The GFP inbox is approached more with trepidation than excitement these days. Not that there is anything wrong with the content, more that it's a little worrying to see just how many emails have piled up since our last visit. There must be so many wonderful bands/albums/songs that slip through the cracks but thankfully Alpaca Sports wasn't one of them. Andreas Jonsson got in contact with us last week and we instantly fell for his subtle and catchy brand of indie-pop. Hailing from Gothenberg in Sweden, Andreas has recorded his debut single with producer Kalle Von Hall [...]
Image edited by Ben Kramer We at Rollo & Grady are excited to announce our 3rd annual feature in which we ask some of our favorite artists to list their top 10 albums of 2011. Be on the lookout tomorrow for our "Top 10 List" featuring selections from music bloggers, music supervisors, journalists, DJs, and other music industry professionals. JOHN DWYER - THEE OH SEES total control - henge [...]
Sorry for the rather late start today, but Skip, my factotum, is here to put up the outside lights, and I am periodically called outside to check progress and to see if everything is in the right place then when the spotlight blew I had to go to the store to buy another one and some new garlands for the fence. Last year there was enough garland to span the fence but it seems to have disappeared over the summer. My artificial tree, the ugliest scrub pine you ever saw, is now up in the dining room. Over the summer, [...]
Mice Parade ou neste caso Adam Pierce , o mesmo que já editou dois álbuns com nomes bem portugueses, como o "Bem-vinda Vontade" de (2005) e "Obrigado Saudade" de (2004) lançou este " What It Means To Be left-handed ", que só pelo nome desperta alguma curiosidade. A verdade é que chama a si algumas participações como Caroline Lufkin (que participa na música "In Between Times"), que faz lembrar um pouco Blonde Redhead, e que tem uma linguagem a solo muito interessante, e os outros conseguem ligar perfeitamente com o estilo do nova yorquino. [...]
Инди-поп группы The Philistines Jr. позвали, кажется, всех своих друзей, чтобы собрать один большой альбом ремиксов и каверов. Это далеко не лучшая песня The National и я считаю, что дело в выбранной песне. Не уверен, будет ли вообще на этом альбоме что-то интересное, но можно попробовать. If a Lot of Bands Play in the Woods... 01 The Kissaway Trail: «(Set List Title: Cableguy)» 02 Locas in Love: «Bushaltestelle (The Bus Stop Song)» 03 Jónsi & Alex: «B» 04 Mates of State: «Tarquin's Half-Assed Mission Statement» [...]
MP3: Twenty Miles to NH Part 2 (The Philistines Jr. cover) - The National A banda de indie-pop The Philistines Jr . lançará um álbum de covers de seu último álbum, If a Band Plays in the Woods…? (de 2010). Várias bandas participam de If a Lot of Bands Play in the Woods…, incluindo Jónsi and Alex, Mercury Rev, Frightened Rabbit, Tokyo Police Club, Tapes 'N Tapes, The National , entre outros. Observe o tracklist: 01 The [...]
So you have a badge to CMJ - aren't you lucky! If you are anything like us, you are totally and completely overwhelmed by the extraordinary amount of great shows going on all over the city this week. In order to make your lives (and ours) a little bit easier, we sifted through all the info to give you the most interesting and promising official CMJ music showcases. Don't have a badge - no worries, we have a list of recommended free shows too (psst - right here )! [...]
We all know that donating to charity is A Good Thing, but there's no denying that getting ambushed by head-tilting, backwards-walking, clipboard-waving fundraising freaks on pedestrianised city streets makes you want to remove their fake smiles with a collection tin to the chin. Just Giving. Thankfully, there are ways you can be charitable that are less stressful than running a gauntlet of self-righteous do-gooders. Oxjam is an October-long music festival with hundreds of events around the UK, all organised by volunteers. Here's what's going [...]
Esperi is Scottish multi-instrumentalist Chris Lee-Marr. He makes poignant, delicate music that could be called folk if it weren't for the electronic loops and myriad instruments that he uses to construct his songs. There are so many ideas that go into each track. It allows Esperi to take Chris' delicate, lilting voice and put it on top of an array of sounds. Guitars, drums, keyboards, violins, bass, chimes, bells, kalimbas, xylophones mesh together and each instrument is used to build and build the sound until it swells into something beautiful. Live [...]
How many musicians can you cram into a farmhouse recording studio in Bastrop, Texas? Quite a few if you're a prolific artist and remixer, who clearly enjoys collaboration, such as Marc Bianchi. The special guests listing for this valedictory 'Her Space Holiday' album is a cast of thousands – or at least tens – with performances by members of City Light, Kling, Silver Swans, Mice Parade and Via Tania. The proximity of nearby musical haven Austin, where Bianchi now resides, has clearly had an influence. A goodbye feast for fans, this eponymous record is intended, according to Bianchi, [...]
With confessional songs like "The Luxury of Loneliness" and "Home Is Where You Hang Yourself", Her Space Holiday has always been very much Marc Bianchi's cathartic solo project. Naturally, then, the first song on his project-titled LP opens with "She tells me that time/Will heal all our wounds/She shows me the scar/Where the arrow went through." But the ensuing cacophony of voices, drum crashes (courtesy of Bianchi's former Indian Summer bandmate, Eyad Kaileh), flutes, violins, and horns seems uncharacteristic, to say the least. Despite the plethora of guest artists and novel sounds, Her Space Holiday reveals the [...]
The Glasses ' Story Problems was a favorite of mine from a few years back, so it's with great anticipation and excitement we receive Love Is Queer . Their latest LP is filled with just as many lovable pop hooks as the last album, both vocal and instrumental. This is twee-ish indie pop at its greatest; plenty of jangle-guitar, packed with male/female vocals, and filled with lyrics that simply make you happy. There's good reason I enjoy bands like this. Their music is bouncy and [...]
Long ago, in a time before CDJ's, DJ Controllers, Final Scratch and Serato, DJ Wool (half of The Glass and beatmaker for our recent Spoek collaboration ) put together a bedroom apartment mix on a stupidly hot summer day in 2002, recorded from vinyl, using an MPC1000 for samples and a Digitech fx unit onto an Adat. The tracks are a mixed bag of music that at the time were called "new school breaks" (though now, using the term 'new school' for something released in 2002 feels a bit strange) andd early 902s [...]
It's been some time since I've posted on this blog and I am happy that topomodesto gave me the opportunity to put together a mix. In the face of algorithm driven mix generation I hope that there continues to be interest in crafting diverse listening experiences. What may start as a matter of convenience easily translates into common practice. Collecting and orchestrating music samples into coherent ideas may be perfected by professional dj's, but I find my interests don't take root until I search out the connections between songs and artists myself. And this invariably leads [...]
Tuesday, July 12: Real Estate, Dent May, The Back Pockets @ The Earl Royal Bangs, Colourmusic, Tracer Metula @ 529 Cass McCombs Band, Lower Dens @ Drunken Unicorn Thursday, July 14: Cute Boots, Maren Parusel, What Happened To Your Fire Tiger? @ 529 Friday, [...]
If you're getting just a little sick and tired of all the airy lo-fi garage pop rock psychedelicness streaming out of the Atlanta airwaves these days, and are yearning for something with more power and backbone, Mice in Cars might just be your ticket. Heavy on '90s era post-grunge guitars, the Atlanta trio craft surprisingly versatile alt-rock that swings effortlessly from bruising riffs to well-textured Hum -esque space rock. Their latest EP, and third studio cut overall, Burn the Reader , was recently released on the group's Bandcamp page where it can be downloaded [...]
What's that they say about the best-laid plans of mice and men? Oh right, mother nature doesn't care about your best-laid plans, and she's going to do what she damn well pleases. Heavy storms have become a recurring theme at Rites of Spring, an otherwise fine mini-festival held on Vanderbilt University's campus every April. Just like last year, one of the days was delayed and cut short resulting in many acts being canceled. This time around, the storms came on Friday. The gates were scheduled to open at 4 p.m.. They officially announced a delay shortly after, with an open [...]
No one seems to have told Mazes that guitar music is supposedly dying a slow and tawdry death. If there is an End Of Year Poll for albums displaying 'Wide-eyed Joie De Vivre' the London quartet's debut effort, A Thousand Heys , should win at a canter. It is a cynicism-free headrush through Juke Box Utopia – a splash of REM, a dash of spiky post-punk and each song bristling with a devilish melody. Indeed there is a vintage feel to Mazes – they are a band who are not afraid to dress [...]
I'm very pleased to give you the march mixtape... marching to a different backbeat. These are all my favorite tracks from this month. I hope you enjoy them. Tracklist: Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten The Bynars - Asking Your Mom for Money Larry Gee - Yo Mama The Strokes - Taken For A Fool TV on the Radio - Caffeinated Consciousness Agesandages - So So Freely Jonny Corndawg - The Life of a Bear Larcenist - Leon The Dodos - [...]
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