I've got a rather large pile of unsorted mp3's in one of the folders of my hard drive. These are all songs that were offered on other music blogs over the past couple months (most of these fine blogs are the ones that make up the 'Musical Linkage' sidebar on the right). This past week, I've been trying to go through as many of those tracks as I can, picking out the ones I like and welcoming them to the rest of my music collection, where they will lead happy and fruitful lives until my hard drive crashes. [...]
Rapito dal vortice Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (dal vivo al Twiggy Club di Varese l'undici aprile!) non riesco ad ascoltare molto altro in questo periodo. Ma questi giovani inglesi Her Name Is Calla, già autori dello splendido The Heritage (datato 2008 e ristampato lo scorso anno), stanno piano piano intaccando il primato del [...]

Si no tienes nada que decir entonces calla, Fother Muckers Cazador, Chile Rating: 77 By Carlos Reyes Fother Muckers is one of those bands you learn to recognize through the years but get lost in the bunch. They don't show much personality beyond their cool band name, nor is their music immediately arousing, but I always [...]

Nublado o soleado?, playa o no playa?, sudor o sudor? Estas dos propuestas no son nada nuevas, pero están haciendo mi verano. Lo nuevo de Fother Muckers es puro vicio, y el vicio es gratis. Fother Muckers - Si No Tienes Nada Que Decir Entonces Calla Y un copy & paste de algo que escribí anteriormente de The Holloways, la frescura que necesitas. La segunda entrega de The Holloways , No Smoke, No Mirrors, no pretende redescubrir la pólvora, sus intenciones vienen predefinidos, es veraniego [...]

Her Name is Calla - Pour More Oil I can't get over how haunting this song is… Really their whole sound is fairly haunting and dark, but not in a Gothic/Mason way. I came across this group from the U.K. clicking around similar artists of similar artist over at last.fm .

This podcast is slightly kinda somewhat about about the myopia of the London media, in particular as to how it pertains to Scotland and Scottish music, and slightly about the Glasgow media. There are a number of different triggers for this, starting with this article in the Scotsman's Under the Radar blog last year about the rejection by the editor of a London glossy of an article on four up-and-coming Scottish bands, made even more offensive by the fact that said editor had requested the damn article in the first place. Of course, anyone who reads [...]
Her Name Is Calla - Long Grass (mp3) * It amazes me that the most talented bands send the most polite, humble little emails asking that I listen to their music. This atmospheric, somber ballad is from Her Name Is Calla's upcoming full-length album The Quiet Lamb , set for release sometime this Spring. The delicate folk instrumentation is particularly haunting. Pre-order @ Amazon (not yet available) Her Name Is Calla MySpace ******************* The Happy Hollows - [...]
Her Name Is Calla - Long Grass (mp3) * It amazes me that the most talented bands send the most polite, humble little emails asking that I listen to their music. This atmospheric, somber ballad is from Her Name Is Calla's upcoming full-length album The Quiet Lamb , set for release sometime this Spring. The delicate folk instrumentation...
To say that Her Name is Calla, a Leeds / Leicester / York group is special is a profound understatement, almost as profound as their music and what may stand behind it. Indeed, every artist is, I'd like to hope, is unique in their own way. I believe that aside from the inescapable outside influence, the artist has to have something original, in content, form, point of view or any other mark of distinction, to contribute. I find that the best of these contributions defy any categorization, that it is simply to be felt and experienced. Her Name [...]

Last year Cloud Cult reissued two of their early albums as a double-disc , and they are once again reaching into their older work for their new release. Lost Songs from the Lost Years is a collection of material recorded as "drafts." The album is currently available on the band's website as a digital download or as a limited edition CD (click here for both of those). The track list for Lost Songs is available after the jump. Lost [...]

A beautiful moment, filmed in a bunker in Belgium, from Her Name is Calla - a group of hushed-toned experimentalists who gradually creep into shot with an instrument in hand, one by one. Buy a limited pressing of their lovely work here . MySpace Download A Blood Promise
Her Name is Calla and Worriedaboutsatan are to tour the UK and Europe together in March and April of 2010. UK TOUR DATES - MARCH 2010 27 - Glasgow | The Flying Duck 28 - Newcastle | The Cluny* 29 - Leeds| Holy Trinity Church 30 - Leicester | Firebug 31 - London | The Lexington *Her Name is Calla only [...]

La banda chilena Fother Muckers siguiendo el gran habito de compartir, está regalando su nueva producción titulada "Si No Tienes Nada Que Decir Entonces Calla", desde el 7 de Enero también disponible en formato físico. Según cuenta la banda, este disco estuvo planeado para ser un EP, pero pronto sus ganas lo convirtieron en su tercer larga duración, Fother Muckers inaugura el año con melodías mas calmadas que en sus inicios y encima gratis. Fother Muckers - Si No Tienes Nada Que Decir Entonces Calla Informativo [...]
Top 20 Releases of 2000-2009 These might not be the most important or groundbreaking releases per se but these are simply the records that have become stalwarts in my music heavy rotation that purr along with classics from the 80s and 90s. 1. Dean and Britta - L' Avventura (2002) 2. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (2008) 3. Cinerama - This is Cinerama (2000) 4. Modest Mouse - Moon Over Antartica (2005) 5. Lungfish - Love is Love (2003) 6. Ian Brown - Music of [...]

hatte ich gerade noch beklagt, dass sich die deutsche musik-blog-landschaft recht trüb darstellt, zumindest was das miteinander betrifft (abgesehen davon, dass man sich gegenseitig etwas ins poesiealbum schreibt), wurde ich prompt eines besseren belehrt. so beteiligten sich dieser tage vierzehn blogs an jahrescharts, um die alben- top ten eben jener blogs zu ermitteln. am ende bedeutete das: 30 autoren schlugen 109 alben vor. nachfolgend die ersten zehn und infos infos infos, viel spaß und dank an die organisatoren. und vielleicht hat die unternehmung ja nachhaltigen charakter und wir werden in den kommenden jahren öfter voneinander hören. in diesem sinne: [...]

für die Wahl unserer Jahrescharts habt ihr ja noch bis zum 5. Januar Zeit, um euch aber die Wahl zumindest in einer Kategorie vereinfachen zu könne, präsentiere ich euch hier die gemeinsamen Top 10 von 14 Musikblogs in Deutschland, darunter auch ich als Repräsentant dieser Seite. Platz 10: Fever Ray – s.t. Das vermeintlich kälteste Album des Jahres, zumindest wenn man die verzerrte Stimme und die dumpfen Synthiesounds die ersten Male auf sich wirken lässt. Doch hinter dem eisigen Wasserfall sind ungeahnte Landschaften zu finden. Ruhig stapft das [...]