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Download: We Landed On The Moon! -- "Re: Your Letter" We Landed on the Moon! brings you their second LP, These Little Wars , an album featuring beautiful and intimate female vocals, whirling synthesizers stacked on interlocking guitars, and danceable rhythms. In the vein of Velocity Girl or The Lemonheads, These Little Wars is a fresh take on 90's influenced rock. Tour Dates! 12.8.08 - Tin Roof - Charleston, SC 12.9.08 - Reservoir - Chapel Hill, NC 12.10.08 - Dahlak - Washington D.C. 12.11.08 - Kenny's Castaways [...]
Download: The Theater Fire -- "Swashbuckler Blues" Download: The Theater Fire -- "Uncle Wayne" The Theater Fire , a seven-piece, roots-influenced, indie-pop band from Texas draws on influences ranging from Bob Willis and George Jones to Will Oldham and Lambchop. The two singer songwriters, Don Feagin and Curtis Heath, have a fondness for the old and the new. Their songs, combined with the creative talents of the rest of the band, are like a trip through the annals of music that is neither novelty nor derivative. [...]
Download: -- " Fate " Download: -- " She's Okay " If Bill Withers were to pick up and perform from the Iron and Wine song book, the results would tread remarkably close to Jacob Jiles debut, Goodbye Songs. Jiles' songs focus closely on the blink-and-you-miss-it intricacies of life that most of us can't ever clearly pinpoint, but also can never get out of our head. The record is out now on iTunes via Shark Meat Records .
Download: Proud Simon -- "Tar Washed Ashore" Download: Proud Simon -- "Union Chains " Proud Simon 's newest record is an ambitious two-act whirlwind of cinematic Americana-tinged indie rock. The two sides of the record tell the story of a single summer's night, the first a testament to workaday hope, [...]
Download: The Rockwells -- "Microkorg" Download: The Rockwells -- "The Quarterback" Hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee, The Rockwells is made up of two sets of of brothers: Fred and Jonathan Kelly, and Tommy and Trace Bateman. Place & Time was recorded entirely by The Rockwells in both Knoxville and Memphis, Tennessee. More than half a dozen locations were used, including various houses, a cabin, and local rock club The Pilot Light . Place & Time is releasing on Migrate Records on December 2, 2008!
Download: Arliss Parker -- "Taken To Antrim" Arliss Parker evolved as the solo project of Chris Parker in 2006. Chris moved from Colorado to New York in the fall of '06 with an arsenal of musical ideas. He converted an abandoned dark room into a recording studio and started adding all kinds of sounds to his acoustic guitar compositions. Toy keyboards, glockenspiels, random percussive instruments and electronic tones found their way into the mix and Arliss Parker was born. Keep your eyes peeled for Handsome Like A Lion , [...]
Download: Chop Chop -- "C Train David" Download: Chop Chop -- "Northern Armies" Los Angeles group Chop Chop release their latest album, Screens, today via Archenemy Records. These songs combine pop, rock, and electronica, with influences ranging from the 1930s to the Bee Gees to Run DMC. Quaintly analog instruments like the French horn, keymonica, and toy Zylophone have been tossed into the mix alongside cranky, craggy digital synthesizers and electric guitars, comparing the unintentional quirks of live sound and the consciously manipulated quirks [...]
Download: Brent Amaker and the Rodeo -- "When Love Gets To A Man" Download: Brent Amaker and the Rodeo -- "Girls Are Good For Lots Of Things" The intercontinental cowboys in Brent Amaker and the Rodeo are on a mission to spread their brand of country music to the world, and they're getting around. Dressed in black from hat to boots, the men of the Rodeo have been racking up the miles in 2007 and 2008, playing club and [...]
Download: Dancer Vs. Politician -- "Mach Dich Los" Download: Dancer Vs. Politician -- "Justin Fairbor" Dancer Vs. Politician is the musical project of German native Sanni Baumgaertner. She moved to Athens, Georgia in the late 90s, where she started performing in different bands around the Southeast. She plays accordion, guitar, and musical saw. Her lyrics are in German and English. Idolator says, "A City Half-Lost is airy and delicate—a chiming glockenspiel here, a gentle push from an accordion there—-and Baumgaertner's [...]
Download: Beaten By Them -- "The Asiatic Capital Vista" Multinational band, Beaten By Them will release their latest album, Signs Of Life , this November 11th on Logic Pole via Thrill Jockey . When Andrew Harris and Max McCormick decided to move from San Francisco back to their home country of Australia at the end of 2006, it seemed they were sounding the death knell for Beaten by Them, the fledgling band they had spawned just a year earlier. But before long the two guitarists were hatching plans [...]
Download: Absentee -- "Bitchstealer" Download: Absentee -- "They Do It These Days" London-based Absentee returns with its new album, Victory Shorts , available in the United States of America on ol' election day, November 4th, 2008. The record sees release on Memphis Industries (current or former home to The Go! Team, The Pipettes, The Ruby Suns, and more). Tackling themes of premature marriage proposals, adultery, lost property, love, and broken crockery: [...]
Download: Matthew and the Arrogant Sea -- "Pretty Purple Top Hat" Download: Matthew and the Arrogant Sea -- "Mock Origami" Nova Posta Vinyl , the new record label formed by Bella Union recording artists Eric Pulido (of Midlake ) and Robert Gomez , is pleased to announce its first release, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea , Family Family Family Meets The Magic Christian , available October 28th, 2008. This 14-song odyssey is filled with melodious gems that evoke the experimental natures of The [...]
Check out the Ruby Isle... performance on HaveYouHeard . Have You Heard Session (kind of): Ruby Isle from HaveYouHeard on Vimeo .
Download: Simon Bookish -- "Dumb Terminal" Download: Simon Bookish -- "Synchrotron" An unpredictable and dramatic "big band song cycle about science and information", Everything/ Everything, the 3rd album from Simon Bookish and his first worldwide release on Tomlab , represents a new departure for London-based composer Leo Chadburn. Though previous Simon Bookish releases have been informed by the sounds of digital synthesizers, Everything/Everything does away with them entirely to focus on live instruments.
Download: Listing Ship -- "Depression" Download: Listing Ship -- "Voice of the Future" Listing Ship invites you to explore A Hull Full Of Oil and Bone, their self-released, nautically-inspired, fourth full length album. This reinterpretation of the classic country song and folk ballad adds violins, violas, 10 string guitars, banjos, the vibraphone, and 3 part harmonies to craft songs of war, government corruption and love so moving even whale hunting seems relevant. Founders Lyman Chaffee and Heather Lockie (known a decade ago as Leather [...]
Download: Ruby Isle -- "Hey Hey Hey (That Kids Okay)" Exhibit #1: Ruby Dan Geller, Kindercore Records ' CEO and founder of electro tag team, I am the World Trade Center, is one of America's few breakdancing DJs with a masters degree in Biological Engineering. Exhibit #2: Ruby Aaron Lemay's spy themed punk outfit, "International Espionage" has been busted up by the cops at house shows and basement concerts from Redding, CA to Brooklyn, NYC. Exhibit #3: Ruby Mark Mallman's 70s and 80s arena rock post-mortemism has earned him a [...]
Download: Liz Durrett -- "Wild As Them" Outside Our Gates represents a sonic leap forward for Liz Durrett . With Eric Bachmann on board, Durrett's once spare, acoustic downbeats have been supplanted by a more textured and diverse orchestra of sounds. A virtual cornucopia of instruments are here, including (but not limited to) tiny nylon-string guitars, backwards electric feedback loops, pizzicato violins, plucky cellos, upright bass, wurlitzers, accordions, grand space pianos and marching drums. Bachmann's score harmonizes these elements seamlessly to provide the perfect setting for Durrett's [...]
San Francisco-based Michael Zapruder will return with his new album, Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope , on its new release date of November 18th, 2008 . The record will see release on Zapruder's new label home, Sidecho Records (home to Via Audio). Recorded with Scott Solter in two weeks of marathon day-and-night sessions, it's another beautiful record of sinuous melodies that straddles the line between classic songwriting and experimentalism. Download: Michael Zapruder--"Ads for Feelings" Tour Dates [...]
Michael Knight is the musical universe of Irish pop contrarian Richard Murphy. I'm Not Entirely Clear How I Ended Up Like This is the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed but commercially ignored 2006 limited release debut Youth Is Wasted On The Young and continues his ongoing musical argument that Bach and Bacharach can make compelling bedfellows. A wryly-observed musical curio for the 21st Century, his latest LP, I'm Not Entirely Clear How I Ended Up Like This, is the only record you will hear this year that considers the 18th and 19th Centuries as valid as the 80s [...]
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