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Later today the Mercury Prize shortlist for 2011 will be announced, and you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be followed by a million tweets from people saying stuff like "WTF!?!? [insert band] got nominated, but [insert band] didn't?." Rather than trying to guess who will get picked (or who had enough money to enter) we decided to put together a list of 12 British albums that we've enjoyed over the last 12 months. We don't care if they're big hitters such as PJ Harvey (who will probably be on the Mercury list) or smaller [...]
If you're reading this for tips, I'm afraid you've already missed the best gig in Edinburgh this week: Yo La Tengo at the Queen's Hall, tonight. Sorry about that. There's not much else, unfortunately, although Sneaky's have Talons , Lady North and Jackie Treehorn on Wednesday , followed by Thomas Tantrum , New Fiction and Acrylic iQon the following day . Both of those look pretty interesting, but I can't honestly claim to know much about any of the bands. We also have a [...]
"A meditation on vinyl. (I attempted to condense the memoir, but thinking about vinyl opened some weird floodgates...) Earliest memories: At home, Dad had a record player but no records. It came with a purple velvet-y record cleaner that me and my siblings liked to play with. We mostly listened to classical radio and dusted furniture with the velvet thing. Around five, I started taking piano lessons with Ms. Emeline Clawson, a lady in her seventies who had amazing veins crawling the tops of her hands, a cat named Allegro, the [...]
Talons is essentially the work of Mike and Sommer Tolan, and together they make beautiful and heartfelt and soulful music. Even though the band is based in Chicago their music is very much rooted in nature. Most of the new album was written while Mike with living in Spain. The new album " Songs for Boats " is a collection of near hymns masterfully sungs over an array of acoustic guitars, autoharps, chord organs, clarinets, violin and lapsteel. It is peaceful and relaxing through out. The local label Positive Beat Recordings released this album on March 29th, but the [...]
Move along, folks, nothing to see here Eagle and Talon play synth-heavy, drum-machine-y dance pop, built around the voices and multi-instrumental skills of Kim and Alice Talon. EP In Manila opens with a short instrumental, "I Want Everything", before moving to a fairly bland uptempo number, "In Manila". Soon enough, this segues to a somewhat less bland midtempo number "Ruen Pair", before charging headlong into this-is-almost-interesting territory with "Modified My Knife" and its underbelly of noisy guitars. Album closer "For the Bond"...
Talons' "Rowboat" (mp3) from "Songs for Boats" (Own Records) Talons' have a new album "Songs for Boats" to follow up from "Songs for Babes" which was such a great lo-fi bedroom folk album (see previous posts here & here ). I haven't given this new one a full dedicated listen, but I know it is going to happen. I am looking forward to enjoying the delicate and soothing sounds from Mike Tolan (or as you know [...]
Hi, I'm Renna, and I'm a trekkie. There, I feel so much better getting that out of my system. Now we can continue. J.J. Abrams managed to get me hooked to his re-booted Star Trek film despite much hesitation on my part. I must say that even though he totaled the previous Trek universe, the new one he created left me giddy. About a month ago, there was concern that the sequel would not meet it's June 29th 2012 [...]
Talons' neustes Werk dreht sich um Boote und wird grad selbst zum plüschigen Schunkelkahn, womit sich so mancher unsinniger Trubel sanft umschippern lässt. Seit der anhaltenden Pause der Postrock-Formation The Six Parts Seven langt Mike Tolan mit Trouble Books in die Pop-Spielkiste (" Gathered Tones ") und gefällt als <a href=" Talons' mit gemütlichem Dämmerlicht-Folk. Kreisten die Songs der letzten (ersten) nicht selbst vertriebenen Platte "Songs for Babes" (2009) noch um klägliche Frauen-Schicksale, so sind es nun symbolische Boote. Von ihnen hat er sich nach einem längeren [...]
Why am I posting this? Is it because it's "art", because the lead singer is a cutie or maybe it's funny? I'll let you come to your own conclusion's. Anyway, LA's art/rock girls Eagle and Talon have recently teamed up with comedian Reggie Watts for whats seems to be a permanent threesome. Their new self released EP In Manila (BI/AKKA) is only about 14 mins long but you can expect to hear some "wonky aquatic sounds, propulsive beats, enya, jazz-disco" and of course some guitar. Mr. Watts contributes some guest vocalizations and [...]
new long_one from folk-rockers the TALONS has taken a leak. SONGS FOR BOATS D.O.B : March 7, 2011 Label : Own Records Tracklist : 1. Rowboat 2. Old Kayak 3. Catamaran 4. Ferry 5. Skiboat 6. My Life Is A Rotten Chris-Craft 7. Lost Ships 8. Royal Caribbean 9. ...On A Gold Spray-Painted Waverunner 10. Sailboat 11. Lifeboat via : Mediafire wotyougot
Talons are an instrumental/math-rock outfit out of Hereford, United Kingdom. While these dudes aren't hard pressed on reinventing the tiring genre, they do pack quite a bunch with their ferocious blend of pummeling riffage and ceiling busting atmospherics. "Peter Pan" displays the bands tenacity and raw ability to create melodic and intricately passionate songs that are a pleasure when done with such immediate intensity. Check out the bands debut, Hollow Realm to hear more. MP3 // Peter Pan [...]
Talons' From Japan
I was watching a video for a new Japanese camera called CLAP on youtube and I stumbled upon a song I have never heard. Right away I looked up the lyrics and could not find it anywhere. I had to have this song and share with the world. The good folks who designed this rad product pointed me in the right direction. Ohio born, Mike Talon's solo project is simply called Talons'. His album Lost Time is more or less 20 tracks of beautiful acoustic and instrumentals with some subtle electronics. This is some stuff I would have [...]
Link Text: Life Boat File Name: 13-life-boat.mp3
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Damnation Festival completes 2011 line-up with Grand Magus and 6 more names
It's been a bit of a slow news day, but thankfully Damnation Festival have come to rescue by announcing the final seven bands of their 2011 line-up, chief among them being Grand Magus. Joining the Swedish metal outift in he final brace of bands to be added to the bill are Cerebral Bore, Conan, A Forest Of Stars, Humanfly, Talons, [...]
The 405 Jupiter Prize 2011
Later today the Mercury Prize shortlist for 2011 will be announced, and you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be followed by a million tweets from people saying stuff like "WTF!?!? [insert band] got nominated, but [insert band] didn't?." Rather than trying to guess who will get picked (or who had enough money to enter) we decided to put together a list of 12 British albums that we've enjoyed over the last 12 months. We don't care if they're big hitters such as PJ Harvey (who will probably be on the Mercury list) or smaller [...]
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Live in Edinburgh This Week – 6th June 2011
If you're reading this for tips, I'm afraid you've already missed the best gig in Edinburgh this week: Yo La Tengo at the Queen's Hall, tonight. Sorry about that. There's not much else, unfortunately, although Sneaky's have Talons , Lady North and Jackie Treehorn on Wednesday , followed by Thomas Tantrum , New Fiction and Acrylic iQon the following day . Both of those look pretty interesting, but I can't honestly claim to know much about any of the bands. We also have a [...]
Eagle and Talon: The TVD First Date
"A meditation on vinyl. (I attempted to condense the memoir, but thinking about vinyl opened some weird floodgates...) Earliest memories: At home, Dad had a record player but no records. It came with a purple velvet-y record cleaner that me and my siblings liked to play with. We mostly listened to classical radio and dusted furniture with the velvet thing. Around five, I started taking piano lessons with Ms. Emeline Clawson, a lady in her seventies who had amazing veins crawling the tops of her hands, a cat named Allegro, the [...]
Last Minute Plans: Talons @ The Whistler
Talons is essentially the work of Mike and Sommer Tolan, and together they make beautiful and heartfelt and soulful music. Even though the band is based in Chicago their music is very much rooted in nature. Most of the new album was written while Mike with living in Spain. The new album " Songs for Boats " is a collection of near hymns masterfully sungs over an array of acoustic guitars, autoharps, chord organs, clarinets, violin and lapsteel. It is peaceful and relaxing through out. The local label Positive Beat Recordings released this album on March 29th, but the [...]
Eagle and Talon: In Manila (Capsule Reviews)
Move along, folks, nothing to see here Eagle and Talon play synth-heavy, drum-machine-y dance pop, built around the voices and multi-instrumental skills of Kim and Alice Talon. EP In Manila opens with a short instrumental, "I Want Everything", before moving to a fairly bland uptempo number, "In Manila". Soon enough, this segues to a somewhat less bland midtempo number "Ruen Pair", before charging headlong into this-is-almost-interesting territory with "Modified My Knife" and its underbelly of noisy guitars. Album closer "For the Bond"...
Song of the Day: "Rowboat" by Talons'
Talons' "Rowboat" (mp3) from "Songs for Boats" (Own Records) Talons' have a new album "Songs for Boats" to follow up from "Songs for Babes" which was such a great lo-fi bedroom folk album (see previous posts here & here ). I haven't given this new one a full dedicated listen, but I know it is going to happen. I am looking forward to enjoying the delicate and soothing sounds from Mike Tolan (or as you know [...]
Artist: Talons' Title: Rowboat Link Text: “Rowboat” File Name: 01_01_Rowboat.mp3 Bitrate: 158 kbps Genre: Indie Year: 2011
Star Trek 2 Back On Schedule?
Hi, I'm Renna, and I'm a trekkie. There, I feel so much better getting that out of my system. Now we can continue. J.J. Abrams managed to get me hooked to his re-booted Star Trek film despite much hesitation on my part. I must say that even though he totaled the previous Trek universe, the new one he created left me giddy. About a month ago, there was concern that the sequel would not meet it's June 29th 2012 [...]
Talons': Am Trubel vorbeigeschippert
Talons' neustes Werk dreht sich um Boote und wird grad selbst zum plüschigen Schunkelkahn, womit sich so mancher unsinniger Trubel sanft umschippern lässt. Seit der anhaltenden Pause der Postrock-Formation The Six Parts Seven langt Mike Tolan mit Trouble Books in die Pop-Spielkiste (" Gathered Tones ") und gefällt als <a href=" Talons' mit gemütlichem Dämmerlicht-Folk. Kreisten die Songs der letzten (ersten) nicht selbst vertriebenen Platte "Songs for Babes" (2009) noch um klägliche Frauen-Schicksale, so sind es nun symbolische Boote. Von ihnen hat er sich nach einem längeren [...]
New Music from Talons'
First, lets just say that this isn't the instrumental band from the UK! Talons' is some mellow singer-songwriter tracks from M. Tolan, who recorded the album up in Akron, Ohio. It all comes from his album Song for Boats , which just came out. It's supposedly loosely based on his dreams detailing his return to the US from Spain if the world were to come to an end. You'll definitely find it in the vein of other songwriters like Iron and Wine (back [...]
Artist: Talons Title: Ferry Link Text: Talons’ - Ferry File Name: 04-Ferry.mp3 Bitrate: 215 kbps Genre: 20 Year: 2011
Eagle and Talon...and Reggie Watts?
It appears that comedian/musician Reggie Watts has a new duty, guiding the actions of Eagle and Talon on their new video, "For the Bond." This isn't actually all that strange, Watts contributes to the band's upcoming EP, In Manila , which is out tomorrow. We have a feeling that Eagle and Talon are the ones actually in control of this relationship.
Eagle and Talon
Why am I posting this? Is it because it's "art", because the lead singer is a cutie or maybe it's funny? I'll let you come to your own conclusion's. Anyway, LA's art/rock girls Eagle and Talon have recently teamed up with comedian Reggie Watts for whats seems to be a permanent threesome. Their new self released EP In Manila (BI/AKKA) is only about 14 mins long but you can expect to hear some "wonky aquatic sounds, propulsive beats, enya, jazz-disco" and of course some guitar. Mr. Watts contributes some guest vocalizations and [...]
Artist: Eagle and Talon Title: In Manila Link Text: Eagle and Talon - In Manila File Name: In Manila.mp3 Bitrate: 320 kbps Year: 2010
Reggie Watts joins art/rock girl duo Eagle and Talon, drops music video
Reggie Watts is known for being a one-man musical comedy dynamo. Give him a stage, his loop pedal, and he'll blow away a crowd (as evidenced by his upcoming festival appearances.) But now the juggernaut that is Watts is playing nice and learning to share as he joins LA-based art/rock girl duo Eagle and Talon . Watts, who will be providing vocals and playing bass, joined the band for their first EP as a trio, In Manila . The group have set up a Kickstart account , where they've promised everything from [...]
Artist: Eagle and Talon Title: 2inmanila Link Text: “In Manila” File Name: 2inmanila.mp3 Bitrate: 320 kbps Year: 2010
Today I've Sprung A Leak
new long_one from folk-rockers the TALONS has taken a leak. SONGS FOR BOATS D.O.B : March 7, 2011 Label : Own Records Tracklist : 1. Rowboat 2. Old Kayak 3. Catamaran 4. Ferry 5. Skiboat 6. My Life Is A Rotten Chris-Craft 7. Lost Ships 8. Royal Caribbean 9. ...On A Gold Spray-Painted Waverunner 10. Sailboat 11. Lifeboat via : Mediafire wotyougot
Daily Downloads (Bright Eyes, Six Organs of Admittance, and more)
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Big Snow Big Thaw : free and legal Winter EP [mp3] search for more Big Snow Big Thaw posts at Largehearted Boy Bright Eyes : "Haile Selassie" [mp3] (e-mail required) from [...]
Artist: A House For Lions Title: Let Back Link Text: "Let Back" File Name: letback.mp3 Bitrate: 160 kbps Year: 2010
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Artist: Five Eight Title: Your God Is Dead To Me Now Link Text: "Your God Is Dead to Me Now" File Name: fiveeight_yourgodisdeadtomenow .mp3 Bitrate: 192 kbps Year: 2011
Artist: Six Organs of Admittance Title: Hold But Let Go Link Text: "Hold But Let Go" File Name: 1-05_Hold_But_Let_Go.mp3 Year: 2
Artist: Talons Title: Peter Pan Link Text: "Peter Pan" File Name: 02 Peter Pan.mp3 Year: 2010
MP3 // Talons "Peter Pan"
Talons are an instrumental/math-rock outfit out of Hereford, United Kingdom. While these dudes aren't hard pressed on reinventing the tiring genre, they do pack quite a bunch with their ferocious blend of pummeling riffage and ceiling busting atmospherics. "Peter Pan" displays the bands tenacity and raw ability to create melodic and intricately passionate songs that are a pleasure when done with such immediate intensity. Check out the bands debut, Hollow Realm to hear more. MP3 // Peter Pan [...]
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GoldFlakePaint's Top 30 Albums of 2010 ~ Pt.1; 30-11
So 2010 is drawing to a close and the obligatory end-of-year lists are ten-a-penny. So what makes ours so special? Well...er...nothing really, but inspired by the notion that 'if you can't beat em, join em' we put our heads together to come up with our favourite albums of the year. Once the votes were in we put the results through the most powerful computer known to man...i.e. TJ chucked out the ones he didn't like, and after the rest of us threw our toys out of the pram we eventually all made up over a mince pie and a bottle of [...]
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