It boggles my mind why we haven't featured Wild Orchid Children here on ATG before. The Seattle seven-piece features members of Gatsby's American Dream (welcome back!), Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground , and Search/Rescue . Forget what you know about those bands though; Wild Orchid Children sounds nothing like its predecessors. Imagine if the Beastie Boys had been born guitar-in-hand in the middle of the Everglades and you've got a start. Wild Orchid Children are raw and raucous, two things that always go well together. The band just released a video for an [...]
And this week... Cut Copy - Lights and Music ( mp3 ) Foals - Olympic Airways ( mp3 ) House Of Fools - My Life Before Today ( mp3 ) Imperial China - There Is No Translation ( mp3 ) John Ralston - Fragile ( mp3 ) Land Of Talk - Speak To Me Bones ( mp3 ) Lightspeed Champion - Galaxy Of The Lost ( mp3 ) Magic Wands - Black Magic ( mp3 ) Oliver Future - Signing Off ( mp3 ) Ours - [...]
We continue getting happy ears from some of the fab artists due to perform at SXSW 2008 next month. The second set below is slightly softer than the first, in case you want to plan accordingly. Previous SXSW 2008 posts can be found here, here, and here. Everything we've labeled SXSW can be found here. We've got way plenty more on the way. Have a great weekend and thanks for visiting. The Feds –
Nothing is stopping Search/Rescue from being the biggest band in 2008. Though formed by ex-members of Acceptance and Gastby's American Dream , Search/Rescue is an amalgam of the likes of Keane , Longwave and Coldplay but with drums sounds that will digest your food for you. Their new record, which has yet to find a home here in the US but will still be on i Tunes in the Spring, will hit shelves in Japan in 2008 and was [...]
All Things Go
Pirika
Powerpopulist
Air & Sea Battle
Video: 2:54 - "Creeping"
Video: Chromatics – “These Streets Will Never Look The Same”
Sleeve: “1991″ by Azealia Banks
