You guys are some of my favorite people who I have never met. Even despite my affinity for tangents, metaphors and run-on sentences, you continue coming back to see what I've got to say about music. I think that's pretty great, and subsequently I've got a two-fer for you here. That's right... two songs from the same band, because they deserve a proper introduction.First, I want to talk about the
Last time Brooklyn's Kittens Ablaze were around, they released The Monstrous Vanguard . How was it? Good enough for us to name it as the seventh best album of 2009, beating out the likes of Pearl Jam, Jay-Z, Depeche Mode, and Them Crooked Vultures. Now they've returned two years later with the Branches EP, a record that doesn't hit the heights of their last, but it's still undeniably great. All five of the songs here feel focused and every instrument refined to a precise degree. But it's also a [...]
Brooklyn indie rockers Kittens Ablaze established themselves as a must-watch act with their debut The Monstrous Vanguard , which we named the seventh best album of 2009 . Two years later, the outfit returns with a new EP Branches , which you can stream below. The EP is available for purchase via Bandcamp and the first 200 downloaders can pick their own price. Also, for those in New York, Kittens Ablaze are holding a record release party at the Mercury Lounge later tonight; for details, head [...]
Brooklyn rockers Kittens Ablaze have remained fairly quiet since the release of our seventh favorite album of 2009 - The Monstrous Vanguard - but that will change early next year when the newly retooled quintet drop a brand new EP. Original members Tim Spellman, Michelle Young, and Jenny Bress are now joined by drummer Ben Bynum and bassist Colin Kasprowicz, and according to Sick of the Radio , they plan on dropping the untitled EP early next year. You can hear the first two songs from the effort - "Branches" [...]
And here is a BONUS monthly mix. What were we listening to during CMJ last year? Listen to the October 2009 CMJ Supplement Mix to find out... Downloadables: Set-Up (mp3) by RENMINBI Swim (To Reach The End) (mp3) by Surfer Blood South Of France (mp3) by Harlem Prize Fighter (mp3) by Golden Triangle 100 Flowers (mp3) [...]
And here is a BONUS monthly mix. What were we listening to during CMJ last year? Listen to the October 2009 CMJ Supplement Mix to find out... Downloadables: Set-Up (mp3) by RENMINBI Swim (To Reach The End) (mp3) by Surfer Blood South Of France (mp3) by Harlem Prize Fighter (mp3) by Golden Triangle 100 Flowers (mp3) [...]
Photography by Me ! Well friends, gotta head up to good ol' New York today, pop in, hit a trade show all day, get to the hotel, work on work emails, if there's anything left in me, go to a Wolf Parade show , get up the next morning, hit the trade show again, then fly back home tomorrow night! OOF! Busy two days!!! So, not sure of the posting situation here over that time, BUT wanted to leave you with a little something that was [...]
- Tonight You Belong To Me - Theme Song (Reprise)
- AC Newman - Introduction & Theme Song - Take On Me - Boarding
- Beirut - The Concubine
- Clem Snide - Born A Man - Take Off
- Elvis Perkins In Dearland - 1, 2, 3, Goodbye
- Elvis Perkins In Dearland - 1, 2, 3, Goodbye
- Gustaf Spetz - Burn It, Crush It, Smash It
- Gustaf Spetz - Burn It, Crush It, Smash It
- Heartless Bastards - Out At Sea
- Here We Go Magic - Everything's Big - NY Traffic No. 2
- Jeremy Enigk - Heaven - Some Really Bad Poetry
- Kittens Ablaze - This Machine Is Dying
- Neutral Milk Hotel - Where You'll Find Me Now - NY Traffic No. 1
- Patrick Watson - Daydreamer
- R.E.M. - Leaving New York - This Is Your Captain Speaking
- Rocky Horror Picture Show - BING - I'm Going Home
- Violent Femmes - World Without Mercy - Catching A Taxi To La Guardia Airport
wow. ich bin gerade schwer begeistert von dieser band, von diesem song. klingt im ersten moment ein wenig nach arcade fire in etwas weniger orchestral. sehr schön hat das auch das team von heytube umschrieben: Aber Vorsicht! So sehr hier auch Referenzen wie Ra Ra Riot, Arcade Fire, Cursive und die Pixies zutreffen, so sehr entgleiten einem die New Yorker im nächsten Moment in Zauberlandschaften voller orchestraler Beats, Psycho-Folk und hypnotischem Americana. Kittens Ablaze – This Machine is Dying Das [...]
Overwhelming. It's the word perhaps most used when describing Austin's South by Southwest . And while you would think the festival has become, well, less overwhelming over the years as we become accustomed to seeing the festival's annual bill featuring a thousand-plus acts, it really doesn't work that way. Today, SXSW 2010, which goes down from March 17-21, announced several hundred new acts, including The Magic Numbers, Alberta Cross, The xx, Rhymefest, Efterklang, Califone, Neon Indian, Marina & the Diamonds, Cymbals Eat Guitars, CoS' favorites Kittens Ablaze, and that Art Brut side-project Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now!. Click [...]
Of course I finally get a nice new camera, but neglect to also obtain the charger I need. Oy. So bear with me on these photos here. Anyways, it was a good show at The Studio this past Friday. I didn't quite have the energy to stay for Wild Yaks, but I'm sure they were fun and crazy as always. The night got off to a good start with the pleasant but somewhat unremarkable Beat Radio. pow wow! were up next, with a brand new line-up of five. You could tell that they still need to practice a bit with [...]
1. Kittens Ablaze - "Doom Gloom Buttercups"2. Jessie Baylin - "Mrs. Christmas"3. Tim Williams - "Murderous Air"4. El Perro Del Mar/Robyn Remix "Change of Heart – Rakamonie Remix"5. Sam Amidon - "How Come That Blood"6. Califone - "Apelike"7. We Are Wolves - "Holding Hands"8. Spirit Kid - "You Lit Up For Me"9. Holopaw - "The Art Teacher and The Little Stallion"10. Mass Fiction - "Slow Fat Animals"
Lay Low - By and By (mp3) * According to her press release, Paste Magazine called Lay Low "The Icelandic Patsy Cline," which leads me to believe that the Paste writers have never actually heard Patsy Cline. Lay Low's melodic indie-pop music is very pretty, but it doesn't even remotely sound like the big-voiced classic country star. Oh well, the PR trick worked since I obviously listened, liked, and posted about her music. It's just one of the more bizarrely inaccurate comparisons I've seen in a while. Her U.S. debut album Farewell Good Night's Sleep [...]
From the album The Monstrous Vanguard Time was, an indie rock band would catch more than a few sideways stares for enlisting a – gasp! – string player. So sacrosanct was the gilded less-is-more template favored by the genre's progenitors (one more time with feeling, Malkmus, Marsch, etc.) violinist and cellists made a band seem bloated, seem like grubby over-reachers. But that was then, back before the likes of Kittens Ablaze (and contemporaries Ra Ra Riot, Cursive, etc.) proved that indie rock wasn't [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Elizabeth and the Catapult : "Christmas with the Jews" [mp3] (zipped) other Elizabeth and the Catapult posts at Largehearted Boy Kittens Ablaze : "Gloom Doom Buttercups" [mp3] from The Monstrous Vanguard other Kittens Ablaze posts at Largehearted Boy Lay Low : "By and [...]
Kittens Ablaze Genre: Americana / Folk Rock / Indie From: Brooklyn, United States Time was, an [...]
"Lie to me in four good power chords"? Are you fucking kidding me? That actually WORKS as a lyric? Okay Kittens Ablaze , nice try. Give me back my high school chorus trip breakup poetry and teach me the secret of your polyrhythms and let me be in your band and we'll call it even. I can't believe you tried to pull that shit on me on a Monday. Kittens Ablaze "Gloom Doom Buttercups" Peep the Kittens @ Boston's Middle East 12/17, and [...]
A note: You'll need to find some headphones and your volume knob. You will need to put one of those on and turn the other one up - I assume you'll be able to figure which is which.Brooklyn's Kittens Ablaze sound absolutely nothing like burning felines but sound like an entire urban-center set to burn with accelerants introduced at the critical moment for maximum heat and disorder. Sonically
Kittens Ablaze is a six-piece Brooklyn based outfit that describe themselves as an indie-folk dance band. The group has an eclectic structure, their lead singer sits behind the drums while the other five members incorporate their specialties with, cello, violin, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano and synth . In 072 Kittens Ablaze made their debut with a five-track EP, and earlier this year, with assistance from Nic Hard (Bravery console-minder), the band returned with the album, 'The Monstrous Vanguard'. Kittens Ablaze is set to release a new 73 early 2010. [...]
Fero - " Rush " (mp3) Snow Patrol - " New Sensation " (mp3) from Late Night Tales Kittens Ablaze - " Gloom Doom Buttercups " (mp3) from The Monstrous Vanguard Cosmo Jarvis - " She's Got You " (mp3) from HUMANSYOUHITCH / SONOFABITCH Room for a Ghost - " Electronic " (mp3) from Voices
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