RALEIGH MONCRIEF Watered Lawn Anticon This album is hard to pin down, but I'm finally realizing a pattern here: folks like producer/collaborator Raleigh Moncrief, who might have done booming sets at Low End Theory three years ago opening for Flying Lotus, are getting way more gentle even than the smoothest sample-soul we've heard in the recent past. This album starts with a male chorus, echoed finger-snapping, and an occasional flamenco guitar strum—fuck, it could be a spaghetti western ballad (or, more likely, a Spindrift song) if it didn't also have some electronic beats [...]
As a UC Davis alumnus, I'm always proud to promote the vibrant underground music scene in Davis, CA. Run primarily by the local college radio station KDVS 90.3FM , the city lights up every week with house shows by bands playing diverse versions of strange, noisy, alt-everything. Often very few of the students present have even heard the band — but it's still worth it to go to the show, grab a 40 oz of Miller Lite and join the ear-splitting, sweaty, living room mosh pit and then waltz outside and have a [...]
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Realmente pensaba que ya les habia llegado a poner con anterioridad algo de Raleigh Moncrief pero todo parece apuntar a que esto no fue asi y que durante el año pasado quedo un poco ignorado su album debut "Watered Law" dentro de este blog (lo se, shame on me). Bueno, pues este tipo es uno de tantos jovenes productores (bueno, ni tanto) que se han ido destacando poco a poco dentro de todo el circuito de la musica experimental con la que ya ha creado grandes y miticas colaboraciones y durante gran parte de la ultima mitad de 2011, fue [...]
Anticon musician/producer Raleigh Moncrief unveiled a brand new track that, as his Facebook page says, he made on the bullet train in Japan. 'Tokaido' is a wicked, pulsating tune, made of narcotic electro-soul messed by rhythmic detachments, blurred slates and some dubstep hints. It's another slice of that deconstructive genius he introduced us to on last year's Watered Lawn , taken a step further. Check it out below.
by Andrew Sacher DOWNLOAD: Raleigh Moncrief - "I Just Saw" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Raleigh Moncrief - "Lament for Morning" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Baths - "I Just Saw" (Raleigh Moncrief Cover) (MP3) Raleigh Moncrief Raleigh Moncrief , who you may know as the engineer/co-producer of Dirty Projectors ' Bitte Orca [...]
Artwork by Luke Judd The Bay Bridged Presents: A Noise Pop Happy Hour Jel James & Evander Raleigh Moncrief Friday, February 24th, 2012 Bender's 5pm, FREE, 21+ RSVP on Facebook About the bands: Jel 's resume speaks for itself: he co-founded Anticon, is [...]
Date : Friday, February 24th Number of Noise Pop Shows : 10 shows, 38 bands Already Sold-Out : Despite the fact that Two Gallants are playing two nights at Edinburgh Castle , both are sold out, as is Wye Oak , Bob Mould, and Jolie Holland. The return of Bay Area indie-pop band Imperial Teen this year has been met with lots of excitement, as their Cafe du Nord show will also be out of reach, [...]
Artwork by Luke Judd In addition to a full slate of concerts around the City, Noise Pop 20 also features the return of the nightly series of free Happy Hour concerts at Bender's , one of the Mission's finest establishments. We're excited to present the Happy Hour show on Friday, February 24th, featuring a slate of talented local electronic pop performers. It'll be the perfect way to kick off your Friday night! The Bay Bridged Presents: A Noise Pop Happy Hour [...]
Sacramento-based recording artist Raleigh Moncrief has gotten some buzz these days, for engineering and co-producing Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca and supplying backing axe for Marnie Stern - and, of course, his own playful and well-received solo efforts. The video below, directed by Miko Riverza, is "Don't Shoot", the latest from Moncrief's Watered Lawn LP released last October on Anticon. Watered Lawn is anything but watered down. The tracks are layered, lush, and expansive with folksy art-rock vocals atop a beats-and-loops-based collage of sounds, both live instrumental [...]
Mixtape: Twenty More Bands at Noise Pop 20 (Podcast #272) Noise Pop 20 is just weeks away. From February 21st through the 26th, over one hundred bands will take over SF's venues for six days celebrating independent music. Here's the second of two mixtapes showcasing music from artists performing at Noise Pop this year. You can listen to the first mixtape here . To find out when all of these acts are performing, check out the complete schedule of Noise Pop events . [...]
Artwork by Luke Judd In addition to a full slate of concerts around the City, Noise Pop 20 also features the return of the nightly series of free Happy Hour concerts at Bender's , one of the Mission's finest establishments. We're excited to present the Happy Hour show on Friday, February 24th, featuring a slate of talented local electronic pop performers. It'll be the perfect way to kick off your Friday night! The Bay Bridged Presents: A Noise Pop Happy Hour [...]
Raleigh Moncrief - "Don't Shoot" from anticon. on Vimeo .
Raleigh Moncrief has been on a lot of people's lips as someone to look out for during 2012. The Sacramento producer has worked with some of the best in the indie music world, including co-producing Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca and playing in the backing band for Marnie Stern. His latest song Don't Shoot , off the 2011 release Watered Lawn , contains a medley of musical stylings that are interwoven flawlessly under the vocals. We have the premiere for the previously mentioned Don't Shoot for your visual pleasure. [...]
photo by Lin Zhipeng It's not a Monday, but Bank Holidays and Christmases being what they are, perhaps that's forgivable. Here's the last Monday Music - the one weekly blog where SOIWT drops the London-music-only rule - of 2011... Masterface - Excuse Me Girl You know that feeling when you're utterly exhausted, but so happy and without urgent needs that you don't care in the slightest? That's what this song sounds like. Giddy goodness, from Freedom [...]
I've never been a big fan of looking back, sure it's comforting to reminisce about the good old times... Hey you know everybody's talking about the "good old days" Everybody! The good old days Well, let's talk about the good old days..." - Gladys Knight But in my mind the past does more harm than good. If you think about the past so much you're going to constantly be ignoring what's happening to you right now. The past is good for one thing and one thing only - [...]
So...I suppose I'm a tad bit late to the year-end-best-of-lists party but oh well. Josh already offered up his favorite tracks in the year-end best-of playlist and, while our lists have a lot of crossover, I thought I'd offer up my favorite 50 tracks from the past year. I've struggled with the idea of trying to put a 'best-of' stamp on anything I listen to based solely on the fact that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of ranking all the tracks I love. This is more a representation of all my favorite tracks from [...]
Having spent the last few years proving himself to be quite the jack of all trades (engineering the Dirty Projectors' art-rock masterpiece Bitte Orca , touring with guitar wunderkind Marnie Stern, etc.), Raleigh Moncrief sets out to prove he can make the music just as well on his own with his debut on Anticon Records, Watered Lawn . The result is a surprisingly fresh offering, a splendid record that's exactly as harmonically rich and pleasantly washed out as you'd expect from someone who counts Baths and Odd Nodsam among his labelmates. His expertise as a producer [...]
Mixtape: Twelve Bay Area Highlights from 2011 (Podcast #263) We might be biased, but, from this vantage point, 2011 reconfirmed that the Bay Area continues to have the most vibrant music community nationwide. The SF scene cranked out a ton of amazing albums this year, and our final podcast of 2011 highlights twelve great releases from Bay Area artists over the past twelve months. This isn't a "Best of" list per se, but these acts did create some of our favorite music in 2011. We'll be doing more year-in-review coverage over the next few [...]
Every Monday, we'll be offering you early picks for some of the week's best concerts. Do you think we omitted something worthwhile? Let us know in the comments! Be sure to visit our Local Concert Calendar for an expanded set of daily listings. Yip Deceiver, Shock, Loose Shus, Tres Lingerie at Milk Thursday, December 15th (8pm, $6), Epicsauce, Aerobic International, and Voltaire Records host a gathering at Milk headlined by electro-pop [...]
If you're anything like me, you know how difficult it can be to keep track of all of the new music that's constantly floating around the Internet. Here's our latest month-in-review mix collecting some our favorite new (or new to us) songs recently posted on the website. Gathered in the mix are seventeen new tracks from Bay Area bands that were posted on TheBayBridged.com in November, with links below to download each of them individually. The Bay Bridged - Best of the Blog November 2011 Mixtape Tracklisting: [...]
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