Artist: Porcelain Raft

Underrated or overrated? New York's Porcelain Raft does need not apply. Accompanied by some exceptional and wonderful musical tones, Mauro Remiddi relinquishes nothing – and imparts love and fantastic incredulity.

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Toro Y Moi, Holy Ghost, !!!, John Talabot Song: Kindness - House [download here ] What's so good? Singer/songwriter [...]

Nauseating splatters of discoball speckle the floors of Madame Jojo's as fairy lights add yet more glisten beyond an arsenal of elaborate equipment. 'Tis a setting as picturesque as any opaque, barely starry and scarcely black night draped over the capital although this evening's White Heat rundown is a little less idyllic. It's an odd combination of flavours and one you assume few would have the necessarily acquired taste for. For having Jana Hunter's eruditely wistful Baltimore clan Lower Dens slopped on the same plate as Porcelain Raft and Trust is a little like the sonic [...]

Warm enough yet? I think so and apparently so does Ryan Radler who is back in full effect with one of EMPT's most treasured possessions, the 2012 collectors dream - S U M M E R : a n t i – w i n t e r. Or the best warm weather mixtape you'll hear anywhere ... This is incredible compared to anything else out there, it looks like it's from another planet! - Steve Jobs That's how the tape starts and I won't be the one [...]

Brighton's The Great Escape Festival , by some margin the largest new music industry event in Europe, is upon us and 300+ artists will be descending upon this tiny town to play shows Thursday, Friday and Saturday. In this week's This Music Wins I take you through 4 artists I think you should check out - Boy Friend, Porcelain Raft, Slow Down Molasses, and Milagres. Resonance FM is also running its own stage - on which I will be performing with Kinnie The Explorer. Arrive promptly 7pm @ The Haunt on Saturday 12th of May to catch [...]

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Beach House, Ice Cream Shout Song: Lower Dens - Propagation [download here ] What's so good? It's time for [...]

Seattle's annual Capitol Hill Block Party takes place July 20-22nd in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Highlighting the initial lineup are Neko Case, Major Lazer, Diplo, Aesop Rock with Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz, Cloud Nothings, Grimes, Youth Lagoon, Porcelain Raft, Thee Oh Sees, Twin Shadow, Fitz and the Tantrums, Doomtree, Absolute Monarchs, Crystal Stilts, Father John Misty, Trust, Light Asylum, Phantogram, and Spoek Mathambo. Additional acts will be revealed in the coming weeks. In all, the festival will feature 120 acts playing across six stages during the three day event. Three-day passes are [...]

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When a band sounds as slick in the studio as Porcelain Raft does, there is a real danger that the live performance will fail to live up to expectations. Studios can produce some magic results, and the temptation to attempt to recreate that experience onstage can be almost as precarious as the decision to blow off the polish and play with a raw immediacy at odds with the band's recorded sound. Mauro Remiddi, the principal personage of Porcelain Raft, evidently has enough experience under his belt to know how to walk that line. At a sparsely attended Sunday [...]

• Porcelain Raft - Unless You Speak From Your Heart

Toronto, Canada's version of South by Southwest, North by Northeast returns June 11-17th, bringing live music, film screenings, and interactive panels to venues across the city. In regards to the music portion, some 650 bands will perform across 50 stages. The Flaming Lips, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, and Bad Religion headline this year's lineup and they'll be joined by of Montreal, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Men, Purity Ring, Porcelain Raft, Matthew Good, Ceremony, Friends, and Bleached. Also playing are The Death Set, Reigning Sound, Oberhofer, Killer Mike, Action Bronson, Bass Drum of Death, Young Magic, Hollerado, [...]

Real Estate perform on Friday as part of Little Big Show #2 with proceeds benefitting Coyote Central photo by Dave Lichterman This weeks shows start off with Jeff Magnum (of Neutral Milk Hotel) performing the first of two nights at the Moore Theatre on Monday night, and Porcelain Raft at the Crocodile. On Tuesday, Absolute Monarchs start their local reign with a performance at Easy Street Records in Queen Anne. Wednesday night, The Moondoggies are at the Triple Door, The White Buffalo is at Crocodile, Pontiak, [...]

Youth Lagoon and Porcelain Raft: a match made in sleepwalking electro-pop heaven.

Off his newest release Strange Weekend , this track by Italian-born Mauro Remiddi takes Grizzly Bear type keyboard synths and lays them over lush vocals and percussion. A electric guitar enters around two minutes and mirrors the synths with a relaxed and sparse set of notes. Porcelain Raft is currently touring with Youth Lagoon, and this duo will be sure to put on a solid show. Unless You Speak From Your Heart - Porcelain Raft Facebook / Twitter / Tour Dates

• Porcelain Raft - Unless You Speak From Your Heart

Catch him at: May 30 T.T. The Bear's - Cambridge, MA May 31 Kungfu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA Jun 1 Mercury Lounge - New York, NY Jun 2 The Red Palace - Washington, DC Jun 3 Local 506 - Chapel Hill, NC Jun 4 529 - Atlanta, GA Jun 6 Firebird - St Louis, MO Jun 8 The Crofoot - Pontiac, MI Jun 9 Grog Shop - Cleveland Heights, OH Watch 'Drifting In & Out' here. Purchase Porcelain Raft items [...]

Como habitual, fica por cá o resumo do que de mais importante se passou na minha página alternativa do Facebook. A semana desta vez, para além da mais curta, foi muito pouco recheada com música pelo Kraak FB. De qualquer forma, algumas propostas marcaram a agenda, como por exemplo, os Errors e o seu fabuloso single "Pleasure Palaces", uma verdadeira orgia nos meus ouvidos (ver texto),

"I'm looking for something that'll… break through. You know?" James Woods' Max Renn yearns in David Cronenberg's 1983 cult classic Videodrome . Oh, how things have changed. In today's day and age, we've already drowned in media. It's swallowed us. We're nothing but a bubble amidst one infinite, engulfing abyss. Intimidated? You should be. With each passing second, you're losing opportunities to take advantage of a culture that's moving ahead and at an exhausting rate. You could very well be alone… left behind… abandoned. Terrified yet? Yes? Well, that's more like it. Alabama Shakes – "Hold [...]

Porcelain Raft offers up his official video for the track "Drifting In and Out" and the video is a nice simplistic accompaniment for the video. Using a smoke machine and some nice lighting Mauro Remiddi manages to create some lovely effects. Check it out for yourselves up at the top via NPR First Watch . His debut album, Strange Weekend , is available everywhere now.

Only four people graced the stage at Chicago's Metro on Wednesday night. Two for Porcelain Raft , two for Youth Lagoon , yet each respective act generated enough instrumentation to fill a large theatre double its size. Early into the night, the sweeping romantic ballads of Mauro Remiddi swirled about, bringing many seemingly cautious spectators to dance and swoon at each and every word. Out in support of this year's heart wrenching Strange Weekend , Remiddi - or, one-half of Porcelain Raft - laced tracks like "Shapeless & Gone" or "Talk to Me" with [...]

Porcelain Raft released the video for "Drifting In and Out," off Strange Weekend. This is the second single off of the project. If you like this track check out the download of "Put Me To Sleep."

"Drifting In and Out" is arguably the best song on Porcelain Raft' s winter release Strange Weekend, so we're psyched that it's the record's next single. We just wish the track had a video of the caliber that it deserves – the track's hazy beauty doesn't need to equal lots of background fog machine, just like the presumed authenticity that comes with a DIY look doesn't necessitate juxtaposing every visual material you make over old VHS footage. Unfortunately, that annoying tenant of chillwave videography is exactly what Porcelain Raft's succumbed to in this clip. Still, [...]