Something I just couldn't get on board with during SXSW was getting up early. I was staying in a room with six other people and every single morning I would wake up and everyone would be gone by 11AM. Screw that! I stayed up until fucking 3AM! I need some God damn energy for the next day or else I'm dragging ass for rest of the day. Especially in this Texas heat. So I woke up at the crack of noon and made my way to devour some Waffle Tacos. It exactly [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 49 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by the Eels, Blaqstarr, Dag For Dag, The Clutters, S.C.U.M., The Skull Defekts, Vanity Theft, W-H-I-T-E, The Fervor and more! So much more! DATE: 03-31-11 WRITER: Don Loder How ya doin' ya little junkie so-an'-so you? I'm feelin' pretty good about myself today, me. Other than artfully dodgin' the authorities on a coupla "business ventures" over da weekend, I still managed ta lift a fat bag o'SWAG [view [...]
Yes, I know it's been 4 years. Still, most people have never taken the time to listen to this split. It's an incredible album, and you should hear it. Now, everyone knows these two bands. Gifts From Enola is pretty much a poster boy for everyone's favorite label, the Mylene Sheath. The black horse here is You.May.Die.In.The.Desert., a band as good as their name is long and annoying to type out. Often in the shadows of their labelmates (Beware of Safety, If These Trees Could Talk...etc.), Y.M.D.I.T.D. honestly has their best performance here until their [...]
Once again, this was an album that I never got to until late. Not because I didn't care, but because I didn't even know it existed. Honestly, I am a big Mylene Sheath fan, so I'm ashamed I never got into this until like 2 months after it came out, but anyway... All right, this was one of those records going in that I had high expectations on, considering how much I loved Bears in the Yukon , and I was not disappointed. You'd be shocked at how little surprised you are at how surprising [...]
So, as of this here post no mysterious benefactor has emerged to finance a last minute jaunt down to Austin. Hence, I am not going to SXSW . I already went through Part 1 of the Unofficial SXSW 2010 Showcasing Artists torrent , you can see the results of that... here . Here is a selection of mp3s from bands featured in Part 2 . This time I was able to whittle down the list to 28 songs. Some of these tracks will probably be familiar to you, while others not so much. Listen. [...]
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Shit, when it comes to really writing about Robert Pollard, I won't bullshit you - I wouldn't/don't know where to start or even end. Pollard is literally a music making machine, producing/releasing albums at more than a startling pace. He has been responsible for some of the best indie rock of the past three decades, namely through Guided By Voices (which disbanded in 2004) and his other numerous projects (Acid Ranch, Airport 5, Circus Devils, and the Takeovers) plus his own solo work. He also created his own record label, where he has released his most recent work on. I [...]
Here's a little last minute announcement if you're still scratching your head, wondering what to do this evening. Swing by the Turf Club for the following instrumental rock outfits. Is it just me, or is there something very suggestive about that squid? Links Gifts from Enola - Website / Myspace paragraphs - Myspace Falcon Arrow - Myspace peoplearemagnets - Myspace
WED 7.29 @ Turf Club $4 | 21+ | 9:30PM Paragraphs Gifts From Enola Falcon Arrow peoplearemagnets
Gifts from Enola is the kind of band you go see and then whisper to you friend next to you, "Whoa, these guys really put on a great performance." The post-rock band from Virginia came to Portland and really showed the audience a true post-rock show. Three guitarists played in an animated and chaotic harmony. The sounds they produce are like stories and roller coaster rides, filled with the creeping quiet interrupted by the inevitable explosive arrangement of noise. This gets said plenty, but one thing that really gets me when I watch bands [...]
Gifts From Enola It was already late at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, so I was really hoping tonight would be a success despite the venue being half full. Two decent bands proceeded instrumental act Gifts From Enola . Winfred E. Eye First up was Winfred E. Eye with their barn-burning hoedowns and in the Pogues-ian joyous-noise (a stomping "Lil Peck") and sweetly downered folkadelic intropsection (a Wilco-ian "Two Baby Moths"). It was an [...]
Monday edition! Okay yeah I'm late on the Bay Area post but if you saw how my weekend went you'd understand. Anyway, if you made it out to the Laura Stevenson show last night, consider yourself lucky, she's a special gal. Keep an eye on her. Okay, lets get started! Tonight Coldplay heads over to the Shoreline Amphitheatre to entertain the white people, post rock heroes Tortoise and Pit Er Pat are leaving the The Great American Music Hall in awe, folk metal band Wolves in the Throne Room hit [...]
So far this year has been quite musically mindblowing. But wasn't that kind of expected? With even more anticipated albums, songs, and tours on the horizon, 2009 is shaping up to be one of the better years on the decade. Top 5 Albums That Met/Surpassed My Expectations Simplistic and a combination of years of timeless work. Meticulously crafted and easy to get obsessed with. An instant classic. [...]
Gifts From Enola Sometimes Virginia based instrumental act Gifts From Enola start with a whisper and end with a scream, but on their latest album, 'From Fathoms', they begin with a scream and proceed into a symphonic odyssey that Aaron Copland might have composed if he'd played electric guitar. The sophomore effort from this band of epic-style prog-rockers, 'From Fathoms' was released on June 9th-and changes all preexisting assumptions of what 'experimental post rock' is supposed to sound like. Intense, instrumental music infused with fatalistic affect, this is a requiem [...]
Gifts From Enola are an instrumental post-rock outfit from Virginia comprised of five or six members (depending on who's counting) who specialize in intricately arranged, guitar-heavy rock ranging from chugging metal climaxes to delicate, spacey interludes. The band created some buzz with 2006's Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind and now they're back with From Fathoms, an eight-song, 57-minute odyssey that should have fans of the genre enraptured with carefully constructed and skillfully executed movements constantly shifting and evolving in both style and intensity. Though music of this type isn't usually my 'thing,' I found From [...]
Harrisonbug, VA's Gifts from Enola are in a difficult position. They are a post rock instrumental group that needs to set themselves apart from instrumental giants like Explosions in the Sky, Mono, and Mogwai and raising stars like Caspian and God is an Astronaut . The good news: they are doing very well at keeping afloat in a over-saturated genre filled with wannabees and copycats. The very good news: Gifts will be releasing their second full length, From Fathoms on Mylene Sheath Records on June [...]
The Godspeed You! Black Emperor School of Thought Like Explosions in the Sky, GY!BE has amassed a massive following. So much so that they were even name-dropped in the recent film Pineapple Express. Unfortunately though, any time someone hears a long instrumental song with a string section these days, they immediately pose the question "Is that [...]
Post-Rock is Cold Dead Genre? (2004-???) Albums like F#A#(infinity) in 1998 by GY!BE, Young Team in 1997 by Mogwai, and The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place in 2003 by Explosions in the Sky have become the blueprints that many fledgling bands have used to sculpt their own sound. The fact that modern post-rock bands [...]
This the culmination of hundreds of artists making thousands of albums in one short year. So here they are, the 10 best records of 2008. Please, enjoy. (Read about albums 20 - 1 here.) *** 10. Feed the Animals - Girl Talk (original review) Illegal Art Buy/Download Feed The Animals, as told by Chris Sanders. It was his pick for album of the year, so I'll let him tell you all about it. 9.
This the culmination of hundreds of artists making thousands of albums in one short year. So here they are, the 10 best records of 2008. Please, enjoy. (Read about albums 20 - 1 here.) *** 10. Feed the Animals - Girl Talk (original review) Illegal Art Buy/Download Feed The Animals, as told by Chris Sanders. It was his pick for album of the year, so I'll let him tell you all about it. 9.
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