I know this is a few days late, but I am still in the spirit and still snacking on peanut butter cups. Chicago's Graveface Records has released the debut album from a Halloween-themed super group. Featuring members of Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Appleseed Cast, Casket Girls, and Dreamend, Marshmallow Ghosts has a little bit of everything and the child's sense of wonder at heart. This is the perfect soundtrack for haunted houses and all trick or treating activities and was released on October 20th on hypnotic swirl vinyl and glow in the dark packaging. [...]
Graveface Records is the oddest independent label out there, and one of the few with the mission to blow minds. With a name like that, they're also the perfect label for releasing a Halloween EP. That's why it's only fitting that for the spookiest day of the year, they put together a label collective headed by Black Moth Super Rainbow, called it The Marshmallow Ghosts , and released their own self-titled EP. What you get is a two-song soundtrack that plays like those creepy Halloween sound effects tapes were shot into space. The Ghosts consist of noisy [...]
Of all the holidays, none seem to generate more creative musicianship than that of Halloween. This year's epic spook band is The Marshmallow Ghosts, a super-group of sorts featuring artists from Black Moth Super Rainbow, Appleseed Cast, Casket Girls, and Dreamend. Shrieks is the title of this holiday 73 on a swirling picture disc and limited print glow-in-the-dark sleeve. Part story, part collection of created sound effects, part eerie ghastly, uncanny music, this is the song to have on repeat as this year's October 31 rolls around. And the video is its [...]
Happy Halloween from the regional army of zombie programmers at Insomnia Radio. When a chilly breeze starts wrestling the leaves to the ground, and carefully carved pumpkins take on an eerie glow, you can be sure the Marshmallow Ghosts will materialize to offer up another sweet audio treat for their favorite season. The Marshmallow Ghosts are as ethereal as their name- neither here nor there, neither real nor imaginary, with no permanent members. They make their presence known only once a year, and they're certainly the first house you'll want to stop at on your trick-or-treat [...]
Halloween is a great holiday, as it is as much about celebration as it is atmosphere. Everyone has certain sounds and noises (imagine the disembodied laughter of a child or the fading sounds of a carousel song). It is the perfect time to release some great moody music, and what better band to do it than Black Moth Super Rainbow? As if every day isn't Halloween already with Black Moth Super Rainbow . These noisy, psychedelic, poppy Pennsylvanians combine their already-trippy music with even crazier visuals, so it comes as no surprise that the band embraces the [...]
Graveface Records is putting out this super awesome 73, a project consisting of members from Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Appleseed Cast, Dreamend, and Casket Girls. The special Halloween 73 comes as a picture disc, and a glow in the dark sleeve. It's pretty limited, so I'd pre-order one now if you're into awesome [...]
...then you're just not hearing it! Graveface is one of the raddest labels around and to treat our fantasies to such Halloween delight is just too rich - we're going to get cavities! For the generation that 'has it all' we're lacking one of many things and that's a new Halloween song, all of this monster mashing has given me bruises and sores. To this year's advantage members of Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Appleseed Cast, Dreamend and Casket Girls have collaborated on what will become an annual treat, Marshmallow Ghosts , and in Graveface ideology [...]
I have a confession to make, friends. I don't really dig on Halloween. It isn't my favorite holiday. It isn't even in my top twenty. Don't ask me why - I don't really know. I mean, I used to loooove Halloween (though I probably went dressed as a "hobo" 75% of the time and five years running), and then, one year, I didn't. Maybe it was going to college, when it became a frat boy holiday and the ubiquitous "sexy (fill in the blank)" costumes took over. Maybe I just became a bastard. Like I said, I don't really know. [...]
Dreamend - Are you waking MP3 Siva - Songs we forget to sing MP3 Nightmare of you - I think I#m getting older MP3 Hooray for Earth - Warm Out MP3 Late of the Pier - Space and the Woods MP3 Photgraph: Benedikt
SONG DER WOCHE Beim Herumstrolchen via MySpace bin ich auf die Seite von Dreamend gestossen und war über die Töne, die mir von dort entgegenschallten mehr als begeistert. Eine fantastische Mischung aus Shoegaze und Postrock kommt da aus Chicago. Ihr neues Album heisst "The Long Forgotten Friend". Nachdem ich mir die Songs auf ihrer MySpace-Seite angehört und das Artwork des Albums bewundert hatte, ging eine flehendliche Bitte nach Illinois. Diese CD muss ich haben. [...]
This month's compilation actually serves as a fusion of December and January. My primary focus in December was the Best Albums of 2008 feature, so there were not enough featured artists to suffice for an entire compilation. With that being said, the interval of time between the last feature of December and first feature of January allowed me to efficiently find some fantastic new artists. Whether you fancy icy electro-pop, bluesy indie-rock, or Japanese post-rock, there should be something for everyone in here. Stylistic variety has always been an aspect of music that I have striven to feature, and I [...]
" Jordan Geiger comes packing a sturdy CV - singing and songwriting in Minus Story , playing trumpet and keyboard for Shearwater - and the Hospital Ships material shows it." – Stereogum ( LINK ) Set to perform with Shearwater and Black Moth Super Rainbow this fall is none other than Hospital Ships , the newly formed band by Jordan Geiger of Minus Story . His scattered east coast dates are to promote his debut Oh, Ramona [...]
Ryan Graveface's third full-length as Dreamend explores the luminous space between dreams and waking, bright pastel pop alternating with darker meditations on loneliness and mortality.
Hi everybody. I'm glad you could all make it. Welcome to the annual "Best Albums Of..." post, which is usually the time I put effort into composing a blog entry. In 2005 I wrote small blurbs about the top twenty-five albums of the year. In 2006 I wrote three-word reviews for the 50 best records of the year. Last year I went so far as to craft a complete sentence for my favorite 100 albums of 2007. This year...I don't know, I haven't started the list yet. I think I'm just going to write blurbs about the albums for which [...]
I'm pretty damn passionate about these. I hope it shows. Thanks to the hosts. The Smithereens - Christmas (The Who cover) - Bag of Songs - two of my favorite bands The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York - Barely Awake in Frog Pajamas Game Theory - 24 - Tsururadio - Ahhhh! AC Newman - The Heartbreak Rides & Like a Hitman, Like a Dancer - Tsururadio - two more from The New
This being an absolutely frigid week in Los Angeles, I think we should turn our focus to the warm, summer months. Specifically, I am thinking about the month of August. That is the month for baseball, barbecues, swimming parties, and - oh yeah - WWF SummerSlam. Have I ever told you about the time I went to SummerSlam as a child? Well, why don't we delve into my memory bank and I'll try to recall as many details as I can about the most famous WWF event I ever attended as a child. Let me being by saying, [...]
I'm sorry this post is late. I just returned home from a delicious wine and cheese party. Well, it began as a wine and cheese party, and it devolved into a two-house "boys night" and "girl's night". Imagine a middle school dance with opposing sexes clinging to different walls, but instead of walls we clung to living rooms of adjacent houses. The men drank beers and started a Wii bowling competition, and the women listened to Indigo Girls and fingered each other...or whatever it is women do when they hang out together. [...]
For a music lover, the perks of running a record label are plentiful. Discovering new artists, making a variety of connections in the industry, and – most rewardingly – the feeling of breaking out something new and worthwhile are all present if one can get a label successfully underway. In a sense, I suppose one could compare the benefits to those of forming a music publication, though it is arguable that running a label consists of a more hands-on approach. One similar aspect of both professions, though, is that is hard to succeed in either if one does not have [...]
A little while back I wrote about Hospital Ships , the work of Jordan Geiger, the man behind the beautiful music of Minus Story . His debut album "Oh, Ramona" was released in October and after a good dose of considerable listening I have reached this conclusion. The album is very good. Put it this way. If you like Minus Story you will surely like Hospital Ships . It's full of the same flavour of quietly beautiful, heartfelt, skewered pop. Geiger's voice is a real charmer. It's light and airy, mysterious and kinda hypnotic. The musical style [...]
Halloween is only a few days away, and hopefully we'll have ourselves lots of treats in the form of these new album releases. A couple of goodies that I definitely can recommend include two releases from Slumberland Records - caUSE co-MOTION's It's Time! and Crystal Stilts' Alight of Night . If indiepop doesn't tickle your fancy, and you want something a little darker, maybe take a look at Deerhunter's Microcastle or Ryan Adams and The Cardinals' Cardinology ? Actually, no thanks on either of those for [...]
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Bobby B's Top 50 Albums Of The Decade (#25-21)
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
