[It's Bjork's birthday on Saturday, celebrate appropriately. Here's my late-arriving weekend rundown:] Tonight: Alan Palomo's Neon Indian [pictured; download below] brings its multimedia synthscapes to the Echoplex for a night of cool electro that includes Keenhouse , Tigercity and Little Red Radio . ... Julian Casablancas hits downtown's Palace Theatre for Week 3 of his residency. ... Party guys Iglu & Hartly try to build on their U.K. buzz with a show in their home city at [...]
Tape Deck Mountain "Mother" from Charles Bergquist on Vimeo . Tape Deck Mountain takes on the song Mother with a little less muscle than Glenn Danzig, but a killer track in its own right. Shout to Sezio for the phenomenal video and check out a couple remixes of TDM tracks below... Tape Deck Mountain - On My Honor (Letting Up Despite Great Faults rmx) Tape Deck Mountain - [...]
San Diego's premier "mid-fi" band, Tape Deck Mountain has a new album entitled Ghost . Remember when we posted about them? Well, Ghost is out now on Lefse Records. The album sounds something like this. Downloadable: Scantrons (lefse mp3) To celebrate the release, the band has offered up some non-album remixes. Listen... Downloadables: Scantron (City Lights Remix) (mp3) On My Honor (Letting Up Despite Great Faults Remix) (mp3) Order Ghost from the label... here [...]
Drums Play Spaceland Monday Night (and It's Free) Ray Davies put on a fantastic show on Saturday night at the Orpheum. If you get a chance to see him on this tour do not hesitate. More on that later. Another great week this week. If you're into buzz bands you might want to check out Drums tonight, The Big Pink on Wednesday, Tape Deck Mountain on Thursday, Neon Indian on Friday and The XX on Saturday. Some of those will be good, but I'm recommending a variety of [...]
La route semblera si courte maintenant... Thanks Andrea ! This time next week, Len & I will be en route in a 10' U-Haul from San Diego to San Francisco to embark on our next great adventure. I put together this mix to help ease the long drive up the coast of California. Hopefully these songs move you along and get you through a daunting task, as well. (Via Andrea Inspired ) Tracklist: 01 The Dovers \ What Am [...]
reviving pop moderne for a rainy friday. Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Photograph Shakes Opressed By The Line - Paper Cranes Smith Westerns - Imagine (Part 3) Snow In Mexico - Cinema 5010
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Beautiful Supermachines : "Oakland 2008" [mp3] from Shut Up (out November 23rd) Beautiful Supermachines : "The War Against Cliche" [mp3] from Shut Up (out November 23rd) other Beautiful Supermachines posts at Largehearted Boy Coyote Eyes : several tracks [mp3] other Coyote Eyes posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
Novembre-gazing Alle due del pomeriggio è già così buio che se non accendi la luce sembra di stare in un biopic ambientato a Manchester nel 1979. Qui sono giornate di musica soltanto in sottofondo. Da un certo punto di vista mi viene da pensare "purtroppo", perché certi nuovi ascolti meriterebbero più attenzione. Ma d'altra parte, a volte a novembre si sta bene anche così, avvolti da canzoni con cui ci si trova a proprio agio, senza l'ansia di rincorrere l'attualità a ogni costo. Va da sé che finisco spesso per privilegiare suoni stratificati, ritmi dimessi e [...]
Novembre-gazing Alle due del pomeriggio è già così buio che se non accendi la luce sembra di stare in un biopic ambientato a Manchester nel 1979. Qui sono giornate di musica soltanto in sottofondo. Da un certo punto di vista mi viene da pensare "purtroppo", perché certi nuovi ascolti meriterebbero più attenzione. Ma d'altra parte, a volte a novembre si sta bene anche così, avvolti da canzoni con cui ci si trova a proprio agio, senza l'ansia di rincorrere l'attualità a ogni costo. Va da sé che finisco spesso per privilegiare suoni stratificati, ritmi dimessi e [...]
In Steps [mp3] is the realization of plump immersion in the moment while still flowing with the stream. It feels just like the half-way point through first fall semester away in a crisply orange-leaved town. Dreary-tinged, easy fun. LA's Letting Up Despite Great Faults judiciously applies warmly enhancing synth effects to the very pleasant surprise of a well-toned body of songs in their new self-titled album, Letting Up Despite Great Faults (10/13/09, New Words). Click HERE to listen [...]
choice electro-pop cuts, two new and two old. so after giving in to much buzz and throwing on LUDGF 's humble, eponymous debut (grab it here - you can thank me later), it wasn't long after hearing the stellar opening track 'in steps' that i knew i was about to be left with yet another minor obsession on my hands. these guys - who are from LA, it turns out - have managed to craft a sound that somehow fuses my favorite elements of shoegaze, indie rock, electro, and pop - the result being an album worthy [...]
to say that it never rains in Southern California might be an overstatement, but it's still an unexpected pleasure to hear something so unmistakably autumnal from the season-challenged state. Letting Up Despite Great Faults , a Los Angeles-based band, effectively capture an overcast mood with their fothcoming self-titled album. layering lush synth and a shimmering New Order guitar tone, Letting Up Despite Great Faults prettily evokes the tipping point from full bloom to slow decay, as the warm summer days give way to a wet, windy fall. while the shoegaze-y indie pop of [...]
by kevin diamond In Honor of our 11th Hype Filter, we've got 11 tracks that have been floating around in the ether for the last month. As always, we sift through the hype and filter out the crap so you don't have to. â–º First up is "Absolutely Anything" by Brilliant Colors , another San Fran band that's solidifying the city's reputation as the West Coast's Brooklyn. They're on one of my favorite labels, Slumberland, and this tune's [...]
Indie + pop + eletrônico = Letting Up Despite Great FaultsSimples assim. Como todas as coisas legais na vida devem ser.The Colors Aren't You or Me - Letting Up Despite Great Faults
In the pantheon of "bands with names that are sentences," Letting Up Despite Great Faults bleed as the most poetic. "In Steps," the first track on their self-titled album is no less esoteric, if also immediately approachable. A humming, almost self-consciously Nintendo synth line is our first tone, backed quickly by a lazy guitar riff and a drum beat, all at the pace of a summer jog. It's like a
Of course The Radio Dept. deserves its own copycat band. I'm totally on board with that. Listen/Download: "In Steps" Myspace
Friday... again. Short mixtape... again. Tracklisting: Annie - My Love Is Better Awesome New Republic - Alleycat Hawksley Workman - Maniacs Kate Earl - All I Ever Wanted Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Our Younger Noise [...]
I've got to give props to Lee from Knox Road for pointing my ears towards L.A. indie outfit Letting Up Despite Great Faults . Undeterred by a rather long band name, this group from the coastlines of California formulate dreamy synth pop well worth those few extra syllables. I have yet to listen to their previous releases but if they sound anything like their latest self-titled LP, consider them spun. For a band listing nearly every important musical act and relevant indie rock outfit imaginable as an influence, I can't escape [...]
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