(poster design : Adam Yale ) Ezra Furman & The Harpoons : Take Off Your Sunglasses ... MP3 : Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - Take Off Your Sunglasses MP3 : Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - I Wanna Be Ignored Peasant : We're Good on [...]
Radio Free Chicago is no stranger to Capgun Coup , having posted their song "Bad Bands" earlier in the fall. Now that the Omaha native's sophomore effort has finally hit the shelves, the band's wasted no time in hitting the road and getting more tracks on to the internet for mass consumption. Following the raw, fun track "Bad Bands", Capgun Coup has brought us "Sitting on the Sidewalk", which together show quite a bit of promise for their latest release, Maudlin . Vaguely reminiscent of the messy, DIY rock [...]
Amber Rubarth, a singer/songwriter whose beautiful music is getting worldwide attention, just got back from a US tour with Joshua Radin and Gary Jules. We got a chance to catch up with her and learn about the tour, her life as a independent artist, and what inspired her to pick up a guitar for the first time at the age of 20 and pursue a career in music. IM: Hey Amber, welcome back from the tour! How was it? AR: The tour was AMAZING!!!! Truly fantastic. I was [...]
Here are the Wisconsin and Illinois shows we recommend you take in this week. Check them out below and let us know which ones you'll be attending or ones you think should really make our list . This week's recommended new releases a short list of two: Asobi Seksu - Rewolf and The Notwist - Sturm . Upcoming Wisconsin Shows: 11/10 - White Rabbits + Glass Ghost - Turner Hall [...]
The daily mix: 1) Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles: "Yesterday's Love" 2) Detroit Cobras: "99 and a Half Just Won't Do" 3) The Whigs: "Hot Bed" 4) THe BAcksliders: "Last Call" 5) Ezra Furman And The Harpoons: "The Moon" 6) The Primary 5: "Lost and Confused" 7) Sebadoh: "Scars, Four Eyes" 8) Troubled Hubble: "Ear, Nose & Throat" 9) The Dictators: "The Savage Beat" 10) The Dandy Warhols: "Nietzche"
Photography by Herky It's Friday but it's a gloomy, cloudy, and busy one, meaning the sooner we get this day done and start our weekend, the better! Personally, I can't think of a better way to finish off this week than with the shot of throat burnin' bourbon in an old motel that is Whodat Peckerhead's, from our Facebook community , new mixtape ! YAY! It's a wonderful [...]
Photo by: Abrah True Thought I'd throw a couple mixes your way tonight. TRACK LIST: 01 I Wanna Be Ignored - Ezra Furman And The Harpoons 02 Rush Apart - The Rural Alberta Advantage 03 Pills I Took - Hank Williams III 04 If Only You Were Lonely 05 Look at Me [...]
There's a ton of great shows this week, here's our recommendations. You can also follow us on Twitter (@ Ultra8201 ) if you like. Monday (10/26) : Dirty Projectors, Givers at Antone's [ Purchase Tickets ] $15 | Doors @ 8 Tuesday (10/27) : The Peen Scene Presents: Drop The Lime, Vicious, Marst (of Irresponsible Voltron) vs. Hoodie Allen, Mad Classy at The Parish [ Purchase Tickets ] $10 [...]
After watching the Wildcats kick UCLA's ass tomorrow, I'm going to head downtown to check out Ezra Furman & The Harpoons at Solar Culture (though I can't blame anybody who picks Why? @ Congress).I first heard of Furman a couple years ago via Paste writer and blogger Andy Whitman, who dared use the New Dylan tag, calling Furman untamed, freewheelin' and manic, and saying the then 20-year-old "
Tonight is the first of two nights to catch Those Darlins [ download ] in town when they play the Silverlake Lounge with The Grates and Leslie and the Badgers . ... You know Brakesbrakesbrakes has got it goin' on when their singer quits British Sea Power (Eamon Hamilton moonlighted as keyboardist in the fellow Brighton band) to keep the touring going. They bring their high energy, Pixies-inspired Britishness to Spaceland with Chicago's Ezra Furman & the Harpoons and Rachel Goodrich . ... Thee Oh Sees (pictured), who [...]
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Does the sound of explosive rock & roll tickle your eardrum? Well then head over to the Rickshaw Stop to catch Daytrotter Presenting rock-pop group Ezra Furman and The Harpoons , fuzzed up brit-punk influenced BrakesBrakesBrakes , and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Goodrich at 8pm. BrakesBrakesBrakes – Crush On You from Touchdown (2009) [...]
I've been waiting forever to find the right time to post this. Once someone asked me, "Are there any CURRENT bands that I could go see now that are awesome and rock like Violent Femmes?" I had a really hard time coming up with an answer, and finally settled on Tapes n' Tapes, but still didn't feel like it was the right answer. A few months later I heard this fucking fantastic song on the radio, and if someone asked me who was like the femmes that they could go see now, I'd tell 'em Ezra Furman and the [...]
I tripped right into the gangly, urgent, danceable music of Ezra Furman & The Harpoons quite by accident last summer, and from the Jonathan Richmanesque spoken word lead-in of " I wrote this song in a paper bag ..." my ears were happily perked. Their music unfurls into cacophony and melody, retro and squawk, Violent Femmes meet The Kinks, with a dash of The Replacements' sloppy joy. There's handclaps and awkward yells and lyrics about enjoying the music without worrying 'bout the words. That sounds like a plan tonight when they [...]
[Brakes Brakes Brakes] [Sissy Wish] I'm constantly trying to challenge myself, my music and my live-shows. Right now I find myself in a world of cheap synthesizers, toy organs and fuzz-guitars. I just ate up my band and put them in a box, so I could afford to go on a tour in America. So suddenly I turned out to be a purely electronic duo from Mars, and the respond from the crowd was fantastic, enormous, x-large! I'm constantly seeking new ways to express myself through music, and sometimes [...]
It was my buddy Josh's B-day this weekend, so that's what I was up to instead of writing. I'll have those interviews up when I can scrounge the time this week. also, I have a review of the show I went to last Thursday. I'm editing the pics so they don't look like bum. that'll be up wednesday for sure., Go listen to Fools Gold . report back Fool's Gold - Strange Hotel a few shows I'll be attending, that I may require all of you [...]
After the release of 2008's Inside the Human Body and a long string of tour dates including a successful stop at Lollapalooza, you would figure the fall would be the perfect time for announcing plans for a new album. Well, not if you are Ezra Furman . It turns out Ezra Furman will just keep on trucking, as he'll be taking his Harpoons on the road starting in October and hitting up the Midwest, South, and West Coast this time. Starting on October 13th in Omaha, Nebraska the tour will see Ezra snake through California, [...]
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Here are the Wisconsin and Chicago shows we recommend you take in this week. Check them out below and let us know which ones you'll be attending or ones you think should really make our list . This week's recommended new releases includes The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You and Fool's Gold - s/t - two albums we highly recommend ! Upcoming Wisconsin Shows: [...]
"I said baby that's like asking you to take out your shoe laces—so she took out her shoe laces." Quite the clever lyric, I will say. Upon discovering Ezra Furman & the Harpoons, I heard this song, and was oddly intrigued. She tells him to take off his sunglasses, but that's just the most unreasonable request ever, so he tells her to take off her shoelaces. Interesting concept, with just as an interesting song. The harmonica in the background is not entirely different than the sounds of Augustana, so obviously [...]
"I said baby that's like asking you to take out your shoe laces—so she took out her shoe laces." Quite the clever lyric, I will say. Upon discovering Ezra Furman & the Harpoons, I heard this song, and was oddly intrigued. She tells him to take off his sunglasses, but that's just the most unreasonable request ever, so he tells her to take off her shoelaces. Interesting concept, with just as an interesting song. The harmonica in the background is not entirely different than the sounds of Augustana, so obviously [...]
Beach House – “Norway” From the forthcoming Teen Dream, out 1/26/2010 from Sub Pop. More about Beach House
Yes, here it is people, the official extended remix video of Beyoncé's latest single 'Video Phone' featuring Lady GaGa that has been hyped up as the video of the [...]More about Lady GaGa
Just wanted everyone in L.A. looking for a to do this Thursday night, to check out a great show, from London-Transplant, now L.A. inhabitant Samuel Stewart. He is the offspring [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Beck pays tribute to sound architect Harry Partch with 10 minute opus, defends Radiohead who pay respect to WWII British solider Harry Patch. Beck -"Harry [...]More about Beck
I am still waiting to hear Animal Collective’s new EP, Fall Be Kind. In the meantime, we have the Brother Sport single to hold us over. It [...]More about Animal Collective
I hate that people expect a person to stay classy after a break up. Fuck that, I was never like that and I'm not going [...]More about Beyonce
Thirteen tunes that have entertained my ears over the past few months. Burn it to a CD and play it loud in your car. Enjoy. [...]More about The xx
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So here comes this freestyle or whatever it is from Kanye. No one seems to know if it is new or some unreleased stuff but [...]More about Kanye West
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The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
k-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
nekocasefallon
Animal Collective - Graze (Fall Be Kind)
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
Friday Five: Surf Songs
