It's hard to believe that this is the last week of new releases for the summer of 2011, but time just flies right by. So it's good that there are a number of notable albums for the final hurrah of summer. Not surprisingly, there is plenty of buzz around the newest offering from the 'blog [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
No label does as much to keep the C86/Creation Records/post-punk flame burning as Bay Area-based Slumberland Records , and those who like to give their Joy Division and Jesus and Mary Chain records a rest every once in a while hope the light never goes out. San Francisco post-punk trio Weekend ably carries the torch, the gloomy reverb and urgent rhythms on 20102s "Sports" EP putting them on the map. Now Shaun Durkan, Kevin Johnson and Abe Pedroza have returned with this month's "Red" EP, with songs like "Hazel" and "Sweet Sixteen" doing the genre proud. Keep [...]
Plenty of Friday fun: ► Feedback-loving Bay Area post-punk trio Weekend hits the Echo behind their new "Red" EP on Slumberland Records, with Talk Normal and Tan Dollar supporting. ► Nashville quartet the Features , sharp and spirited when they visited L.A. in July, make a return visit to the Satellite. ► Bright Eyes plays a sold-out show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ► London dance royalty Monarchy visit the Echoplex, with two local bands, Hot As Sun and the Holloys, supporting. That's the video for [...]
Weekend 's debut full-length album, last year's Sports , may have shared its name with Huey Lewis & the News' most famous record, but the two came from polar sonic hemispheres. In fact, the San Francisco trio's gnarled shoegaze seemed to sullenly scorn the album's title, the melodies gasping for air from under a dog pile of white noise and frontman Shaun Durkan's cryptic lyrics of suburban alienation. It was a chugging, if gloomy, affair from three Bay Area dudes who probably didn't play a lot of sports or Sports growing up. [...]
5. Warpaint Described as "If Bjork fronted a70s psychedelic rock band", Warpaint's debut LP, The Fool turned the world of expansive atmospheric rock on its head. The album's hallucinatory vocals and kaleidoscopic arrangements of guitars helped The Fool get a re-release Deluxe Edition due September 26th. The deluxe edition will contain the critically acclaimed debut album The Fool plus Exquisite Corpse EP & two bonus tracks: Shadows (The Neon Lights Remix) and Billie Holiday (Steve Mackey Radio Edit) . But once you see Warpaint live, they will knock you [...]
IODAcast 099, Featuring Weekend, Tess Henley, Radiation City and more. Weekend "Hazel" (mp3) from "Red" (Slumberland Records) More On This Album Tess Henley "Easy To Love" (mp3) from "Easy To Love - [...]
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This week's Major Bands, Minor Labels has news on the Lana Del Rey controversy as of late, and I've also got a brand new Atlas Sound song for you to check out. All this and more in this week's column which you can find HERE . http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/
The Red EP is a delicious treat for shoegaze admirers wanting more Weekend.
Juan MacLean By Stef Siepel The weekly froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer's fancy. Track of the week: 'Everybody Get Close' by The Juan MacLean I do love The Juan MacLean , I really do. Their live version of 'Happy House' is just the [...]
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Weekend appeared as 2010 was on its way out with their debut full-length Sports , an album that demonstrated little to zero restraint and reached new sonic heights than previous post-punks. Sports owned the rest of 2010, clinging on to the fourth spot on our year end list , and continues to stay on a constant rotation this year. Lurking in the tightly-knit garage rock scene in San Francisco, it's particularly impressive how this trio generates all that noise with primarily three instruments. So this time around, Weekend honed in on [...]
. . . 41st And Home - "Wilderness Eyes" [mp3] "Wilderness Eyes" is a song that from the first note I knew I was in love with. This is the kind of song I'm likely to hit repeat on and just let it play over and over. 41st and Home's sound is obviously Vancouverish. I [...]
I didn't know what to think of Weekend initially based on 'Sports', but now I can call 'Red' my favorite color. Read more » http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate. What were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the September 2010 Mix and find out. Downloadables: Coma Summer (mp3) by Weekend Drifting (mp3) by Young Adults Fever Dreaming (mp3) by No Age Transparency Is the New Mystery (mp3) by Marnie Stern [...]
It dropped 25 degrees yesterday and now feels like Fall but that season doesn't technically drop for five more days, so here's the final Summer Fridays mix of 2011 on an autumnal tip. Which means some '70s folk, sad strings, and mellow grooves. But as always, there's some great new music on here: new singles from Django Django (the first in a year and a half), Still Corners and Radio Dept. offshoot Korvallren and Junk Culture (featuring Phantogram's Sarah Barthel). Plus some oldies, cult obscurities (Yes that's Matt Berry of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The IT Crowd [...]
Género: Electro synth pop. Class Actress son un trío de ... ¿adivina, adivinanza? ... acertaste, de Brooklyn, formado por Elizabeth Harper (vocals), Mark Richardson, Scott Rosenthal y que, tras el imprescindible EP del pasado 2010 titulado Journal of Ardency , tienen previsto debutar de largo con Rapprocher el 18 de octubre. Nos adelantan Weekend , sinuosa canción sintetizada, tranquila pero exhuberante a la vez, con la encantadora voz de Elisabeth conseguirán de nuevo, hacernos bailar. Class Actress - Weekend [...]
Class Actress - Weekend You ever see a band live and their stage presents is something that isn't something to be eff'd with in an alley? Like so domineering you question yourself and how you lucked your way into this show? I had one of those moments when I saw Class Actress last winter in a smallish basement in DC at a house show with Small Black, which is where I took the photo below. My knowledge of Class Actress at the time was very limited and needless to say after their set [...]
The blowout that is this year's Bacardi NH7 Weekender didn't really need an added bonus, but here's one anyway. Tattoo Republic, a two-day tattoo convention, will be held at the festival in Pune on November 19 and 20. Organized by celebrity tattoo artist Sameer Patange in association with Only Much Louder, the convention is being billed as the first such event to be held "by the artist, for the artists." Tattoo Republic will feature over 45 stalls with a bunch of Indian and international artists. Americans Darrin White and Larry Brogan, and Spaniard Jesus 'Sala' Cabanas [...]
Last year, right around the time summer turned to fall, we at Stereogum published our list of the 40 best new bands of the year . The idea of a "new" band is a pretty nebulous one, since many of the kids we listed were probably planning out their musical ventures in their basements since they were 11, but these were all artists who started to make a dent in our collective consciousness last year. This year, we've got another crop of 40 new artists who deserve your attention. So here we go again. A few clarifications [...]
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