Nettie Rose sings about People I Know (well, people she knows. This is actually the album tittle). She wrote these songs with the help of those people, some in L.A., some in Nashville, some dead and some living, some real, some just visions, some near and some too far to touch. I've heard Nettie Rose for the first time after listening to Tempest , by Bob Dylan, considered for many the best 2012 album. I felt that listening to Nettie right after Bob was the best thing that could happen. [...]
Hi everyone, I’m proud to present my first solo album “Wings”. Although this is a totally “do it yourself” project, i would never make it without the help of some very special friends and artists. Yellow says thanks to: my family for all the love and support, Ana Rebelo and Carla Caldeira for sisterhood and warmth, Bruno Lobato for friendship and music, the little blue unicorn, The Lemmings for all the incredible moments, Ivone Lourenço for believing and pushing forward, and everyone at Dub Video Connection for personal growth on a daily basis. I’m also deeply thankful [...]
Forro is the latest from the new Littles Ones album, The Dawn Sang Along releasing on Branches Recording Collective this February 12th. After the Los Angeles based band started out on Astralwerks, and also having released on Heavenly in 2008, this looks to be their second release for Branches after the 2008 EP, Terry Tales & Fallen Gates . [via Force Field] WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Download Forro
Today's Daily Dose is by Max Greenhalgh (AKA the Eyelid Kid) from the lo-fi psych-pop project Inspired & the Sleep based in San Diego, CA. He's just released the album Teenager. via Bad Panda Records. Teenager. is a concept album in summary of his teenage years. It was recorded at home towards the tail end the summer of 2012 right before his 20th birthday (hence the period [full stop], meaning in conclusion or end of sentence). The album is available for free from SoundCloud as MP3, and in lossless formats from BandCamp for 1$ or pay-as-you-will. [...]
Our Daily Dose Instrumental feature today is by prolific Spanish artist PeerGynt Lobogris. Head over to the Jamendo link for free downloads of hours of music. This track is a particular stand-out from a 2008 album, first heard by us on UK Podcast The Bugcast . Download Livin on the Mystic Side Free Music, Every Day. [...]
Awning is the Brooklyn folktronica duo of Jon Sheldrick and Luke Smith, who initially met while studying music at NYU. They both are apparently classically trained musicians who have experimented with a variety of projects in the past [e.g. opera, off-Broadway musicals, and jam bands]. The group has two free EPs over at Bandcamp and today's feature is taken from the 1st, the last track from this April 2011 release. It reminds me of the stripped down song structures of our friends from the recently quiet Techno Squirrels, who then flesh them out electronically, to great [...]
Australian duo The Cannanes return with their first official release in 11 years. The Cannanes have been putting out modest, ramshackle records since forming in Sydney, Australia, 29 years ago. The ‘Small Batch’ EP, due March 19, is helmed by veteran members Fran Gibson and Stephen O’Neil. The Cannanes have once again collaborated with Explosion Robinson producer and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Hermann. The six-track release sees Gibson and O’Neil at their best. Download Bumper [...]
Picking up where their acclaimed debut single left off, AS ELEPHANTS ARE return with "Youth Blood"/"Lucifer", another blistering slice of epic, widescreen indie which will be available on March 8th via Once Upon A Time Records. AS ELEPHANTS ARE formed in 2011 after Ben (vocals/guitar) and Harry (bass) had to collaborate on the writing and recording of music for their college music course. Realising that there was no one else like-minded on the course they recruited an old school friend each in Joe (guitar) and Rob (drums) to complete the recording line up. All four had been [...]
The Canadian band Old English actually started as a solo work by Matt Henderson. But as the musicians were contributing in a great and unexpected ways, quoting Matt's words, it turn out to be a band with potential 15 elements. Pros & Kahns reveals multiple voices, luminous synthesizers, interlocking live and sampled drums, blaring horns, crystalline layering, ringing bells, sounds that come out of computers, and sounds that don’t come out of computers, like guitars. We Can Never Have It All is not only a track from that album, as [...]
The Mad Writer is L'Orange's new LP which made its debut this past Nov. 20th. The track Alone is the first single and features the smooth vocals of Blu conjoined with a mellow beat layered over with at least one noir sample that could be from any classic Republic gangster flick from the late 30s. From North Carolina, the main behind these creative beats is L’Orange, a hip hop producer, musician and writer. His influences include late legends like J Dilla and pioneering jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, and he finds his signature samples [...]
Tin Drum are from St. Paul, MN, and feature Steve Hillson on Trumpet, and Garth Anderson on drums, guitar and vox. They say of their music: "We're not sure who we sound like. Morphine? Herb Albert? Herb Albert on Morphine? Maybe. We try to keep it spontaneous and not too planned out." When not doing Tin Drum, they play in a 5 piece jazz group called "Optimum Trajectory". Sounds good to us though, it makes a change to hear trumpet on the Network. [...]
The songs in Ha Ha, Vwah Lah (like voilá in French?) are just what you expect from an album with this name. Besides being hard to tell who they sound like, maybe because they simply sound like themselves, The Spell are a mix of blues and trance. Folk and rock all together in this 11 tracks album, from wich Pices of Me stands out because of it's drums groove and strings arrangement. And when we say stands out, we mean, it stands out from many tracks you have heard lately. [...]
Rich Man is the December 10th single release from London, UK band Shout Timber. Playing on two sides of an ever-existent and more than ever culturally relevant conundrum: rich and poor, happiness and unhappiness - “ All the money in the world no it can’t buy love ”, Rich Man follows a character who has everything but is still unhappy, exploring the idea that joy derives from the people in our lives, and not from the all the stuff we own. Influenced by the makeshift, joyous vibe of a lot of African music (that sounds like [...]
IKIL ORIION is an enigmatic musical nomad of sorts. Born & bred in New Orleans his journey has taken him to the four corners of the globe New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles & Brazil. His varied living quarters have all played a significant role in shaping IKIL ORIION's unique mix of classic rock, vintage punk, boisterous funk & new wave- aptly called Raw Noir Nouveau Punk. His debut album is called Paranoise Void Download For Better `R` Worse [...]
Good morning to all you caffeine-huffing Insomniacs and Hype Machinists. We'd like to introduce you to Irena Zilic of Zagreb, Croatia, an indie folk singer-songwriter who claims her influences are from artists along the lines of Ben Howard, Norah Jones and Brandi Carlile. We recently were sent her newest and are also hearing shades another of our favorites, Polly Paulusma, and think you can probably drop a few of your favorites in here too. Irena's music is stripped down and at its best, my personal favorite style, without all the professional studio trappings that often [...]
Silence Is Sexy, what a name, is a band from Utrecht, in Netherlands. With references from the 802s, Joy Dividson and stuff, but also more recent acts like The Bravery, this band has released since 2005. Mind you, they are independent and have been releasing material for about 10 years, just like the age of Creative Commons, wich is present in their albums. David And Bathsheba is a track from their album released in two parts last year, Modern Antiques . Download David [...]
Today's featured post-rock song from Sweden's MOONLIT SAILOR closes out the soundtrack for the somewhat recent film, Floating: The Nathan Gocke Story. This is a documentary film about a quadriplegic surfer who survived a tragedy of the elements, his courage to embrace a new existence and his dream to one day surf again. It's an inspirational story of hope, humanity and rehabilitation. It was directed by Richard Yelland with Academy Award Nominee and Executive Producer Morgan Spurlock (SuperSize Me, Freakonomics, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold), and was a Curtis Birch Production in association with Shorts International, FUEL TV and [...]
Echo Raptors are a 4 piece Rock 'n' Roll band from Belfast. Formed in late 2009, by four lovers of the 602s and 902s musical greats; Long-term friends Philip Rainey and Emmett Stewart teamed up with Vincent Caddell and later Owen Duffy to complete the line up. This track is an earlier demo, but the recently released Plastic People E.P is available from iTunes Download Talking Machine [...]
Singer and drummer Jackslacks is a founding member of San Diego regional bands Forbidden Pigs and Hot-Rod Lincoln, plus Detroit's Nobody's Business and others. He has shared the stage with classic and neo rockabilly's from hero Carl Perkins to Stray Cats and continues to perform and record his solo work on indie label Shield of Love. When She Was Mine was released in 2002 on the album Rock and Roll Dinosaur . In 2012 he released the singles Lucky Man, or Best Friends Gone . [...]
Happy 2013 to those Insomniacs that are still wide awake. Our first new year feature is My Pet Dragon, a NYC band named after lead singer Todd Michaelson's imaginary childhood nemesis. The group released Mountains and Cities [LP] in August of 2011. This LP was produced by Stephen George, the original drummer of the band Ministry and was recorded in a barn in the Catskills. It features new friends from the excellent groups Mercury Rev, Longwave, Garden Variety and more. Their newest effort, a single entitled New Years Night , [...]
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