It's been some time since we've checked in with New York band HOPEWELL. You may recall us heavily featuring their track 'Calcutta' starting back around 2006. They've had a lengthy history that includes countless singles and compilations, and opening for My Bloody Valentine on their recent reunion tour, working in the past with producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah), recording a Peel session live at Abbey Road Studio, and playing Reading and Leeds Festivals - all without the help of a large label, manager or booking agent. Well, several [...]
by BBG DOWNLOAD: Nebula - "The Perfect Rapture" (MP3) Nebula at BV-BBG Day Party during CMJ ( more by Paul Birman ) After passing through customs on their return from a European trek, Nebula will take a few weeks away from the road before heading back out in middle March for a string of dates that'll take the band through SXSW , on to Pianos [...]
by BBG DOWNLOAD: Nebula - "The Perfect Rapture" (MP3) Nebula at BV-BBG Day Party during CMJ ( more by Paul Birman ) After passing through customs on their return from a European trek, Nebula will take a few weeks away from the road before heading back out in middle March for a string of dates that'll take the band through SXSW , on to Pianos [...]
Atlas Sound @ ATP NY 2009 ( more by Ryan Muir ) tonight in NYC * Aziz Ansari @ Comix * Mick Barr @ The Stone * Dinosaur Feathers @ Fort Useless * Sarah Silverman @ Apple Store Soho * Motion City Soundtrack @ Irving Plaza * Big Teriffic w/ Max Silvestri @ The Cameo * Ladysmith Black Mambazo @ Highline Ballroom [...]
Recommended Show: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010 THE CONSTELLATIONS @ BROOKLYN BOWL 61 Wythe Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 FREE, 9PM It's easy to love it when there are free shows at Brooklyn Bowl. Tonight's show offers a performance from The Constellations , whose debut album isn't even scheduled to drop until June . It's sure to be great. Those Darlins @ Maxwell's Jimmy Gnecco @ Mercury Lounge The Postelles @ Bowery Electric Motion City Soundtrack @ The Fillmore Atlas Sound & Memory Tapes @ The Bell House Ancient Sky, Mushroom [...]
<a href=" http://onethirtybpm.com/2010/0 1/22/album-review-the-silent-l eague-but-youve-always-been-th e-caretaker/" The Silent League But You've Always Been The Caretaker [Something In Construction; 2010] Links: The Silent League | Something In Construction | Purchase on Insound Posted by Jason Hirschhorn on 22 January 2010 It's been nearly a decade since Justin Russo formed his Broken Social Scene-styled collaborative, [...]
One facet of music blogs that I've always admired is the community aspect in regards to highlighting the best of what a city has to offer. It's something that I always wanted to support and be a part of, but never truly experienced due to living in a much smaller town. Though, I was somewhat nearby the Atlanta area, I was still only on the fringes of that community. Now, living here in Salt Lake City, albeit only a few months, I had an idea in early December to gather as many lists as possible from [...]
The Free Music Archive debuted a bunch of new features this week, including Tagging and a Recent Activity Feed . Read more about where we're at and what's up next! + It's a big week for the Downtown Music community as ISSUE Project Room is in the midst of the second annual Darmstadt: Essential Repertoire Festival (Dec 3-5th). This Phill Niblock piece is a preview of what's in store, you can read more here , and re-live last night's performances here. [...]
Recommended Show: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS @ MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG 66 North 6th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 $20, 8PM With this being the start of the weekend and CMJ still going on, there should be some good shows tonight. There are some pretty good ones, but nothing so amazing as to be obvious. However, School of Seven Bells performance at Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight should be pretty memorable--and just off the beaten path enough that badge holders MIGHT be able to get in without too much hassle. [...]
by BBG DOWNLOAD: Imaad Wasif - "Priestess" (MP3) Imaad Wasif and Jack Lawrence, keepin' it gangsta It's not just David Pajo . More than one artist has done time as a live member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs , and much like Pajo, Imaad Wasif has also recorded with a few different bands (Lou Barlow, Folk Implosion, in addition to YYY's newest LP) and has a catalog [...]
23 October, 2009 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm Who: Priestess, Nebula, Naam, Weird Owl, Hopewell, Quest for Fire, Imaad Wasif And The Two Part Beast Where: Union Pool Show Info: 21+, 8:00pm, $12 Watch: "Wired" by Nebula
So, I don't know if I've already mentioned this enough already, but I'm going to NEW YORK on Sunday for a week of tomfoolery and Big Apple based fun. We've also chosen this week in particular to head across the sea as it's CMJ Music Marathon and there are some pretty fucking cool bands playing. A fair few that we've featured on this here blog in fact. Hooray for us and coolness! But, my problem is I just can't process this list of bands who are playing. There are too many for my [...]
Hudson Valley psych heroes return with its most out-there recording to date. There aren't two finer bands representing the rich rock history of New York's Hudson Valley quite like Hopewell and Mercury Rev. And when Rev frontman Jonathan Donahue invited the Dutchess County psych rockers to create a 30-minute piece of improvised space magic for his radio show on the Woodstock-based alt-rock station WDST-FM, that little jam session set the tone for Hopewell's finest and most out-there album to date. Hopewell surely hopes you consider its sixth...
1. Old Canes - "Little Bird Courage"2. Historics - "Skin Orders"3. Frankie Negron - "Holding On to Love"4. Evangelicals - "Halloween Song"5. Erin McKeown - "Santa Cruz"6. Hopewell - "Island"7. Via Tania - "Wonder Stranger"8. Mass Fiction - "Sing to Dream"9. Of Montreal - "Brush Brush Brush"10. Mass Fiction - "Bad Form"**BONUS**Themselves "You Ain't It"Molina and Johnson - "Twenty Cycles to the
CMJ released the band schedule for its 2009 Music Marathon & Film Festival yesterday, which is about as good a sign of fall hitting New York as the return of apple cider at Greenmarket. The festival runs from Oct. 20 - Oct. 24 and includes various venues throughout the city, and the list of featured artists would probably take all four days to read through. But skimming the selection reveals a fairly equal distribution of well-known acts like Atlas Sound and Deer Tick , anonymous locals (including krautrock-y Jeff Buckley-channelers Pocketknife), twenty-two bands who [...]
The press release below doesn't actually list all the acts performing at CMJ this year, so you're probably better off checking out cmj.sched.org to get a true idea of what's happening during this year's marathon. Of course, sched.org is a little confusing too and it doesn't list unofficial events and day parties (as far as I know), so you'll have to wait a little bit longer for info to trickle out from the blogs and other unofficial sources. Lastly, even though the press release says the schedule is "final", you can pretty much bet that things will shift [...]
Directed by Art BoonparnThe cavernous echoes in Hopewell's music recall psychedelic music, but I wouldn't say they're a psychedelic band. Their sound may be hazy, but their playing isn't. Tribal drums and tight guitars give the music a powerful punch most "trippy" music just doesn't have.The band's latest LP is Good Good Desperation and it's out now via Tee Pee Recs. Here are two tracks from the
Hopewell "Island" from Good Good Desperation I am falling in love with these Jap-Cult film turning into awesome videos. 1971's "Throw Away Your Books, Let's Go Into The Streets" by director Shuji Terayama, inspired Art Boonparn aka the Painless Surgeon to make a video for psychedelic rock band, Hopewell . The song Island rocks well side by side with this Super-8 gritty video. You can purchase Good Good Desperation here . Hopewell [...]
Hopewell "Island" from Painless Surgery on Vimeo .
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