HIYAAAAAAA! I am a little bit wired this morning, can you tell? After the onslaught of SXSW (which I will stop mentioning now, promise) I get back to the print press promo work for the King Post Kitsch album, a Josh T. Pearson session at Stereo in Glasgow this afternoon and the Husband , Miaoux Miaoux and Justin Grounds gig at Medina tomorrow. You are all coming to that aren't you? ALL of you! Oh, and the annual lifeboat collection day has been announced. With a government seemingly intent on turning [...]
If you have been around here long enough, you'll see that we sort of love discovering new stuff that we hadn't heard of previously. Sometimes, like our friends Salt & Samovar and Murder Mystery , discovery blossoms into blind idolatry. Okay, we aren't that bad, but when we hear something that we like or that shows serious promise, we like to get the word out. In this instance, the band in question, The Whipsaws [ MySpace ] are an Anchorage, Alaska indie foursome ( mind...out of...gutter ) that have just released [...]
Who : Phonograph , Salt & Samovar , + The Lisps Where : Studio at Webster Hall When : 8pm Cost : $10 What to Expect : Insanity. Hilarity. Dancing. Oh yeah and there may be some music thrown in there too. All of these bands are top notch performers, not [...]
Monday: Glass Ghost @ Glasslands 9pm $6 Following a nice, long holiday weekend I'm sure a lot of you will be looking to get back into the show going right away on Monday night. Unfortunately there isn't too much going on, but there is this show at Glasslands. Glass Ghost is a new side project from Eliot Krimsky of the awesome band Flying. I've only checked out their Myspace so far but based on that and the reputation of Flying I'd have to say that they're definitely worth taking a chance on. [...]
Monday: Los Campesinos! + Titus Andronicus @ Bowery Ballroom 7:30pm $15 After seeing Los Campesinos! last week I can pretty much say that this is a band you cannot afford to miss, at all, ever! Throw in the fact that the absolutely amazing Titus Andronicus will be hitting the stage before them and you have yourselves a bona fide reason to leave the house on a Monday night! Los Campesinos! - "We
This week, the Radio Exile mp3 Mixtape came in two parts: Side A was Tuesday [ link ] and Side B is today. Hurray for great music with a sprinkling of a little of something for everyone. Sure, some people complain that all indie music sounds the same, but those people probably live in Connecticut. How are those gas prices treating you, Connecticut indie hate monger? (I went to college in the Nutmeg State, so I can rib a bit, eh?) Either way, here's some more great stuff [...]
Erm, hiya. C&B here. I'm one of Matthew's multiple personalities, and he and the lovely Mrs. Toad have left me to guard the valuables while they traipse off on one of their debauched "swinger" weekends to some Sandals resort in the Caribbean, where they're undoubtedly lounging half-naked by the floating bar and sipping flourescent blue [...]
Here's the lineups for the last two After the Jump SXSW shows (free food and beer for both!!!), that will be hosted in a backyard in East Austin! The backyard is home to a friend of Cesar from The Lisps, and along with Cesar we booked these two gigs to give festival attendees a chance to get away from the hustle and bustle, the badges, the wristbands, and whatever else you may need a break from
I was lucky enough to have dinner with the dudes (that's 3 genderally speaking dudes and one Mattison ) from Salt & Samovar last week and they gave me a a few songs from their debut record, Old Joy New Joy . I 'm pretty smitten with We Will Break which is kind of a summer of love dance your high-ass ass off anthem but written in Brooklyn. ?. The band is just off a tour out to the west coast so you might have to wait a minute to [...]
Last fall when I saw Swearing at Motorists at the Grog Shop, vocalist/guitarist Dave Doughman told a story about he friend he had in Cleveland who would use the phrase "Top jam" when he heard a song he liked. He figured it was a Cleveland thing, since he never heard the phrase "Top jam" anywhere else. He got a lot of blank looks. We had never heard of top jams either. Since that time, I've learned to love the top jam, and I've co-opted the phrase as one of my own. What does a top jam [...]
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Radio Exile
Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
busted up bulldozers
I Rock Cleveland
Diplo & Usher “Climax”
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
Diplo x Usher: ‘Climax’
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
