USF — Forever Wading Just in time to usher in the summer, the duo formerly known as Universal Studios Florida have emerged from their Seattle hideaway to bring us a killer double-header for the Deathbomb Digital Singles Club . A-side "Forever Wading" is a joyous ode to the warm weather months, rolling through thickets of tribal drumwork and pitch-skewed vocals before reaching a colossal, laser-show-worthy finale. [ mpe ]
So, Jason Baxter and Kyle Hargus are no longer known as Universal Studios Florida . They are now just USF , which means that they are competing with University of South Florida and the "Herd of Thunder" for search result dominance on Google. Googleability aside, the duo has a new 123 EP called Jamaica Plain which come out February 8th via the Highfives and Handshakes label. Let them take you to "fantastical sonic realms". Listen. Downloadable: Point Break II (mp3) In fact you can stream the whole EP, [...]
Next up in our best of 2010 coverage is our list of favorite remixes. Enjoy. Crawl Back In ( Baths Remix) (mp3) by Brad Laner Wide Eyes ( Suckers Remix) (mp3) by Local Natives (d/l the stems @ stems.heroku.com ) Silverfish ( Junk Culture Remix) (mp3) by Signals I'd Be Insane To Say It ( Ape School [...]
We put this mix together for one of our favorite local bookstores, WORD . If you are anywhere near Greenpoint, you should probably go there right now and buy a book or two (if not, just go to their website and buy some online). This mix explores the more electronic/postrocky side of GIMME TINNITUS. We even went and dropped all the mp3s in a convenient zip file just for you. Download then listen. Downloadable: almost no WORDs Mixtape (mediafire) I also uploaded a few individual mp3s from the mix, [...]
It's time for more hypermellowdrone from Back To The Future The Ride time traveling in the 1980s. Their new cassette Neutrino Based Lifeforms will be available in the middle of next month from the 5nakefork organization of Witchita, KS. Email worthleaven [at} gmail [dot] com for ordering info. Here is our favorite track from the cassette. Listen. Downloadable: Monomolecular Filament Assembler (mp3) LA Residents: The tape is available tonight @ The Smell. BTTFTR is playing with USF and The Urxed (member of [...]
It's time for more hypermellowdrone from Back To The Future The Ride time traveling in the 1980s. Their new cassette Neutrino Based Lifeforms will be available in the middle of next month from the 5nakefork organization of Witchita, KS. Email worthleaven [at} gmail [dot] com for ordering info. Here is our favorite track from the cassette. Listen. Downloadable: Monomolecular Filament Assembler (mp3) LA Residents: The tape is available tonight @ The Smell. BTTFTR is playing with USF and The Urxed (member of [...]
It's time for more hypermellowdrone from Back To The Future The Ride time traveling in the 1980s. Their new cassette Neutrino Based Lifeforms will be available in the middle of next month from the 5nakefork organization of Witchita, KS. Email worthleaven [at} gmail [dot] com for ordering info. Here is our favorite track from the cassette. Listen. Downloadable: Monomolecular Filament Assembler (mp3) LA Residents: The tape is available tonight @ The Smell. BTTFTR is playing with USF and The Urxed (member of [...]
Foot Village is getting ready to roll out a new 73 on How To Fight Records in late October. The drum 'n' shout band have designed the Lovers With Iraqis/Totally Tween 73 as "a guidebook for the forthcoming apocalypse," with a song of hope and a song of doom. Here is the song of hope. The message is simple: "the most important thing to remember is that life should be about having fun and sharing love with all those around you." Listen. Downloadable: Lovers With Iraqis (mp3) Oh, [...]
You may remember that we told you about a side project from one of the members of Foot Village called Back to the Future the Ride . The one man act is going to head out on tour next month with an appropriate tour mate, Universal Studios Florida . It's probably impossible to find a sillier named touring pair, but the weirdness from the acts certainly isn't limited to their monikers. Sadly, all the tour dates are limited to the west coast on this venture, all of which are posted after the jump. [...]
The Seattle duo USF , formerly known as Universal Studios Florida , sent over a new track called 'Branss', the B-side from a new EP coming out soon on Highfives and Handshakes . Also, the band posted two fine tunes from the upcoming full-length The Spray on their Bandcamp page in order to try and collect some money for new equipment, since most of their stuff were stolen from the practice space. Branss USF @ Myspace .
Big Spider's Back is the electronic music project of Seattle musician Yair Rubinstein. He uses synthesizers and field recordings to create a wonderful "blissed out cacophony". Here is a track from his recent free remix EP called Turns which was made available by Circle Into Square . Listen. Downloadable: Turns (mp3) You can get the rest of the EP by forking over an email address over to Circle Into Square . Use the widget or follow the link below. Free Album: Turns EP [...]
Did you know that Brian Miller of Foot Village has a side project. It is called Back To The Future The Ride , and consists of "super mellow drone music inspired by the cold tech-capitalist 80s." This here video was created by Angie Meng , along with Miller and Margot Padilla. The tagline for the video is: Shot on a distant, oceanic planet. Returned to earth via a wormhole in my cat's eye. Watch it. Streamable: Black Bones Inside the Sun Pink Bones Encircling the Sun (vimeo) [...]
In case you missed it, " Juneuary " has become one of the more popular portmanteaus being bandied amongst all the bitching about this seemingly unseasonable Seattle spring (the last few days notwithstanding). I think it's a word both depressing and hilarious, and I've found myself utilizing it several times. But the reality is that we'd all like the warm summer weather to get it's purty little act in gear, and sometimes we need music to be our personal weather balloon. . One album I've turned to in defense of my apparent [...]
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Seattle's ALASKAS is tribal, raw, occasionally frightening and undeniable. On June 16th he'll be coming through LA with Haunted Horses to bless the McWorld home. He will also be joined by a DJ set by Railcars and a couple others to be announced. mixing it up with Universal Studios Florida after the jump Universal Studios Florida feat. ALASKAS - Frozen Bayou RLTD [...]
Illustration by Mike Howdy howdy!!! It's already hump day, who you humpin' today? You enjoying MIXTAPES WEEK as much as I am?? Sweet bajiggity jesus on a stick, dipped in batter, deep fried, and served with a dollop of brown horseradish mustard it's been nuffin' but good times in the house! Now, after yesterdays Photograph Of The Day excursion into the odd world of humanity , I think maybe we keep this one on the shortened side, eh? Today we got a mixtape from one [...]
Is it time to start listing the best tracks of year already? Why yes, yes it is. Now, a lot of these tracks have been available for a while (e.g. last year or in the GT 2010 preview ), but they either had their official release this year or I just thought they should be on this list for some other reason or another. Without further ado, I give you the first volume of the Best Downloadables of 2010. Downloadables: Spector (mp3) by Signals [...]
Chillwave. It's probably the most recent new sub-genre to spring forth from mother rock n' roll in the past 12 months. And in the very short time it has been in existence it has been pretty widely praised, ridiculed, consumed, imitated and hotly debated. First, there were heated debates as to whether or not it should be called 'hypnogogic pop,' 'glo-fi' or 'chillwave' (for all intents and purposes, the term 'chillwave' has won out as the most widely-used and accepted). This was followed by debates on whether it had already worn out its welcome in the [...]
I don't think I've said this, but Happy New Year! I'm eight days late in saying so, but I started thinking about resolutions for the new year. Some have already come to fruition. I've joined a book club! Our first book is "the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel " and we meet quarterly. I'm going to stop eating out as much and start cooking more (save tons of money that way). Last, but not least, the very cliche, going to start hitting the gym again. We have an elliptical , but it's stored in the [...]
Editor of Circle Into Square and PDX multi-instrumentalist, Tom Filepp is cars & trains . He has a new album entitled The Roots, The Leaves coming out on Fake Four on Jan 26. Filepp fuses experimental folk and electronic sounds using a large pallet of sounds, including: layers of decaying feedback out-of-the-box electronics woodwinds glockenspiel tape samples vocals trumpets malfunctioning toys electronic stutters organic drumming banjo acoustic guitar sampled americana [...]
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