Sleeping in the Aviary – You and Me, GhostDownload "Talking Out of Turn" Caroline Smith & The Good Nights Sleeps – Little WindDownload "Tanktop" and "Calliope" Todd Snider – The Storyteller [Live] Social Distortion – Hard Times and Nursery RhymesDownload...
Here it is kids, the proof that this songs needs to be your new anthem. Here we see State Bird rocking their hometown Dover Ballroom and bringing it. Simply put State Bird = Face Melt.
Here is the brand new album from State Bird! We are excited to release their third full length album Healin The Pain. It was recorded at the Bunker in Brooklyn and then Mixed at John Vanderslice's studio Tiny Telephone Booth. It is a full on departure of everything you previously had heard from the band. it takes the sound that they started to do last years Holy Spirits ep and takes it a step even further. Gone are the neo-folk sounds before and replaced with walls of guitar fuzz. Jam on! Pre-order the 123 for Healin The Pain [...]
State Bird – Healin the Pain. Download "Talking Real Shit" (mp3). This Northeastern Ohio band started out playing neo-folk in the vein of Neutral Milk Hotel. Now the four-piece band churns out unadulterated rock and roll. They haven't simply picked up electric guitars. They've refined their recording process and made an album that recoils and jolts. Healin the Pain was recorded with few overdubs and mixed at Tiny Telephone. The same dedication to crafting engaging songs still exists, but the sound is much larger with a more aggressive, gnarling sound. Click [...]
Here are a few MP3s of songs from some of better albums released this week. Cymbals Eat Guitars – "Definite Darkness" from Lenses Aliens. Male Bonding – "Tame the Sun" and "Bones" from Endless Now. Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman – "It Begins Tonight" from World Wide Rebel Songs. State Bird – "Talking Real Shit" from Healin the Pain. Tinariwen – "Tenere Taqqim Tossam" from Tassili. After the jump, there is also a list of more new releases from this week (with Insound and Bandcamp links to purchase some of them). Continue reading…
After a month which included a weekend boozer in Boston and a working weekend at the Pitchfork Music Festival, I've found myself to be perpetually behind - Behind on my email, behind on new jams, and behind on my bills. I'm sure the credit card company will understand when I tell them the money marked for July's bill "accidentally" went to a bar in Boston. It was an honest mistake, and, um, one that I made with the electric company's money, too. Today, we're going to make everything right. Not with the bank [...]
Yesterday we told you about local band Minden's recent luck landing their new single, "Swift Way On," in a Free People ad campaign. Well, it turns out that a few more of Kansas City's fine... Continue reading "Saharan Gazelle Boy, State Bird, Soft Reeds and more are blowing up the fashion ad world" >
The past few years we have done a big bundle to pick up a bunch of releases at a great price. Well with the year nearing an end we will have a few of these different variations of this package. Here is the first: Physical Items Soft Reeds - Soft Reeds Are Bastards CD Cowboy Indian Bear - Each Other All The Time CD Kansas City Skyline Poster (Photo by David Herholz) Click for bigger image Digital Items (that you get right away) Saharan Gazelle Boy - Strange [...]

Silje Nes Silje Nes is a woman of many many talents and she knows how to use them in orchestra to create wonderful music. On her new release Optiks the mulitinstrumentalist (we're talking guitars, drums, viola, bass, xylophone, electronics, keyboards, concertina, flute, trumpet, percussion ...) crafts hooks and builds carefully nuanced ebbs and flows of rhythm into wondrous music over which she melts her delicate voice. It is possible that because she create all the sound in her work that she is able to tweak it just so to find [...]
Here is an acoustic version of Coastin that will be on the new State Bird album coming out next year.

DOWNLOAD: State Bird - "Good Vibes" Ohio freak-folk band State Bird have taken a psychedelic turn with the release of their new EP "Holy Spirits". This 5-track, 20+ minute EP was recorded at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco under the guidance of Ian Pellicci (Deerhoof, Rogue Wave). Compared with Mostly Ghostly (State Bird's 2008 release), the band now has a big sound where Coby and Jared wield fuzz and feedback masterfully. The band just released the first video from the new EP for the [...]
We have another batch of recent singles we dig from 2010 releases that we haven't had the chance to share with all of you before. This happens a lot because there's way too much good music. We've published plenty of such posts already this year in posts titled Recent Releases We Almost Missed. But, we [...] Related posts:Recent Releases That Almost Got Away: The Pass, Secret Cities, City Light, Scanners, Sambassadeur, David Vandervelde & More Best New Releases of The... Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
State Bird presents their third release, Holy Spirits, and the spirits they do flow. Last we left off, State Bird had seen the light- belting ukuleles and tribal choirs chanting redemption, Hollerin' Mountains, and a Ghost King by the shore. And while State Bird hasn't completely emerged from the hills and hollows of Ohio, the woods are burning to the ground on this one. Born in the ashes of a
Let's be honest, it's downright impossible to follow up last week's edition of the Friday Mixtape. But that's not to say this week's version is not work the listen. In fact, with appearances from the likes of M.I.A., Phosphorescent, The Antlers, Sia, and Bear In Heaven there's a ton to love/check out. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's mix of the best new singles, remixes, and covers! NEW Singles: "Getting To Know You" by Alex B "Beautiful People" by [...]

State Bird - Good Vibes From their EP, Holy Spirits , out now through the fabulous Record Machine . Listen to the rest of the EP here , then buy it for only 2 bucks. Related posts: Briefly, Because I'm Tired Brief Reminder Your Orchestral Live Album Round-Up
State Bird - Good Vibes from Holy Spirits As many of you saw on our twitter and tumblr today marks our 7th anniversary. All this week we will be giving out some new music we are excited about. Today we are super excited to present to you the new ep from State Bird entitled Holy Spirits. For those of you that follow State Bird or the label know that this record has been a long time coming. It was recorded late last year at Tiny Telephone Booth in San Fransisco by Ian Pellicci(Deerhoof, Rogue Wave). The new [...]