
Flanging with something approaching fury, deploying a hugely tactile analogue throb, Mountains shrug off blissed-out torpor & unleash a newly vigorous, almost frenzied & more than faintly kosmische version of themselves ... Blurb: " Air Museum blurs the lines between acoustic and electronic music even more without sacrificing melody or the delicacy of their sound. It is an album of firsts. It was the [...]
Congrats to reader Ross Hodo, who correctly identified last week's logo as belonging to the band Arboris Mortuus. Ross wins five CDs from the MetalSucks Mansion Archives! GO, ROSS, GO!!! This week we have another super-duper-awesome-fun-time prize for you, courtesy the fine folks at Relapse Records: two, count 'em two, copies of Red Fang's latest scorcher, [...]
News Congrats to reader Ross Hodo, who correctly identified last week's logo as belonging to the band Arboris Mortuus. Ross wins five CDs from the MetalSucks Mansion Archives! GO, ROSS, GO!!! This week we have another super-duper-awesome-fun-time prize for you, courtesy the fine folks at Relapse Records: two, count 'em two, copies of Red Fang's latest scorcher, [...]
A week from this coming Saturday is Record Store Day 2011. That's April 16th folks. Go out, buy some vinyl and support your local independent record stores. I'll be checking out the Midnight Sale at Kiss The Sky in Geneva, IL and doing my part. Before that sale starts, I'll be hanging out with my friends from Kid, You'll Move Mountains who are playing a FREE all ages show on Friday night before the RSD sale right next door. The coolest part of this is that I'm opening for KYMM with [...]

NPR has launched a stream of Murder The Mountains , the latest album from Portland, OR's Red Fang . Check it out here .

A talentosa White Sea e o seu "Mountaineer" Você pode não conhecer o nome White Sea , mas se eu disser que foi Morgan Kibby a responsável pela ótima participação no aclamado Saturdays = Youth do M83 , você vai se recordar (da sua voz, mais especificamente). Morgan é o nome por trás do projeto White Sea e mesmo com um ótimo currículo, prefere começar aos poucos com o lançamento do seu [...]

Você pode não conhecer o nome White Sea , mas se eu disser que foi Morgan Kibby a responsável pela ótima participação no aclamado Saturdays = Youth do M83 , você vai se recordar (da sua voz, mais especificamente). Morgan é o nome por trás do projeto White Sea e mesmo com um ótimo currículo, prefere começar aos poucos com o lançamento do seu The Frontier EP . E o primeiro single (e também primeiro clipe) desse trabalho se chama "Mountaineer" , vídeo de Gigi Nicola [...]

When you're hulled up on a mountain there are a dazzling array of possibilities that present themselves to you. You can both start mailing bombs and writing rambling letters to your enemies (i.e. "industrial-technological systems") à la Ted Kaczynski or you can grab your guitar and well, not do that. Thankfully the prolific Teen Daze under the guise of Two Bicycles , a side project of his, went for the latter. " The album was recorded...at the base of Mt. Cheam in Chilliwack, BC, from November 2010 to January 2011." During his mountain stint Teen [...]
Just in time for the sure-to-be-hazy days of summer, Morgan Kibby and friends spend a day at the beach in the video for "Mountaineer," the poppiest of the songs off White Sea's debut EP, "This Frontier." With its de rigeur face-painting and sun-splashed vibe, the Gigi Nicolas-directed clip (which premiered over the weeked on mtvU) offers a pretty straight-ahead imagining of the song, one of the five that immediately put Kibby, the M83 keyboardist/singer, on the map as a solo artist when they were released in November. A remix EP is on the way [...]
Last week I posted on Emay's newest explosion Incorruptible whic h features a suberbad track "Bars" in which has Jeremy Mullens of Kiss Kiss Fantastic donning his Optimist Park garb.... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
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I am in the midst of SXSW post-a-poolza, bulk editing photos and uploading galleries so fast carpal tunnel syndrome is now only a symptom for these hands. Between a new job, moving to Brooklyn last week, and struggling to find a decent Wi-Fi connection.. my posting abilities have been nearly non-existent. Hats off to Connor who, even when battling a post-SXSW flu last week, has been nothing short of a clockwork fountain of musical youth. One of my favorite bands of SXSW, Secret Mountains , have a brand new track waiting to burrow into your brain. [...]

Quién es White Sea? White Sea es el proyecto de Morgan Kibby. Quién es Morgan Kibby? Una chava de Los Angeles que colaboró en el Saturdays = Youth de M83 y que ahora estrena video, la rola es "Mountaineer" acá lo dejo, seguro les gusta. ♩ White Sea - Mountaineer

If you checked out our interview with White Sea , you will have noted that the video for the ethereal Mountaineer, taken from the debut EP This Frontier , was on the way. The video premiered yesterday on MTVU and it was worth the wait! A perfect fit for the dreamy song, the video shows Morgan and friends having fun in the sun and enjoying a carefree beach day. I expect after watching it you'll be pining for warmer weather as I was! - Camille
White Sea : Mountaineer - Video

A few nights ago, Brave Irene threw a release party for the record that contains my most-played song on iTunes . Only two of the five band members were in town, but they played through the entire eight-song mini-album (which is out now via Slumberland ). Here's another great tune from that collection. It's called "Longest Day," and it's a two-minute blast of peppy rhythms, catchy organs and charming indie pop melodies.

6am Repeat is a recurring feature here at Folk Hive in which we stream the latest track that plays incessantly in the earbuds when we awake at that hour and imbibe massive amounts of coffee and cigarettes in preparation for the advancing day. Consider it your jam of the day — a sweet, sweet gift from me to you. I love you, dude. You guys, I'm totally not dead. Unless Hypem doesn't pick up this post and then I suppose the internet has declared me dead, and [...]

The Sky Drops Album: Making Mountains EP (iTunes) Label: Fridabear Records The Sky Drops - Explain It To Me The Sky Drops - Sentimental Tweet

Secret Mountains! Playing Jordan and I's showcase! So happy, even though they were cramped they pulled it off wonderfully!

Crooked Mountain Crooked Sea From: Brighton, United Kingdom Brighton noiseniks Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea (first featured on the Devil's blog way back in 2009, River Deep Mountain High) are back with their new album 'What's There To Write About' (plenty actually it's certainly keeping me occupied!). It's another blast of visceral post-rock that sounds like At The Drive In after hitting their thumb with a hammer. It's angry, [...]