Totally random photo: Moulin Rouge, Paris May 2009 I'm house sitting this week, and for a little while earlier my laptop refused to hook up to the wireless setup here. You can imagine my despair as I pictured the week stretching before me, a barren wasteland. Just imagine! I'd be forced to resort to other ways to pass my time, like talking to people and reading books and interacting with the outside world. Perish the thought. Anyway, the internet here is behaving now, and so I thought I'd offer up a few links that [...]
MP3: Bluebrain "Bring Out Your Dead" The brother duo behind The Epochs have created a new band called Bluebrain and they will release a new EP " Cult Following " on November 10th. Grab a free track " Bring Out Your Dead " on RCRD LBL .
Bluebrain to release debut EP Cult Following November 10th Bluebrain is the new project from brothers Hays Holladay & Ryan Holladay, formerly of NYC-based band The Epochs. The duo bring a distinctly darker and textured feel to their previous signature blend of clever pop, showcased on Bluebrain's debut EP Cult Following to be released November 10th on Lujo Records. Although a new group, Bluebrain is hardly a first for the Holladay brothers. Under aliases, they've remixed artists such as Ra Ra Riot and The Death Set as well as performed live as past projects (most recently [...]
If would have told me that DC's Bluebrain was comprised of Hays and Ryan Holladay of the NYC band The Epochs...I might have looked at you with one raised eyebrow (if I could actually raise... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
Words and Pictures by Thomas Hauner Rosanne Cash performed for a sold-out crowd Saturday night at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn to celebrate the release of her latest album, The List. The album, like Ms. Cash's own repertoire, spanning both genres and epochs, is a selection of songs from a list of 100 that her father, Johnny Cash, presented to her in 1973 as a rudimentary syllabus of country, or rather American, songs. Her set drew heavily from the new re-interpretations...
Our preview of the musical end of Friday's Story/Stereo spectrum continues today with the other half of Bluebrain, Hays Holladay: Black Dice - Creature Comforts The first time I heard Black Dice was as a college radio DJ at small Columbia University station room on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As a freshman I was given the unbearable 5-7 AM Saturday morning shift. I'm fairly confident that absolutely no one listened to my show...ever. So I spent my shift exploring the wealth of new [...]
TVD's thrilled to present a preview of the next Story/Stereo event being held this Friday night (10/2) at The Writer's Center in Bethesda. "Story/Stereo is a modest cultural experiment in cross-media collaboration," co-curator Chad Clark of Beauty Pill told us two weeks back when the series unfolded with Roofwalkers, who were the evening's first musical guest and who were featured in this blog's special week-long event heralding the initial Story/Stereo outing. The Writer's Center selected some excellent emerging poets, essayists, and novelists to read from recent works, and Chad and fellow [...]
The xx are a quartet of very young Londoners (under 20) who've grown up together and are setting folks a-talkin' with their breathy, analgesic, unclassifiable sound, winning accolades from NME (one of their "Future 503) to Pitchfork ("Best New Music"). There's a coy slyness in the female/male (xx/xy) blending of voices on this blissful duet that would seem at home in any number of musical epochs. A knowing friend sent me this song, suggesting I might enjoy it - and I absolutely do, for several reasons: Within the simplicity of the [...]
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Lujo Records has announced the signing of Washington, DC duo Bluebrain , and will be releasing the band's debut full-length, Soft Power . The band features former members of Brooklyn, NY indie rock act The Epochs and the label notes: "Bluebrain's sound is a slight departure from The Epochs' electronic-tinged rock. On Soft Power we see Hays and Ryan venture further into experimental realms, pushing the limits of pop music by way of manipulation and reimagination. The album is sprawling--intent on not staying in one place musically for very long ... Lyrical [...]
Caspian sign with The Mylene Sheath label for the release of their second full length album, Tertia . Tertia was recorded by Ethan Dussault with assistance from Ed Llerana at New Alliance in Cambridge, MA. Nick Zampiello ( Torche , ISIS ) mastered it along with Rob Gonella at New Alliance East. Nate Shumaker (who worked on You Are The Conductor ) and PAJ returned for design duties this time around. [...]
Massachusetts post-rockers Caspian have signed a deal with The Mylene Sheath. The label will be putting out the band's next album, Tertia, on Aug. 11. You can check out a brand new track titled "Epochs In DMaj" on their MySpace page. They've also...
It was a big night for Conan O'Brien and Pearl Jam. The funnyman officially transferred hosting duties from Late Night to the Tonight Show yesterday, and the Seattle band was there to kick things off with a debut of their own . The former grunge group performed new song "Get Some" from the upcoming, tentatively-titled album Backspacer , due out this fall. Pearl Jam has partnered up with Target to release the album, but it won't be an exclusive. Instead, the band is without a label for the first time in 18 years, and is [...]
MP3: Mastodon - The Last Baron It would seem that the negative stereotypes of prog are falling to the wayside, as artists from all genres are inching more and more into the no-fly zone of progressive. The Decemberists jumped into the deep end with their latest, and metal-masters Mastodon further entrench themselves with their most proggish album yet. On Crack the Skye , Mastodon presents itself as a full-on progressive metal entity, the echoes of early Metallica that resonated strongly on Leviathan are much more subdued. You should expect as much, [...]
The Grandfather Paradox is a stunning collection of early minimalistic music put together by Henrik Schwarz, Âme and Dixon. Resident Advisor review it up really well... With The Grandfather Paradox Henrik Schwarz, Âme and Dixon tackle the mix CD problem by avoiding the new altogether. The techno they've chosen is old, and some of their selections probably don't even have a copyright anymore. Taking its name from the proposed paradox which refutes the possibility of time travel, considering a time traveller could theoretically go back in time, kill their grandfather and negate their own [...]
Band: Phoenix From: Paris, France Sound: Pop-rock perfection impeccably melding the organic and synthetic with hooks to spare Similar Artists: The Cars, The Strokes, The Pretenders, The Raspberries, see the trend? Many bands with "The ___s" Listen Now: "1901" The first misconception comes in the title. A bold, brazen, haughty declaration fit for skywriting across the Champs-Elysées, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix may not be the most subtle name for a pop album. Then again, reacting [...]
Ptarmigan Our Ancient Friends Self-released, 2009 P tarmigan concern themselves with epochs more than epics, but on this tightly-bound concept album there's plenty of both. We're talking geology here so let's give it a shot: Our Ancient Friends is sedimentary but never sedentary. Igneous but also ingenious. Post-rock songs about pre-rocks. Somebody stop me. Songs churn and shake abruptly, as if laid out on some volatile fault line, but Ptarmigan handle their many transitions [...]
Electronic music can be divided into two epochs: before and after Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI. MIDI provided a way for drums machines, sequencers, and arpegiattors to all speak to one another, locking each to a machine time code. We're used to it today, so much so that we expect each and every instrument to be in lock step with every other, and if it's not, well, a little digital editing takes care of that. But before MIDI, there was always a struggle between the human players and the machines, a tension that, at its best, could [...]
...so far, 2009 is shaping up to be a pretty good year for new music. More than anything else, we're pretty stoked that so many weird bands are popping up and catching ears everywhere. We came across The Lava Children late yesterday and it appears as if the trend will continue. Originally from Tulsa, OK, the duo now call LA home and their self-titled debut mini-LP will be out on Graveface Records May 26. As if yr entire world was dissolving into the most lucid and demented dream of yr life, The Lava Children weave exotic [...]
COREY! less time on academia, MORE TIME ON THE BLOG! Ye haven't updated in epochs! :D Well, she has a point. It seems that this semester has been more demanding on me then I originally thought it would be. I guess that's what happens when you take two English classes and other classes that make you read a crap-ton of books all the time. I've barely had time to think about the blog, much less write up an entry. Even as I'm typing this, I'm sitting in my Environment and [...]
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