Have you been watching the new HBO series Girls ? It's pretty hilarious. It kinda reminds me of Juno -type humor, but much more vulgar. If you think joking around about abortions, STD's, and sending dick pics all make for top notch comedy, this might be the show for you. The music selections are pretty badass as well. I've heard quite a number of songs I dig, but when last night's episode 5 was going off, I heard this jam for the first time and instantly busted out the Shazam jawn. Check out [...]
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There's something special about male/female musical duos with a healthy dose of awkward sexual tension. Think about it - Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes, Gotye and Kimbra, Wavves and Best Coast, The XX. They all produce a certain quality that can only come as the a result of waking up together on at least one seedy morning. The band below is no exception. Best friends, ex-lovers and music makers, Jake Rabinbach and Shannon Esper are the brains and, more importantly, the vocals behind the five-piece, Greenpoint-based The Echo-Friendly [...]
Posted in Play-This-List Something For The Weekend The new HBO show Girls brought me to the discovery of this honest and melancholy song by The Echo Friendly. Jake Rabinbach and Shannon Esper make up the Brooklyn duo, and 'Same Mistakes' seems to be the only single that's been released by them thus far. If you're in depression mode as tomorrow is Monday [...]
"Same Mistakes" by The Echo Friendly , from the upcoming LP Love Panic . If you watched the HBO series Girls this weekend, you would have heard this track.
There's a captivating hypocrisy to the culture of youth that we can't escape from, and often indulge in. We speak in extremes, of the best nights and the worst days; of great hopes and of bad dreams. We drink in excess, and love in fragments. We denounce ignorance, and devour kindness, like a sickness, like a plague. We stargaze and we legitimize, we get stuck and we leave behind. We encounter new faces but fall into old habits. We're exhausted by possibility, and get restless in the hustle. We fuck it all up, and then make our peace. We grow, and we slide. [...]
The Echo Friendly possess one of the better stories of any band who once doubled as a romantic couple. This is no Mates of State circa 2003 love story. Singers Jake Rabinbach and the Chrissy Hynde-inspired Shannon Esper made their music to come to terms with their terrible, long distance break up between Brooklyn and Memphis. They are now best friends. On 2011 single, "Same Mistakes," the band
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Worried - The Echo Friendly When The Echo Friendly (@theechofriendly) released their first track "Same Mistakes" this past summer , it was pretty obvious that the Brooklyn-via-Memphis rockers had something special brewing. Now, with the release of the equally-haunting "Worried", it's become even more evident that we're in for a treat when the group, led by vocalists Jake Rabinbach and Shannon Esper, releases their debut LP, Love Panic , late this spring. If you live here in New York, you can check out The [...]
Welcome to our annual countdown of the 50 best songs of the calendar year. Songs must be from an EP, LP or demo released during 2011 and no band may appear twice. Today, we count down 50 to 41. 50. California Wives - "Tokyo" Nothing felt more neon than California Wives' "Tokyo" in 2011. It was nothing but synths and guitars, a chorus rooted in a geographic tautology, "They're building
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Boats - The Echo-Friendly Part Brooklyn, part Memphis - The Echo-Friendly (@jumpbackjake) produce a genuine brand of indie pop that is hard not to love. On-again-off-again couple Jake Rabinbach and Shannon Esper emote a personal narrative, as their lead vocals blend seamlessly with the band's steady percussion and distorted guitar. After the June debut of their hypnotic single "Same Mistakes", the band is granting us another head-bob-worthy tune with their new track, "Boats". Snag the free download above prepare yourself for their debut EP, which is expected to head our way this Fall!
Monday, October 10, 2011 Today's Quick Mention: Tonight is probably a good night to catch a movie or to find a nice place to watch Monday Night Football, but if you need some live music you could see Kevin Devine and An Horse at Emo's. Sounds for your Monday. Enjoy. : Duchess Says - Time To Reiterate : A couple of years back this band had a raucous track titled Ccut Up that made my year-end top song list. This, [...]
Perhaps we get burdened by the endless stream of love songs on the Interwebs, but this new single is really winning me over. The Echo Friendly just released this new single from their album Same Mistakes , which you can pick up on Cantora Records now, and it's a gem of a track. Trading vocal duties between male and female vocalists, bits of atmospheric feedback, and a nice little stomping groove to keep everything moving along . This is a perfect tune to [...]
[ download ] [tweetmeme] "Same Mistakes," a track by the Memphis and Brooklyn-based combo The Echo-Friendly , plays like '90s indie-poppers such as Papas Fritas and Small Factory filtered through The xx. The hushed boy/girl interplay of the vocals and the languid, late night ambience of the song recall xx tracks like "VCR" and "Heart Skipped a Beat," while the lo-fi presentation brings to mind the Pavement descended pop of songs like Papas Fritas' Way You Walk" or Small Factory's "Valentine." The Echo-Friendly is centered [...]
Borrowing in equal measure from the bubble gum ballads of the 60s and the decadent atmospheres through which - during that same decade - The Velvet Underground were implicitly fustigating that music and a few other things, The Echo-Friendly's new single " Same Mistakes " is pretty much a contradiction in terms. The band's sound, also because of the addition of a female voice, has obviously evolved tremendously since the debut EP "Still Not Sorry", released at the end of 2010, which was faithful to the dark ballad format, but carried much stronger rootsy influences. The single was released a [...]
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There's Part Of Me Nobody Sees But You - The Echo-Friendly Memphis rockers The Echo-Friendly (@theechofriendly) have been kicking around the music scene for a couple of years in various incarnations lead by singer "Jump back" Jake. On their killer new single "Same Mistakes", the band has traded in the frat-friendly R&B that characterized their early projects for a much more sparse and sexy vibe; think the XX with similar back and forth, boy-girl vocals. "Same Mistakes" is a fabulous song and makes a perfect anthem for any 30-something that hasn't [...]
The Echo-Friendly feedback more than the dark distortion of post-punk legends, they also reverberate the honest sounds of open healing souls.
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A slightly smaller batch of new releases hit the stores this week. Here a are a few we found pretty interesting, and a couple that we found pretty rad. Check 'em out. Black Whales; Shangri-La Indeed Black Whales; Lately DMA; Drem Reb DMA; Riding Holiday The Echo-Friendly; Same Mistakes [...]
The brightness knob, the one that controls everything (just invented, just now), is going to be dipping toward dim on The Echo-Friendly's "Same Mistakes". Your dashboard lights, your desktop background, your kitchen track lighting, your city's skyline, all toned down around a graveled male vocal. Of course, this wouldn't be fun if "Same Mistakes" turned all lights down until they were off, and
Late at night, you slowly let the slow jams take over; you're ready to wrap up your evening. Such was the case when I stumbled upon this little tune from The Echo-Friendly . Sure, it's not necessarily the most breathtaking thing (no offense), but I love the vocal interplay between the male and female counterparts, which really drew me into the track, letting them take over the rest of my evening. Before completing their first EP, the band wants to spread the word about their project. I think, if you're looking for something slow and [...]
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: Cult of Youth : "Lace Up Your Boots" [mp3] from Cult of Youth search for more Cult of Youth posts at Largehearted Boy The Echo-Friendly : [...]
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