With the Super Bowl and the Grammys in the rear-view, there's been plenty of opportunity for advertisers to boost their indie cred by filling ads with the latest buzz bands. So that brings us to another edition of Commercial Watch , where you can see which of your favorite bands and songs are being harvested for mass consumption via beer, phone, clothes and car ads. The commercials are embedded below with MP3s included. Make sure to click the continue reading link to see the full post. The Grammys: We Are Music [...]
First off apologies for the lack of a Friday Freebies post yesterday, a combination of going to the Twilight Sad and a teething baby meant that I just plain old ran out of time. Fear not though as it will be a double roll over next week. Anyway, that's enough apologies for one week, onwards and upwards with this weeks We've Got It Covered post which focuses on some of the Scottish artists that have been selected to play at this years South By South West (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas. I appreciate that a lot of you will already [...]
We Were Promised Jetpacks performed "Human Error" and "Circles and Squares" on Last Call with Carson Daly . Watch both videos below and pick up the album In The Pit Of The Stomach on iTunes , Amazon MP3 , CD Social Bookmarking...
Thanks in part to the H.O.R.D.E. Tour the mid to late '90s could easily be looked at as the golden age of jambands, with regional bands turning into national touring acts thanks to an open-minded and enthusiastic fan base that where eager to discover the next big thing. Among the crop of bands that sprang up during this boom was The Big Wu , who formed at St. Olaf College in 1992 and earned a fervent following around the Land of 10,000 Lakes. The Minnesota-based act , who hold the distinction of being the first band on at [...]
One of the biggest reasons why SL loves doing Coachella Daze posts is because they make us listen to artists that we usually don't make time to listen to. We Were Promised Jetpacks is one such band that I'm glad I have started listening to. Formed in 2003, the Scottish indie rock group took six years to release their well received first album " These Four Walls " in 2009. The group released their sophomore LP " In the Pit of the Stomach " about a season ago in Oct 2011. WWPJ is (imo) apart of a dying [...]
Neil Thomas Douglas As I understand it, yesterday was Robbie Burns Day and while I may have missed out on my annual tradition of posting something suitably Scottish to mark the day - a tradition I've marked exactly zero times in the past forever years - I'm going to make up for it a little bit by leading with some Scots-related content. Firstly, We Were Promised Jetpacks have finally scheduled a second North American tour in support of last year's In The Pit Of The Stomach [...]
We Were Promised Jetpacks have released their tour schedule for dates in March through early May 2012. The new tour is in support of We Were Promised Jetpacks' latest album In The Pit Of The Stomach . Check out the tour dates below as well as the video for their single "Medicine". Read more »
Catch 'em at: March 14 – Austin, TX @ SXSW March 15 – Austin, TX @ SXSW March 16 – Austin, TX @ SXSW March 17 – Austin, TX @ SXSW March 18 – Austin, TX @ SXSW March 19 – Denver, CO @ Hi Dive March 20 – Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room March 21 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater March 22 – Dekalb, IL @ The House March 23 – Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge March 24 – Madison, WI @ Majestic [...]
Edinburgh's We Were Promised Jetpacks released their sophomore album In The Pit Of The Stomach last fall via FatCat Records to critical acclaim. Never ones to sit still, We Were Promised Jetpacks will be hitting the road again this spring on a tour that will include stops at the SXSW Music Festival and Coachella. (full dates below) Additionally We Were Promised Jetpacks will appear on Last Call With Carson Daly on February 2. Filmed at Los Angeles' Music Box,...
Artist: We Were Promised Jetpacks Genre: Indie Rock, Post-Punk Myspace Facebook Twitter Honestly, the band's name along should guarantee a spot in your busy schedule at Coachella. Anything with jetpacks is awesome in my books. No seriously, jetpacks are awesome. And so is this band. A little dark at times, but they have so much energy that packs a hard punch that will surely send your music senses off the charts. Now, if only they would fly around the stages of Coachella wearing [...]
last.fm I've been meaning to write up Without Why , the debut album from Rose Elinor Dougall , for well over a year now but for whatever reason never actually got around to it. And while normally almost year and a half on from its release is too long to give a record props, the fact that Ms Dougall is back on the radar with a new stopgap release while she wraps up work on her second album is good enough reason for me to revisit it. If her [...]
Kritiker und Konzertgänger erfreuen sich an We were promised Jetpacks gleichermassen. Am Sonntag spielt die Band im Aarauer KiFF. 78s verlost für das Konzert 2 x 2 Tickets. Das Debütalbum von We were promised Jetpacks rettete 2009 die pop-verwahrloste Gesellschaft mit Gitarren und Gepoltere vor dem Leichte-Musik-Überdruss. 2011 erschien "In the Pit of the Stomach". Darauf trumpfen We were promised Jetpacks mit kurzen Songs, treibendem Klanggewitter und sanften Momenten: Postrock in erträglichen Happen und ein tiefgründiges Album für schnell gelangweilte Gemüter. Daheim fegt das Album die [...]
Nachdem ich mir inzwischen so viele verschiedene Jahrescharts von so vielen verschiedenen Menschen angeschaut habe, kann ich sie ehrlich gesagt nicht mehr sehen. Wenn man auf ein Jahr zurückblickt, dann kommen einem doch sowieso eher einzelne Momente in den Sinn - oft wild durcheinanderfliegend und höchstens locker verknüpft durch Assoziationen - als irgendwelche Listen. Aber es macht ja doch immer wieder Spaß, seine eigenen Favoriten gegeneinander abzuwägen und zu ordnen, Ranglisten aufzustellen und umzuschmeißen – auch wenn man an dem Kampf dabei beinahe verzweifelt. Ich hoffe jedenfalls ihr habt noch ein offenes Ohr für die Musik, die mich im vergangenen [...]
Facebook To promise that something is coming in "early 20123 may be sufficient detail when that date is still a ways off on the horizon, but at a certain point it will eventually actually be early 2012 - as it is now - and when that time arrives you'd best have a little more to offer. That first part of that scenario was most of 2011 for London's Clock Opera , who despite sounding more than ready for prime time when I first saw them last SXSW and reconfirmed at Iceland Airwaves [...]
It was an OK year. Nothing more, nothing less. Timber Timbre and their album "Creep On Creepin' On" was without a doubt, the album I've listened to and seen performed live the most all year. Taylor Kirk's dark, swampy sound speaks to me. As for the rest of my top 5, these albums will be listened by yours truly for years [...]
Scottish Kate is a great friend of this blog and has often offered her (sometimes pithy) opinions on the world of music - and very good taste she has too. She also runs the always excellent (sometimes pithy), and often provocative blog A Burdz Eye View for all things Scottish (of course), political and musical. Here are her aural selections for 2011. The Burd's Best Songs of 2011 Well it doesn't get any easier. Though given that all my old schticks are in here aplenty [...]
Oh no, you found me. Do not overlook this album this year. Thanks to WFUV for putting together sessions like this.
By Alex Brenner Best of 2011 (in no particular order) Well it's been a pretty good year for music I guess. Some real strong releases and of course some real turds, thanks Metallica. So here is my list of what I liked about 2011. 1. Wye Oak - Civilian . This band is phenomenal, live they are amazing. Great songs but also very dynamic and sonically always surprising. I guess a great mix between country and shoegazing [...]
Scots We Were Promised Jetpacks recently filmed a performance of their latest single 'Human Error' (backed by double A side 'Ink Slowly Dries') for posterity. This was filmed at London's XOYO in Shoreditch. Enjoy it below.
Thursday, December 8, 2011 Part two of my album list awaits you just below. Check it out, and then be sure to return tomorrow for my final 10 selections. Enjoy. - 20 Through 11 - #20) Cults - Self Titled As I've said a few times before, Cults have this weird, generic approach to stuff that I think is a turn-off to most people. [...]
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