Myspace For the better part of the year, I've been hearing about this Guelph duo Memoryhouse - another entrant in the increasingly fashionable he-she duo band configuration sweepstakes - and while I liked what I heard in passing of their hazy, languorous dream-pop, I figured I'd pay more attention around the next time they scheduled a local show. After all, they're from Guelph. That's like right over there. And yet any time I saw tour dates posted throughout the year, they'd be touring and gathering accolades in far-flung places in Europe or [...]
Top 7 choices from the embarrassment of show riches tonight in Los Angeles (and a handful of recommended downloads to boot): ☛ Greg Dulli and Carina Round at the sold-out Troubadour. The Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers main man is doing his first-ever solo tour, and reviews have been great. "Dynamite Steps," the first Twilight Singers album since 2006, is due Feb. 15 on Sub Pop. ☛ Blonde Redhead and Olof Arnalds at the Music Box. BR's new album "Penny Sparkle" is just out; here's a taste . [...]
YOU ONLY EXIST TO BE REPLACED. "A mixtape to blast in your car" by Westin Glass of The Thermals. It appears that Glass likes to ride around listening to r&b hits. Download: Band The Thermals L.A. Record Mixtape (from Name of Album out When? on Label) 1. Sugar Minott - The Girl Is In Love Reggae crooner Sugar Minott kicks off the affair with a swaggering come-on that would be hard for anyone to resist. He wins you over with an [...]
The Thermals get into your head, even when your head is somewhere else. I think I spent a good part of 2006-07 waking up in the morning with "Here's Your Future" (from the excellent "The Body, the Blood, the Machine") echoing in my ear parts. It was the hook, and something in the way Hutch Harris sounded like God while railing on religion. So the Thermals' video for "I Don't Believe You" (starring Carrie Brownstein and featuring another familiar face at the end) rings very true. The band's fifth album "Personal Life" (out Sept. 7 on Kill [...]
Blonde Redhead Play Three Area Shows Pretty good week for live music, Tuesday and Friday are particularly packed... Monday 11/15/10 [Pick of the Night] Dirt Dress / Audacity / Cosmonauts / Tomorrow's Tulips @ Spaceland / Satellite (Free) – Dirt Dress are doing the Monday night residency at Spaceland in November. Their music has a sort of lo-fi, early Velvet Underground vibe. [Recommended] Blonde Redhead / Olof [...]
Live This Month: November 2010 (Podcast #236) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the next 30 days in the San Francisco Bay Area. November's got a ton of great shows, with multiple bands from Denver (Tennis, Gauntlet Hair) and Philadelphia (Sun Airway, Kurt Vile) making noteworthy appearances, while a bunch of locals celebrate the release of new CDs (Eux Autres, Faun Fables, The Definite Articles, The Parties). Enjoy the mix and then go check out some shows! [...]
Mia Kirby I somehow managed to see Los Angeles' Warpaint no less than four times this year before hearing their debut album The Fool , so you could say that their live shows have coloured my impressions of their music just a touch. And that's a good thing because as a cursory scan of past write-ups will attest, I find their performances to be swirling, mesmerising affairs anchored by the pulsing, organic rhythm section and lifted by the airy vocals and shimmering [...]
Coming up with questions for a band as diverse and energetic as The Thermals can be an exhaustive process. What do you ask a band with so much already under their belt? Radical ideological concepts, ferociously catchy punk-hooks and ridiculously catchy pop melodies are laden throughout their discography. But instead of using big words to pretend I have even the faintest idea about politics and religion, I sat down and asked frontman Hutch Harris a few questions about the band's new LP, Personal Life , and he responded with various thoughts on wrestling, the pointlessness of music [...]
Reminiscent of anyone and everyone from Devendra Banhart to Portishead, Django Reindhardt to fellow Portland upstarts The Thermals, Tu Fawning are a veritably brain-shuddering prospect. Seemingly caught between ambient 90s tendencies and silent film soundtrack, I Know You Know, equipped with appropriately insane, vaguely profane vid is enough to induce all sorts of stirs in neuronal membrane. And the accompanying track is a City Slang accordion-encased dreamboat sailing on the most glorious discordance. I Know You Now by Tu Fawning by PMA [...]
The Thermals ' draw is undeniable. From a concept album that predicts the fanatic religious evolution of America, to a surprise cameo from Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein in their video for 'I Don't Believe You', they stand at the very height of credibility. Most would think this level of success equates to fame and fortune, but the Portland based band reached the limits of their niche years ago, and there - with the exception of third studio album The Blood, The Body, The Machine – their advance came to an unexplainable halt. Enter Personal Life , [...]
Well, it's been awhile! Hey...look what I mixed: Remember to Right Click/Save As on Cover Art to Download So, I grew up a Doug Flutie fan... sue me. He was the big Kahuna when I was in high school, and like many Eastern Massholes, I have a special affinity for our local athletes. What's that you say about Tom Brady? Yeah... suck bilge water, hater! Sorry... that was an unusual lack of decorum on my part. I [...]
An evening with The Thermals is never a bad way to spend any evening, let alone a cool Saturday night, so we headed out to Red 7 to grab a few drinks while watching one of our favorite bands. We were also really excited to be able to catc h Cymbals Eat Guitars , another one of the bands out there trying to bring back a bit of rock into our roll. Cymbals Eat Guitars took to the stage just after we arrived, still touring [...]
An evening with The Thermals is never a bad way to spend any evening, let alone a cool Saturday night, so we headed out to Red 7 to grab a few drinks while watching one of our favorite bands. We were also really excited to be able to catc h Cymbals Eat Guitars , another one of the bands out there trying to bring back a bit of rock into our roll. Cymbals Eat Guitars took to the stage just after we arrived, still touring [...]
The Thermals and Kill Rock Stars have just issued a new seven inch for the track " Never Listen to Me " with a killer bass line and a nod to Joy Division. It's backed with "There is Always a Reason." Buy it here . Buy it now . The Thermals - Never Listen To Me
Photography by ME ! Wow! What a fun week we've been having, eh??? Well... now it's my turn! I've been a busy mammer-jammer getting my mixtape together for our Cranes Day 2 1/2 going on down in the society , as well as keeping you inundated with all kinds of mixtape fun here, but considering I'm the one who beckoned for Mixtapes Week, I knew I had to put another one together for the occasion - an occasion that seemed to catch the attention of the local [...]
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: The Horns of Happiness : free and legal Horns of Happiness EP [mp3] search for more Horns of Happiness posts at Largehearted Boy Jookabox : "Worms" [mp3] search for more [...]
Date 10/23/10 Location Red 7 Doors 9pm Tickets $12 @ Frontgate Everyone's favorite indie punk kids The Thermals are making a stop in Austin at Red 7 on Saturday night. Cymbals Eat Guitars will also be on hand to play some jams which makes the show that much more enticing to a blogging ner [...]
Date 10/23/10 Location Red 7 Doors 9pm Tickets $12 @ Frontgate Everyone's favorite indie punk kids The Thermals are making a stop in Austin at Red 7 on Saturday night. Cymbals Eat Guitars will also be on hand to play some jams which makes the show that much more enticing to a blogging ner [...]
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