Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: Crystal Fighters - LA Calling [download here ] What's so good? I feel a little redundant featuring Crystal Fighters for the SOTD slot again, but it appears that in the wake of Daft Punk releasing their new album, [...]
I had to post this out of pure jealousy. You're a lucky bunch, all of you who live in the North East and Midwest United States. Trails and Ways , one of my favorite bands of the past year or so, is hitting the road for a two month, jam packed schedule of live shows. That means they'll be performing some of the singles that have become so popular, like "Border Crosser" and "Nunca". I'm also willing to bet that their set-list will also contain a few selections from their upcoming debut album, Trilingual , due out later [...]
Currently Trails and Ways are working on some tunes, so essentially this is sort of a fluffer post. The Band is getting ready to start their first tour, leaving their day jobs behind, and from what I saw in SWSW a few of them might have just graduated high school. In the mean while if you are in the northern part of the country and want to check out a great show, I can attest that this band puts on a great one. [...]
Here's the playlist from today's My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! Tune in to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM at 12am ET/9pm PST tonight for the replay! CSLSX - Keep On Shining Ghost Loft - So High POLIÇA - Tiff (feat. Justin Vernon) Passion Pit ft. Juicy J - Constant Conversations REMIX Hood Internet - Ignition (Keep It Remixing Louder) Hot Chip - No Fit State Purity Ring - grammy (Soulja Boy and Ester Dean cover) [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: Crystal Fighters - You & I [download here ] What's so good? About three weeks ago, Crystal Fighters released the first single off their upcoming album, Cave Rave . Titled " Wave ," the song left me [...]
Mixtape: Bay Area Artists, Remixing and Remixed (Podcast #304) All too frequently, remixes are just okay , but when they are great, they're really something special. A truly great remix can shed new light on the original artist's work and stand on its own as a unique creation. That's no easy feat, either, given the tension between staying true to an original song's components and a reworker's desire to create something new and personal. These days, it feels far too easy to get remix fatigue. Reworkings seem to pop up almost immediately after [...]
Here's the playlist from today's My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! Tune in to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM at 12am ET/9pm PST tonight for the replay! St Paul and the Broken Bones - Broken Bones and Pocket Change Mayer Hawthorne - Designer Drug Jetta - Start A Riot Pyyramids - Do You Think You're Enough Blue Hawaii - In Two Ex Cops [...]
Next week is the pledge drive, meaning all of you should tune in to my show from 10pm to midnight PST on Friday, April 12 and pledge your support for independent radio. For my April 5 show, I returned to playing primarily new tunes, opening with the stellar new track by Sweden's Lars Bygdén, dropping in a pair of tunes by San Francisco post-rock outfit Tartufi, and crossing the pond to Spain for an amazing track by Soledad Vélez. Here in Skagit Valley, we're starting to get some sun, and [...]
The scene at Rickshaw Stop on Wednesday night was much different than on September 14, 2012, the first time Mac DeMarco headlined the venue. Last year's Friday night gathering attracted less than fifty people, half of which were there to see Stockton's Surf Club . Last night was a whole different story. The crowd steadily filled into the sold out venue starting when Calvin Love took the stage at 8:20, until 11:30 when DeMarco exited. Local bands Cocktails and [...]
Today's SXSW 2013 post has been written to remind everyone of the size and stature of the SXSW music festival. While in my 2 years of festivaling in Austin I've managed pretty well on a press wristband, not really ever been shut out of a showcase I was desperate to see because the place was at capacity, there comes a time (or times) in your SXSW life that you just decide you want to see a big name. But at the same time, I implore you to seek out the smaller shows [...]
SXSW is the week I look forward to all year and it always seems to pass by more quickly than I would like. STAY A WHILE I SAY. But hey, only 352 days until the next one right? One of the highlights from this year was definitely our showcase with Indie Shuffle. And that's objectively speaking. Seriously. We did it up big at Club de Ville, a venue that’s been a fixture of the Austin music scene since I can remember. The outdoor stage space encourages dancing and tanning – two things I can get down [...]
As you may have gathered from the hundreds of tweets that poured out of our Twitter last Saturday, All Things Go teamed up with Indie Shuffle to put on a showcase for this year's SXSW Festival. And man, did it pop off. From the morning onwards the line-up, which featured The Neighbourhood, MØ, Ghost Beach, Darwin Deez, Youngblood Hawke, The 1975, HAERTS and Trails & Ways, played to an energetic full house at Club De Ville. You can experience it all in photos after the jump. Big thanks to Wes Della Volla ( Kick Kick Snare ) and [...]
Friday began with a bus ride downtown, on which there were NO 20-year-olds talking about the Snoop Dogg/Snoop Lion controversy, so I fear that I'll never get to the bottom of that for you. I'd really like to spend some time going on a rant about music 'fans' who just come to sxsw to see the biggest act possible, and wait in line for 8 hours in the process. There are a million places to do that - mainly the zillion festivals that those bands play each year - but sxsw should be about new/undiscovered bands. [...]
Last Saturday I had the pleasure to catch indie electro pop duo Carousel and dream pop quartet, Trails and Ways, live at the Bootleg Theatre near Downtown Los Angeles. Read my review below. Unlike most shows, I felt the best act opened things up, which was Carousel. This was my third time catching them live and while [...]
The South by Southwest music conference has started, and although the celebration started last night I've decided not to overdue it this year in order to complete the week in one piece. The celebration started by learning what the meaning of the term Twerk meant, and the puzzling idea of how to disconnect your butt-chicks from your body. During my only show on Tuesday, I was able to see the amazing Arizona band Swimming during [...]
Every so often, a lucky band scores a home run with a cover. It all rests on hitting that magical balance of old and new, yielding a masterpiece reminiscent of the original yet fresh and novel enough to stand alone. Enter Trails and Ways, a shoe-gazey, beach-pop breakout band from Oakland, California (represent!), and let them win you over with their cover-making artistry. Trail and Ways' rendition of Miguel's "Sure Thing" is exemplary. The track holds true to the sexed-up, mellowed-down pulse of the slow jam while elegantly layering on additional depth with subdued background samples, a mellifluous [...]
With only a handful of tunes released to date, and a debut LP in pipeline, UK act Dan Croll has been making a name for himself. The the young songwriter has been on the radar since his track "From Nowhere" first hit the interwebs, not to mention his receiving the Songwriter of the Year Award via the Liverpool institute of Performing Arts. This Saturday The Fold Silverlake will present a night of live music featuring Croll in the Bootleg Bar, along with support from blogosphere and Oakland rainmakers Trails and Ways, and Boston trio Carousel. Be [...]
Team B3 is very pleased to announce our debut B3SCI PRESENTS event during SXSW on Wednesday, March 13th at the iconic E. 6th St. venue Maggie Mae’s Rooftop. We invite you to come hang out, have some free drinks & fresh popcorn (yes, a popcorn stand!), grab some cool new B3SCI swag, and most importantly, catch live sets from some of the hottest emerging talent on the planet. You can RSVP HERE to this guest list only party, and we’d recommend you arrive early because we can’t guarantee entry once we're at [...]
The Recommender has a contributing writer, called Olivia, who is based in Austin Texas. Naturally she becomes our covering insider for the giant, annual music festival, SXSW, each year. Unfortunately a turn of fate has found Olivia currently living in London whilst the March festival is in full swing. This leaves our blog without a roaming reporter. Until now that is. We are finalising negotiations - we promise to buy their first ten beers - with the editor of another UK music blog and underground record label, Killing Moon . Achal Dhillon is a friend of ours and confirmed [...]
Oakland's Trails and Ways started 2013 with a bang: they sold out Cafe Du Nord and released Detornar-Se , a remix album that features reworks from Wallpaper and Yalls , among others. The band gained notoriety early in their existence with some outstanding covers of popular songs, most notably M83 's "Midnight City". However, I think their dreamy, gloabally influenced pop originals (such as "Nunca" ) are where their true strength lies. I caught up with Trails and Ways vocalist and multi-instrumentalist [...]
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Introducing: Swords
