Jake Mann & the Upper Hand headline the Rickshaw tonight , playing with the legendary 80s power pop songwriter Tommy Keene and our own The Bye Bye Blackbirds (9pm, $10). Jake Mann & the Upper Hand - "Days are Long" The Upper Hands' "Days are Long" was one of the songs that contributed to our signs of a strong year mixtape for 2011 . Parallel South ( Crossbill Records ) came out last year, but the [...]
Blackbird Blackbird (once known as Bye Bye Blackbird) is the name of a solo project of a talented vocalist and producer who stems from the Bay Area's own Oakland. Blackbird Blackbird also goes by the name of Mikey Maramag. Blackbird Blackbird's debut album Summer Heart was self-released back in July of 2010. His tracks are the epitome of dreamy inspirational sounds. Maramag is influenced by a wide and diverse spectrum of musical textures. He dabbles in soft, airy vocal harmonies and plays with wholesome instrumentals. His deeply hypnotic tracks pay homage to the name of psychedelic pop. He [...]
San Francisco based producer Mikey Maramag (otherwise known as Blackbird Blackbird ) creates lush electronic soundscapes akin to many of today's bigger chillwave compatriots (Washed Out, Toro y Moi, et al) with the caveat of his tunes exhibiting more of a nod to shoegaze and dance sensibilities. Watch the fittingly mesmerizing music video for his new track, "Tear" below:
Still metabolizing the last bits of barley, hops and potato salad from Saturday's incredible Bay Brewed , I somehow managed to crawl to the Starry Plough the very next afternoon. It was an increasingly rare chance to hear Scott Miller. His band Game Theory helped get me through the 80s, plus they slept in my college living room in '89! Their 1982 debut album, Blaze of Glory (recorded in his bedroom in Sac) and 1985s Real Nighttime remain my favorites, but Big Shot Chronicles from 1986 does contain several brilliant tunes [...]
On the hunt for the perfect jangle tune with this upbeat Bay Area foursome. Bay Area foursome Bye Bye Blackbirds, like many of their fellow-acts on the guitar-pop friendly Rainbow Quartz label, are forever in search of the perfect three-minute jangle nugget, and damn if they don't come pretty close a few times on their sophomore full-length, Fixed Hearts. Ostensibly a batch of songs about relationships broken and repaired (as well as an allusion to heart surgery underwent by drummer Lenny Gill), lyricist Bradley Skaught favors an oblique, literary...
![[Listen/Download] – Cut Copy – "Need You Now" (Blackbird Blackbird Remix)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3241012_lg.jpg)
This post is a "QuickPick". QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that's sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it's so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I "star" it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later. If it's still as good as it was a day before then it goes up on the site, but sometimes I get backlogged and can't get through writing up pieces for each [...]
![[Listen/Download] – New Song by Blackbird Blackbird – "Make It A Choice" (Pavement Rework)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3226072_lg.jpg)
This post is a "QuickPick". QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that's sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it's so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I "star" it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later. If it's still as good as it was a day before then it goes up on the site, but sometimes I get backlogged and can't get through writing up pieces for each [...]
This post is a "QuickPick". QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that's sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it's so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I "star" it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later. If it's still as good as it was a day before then it goes up on the site, but sometimes I get backlogged and can't get through writing up pieces for each [...]
Now he's hit the big time! In the U.S.A. That's a reference to The Beatles, but Blackbird Blackbird is going from strength to strength, and the fucked up thing is he's either done, or almost done with his second album. And if the third-person-tweets from his Twitter account are as I imagine, then it appears he's just be too busy to maintain it anymore so he's paying his maid or butler to do it for him. Even though he's stopped responding to my emails, not returning my calls, and ignoring the smoke signals outside'a [...]
i am a song person versus an album person. that means i have ADD or am just peculiarly particular. nevertheless, i could never in good conscious make a best of 2010 album list, because i believe in the skip/fast forward button way too much and NEVER listen all the way through (this coming from a child of the vinyl days). so thank goodness, i write for a blog administrator who lets me do mixes...they may appear non-sequitur or chaotic, but they are true to my latest adorations and/or old flames. sooooo, it is time to recall 2010 and [...]
1. Girls - Broken Dreams Club GIRLS // Carolina by TheArtOf... 2. Games - That We Can Play mp3: Games - Midi Drift 3. James Blake - CMYK/Klavierewerke James Blake - CMYK by jdillon89 4. The Samps - s/t The Samps - "Peppergood" by Speaker Snacks [...]
NMB songs of 2010 mix (140 mb) 1. The Radio Dept. - Heaven's on fire 2. Gayngs - Gaudy side of town 3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and round 4. Panda Bear - Alsatian Darn 5. Games featuring Laurel Halo - Strawberry skies 6. NIVA - Ghost in my head 7. Shine 2009 - Higher 8. Hard Mix - King of the stars 9. Chad Valley - Anything [...]
Not content with releasing his debut album less than four months ago, Blackbird Blackbird is already hard at work on his second album, currently untitled. This new song is the first from said untitled album and as he notes, it's more like his stuff from back at the start of the year when he was known as Bye Bye Blackbird . At the rate at which Mikey moves and records new music, the album could very well be out in January, with album number three out in June and number four in October. He's gonna [...]
Blackbird Blackbird has a way of hurling you into an almost overwhelming wall of sound that carries throughout the entire course of his pieces. Happy High comes from the days when he was still known as Bye Bye Blackbird , and this Brothertiger remix is all I've been listening to for the last few hours. Last.fm agrees. You can find this track on his Rarities EP , which can be yours for whatever price you choose. Blackbird [...]
Blackbird Blackbird has a way of hurling you into an almost overwhelming wall of sound that carries throughout the entire course of his pieces. Happy High comes from the days when he was still known as Bye Bye Blackbird , and this Brothertiger remix is all I've been listening to for the last few hours. Last.fm agrees. You can find this track on his Rarities EP , which can be yours for whatever price you choose. Blackbird [...]
by teepoo Welcome to another episode of IPOD SHUFFLE MONDAYS, where we hope you discover something new through other peoples music library. This one is one of mine again. If you want to submit a list, shuffle your iTunes and send me the 10 songs. You can add a description if you wish. Happy discovering! 1. Bye Bye Blackbird- So Sorry, Girl 2. Armin van Buuren- Full Focus 3. Simon Webbe- All I want [...]
San Fransisco's favorite pop/electronic/chillwave artist Blackbird Blackbird released his brilliant 18-track Summer Heart over a month ago, but the dreamy vocals and flickering xylophones of the track "Pure" still linger in my ears. If you haven't already, you should definitely head on over to Blackbird Blackbird's bandcamp and grab Summer Heart for ten big ones. Also check out the free download of his latest EP, Rarities , which is a collection of tunes that didn't quite make it onto the LP. Blackbird Blackbird is constantly working on new remixes and songs so I'd expect to see his name [...]
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by teepoo Happy High is the first release from Double Denim Records , a new London based label and is a split between Blackbird Blackbird on Side A and Pao Pao on Side 2. Blackbird Blackbird is no unknown contender, reaching Hype Machine's top 10 and quite known for his synth heavy tracks that create a wave of sound when mixed in with some faded vocals. They are a contender of the niche genre known as chillwave. Paopao makes a lovely track along with Prizes [...]
mp3: Blackbird Blackbird - Pure San Francisco's Blackbird Blackbird recently released the digital album Summer Heart available at the band's bandcamp page . The LP gets a vinyl release on September 21 via Arcade Sound Ltd . The first single "Pure" is dreamy and atmospheric, with echoed vocals that sound like a distant whistling wind. For further listening, check out the Rarities ep from 2009, available for free download .
This is a completely mixed up mixtape consisting of songs from the summer with a few older tunes thrown in to celebrate "The Best Bloggerin' Week Ever" . It is essentially a weird combination of favorite songs from the past year-ish, leaving out a lot of obvious ones, mixed with this month's new favorites. This week I redesigned the blog, added the media player, spent some hard earned cash on a file storage site, created some new accounts, added some fancy buttons, did some HTML magic, and threw [...]
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