NEW Zealandish outfit Phoenix Foundation have risen once again with a new album, Fandango, and once again I'm struggling to review it, fandamnit. Because the group, on paper, are phairly good - crafting complex and orchestral and expansive and ambitious and yet accessible indie rock in the same vein as their previous breakthrough LP Buffalo. It's a lofty sound grounded in classic rock, but full of interesting psyche and prog and pop diversions. The problem for me is this sound, for all it's ambition, doesn't come out of the speakers as tangible, arresting work - it's like [...]
We should believe in each other's dreams "Wholy Holy" - Marvin Gaye Coming so soon after that month long holiday season of light, set during the deepest part of the yearly time when all larger land mammals are usually in deep slumber. In a still contentious and sometimes dangerous social climate, when the fatigue of struggling to resolve long standing and sometimes conflicting ideas of who we are, how we should move to a better place all the while enduring our cold longest nights and short fog-filled gray days. We the [...]
At Q nightclub this Sunday, January 20, join Masa, Kid Hops, and DJ Riz in the 13th annual Expansions celebration of Martin Luther King Day, proudly presented by KEXP. The three-host electronic music show, which comes to you live at Q, provides the perfect eclectic mixture of danceable electronic music from disparate corners of the music world to create an apropos expansive experience. Tickets are only $5 and the party starts at 9pm and ends at 2. Join the celebration!
It's been pretty cold in Seattle lately, but that shouldn't stop you from going out and catching some great live shows. Starting on Monday night, Bandoliers, The Van Allen Belt, and Fey Moth are at Chop Suey. On Wednesday, Los Lobos are at Benaroya Hall. Thursday night, Yo La Tengo play one of the last shows at Easy Street Records location in Queen Anne - come down and support one of the great local record stores (and a hefty discount!). There's also a Tribute to Uncle Tupelo with Transmissionary Six, Downpilot, The [...]
Beatmaster4000s Opening Mantra: Melodiesinfonie - Positive Vibes Melodiesinfonie - Spaziergange in der Natur Big Boi - She Said Okay The Jet Age of Tomorrow - Green Stars 813 - 360 Daedalus - Anticipation (featuring Om'mas Keith) Yancey Boys - The Throwaway (feat Frank Nitt) Flying Lotus - Untitled #7 Submotion Orchestra - It's Not Me, It's You Manni Dee 's Featured Message:: [...]
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown , as voted on by our listeners! Voting ends on Friday, December 21st , so let us know your favorites now , and tune in on Friday, December 28th to hear if your picks made the list! S.P.Y. // photo courtesy of Hospital Kid Hops' 2012 Top Ten Albums for Positive Vibrations [...]
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown , as voted on by our listeners! Voting ends on Friday, December 21st , so let us know your favorites now , and tune in on Friday, December 28th to hear if your picks made the list! Mohn // photo courtesy of Kompakt Records Masa's 2012 Top Ten Albums [...]
Blue Bottle Coffee, which has become a staple of the Bay Area, the equivalent of Stumptown Coffee for that area, has taken $20 million from venture capitalists , who are banking that the area chain can go national and maintain its coffee snob street cred. Oddly enough, the last coffee chain to take outside investment for national expansion was Stumptown. Would love to see both of them succeed even if they don't spread like Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts. Blue Bottle and Stumptown are both [...]
I Can Chase Dragons! nos presenta el video de su nuevo sencillo "Escoge Tu Animal". Su EP debut Expansión será re-editado por Arts & Crafts México y saldrá el próximo 23 de octubre unos cuantos días después de su presentación en el festival Corona Capital. Enjoy.
I just want to start out by saying, we are at the ground floor of a modern musical renaissance. I don't say that lightly. I would like to reference the extremes of 2012. Ultra Music Festival in Miami FL pre-sale tickets sold out within 20 minutes of being on sale and they added a third day. Coachella sold out the first weekend and put on an identical 3 day festival the following weekend, for the first time in history. International tickets for Tomorrowland went on sale April 7 at 11am and less than 2 hours later 100,000 tickets sold out. [...]
Growling and snarling like a medieval beast that was let loose into the non-fictional world by turning over the pages of The Lord Of The Rings too quickly, Honduras’s Dano Cube expertly hones a clean-cut, right-down-the-middle dichotomy of uncelestial pumping techno beats that sit proudly on the thrones of all eclectic driven dance floors that are centred around the BPM and not the genre title initially. Adopting a technique that values between 100 and 129 Beats Per Minute, Dano Cube is about to set the world alight with all of his mini fire extinguishers [...]
I Can Chase Dragons - "O'Donoju" Time is of the essence, and I'm afraid I'm running rather low on it this week and this particular evening. Listen. But don't thank me if you enjoy it, thank Paper Garden Records. More? Look below for the whole album. Expansión by I Can Chase Dragons!
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Después de unas cuantas presentaciones por Europa, I Can Chase Dragons! uno de los proyectos con mayor propuesta en México nos presenta el video de "Ceder y Crecer", mi track FAVORITO de su primer EP, Expansión . El video dirigido por Guillermo Gudiño, muestra de muy buena forma toda la locura de la rola. Enjoy. ♩ I Can Chase Dragons! - Ceder y Crecer
Ever since October of 2011 we have been blasting I Can Chase Dragons! at high volumes in the PGR office. Our fascination started with the release of the single "Diving For Sunken Treasures" and it snowballed from there. Maybe it was the catchy whistling in this debut track that put our ears on the edge of their seats, eagerly waiting each new release. So it is our pleasure to bring to you yet another amazing new track "Republique." ICCD! is the solo project of Julio Gudiño, lead singer of [...]
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Expansion Vol IX @ Hummingbird Ranch Music | More Info Our friends from The Service Company and Project Sweatshop are back to bring you Vol IX of their Expansion concert series. They've had the likes of Daedelus, Free The Robots, Nosaj Thing, TOKiMONSTA, DJ Craze, LDFD, and Flinch grace the intimate and beautiful Hummingbird Ranch. It's quite a drive out of Long Beach and even Los Angeles, but it's definitely worth it when you get there. This following will be performing this Saturday: Freq Nasty, Love In The Circus, Henry Strange, Imagika, Chris Jackson, Hot [...]
I Can Chase Dragons! ha sido una banda que ha estado rondando la web desde hace varios meses, esto gracias a su single "Diving For Sunken Treasure", soltado en el mes de julio, y doce semanas después con su segundo previo -" O'Donojú "- a su álbum debut. Para esto ya era notorio que su propuesta, así como todo Expansión , sería imprescindible en synth pop entre colado con ritmos populares mexicanos: algo parecido a lo que se ve en la banda principal de Julio Gudiño , [...]
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Expansion : Official | Facebook | Twitter | Tickets There has been a movement of music, art, and all things expressive growing at the Humming Bird Nest Ranch in Simi Valley. Most of us in the relative LA/OC/LB area never really venture much north of Hollywood for our adventures into music. But lately in the past few months the likes of Daedelus, Free The Robots, DJ Craze, Flinch, LDFD, and more have given us reason to expand our musical horizon into the more northern regions. Tonight we [...]
Upon my arrival back to LA this week, I heard a ton of buzz surrounding LDFD, a relatively new 19 year old electronic producer from Texas, who recently released his Outtacontrol EP on Daedelus' Magical Properties imprint. The EP is pretty remarkable, and is one of the few new American records I can think of, aside from Salva's Complex Housing , taking cues from the burgeoning progressive electronic scene in the UK right now. And though LDFD definitely has his own unique twist on things, there's an unmistakable influence on the title track from crews like Night [...]
"Expansions" fait partie de ces titres qui nous sont extrêmement familiers et qui par leur mélange de grooves nous procurent à chaque fois un plaisir renouvelé. Il est issu de l'album éponyme Expansions de Lonnie Liston Smith and The Cosmic Echoes sorti au début des années 70. Lonnie est issu d'une famille de musiciens, son père chanteur de gospel à Richemont en Virginie lui donne le tempo et le sens de la soul. À force de travail et de persévérance il rejoint ses idoles sur la scène et les clubs [...]
Hailing from good old Ireland comes another amazing electronic group dubbed P.A.L.A.S that make some intense Sci Fi/ Electro. They just released their debut album which is available for free download via Bandcamp. Check it out. Enjoy http://palas.bandcamp.com P.A.L.A.S. - Qb4 Ra4 (The Expanse) Remember to Like and Follow LYFSTYL on: [...]
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