Take a listen to this joint from upa and comer Shugga Shane off his recently released tape Ears To The Streets . He's joined by Ace and Shakespear over the ID Labs produced record.
Planas - Merry Go Round Excepional Records Buy from iTunes and Beatport Dubmeister Planas takes time out from his duties with Gentlemens Dub Club to deliver his first full release for exceptional blue. Merry Go Round is dreamy swirling haze with dubstep flourishes featuring the sumptuous vocals of Claudia Georgette . Kicking off with Agbekor as his first release on Ranking , Planas, aka Toby Davies has already acquired a staunch following amongst the dubstep fraternity whilst his involvement [...]
Wenn Japaner DreamPop oder Shoegaze spielen, hat er irgendwie immer eine besondere Note und unterscheidet sich schon ein wenig von den Spielarten aus dem Rest der Welt. So klingen auch Lily of the Valley auf ihrem Debütalbum «Aquatree» unüberhörbar japanisch – verspielt und verträumt, auch etwas verhuscht, aber dann auch wieder durchaus mal etwas knarziger. Die Single «Hikari Merrygoround» oder auch «Balloon» lassen gut erahnen, wohin die Reise so geht. Link zur Band-Website
Watch the fireworks fly as HEARTSREVOLUTION tempt us with another snippet from their upcoming full length, Ride or Die. CRITICAL MASS from HEARTSREVOLUTION on Vimeo . O S A K A
The French act Revolver may be named for a well known Beatles album, but their jaunty download, "Get Around Town," is reminiscent of a Merry Go Round song, back when Emitt Rhodes was still wet behind the ears, circa "Scarborough Fair". The monsieurs were produced by the same guys behind our beloved Phoenix . Their album "Music For A While" is out Aug. 24. Revolver is on its way to L.A. to worm their way into our hearts this fall for the OohLaLA Festival . [...]
With Mumford & Sons racking up almost as many column inches as BP oil slicks and the World Cup combined at this moment in time, you'd be forgiven for keeping your caution as far away from the blustery winds of folk as physically permitted. That said, there's a forever-expanding gang of imagination-enhancing acoustic ramblers rustling amidst the reeds once trodden by the River Man, Nick Drake, and they're all crawling out from the shrubbery contemporarily. Lissie Rock Island sweetheart Lissie , a [...]
A few more morsels from the Jukebox this week, wrapping up some great L.A. cuts courtesy of Where The Action Is , filtering in some Iranian instrumental garage and topping it off with a nice dose of psych-pop. What more could you want? [MP3] Ojooba Ha - Bas Ay Dokhtar Ha Storming out of the Iranian underground Ojooba Ha give their best Ventures nod with an Eastern surf instrumental that rides high on organ and a bit of twang in the guitar strings. Propulsive and bubbly just like the [...]
California sunshine popsters, The Merry-Go-Round , endured a wild, dizzy ride of short fame in the late 1960's. Fronted by multi-instru mentalist and musical golden boy, Emitt Rhode s in 1966, the band featured fo rmer members of Grass Roots and the Gene Clark Group . With two mem bers still in [...]
Jul 17, 2008, 11:20am
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[Most of what we post on this site are new releases, but our tastes are all over the map. This weekly feature is a snapshot of what the Stranger Dance staff can't get out of their collective head each week. On any given week, we might be digging a new local act, an old jazz chestnut, the newest Japanese electro-folk or whatever else we've got on the turntable/iPod that week.] This week's picks are a little on the funkier side for us, with a legitimate house track, a thick slab of Afrobeat funk and some electro-funk [...]
From "Alight Trio" by Betsy Popp "Listen, Listen" by THE MERRY-GO-ROUND: Thanks to an anonymous response to my previous post on Emitt Rhodes, I now have a few extra Rhodes song in my digital collection, including a handful of songs from Rhodes pre-solo career band, The Merry-Go-Round. "Listen, Listen" is one of those new (to me) songs, and it's a rocking nugget of California pop via filtered through the Beatles (Rhodes never denied his love for the Beatles in interviews). "I Am Not Willing" by MOBY GRAPE [...]
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