a grape dope - "hellz bellz" (download) A Grape Dope is the mostly-instrumental, beat-oriented project of Tortoise drummer John Herndon . This lost gem from boasts some pretty impressive, and somewhat out-there instrumentation. It also features guest vocals on " Red Hat Attack " by Anticon 's Doseone . John also did a remix as A Grape Dope for the Themselves remix record The No Music of AIFFs [...]
MERCOLEDI' 25 NOVEMBRETORTOISE@ CIRCOLO DEGLI ARTISTI Via Casilina Vecchia 42 - Roma infoline: 06 70305684; info@circoloartisti.itporte/bo tteghino 20:00concerti 21:00ingresso 18 euro + 2,70 euro d.p.Band fondamentale dell'indie-rock anni '90, fonte d'ispirazione per band come Battles e Holy Fuck, ritornano con un nuovo disco capolavoro tra math-rock, progressive, psichedelia sintetica e post-rock. questo e' il "dopo-rock" rappresentato dall'album "Beacon of ancestorship" dei Tortoise.Il mondo dell'indie [...]
Ombarrops! is the new album from quirky Polish band The Car Is On Fire. The Warsaw-based group recruited John McEntire (Tortoise, Sea & Cake) to produce the record. The result is a set of songs that sound like the bastard lovechild of Stereolab and The Fall. Check out the title track and more here. It's quite entertaining stuff. The Car Is On Fire's website The Car Is On Fire's Myspace
Ever changing, totally rad group Trans Am is gearing up to release a new record sometime next year, but till then, they have decided to release an antcipated Double Live Record/DVD called What Day is it Tonight? . This coming from their amazing label Thrill Jockey (Tortoise, The Fiery Furnaces). For the life of me I couldn't find the date that it will be released, but if you pre order now you will be send a sneak peek of the DVD. So back to the record/dvd. This 17 track live recording was done [...]
" C4 , the world's first Choral Composer/Conductor Collective, is a unique vocal ensemble in New York City dedicated to performing music composed in the last twenty-five years." A big vocal choir that doesn't do Handel's "Messiah"? Yep, they do nutty stuff like Karen Siegel 's " Obsessions from the Twittersphere" and " Confessions from the Blogosphere ," both of which collect actual internet blather, to both humorous [...]
So I had way more in store for you today but my computer is on some tortoise and the hare type sh*t. Want to know which one it's running like? I'll give you a hint and it's not the hare. So with that said I'll leave you tonight with something special to hold you over until tomorrow. Yep, some new Drizzy. Featuring appearances from Lil Wayne (of course), Jay-Z, Birdman, and more. And if you're just joining the "in" crowd, let me catch you up to speed; Click HERE for "Heartbreak [...]
Esta es una época de retrospecciones. Nos acostumbramos a los análisis exhaustivos de los cambios, reinvenciones y resurgimientos que esta década nos ha traído en materia musical. Hablamos de la influencia de bandas como Panda Bear, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens y Arcade Fire, pero en algo estamos errando: no reparar en el futuro. La nueva década que se avecina, a pesar de ser una división numérica de nuestro calendario, debe marcar algún cambio en el complejo escenario musical. Esas sutilezas a veces no son notorias, pero este año ha venido marcado por ciertas corrientes que llevaron la [...]
Maverick Chicago natives, Tortoise return to London for a special one-off date at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the London Jazz Festival 2009.The show on 22 November features material from their acclaimed new album Beacons of Ancestorship. This is Tortoise's sixth full-length album and their first release of new material in five years,featuring nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise,
Seefeel are a post-rock group (whatever you take to mean by that term). They get on these pages as they were quite influential in their quiet way and becuase they were on the sainted Warp Records for a short while. Seefeel formed during 1992 in London, England; with Mark Clifford on guitar, Mark Van Hoen on bass, Justin Fletcher on drums and Sarah Peacock on vocals and guitar. During 1992, Mark Van Hoen was replaced by Daren Seymour on bass. They released their first EPs and first album on [...]
cred-roberto duran Tortoise - Sexual for Elizabeth Weezer - Tired of Sex Jack Penate - So Near Just in case you wanted to do something positive this holiday season for that special someone, I have the answer to your desire! Earth Erotics says it best: We believe that Doing it Green is crucial for sustaining a healthy sex life and a healthy planet. Be [...]
An album that not only set the tone for the new Chicago prog rock, but also cemented the musical niche for Thrill Jockey Records. Here, multi-instrumentalists John McEntire, Dan Bitney, John Herdon, Douglas McCombs, and Bundy K. Brown share equal responsibility and trust in each other, pouring out a thick stew of meditative grooves, light production experiments, and rusty guitar-string ambience -
Next week will be a big week, but we don't want to ruin the surprise. Instead, we'll just recommend that you get ready! and further your anticipation by offering another stellar edition of our Friday Mixtape. As always, included is the week's mix of the best new singles, remixes, and covers, along with mp3s from some up-and-comers you just might want to check out. Enjoy... and see you next week! NEW Singles: "Vampire Lake" by The Builders & the Butchers "Baltimore Blues [...]
Moments of creepy post-rock brilliance give way to jarring stops and starts, but as a complete package Chimeric meshes only slightly more often than not. Radian are doing their thing here, and if it works for you, it's because you knew you were going to dig it to begin with. Reminds us of: Tortoise | Amon Tobin | Trans Am Radian: ( Website | Myspace ) radian chimeric [...]
Filed under: News , Video It's impossible as all heck to try to pin down Tortoise 's sound, so just what the heck do the guys in the band listen to for fun? Bassist Doug McCombs and drummer John Herndon were caught shopping at Amoeba Records lately and bared the contents of their shopping bags for Amoeba's film crew. Interestingly, both band members separately purchased the vinyl edition of Earthless' 'Live at Roadburn.' "I bought this live record because they were on my mind, because we're playing a show with [...]
Hellz and Mosley Tribes have teamed up to design two limited colourways of the Chambers sunglasses. One has a black frame with a red interior and grey gradient lenses, while the other is a tortoise frame with a jade green interior and spice brown gradient lenses. Each frame features a gold metal plaque on the inside as well as the Hellz familiar cracked bottle metal plaque at the end of the left temple. [...]
Hello Blogosphere, I'd like to introduce you to Waterloo, Ontario's Pick A Piper . A collective featuring Brad Weber of Caribou , Angus Fraser of Tenth of May , Dan Roberts ex- Winter Equinox and Clint Scrivener, they've written a handful of carefully crafted songs of tribal psych with heavy doses of percussion and electronic flourishes. Gorgeous textures, interesting vocal melodies. Very refreshing for my ears. You'll also like this if you're not normally satisfied with one drum kit on the stage. Pick A Piper perform with two (like bands [...]
Fun promo video here of John and Doug from Tortoise doing a little shopping at Amoeba while on tour.
The idea of the "drummer as bandleader" is an oddity in most circles. The mind typically jumps to Phil Collins, or at least a goof with one of those Garth Brooks microphones that wraps around the head. Even in the jazz world, the drummer/composer isn't super-common. There are plenty of good examples, to be sure (Max Roach, Gene Krupa), but the composing is typically left to more melodic instrumentalists: the pianists, trumpeters, saxophonists. But, lately, it seems that the seemingly odd combination is popping up left and right. Chicago's Mike Reed is a great drummer, but his People Places and [...]
Being bored late at night after getting home from work can be a good or bad thing. Typically it just has me sitting down watching sleazy horror films until I feel like it's a good time to head to bed or in other cases I start perusing various online retailers and the money sucking land that is eBay. Sometimes it unearths riches; sometimes it turns up some duds. The San Francisco based group Ventid find themselves among the notables that have turned up in recent weeks with their debut album [...]
Risil is a group headed by Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse 73, Savath Savalas) consisting of Tyondai Braxton (Battles), Roberto Carlos Lange (Savath Savalas), Ryan Rasheed (LebLaze), Alejandra and Claudia Deheza (School of Seven Bells), John McEntire (Tortoise), Eva Puyuelo Muns (Savath Savalas), Zach Hill (Hella), Laurenz Pike (Triosk, Pivot) and members of Sunn O))). "Non Meters Vol. 1" is a densely layered excursion into a melodious, textured, fuzzy, droned out, powerful noise. The beauty found in this release is immaculate. The Deheza sister's voices jump back and forth singing "There Has to Be" and [...]
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
Another track from Lil Wayne’s mixtape No Ceilings which is dropping on Halloween. In this one Wayne goes over Jay-Z’s Run This Town single that featured [...]More about Lil' Wayne
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
I’m not too familiar with Bubblegum Sci Fi. To tell you the truth, tonight was the first I’ve heard of them when this track showed [...]More about Passion Pit
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
