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I can't understand half of what she's saying, but whatever it is she says it well. Polica came onto my radar once I got to know the Midwest super group, GAYNGS , which they're a part of. Justin Vernon is also involved with the supagroup and features on this newest Polica track, 'Tiff.' Vernon might actually be the only thing I didn't like on 'Tiff.' His intro half way through the song doesn't sound right and just wasn't blended well, though his eerier presence afterwards fit in right. Other than that the song [...]

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• MarijuanaDeathsquads - Top Down

It's been nearly a year since the release of Marijuana Deathsquad 's debut EP Crazy Master Now the crew consisting of GAYNGS mastermind Ryan Olson, Doomtree /Rhymesayers' emcee/producer P.O.S. along with his former Building Better Bombs bandmate now video director Isaac Gale, Freddy Votel of Cows and Ben Ivascu of Stnnng and Total Fucking Blood fame are back with their latest mixtape, Tamper. Disable. Destroy. Tamper. Disable. Destroy kicks off right where Crazy Master left off giving you 10 [...]

• MarijuanaDeathsquads - Top Down

The sultry tones of Polica's Channy Leaneagh highlight the cooled out "Top Down", the latest from Gayngs man Ryan Olson's side proj Marijuana Deathsquads. We're feeling this #fridaycooler. Marijuana Deathsquads - Top Down Marijuana Deathsquads ( Facebook ) Rating 8.3

Polica is a group from my area back in the day, the Twin Cities. But of course I forgot about all that and more importantly who they're tied with when I moved to the Bay Area around the beginning of 2012. See, I kind of have a man-crush on their producer, Ryan Olson, because of his involvement in not just one, but two of my favorite Minnesota-based bands, Mel Gibson & the Pants and GAYNGS . Seeing that this is a remix though, I guess this won't justify my love for Olson, [...]

What does one do when Ryan Olson, the mastermind behind the Minneapolis Supergroup Gayngs suggests that you start your own band? Well, if you are Channy Leanagh (née Casselle) formerly of Minneapolis folk band Roma di Luna and one of the vocalists in Gayngs- you take the suggestion and help. Olson took some of the songs that Channy had been writing and added some of his own electronic wizardry- a process similar to how he grew the Gayngs album. Olson then called in some other musicians he had worked with the vision [...]

Poliça's live performance at The Independent in San Francisco unquestionably surpassed the packaged product.

With everything that is developing it seems like we are all in for an exciting fall in the music world. Brother Ali , Ellie Goulding , Mumford & Sons , and now P.O.S. have all announced their new albums. Just announced today, P.O.S. newest album,  We Don't Even Live Here, is scheduled to be released on October 23rd on the record label Rhymesayers . Details about the album have also been released, including the guest artists who appear on the album. They feature Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Boys Noize , [...]

Photo by Andrew Bothwell It’s a good thing that what happens in Justin Vernon ’s cabin only stays in Justin Vernon’s cabin for so long. First, there was the mysterious joint effort with James Blake, “Fall Creek Boys Choir” , that remained under inscrutable wraps before eventually winding up on Blake’s Enough Thunder EP. Now, as  The A.V. Club   points out,  Bon Iver’ s frontman has a new collaborative project that began this past weekend at that same den of rapturous aural iniquity in the woods of Eau Claire, [...]

via Astronautalis' Instagram.Here's Justin Vernon tracking vocals for his new supergroup project with Astronautalis, Ryan Olson, and S. Carey.Related:Astronautalis makes the move to MinneapolisBon Ive

The VPME Poliça are a formed around the artistic nucleus of  Channy Casselle and Ryan Olson, two members of a Minneapolis collective known as Gayngs.  Much play has been made with regard to the synthetic manipulation of Ms Casselle's voice, but this isn't employed to mask vocal defects, as she clearly has a wonderful voice, more  to imbue the overall feel of " Lay Your Cards Out" with an atmospheric, other worldly sound. Indeed instead of stripping emotion from the vocal performance it merely adds to the celestial, dream-like beauty and leaves one with the feeling of having been [...]

by Mila Matveeva I caught  POLIÇA playing one of their many shows at SXSW packed to the brim. The group was started by former Gayngs  bandmates Channy Leaneagh and Ryan Olson and fronts musicians that have been doing this for a long time.Leaneagh's voice is some strange combo of the ethereal, while maintaining the urgency of  La Roux  and POLIÇA plays with two live drummers with kits so big, so I am totally down for it. Watch  the video for [...]

polica Three reasons to dress up as Leap Day William at Lincoln Hall tonight... 1. Minnesota is well represented tonight. Minneapolis' own rising indie darlings Polica delight with thumping bass, double drum theatrics, and lush, autotuned vocals. The quartet's tasty electronic R&B flavor more than makes up for the omission of electric guitars on its debut album Give You The Ghost , which was produced by Gayngs' Ryan Olson. WATCH: " Lay Your Cards Out " [...]

POLIÇA (pronounced Poelisa) is a Minneapolis-based four piece band that recently came together when Channy Leaneagh and Ryan Olson (from Gayngs) started collaborating on tour and in the studio.  I've seen a bunch of buzz on the social networks, blogs, WVUM, industry sites and friends in other cities have called me just to tell me how awesome their live shows are. Funny thing is they really haven't been around for too long, but all the attention is well deserved!  According to Rolling Stone Bon Iver even publicly announced that they're the best band he's ever heard - whoa. I [...]

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( Monday Music’s the one weekly blog where SOIWT abandons its London-only focus, and goes global ) RM Hubbert - Sunbeam Melts the Hour (Feat. Marion Kenny & Hanna Tuulikki) Kicking off with swaggering, staggering plucks of a rusty ol' guitar, this could easily be the soundtrack to a violent, slow-motion section in a western, the scene where we see a portrait of domestic happiness which will inevitably get smashed up.  The punch-drunk, whiskeyed feel is spellbinding - and appropriate, since Hubbert is a bleary Scot. [...]

• POLIÇA - Lay Your Cards Out (feat. Mike Noyce of Bon Iver)

Photography by Tony Nelson​By now you've hopefully already seen our cover story on Polica in today's City Pages. You may also have seen Gimme Noise's slideshow and our review of last night's album rel

After months of blogosphere buzz and an official approval from Jay-Z , Eau Claire fans were finally given a taste of Minneapolis’ newest musical export, Poliça, as they hit the House of Rock with Marijuana Deathsquads on January 11 th . And their visit certainly didn’t go unappreciated – this place was packed . I don’t think I’ve ever seen the tiny venue so full of fans, eager to check out the next big thing. Marijuana Deathsquads played first, forgoing the stage - with the exception of drummers Joe Westerlund (Megafaun) and Ben Ivascu (Poliça) -  [...]

 “The first tease of more to come; Poliça gives you the “Lay Your Cards Out” video debut; soft and smoky hypnosis of a girl, a beat and a black curtain.” -Poliça Poliça continues to feed the hype, releasing of the official music video for "Lay Your Cards Out." The track from the recently released Give You The Ghost features a cameo by guest artist Mike Noyce (Bon Iver, Gayngs). The video made its premiere on Life+Times , a website that was launched and curated by Jay-Z early last year. Such [...]

After the breakup of Roma di Luna, it seemed like the world would never be right again- that is until Poliça, the latest project from lead singer Channy Cassell, came strolling down this new dark, brooding alleyway. Pulling along one or two members of the supergroup Gayngs, namely the talented Ryan Olson, Poliça has recently put forth several tracks that will no doubt make great strides this new year with several performance already lined up throughout the U.S. Borrowing the murky synth soundscapes and echoing brass instrumentals of Gayngs while injecting their own unique clean beats and bass driven melodies, [...]

Vale, Gayngs es una banda de rock independiente que ha llegado a contar con 25 miembros, así que se hace necesaria una aclaración al respecto. Justo el fundador de tan enorme grupo, Ryan Olson, y una de las artistas colaboradoras, Channy Leaneagh, son los responsables que hay detrás de Poliça , una nueva banda que ha programado su disco debut para el 14 de febrero de 2012. Los bateristas Ben Ivascu y Drew Christopherson y el bajista Chris Bierdan completan la formación, siendo un tanto atípica teniendo en cuenta que no hay lugar para ningún [...]