Well, let's clarify. JV is giving away SOME of the master for the excellent Romanian Names If you are one of the eager first folks to buy the record from John Vanderslice's website, you will not only receive a copy of the record, but also a hand made decorative sleeve AND a piece of the master that ended up on the Tiny Telelphone studio floor. And there's more! The music on that tape is YOURS . According to JV: "The music on the tape is yours to do with as [...]
North Carolina is bursting at the seams with local talent, but very few can capture the same intensity and all around awesomeness as Impossible Arms . For the bands debut album, they chose to avoid the now common recording process of multi-tracking, overdubbing, and post production for a truly raw sound. The band recorded this one over the span of two days, basically two taking all of the songs of the record (save a few backing vocals and bass player Justin Blatt on Viola and Violin...he can't do it all at once!) The result is an incredible organic record [...]
Chapel Hill's Americans In France will release their newest album, Pretzelvania on May 12th on the newly formed Odessa Records. They'll be embarking on a tour the next day, up the coast, ending with two dates at New York's Cake Shop and Home Sweet Home. The drummer/vocalist for Americans In France is the accomplished Casey Cook. On top of her duties in the band, she's also a critically praised visual artist. She's shown her art in galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and as [...]
There's no overstating it: Akron/Family are bad ass as all get out. Every time I've seen them I spend the first four minutes with my mouth agape, simply standing in awe of one of the best live bands I've ever seen. Then they kick it into high gear and I cannot help myself from shaking my ass and screaming like a banshee. No one can escape this feeling, as evidenced in this radical video for the totally excellent "Everyone is Guilty" Experience the Magic for yourself: [...]
Over a decade has passed since Paleface put out a major label release...it's funny to think of what you were probably doing ten years ago. I was still WAY into professional wrestling, Pokemon, and fearing that the Spice Girls would never disappear. The decade-long sabbatical from one of the founders of the "anti-folk" movement is over as he releases his brand new record The Show Is On The Road ! The title is all the more fitting as Paleface (along with girlfriend/drummer Monica "Mo" Samalot) will be hitting the road over the next few months [...]
Kyle Andrews just finished this amazing new video for his insanely catchy tune "Sushi"...themed around YouTube and their annotation feature... The director, Dennis Liu (who did the Mac themed video for the Bird and the Bee last year), pulled over 1.4 million titles, and thousands of unique YouTube video stills to make this groundbreaking mosaic video...and, to add to the fun, there's over 350 annotations embedded within it, taking you to 378 other classic YouTube videos at various points through the song...so it's as that element of surprise and makes it kinda like a game... [...]
If you're not familiar with Yonlu's story yet, then I highly recommend reading the story on Yonlu.com or here on our own site. In a nutshell, this is music that was highly private and personal that was created by a person who was extremely fond of the internet and the "public" persona it allowed him to create. Along the likes of Elliott Smith and Nick Drake, the music will begin to take on another meaning once you know more about Yonlu's (his real name was Vinicius Gageiro Marques) incredible story. Since Yonlu's internet presence is [...]
San Fransisco's The Music Lovers make tunes heavily influenced by the works of Serge Gainsbourg, Godard, and 60s pop. It is no surprise that the video for "Saturday," off of their killer new album Masculine Feminine would weigh in on those influences as well. The video is loaded with hot cars, sexy ladies lounging by the pool, and more split screens than five Woodstocks . Check it out!
Athens, GA hip-hop group, Deaf Judges , are pleased to announce the Deaf Judges Remix Contest, hosted by rightClique . The remix contest runs from April 10, 2009 until June 5, 2009. Winners will be announced in Atlanta on June 10, 2009 at a Pegasuses-XL/Deaf Judges show ( TBD .) The winner of the contest will be notified in advance and can also perform at the show. The song is "TV Thieves", which you can check out at the Deaf Judges MySpace page or here . [...]
For The Kingsbury Manx's first full-length album in four years, they had a lot of work to do to recapture the magic of The Fast Rise and the Fall of The South . One of the things the band wouldn't have to worry about when putting the record together was the approval of a record label. This brand new release Ascenseur Ouvert will be released on a new label, keyboardist Paul Finn's own Odessa Records ! Odessa will be releasing two more records in addition to the new one from The Kingsbury Manx from [...]
Robert Gomez began making music at the tender age of 7 putting on his first 'show' for friends and family at a Baldwin piano store in his hometown of Corpus Christi, TX. Now with his third full-length release (the most recent, Brand New Towns released on Bella Union in 2007), Pine Sticks and Phosphorus displays a lyrical cascade of story wrapped around his compositional genius and musical prowess. Co- Produced by Matt Pence of Centro-Matic and featuring members of The Polyphonic Spree , Midlake , Postmarks and Sarah Jaffe [...]
One of my favorite Texan bands, Strange Boys, have been touring in the Southeast recently, and will be kicking off their June tour on 6/5 with Mika Miko at Denton's fine Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios. When I first saw Strange Boys, they were still calling Dallas home (they now reside in Austin), and were playing incredibly energetic and sophisticated live shows, especially for three guys who hadn't yet reached legal drinking age. Now, as a quartet, the band has somehow managed to improve their live set, and their new album, And Girls Club (In The Red [...]
Ian Svenonius is not a man to take it easy. Along with being an essayist, talk show host, and singer for the bands Make Up, Weird War, and Nation of Ulysses, he's also a travelin man. Svenonius will hit the road this spring with his new band Chain And The Gang And when I say "hit the road," I mean EVERY road...ever. Fortunately for Svenonius, he won't be making this journey alone. K Records main man, Calvin Johnson, will be with him every step of the way. Johnson will [...]
Busy times are on the horizon for Dengue Fever , as they hit the road for a cross country tour over the next 4 weeks. While the band will be promoting their latest release Sleepwalking Through The Mekong , this is not all they'll be doing. The record is in fact a soundtrack to a documentary of the same name. In this film the band visited Cambodia, the home of vocalist Chhom Nimol, as well as the birth of the Cambodian pop sound that inspired the creation of Dengue Fever. The film chronicles Dengue Fever performing in Cambodia, [...]
Atlanta-based music website Have You Heard are known for weekly podcasts, reviews, and interviews / live sessions from local Atlanta/Athens bands as well as national acts. Now they are introducing a monthly free show at the Star Bar in Atlanta! Their first free showcase will be Thursday, April 23 at Star Bar (437 Moreland Avenue, Atlanta, GA) at 10PM. The line up for the show is: Last November Casper & The Cookies Misfortune 500 Pleasure Cruise Safe Word If you are [...]
Friends. There is a show coming. It's the record release show for The Flying Change . It will be wonderful. It will be the biggest show they've have ever played. It's at Drom on Friday, April 17th at 7pm. They'll be playing with Amber Rubarth and Paul Brill. There will be jugglers, people on stilts, comedians, contortionists, handclaps, and other good tidings. You can even meet Sam Jacobs' parents. Sounds like a winner of a night. If you've been living under a rock, The Flying Change [...]
Golly Michael Benjamin Lerner's band Telekinesis is so darn good. The band is a big favorite amongst the Team Clermonsters. The video for "Tokyo" is like a checklist of some of my favorite things in the world: Stop-Motion Animation, Sushi, Devo Costumes, Weird Asian Food... I could watch this all day long. and make sure to catch the band on tour! 4.02•Circus (Columbus, OH) 4.03•Beat Kitchen (Chicago, IL) 4.04•7th Street Entry (Minneapolis, MN) 4.05•Slowdown (Omaha, NE) 4.06•Hi Dive (Denver, [...]
It's the first day of April, and they always say something about April showers and whatnot. As I look out the window of our office at overcast skies, I cannot help but smile as we throw on the brand new record from Greater California , titled All The Colors . On their latest LP, the Long Beach quintet brighten things up with their lead track "Almost Sunshine". Greater California had some tremendous help with All The Colors from producer Ikey Owens *(*Crystal Antlers, Mars Volta ) as he helped the band find just the right [...]
SXSW came and went like the drunken blur that it always does. But I am very happy that this year, Youtube had the good sense to film one of the best showcases at this years conference. I speak, of course, the powerhouse showcase featuring Asthmatic Kitty, K Records, and Tomlab. K Record's Jeremy Jay tore the place apart. Check out this fantastic clip of Jeremy performing "Lite Beam" from the excellent Love Everlasting 12" *Check Jeremy Jay out on tour! [...]
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Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
Mr Fogg - Eleven
