Apollo Run are partnering up with New Cassettes for a co-headlining Fall tour that kicks off in San Francisco on November 1, 2012 and will take them along the West Coast hitting Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland and Seattle before heading east to Denver, Chicago and Columbus with more dates to be added. Apollo Run released their debut full-length, Here Be Dragons, Vol III at the end of September and partnered with Artist Direct to premiere album opener, "Bending the Light." The track still holds the Top Song spot [...]
Walking through the gray, cold rain to a solid but grungy bar to hear three up-and-coming indie-rock bands last night I felt far from a Norman Rockwell character. However, walking home after the show three hours later, I couldn’t help but think I’d just had an experience that would enable me to tell one of those Norman-like-reminiscent “You y’ung'uns won’t believe this… but back in MY day us kids could see all THREE of those bands for $10” stories. All three bands were awesome – and the fact that the show was so intimate and inexpensive just made my head [...]
Photo source: Django Django When it comes to British bands, you'd pretty much think there were only one if you frequent this site. Yes, Alt-J is incredible, but they do have some fierce competition for this year's Mercury Prize in Scottish quartet Django Django (@thedjangos). Their self-titled debut LP, released in Europe via Because Music ( Justice , Metronomy ) and through Domino imprint Ribbon Music here in the States last month, is filled with 13 tracks of infectious [...]
Feel like this weather is going to get me down, but I refuse to let it get to me. So in hopes of helping you all out, I wanted to toss out this energetic number that's been floating around for a bit on behalf of New Cassettes . The group released their album Winterhead just a month ago, followed by a short US tour, which is how they caught my ear. I'll give you that it's not the most original track out in the world, but we're all entitled [...]
Post-punk love to keep you dancing.
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did the blood run from heart ♫ New Cassettes - Silent Guns Who: 5 young guys What : Upbeat indie rock. Like Two Door Cinema Club , Arctic Monkeys . Where : Northampton, UK + Facebook / Amazon When : Latest EP Silent Guns is out now Why : England has a long tradition of boisterous young bucks crafting [...]
New Cassettes is an edgy pop band that you will want to unapologetically blast out of your car windows while speeding down the Pacific Coast Highway.
The British always seem to do ultra-cool rock better than anyone else. New Cassettes, a sharp quintet from Northampton, England, doesn't sound radically dissimilar from every other Brit rock band from the last five years: they've got that sleek sound, excitable guitars and catchy beats down perfectly. Their songs have a modern edge that reminds [...]
In this edition: Francois Peglau's Holidays, discover League, meet Christine Leakey, weekly considerations, and VIDEOS! Francois Peglau - "Holidays" We're excited to share Francois Peglau's latest single, Holidays (aka Holidayzzz). Its dreamy, carefree composition contrasts with its themes of restlessness and respite. Look for a new LP from Peglau some time in 2012. Watch the video for Holidays in Videos, videos, videos (last section of post, below). [...]
Daily Doses: Nash Smith & Ganges “California” From The Nash Smith & Ganges EP (2011) “I don’t know why you’d want to live here” ~ Ben Gibbard I have to admit, although I love my fair city/state, I’ve always enjoyed hearing people slam it in verse. Maybe it’s just because I understand that, as a New Yorker friend of mine said recently, Los Angeles is a city of secrets… and as we all know from 4th grade, “Secrets don’t make friends”. “California”, the closing track [...]
Daily Doses: Sumsun “Non-Menthol Dub” From Sample Based Life (2010) I hadn’t checked into my soundcloud account for a bit, so I’d missed a flurry of activity including this beautiful bit of “Cosmic Dub” chaos from Florida’s Sumsun. Building up subtle beats underneath an expanding sonic layer, “Non-Menthol Dub” really nails what bands like Sumsun and Hear Hums do so well. They blend sounds together until they become their own complete world, then break them back down into nothing. It’s a beautiful thing. Sumsun [...]
Daily Doses: Old Smile “Mirrors” From Hawkins Bridge (2010) Old Smile, the one man ambient psych project of Philadelphia’s Tom Herman Jr. (Who in his spare time is the co-leader of Philidelphia’s Arches) just released Hawkins Bridge as one of two inaugural releases of Philly cassette label Treetop Sorbet. Blurring the lines between ambient, psych, and rock. the five songs on Hawkins Bridge dodge between those various musical sub-genre’s with careless, gleeful abandon. In “Mirrors” the second track on the E.P., those items all come prominently together. Opening by disguising itself as an ambient track with some [...]
Daily Doses: Mutual Benefit “Piano Experiments In An Abandoned Hospital” From Spider Heaven (2010) I think every blogger probably has something they look for that moves them from casual listener to sharing participant. Personally, I like imagery. Toss me a track that’s evocative enough to make me start running pictures and concepts through my head, and it’ll be on here within a day or so. Jordan from Mutual Benefit does a great job at exactly that. His songs are haunted dusky gems that dip into your head and drag up half forgotten [...]
Daily Doses: Ghost Animal “Golden Boy” From A Ceremony 7” I’ve known Michael from Ghost Animal for a while, but it took a recent conversation with him about his recording technics to appreciate the depths of his depravity. I just assume that most “Lo-Fi” artists just slam their axe an inch from the some halfway decent uni-directional instrumental mic, and peak the crap out it, then just toss a couple filters on that sucker and BAM, ride out into the sunset. Mr. Avishay on the other hand just records directly into his Mac’s [...]
Track Premiere: Star Slinger and Pandit - “Self Love” From Collaborations (Note: NSFW) Really that note should read “TSFW” as Too Sexy For Work is far more appropriate, but regardless, make sure you have your headphones on for this one unless you have the kind of workplace where you could walk in naked and no one would bat an eye. I think pretty much everyone that’s following this blog has heard of these two artists at this point. Starslinger has been wowing me since around the time I posted about [...]
Daily Doses: Coma Cinema “Business As Usual” From Blue Suicide (2010) It’s been a bit dead lately, but fortunately that allows me to catch up on some great songs that I let slip through the cracks. Coma Cinema, the one man project of Mat Cothran, creates beautifully intimate bedroom pop that sounds as if everything he makes drained right out of his soul, and into his music. “Business As Usual” the first release from his upcoming release, Blue Suicide, is no exception. Dragging it’s claws across the sea, and pulling you along [...]
Daily Doses: Birthdays & Cough Cool “Future Body” (2010) I love collaborations! I’ve loved them since I was a kid, obsessed with the old pre-teen mystery novels like The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew (Yeah, yeah I know Nancy Drew’s for girls, but I needed something to read after I read all The Hardy Boys!) . Then I found out there were novels where Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys would team up! Pairing off together, to create a super team of unstoppable sleuthery. Could you ask for more? Well, if you could, it would be this [...]
Daily Doses: Hooray! “Bedroom Adventures” From Bedroom Adventures (2010) Tapes are on the rise! CD’s fail! Sony Records executives call the digital “experiment” a failure and try to blow up the internet! Well, okay, maybe not. However Hooray! (The one man bedroom pop project of Ben Wagner), has released his first tape via Wonder Beard Records, and it looks to be a killer. Bedroom Adventures is the second song on the album, following the appropriately titled “Welcome!” and is a perfect watery gem. A stream of bubbling beats, [...]
Daily Doses: Holy Strays “Faint Beams Ceremony” From H yperion (2010) “This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.” ~ Excerpt from The Hollow Man by T.S Elliott A recognition of ones own mortality is a difficult thing. On the one hand, [...]
Daily Doses: Weed Diamond “Sunstroke” From The Weed Diamond/Tan Dollar Split c86 (Ltd. Edition of 150) Label: Bathetic Records Bathetic Records has just put on sale their latest release, a split cassette with Colorado’s Weed Diamond and California’s Tan Dollar, and it’s hitting me hard. It helps that it’s 3:00am, and as the vibes of Weed Diamond’s “Sunstroke” just wash over me, slowly lulling me into my desperately craved sleep stupor during the verses, only to jerk me out of it with each chorus. [...]
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