You may recognize the third member of The Depreciation Guild from his 1991 debut in your living room -- the original Super Nintendo console. This NYC experimental rock duo (trio?) creates a beautiful maelstrom of raging guitars, 16-bit noise, and emotional vocals. Live shows feature the two human guitarists shredding alongside the modded console, each note corresponding to different colors that appear on a nearby video screen. Catch them at FreeIndie's live showcase on June 20th in NYC (more deets later). [...]
From a childhood favorite to influencing the music I listen to today, the 8-bit processor has been with me in one form or another since my 1st Grade Social Studies class. The Famicom, Atari, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega, and groups like Crystal Castles all share something in common, that little processor that has powered favorite games like Super Mario Brothers , Tecmo Super Bowl , Contra , and ExciteBike (click those links to play). Over the years, advances in computer chip techonlogy have rendered the processor pretty much obsolete (I think). [...]
Thursday, 5/22: -The Sons & Heirs @ Union Hall -Ra Ra Riot @ 77 Greene -A Brief Smile @ Rehab -Liam Finn @ Bowery Friday, 5/23: -The Depreciation Guild @ Union Hall -Call Me Lightning @ Pianos -Adam Green @ Rehab -Dosh @ Merc Saturday, 5/24: -The Lisps & The Faggots @ Cake Shop -Team Robespierre @ Alphabeta -Islands @ Webster -X @ Irving Sunday, 5/25: -The Teenage Prayers @ Maxwell's -The Muggabears @ Knitting -Jeff Lewis @ Cake Shop [...]
Monday: Los Campesinos! + Titus Andronicus @ Bowery Ballroom 7:30pm $15 After seeing Los Campesinos! last week I can pretty much say that this is a band you cannot afford to miss, at all, ever! Throw in the fact that the absolutely amazing Titus Andronicus will be hitting the stage before them and you have yourselves a bona fide reason to leave the house on a Monday night! Los Campesinos! - "We
Brooklyn, NY Radiohead and Trent Reznor aren't the only cool kids letting people download their album for free... "Sky Ghosts" The Depreciation Guild on MySpace The Deprecation Guild on The Hype Machine
The quest for undiscovered Nazi plunder in remote areas of the Czech Republic is rather similar to digging the Internets for free and legal mp3s. No, really. Aside from all the heavy-handed political wrangling such a dig creates, the two are very closely knit. Here, let's take, for instance, The Depreciation Guild. They, just like Nazi doubloons hidden in man carved caves, have treasure awaiting in their self-made corner of the Internet to be found by music lovers. Just like the Nazi compound safeguarding oodles of war plunder, The Depreciation [...]
Omg, it's back! Miwa Gemini - Crazy Over You I only heard Miwa's music for the first time a few days ago, but I'm already enthralled. Imagine a slightly more soft-voiced Nina Simone picking up a guitar and making gorgeous, low-key indie-pop. I made a post about her earlier this week, which features two other track worth checking out. Chris Mason - Better Lush singer/songwriter material from Australia. [...]
Radioheads Vermarktungsmodell "In Rainbows" trägt erste Früchte. Das New Yorker Shoegazer Duo "The Depreciation Guild" bietet sein aktuelles Album namens "In Gentle Jaws" (klasse Titel) auf seiner Webseite an. Wer will darf Geld in selbstbestimmbarer Höhe schenken. Das nenn ich mal richtig nett und lobenswert, insbesondere, da es von einer Indieband ohne Millionen im Hintergrund wie Radiohead kommt. Applaus vom letzten Pop Song! Stehende Ovationen gibt es von umsonst dazu, denn die Musik der Band ist wirklich richtig klasse. Schöner elektrifizierter Shoegazer at it's best zwischen M83 und Airiel. Zwei Kostproben gibt es hier zum anklicken, denn kompletten Download des [...]
Μία από τις αναμενόμενες επιστροφές της χρονιάς είναι και αυτή των/του M83. Τους αναφέρω εδώ γιατί, φυσιολογικά, το όνομα αυτό είναι το πρώτο που έρχεται στο μυαλό του ακροατή των σημερινών μας καλεσμένων. Ίσως με μια μεγαλύτερη δόση electropop από αυτή του Γάλλου συναδέλφου τους, αν μου έλεγαν ότι το καταπληκτικό electro shoegaze pop τραγούδι τους που παρουσιάζουμε απόψε και ακούει στον τίτλο sky ghosts , είναι το δικό του νέο τραγούδι, θα τσιμπούσα με την πρώτη. Οι κύριοι λοιπόν λέγονται The [...]
Didn't quite get the gift(s) you were hoping for Christmas? Having post holiday blues? Feeling like a whale from the pounds of stuffing, sweet potatoes, ham , turkey , cookies, pie, chocolates, wine, beer, and whatever else you inhaled over the weekend? Well, The Depreciation Guild is here to save you with their debut album, In Her Gentle Jaws . They have made the entire album FREE for download to anyone and everyone. Whenever one hears that a band is giving [...]
Cheerio, popperazzi. Have a great week. Dog Day - Oh Dead Life mp3 Pants Yell! - Magenta and Green mp3 - Yell what? The Swimmers - Pocketful of Gold mp3 Bodies of Water - I Guess I'll Forget The Sound, I Guess, I Guess mp3 Gaze The Radio Dept. - Against the Tide mp3 The Depreciation Guild - Sky Ghosts mp3 - Thanks to Pitchfork. The December Sound - Kill Me Before I Kill You mp3 - Repeat
Here are some mp3 freebee's to start off your winter wonderland of music getting. Lots of people are starting to make their best of/top/favorite lists of 2007. I know my friend Steven here is writing one of those up as we speak. I'm glad he's posting because it's been like the dust bowl/drought/trail of tears in posting this year. I guess I'll make this my New Yearsy post as well. It's been a pretty good year. Lots of eventful happenings. And Ch-ch-changes. I've been a [...]
Super Nintendo and shoegaze. Many of those who are legally considered adults at this point will find those two words to be synonymous with the late '80s, even if both were too separable to ever cross paths. Somewhat surprisingly, it appears as if a band has managed to incorporate the two together into a stylistic fusion of nostalgic proportions, resulting in an extremely distinctive sound that raises questions of whether or not this whole '80s revival thing occurring rampantly in fashion and music is really a longstanding niche after all. Whether it is their intention or not, the exceedingly creative [...]
Its snowing here in the south. Warm and toasty. Almost Polar Bear Club time. Hope your up to date on your Tetanus. \\Fulton Lights - Thank God For The Evening News \\Fulton Lights - Fire in the Palm of my Hand \\The Paper Airplanes - The Fences *\\The Blow - Hock It \\Bright Eyes - Tourist Trap \\Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica \\Andrew Bird - Heretics \\Blossom Dearie - Figure Eight (
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