Joywave are a band that have proven themselves to be somewhat of musical chameleons; effortlessly able to shapeshift to anything from electro-pop to indie-rock. It's a trait that has also enabled them the imagination needed to rework a song and transform it from what was, into an entirely new production. Which is the case with [...]
They 802s seem to have been making a comeback lately, and a new genre has emerged in the past few years which is 802s inspired Synth Pop; or in other words, the 802s called and they want their music back. ... Continued
You'd think Joywave would take a tiny breather after the release of the 88888 mixtape. Nope. There's still remixes to be shared. This time, the Rochester band gets their hands on Big Black Delta's single, "Side of the Road". It's a pretty eclectic rework, with more vocal effects than you can shake a stick at. Yeah, I used that phrase. Deal with it. I'm currently sampling Big Black Delta's debut, self-titled album. If you're a fan of dark, moody synths, I recommend checking it out here . [...]
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Last Monday of the month: ► Jonathan Bates' Big Black Delta celebrates the release of its debut album by headlining It's a School Night at Bardot. Shy Girls, Emma Ejwerts and the Last Internationale also play. Here's BBD's video for the single "Side of the Road," and an update on how the album came to fruition (twice.) ► Toronto trio Metz roars (and we mean roar; our ears are still ringing from SXSW ) into the Troubadour for a show with White Lung and Mrs. Magician. [...]
Incoming: The Rolling Stones, the Killers, Metallica, Los Lobos, Paramore, HIM, Built to Spill, Metz, Alice Russell, Robyn Hitchcock, Marnie Stern, Killing Joke, Chad Valley, Big Black Delta, Clinic, Vietnam, Keaton Simons, Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, Javelin, Maps & Atlases, Little Boots, Pyyramids, Os Mutantes, Lisa Germano, Armin Van Buuren, Helmet, K's Choice, Saint Motel, Sleepy Sun, Tenacious D Above: British soul singer Alice Russell released her latest, "To Dust," in February on the Tru Thoughts label, and director Steve Glashier's video for the song "Heartbreaker" features a very [...]
Now this is an interesting one. Here’s a man who knows how to write a hook alright. His perfect recipe of synth pop mayhem underlined by some assaying vocals and even a gospel choir drives us crazy. Case in point: BIG BLACK DELTA alias Jonathan Bates' brand new long player Big Black Delta is a The post Big Black Delta - Big Black Delta appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
Single day tickets for Downtown Music Festival , which hits multiple LES venues and includes Black Hippy (aka Kenrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock all playing together), Purity Ring, Earl Sweatshirt, Sky Ferreira, DIIV, Palma Violets, Trash Talk , and more, go on sale today at 11 AM. Tickets for The Specials at shows at The Paramount in Huntington, NY and Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park go [...]
If Jonathan Bates' output as the founder and frontman of Mellowdrone constituted an experimental seven-part anthology, then his self-titled LP as Big Black Delta is a sonic prequel highlighting the many sources of inspiration for his earlier lo-fi project. Free of lyrics, guitars, and percussion, the sterile "PB33 is an assortment of mellow synthesizer drones that evoke imagery of isolated exploration à la past-collaborator M832s cinematic scores. It's how Bates modifies this underlying theme that leads to often extensive differentiation between his solo efforts. On "Dreary Moon", it is a collection of orchestral strings that provide [...]
Check out album releases for this week. So what's out this week (April 9th) in terms of music? Well, for this week, expect new album releases from James Blake, Dawes, The Knife, Neon...
To excite a bit more fervor and zeal (if you're cool like us and into BBD, you should already be brimming with excitement) for their upcoming debut record, Big Black Delta today released the official remix to the their recently P4K Best New Music'd "Side of the Road". Courtesy of UK producer Emperor Machine, this dub remix grinds out the original, processes it down and then smooths it out into a thinly compressed groove-heavy gem. We're doing a head bop and so should you as B32s got your premiere waiting below just a Soundcloud player away. Bop to it with [...]
The new video from Mellowdrone vocalist/bassist Jonathan Bates has M83 professing his love, and viewers wishing Fred Astaire was born in the age of Tron as Big Black Delta illustrates so well for us in "Side of the Road." It's digital art, taking frames and motion captures, and splicing and mixing them into an amazing dual-tone treat for [...]
A brand new music video from Big Black Delta, the project of Mellowdrone vocalist/bassist Jonathan Bates. The clip presents him dancing in the digital world and it was directed by Warren Kommers. Get it on iTunes
. Nós amamos uma penca de synth-pop, mas, pelo menos neste ano, nenhum deles conseguiu soar tão grandioso dentro do gênero quanto o projeto de Jonathan Bates, Big Black Delta , e seu single "Side Of The Road" ( leia a resenha da música ). O melhor da história é que a canção não tenta ser pretensiosa, e é exatamente assim, na mais pura diversão, que podemos ver Bates no clipe da faixa, lançado hoje. Os sintetizadores à-la M83 da canção são acompanhados por um visual futurista e uma pista de dança que [...]
Time to walk home on the SIDE OF THE ROAD whilst the BIG BLACK DELTA dance in a digital world in their new video.
In February when we got news of the forthcoming "proper" release of Big Black Delta's self-titled debut, we joked that main man Jonathan Bates seemed to be making his electro with a ferocious light saber . In Warren Kommers' video for the single "Side of the Road," he's certainly cutting a swath into another dimension. Not unlike his strobe-addled live show, "Side of the Road" takes sound and vision, even digitized, forge a powerful connection with our inner circuitry. Plus, those are some dance moves. The album is out April 9. ||| Previously: [...]
Watch 'Side Of The Road' below. Big Black Delta will see daylight shortly. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Big Black Delta - Side Of The Road
I hadn’t heard of Big Black Delta, the solo music-making moniker of one Jonathan Bates , until just recently, even though the project appears to have been a going concern for some time now. Oh well, the music side of the internet is far too vast. Things are going to slip by you. Best to remember that it doesn’t matter how old a release or a track is, that just because something didn’t just come out (or hasn’t even come out, yet you somehow find it in your possession) doesn’t mean that it can’t be great or [...]
A little more worse for wear, Consequence of Sound saw the sun rise on Friday morning, signaling we'd made it through yet another day of South by Southwest . While our latest trip to this plentiful musical buffetsaw fewer big-name acts then Wednesday (sans the almighty Sound City Players, of course), the acts we did manage to catch proved to be just as entertaining and thought-provoking. Check out our full coverage, and be sure to check back in tomorrow for more of our madcap adventures. And if you don't hear from us again by 1 p.m. tomorrow, please call our [...]
Los Angeles will have a massive presence at the 2013 South by Southwest Music Festival , which officially kicks off today in Austin. More than 200 southern California-based acts will play the event, which in recent years has grown from a symposium-and-showcase shindig to a mass-marketed monster that has more in common with spring break than doing business over barbecue. There's still some of that, to be sure, but now brands, their event planners and armies of interns have descended on the Texas capital clamoring to earn a moment with a target demographic whose attention span is [...]
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