"Food is the new rock 'n roll." - Justin Warner, chef at Do or Dine "A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork /That's the way we spell New York." - Escort, "Cocaine Blues" "You're going to what?" The Great Googa Mooga doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but "music," "food," and "festival" do, and that's about all I needed to tell people about the eponymous inaugural festival this weekend in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. If that wasn't enough to win over the skeptics, I broke it down by the numbers: 75 [...]
Fort Funston, San Francisco, 2011. This past Monday, my better half and I got the pleasure of seeing tUnE-yArDs with full band as well as local guitar wizard Ava Mendoza play along with the following Buster Keaton shorts: One Week (1920), The Haunted House (1921) and with Fatty Arbuckle Good Night, Nurse! (1918) and The Cook (1918). It was at the legendary Castro Theater for the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival Her music lent itself perfectly to the [...]
It's a holiday celebrated by few, but those few treat it like Christmas morning. In fact, some might consider it better than Christmas morning: Record Store Day. Since its inception in 2007, countless vinyl enthusiasts have woken up - on Saturday morning, no less - to patrol the streets in their pajamas, eventually taking up real estate outside their favorite record store, all in the hopes that they'll snag priceless soon-to-be artifacts that, more or less, give them bragging rights. It's relentless, it's addicting, but it's pastime. Consequence of Sound looks forward to [...]
Raleigh, NC's Hopscotch Music Festival returns for a third year on September 6-8th, complete with 175 bands over 15 venues across the downtown area. This year's bill is topped by Built to Spill, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Roots, Yo La Tengo, and The Mountain Goats, the latter of which will feature an exclusive all-covers heavy metal set by frontman John Darnielle on piano. Also appearing on the lineup are Liars, Sun O))), Danny Brown, Death Grips, Zola Jesus, Lambchop, Colin Stetson, Wye Oak, Thee Oh Sees, Baroness, Deerhoof, Damien Jurado, Flosstradamus, Laurel Halo, Escort, Pallbearer, [...]
Escort - Chameleon Chameleon (Ilija Rudman Music Interpretation) out now on Red Music with Max Essa's Starlight remix on the b-side. Get the mp3s from Beatport or the 123 from Picadilly .
We get a lot of requests from artists, PR, managers and labels asking us to post music from bands that have already released several albums. We tend to turn them down, as this blog and the service it's trying to provide is all about delivering new, emerging music to people. What good is it to recommend an artist you've already heard of, right? On the flip side, we're not interested in desperately being first either, more that we're only trying to be early to new music, so the readers genuinely discover something. Anything else makes the purpose of this blog [...]
Watch 'Why Oh Why' here. Like Escort on Facebook. Photographs by wagz2it. [...]
Spin always seems to throw one of the better parties at SXSW so it should be no surprise that I parked myself in the Stubb back lot for the entire Friday afternoon. With an eclectic lineup, free alcohol and free bbq, you can say that I was sufficiently sophonsified that afternoon. Let's take a look at the acts on the bill. The opening slot of any afternoon party is always the toughest - half the people are still sleeping, the other are hungover and mostly lack the energy to do anything more than stand around. These factors were [...]
A few faves of the week...some new, some old. With zero forced commentary. You're welcome. Justin Townes Earle - One More Night In Brooklyn Escort - Cocaine Blues Gloria Lynne - If You Don't Get It Yourself Marco Benevento - It Came From You The Shins - 40 Mark Strasse King Devil - Lackland Blues [...] • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS
We're still recovering from SXSW (and we left early). The week long madness of music and drinking does get tiresome, but alongside good friends at Guns In The Sun, Hit City USA, and MFG, we presented an awesome showcase on Friday featuring some of our favorite artists around right now. It started with Harriet, the on the rise Los Angeles group powered by vocalist Alex Casnoff and the deserved hit "We Slept With All Mothers." It continued onwards with heavy sets from punk visitors The Shrine and The Men, crowd pleasing hip hop by A.Dd+, epic anthems from [...]
El multi-grupo de Escort (esos 17 músicos) recientemente publicaban su álbum debut, prácticamente con nuevas mezclas de temas ya publicados anteriormente, para el sello Tirk, y hoy se pública para el sub-sello de Tirk, Nang Records , 2 remezclas de nuevas de Escort, y como en Nang cuidan mucho eso de las remezclas, han escogido al genial productor de Croacia de Ilija Rudman para remezclar el tema 'Cameleon Chameleon' imprimiendo en el tema un punto más funky y nuevos arreglos de sintetizadores, un [...]
By Stef Siepel March 7, 2012 The energy bar, instead of slowly being drained of colour, fills up throughout the Wednesday night at the 05 Days Off Festival . It started out completely empty, but finally managed to end in the green. Sometimes music feeds energy, though your Sims might beg to differ. 05 Days Off is a dance festival spread over a number of days (without checking my facts – I know, I'm awful, please read on – my guess would be five of them), and the Wednesday is the [...]
Love.A.Lert Brooklyn-based dance mavens, the ESCORT , have just unleashed a video for your new favourite choon of today. That's of course if the MADONNA's MDNA LP doesn't taken a leak this Monday eve. Watch as the seventeen piece disco orchestra take you on an eighties journey with their irresistibly catchy hooks via WHY OH WHY .
Watch 'Why Oh Why' below. Visit 'em at their official site. Like 'em on Facebook. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Escort - Makeover
A picture tells a thousand words, right? They also help capture a thousand bands, and for an event like Austin, TX's South by Southwest , a camera isn't an added incentive, it's a necessity. Last week, several of our photographers hit the bustling streets and furious venues, capturing the talent both young and old. For reference, you should know that a day at SXSW begins at 10 a.m. and doesn't stop until sometime between the hours of two or six in the morning. Yeah, that's a lot of footage. So, if you couldn't make it down to Texas, take a [...]
Welcome to our report on South By Southwest from Austin, TX, where sleep is nominal and foot pain is exponential. We're giving you the run on bands we really enjoyed every day this week, so check out our blurbs and pictures below for coverage of Friday at SXSW, including a review of Jack White's much talked about performance. Parties/Showcases We Listen For You Acoustic Showcase - 10:30 a.m. @ Diverse Arts lot (Bro Stephens, Conveyer, Arms, Henry Clay People, Dent May, Miracles of Modern Science, and [...]
On this episode of the Rock it Out! Blog, I recap my Friday at South By Southwest which included acoustic sets, a hip-hop show, some disco dancing and a performance from Jack White! Check out the video and get jealous.
The deep Disco of Escort 's 'Why Oh Why' finally gets itself a video clip. The single's been out a while now and the clip portrays the live version of Escort, a seventeen peice Disco orchestra. Escort's self-titled début is out now digitally and 31st January on CD and Vinyl. Buy Escort's music from: [...]
Here's a huge announcement: Quit Mumbling, Guns In The Sun, Hit City USA, & MFG present Spring Break, an unofficial SXSW event. Collectively, we're bringing you some of our favorite music from the last two years. The Men's sophomore release Open Your Heart has quickly jumped to the top of our favorite releases so far this year, with a killer tracklisting of melodic, full throttle punk rock. By year's end, we are sure this will still be on rotation, and for that reason, we can't wait to host them. Hooray [...]
Escort is an all out disco band from the little known city of Brooklyn. They have been around for about five years, steadily releasing singles and building momentum. They finally released an album this year and it's just fantastic. Make no mistake, this is a disco album. It's designed to make you move. Synths, horns, strings and dance beats all somehow meld together with surgical precision on this ten track album and the result is a highly fun and contagious record. Chameleon Chameleon is one of the tracks of the album. It'll make you want to put on neon [...]
Consequence Of Sound
FoeWeel
Mola Super Poco
THE RECOMMENDER
A Heart Is A Spade
The Panic Manual
The Ear Hole
Quit Mumbling
COMO LAS GRECAS
Muso's Guide
wotyougot
Rock it Out! Blog
electronic rumors
The orchestra is dreaming
American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
