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 [...]
Seattle's Cataldo creates beautiful indie-folk perfect for those of us who have ever/will ever get dumped. So... all of us.
This Warm December: Brushfire Holiday's Vol. 1 (compelation) Apparently this one was released in 2008 but I found it on Spotify and immediately bought it on iTunes. I luhhhh it. Christmas by Rogue Wave is one of my favorites along with No Christmas For Me by Zee Avi. The compilation also features many other "chill" [...]
Listen to a selection of new holiday covers by artists like Norah Jones, Rogue Wave, Joshua Hyslop, Bowling for Soup, and more.
Brushfire Records will ring in the holiday season with This Warm December, A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 2 , to be released on CD and Vinyl. 25% of the profits from the album will go to Little Kids Rock, Silverlake Conservatory and a variety of other charities benefiting children's music education. The new 12-song album contains festive originals by Jack Johnson, G. Love, Matt Costa, ALO, Money Mark, Zach Gill, Paula Fuga and Neil Halstead. Seasonal classics, such as "Frosty The Snowman" by Zee Avi, "Jingle Bell Rock" by Rogue Wave and a cover of The [...]
I like the different layers of this song, and the tension that slowly builds up. It's a delicate onion that eventually gets sliced right down the middle. "Ba-Da-Da-Da! Ba-Da-Da-Da!"
So, here commences a busy weekend of giggery, with Oxjam's Edinburgh Takeover kicking off tonight (beware Toads bearing flyers!) and then Rob St. John's album launch at Pilrig St. Paul's tomorrow, with Meursault, eagleowl and Viking Moses. In the meantime, for me at least, there is an increasingly chilly office to sit in, although thankfully today seems pretty mild. It's a bit like when you're sitting at your desk in increasing need of a piss - I have just been sitting here getting colder and colder and wondering just how uncomfortable I will have to get before I [...]
Opening for Death Cab for Cutie Friday night at The Fox Theater, Release The Sunbird entertained the sold out crowd with their indie folk fuelled pop rock.
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Zach Schwartz (a.k.a. Zach Rogue) created the band Rogue Wave after losing his job in the dot-com bust. They've since release 4 critically acclaimed albums on Sub Pop and Brushfire Records and toured with Death Cab for Cutie, Jack Johnson, Spoon, Nada Surf, The Shins and more. In 2010 he began recording music for his solo/side project called Release the Sunbird, that isn't exactly a solo/side project. He released these songs on an album entitled Come Back to Us on Brushfire Records on July 26th, 2011. [...]
Zach Schwartz (a.k.a. Zach Rogue) created the band Rogue Wave after losing his job in the dot-com bust. They've since release 4 critically acclaimed albums on Sub Pop and Brushfire Records and toured with Death Cab for Cutie, Jack Johnson, Spoon, Nada Surf, The Shins and more. In 2010 he began recording music for his solo/side project called Release the Sunbird, that isn't exactly a solo/side project. He released these songs on an album entitled Come Back to Us on Brushfire Records on July 26th, 2011. 1. malt vinegar sea salt from williams-sonoma [...]
Click image to download more songs by this artist Sounds like: Neon Indian, Soft Black, Rogue Wave "Caged Animals - Teflon Heart" What's so good? An avowed lover of noisy garage/punk/blues rock, I'm usually wary of a musician who moves away from the noise to a more minimalist approach. But listening to "Teflon Heart," the first single off the debut album by Caged Animals, I'm [...]
These mixes were posted in January and February 2010, the winter of our discontent. Seriously, the blog was on life support during this time. We're through that storm now. 2010 was such a great year for music, and these early mixes show why. Many of the tracks were available in late 2009, but appeared on 2010 releases. Tracks are from late October through late November 2009 Gapless mix ripped at 256k VBR. Download all tracks in one zip file [...]
After spending a few years on hiatus, I'm resurrecting my Pop Dee-Lite column to tell you about some of my favorite pop albums. The plethora of great pop coming out over the next few months has compelled me to write again. I'm kicking things off with a rather subdued pop album in Zach Rogue's side/solo project, Release the Sunbird , which came out last week on Brushfire Records. I'll be honest, I could listen to Rogue sing the alphabet on constant loop and it would make me happy. His voice tends [...]
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Tweet We've known Zach Schwartz (alias Zach Rogue) from Rogue Wave for a while now, ever since his failure in a grueling dot-com business venture landed him in the studio, cranking out the cloudy pop tunes that would become Rogue Wave's first album, "Out Of The Shadow." Seven years later and after much praise and deals from both Sub Pop and Brushfire Records , Jack Johnson's label, well-known for featuring sunny California acts such as Matt Costa and Mason Jennings, Rogue [...]
Zach Rogue discusses his latest project, Release the Sunbird, and going back to the basics.
If you're in the mood for an enthusiastically relaxing experience with amazing artists, Release the Sunbird is a must-see.
Release the Sunbird – Come Back to Us. Download "Always Like the Son" (mp3). Release the Sunbird, which is also the name of a song from Robert Pollard's first solo album (Not in My Airforce), is a new project from Rogue Wave's Zach Rogue. The songs have a catchiness that would be expected. Compared to Rogue Waves electric guitar and keyboard based music, this new project has a gentle, acoustic-based sound. Rogue's vocals are paired with Kate Long's to create innately compelling harmonies for the shrewd melodies that are diffused throughout Come Back to Us. [...]
Over the past couple weeks, the internet has been buzzing about Spotify. The new subscription-style music service. Any track, any album, anywhere for only $9.99 a month. It's not such a bad deal...but it also feels too good to be true. What happens when you're signed up, you stop buying music and have converted all your listening focus to Spotify, when suddenly they jack up the price? Do
Despite a lull in the number of releases this week for artists on our radar, we still have Release the Sunbird and several other quality artists to scour over. Release the Sunbird , or better known as Rogue Wave's Zach Rogue gone solo, chimes to a simpler tune than that of the band's efforts. Come Back to Us counts more as an acoustic album than the intricately laid, electric tracks from Rogue Wave's works, yet despite this simplistic approach in a 'new' direction, Rogue still sounds great. The London-based group of [...]
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