Ten Best Albums of 2011 So, the thing with my list this year is that I've been fortunate enough to have either shared a stage, been on a movie soundtrack together, recorded an album with, spent many quality years as close friends, or at the very least, created some memories over some good times with all but two of the bands represented here. However, none of these disclosures swayed my opinion in naming their recordings as the best to come out this year, they're just all that damn good, and I just happen to know them. [...]
Guitar rockers making mind-bending electro — "Stitches," the first single from the Polinski album "Labyrinths," features two of them. Polinski is the nom de tune of Paul Wolinski of U.K. math-rockers 65daysofstatic , and the phased vocals on the track belong to Jonathan Bates, the Mellowdrone main man whose own foray into electro, as Big Black Delta , has yielded big, beautiful noise. The video, made by brothers Caspar and Josiah Newbolt with art by John De Lucca, plays out as a cool text-based game. The album will be out on Monotreme Records . [...]
With this promising debut, Big Black Delta assures us that the bandwagon '80s retro phase will not tip over on his watch.
Big Black Delta , projeto do ex-vocalista do Mellowdrone Jonathan Bates, apresenta o video de Betamax , faixa do primeiro álbum BBDLP1 , lançado esse ano. Big Black Delta, que já foi apresentado aqui antes , é um projeto ambicioso e dos bons, que viaja pelo eletrônico com referência claras ao Depeche Mode. Veja o simples video de Betamax e presta atenção no som.
Big Black Delta , projeto de Jonathan Bates, ex-Mellowdrone, lançará seu primeiro álbum, BBDLP1 , no dia 26 de setembro via Coming Home Records . Eles já foram tema de post passado com o single Huggin & Kissin e agora a banda volta com mais uma faixa para download. Uma forte influência da banda é o Depeche Mode, e a faixa Capsize deixa isso bem claro. MP3: Capsize (via Forkcast )
Big Black Delta é novo projeto de Jonathan Bates , vocalista e baixista da banda Mellowdrone . O primeiro EP, BBDEP1 está disponível para download no site oficial da banda, assim como outras faixas. O último single é Huggin & Kissin , uma poderoso faixa eletrônica que vai agradar bastante quem gosta de Depeche Mode. O álbum de estréia do Big Black Delta é esperado para esse ano ainda.
Big Black Delta is the solo project of Jonathan Bates - an outlet for his raw, abrasive, electronica-tinged pop music. He moved on from his last band, Mellowdrone, because he wasn't sure that it was working, which we can't quite understand because, for us, having a wikipedia page and being featured on the FIFA 07 soundtrack would be the height of our musical careers. It would be on our epitaph. As a discerning musician, what more can you ask for? But it seems that Mr Bates is more ambitious than that, and new single 'Huggin & Kissin' is [...]
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Jonathan Bates has been heavily involved in music for over ten years, having been a founding member of Los Angeles rock band Mellowdrone, and, more recently, working under the solo moniker of Big Black Delta . He recently released BBDEP1 , which included the track " Huggin' & A Kissin' ," and is currently hard at work on his debut LP, tentatively titled BBDLP1. You might also remember a certain track on the Tron: Legacy Reconfigured soundtrack, in which Big Black Delta remixed the Daft Punk track " Fall ," from the original [...]
Big Black Delta blows gorgeously hot, yet is ridiculously cool.
Band bios are full of lore, much of which should be enjoyed for entertainment value only. But even if the story behind War Widow is only partially true, it's one of my favorites: J.P Russel and Eric Blackwell met in a bar fight in which they were both defending a drag queen, a brawl that sent Russel to the hospital, and when Blackwell visited later, the pair bonded over "Steve Albini, baseball, homemade beer and early '80s heavy metal." Good stuff, all of it tangential to the fact that War Widow is into some dirty, heavy stuff — [...]
Continuing the surge of experimental-pop from Montreal, Pop Winds excel in diverging colorful psychedelia and indie-rock to create a sound that is familiarly addictive, yet still relatively incomparable. On "Owl Eyes", the duo's vocals combine for multiple harmonies over squirts of brass and synth arpeggios, the wide variety of synths sliding and squirming all over [...]
Shiloe is the scariest shoegaze band in Los Angeles and also one of the noisiest. They recently released a single, 'Daggers In Your Eyes' that suddenly got them airplay in a dozen cities. When they're not playing gigs around town, they're seeking out the paranormal. This interview by Scott Schultz .
Just a little mix for the weekend. enjoy. 1. Pantha Du Prince "Suzan" 2. Vaselines - No Hope 3. Neon Indian - Terminally Ill 4. Mellowdrone - Lady In Her Underwear 5. OldCanes - Little Bird Courage 6. Holy Fuck - Royal Gregory 7. Lightning Bolt - Birdy 8. Frankie Rose - Thee Only One 9. Cruisin'Gang - America 10. [...]
I'm impressed that Andy and I have not duplicated any songs between us thus far. I find that impressive because we wouldn't have started writing this thing together unless we had at least similar tastes. There are certainly some songs on his list that will eventually make it ...
I'm impressed that Andy and I have not duplicated any songs between us thus far. I find that impressive because we wouldn't have started writing this thing together unless we had at least similar tastes. There are certainly some songs on his list that will eventually make it onto mine. I'm specifically referring to one he chose to write about this week. I don't know if there are any on my list he thinks he will add because I haven't asked him. But nonetheless I am still slightly impressed we have gone so far with [...]
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Image From Here Trying to keep up with what is new. Will try to do this every week. Below are five albums I picked out of the new releases for August 25th, 2009. Arctic Monkey's Humbug was also released on the 25th. But, I decided not to post about it since about a million other bloggers have beat me to the punch. It's actually a decent album and I have nothing against the band. So, every week, on Wednesday or Thursday I will highlight some of the new releases for that week. This [...]
Myspace // "Elephant" [Audio] // "Wherever You May Go" [Audio] To be honest, I totally forgot about Mellowdrone. Their early EPs and first album were excellent pieces of dark electronic indie, but in the ultrafast world of new media and the internet, there are five promising new bands every day, and any group that goes dormant for even a few months is bound to be forgotten by many. When Mellowdrone returned this [...]
Mellowdrone - Angry Bear - s-r For Mellowdrone , being dropped from their major-label deal seems to have been a blessing. They're free to do what they want now, and they're taking advantage of the extra space to stretch out and expand. I wish [...]
[One in a series on new music from L.A. environs:] Mellowdrone has spent the past couple of years picking up the pieces — after its promising 2006 debut "Box," the band was dropped by Columbia and a couple of members fell by the wayside, leaving the core duo of Jonathan Bates [pictured] and Tony DeMatteo to plot a new musical course. What emerged was the new album "Angry Bear," out today on local indie Coming Home Records. The home-recorded collection reveals Bates and [...]
[Birthday greetings go out to Jeff Tweedy today. In L.A. tonight, I'm not sure many music fans will be staying at home ...] You probably already know about all the big deals — Green Day and Franz Ferdinand at the Forum; the Dead Weather at the Wiltern; Steely Dan's all-request night at the Gibson Amphitheatre; Tom Jones at the Greek; Placido Domingo and Yo-Yo Ma at the Hollywood Bowl. But if you were aced out of [...]
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