Frontier Ruckus returns fully cocked and loaded with their ambitious 20 song LP Eternity Dimming on January 29th(via Quite Scientific ). Preview the 20 tracks here . Yesterday - the band released the first single from ED - 'Careening Catalog Immemorial'. The B-side version is available to listen to below. You can pick up this and the album version over @ BandCamp . They invade the Majestic Theater/Magic Stick in the D on NYE. Tickets . [...]
I’m so glad I’ve learned to listen between the initial lines, and around the vocal tones. My first spin of the first track on Lightning Love ’s new four-song EP had me starting to think, “Oh, no – another kinda cutesy , little-girlish voice.” But something in the words of Deadbeat , and something about the honesty; as well as the Ypsilanti, Michigan-based trio’s synchronous vibe, made me want to keep listening. By the second track, I found myself increasingly hypnotized by Lightning Love. All four tracks on Girls Who Look [...]
Lightning Love is a Michigan based musical trio consisting of brothers, Aaron and Ben Collins, and their friend Leah Diehl. Quite Scientific Records has signed this young band and is releasing their EP, Girls Who Look Like Me , on January 31st. At the moment "Deadbeat" is all you can stream (and download for free) on bandcamp but you can listen to clips of their other songs here which are actually a bit different from this first track. The dichotomy of the biting bitterness of the lyrics in "Deadbeat" and the happy [...]
My pre-reaction to the People Get Ready EP was slightly colored by promotion that informed me the foursome’s been championed by David Byrne (PGR originator and guitarist Steve Reker ’s toured with the latter) and the New York Times . Um, okay. Happily, the same mind that was open for the T. Heads’ first D.C. appearance brings me here to report that this is a wonderful debut. As with several other oldies-infusing outfits who’ve dropped amazing stuff this year, People Get Ready handily integrates anything the band’s heard and liked with a [...]
A year ago we fell in love with Stepdad 's "My Leather, My Fur, My Nails," a sugary, blipped-out electro-pop jam that, frankly, we're surprised hasn't taken the internet by storm yet. Since then the band has been preaching their live gospel and prepping to release a re-mastered version of their debut Ordinaire EP. It's been a while since we've heard anything new, but just today the Grand Rapids outfit unleashed "Find Love," a bonus track off the EP's second incarnation. The track's not nearly as outrageous as their first single, instead [...]
Chris Bathgate appeared on NPR's World Cafe today. There he and his band performed several tracks off of one of 20112s best Salt Year . Listen to the show and then watch the Halfway House Session : Watch: Mr Bathgate plays both the Midwest Fest (Mount Pleasant) and the Boiling Pot Festival (Kzoo) later this Summer. But you can catch him before that when [...]
"Simple Girl" by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (unofficial fan made video). Its actually cut so much like an ad, I'm inclined to think it is. But for what? The California tourism board? maybe....
Photo by Andy McLeod. When the Salt Tour with Chris Bathgate Samantha Crain and Hezekiah Jones came through the grand land - we had the pleasure of hosting ALL three for a Halfway House Session. This is Chris Bathgate's. Bathgate was touring in support of his recently released/critically acclaimed album Salt Year - which will be on our 'Best of 20112 list @ years end. He's already receiving mid-year praise from [...]
To say Detroit duo comprising Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. mix it up on their debut "It's A Corporate World" (Quite Scientific) would be an understatement. Sometimes their complex potluck sound arrangements truly work; at other times I strained to hear the music over their aggregations. Like getting cut off when navigating a short entrance ramp onto the Cross Island Parkway, the merge doesn't always happen easily. Josh Epstein and Daniel Zolt form the core of DEJJ and have palpable chemistry as a team. Their experimental approach to indie rock gives it a boost and is [...]
June 7th / Quite Scientific
We missed this the other day, but Chris Bathgate kicked off a tour earlier this week. The Michigan singer-songwriter is going out prior to the release of his new album, Salt City , which will be put out by Quite Scientific on April 26. If you aren't excited about the album, you should be! Maybe checking Bathgate out on one of the dates posted below will help peak your interest? Chris Bathgate tour dates: 1/27 - Univ. of Kentuky - Lexington, KY 1/31 - Elbo Room - [...]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Horse Power EP [Quite Scientific; 2010] Links: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. | Quite Scientific | Purchase on Insound Posted by Gareth O'Malley on 18 November 2010 Misleading band names, eh. They’re fun, at the very least. This band (a duo, from Detroit of all places) sound absolutely nothing like they might be expected to with [...]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr are named after one of the most well known NASCAR drivers in history; Dale Earnhardt, Jr. The band comprises Joshua Epstein and Daniel Zott, and they live and write out of Detroit; Motor City USA. However, just like V-Dubs , their music couldn't be further from the sounds their name suggest. Mixing folk and dreamy pop is nothing new, but the quality of the song writing debuted on their EP 'Horse Power' is exceptional; moments of Prince, Paul Simon, and The Beach Boys (who they cover on the EP) all mixed together for our [...]
Never mind the buzzkill. In spite of political scandals, widespread unemployment, and a downward spiral of economic and architectural decay, southern Michigan's music scene has never been more vibrant. Leave it to Flint native Michael Moore to document the downturn; Ann Arbor label Quite Scientific Records is celebrating the upside: the seemingly limitless creative potential of an area of the U.S. with a glorious musical history and, perhaps, an even brighter musical future. In this EXCLUSIVE interview, QuiSci co-founder Brian Peters gives us the skinny on what makes the greater Detroit area such fertile [...]
It’d be hard to live in Lansing, MI and not come across Frontier Ruckus at some point. And upon entering the dreary grip of another Midwest winter, I cannot think of a better emblem for so vapid a surrounding than The Orion Songbook. The band’s first full-length album was recently released by Michigan-based indie label Quite Scientific. It’s led by the haunting vocals and relentlessly poetic lyricism of Matthew Milia. His shaky voice retains a touching potency that forgives the pitchy spots that freckle the album. Milia’s songs are further illustrated by a [...]
Aug 21, 2008, 10:23am
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The scrawled and scratched-out lyrics on the band's website, the quavering vocals, the images of dust and absence and longing — Frontier Ruckus is tapping into all the elements of that particular folk style wherein the songs (and singers) appear much older than their actual age. In the demos for their album The Orion Songbook — that's not Orion like the constellation, but Orion (oree-un) like the suburban Detroit city & lake — this Michigan outfit seems to be dreaming back to the time when it took two weeks to travel from Detroit to Saginaw. [...]
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