your final destination / photo by Morgen Schuler Sunscreen for the Eastern Washington sun? Check. Sleeping bag for the few moments you'll be able to sleep? Check? Earplugs for when your 'drums need a break? Check. Booty shorts for dancin'? Check. High energy bars for, uh... energy? Check. Roadtrip music for the journey out to The Gorge? Double and triple check! We've got you covered right here! As you're making your way to the Sasquatch! Music Festival this weekend, there's one thing you don't want to forget: road music! Need more to kill the [...]
It's an odd predicament in which Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello now find themselves firmly rooted: ten years on from the release of the pseudo-seminal, platinum-selling Give Up – a record the title of which appeared to forecast the creative inertia to come, for it remains their only full-length endeavour to date even though it's rung on in the ears of sophomore slumpers worldwide since – they're able to sell out the salubrious O2 Academy Brixton twice over, airing no more than two new songs in the process. Identikit setlists guide them through each evening, and there's an [...]
It's an odd predicament in which Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello now find themselves firmly rooted: ten years on from the release of the pseudo-seminal, platinum-selling Give Up – a record the title of which appeared to forecast the creative inertia to come, for it remains their only full-length endeavour to date even though it's rung on in the ears of sophomore slumpers worldwide since – they're able to sell out the salubrious O2 Academy Brixton twice over, airing no more than two new songs in the process. Identikit setlists guide them through each evening, and there's an [...]
Brixton, non uno dei posti più invitanti di Londra. Fuori dalla metropolitana una piazza con una stazione di polizia e una agenzia di pompe funebri. Una fila di persone arrivate da altre parti della città attraversa l'incrocio e si dirige alla O2 academy, una zuccheriera bianca che in memoria di non so quali fasti passati si ritrova ad ospitare concerti rock, gente che non si preoccupa certo per un po' di intonaco cadente e un atrio non più luccicante. This way please, ladies and gents and something in between sbraita l'addetto alla security, ma non credo quello di [...]
1 The Postal Service - Brixton Academy, London 19/05/13 Photographer: Jason Williamson 2 The Postal Service - Brixton Academy, London 19/05/13 Photographer: Jason Williamson 3 The Postal Service - Brixton Academy, London 19/05/13 Photographer: Jason Williamson 4 The Postal Service - Brixton Academy, London 19/05/13 Photographer: [...]
Graphics by Teresa Yang The time has arrived once again folks - Sasquatch 2013 is just around the corner with a line-up that definitely won't disappoint! Located in scenic, central Washington along the Columbia River, this outdoor festival has long been an indie rock mecca for many. The venue itself features several stages, all of which are set along a majestic panorama of rolling hills and cliffs, providing the perfect backdrop for shows at the main Sasquatch Stage. Founded in 2002 by Pacific Northwest-based concert promoter, Adam Zacks, the festival began humbly as a one day [...]
Neonized . Segunda entrega de la propuesta de Neonized para esta nueva edición de Primavera Sound. y ya vamos adentrándonos al Parc Forum, donde habrá 10 escenarios para elegir y una importante [....] La entrada Primavera Sound 2013 - Una pequeña guía de Neón (Parte II) aparece primero en Neonized .
Today we flash back on another of our favourite labels: SUB POP RECORDS . They're responsible for the careers of a diverse range of bands, from Nirvana to Dum Dum Girls to our very own Husky . And they're celebrating 25 years in the business on July 13. That means that they've been around since 1988. Before that founder Bruce Pavitt started a fanzine called Subterranean Pop about American independent artists and their labels. He started releasing compilations [...]
On the heels of the cover song from yesterday, I bring you even more options to hear musicians perform other musicians intellectual property. This time it is full album cover project for The Postal Service's album ' Give Up ' for it's 10 year anniversary. A pretty influential album at the time and almost defined a new wave of 'indie' in music. Many may deny it's importance or downplay the effect this album on today's music (if asked today), but you know they still don't even fully believe themselves. There are two sides to this digital offering with [...]
This week I've really found some gems from all sorts of artists and styles, both old and new. It goes from cinematic to political to inspiring to dreamy, a true mix of vibes in this collection and a very strange mix of artists. It ranges from Dolly Parton to The Postal Service to The Shins to DJ Shadow, but it works in some crazy way, there is even a Pretty Lights mix of a classic John Denver song. As always I hope you enjoy the eclectic group of tunes that I have patched together and dig a little deeper with [...]
Wide Awake, the highly anticipated new music from praised Boston-based string band Joy Kills Sorrow, will be released June 4 on Signature Sounds Recordings. The 7-song EP follows the ensemble’s sophomore release This...
6/15 @ Barclays Center. Wanna attend with a guest? If so, then tweet @mattheartspade & @PostalService with #POSTALHEART A winner will be randomly chosen on 6/10. Buy tix here. Catch The Postal Service on their US tour. Like The Postal Service on Facebook. Purchase The Postal Service items via Insound. MP3: The Postal Service - Such Great [...]
photo by Autumn De Wilde Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription . This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Afternoon Show with Kevin Cole, is “The Future Hunter” by The Postal Service from the 2013 album Give Up (Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition) on Sub Pop . The Postal Service - A Tattered [...]
Like a wedge finding the weakness in a small fissure, the keyboard pop coming out of the minds of the current crop of adolescents and post-adolescents is both tiny and potentially huge. Built in the ashes of a post-Postal Service world, the bedroom jams of burgeoning LA two-some - currently at USC and Vassar College respectively - Bend represent the smallest of impulses on the appropriately titled, "Short Crush". Soft 8-bit breakdowns lay beside a snapping loop and pretty boy-girl duet, all accented with the type of lyrics that make most intimate sense [...]
Gracias a la confirmación de Of Monsters And Men y al tuit que se publicó desde la cuenta oficial del festival (que sólo decía #CC13) nuestras ansias por tener el cartel confirmado han aumentado. Es por eso que nos dimos a la tarea de buscar algunas bandas que posiblemente estén en el festival este año, nos basaremos en si tienen agenda desocupada, si están en tour o si tienen nuevo álbum, repitiendo, claro, que se trata de un análisis y pura especulación:
It's Monday, and it's a Monday where I'm still feeling like I'm recovering from the weekend. Considering yesterday was Cinco de Mayo, I have a feeling many of you are feeling the same way. I didn't even make it out yesterday, because my ass was too hungover to get off the couch. But I feel for those of you who did, because trust me, I felt close to death yesterday. So if that's you today, or hell, even if you're a good kid just trying to get some work done, I've got your soundtrack. Here is the latest [...]
Photo by Myriam Santos XPN's Gotta Hear Song of the Week featured Joseph Arthur and his new song "Saint of Impossible Causes." The track comes from Arthur's upcoming album The Ballad of Boogie Christ. Stream and download the song below, and learn more about Ballad here . Wednesday's My Morning Download featured a quartet from Nashville called The Features and their song "The Disorder." The band is a musical chameleon, drawing their quirky sound from classic rock, indie rock, southern [...]
I feel like I’ve hit a dead end. Maybe it’s the work/revision-to-life ratio which I’ve been steadily abusing over the past few weeks, maybe it’s the lack of good food in my fridge, maybe this is what studying is all about. Maybe. Whatever it is I definitely think the lack of Vitamin D in my life has made me more susceptible to what I like to describe as ‘songs that just make you go FUCK!’ And, no, I don’t mean ‘songs that just make you go FUCK, THAT DROP WAS HUGE. I mean songs that [...]
As JIMMY LAVALLE, multi-instrumentalist and head of THE ALBUM LEAF named MARK KOZELEK's music to be one of his major influences on various occasions, he might not have thought about collaborating with the former singer of legendary slowcore-institution RED HOUSE PAINTERS. And to be honest, a certain amount of scepticism felt appropriate indeed, when Perils The post Sun Kil Moon & The Album Leaf - Perils From The Sea appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
2013 es uno de los años más emocionantes en el mundo de la música. Con apenas cuatro meses de vida, hemos sido testigos de regresos titánicos, reuniones emotivas, lanzamientos que pasaran a los libros de récords y a la historia, y extraños fenómenos virales. Es por esto que nos dimos una pausa para voltear hacia atrás y repasar los 10 momentos más relevantes de la música que han forjado este año. Son las noticias que más impacto han tenido en este y muchos medios más, notas que significan el inicio de grandes historias que serán contadas durante muchos años. [...]
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