Hamilton rcok band City and The Sea took their time to come up with a new EP. Preceded by the Strange Feeling single they have put in all the bottled energy in the Action Figures EP . Power pop has crept into their melodies, while preserving the their rock roots. Stand-out track Footprints sums up their new direction: loud drums driving and in-your-face guitar clashing with the passionate vocal delivery. The mainstream beckons, but for now they prefer the backroads. City And The Sea [...]
Brothers Zach and Justin are The Sweets . They grew up in Winston-Salem, NC and fell in love with the sound of The stokes (when that band stil mattered) and decided to have a go at garage rock themselves. They plan to release a fresh stack of tunes every month and have hit the ground running with the 7-track album Delgringo's and the 3-track EP Jan . No frills, no tricks, just fire up the gear and press "rec". Lo-fi rock 'n' roll with lots of leakage served [...]
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now have secured a Wednesday night residency @ The Backroom, performing two sets each night. More confirmed shows in Saint Louis, Milwaukee, Tiffin and Cincinnati. Live dates: 02/06 Chicago, IL @ The Backroom 02/08 Saint Louis, MO @ Off Broadway 02/13 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom 02/13 Chicago, IL @ The Backroom 02/20 Chicago, IL @ The Backroom 02/27 [...]
Dutch mix master Kypski serves up his new track Scratch Now in three different flavors; his original and remixes by Slemper and Spag Heddy. His signature scratching abilities ensures a different feel for the track every time he performs it live. Being is DJ is more than pushing play and goofin' around on stage. » kypskimusic.com
Canadian-Ukrainian shoegaze post-rock duo Ummagma have released yet another video. This one is for Human Factor , a track from their self-titled album. The clip was made by graphic designer Dimitry Uziel and The Blog That Celebrates Itself Record Label . » ummagma.com » Ummagma on Facebook HCTF reviews of Antigravity and Ummagma .
Terrible Spaceship are on mission, reviving legendary media events and turning them into a multimedia experience. Invaders: 1938 revisits Orson Welles’ radio play based on H.G. Wells’ The War Of The Worlds . Some of the listeners actually believed that the Martians had landed. The Chicago septet has come with new music augmented by snippets from the broadcast, turning it into a half hour sonic experience, a left-field avant garde dance music show. Can the music hold its own without the visuals that accompany their live shows? Pretty [...]
Live @ Acoustic Alley, Den Haag, The Netherlands - 2012/10/12 - photo: HCTF Singer-songwriter Amy Correia has two shows coming up with her band. Andy Plaisted is on drums, Kimon Kirk on bass and Mike Castellana on guitar. Live dates: 02/15 Steel City Coffee House , Phoenixville, PA 03/14 Joe's Pub , New York, NY » amycorreia.com [...]
Glasgow trio Cuddly Shark are exactly that: lovable with fangs.
photo: Cees Kuiper Amsterdam based band Staton are into rough-around-edges garage funk rock. Lead singer Lara Mol throws in a few jazzims and R&B phrasings every now an then, but the main feel of their debut EP
Wave n400 are an experimental electronic indie band from Bristol. Their 5-track self-titled EP sounds a bit crowded. It's obvious that these guys have lots of good ideas, but the concept of ""kill-your-darlings" has eluded them thus far. There is no need to use all those effects and such to make it interesting. It's a hodgepodge of psychedelic pop, New Wave and borderline vaudeville vocals. Think Marc Almond meets Suede after an 21st century indie makeover. Wave n400 : Pablo Mestres: guitar, keys, voice Eduardo Vizán: keys, synth and some other machines Josefino [...]
photo: Dominic Neitz Brooklyn geeky smart pop duo They Might Be Giants wil release their new album Nanobots on March 3. A three track prveview EP is avialable from iTunes and Amazon . To celebrate thei 30th anniversary a free iPkone app delivers a new song form their back catalog each day. Live dates: 02/27 Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall 02/28 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground 03/01 Rochester, NY [...]
Quick, name an album that mentions Charles Baudelaire's Fleur du Mal not just once, but twice in the lyrics. Bonus point for those who can add another fabled 19th century writer. Give up? It's on Things As They Are the new full-length by Saint Maybe , a psychedelic pop band based in Tucson, AZ. The core is a trio: Oliver Ray , Chris Sauer and Winston Watson , musicians with an impressive resume. Ray is best known for his work with Patti Smith, Watson performed with Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, Robyn Hitchcock, Alice [...]
photo: Harry F Rook Psychedelic garage rock with a dirty organ taking center stage. Bristol quintet The Bad Joke That Ended Well claw their way through eight tracks within half an hour on their self-titled album. These guys sound dirty as fuck, touching base with 13th Floor Elevators, The Doors and Pere Ubu. Grumbling distortion applied to gut-wrenching blues licks, topped off with hoarse lead vocals, with a surprising light sounding banjo probing through the dark textures. Put it on after [...]
Phish offer a free download of Tweezer > Manteca > Tweezer from the new archival release 05/03/1993 New Brunswick NJ . Proceeds will benefit the Hurricane Sandy Relief. » livephish.com
NYC avant-jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood bring their adventurous music to the US East Coast in April. Live dates: 04/18 Roseland Theater, Portland, OR 04/19 Napa Valley Opera House, Napa, CA 04/20 Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Davis, CA 04/22 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA 04/23 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA 04/25 Sunset Center, Carmel, CA 04/26 UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA [...]
photo: David Green Boston roots rock band Kingsley Flood are going for a tougher sound on some to the tracks on their new full-length Battles . Imagine the early Seventies Kinks trying their hand at hard-hitting Americana. The sextet takes the listener to late-night dance party with plenty of old school keyboards in Pick Your Battles , distorted guitars on the upbeat Down , a vaudeville piano in King's Men and glam rock swagger a la The New York Dolls in Strongman . [...]
Brooklyn folkies The Lone Bellow celebrate the release of their self-titled debut album at the Bowery Ballroom on February 5th. Zach Williams , Kanene Pipkin and Brian Elmquis will be playing with the hole band, with Brian T. Murphy on piano, Matt Knapp on pedal steel, Jason Pipkin on banjo and mandolin, Brian Griffin on drums, and Jay Foote on the upright bass. They band will be on the road up and down the East Coast. 02/05 The Bowery Ballroom , New York, [...]
Falldown are an alt.country band from the Windy City. True the from of that musical niche they use pedal steel and violin on lot on theirs self-titled debut EP. All sis members have been in countless band before joining force with a joint love for harmonizing, rock and country. With a hint of Southern Rock ( Ugly Early ) and an angry song about a man who flat out refuses to change ( The Drain ) they cater to the left of center Americana fans. Recommended if you like Uncle Tupelo and the Yonder Mountain String [...]
Alwin, John, Martha and Serra are Dead Wolf Club , a dark punk band based in Tintagel, Scotland. Their new single Strange Letters b/w A Versus E will be released on January 14. Following the footsteps of noise gurus like The Jesus and Mary Chain their songs aim for the gut, with a boomy bass reigning supreme. Strange Letters is based on the concept of the Torah - every letter of every word is a word in itself. Rest assured if you are not familiar with Rabbinic tradition [...]
Photo: Michael-Weintrob Avant-jazz painaist Marco Benevento will be on tour on the US West Coast and Colorado promoting his latest album TigerFace . Live dates: 01/16 Agave, Avon, C0 01/17 320 South, Breckenridge, C0 01/18 PAC 3, Carbondale, C0 01/19 Quixote's True Blue, Denver, C0 01/20 Barkley's Ballroom, Frisco, C0 01/31 The Mint, Los Angeles, CA 02/01 Don Quixote's Music Hall, Felton, CA [...]
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Numbers: 25 or 6 to 4
Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead
L D R U – The Tropics
Black Hippy - U.O.E.N.O.
