Hope you are well! It may be only November but what an incredible year it's already been! A massive thanks to everyone who has supported Ad's music in mixes, radio broadcasts and live shows from around the globe. With a number of quality gigs scheduled including dates with Paul Oakenfold and Calvin Harris, as well as original productions / remixes forthcoming on labels: Anjunadeep, Baroque, Black Hole, Brown Eyed Boyz, Enhance Progressive, microCastle, Silk Royal and Slinky, its fair to say we are pretty excited about the next few months! [...]
[image by Songbirdnest ] We have taped so many shows in the last two months that the backlog of recordings is approaching 30 different sets. There are still CMJ shows that have not been posted! That being said, we will continue to be very active during the Winter, recording a large variety of artists. If you want nyctaper to record your band, a band you represent, a show you're promoting, or even your favorite band in the world, get me on the list and make sure everyone who needs to approve [...]
Welcome to my weekly roundup of inexpensive indie(ish) musical happenings in downtown Toronto, all for $10 or less. If I'm missing something you think I should list, or you have any comments, let me know. I star (*) shows that most interest me. Like this list? Join my Facebook group to get my weekly Toronto indie music listings. Subscribe to my podcast (or download the episodes) here , or through iTunes . The latest ones are here . [...]
Vertical Horizon spent the last ten years getting a first-class education in the vagaries of the music business. After releasing three DIY albums, they were snapped up by RCA for their multi-platinum breakthrough, Everything You Want , whose title track became a #1 hit. Label difficulties resulted in delays and a lack of support for their 2003 follow-up, Go , but Vertical Horizon has finally re-emerged, unveiling their first album in six years, Burning the Days . Having reached high enough on the music-biz ladder to touch the sun and get their fingers burned, they're back [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music Beloved indie rockers Rogue Wave are back in action. The Oakland band has finalized 'Permalight', which was recorded this year in Oxford, Miss. with veteran producer Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Cracker, Elvis Costello). In support of the new disc, which drops on March 2, 2010, the band has booked an extensive spring tour which gets underway in Boston one day prior to the album's release. As with its predecessor, 2007's 'Asleep at Heaven's Gate,' Rogue Wave's [...]
With the word "collective" bringing images of hippies and the faint scent of patchouli to mind I wouldn't normally jump on a band that defines themselves as such however if you start tossing around names like Glen Phillips and Sean Watkins I start putting aside preconceptions and take notice. Tell me they just released an album and you'll get me excited. Well that's just what's happened. Works Progress Administration has released WPS. I can't figure out how to describe Works Progress Administration so I'll just them do it in their own words: [...]
Because Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa shopping for my mother can never start too early, I headed all the way down to the South Coast Plaza Williams-Sonoma on Thursday to get Chef Thomas Keller to sign a copy of his newest cookbook, Ad Hoc at Home . I'll admit to some butterflies in my stomach anticipating what I would say to the man behind French Laundry and the Beverly Hills Bouchon opening this Wednesday, November 18. After a three hour wait (no joke) I finally got Chef Keller to scribble his name [...]
(Editor's note: today's interview comes to us with permission from Cleveland Bachelor , where the Q&A was originally posted. Yesterday was one of those work days that you dread, meeting after meeting after meeting. From the moment I got to work until nearly 4 PM, I was shuffling from one room to another, trading brain cells for increased self-loathing every additional minute. Mere seconds after finally sitting down in my chair back in my dank big boy office, the alarm on my phone went off. I looked at it, wondering what it was I was reminding myself [...]
Topic title: Mixcast Mix Day Set Download Prog house, Trance Here is the set from Mixaddicts Massive Mixday. It's on the vocal side of proggy goodness so I hope you all enjoy it Hott 22 - Wicked Game (The Letting Go Mix) Arnej - Strangers We Have Become (Vocal Mix) Robbie Rivera - Closer To The Sun (Vandalism Remix) Riva - For How Long (Wippenberg Remix) Arc feat Lorraine - Something To Believe In (Eric Shaw Remix) Dj Feel & Alexander Popov Feat. Tiff Lacey [...]
1 Oxia – Sun Step 2 Ahmet Sendil – Cracker 3 Politis & Sparkes – Cyatic (Tech Mix) 4 MPI – End of Days 5 Nipp – ORL (James Harcourt Remix) 6 MPI – Revolution 7 MPI vs Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence 8 Ruben De Ronde – Grand Boulevard (MPI Remix) 9 Ramon Tapia – Ibis 10 Leftfield – Phat Planet (Mark Knight and Funkagenda Remix) - Source Site: http://www.listenup.za.net
Big news from UK trio Aquasky - they've dropped Part Two of their Deep Fat Frequencies EP series on Passenger Records, seeing them team up with Midlands 4/4 bassline producers Slipz n Dapz for "You Know We Do It Big." The EP itself is a cracker, you can preview it on Beatport here . On remix duty there's Tonka, signed to Norman Cook's Southern Fried label, the infamous d&b legend Friction, 21 year old UK producer Raffertie plus Slipz N Dapz throwing down another bassline remix. Radio 1 support from Kissy Sellout and [...]
Hey, just a quick hello .. not much going on other then I am not posting. Though my 80 gig IPod died a horrible death, had to start using my wifes 8gig Nano. With music size does matter! I've entered a Globe & Mail contest to win a chance to be a photographer at the 2010 winter olyimpics in Vancouver . If you can take the time to vote I would appreciate it. The following is the origional and four cover versions of the Kinks song [...]
Zowie, another great weekend of music with lots of choices. On Thursday, unfortunately the UK band, Heavy scheduled to play at Great Scotts has cancelled their tour so if you were planning on checking them out, sorry. But don't fret, there's an awesome show at the Lizard with Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints, the Rudds and Brett Rosenberg. Friday starts a big weekend for the Plough and Stars which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a plethora of bands playing and it's free! Friday night has Andrea Gillis , The Family Jewels and others at the Plough. If that's not [...]
Zowie, another great weekend of music with lots of choices. On Thursday, unfortunately the UK band, Heavy scheduled to play at Great Scotts has cancelled their tour so if you were planning on checking them out, sorry. But don't fret, there's an awesome show at the Lizard with Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints, the Rudds and Brett Rosenberg. Friday starts a big weekend for the Plough and Stars which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a plethora of bands playing and it's free! Friday night has Andrea Gillis , The Family Jewels and others at the Plough. If that's not [...]
Ike Reilly is a mid-western institution. He's flirted with rock radio fame on WXRT in Chicago, he's been critically acclaimed, as well as being bar band friendly and jock approved. His new record is out Nov. 24 and is titled Hard Luck Stories . It features a bunch of special guests including a high school chorus (Glee anyone?!), blues legend Barrel House Chuck and Johnny Hickman and David Lowery of Cracker. The song below features rebel country "star" Shooter Jennings and is a pretty cool duet on love, lust, sex and all things related to terror (kids) and [...]
Frank Yang If I'd managed to get to the El Mocambo on Sunday night in time to catch first act David Schultz & The Skyline , I think I could legitimately lay claim to have seen the longest bill - in character count, at least - of all time. But it didn't happen so I had to settle for just one of the longest in recent memory, thanks to Thao with The Get Down Stay Down and The Portland Cello Project . As the more insightful might have discerned, The Portland [...]
Subeena's latest 12 comes out courtesy of Planet Mu and it's a cracker- The A side features the vocal talents of Jamie Woon & Sa-Ra's Om'Mas Keith, while the flip is this divine piece of dancefloor electronica. Get the full release at Boomkat . Subeena- Analyse (Download) Bibio's 'Ambivalence Avenue' was beautifully augmented by the dog days of Summer, he's now slipped out a new EP which contains 4 new songs and some album tracks remixed by the likes of Clark, Lone, The [...]
The original Works Progress Administration was part of FDR's 1939 New Deal initiative which put millions of people to work in the darkest part of the Great Depression. This spirit of community and creativity is carried in the philosophy of a band that takes its name. Works Progress Administration is a supergroup of sorts- an "expanding collective" according to the band's website. At its core it is Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket and solo, Sean Watkins formerly of the excellent Nickle Creek and Luke Bulla [...]
Thanks all for the links.... Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem Marah on the comeback trail [...]
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