![[Watch] – We Are Trees Perform “Sunrise Sunset” On New York Rooftop](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3140109_lg.jpg)
This seems to happen, and has happened, with a lot of other music sites and blogs, whereby they post about a new artist who's trying to get some coverage of their music and over the course of a year or so they watch that artist blossom and grow and get the kind of acclaim and recognition they deserve. My first of this kind is We Are Trees , the brainchild of James Nee out of his bedroom in Virgina Beach in Virginia Land. Since I first posted about him I've listened to his beautifully-crafted EP [...]
I don't know how I've managed to forget to post much of anything about one of my favorite albums of the year, but it appears I have. So, because I'm still incredibly stuck on "Forget", the debut album from Twin Shadow , here's possibly my favorite song from the album along with the music video. It's hard for me to encapsulate what this band sounds like, but mixing Morrissey with R&B might be a good place to start, but certainly not where my description would end. The album came out on Chris Taylor's Terrible Records imprint and [...]
I like to keep in touch with artists who reach out to me or that I contact about featuring them on the site. When James Nee, the mastermind behind We Are Trees , first got in touch with me back in July we got to email-chatting and have kept in touch since, and the dude's one of the nicest guys around. Actually, scratch that, I don't think describing someone as "nice" is fair. Let's say he's the coolest motherfucker on the block, that sounds better. As I perused Rollo & Grady last week [...]
Twin Shadow really seem to have captured the imagination of folk the blogosphere over. Hell, even the likes of P4K gave their debut album Forget (released via 4AD) an 8.4. So what do I know about the band? Well, not an awful lot really. I'm pretty new to the party, but what I do know has intrigued me enough to find out some more and post this. I know that the first couple of [...]
Cripes. It's been a stupidly busy week, and I've been quiet. Lots to catch up on, but first, the weekly irrelevance that is Monday Music: Warpaint - Elephants ( mp3 ) Sometimes I swear there's a holy man in a holy room with a big tombola full of names of upcoming bands, and every week he plucks one out, and says of the chosen act: your time is now. Listening in via iPad, his humble disciples like Paul (The Guardian) and Dan (Sunday Times) act accordingly, and said band goes overnight from might-be to sure-thing. It's happened now with [...]
Deerhunter - "Helicopter" Deerhunter's latest full-length effort, Halcyon Digest , is a softer album with less rockers than you'd expect. Does that mean you shouldn't check it out? No, but it does mean that Microcastle still crushes it in my book. Mavis Staples - "You Are Not Alone" Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy produced legendary Mavis Staples' [...]
![[Listen/Download] – Miami’s Finest Vs. Grizzly Bear – “Summertime”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2855626_lg.jpg)
This post is a "QuickPick". QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that's sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it's so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I "star" it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later. If it's still as good as it was a day before then it goes up on the site, but sometimes I get backlogged and can't get through writing [...]
Twin Shadow frontman George Lewis starts off Chris Taylor-of-Grizzly-Bear-produce d track "I Can't Wait," off his upcoming full-length Forget , with a somewhat seasonally inappropriate statement: “I cannot wait for summer.” Over a sonic forest of looping guitars, driving, cymbal-heavy drums, throbbing bass, and delicate synth arpeggios that sound like fairies appearing in films, Lewis goes on to describe, in a silky-smooth voice that recalls Morrissey at times, an ecstatic, drunken summer evening, full of over-amorous men and women who just want nice guys who dance without groping (in other words, your average high school dance). It’s a pretty song, [...]
Both albums by Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band were savaged in Pitchfork reviews . Listening to Where the Messengers Meet , the latest release from this Seattle band, I can't say that the latest review (and a lowly 3.3 rating) is deserved. Sure, it's an overwrought sound in stretches and the album overall is uneven but there are high points, including the songs At Night, Messengers and Hurrah . The band, which may appeal to fans of Grizzly Bear or Dirty Projectors , plays the Empty Bottle [...]
Hey you, yeah you. You! You there, hey, you, your job right now as the reader of what I am saying to you right now is to stop what you are doing, right now. Stop eating that corn dog, your pathetic. Quit refreshing your Gmail, you didn’t get the job bro. Go ahead and even [...]
In just a few days (this Sunday), Mixcloud.com will premiere our "Celebration of Curation" Mix for their month-long one year anniversary party. The mix comes courtesy of our multi-talented friend Brainbheats. Before the mix drops this Sunday, I want to put the spotlight on one of my favorite cuts from it, Childish Gambino's Grizzly Bear sampling "Bitch, Look At Me Now". Childish Gambino nee Donald Glover may not be a household name is, but I'm willing to bet you're familiar with his other projects. In recent years he's spent time in the writer's room for 30 [...]
Twin Shadow es George Lewis Jr., un tipo bastante excéntrico de Brooklyn que además de tener una extraña fijación por los coches, sonidos y hairstyles vintage , es todo un verdadero crooner a lo 80's Pop . Recientemente lanzó su álbum debut " Forget " de manera independiente por el increíble precio de un dólar a través de su sitio web . Si eres fan de Ed Banger , entonces cabe mencionar que, Lewis trabajó junto con Mickey Moonlight en un par de tracks del disco, así que sin duda vale [...]
There's an interesting pairing at Schubas Wednesday night. Electro-pop Norwegians Casiokids headline a show opened by Chicago's Light Pollution , which is more of an atmospheric psych band that sometimes sounds like Grizzly Bear . Witchcraft - Light Pollution Fot i hose - Casiokids
MP3's of artists playing the NJ area this week! Local Natives - Airplanes ( Buy ) Cults - Most Wanted ( Free ) Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull ( Buy ) Dr. Dog - Stranger ( Buy ) Pujol - Too Safe ( Buy ) Neon Indian [...]
If Ed Droste was dead, We Are Trees would be his spirit, his living embodiment. That's not to say that We Are Trees is just a Grizzly bear rip-off, far from it. James Nee, the guy behind We Are Trees, may sound like "The Droste" but it's not just his voice that encompasses We Are Trees, there's the impressive musicianship, his intricate guitar playing, the beautiful lyrics, the production (the engineering on the EP was done by Mark Padgett, the bassist with Mae), all of which come together so well that pretty much within the the first minute of the first [...]
This week's Friday Five comes to you from sunny LA. Enjoy thoroughly. "All Summer" Kid Cudi x Best Coast x Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij from Converse The Electronic Anthology Project (Built to Spill) “Eels” (Else remix) from s/t [ order here ] Department of Eagles “While We’re Young” from Archives 2003-2006 Arcade Fire “No Cars Go” (live) from Impossible Music Fest 2010 Bowerbirds [...]
That song title might sound familiar to you and if you've been reading this site for the last couple of months or so then you've probably even seen it on here. That's because it's a cover of the always excellent L.A. band The Delta Mirror. I posted about The Shimmies back at the start of July and mentioned back then that they have a pretty good relationship with The Delta Mirror, two of the guys from the band guest-vocalarisering on The Delta Mirror's "He Was Worse Than The Needle He Gave You", and now they're covering [...]
Francis & The Lights - It'll Be Better MGMT and Drake tourmates release their first full length, following several hypeworthy EPs. Led by the absurdly named Francis Farewell Starlite, their soulful sound has been compared to Prince and Peter Gabriel, but this is no rehash. Francis & The Lights - "For Days" Buy at Insound Department of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006 This set of early [...]
It's pretty sweet when a band you really like starts recommending new music to you. That's what Craig from The Delta Mirror did with The Shimmies. Not only did he recommend them but he even sent me a couple of their songs too. The four-piece are from a land far far away in Dagobah System, California, their sound reminiscent of Grizzly Bear meets Conor Oberst meets a Jeff Buckley-fronted Band Of Horses. High-arching guitar build-ups, resonating vocals and drum skins hit like they're going out of fashion make their upcoming album "To All Beloved Enemies" sound like a [...]
There was a line for ID check. There was another line for beer tickets. There was another line for beer. There was a designated area where you had to drink the beer. Once we figured out the system, got the beers, found the one security guard who didn't care if we left the beer pen to go sit on the grass and drink the beers, everything suddenly became amazing. The venue's new sound system was crystal clear, the sun began to set over the Manhattan skyline and a breeze cooled things off. Grizzly Bear's chilled-out sounds created the [...]
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Factory Made Future
The Sound of the Overground
Some Of It Was True!
The Stranger Dance
Pretty Much Amazing
All the Young Punks
The Gumshoe Grove
noiselab
The NJ Underground
Unnecessary Umlaut
The Tale of The Tape
Blackraptor.
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A Little Something For Everyone At EDC New York
