THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Doldrums w/ Dillon & Boog Brown, Rekchampa Tuesday, January 10 529 - 529 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 Admission is FREE There's a pretty nice list of shows coming up this week (including three album release celebrations), but I was starting to think that there wouldn't be any sort of "main event;" that is, one lineup that I could point to as a can't miss show. But then I checked out Toronto's Doldrums and here we are. Led [...]
This is one of the best local triple bills I have seen in some time. Sealions sort of blew me away a couple of years ago when they opened for Judi Chicago at the 529. Check out their debut full length Strange Veins . Modern Skirts latest, Gramahawk , impressed far more than anything of their prior work and was deserving of a mention here before. And if you think that I don't think you should get out for nothing other than [...]
This week, Tir Na nOg and WKNC have turned Local Band Local Beer into something less local to us, but equally awesome. Athens, Georgia's Modern Skirts perform and Terrapin Beer Company of Athens Georgia is our beer special. And just to keep our Super Music Triangle involved, Digg Up Tapes artist Oulipo will open the show. Sooo rad, I know. Come enjoy what local means to Athens, right here in Raleigh this Thursday! Share and Enjoy:
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S-P-R-I-I-N-G It is going to be 60 degrees where I am tomorrow, and there's no way you can walk around in that first-time-of-the-season weather without a new spring mixtape. This is meant to be listened to when the sun is shining…..run around outside, drive with the windows down, procrastinate on everything important. Go, go, go! Download the zip file . Track Listing: 1.) Two Door Cinema Club- Something Good Can Work (THE TWELVES remix) 2.) Down At The Post Office- DJ Design [...]
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Marnie Stern w/ Tera Melos, Cinemechanica Monday, February 28 Drunken Unicorn - 736 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE in Atlanta 30306 Admission $10 / Purchase Tickets If you've ever come across Marnie Stern's name, you've likely heard much about her stunning prowess on the six-string—the frenetic double finger-tapping, her jaw-dropping chops. But what often gets lost in translation is just how good and unique of a songwriter she is. Her music spans a wide gamut. There's the [...]
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mp3: Modern Skirts - "Bumper Car" mp3: Modern Skirts - "Happy 813 When an EP from Modern Skirts started swimming in the blogosphere last year, I knew we were in for something good. The oft-intriguing Athens band took their melodies and using some of guitarist Jay Gulley's secret recordings ran sonic circles their old sound,reinventing, inverting and mashing those into downbeat dance faves. Like a remix, but not. That EP was just a teaser for the grander Gramahawk , and [...]
Modern Skirts , fueron hace unos años uno de nuestros descubrimientos favoritos, algo de lo que dejamos constancia con este post donde recomendábamos el magnifico "All of Us in Our Night". Hace unas semanas, los de Athens publicaban su tercer largo, "Gramahawk" , trabajo en el que han buscado un importante giro en su sonido, algo que han conseguido afrontando el proceso de grabación de forma mucho más casera , encargándose ellos mismos de la producción. El resultado es disco con un sonido menos elaborado, en ocasiones cercano al [...]
It's become very hip these days for bands to bust out of their usual routine for crafting songs and dabble with electronics and other more atypical recording methods. Chances are if you glance through your music collections you could come up with at least half-a-dozen bands who have taken the plunge. It's almost like it's some kind of music industry disease, and for better or for worse Modern Skirts have done such a thing. Granted the Athens, GA quartet was already beginning to forgo the piano-based rock that they debuted with on 20052s Catalog of Generous Men , but [...]
It is sometimes astonishing how much good music is floating around out there. We can't possibly get to all of it, though we'd love to tell all of you about every cool band we ever heard. It's sort of the same idea with an event like the Super Bowl. Sure, only two teams end up [...]
I guess I lost track of Modern Skirts somewhere along the line. Catalogue of Generous Men was one of my favorite albums back in 2004, but I never really got into 2008's All Of Us In Our Night and then at some point the band dropped off my radar. Following an EP last year that I totally missed, they are back with a full-length LP Gramahawk . The first thing you'll notice is how much their sound has evolved; much of the bouncy jangle has been replaced by electronic blips, art-rock twists [...]
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Photography by Kalif Banane It's amazing anyone records in studios anymore, isn't it? Last week, we went pretty deep into why you as a independent band, should delete your myspace page. The response has been overwhelming! Bloggers & band members joined up in a pretty united voice recognizing that diluting your band by spreading them all over the internet for the sake of being heard vs. focusing and directing your potential new fans to, at most, one site for news/tours/vids (like a blog) and one site to stream/embed/PURCHASE (like bandcamp). [...]
hey hey hey! athen's modern skirts have a new record out entitled gramahawk , their third, and it came out on tuesday i believe. maybe im totally spacing out and forgetting what the modern skirts sounded like, but i dont remember em sounding this way. not saying its a bad thing, im just saying i thought they were more in the poppy vein, but i am definitely enjoying the direction in which they're headed. gramahwak was apparently recorded in new orleans because the press release states that they spent "4 decadent and dangerous weeks" in [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: ALSO : "True" [mp3] from Music Belongs In The Background (out February 22nd) search for more ALSO posts at Largehearted Boy Annabel : "The Forgetting of Names and Faces" [...]
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In the past, The Modern Skirts have proved themselves to be one of the finest piano-laced indie pop groups in the western hemisphere. But, to be so damn good really seems to come with a price. The dreaded pigeon-holing effect becomes a factor. And any real artist, or avid listener, knows that this could very well mean the death of wonderful musical acts. The Skirts blasted out of nowhere in 2005 with an album that everyone couldn't stop loving. In 2008, they stepped their game up once again with [...]
Ya saben, streams y mp3 de los lanzamientos de la semana. Aquabats: Hi-Five Soup! Stream del álbum completo Audio Bullys: Higher Than the Eiffel Stream del álbum completo Beep: [...]
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mp3: Modern Skirts - "Bumper Car" 1. This album came out yesterday. 2. I've been listening to it for a couple of weeks. 3. That is apropos of nothing, except this album has been kicking me hard in the gut for all of 2011. 4. I like it. 5. I came to that conclusion the first time I played it. 6. Now I'm trying to figure out why. 7. There are some drum machines, I think. Do people actually have 'drum machines' anymore? [...]
Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal mp3 downloads and full album streams from the week's music releases : Aquabats: Hi-Five Soup! full album stream Audio Bullys: Higher Than the Eiffel full album stream [...]
Gramahawk is the third album by Athens, Georgia band Modern Skirts. It is the record of a band honest to their musical tastes and to their desire to create and perform both intellectually crafted and inherently catchy songs. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the record is insight into vocalist Jay Gulley's dark, imaginative and humorous brain. A song about Gulley's second DUI (that's failing a breathalyser on this side of the pond), an ode to '80s one hit wonder Jane Child , and a stomping, aggressive mantra about taking [...]
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