MP3 : Sing Me Spanish Techno Diehard just released a 4-song covers EP, Old Habits , for free on their Bandcamp page. Fans who pledged at a high level of their Kickstarter campaign were able to request the songs chosen to be covered and now they've been collected for all the world to download . Their debut full length, The Times We Didn't Have Fun , is now available for "name your price". The band has some [...]
New Music this Week Highly Recommended The Minor Leagues - Ghost Maps THE CLASS OF 2012 - Our commitment to helping expose top new music talent is made all the easier when the bands sound this good on first listen. Meet The Minor Leagues , a seven piece indie-pop band [...]
I like Destroyer. The Canadian producer/band (I'm not sure even he knows quite what the make-up of the project is as it changes members so much) makes slightly spacy, intelligent and really good music. Last year he released Kaputt , which was great. As I liked it so much I'm going to share a couple of my favourite tracks from it in the hope that you'll like them enough to go out and buy it and listen to it lots. He's also a key member of The New Pornographers, so if you like this you'll like them, and vice [...]
The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient (2) Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Nicolas Jaar: Space is Only Noise Jason Urick: Husbands Unknown Mortal Orchestra: s/t The New Pornographers: Electric Version It feels strange whenever I listen to one of the New Pornographers' first three albums from beginning to end. I bought all three albums more or less at the same time a few years back, and I've played them on shuffle ever since. Listening to Electric Version sometimes feels weirdly exhausting, [...]
We'll continue today with our top 25 countdown with albums #15 through #11. #15: Destroyer - Kaputt Dan Bejar is somewhat off-putting at times. The super-literate and carving intellectual drive of his work with Destroyer and The New Pornographers , mixed with his Gordon Gano-like vocal renditions were a constant confinement [...]
Sophomore albums are a tricky thing. For the most part I have found them very interesting to discover, especially when they are from a familiar band I have lost track of for a few years. During my senior year of high school, my best friend Danny was raving about this Canadian alternative/ indie rock band that he absolutely loved. When he played me the band I was intrigued and wanted to hear more, which he gladly obliged. That band was Rah Rah . Fast forward to 2008 when they released their debut album Going Steady , [...]
New Pornographer Kathryn Calder has a new single and video for "Who Are You?" that I struggle to find issue with. Her album Bright and Vivid was released Oct. 25th, 2011 on File Under: Music ,
BAM! Bet you were expecting a Best of 2011 list, yeah? Well I don't got time for that (YET)! No...this is where I acknowledge all the great stuff I missed in 2010. 'Cause it doesn't get any more rock n roll than to talk about shit that's over a year old. Write that down in your How to Be Rock N Roll notebooks. Anyway, the last time I wrote this list , I spent quite a while talking about how there isn't enough time in one year to listen to all the potentially great releases and put [...]
The Dodos is easily one of the best shows that I've been to this year. With just a duo on stage they were able to get the crowd energized and moving better than most bands could with a full line up. It's this energy that they were able to put into their impactful release No Color that will surely find its way onto many top ten lists this next month. To help remind everyone just as they're starting to compile their end of year lists, The Dodos took the stage of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon [...]
Carl Newman de The New Pornographers fue víctima de un robo ocurrido en la casa que alquila en Los Angeles, aunque afortunadamente el cantante y compositor no estuvo presente cuando ocurrió el hecho. "Alguien lanzó una maceta por la ventana de nuestro piso en Los Angeles y se robaron nuestros iPads" escribió Newman sobre el incidente, y agregó "algunas personas no son muy buenas" . Como consuelo para Newman , todo el contenido de su iPad [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Holy Hell Frazer Harrison, Getty Images The New Pornographers ' Carl 'A.C.' Newman was the victim of a robbery at his Los Angeles residence Nov. 9. Fortunately, it seems that the singer wasn't hurt or in the vicinity when the break-in occurred. "Someone threw a potted plant through the window of our LA pad and stole our iPads," Newman tweeted late Wednesday. "Some [...]
Integral member of the New Pornographers and Singer/Songwriter Kathryn Calder releases her second LP. Did I mention that she is Canadian? Poutine for e'rybody. Read more » http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping
Former Immaculate Machine member and current New Pornographers contributor Kathryn Calder just released her sophomore solo album, Bright and Vivid , through File Under: Music . I interviewed her for Exclaim! and wrote about the LP for The Tyee . Below, watch the video for the dance floor-friendly single "Who Are You?," which expands Calder's usual sonic pallet with hooky synths and thudding electro beats. This one takes her out of the coffee shop [...]
Bright and Vivid is de titel van de nieuwe CD van Kathryn Calder en het is een toepasselijke titel. Het album barst de energie en is klinkt heel wat vrolijker dan de voorganger Are You My Mother? Maar dat album was dan ook geïnspireerd door de slopende ziekte van Calder's moeder. Kathryn Calder maakte naam met haar band Immaculate Machine en ze werkte ook mee aan de albums van de New Pornographers. Ze nam de plaats in van Neko Case, van wie de solocarrière steeds succesvoller werd. Misschien heb je Calder wel 'ns op het podium gezien [...]
Sunsettes are a Tampa-based duo specializing in funk-tinged indie-rock. Comprised of Nathan Kozyra and Michael Schlein, Sunsettes quietly released their debut Coup de Grace last December. Their compositions are frequently led by acoustics and keys, with Kozyra assuming a vocal delivery incorporating both stream-of-conscious narratives and straightforward romantic metaphors. Although the instrumental arsenal is mainly [...]
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Tweet Okay, look: I freely admit that today's Introducing post could potentially be seen as a bit slow off the mark. Does a band still qualify as new if they've released two full-length albums and formed six years ago? No, probably not. Whatever: Rah Rah were new to me. Besides, as much as it's fun to discover a band when they're just taking off, it tends to lead to frustration and/or disappointment. You wait for ages for each little musical morsel to be [...]
Kathryn Calder's "Who Are You?" is as bright and vivid as her album title suggests.
Photographs of The New Pornographers at the 2011 DeLuna Festival held during the middle of October in Pensacola, Florida. All photographs taken by Katharine Morales and may not be reproduced without consent. For more coverage of the DeLuna Fest, check out our Day Two review
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