This weekend marks the inaugural run for Atlanta's brand new Shaky Knees Festival , and I'm stoked to be there to experience it! The two day festival will be held in a newly completed park next to a prominent Atlanta music venue, The Masquerade . The schedule and lineup is a bit light compared to other festival heavy-hitters ( Bonnaroo, Sasquatch, Hangout ), but for a first year festival, the lineup is pretty amazing. The schedule is 12-11 Saturday, May 4, and 12-10 Sunday, May 5. Nearly every act scheduled to [...]
This year we sent some of our finest writers to witness SXSW first hand and mingle. This could have been a tale of new friendships, drunken friendships, confiscated platinum passes, lost emails and missed deadlines. Oh, and there was also a lot of music... Blondfire | Clive Bar (Mood Media Day Party) Blondfire kicked off [...] The post SXSW 2013 Day One (feat. Blondfire, Bonaparte, Sizarr, Hands, Japandroids, Local Natives & John Talabot) appeared first on Cougar Microbes .
THE PEDALJETS ANNOUNCE "WHAT'S IN BETWEEN" LP DUE JUNE 25 The Pedaljets are releasing their first new material in 23 years, starting with the "Terra Nova" b/w "Riverview" single and culminating in their new album What's In Between due out on June 25 via Electric Moth. For those who might have missed them the first time around, the roaring riffs of "Riverview," a possible love child of Iggy Pop and Bob Dylan, and the dark insinuation of "Terra Nova," a hearkening back to the their early days with shades of Mission of [...]
It should be no surprise that several of the artists topping this week's list of new releases were making appearances at SXSW last week, but two of them were also previewing their new songs live on KEXP during our broadcast from Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop. Billy Bragg and Palma Violets both gave memorable performances. Bragg, the veteran songwriter, worked with veteran producer Joe Henry (an accomplished songwriter himself) on his 13th studio album, and first in five years, which our Music Director, Don Yates, says that Tooth and Nail "is steeped in world-weary melancholy [...]
Heavy Hawaii give us Goosebumps. San Diego duo Heavy Hawaii will release their album, Goosebumps, on March 19th through Art Fag Recordings. The pair create what their friends call "warped disney songs" or...
Heavy Hawaii are actually from San Diego and 'Airborne Kawasaki' is a nice thrash through some lo-fi, jangly, summery indie/pop.
Hope everyone had a nice weekend. It was practically spring here in NYC and great to get outside and feel the energy of the city ramping back up as the warmth returns. Looking forward to that continuing. Now, please dig the latest Weekly Roundup.
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: She & Him, Little Joy, Song: Chalk and Numbers - Pretty Colors [download here ] What's so good? [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , RPM , New Music , RPM MP3 of the Day Zac Taylor Artist: Gliss Hails From: Los Angeles/Denmark Song: "Hunting (Chris Berg Remix)" Album: Langsom Dans In Their Words: "We had been keeping an eye on the work of Swedish Producer Christopher [...]
As the years have gone by here at Raven it’s been fewer and further between that great psych-folk LPs cross the desk. When this site started back in the wee '00s it was a staple of coverage and one of the labels that most often popped up was Language of Stone. Alas those cats are no more but before they crumbled they released a nice LP by Silver Summit that made a mark here at RSTB. Years later Silver Summit's own Sondra Sun-Odeon has a solo album of her own and its far removed from the heyday of '04 psych [...]
Radiohead fans are tweaking for today's release of Thom Yorke's new project, Atoms for Peace . The group - featuring producer Nigel Godrich on keys, Ultraista's Joey Waronker on drums, Flea on bass, and Forro in the Dark founder Mauro Refosco on additional percussion - formed originally as the backing band to tour Yorke's solo album, The Eraser , back in 2009, but they gelled so completely that they returned for a masterful and moody new LP. Our Music Director, Don Yates, calls AMOK "an adventurous set of hypnotic electro-rock with densely textured, intricately constructed songs [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , New Music Kathleen Amano Nashville songwriter Terry Price has had it pretty rough these last few years. The singer was diagnosed with Bell's palsy in 2009, paralyzing half of his face. Just two years later his father died suddenly of a heart attack. These experiences, combined with the breakup of his touring indie act Oblio, formed the basis for his solo project Photo Ops and the new album [...]
A$AP Rocky @ FFF Fest 2012 ( more by Tim Griffin ) Jim James @ The Cap, Dec. 2012 ( more by PSquared Photography ) today in NYC * Slap @ Barbes * Henry Butler @ The Stone * Jim James @ McKittrick Hotel * Tegan & Sara @ Beacon Theater * Solange Knowles @ Webster Hall [...]
The full-length by L.A. quartet Hands won't arrive until April 30, but their fans now have a little something to tide them over. Their new 7-inch for White Iris finds the art-rockers a bit less arty — "I Want to Know" shelves the band's characteristically labyrinthine programming and beats in favor of more organic instrumentation. Not that the foursome of Geoffrey Halliday, Ryan Sweeney, Alex Stanlooff and Sean Hess make it easy; theirs is still a world of layered tones and arresting shifts in tempo, all conspiring in a kaleidoscope of sound. [...]
Facebook The utterly charming Chalk and Numbers are back with "Boy", the first track to be taken from their forthcoming EP Parade (due March 12th). I've been a fan of the duo's easy on your ears, sunny day pop music for a while now but if you're new to the Brooklyn act, I promise you, your Monday morning is about to get infinitely better. Especially if you stayed up half the night watching men run around a field... "Boy" is deliciously upbeat, a guaranteed mood-enhancing track about finding love which [...]
Les trublions d' Heavy Hawaii sortiront le 19 mars prochain, via Art Fag Recordings , leur premier LP, Goosebumps. Eux qui n'avaient pour le moment collectionné que d’innombrables dates de concerts - avec les Soft Pack notamment - des EP - du récent Super Bowl XXIX au tout premier éponyme paru en 2010 - et un split en compagnie du trio irlandais Girls Names , étrenneront ainsi leur surf pop déglinguée et vacillante sur la durée, bravant mélodies crasseuses et voix blafardes sous le soleil plombant de San Diego. Auteur-compositeur du groupe, le bien nommé Matt Bahamas, arpentant sans doute l’ineffable plage de la première ville américaine après Tijuana, nous [...]
Brooklyn's indie pop duo Andrew Pierce and Sable Yong aka Chalk and Numbers are back with some new sugary sweet ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media /chalk-and-numbers/boy/72846/
Um den Sound des dnische / amerikanischen Trios Gliss zu beschreiben werden eine Menge Vergleiche und Begrifflichkeiten in den Raum geworfen. Zeitloser Art-Rock und Shoegaze zwischen Beach House und Crystal Castles. Fette Synthies und elektronische Beats, Gesang von Victoria Cecilia, dunkle Harmonie sowie die Schatten von Portishead und Depeche Mode. Ihr aktuelles Album Album heisst "Langsom Dans". Mir gefllt was ich hre. Den Song "Hunting (C-Berg Remix)" gibt es als Free MP3 via Soundcloud . Gliss besuchen: Homepage | Facebook Foto: Facebook Bandpage [...]
Los Angeles quartet Hands has created one heck of a 7-inch, titled White Iris and featuring the A-side "I Want To Know" and the B-side "Exactly Sharp." It's not often that A and B are equally impressive, but the guitars really shimmer on both of these tracks, and there's some wonderful harmonies on each. The [...]
San Diego contains a very small and tight-knit indie music scene. It's a scene that tends to remain off the radar, but every once in awhile produces unique and ambitious talent. San Diego natives Heavy Hawaii have worked hard for many years to put their music out there and it seems their diligence is paying off. Heavy Hawaii is set to release their new LP, Goosebumps, on March 19 through Art Fag Records. "Airborne Kawasaki" is the first single off of Goosebumps. It shows the pro...
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