What happens when a next-big-thing becomes just a big thing? Judging by Smith Westerns ' performance on February 1 at the Black Cat , going from a 'cool young band' to a band that can maintain an audience's interest through a forty minute set involves major growing pains and maybe even some whining . The night began as Los Angeles' Bleached opened the show with their angry-bored- punk-sisters thing and did I mention they're from the valley? Bleached's thumpy screeching girl rock was followed by Porcelain [...]
The Black Keys - El Camino Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here The Decemberists - The King Is Dead Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire As a die-hard Ryan Adams fan – hello! – I have nothing bad to say about his latest creation. He can do [...]
Koko and the Sweetmeats, a four-piece from Seattle, recently announced the release of their new record Sacrifice. The band, who were recently named "Best Garage Band" for 2011 by Seattle Weekly, released Sacrifice as a concept "double EP". The six songs on side A are reinterpreted on side B. It's free for a limited time
photos by Amanda Hatfield Chicago band The Smith Westerns headlined the final date on their tour with Porcelain Raft and Bleached on Saturday 2/4 in Milwaukee, four days after the band hit Webster Hall on 1/31 . Pictures from the NYC date are in this post. Porcelain Raft blogged their way through the US tour [...]
After a week away, it was nice to be back in the studio. This week I played several folk-related tunes, a few garage-based ones, and a small handful of indie pop tracks. With the amount of indie-folk I've played of late, I'm thinking we're in store for another dreamy mix and maybe even a garage rock mix in the near future. Andi and I have been on a DIY kick of late and a recent project has been homemade laundry detergent. With the three ingredients displayed in the photo above, along [...]
Photo by Brad Bretz A dense fog advisory should've been in effect at the Metro Friday night for Smith Western 's homecoming show, which was an otherwise pleasant set of garage pop played with clear-eyed dexterity. After opening sets by Bleached and Porcelain Raft , things got murky. From the opening lines of "All Die Young" through to the last choruses of the encore's second song, "Dye the World", a machine pumped the stage with billows of eyeball-parching, sight-obscuring fog so thick the Chicago band looked as if it [...]
Photo gallery of Smith Westerns, Porcelain Raft, Bleached at Webster Hall in New York City (January 31, 2012) Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photo s/smith-westerns-porcelain-raf t-bleached-webster-hal/
Just another week of live music in New York City, which means lots of options for the concert-going public, including Smith Westerns, American Babies, Tycho, and Skrillex....
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Hello out there. This week, Smith Westerns play Webster Hall with Porcelain Raft and Bleached , a show that you really shouldn't miss. Meanwhile, Snowmine is beginning their month-long residency at Pianos, Sea of Bees is hitting the Cake Shop, and Suckers is playing Knitting Factory. Thanks for coming by to check out our suggested New York City indie concerts! We won't list everything that's going on - just a short list of great shows happening in our city that you shouldn't miss this week. And [...]
Live music picks for WEDNESDAY JANUARY 24 through TUESDAY JANUARY 31, 2012. FRIDAY JANUARY 27 / DAFT PUNK TRIBUTE / WRONGBAR / $13 / 19+ In some ways, it's only fitting that one of the greatest Daft Punk cover bands is actually from Toronto. DPT came together in 2009 at Humber College when nine friends discovered they shared a mutual love of the French duo's music. The group includes a horn section, rhythm section, vocals, and electronics, so as you can imagine, the result is quite [...]
After the excitement and the commotion in the newness of the year passes, it's a dreadful few weeks of purgatory; a period of reconciling the lingering effects of the year just passed with the swirling sweet nothings from the year to come, as you wait for it to finally take off one way or the other. Days pass with a peek of an eye, waiting to detect any hint of some spark. I've mentioned it before , but sometimes it takes only that one thing for the domino effect to push all else forward and freshen the momentary staleness [...]
Hype Machine is streaming Porcelain Raft 's debut full length, Strange Weekend , right now. Let me be the first to tell you, it is the record of the year so far. Mauro has created a timeless romantic record that borders the line between reality and dream. A perfect combinaion of uptempo and downtempo tunes that will have you swooning over and over. The Italian is currently supporting M83 in Europe (HUGE), and will be playing some shows with Smith Westerns in the states later this month.
Music to Combat Commuting Doldrums 2011 takes the best of the tracks from the Blogophilia series. It's our sayonara to 2011. These tracks spun around in our heads for long periods during the year. We used download information and then feedback to compile the final list. It's hard not to go wrong, there were so many gems from 2011. So download and enjoy! Music to Combat Commuting Doldrums 2011 Best of Blogophilia Edition The best promotional tracks of 2011 from the Blogophilia [...]
Can't believe 2011 was 4 days ago. Missing it already. In 2011, Winters were warm. In 2012, winters are cold. That's enough for me to want to go back. I fancy myself to be a concert photographer. More specifically, I fancy myself to be an Iphone concert photographer. It's a rare breed. Sure, a lot of people take snapshots of concerts with their phones during a show, but how many of them use them for their music blog? Not many. Those other people just look through their albums one day, wonder 'what is this?' and [...]
Following on (belatedly) from Eclectic Eavesdroppings Favourite Albums of the year, here are my Favourite Songs of 2011 . Compressing the musical year into a mere twenty-five songs is a tough task for a music junkie like myself. Listing the songs in order of preference is near impossible. But either way, I've done my best to get a list together and even though it's incredibly subjective, it sums up a very good year in music. Stream it as a playlist on YouTube over HERE or download a copy of the whole mix over HERE . [...]
Son Lux – We Are Rising The second album from New Yorker Ryan Lott, We Are Rising is an electronic opus that lays claim to a fertile musical landscape that's largely neglected by the mass of modern electronic artists. Created in 28 days as part of National Public Radio's RPM Challenge, We Are Rising is beautifully arranged with heavy doses of classical elements (strings, woodwinds, brass, opera), chorus, and psychedelia artfully combined within an elegant & modern electronic amalgam. 'We Are Rising' (featured below) is atypical [...]
So, as the New Year approaches, here are our favourite albums of 2011 for your consideration. Feel free to dispute, argue, or otherwise put us right because, if nothing else, music is as about as subjective topic as it is possible to get. Some of these may not be the "best" albums of the year as far as the critics are concerned, but that matters not, as they were the ones we enjoyed listening to most - give them a try, you might feel the same. 50 Jessica Lea Mayfield [...]
We'll continue our countdown today with songs #15 through #11. #15: Danny Brown - Monopoly "Monopoly" sounds genuinely like Danny Brown , born poor and raised in Detroit, generally deals with dangerous shit. The beats are strong, sullen, and dirty, with Brown noting that he's been through a lot to get where he is. But in reality, "Monopoly" is nothing more than a take to shit on his opponents, and if there's any doubt of it, he goes to length to emphasize that he'll "literally" shit on their mixtapes. It's the [...]
This year in music has been quite impressive. While 2010 gave us clear-cut, stand alone winners, it was much harder to determine which album was Top Ten worthy, let alone the best of 2011. Most sites have published their lists already, and while many albums appear on the same lists, the top ten varies greatly from list to list. Don't expect us to be any different. Read more » http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping
The Rotation
Cougar Microbes
Obscure Sound
BrooklynVegan
Fensepost
Consequence Of Sound
Prefixmag.com
Live Music Blog
the WILD honey pie
blogTO - Toronto Indie Music and more
Quit Mumbling
Hand Clap Movement
The Dadada
The Panic Manual
Eclectic Eavesdroppings
Mad Mackerel's Blog
Bears and Bullets
Earbuddy
Wine & Bowties
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
Music Alliance Pact. MAP. February 2012.
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
Listen: Usher x Diplo – Climax
Imperial Teen – Runaway (2012)
