Below are five music videos for five songs from five of this year's finest albums. Finest? Five of EAR FARM's favorites for sure. Fink you can say that five times in a row very fast-like? 1. Below are five music videos for five songs from five of this year's finest albums. Finest? Five of EAR FARM's favorites for sure. 2. Below are five music videos for five songs from five of this year's finest albums. Finest? Five of EAR FARM's favorites for sure. 3. Below are five music videos for five songs from [...]

So it seems kinda bizarre and surreal to think I've been working on this project for a year already. One random Thursday in California 365 afternoons ago, I'd had the idea to typing up the contents of a mixtape I'd just compiled and blasting it into cyberspace. What began as a goof, a high-tech storehouse for whatever trivia happened to be pinballing through my brain, quickly evolved into a genuine passion. Tossed-off entries soon stretched into five- or six-hour writing sessions. Newly beholden to something, I'd leave parties early to toil over posts or curtail nights out to [...]

I've been a big proponent of the criminally unsigned band Mancino since I first heard their 2005 EP . I was happy to see they were recently named SPIN Magazine's Band Of The Day . Mancino - Hetchie Hutchie Footchie ------------------------------ -------------------------- Official Site | MySpace [...]

Brooklyn, NY "L'Amour (Or Less)" Mancino on MySpace

Time to bring in-studio week, here at MOKB, to and end. As always, big love to 91.7 WEEM for allowing MOKB Blog Radio to record these sessions. I'm a big fan of Mancino , even moreso after I had the guys in on MOKB SIRIUS Blog Radio and got to know them. Their latest album, Manners Matter may be one of the better [...]

Tipsy from pastis and just handed free drink tickets, I shouted out to Matt of Ear Farm , "This is like my dream concert!" He'd organized the show of French and French-inspired indie music with a big assist from Mancino's Jonathan Mason, but in a parallel universe where I knew how to book bands and arrange venues, I probably would've compiled a very similar bill. After all, on any given day, France is playing a big part in my life. I've been teaching myself French for the last year, translating Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and Sartre's [...]

Heels, be warned. Toes, take heed. Neck, look out. Head, brace yourself. Fingers, get ready. That's right, I'm popping in my copy of Mancino's delightful debut, Manners Matters , and there aren't too many parts of me that won't be tapping, nodding, grooving, outright swaying like a snake being charmed into doing its slithery dance. But that's also nothing too unusual. The melodies on this disc are so enchanting and viscerally pleasurable that amputees are about the only ones who'll be immune from tapping along. Mancino makes pop music for geniuses, rock music for romantics. Every song [...]
EAR FARM's Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted each week. This week, three songs from artists playing the upcoming EAR FARM Presents... show . More on these guys later this week - for now, just the music. I love this music. You owe it to yourself to come out to Union Hall this Saturday. Click on the artist name to go to their site, click on the song name to listen to the song. Listen: La Laque - "La Sirene dort" [...]

Check out Brooklyn's own Mancino below: Mancino - Hetchie Hutchie Footchie Mancino - Lamour (Or Less) They're playing Mercury again on March 1st with Addison Groove Project (its their last ever NYC show) and then Union Hall on March 3rd as part of a Paris/Brooklyn event called Lamour (or Less): An Evening of Rock from Paris to Brooklyn. CHECK OUT EAR FARM'S LINK TO THE SHOW HERE . CHECK OUT THEIR SITE [...]

In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci produced a sketch for a project that was meant to construct a bridge to span the Golden Horn . The proposed bridge (which would've been the longest in the world at the time) was considered too ambitious and thus was not built. However, five hundred years later Leonardo's design was brought to life by The Leonardo Bridge Project when a smaller bridge based on his design was constructed in Norway. Now his full original vision is set to be realized as there are plans currently underway to [...]

You may remember when MOKB gave love to Mancino last year. It was early on and we are pretty sure we were turned on to this group by our friends at GvB . The band now returns a year later with a new offering - a debut full length album. It's called Manners Matter . It was engineered by DaSh (Gogol Bordello, Balkan Beat Box), mixed by band member Nadim Issa, and mastered by [...]