Mixtape: Twenty Bands at Noise Pop 20 (Podcast #271) Noise Pop 20 is just weeks away. From February 21st through the 26th, over one hundred bands will take over SF's venues for six days celebrating independent music. True to form, this year's Noise Pop Festival includes an eclectic mix of veterans and emerging artists, and you'd be wise to buy your tickets soon, because many shows are starting to sell out. To get familiar with many of the bands performing at Noise Pop this year, here's [...]
Mixtape: Twenty Years of Noise Pop (Podcast #269) In February, the Noise Pop Music Festival turns twenty by gathering over one hundred local and touring bands from across the indie spectrum for a week of exciting concerts all over the City. Two decades of championing independent music is an accomplishment worth celebrating, and this mixtape collects twenty bands that have performed at Noise Pop events in years past. As you'll hear, a whole bunch of big names graced Noise Pop bills before achieving fame, as past festivals [...]
Roman Ruins - Mighty Love Roman Ruins is a project from Oakland's Graham Hil, occasional drummer for bands like Beach House and Papercuts. After a... (Visit my blog for more!)
I'm officially not doing an albums of the year list. There have been so few that I wholeheartedly enjoy, I'd have to do a top 10 that starts at 8. But that is not to say that there wasn't some exceptional new music this year. Click HERE for my favorite tracks from 2011. I'm hoping that 2012 will pick up the pace, but if not, I'll just further recede into the vintage music that I love so much. I hope you enjoy listening to the mixes as much as I like making them. [...]
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Tweet vaso link The year in music that was/is 2011 marked a departure from the prior two in which this blog has been in existence. This in the sense that, as opposed to waiting for albums from bigger bands one could classify as a favorite, there were far more unanticipated discoveries. I often talk of expectations, but this year I had few. For this year end list, I whittled down the list of the year's albums slowly to include those [...]
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Este conteo como el año se esta pasando en chinga, espero que todos ustedes esten disfrutando de cada cancion que ha estado desfilando por aqui desde hace un par de dias y por supuesto, ustedes tambien esten sacando sus favoritas dentro de toda la extensa lista de bandas que editaron este año desde un simple sencillo en 7" hasta un compilado de mas de 3 viniles como el caso de una banda bastante joven que esta haciendo cosas bien chidas la cual escucharan dentro de esta otra parte de los mejores 150 tracks de 2011 y bueno, aun faltan algunas [...]
Live This Month: December 2011 (Podcast #262) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. For a month when few new records are coming out and music journalists spend a lot of time meticulously crafting numerical lists of their favorite albums of the year, there are still a wealth of great live shows hitting the San Francisco area in December. Bands that had big years in 2011 - including Other Lives, Cass McCombs, and [...]
Where better to spend your Friday night than at one of the hottest rock clubs in the universe catching, critically acclaimed San Francisco collective, Papercuts, perform with support from Tim Cohen's Magic Trick (of the Fresh & Onlys) and Cassorla? It's all going down at The Satellite tomorrow in Silverlake, Los Angeles and we're giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky reader! To win just drop us a line HERE and you'll entered to win a pair of tickets for the set. Our winner will be raffled and contacted [...]
Gym Class Heroes have finally released their fourth and much anticipated album "The Papercut Chronicles II". The album was released yesterday, and is streaming on Spotify. It can also be purchased at Target stores for only $7.99 until November 19.
It's so cool that volumes one and two of the Best Songs of 2011 mixtape series have been such a huge hit - literally tens of thousands of page views in just a few weeks. Today's mixtape marks the third volume of the top 2011 songs series. If you didn't have a chance yet, it's [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Being that my typical night consists of hitting the sack at around 10pm, and that my new radio show is Friday nights from 10pm to midnight, I figured that my second show would center around the theme of sleep . So I pieced together a playlist of bedroom pop, chill wave, dreamy shoegaze and what I've dubbed as psychedelic ambiance. I took over for Stuarto just after 10 with a brief description of my first track, which I don't believe made it on air. The switch-over was a bit rushed [...]
Cheeto and Jorge Davila are a duo from Houston, Texas who reside in New York City. They write songs through live performance, then record them in the studio, fleshing out the drum and bass guitar core of the compositions with washes of synth and textured vocals. Fans of Lightning Seeds , lend an ear. "Symbol Eyes" is from their latest (fourth) EP, Particle . The sound is punchy pop that's breezy and pleasant, but at its core, the song has a depth that nicely belies its pun of a title. "Mindless Radio" uses pulsing stabs of [...]
Gold Leaves' new album contains R&B-tinged singer/songwriter folk, produced by Papercuts' Jason Quever.
Gold Leaves aims for a sound so lovely that when the mark is reached I'm taken right back to the first time I heard something so lovely, I stopped whatever I was doing and stared into space. Apparently GL/ Grant Olsen (with considerable input from Papercuts' Jason Quever) was born to make music that he says "… tip(s) the hat to Richard Hawley, Scott Walker/Walker Brothers, and the sound of late 70's AM radio pop. Songs that sound like sunlight coming up after an all night drive through the Redwoods." Most of that, including the driving-through-redwoods [...]
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Tweet Gold Leaves is the solo project of Grant Olsen, formerly of amiable psych-folk duo Arthur & Yu. He began work on his more conventional indie-folk solo debut, "The Ornament", all the way back in 2007, and the intervening years have been tricky: Olsen has lost loved ones along the way and, in a less tragic but nonetheless inconvenient turn, he had his laptop and musical notes stolen long into the recording process, taking him back to square one. So "The Ornament" has not [...]
(artist - song - album + purchase link :: extra info) Spectrals - Big Baby - Big Baby 73 & Bad Penny :: out October 25 Sunbeam - Bulldogs - Sunbeam and the Lonely Ghost The Ladybug Transistor - Clutching Stems - Clutching Stems Brilliant Colors - How Much Younger - Again and Again Holcombe Waller - Into the Dark Unknown (The Marriage Song) - Into the Dark Unknown [...]
This band is one of those that I've really been jamming to lately, going back to their last record from 2010, and looking forward to the new one they'll be releasing. Romantic Comedy, the new record from Big Troubles , will be released by Slumberland on September 27th, and it's probably going to be a pretty big deal around the ATH offices. This new track has a bit of that softness that's often associated with their label, but I hear Jason Quever [...]
Papercuts create this summer's second dream-pop version of Don Henley's classic, 'The Boys of Summer.'
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