John Shearer The era of the touring festival has by and large given way to massive destination and regional festivals - it seemingly being easier to bring a bunch of bands and tens of thousands of fans to one place than it is to bring a bunch of bands to hundreds of thousands of fans in a bunch of places - but sometimes a touring bill is so impressive that it warrants a fancy name of its own. And the bill of Bob Dylan , Wilco , My Morning Jacket , and Richard Thompson [...]
Sounds from nowhere. Music whispering like the breeze. Lazer guided melodies. Each week, an Ecuador based DJ who goes by the name Agte. Mulder puts together a podcast on Spreaker compiled of select shoegaze, dream pop, and drone sorts of music. Since I'm not too familiar with those genres myself, I asked Agte. Mulder if I could post his podcast here on The Record Stache. Thankfully, he agreed. The result is the Lazer Guided Melodies [...]
The VPME FEATHERS, one of our top tips for 2013 are set to release their début album "If All Now Here" on April 15th. Happily we can report that it's a genuinely fabulous début from a collective who look set for great things this year. The driving creative force behind this musical tour de force is former Cruel Black Dove singer-songwriter Anastasia Dimou who hasn’t so much reinvented herself; she's found herself with the creation of the dark swirling synthgaze female collective that is FEATHERS. [...]
New Year's Eve? Plans? Perennial local favorites The Sour Notes a re throwing another one of their epic New Years Eve parties . And Yeah, you're invited to hang out with them, Deep Time , Hundred Visions , Pompeii , Love Inks , The Laughing , and Mirror Travel for a night of fun and frolic at Cheer Up Charlie's . Cool. Meanwhile, over at Frontier Bar , Slacker Magazine [...]
2012 left me a bit blah. I'll always find at least 5 great albums in any year that trips me out and will be listened to for years to come. The top 10 i've listed here to me I feel they've hit it right out of the park. You may have noticed that i haven't blogged much about new [...]
Man, what a thrilling year of music we had. So many surprises, and so many favorite bands making some of the best music of their careers. It was gratifying to sit and listen to it all go by, to see and feel the shows we were able to make it out to see. But there can only be 10 favorites in our list below, and we're super pleased to be able to share them with you below. We'll reiterate our position: music is important. This thing we all share, the fandom, the making, the considering, the camaraderie of being out [...]
By Seraphina Lotkhamnga It's been a great year of music. My ears have had such a good year that the task of selecting my top albums has never been harder. Perhaps it's because I've whittled down my usual list of 25 albums to 20 this year. Some artists on this list made their L.A. debuts this year and some of them have been in the neighborhood for years. Check out my top 20 albums of 2012, with my thoughts on the Top 10, and some honorable mentions after No. 1: [...]
Shoegaze is a loaded label, term, genre. And a list of contemporary shoegaze acts must be all about emulating the good ole' days - right!? Well, hopefully this list proves otherwise. Despite the fact that reverb and noise are in abundance, its still all about the songs. In 2012 there was plenty of golden songs, with or without the tremolo riding, pitch bending tendencies, these songs stand their ground. Without further preaching, here's SBWR's Best Shoegaze Albums Of 2012 . Please click through and add your favourite record/s so we can all be better informed. Plus, if [...]
Boston shoegaze behemoth Infinity Girl with its latest EP of cacaphonous dream pop puts a big exclamation point on a break-out year for the quartet. It's easy to forget that a year ago the band was just getting off the ground, and as recently as seven months ago few even knew who these guys were. But with the unexpected materialization of its brilliant full-length debut Stop Being On My Side last spring, Infinity Girl began a meteoric rise into the vanguard of the city's guitar bands. Just Like Lovers , given the relatively [...]
Ringo Deathstarr 's 'Mauve' (the vinyl) finally landed in my lap this week. It's been a long wait. An emotional one *grin*. To celebrate the occasion here's an album cut, the dreary charmer 'Drag'. Download audio file (Ringo Deathstarr - Drag.mp3) Ringo Deathstarr online @ ClubAC30 @ iTunes @ Facebook .
Videos: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio : zip download - mp3s below For the utter shame of it, we actually recorded this Toad Session back in December last year. I know we can be a little tardy publishing these fuckers, but this has to be something of a record. I blame the fact that The Leg, The Foxx, Meursault and the Split 123 albums all ended up being released within a month or so of each other for knocking me firmly [...]
Here’s a re-cap of Surfing On Steam’s Favorite Albums of 2012 (20-11). The final ten picks are coming soon! 11. Lower Dens - Nootropics Nootropics is an album I regret not reviewing when it first hit the shelves. It’s heavy and personal. It lingers and haunts you like a bad decision, bad behavior in general. It’s the album I always wish Radiohead would have made, or maybe The Motels already made this record? Its music is filled with sparse atmospheric guitars and electronic colors. But no [...]
82 mins : 10 secs | 47.0 mb Soundgarden "A Thousand Days Before" ( republic ) King Animal [ amazon ] website | twitter | facebook Deftones "Leathers" ( reprise ) Koi No Yokan [ amazon ] website | twitter | facebook Nine Black Alps "My One And Only" ( brew records ) Sirens [ amazon ] website | twitter | [...]
Moosic, moosic, moosic So many sweet things in the playlist honeypot this morning. Cock your ear keenly for a new track from The Great Balloon Race . Mmmm... Simply click play below to begin today's playlist. - For past playlists see here . Follow The G-Man on: Facebook -- Twitter -- [...]
If you like Postal Service, Ringo Deathstarr, and The Depreciation Guild, you’ll love Letting Up Despite Great Faults. I am familiar with Letting Up , but back when they were still pretty underground. Times have changed and this band has amped up their popularity. They’re previous albums weren't as “electronic” as their new album, Untogether , but it definitely fits with today’s theme of musical influences and tastes. Letting Up is not a band for hardcore, or punk rockers, despite having basic rock song structures and influences. If [...]
America's finest shoegaze-influenced band, Ringo Deathstarr, return with a stronger, catchier, and more playful sophomore album. They make it sound so easy, and also come across as the most unpretentious and accidentally explosive noise-pop act since Serena-Maneesh. Kids, this is what a guitar is supposed to sound like.
Well well, recording an album isn't half fun, even if you're not actually doing anything yourself! I'm not sure quite how much I'll be up for gigging this week, just to release the risk of my body spontaneously combusting due to becoming 80% alcohol. Firstly, though, thanks to everyone who turned out for Friday's awesome BAD FUN at Henderson's. As you probably know, the third one is pencilled in for (almost) my 37th birthday, on the 17th of November. As Broken Records are playing, and they need a rather bigger rig than we've been using this one will [...]
That we are posting this on the first day of the seventh year of our little music blog is strictly coincidental. We're nevertheless celebrating by putting every band in the post in the postitle. Thanks to Blogger for recent changes that let us do this and to the neato hoster types for posting the following. And hurrah for your visiting and for Karamazov! The Nice Boys - Teenage Nights -
Well, this is from Tuesday's mail bag truth be told, but we are still quite excited. We purchased this via the band's PledgeMusic campaign so very long ago, and had been enjoying the MP3s of same so much already, that we completely had no idea what this was when the 12 inch-square box arrived. But yes, it is the autographed vinyl of the mighty Ringo Deathstarr 's Mauve , certainly one of the best records of 2012. The dust sleeve's seams were split when the record arrived and the plastic outer sleeve a little wrinkled, but the vinyl [...]
Ringo Deathstarr - "Rip" Directed by (N/A). METZ - "Wet Blanket" Directed by Scott Cudmore & Michael Leblanc. Young Prisms - "Midnight's When" Directed by Andrew Stephen Lee. A Place To Bury Strangers - "Leaving Tomorrow" Directed by Oliver Ackermann, Robi Gonzalez & Dion Lunadon. Exitmusic - "The Modern Age" Directed by Daniel Ryan. Aim Low & Les Beyond - "String Theory" Directed by Rob [...]
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