Blog: The Sound of Marching Feet

Some videos for the weekend

Jul 27, 2007, 9:05pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Darjeeling Limited trailer high quality
The National (feat. Doveman) on Letterman performing "Fake Empires" The new video for the Cold War Kids song "Hospital Beds" Spoon performing "The Underdog" on Letterman The trailer [...]
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Wall of Sound Festival

Jul 26, 2007, 5:48pm The Sound of Marching Feet
The annual Wall Of Sound Festival is set to take place on Saturday, September 22 nd at the historic La Grave Field in Fort Worth. Last year's festival was headlined by such bands as Low, Okkervil River, Midlake , and Dave Bazan to name just a few. this year the festival returns with another impressive lineups full of local acts and national touring bands. The lineup this year features such great bands as Explosions In The Sky, Ghostland Observatory, Midlake , Pinback , [...]
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Black Before Red on Pitchfork

Jul 25, 2007, 5:22pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Black Before Red on Pitchfork Yesterday cultural juggernaut Pitchfork Media put up a short piece on local band Black Before Red and put one of their songs, " Underneath Gold " from their forthcoming Belgrave to King's Circle LP due out 8/14 on local imprint I Eat Records , up for download and streaming in the Forkcast section. Kudos to the band for the fantastic song, I'm excited to hear the full length, and on gaining some fantastic exposure.
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More new Rilo Kiley

Jul 25, 2007, 3:52pm The Sound of Marching Feet
More new Rilo Kiley Head over to Stereogum to check out another song from the new Rilo Kiley album Under The Blacklight (out 8/21). The song's called "Silver Lining" and it's about as far removed from "The Moneymaker" as a song can be. I have a feeling that this album is going to be all over the place.
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ACL Fest Aftershows announced

Jul 25, 2007, 1:28pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Every year during ACL fest a few of the bands playing the festival decide to get together and schedule some one off shows around town. These ACL " aftershows " have been a highlight of the festival weekend to me. In past years I've seen such great shows as Built to Spill playing with The Decemberists at La Zona Rosa and I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness opening for Explosions In The Sky and Modest Mouse at Stubbs . Both shows were amazing [...]
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Young Galaxy

Jul 24, 2007, 6:04pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Young Galaxy Montreal band Young Galaxy come to us from that seemingly bottomless pool of talented musicians releasing music on the Arts and Crafts label made famous by Broken Social Scene . Young Galaxy was founded a few years ago by Stephen Ramsay, formerly a touring guitarist with label mates Stars, and his girlfriend Catherine McCandless . The band have a very space-y sound that puts the synths right up front in the mix. McCandless and Ramsey's male/female vocal switch-offs add a nice element to [...]
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White Rabbits

Jul 24, 2007, 4:11pm The Sound of Marching Feet
White Rabbits on David Letterman
I was lucky enough to catch White Rabbits on Letterman the other night. They performed "The Plot" from their debut LP Fort Nightly . White Rabbits refer to their music as "Honky-tonk Calypso", and as bizarre a label as that is, it's somewhat accurate. I think they sound like Cold War Kids with some choppy reggae guitars and two drummers. I love it. Expect big things from this sextet who call NYC home. [...]
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Title:The Plot
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Year:2007

Simon Dawes

Jul 23, 2007, 3:18pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Simon Dawes Simon Dawes is not a person. Somewhere there may exist a person named Simon Dawes, but that person has nothing to do with this. Simon Dawes is a 4 piece rock band from California. The band (consisting of singer Taylor Goldsmith, guitarist Blake Mills, bassist Willy Slam, and drummer Stuart Johnson) are signed to The Record Collection , one of an increasing number of major label backed pseudo-indie labels that are popping up nowadays. Carnivore , the band's debut full length (they released the What No One Hears EP in 2005) [...]
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Link Text:Simon Dawes - Behind The Bleachers (MP3)
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Link Text:Simon Dawes - Save Your Ticket (MP3)
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New Built To Spill tracks

Jul 19, 2007, 6:58pm The Sound of Marching Feet
New Built To Spill tracks Built to Spill just released 2 new songs kind of out of nowhere. It's the first recorded output from the band since You In Reverse came out last year. The two song ep contains a cover of The Gladiator's "Re-Arrange" and a Built To Spill original called "They Got Away". The casual fan may be surprised by the band releasing a 2 song ep of reggae music, but if you've seen Built To Spill live a few times you are probably aware of their propensity for throwing reggae jams into [...]
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Link Text:Built To Spill - Re-Arrange (MP3)
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Link Text:Built To Spill - They Got Away (MP3)
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Patton Oswalt - Werewolves and Lollipops

Jul 19, 2007, 5:01pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Patton Oswalt has a new CD/DVD out called Werewolves and Lollipops on Sub Pop . The album was recorded here in Austin last December at Cap City Comedy Club . It comes as no surprise that the album is hilarious. If you liked Feelin ' Kinda Patton there is no way that you won't love this album. The one complaint I have is a universal complaint of comedy albums, I hate it when comedians use old material [...]
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Secret Mohawk show *UPDATE*

Jul 18, 2007, 3:04pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Secret Mohawk show *UPDATE* I am now saying with 99.99% accuracy that Spoon will indeed be playing at The Mohawk on this Friday night. I did some internet sleuthing about the secret show and this is what i came up with. 1) On the Mohawk myspace events calendar, it lists the show on friday as a private event featuring the bands "Sweatband" and "Das Messer". 2) I did a google search for Sweatband and didnt really come up with anything plausible. 3) I did a google search for Das Messer Band and one of the top results was the wikipedia page [...]
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Another "Secret" show

Jul 17, 2007, 3:11pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Another "Secret" show So the rumor going around right now, mostly fueled by this article on Austinist , is that the folks at The Mohawk are going to be having a big show on Friday night. It hasn't been announced yet who the big band is, but I'd put my money on it being Spoon . They have a pretty sizeable gap in their touring schedule and it would just make sense for them to do some sort of homecoming type show to further promote their excellent album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [...]
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New Rilo Kiley

Jul 13, 2007, 7:12pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Rilo Kiley - The Moneymaker
Rilo Kiley have a new album out on August 21st. It's called Under The Blacklight and the first song to hit the web for it is "The Moneymaker". The song has an accompanying video, and the word surprising is definitely applicable here. The video is themed around an adult movie called "The Moneymaker" and takes place almost entirely in a Strip Club. I am in no way offended by any of this, and the video isn't all [...]
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Will Johnson Daytrotter Session

Jul 13, 2007, 2:34pm The Sound of Marching Feet
The wonderful folks over at Daytrotter have recently added a session with Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel) that was recorded in Rock Island, IL. They also recorded a David Bazan session at the same time. Both are available for download at the Daytrotter website. Will and his band of merry men in Centro-matic will be playing a show at The Mohawk with Jason Isbell , the recently departed Drive By Trucker guitarist, on August 14th.
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Stereogum is awesome

Jul 12, 2007, 7:26pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Stereogum is awesome Yep, awesome. I have been a devout 'Gum reader for years and they have really turned the corner lately from a homemade music blog to a completely professional media machine yet they haven't lost any of the personal feel that Founder Scott Lapatine instilled in it from day one. The latest in Stereogum's series of impressive features is OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer . The album, which was conceived and given away for free completely by Stereogum, features covers by such great bands as Doveman, The Twilight Sad, Cold War Kids, [...]
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Decemberists Secret Show at Mohawk

Jul 12, 2007, 5:54pm The Sound of Marching Feet
Decemberists Secret Show at Mohawk (The above photo and many more can be found over at the fine folks from Austinist's Flickr page) Last night The Decemberists played a secret (more a title than a reality) show at The Mohawk here in Austin. News of the show was spread via the Decemberists Myspace page, Austinist, and about a bajillion personal myspace bulletins in my inbox. The show was part of the Myspace secret shows series . I went with a few friends and we decided early on that gaining [...]
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You tube channel

Jun 27, 2007, 2:34am The Sound of Marching Feet
As promised, I have made a Sound of Marching Feet you tube channel. You can find it here . I just added a bunch of videos to my favorites list for now. I'll toss some more stuff up there tomorrow. It looks like shit currently, but I'll work on that when I get back from NYC. Speaking of, I'm off on Thursday and will be back on the 10th of July. Hope everyone has a good 4th of July and I'll see you when I get back.
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