed by Matthew Gamlen and audio by Miliken Gardner. The camera work by Hannah Gregg, Rodrigo Melgarejo, and Mike Elliott. Watch the lovely clip below. Low Roar's self-titled debut is available now on [...]
[Photos courtesy of Matthew Eisman. See more of his excellent work HERE .] I've always been a rock music guy. And if it can rupture eardrums and upset my equilibrium just by listening to it, I'm usually in my happy place. That's why I was surprised to find Low Roar's debut album with its haunting melodies so intriguing. Having already drawn comparisons to the mellower offerings of Radiohead, Jeff Buckley and Sigur Rós in reviews, I also heard flashes of Brian Eno in that first listen. The band's backstory is no less interesting. Formerly of [...]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Low Roar Video: 'Give Up' Highlight: "This video was a labor of love by my friend Ali Silverstein," Low Roar (aka Ryan Karazija) tells Spinner. "I met her here in Iceland, she heard the song, then went and created this. And I love it. She was able to capture the sentiment of the song without any dialogue between the two of us, which is rare." Watch Low Roar's [...]
Ryan Karazija is the man behind Low Roar , who just released his debut, self-titled album this past November. His single "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" contains the perfect mix of frosty dread to match any feelings of melancholy. Download and blast in your headphones. Read more »
Here's the playlist from today's My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! You can still stay up late and catch the show again at midnight ET. Turn your dial to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM. Listen online with a free trial here . Check out this week's playlist below! T.Rex - Metal Guru Gracie - Sisters Memoryhouse - This Will Be Our Year [...]
RUSSIA : Big Echo Arktor - Pier ft. Didjelirium Раз в месяц тайный музыкальный альянс, состоящий из 36 музыкальных блогов со всего, собирается вместе, чтобы собрать гигантский сборник. Это что-то вроде ВТО, только без нарушений прав человека. 2012 год уже не за горами и давление подведения итогов чувствуется буквально в каждом mp3 файле. Русский выбор на этот месяц – работа Artkor, о которой я в деталях рассказывал в одном из [...]
Ryan Joseph Karazija, manden bag Low Roar , flyttede fra San Francisco, Californien til Reykjavík på Island. Dette skifte var forbundet med en svær tilpasningsperiode og ensomhed, som kommer musikalsk til udtryk på debutpladen Low Roar. Low Roar befinder sig et sted i mellem Sigur Rós og Thom Yorke og dyrker på sig egen afdæmpede måde ensomheden som den måske ser ud i det rå, men smukke islandske landskab. Her er en række sange fra titeldebuten, som du kan give dig hen til. Ikke mindst åbningsnummeret Give Up , som også [...]
Otra vez con algo de retraso, pero vamos ya casi es navidad! Esta es la última edición del Music Alliance Pact de este año, así que a disfrutar. En esta ocasión este humilde aporta cuenta con la participación de la increíble banda nacional Gris Volta. La tradición de las listas por final de año no se perderá, así que espero poder publicarlas como de costumbre el 31 de diciembre, stay tuned! Para descargar las 36 canciones en un único archivo, hacer click aquí . [...]
Presentamos la última edición del año del Music Alliance Pact (MAP), iniciativa del blog escocés The Pop Cop, que compila canciones destacadas de músicos locales de más de 30 países, y de la cual Super45 forma parte desde hace más de 2 años. Destacamos este mes a Tío Lucho, banda que recientemente lanzó Innombrable , su nuevo álbum para el sello Cazador. CHILE : Super 45 Tío Lucho - [...]
![[Listen] – Low Roar – "Friends Make Garbage, Good Friends Take It Out"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3932566_lg.jpg)
Tweet Low Roar have created a mournfully sober yet artfully resigned soundtrack for a cold winter void of hope and shaded with longing. To draw from the main nerve in sadness and actually turn it into such a beautiful caliginous sound is rare and poignant and beautiful. Although even darker, " Friends Make Garbage, Good Friends Take It Out " has a sound very similar to " Dust Of Retreat " from Margot And The Nuclear So And Sos , [...]
SINGAPORE : I'm Waking Up To... Sonicbrat - Bed Of Forty Winks Sonicbrat is the enduring moniker of sound artist Darren Ng, whose work is characterised by an intricate tapestry of field recordings and found sounds, strung together by subtly processed acoustic instrumentation with a classical bent. Gentle, stirring and complex, Ng's music is the sort that invites itself into and comfortably inhabits one's imagination. His latest release, Hana, is his musing on the [...]
ROMANIA : Babylon Noise Absurdcus - Puppy Slippers Absurdcus is the solo project of Transylvanian bass player/multi-instrumentalist Laszlo Demeter. His music has been a continuous work in progress since 2003, when he first started recording bits and pieces under this pseudonym. His music stylistically ranges from alternative rock and funk to electronica and even metal. You can download his debut album here . [...]
MAP, eller Music Alliance Pact, er et samarbeid mellom musikkblogger fra hvert sitt land rundt omkring i hele verden. Det fungerer sånn at alle hver måned velger ut et band og en låt fra sitt eget land, og alt sammen samles opp og postes hos alle. Vårt bidrag denne måneden er Sunturns med låta "Hallelujah (Christmas Is Here!)". Klikk her for å laste ned alle 34 sangene i en fil NORWAY : Birds Sometimes Dance [...]
I didn't know what to get you for Christmas... so I came up with an idea. The Jukebox player on the right-hand side of this blog was launched 17 months ago and, since then, 39 people have paid £5 each to get a track on it for a month, raising a total of £180.06 (after PayPal took their cut). I pledged to use every donation "to support grassroots music" and now you're about to find out what I blew the budget on... I've been a huge fan of [...]
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Beinahe zwei Jahre hat es nun gedauert, bis wir den ersten Schweizer Mundart-Künstler beim Music Alliance Pact eingereicht haben. Es handelt sich um Alejandro Jiménez, der am 9. Dezember seine neue Platte "Nabelschau" veröffentlicht hat. SWITZERLAND : 78s Alejandro Jiménez - Die Fragestellung In Frage Stellen Alejandro Jiménez is actually more poetry slam than singer-songwriting. He also [...]
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