48 in all. Took a whole week to sort them out and upload them on the Youtube. Great footage from True Widow, Young Adults, new Friendly Fires songs from their upcoming album "Pala" performed @ the Fader Fort. The very short set (15 minutes) from The Vaccines @ the Filter Magazine day party which mark my words, them Brits [...]
80 mins : 36 secs | 46.1 mb Kanye West "Power" ( roc-a-fella records ) My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook Childish Gambino "I'm On It" ( independent release ) Culdesac [ free download ] website | myspace | facebook Ice Cube "She Couldn't Make It On Her Own" ( lench mob [...]
My anticipation for Magenta Skycode's second album, Relief, has been building for years now. The Finnish group was one of the first featured artists in the history of this site, and in my first "Top Albums of the Year" feature I lauded it as being the best debut from that year, 2006. There were few [...]

The Brother Kite - Get On, Me Royksopp - The Drug Chiddy Bang - The Good Life The Hundred In Hands - Pigeons
The Brother Kite is one of the best bands you haven't heard of, unless you have exceptional taste or you're one of the my personal acquaintances on whom I've pushed their music. Perhaps their biggest fan is my former boss, a heavy-hitter VP at Virgin/Capitol who insists they are the best band he's heard this decade. The band's new record, Isolation, echoes the influences of their previous work (

Well, this was a random piece of news that made us all happy at TLOBF towers. One of our favourite Americana acts, The Brother Kite , have broken their silence and announced details of a new album. To be called Isolation , it'll be released in the US and Japan on 28th September. If you pre-order it, the band will send you a secret link to download two unreleased songs, and you can also expect physical freebies (stickers, lyric sheet, etc) with the delivery of the CD "which will probably arrive in [...]

It's been a while since I've heard anything from brother Kite after falling in love with the Waiting For The Time To Be Right , now we've finally got a date for the new album 'Isolation' (September 28th) as well as some songs from their website . Isolation by The Brother Kite The Scene Is Changing by The Brother Kite Constant Reminder by The Brother Kite

Goldest Egg If there's a rule that bands are supposed to mellow and get more introspective as they age, no one told Sunderland, England's Futureheads . After briefly making Newcastle the next epicentre of Brit-rock with their 2004 self-titled debut - Maximo Park and Field Music would emerge from the same scene - the quartet would release two more records of their distinctive, harmony-laden jerky New Wave with less success than their debut, some complaining that the breakneck rhythms and energy that made The Futureheads so infectious were [...]

featuring The Brother Kite, The Hoa Hoa's, Black Feelings and Action Makes Because of my little brain fart on Friday night, my much talked about in-store with Dan Mangan and company wasn't going to happen, which meant that I'll just have to be a little bit more on top of things the next time he comes around, which I'm sure will be relatively soon enough (April 22nd at The Horseshoe , to be exact). This meant that instead of being in a dry record store at 6pm, I was standing in line, in [...]

Maylee & PEGWEE POWER!!: photo by Michael Ligon Plants & Animals [ MySpace ] (March 12, 12 am, Lee's Palace): I already recounted how my Friday night during last week's Canadian Musicfest had started out. I ended up in line at Lee's Palace, optimistic I'd get in to the Billions / Chromewaves showcase but after waiting in line for an hour and half (and missing both The Russian Futurists' and The Acorn's sets) I just about threw in the towel, but fortunately the friendly people [...]

Frank Yang The Saturday night of Canadian Musicfest featured a considerable shift in musical gears, starting out with the gentle, harp-led orchestrations of Joanna Newsom at the Phoenix - not a CMF show and which will be written up tomorrow - and ending with some big, loud guitar rock at Rancho Relaxo. Who says I don't have varied tastes? An expedient streetcar and longer-than-expected set meant that I was able to catch a couple songs from Montreal's Kill The Lights . It almost seems wrong to say I'd seen [...]

Plumerai and The Brother Kite will be celebrating the release of a limited edition split 73 on Clairecords on Monday at the Middle East Upstairs. They will joined by another of the Foundwaves Weekly Picks , LA's Letting Up Despite Great Faults , making for quite a stacked bill for a Monday night. Plumerai's epic single "Strike" begins with a solitary guitar line wet with delay. One by one other elements are added: an eerie distant wash of synthesizer, a light ringing hi-hat, somber bass notes, and finally [...]

Ryan Edward Miller Canadian Musicfest 2010 is almost upon us, and while some of my blog brethren have offered their suggestions of what to see by way of their own schedules, I'm going to take a more free-form approach because following my own schedule will probably not yield the optimal experience. Logistics and workloads, not to mention still needing to get my act together for SxSW the following week, are keeping my plans relatively limited in scope but if none of that was a concern, then here's a [...]

Frank Yang It struck me about mid-way through Basia Bulat's concert at Trinity-St. Paul's on Saturday night that though it was an album release show for her eagerly-anticipated new album in Heart Of My Own , the album wasn't going to be released for another couple of weeks yet - January 26, to be exact - and as such, many/most of the just under 800 people in the sell-out crowd had never heard the new songs. An obvious point, certainly, but one that I had overlooked since I'd been secretly [...]

It's been a while since I have heard anything new from Brother Kite , but thanks to RTS for the tip on a preview of a new song on Parlour to Parlour . Theyt alk in the interview with the reason for the delay on the upcoming record Isolation , the possibility of recording with producer Thom Moniker (who has worked with Silver Jews and The Broken West ). If you watch till the nine minute mark you can see a sample of a song of the new album, which sounds oh so good. [...]
Amelia Shaw Brisbane is a long way from Toronto. So long that many Australian artists barely make it over here once in their careers, let alone as many times as An Horse have been here in just the last 10 months. The duo of Kate Cooper and Damon Cox brought their scrappy two-piece pop to town five - that's FIVE - times in 2009 at venues of all sizes; in March at the Tranzac as part of Canadian Musicfest, at the Horseshoe in April and again in June supporting [...]

IMDB Another year, another... year. This here blogsite turns seven years old today, a milestone which simultaneously fills me with pride, amazement and some degree of despair. If you told me seven years ago that I'd still have enough free time and energy to be blogging extensively on an almost daily basis, I'd have thought you mad. Mad, I say. How would I have time on top of tending to the wife and kids and other domestic responsibilities I'd surely have acquired by then? Ahem. Yeah. The [...]

thekills.tv While I'm very much on record as believing The Kills' 2008 release Midnight Boom to be a superb album , I'm sure part of that was due to the fact that it was the first Kills record I'd heard. Their reputation to that point was as a garage-blues-scuzz-punk rock duo and that's not generally my thing, so discovering them to be - at least on that record - all those things but also exceedingly pop was a most pleasant surprise. But this shift in direction, while [...]

Frank Yang Normally I try to cover stuff chronologically, but in summing up my time in New York City this past weekend, I'm going to jump around a little bit for the sake of grouping things together. And so I'll start off at the end of Thursday night in the basement of a little club called Lit in the East Village. Providence's The Brother Kite would be well within their rights to ask me to stop coming to their gigs. In each of the three times I've now seen them play, their [...]