Despite clear popularity, Derek Vincent Smith (aka Pretty Lights ) is still releasing his music for free. The Colorado based producer release his latest album, Filling Up The City Skies , through his website and in four months it had been downloaded over 70,000 times. Now he prepares to bring the beat again this month on Passing By Behind Your Eyes . It's going to be a hot Summer! Listen to: Hot Like Sauce (from Filling Up The City Skies) ( mp3 ) [...]
The best electro-pop based always seem to come from Austin. The latest Austin export is Alan Palomo (aka Vega ). He released his first single last summer via a few select blogs, but this summer will be all about Vega. His new ep, Well Known Pleasures, will be released on May 19th, and it will be supported by a mini tour. His ep is filled with classic '80's, synths, hand claps, and more, and is soon to be filling club around the world. Listen to: No Reasons ( mp3 ) [...]
Arkansas is home to the latest singer/songwriter to show a full rainbow of Chameleon colors, Chase Pagan . On his forthcoming album "Bells & Whistles", Chase displays everything from a soulful honk-tonk to a vibrant folk troubadour to a soaring falsetto. Complete with marching band horns, piano, pysc guitars, this album is diverse, but still simple at its core. Listen to: Life Garden ( mp3 ) Much like Chase Pagen, Linfinity displays many different styles while they jump through eras, show their influences, [...]
Last month brothers Roberto and Nathaniel Aguilar (aka Dish ) released their first full-length album, Ma Raison De Vivre Ton Amour . These brothers grew up surrounded by music, and let it slowly brew in their own ways. Now they come together, they discovered music together, and the pairing of Roberto's organic, genre-busting singing and guitar work with Nathaniel's junk-gypsy found percussion has been a decade in the making. What is most remarkable is the energy that fills their live performances and surprisingly translates on this recording. Listen to: This Ain't Livin' ( [...]
Patrick Watson has a fascinating approach to performing live. He takes his ques from his mentor James Brown. Patrick actually toured with Brown back in 2006 and in Europe during summer 2006, he adopted a dynamic approach to performing and working with other musicians. Patrick admits, "I learned how to be a front man and let the audience conduct you. When James performs, all the musicians on stage watch his hands. He takes cues from the audience's energy and conducts the show with finger movements. He's flexible about his arrangements and pacing and he's attentive to the crowds." Thus, [...]
Brother/sister duo Chris and Kate Farstad wanted to form a band four years ago so they asked Micky Alfano and Mark Ritsema to join them, and together Mouthful of Bees was formed. Two years later the band released its debut album, The End , on Afternoon Records . Their sound was fresh, melodic, and highly entertaining, but the process to make a follow-up was not easy. Before embarking on their next album in the spring of 2008, the band decided to enlist the help of friends Simon Larson and Patrick Swanson for new songs and ideas. [...]
You take a Swedish band and place them in Italy to record an album filled with everything from Blues to Calypso, from Psychedelic to African and Caribbean Music... it can only be a the new Voodoo Rhythm project. Mama Rosin is Cyril "Jeter" Yeterian, Robin A. Girod, and Power Van's Fischer, and this trio has sizzled through Cajun set around the world. Voodoo Rhythm released their second album, Brule Lentement, this past Friday and I can't stop moving. Listen to: le two-step de l'haricot ( mp3 ) [...]
Kaka (aka Richard Karlsson) sings about the struggle and challenge of life. His upbeat, retro faux-dance tracks give the listen a sense of hope and energy. He shifts gears through genres as diverse as reggae, electro-tinged '80's melodies, and pure indie pop. Through it all he keeps a solid beat, and never gives up. Kaka's self titled album was just released in the UK on March 9th, and he was supposed to come play the Elysium venue at SXSW this past Wednesday but had to cancel his trip. To make up for missing his chance at SXSW he is [...]
LoveLikeFire is a band that I have been following for quite sometime, and I am happy to announce that Ann Yu and company will be releasing a digital ep called William on Heist Or Hit Records on March 23rd. This is in advance of their new full-length album Tear Ourselves Away coming out later this year. Listen to : Signs ( mp3 ) from William Ep It is not often that a debut album gets the [...]
Band mates since childhood, Singer/Guitarist/Frontman Adam Prince and kid brother/drummer Ian Prince grew up in a musical family in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Now as the foundation of Minneapolis' Story of the Sea the brothers play a vibrant form of jangle pop complete with donated tambourine and satisfying, feel-good handclaps. There's simmer and bounce, and always a rhythm that moves. They recently released their sophomore album Lunar Co . Listen to: Own Devices ( mp3 ) Dan Michaelson is the lead [...]
Recently signed to Rostrum Records, their debut self-titles album was released nationally on January 20th. Donora is a Pittsburgh band that is on the rise and is comprised of a talented brother and sister combo. Their music is sugar sweet indie-pop and guaranteed to make you move. Listen to : Shout ( mp3 ) Matthew Tow (Brian Jonestown Massacre) has been maintaining a side project called The Lovetones since their debut album, Be What You Want in 2002 on [...]
Cincinnati's Pomegranates announced plans to release their sophomore album, Everybody, Come Outside!, this week. Lujo Records will release the band's album on April 14th. Pomegranates have gained a reputation for a wild live show and for crafting unique pop melodies. Everybody, Come Outside! is a conceptual album of sorts, weaving an interesting tale of a man who leaves home, only to be abducted by a time traveler. Each of the 11 tracks of Everybody, Come Outside! add to the mystique, as well as reveal a bit more about this [...]
It is not too often that you find a pop star from Rhode Island, but Spanish Dancer is much more concerned with infectious grooves then geography. I suppose you could call this indie soul or faux-pop, but while you are busy trying to classify his sound Spanish is making you move to his beats. Spanish Dancer's debut full-length Burned Up, Bred High comes fresh off the heels of last years fuzzy bassed out future groover internet turned 12" vinyl single "Hustler". Burned Up, Bred High finds Providence's post-pop, post-whatever draft pick gallivanting [...]
Ann Arbors's Wild Years recently released a new ep called Where'd You Go ?, and they are selling them for $3 each on their myspace page. The three song contained on the ep are dark melodic folk tunes that remind me of Page France or perhaps Bowerbirds. They are songs that will make you wish you could do as the cover depicts and lay in a field of grass. When you visit their site you can also find their first ep, A Million Songs, available for free download. [...]
Created for the Element Skateboards film, This Is My Element, the T.I.M.E. Soundtrack is the first of its kind: an original, artist-composed score crafted to the beat of polyurethane pounding pavement. Here, Anticon's veteran producer and beatsmith Odd Nosdam conceives an album where each song is tailored to fit the style and cadence of the Element rider it accompanies. And on its own, quite simply, this album is a banger. 01) ZONE COASTER 02) T.I.M.E. IN 03) COP CRUSH 04) WE BAD APPLES 05) TRUNK BOMB 06) TOP RANK 07) FLY MODE ( mp3 ) 08) [...]
Ryland Bouchard is probably better known as The Robot Ate Me, but for his latest release Seeds he returns to using his given name. He actually retired the name in 2007 when he began working the ambitious project that Seeds has become. This album was written and recorded by Ryland Bouchard and Kevin Michael Mayfield between October 2007 and August 2008 on a 1971 Stephens Electronics 2416 console and an Otari MX80 2" 16 track at his home in Portland, Oregon. This is clearly his most honest and personal work to [...]
I am going to be upfront on this one, and tell you I found out about this band at my family's Christmas. The lead singer, Rachael Petit just happens to be my cousin, but that doesn't change the fact that this Atlanta band is on the rise. The Soundtrack will be releasing their debut ep, Rumor Has It , this month, and they are currently participating in a local battle of the bands contest ( vote here ). Their sound is pure power pop, but the strength and depth in Rachael's lyrics give them the added element [...]
Morrissey will release " Years of Refusal " in the US February 17, 2009 on Attack/Lost Highway . "Years of Refusal" will be Morrissey's first studio album since 2006's UK #1 "Ringleader of the Tormentors". In February, Morrissey will begin the US leg of his world tour that includes rare intimate club dates. For this album, Morrissey returns to Jerry Finn who previsouly produced the hit You Are the Quarry. Years of Refusal Tracklist 1. Something Is Squeezing My Skull 2. Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed 3. Black Cloud 4. I'm [...]
If music notes were colors, Dim Dim would be the brightest rainbow imaginable. Dim Dim is back with its sixth full-length album, Whip (Audio Dregs) and an obsession for all forms of sonic pop culture. Tossing fistfuls of guitar, ukulele, programmed beats, twisted synth and toy instruments into a blender, Dim Dim hits "liquefy", and surfs the sonic mixture as it spills across his musical universe. Deconstructing all things known and leaving a trail of brightly colored debris, Dim Dim has turned his back to the norm and rip-shredded a technicolored path to a genre unknown. [...]
Releasing a digital maxi-ep, Austin's Masonic has charmed their way into my headphones and they should be in yours as well. When you add in the vicious red faced tiger on the cover of The Human Blade (released Dec. 5th) you have a gorgeous collection of indie pop driven by the voice of Eryn Gettys. Listen to : Everytime This Happens ( mp3 ) [...]
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