Think festival in Denmark and Roskilde is what comes to mind, right? Well, while that may be the best known of the Danish festivals, it's not the only one. Far from it. Spot Festival in Denmark's second city of Aarhus is currently in its 19th year. It’s a showcase of all things Danish with a smattering of other Nordic acts. There are five main areas being used for the festival with a music hall holding seven stages alone. There's also an old train station and a club complex all within a couple of minutes’ walk from [...]
Think festival in Denmark and Roskilde is what comes to mind, right? Well, while that may be the best known of the Danish festivals, it's not the only one. Far from it. Spot Festival in Denmark's second city of Aarhus is currently in its 19th year. It’s a showcase of all things Danish with a smattering of other Nordic acts. There are five main areas being used for the festival with a music hall holding seven stages alone. There's also an old train station and a club complex all within a couple of minutes’ walk from each other. [...]
NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION will attend this year's SPOT FESTIVAL in Århus, Denmark. At the festival tons of artists and bands will play showcase concerts. But what are the hottest acts at SPOT Festival 2013? We decided to sit down with the girls from Nordic By Nature and do a list of The 21 The post The 21 Hottest Acts at SPOT Festival 2013 appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

Singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth has been rambling through God’s country with his guitar and rag-tag bands of musicians long enough to have released over 100 pieces of recorded music in the last decade. Currently performing under the moniker Wooden Wand (or sometimes just WAND), the nomad from New York has found a home in the southland, spending the last few years mulling through Knoxville and Murfreesboro, Tennessee, before making camp in Lexington, Kentucky. His second album with the British-bred Fire Records, Blood Oaths of the New Blues, is a poised curtsey to the psychedelic folk mood Toth has refined and [...]
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Deluxe reissue of infamous 1960s Texas psych-blues The Moving Sidewalks first came to wide attention outside of Texas with the inclusion of their incendiary 1967 single “99th Floor” on the second volume of the garage rock anthology, Pebbles . Tantalized by a liner note reference to “Bill” Gibbons and ZZ Top, fans tracked down the group’s album, Flash , and found – no doubt disappointingly to some – that the bulk of the band’s oeuvre favored heavy psychedelic blues-rock, rather than the organ, guitar and harmonica [...]

Well fed psychedelia here from a new Copenhagen group known as The Wands. This blahblah-blow track has been a serious fever to our speakers as of late. The band's debut EP is scheduled to drop early November. Be sure to stay tuned for more "magic" to come on The Wands. Hello I Know The Blow You Grow Is Magic (Single) by The Wands The Wands ( Bandcamp ) Rating 8.331
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by teepoo Victoria BC's Wand recent released Mt. St. Helens , 9 tracks of synthgasm. On top of those synths, lie some catchy vocals and funky beats. Though the tracks are on the long side, there is plenty going on to keep you entertained throughout. Here is the first track (at 13 minutes) called Ceremony . You can check out the rest on Bandcamp . Wand- Ceremony

In today's culture, artists making the effort to make an epic, start-to-finish record are roughly as common as Drake investing his cash wisely or hinting that a life full of supermodels, fame and dollars isn't terrible. It's easy to talk about the ADD generation and throw around terms like "post-internet" to reward unfinished thoughts and fragmented melodies, but ultimately, we are sadly floating further and further away from the grander scope. Derek Janzen, a bedroom composer, has spent years fine tuning and evolving his sound. His output in the past was some what limited by [...]
Here's a sprawling new track from Wand , an experimental pop project of one Grande Prairie, Alberta-based Derek Janzen. Coming in at well over 13 minutes, "Ceremony" leads off the recently-released Mt. St. Helens LP that quietly slipped out last week via the group's Bandcamp and comes accented by some pretty dizzying saxophone work. [via Silent Shout ] +MP3 : Wand - Ceremony Connect to Wand: Facebook // Tumblr The [...]
Columbus ex-pat Wands TM7 gets busy with Rime, Yes 2, and Keb. I figured this would be a good place to put random mp32s. MP3: Casey Veggies-PNCINTLOFWGKTA Feat_Tyler_The_Creator_Domo_Ge nesis_Hodgy_Beats_Earl_Prod_By _Tyler_The_Creator 1 MP3: Curren$y & Prodigy "The Type" MP3: Kanye West ft. Pusha T, Big Sean & 2 Chainz - Mercy MP3: Magic Wand- Space

When we last heard from Derek Janzen , he was creating kick drum heavy anthems disguised as bedroom compositions. His billowy guitars and dime stores synths invited you in, but the programmed beats inspired marching and purpose. I favorably compared his output to Cyrus' monumental call to action (one of the few posts I'm proud to have penned after a second read), and he's still trying to inspire a movement. Unfortunately, Derek released his songs under the cryptic (and impossible to Google) moniker, First Nations. After realizing booking shows with [...]
In a desire to share even more great, free music with you, the Sunday Sampler offers a handful of tracks without the usual critical and biographical write-up. Less talk, more tunes. [tweetmeme] Eight Bit Tiger "Numbers" from Parallel Synchronized Randomness [ released 10/25/11 | indie rock, dance-punk ] [ download ] Today the Moon, Tomorrow the [...]

Craig Wedren is a man that wears many hats. Along with fronting the massively influential DC band Shudder To Think, composing for shows like MTV's much loved 90s show The State, Reno 911!, Stella, The Whitest Kids You Know, and Wet Hot American Summer, the musician also currently scores the TV show Hung on HBO. Who would think he would even have time to eat or sleep? But apparently he does... and then some. Wedren has just released his newest solo album, Wand , out now. He has also accompanied the album with [...]
Wooden Wand (a.k.a. the prolific James Jackson Toth) will release his next album on November 22. Briarwood (Communicating Vessels) is the product of Toth’s latest musical venture: working with the Briarwood Virgins, a group out of Birmingham, Ala. The band members are Toth’s best friend Brian Lowery and musicians from Gum Creek Killers and Through [...]

The wonderful Wooden Wand continues his prodigious output of late with a superb session for Daytrotter . These are four tracks that are absolutely worth grabbing including amongst them as they do the brilliant Born Bad and one of our favoutite ever WW songs, Los Angeles Manna . Grab a taste below or if you don't need convincing (and you shouldn't), just head over to Daytrotter here to grab the whole thing for free. Download Wooden Wand - Los Angeles Manna mp3 (from Daytrotter Session) [...]
Art by Lexington's Robert Beatty! Not long ago I shared a demo of Wooden Wand's "The DNR Waltz" when he was raising money via Kickstarter. Now the album's done and figured I'd give you a listen to what the song sounds like in its finished version. MP3: Wooden Wand - The DNR Waltz It might [...]
PS I Love You ist eigentlich das Solo-Projekt von Multi-Instrumentalist Paul Saulnier (der ist mit Country-Rock angefangen), holte sich Schlagzeuger Benjamin Nelson hinzu und so treten beide nun als Noise-Duo auf. Auf seinem aktuellen Album "Figure It Out" bedient sich das kanadische Duo vllig legitim in der Vergangenheit, um Zukunft zu gestalten - was aber nicht immer gelingt. Da sind z.B. die Coverversionen von Madonna und Rush. Das Wechselspiel zwischen laut und leise, schnell und langsam, hart und sanft beherrschen andere mindestens genauso gut. Stark sind PS I Love You dann, wenn sich eine Wand aus [...]

photo by leah hutchison toth james jackson toth is wooden wand, and vice versa, i suppose. his 2010 release, death seat, clocked in at number 17 on my top 20 from said year. at the time, or at least pertaining to that release, i believe i likened him to a southern preacher passing judgment on all of us. it seemed as if hell fire were right behind him, and if we didnt fall in line, all of us were going to be subjected to eternal damnation. things have changed... his latest release, briarwood - [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. In honor of his new album Ashes & Fire (out October 11th), here are 10 Ryan Adams live show performances along with a cover song from each to stream and/or download. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Ryan Adams : 2009-02-21, Boston [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]