The Great Inbox Clearance is my way of getting through the overwhelming number of emails we received after taking a week off. Check out this post for the details behind the project. That post will also explain why lemurs are involved. There's a fella from a management group called Banter who sends me multiple emails every week promoting several of the bands that Banter represents. The quality of the music he sends me is almost-always very good. However, the number of emails received - combined with my [...]
My Summer As A Salvation Soldier, Tape Deck Mountain, A Grave With No Name New Releases & Neon Indian T-Shirts!Hello friends, a few updates from the Lefse camp… 1. My Summer as a Salvation Soldier's new EP Nytt (which means "New" in sole contributor Thorir Georg Jonsson's native tongue of Icelandic) is now available digitally via iTunes and physically from the Lefse site. Extremely
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Coconut and the Duke : "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" [mp3] for a good cause other Coconut and the Duke posts at Largehearted Boy The Delfields : "Madeline" [mp3] from Twilight Town EP The Delfields : "Untitled" [mp3] from Twilight Town EP other Delfields posts at [...]
After posting about Alan Palomo's gear getting jacked in Sacramento yesterday, the dudes from Lefse contacted us to say thanks for the support. Lefse is a great label out of Sacramento that is home to a number of cool artists including Palomo's, Neon Indian . Considering the nice communication I had with them, I figured now would be a great time to rep their recent compilation. Following in the footsteps of Underwater Peoples , there own showcase features a lot of slow-burning, electro-tinged summer jams from up-and-comers like Neon Indian, Julian Lynch and [...]
Thorir Georg Jónsson's latest solo project, My Summer As a Salvation Soldier , is a complete 180 from his other Icelandic bands (i.e. Hrydjuverk ). "Monuments", is absolutely minimal but still progresses throughout the duration of the track. Just as distant as Jónsson appears to be from the mic. His latest LP, The Devils , is set for release this November via Lefse Records (home to the "highly bloggable" Neon Indian ). My Summer as a Salvation Soldier - Monuments
ZACH THAT: Today has been a mind-blowing day. I checked out the homepage for Lefse Records and honestly, ever artist on this label is brilliant. Here are some tracks below. Go out and buy every record from every artist on Lefse Records, my new favorite place to find great music. My Summer As A Salvation Solider – "Momuments" My Summer As A Salvation Solider – "Activism" City Light – "All You Demons" [...]
My Summer As A Salvation Soldier Posted: 08 Jun 2009 10:30 PM PDT If you think you're busy, check this guy out…while not playing in his Icelandic "ultra powerhouse" band, his hip-hop group, his country-trash band, or in one of his two hardcore bands, Thorir Georg Jonsson finds time to bring us his solo project My Summer As A Salvation Soldier. Released on Sigur Ros' original label 12 Tonar in
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow- ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people [...]
Nú þegar er búið að tilkynna fjöldan allan af íslenskum sveitum sem spila munu á komandi Airwaves hátíð. Þeir listamenn sem staðfest er að troða muni upp eru: AMPOP, Benni Hemm Hemm, Benny Crespo's Gang, Dikta, Eberg, Esja, Kira Kira, Lay Low, Mugison, My Summer as a Salvation Soldier, Ólöf Arnalds, Pétur Ben, FM Belfast, Gavin Portland, GusGus, Hjaltalín, Jeff Who?, Mammút, Motion Boys, Múm, Retro Stefson, Reykjavik!, Seabear, Shadow Parade, Sign, Sprengjuhöllin og Steed Lord. Girnilegt ekki satt? [MP3] Benni Hemm Hemm - Labbi [MP3] Dikta - Breaking the [...]
I've written a small piece for Danish National Broadcasting company on the Iceland Airwaves festival, recommending six different icelandic artist. Read the piece in danish Download mp3's Kira Kira - Hjartafanturinn skrjáfar Kira Kira - Drakúla Darling Kira Kira - Dýri (by Kira Kira & Ljóni) My Summer as a Salvation Soldier - Nupur Lala [...]
Bueno, la primera noche de Airwaves ha sido bastante tranquila. He visto a Retro Stefson (una maravilla), oà a We Are Scientists desde fuera (demasiada gente) y luego vi Dikta (bién, pero se toman demasiado en serio). Hoy me hace mucha ilusion ver Mates of State , Tilly and the Wall y, sobre todo, Love is All . Y algunos de los grupos islandeses que tocan: Miri - Fallegt þorp ( info | MySpace ) Idir - All The Dreaming ( info [...]
The Opening Acts
Nerdy Frames
largehearted boy
Cities of the Plain
we are not a rock band
Weekly Tape Deck
We Listen For You
Bricolage Fantasy
Hefur þú heyrt þetta?
Indie Laundry
Ojos de mosca
Ellie Goulding – Lights (Back From The Future Dubstep Remix)
Usher & Diplo – Climax
The Drums – Days (Trentemoller Remix)
Tech Preview: Traktor Kontrol F1
