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Posted by P Shather on Saturday, November 28, 2009,
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Altogether Now (Birds Bees Flowers Trees)is the U.S. debut release from the UK's Patrick & Eugene.The album was produced by band member Patrick Dawes.It's being released by the Tummy Touch Music Group, distributed by ADA/WEA. A number of songs have already gotten massive exposure thru various television and film placements including the VW Rabbit commercial.
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Thursday, November 26, 2009,
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Artist: Various
Title: Psychedelic States:Mississippi in the 60’s
Label: Gear Fab
Genre: Rock/Pop
Gear Fab Records is one of the greatest reissue labels in the country. Continuing their series focusing on garage rock era bands from across the country, Gear Fab now concentrates on the southern state of Mississippi with their eighteenth release in the series. There are twenty-nine songs by twenty two artists encompassing cities from all over the state from 1964-1969.
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Thursday, November 26, 2009,
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Artist: Asylum Street Spankers
Title: God’s Favorite Band
Label: Yellow Dog Records
Genre: Folk/Gospel
When a band calls itself a postmodern gospel band, there are things that come to mind that are not exactly endearing. Jug band usually indicates a kind of folksy twang that is reminiscent of Deliverance and gospel usually excludes most listeners to music in general as somewhat sentimental and hokey, but upon just one listen to God’s Favorite Band breaks all preconceived ideas.
UK artist/composer Charlie Alex March is pleased to announce the release of his debut album, Home/Hidden, with Lo Recordings. Home/Hidden, set for release in the US on February 16, is a wonderfully melodic and satisfying affair, gloriously English in a non-sniffy manner, like tea and crumpets or a stroll on an autumn day.
Remarkably focused and mature, it's eclectic mixture of real strings, treated piano and all manner of electronic keyboard...
Posted by P Shather on Sunday, November 22, 2009,
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Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are proud to announce the dates for the ninth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Confirmed to take place June 10 - 13, 2010, the four-day festival will once again be held at the same beautiful, 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles southeast of Nashville. Ticket pre-sales for the festival will begin on November 27, 2009 and will last until 11:59pm eastern on December 31st. Bonnaroo will once again offer general admission tickets for... Continue reading ...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Sunday, November 22, 2009,
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Young Heretics are set to launch their debut EP ‘The Dreamers’ in early December. The two piece will be playing with a full backing band, bringing to life the epic layers and textures that have made the 4 song EP such a hit amongst media and fans alike. Formed early in 2009, Young Heretics is the brainchild of Matthew Wright and Kitty Hart, who have found a connection through their love of warped pop and sonic invention.
Having only played a handful of shows, they were given a birth by ...
As the title would suggest, Deer Tick's More Fuel for the Fire EP tops off an explosive 2009 for the band that released Rolling Stone's "country-rock breakthrough of the year" nine months earlier. Taken mostly from a month-long recording session in upstate New York nicknamed "The Black Dirt Sessions", More Fuel for the Fire features th...
Posted by P Shather on Friday, November 13, 2009,
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The Mother Hips have added dates to their 2009 Fall / 2010 Winter tour schedule. The Bay Area psych-rockers continue to tour nationally behind their brand new 11-song studio album, Pacific Dust, which reached # 82 on Billboards Heatseekers chart this week. After a recent return from the Northwest and a series of warm-up festival plays over the summer (including their own "Hipnic" Festival in Big Sur, CA) The Hips are excited to bring Pacific Dust and their "California-soul" to fans around Nor... Continue reading ...
Posted by P Shather on Friday, November 13, 2009,
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Young Heretics Launch Debut EP ‘The Dreamers’
Young Heretics are set to launch their debut EP ‘The Dreamers’ in early December. The two piece will be playing with a full backing band, bringing to life the epic layers and textures that have made the 4 song EP such a hit amongst media and fans alike. Formed early in 2009, Young Heretics is the brainchild of Matthew Wright and Kitty Hart, who have found a connection through their love of warped pop and sonic invention.
Posted by P Shather on Friday, November 13, 2009,
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Josh Mease, originally from Houston, Texas, lives in Brooklyn, where he can often be found exploring the abandoned corners of the city, finding peaceful solace in cemeteries, empty swimming pools, and abandoned waterfronts. His debut LP, Wilderness, is the result of these wanderings. It was patched together from various recording sessions in Texas, Connecticut and most notably the closet of his Brooklyn apartment, where neighbors’ loud parties, clanking pipes, and the sound of traffic on th... Continue reading ...
Posted by P Shather on Friday, November 13, 2009,
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A Sunny Day in Glasgow
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Opening with a ten second homage to Estonian composer Arvo Part, it's immediately apparent that A Sunny Day in Glasgow's new album, Ashes Grammar, is going to be a much more visceral outing than their 2007 album debut, Scribble Mural Comic Journal. It takes a few minutes for the record to even begin to reveal itself, as a swarm of 1950s acapella ("Secrets at the prom") gives way to resonant drones, room noise, and sub bass ("Slaughter killing carnag...
Austin, TX band Yellow Fever play minimal art pop a la Young Marble Giants, Stereolab, and 80s Rough Trade. Formed in the summer of 2006, they have released two EPs as well as a 7" on Hugpatch records. Band members Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones coordinate as an engaged bass/vocal/drum/keyboard duo by default, though they have been periodically accompanied by additional musicians. After a summer s...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Wednesday, November 11, 2009,
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“A Glorious Dawn” is a moving arrangement of Carl Sagan’s sagacious words culled from his magnificent “Cosmos” series. The piece initially gained recognition when composer John Boswell uploaded to YouTube his remixed Sagan dialogue edited, Auto-Tuned and put to a beat and coupled with a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking. At well over one million views, this is a project that goes far-beyond the buzz of “Internet phenomenon.”
Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, November 10, 2009,
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The Strange Boys
"The Strange Boys appeal to me because of their brilliant recasting of the roots of rock and roll with a seditious modern twist" - Geoff Travis, Rough Trade
""The Strange Boys make music that can only come from Texas, a perfectly formed, totally accomplished and spot-on executed rock n' roll band. I didn't even know they made them like this anymore." -Larry Hardy, In The Red Records
Recorded by: Mike McHugh at The Distillery, in Costa Mesa, Ca. September 2009...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Tuesday, November 10, 2009,
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Artist: For Against
Title: Never Been
Label: Words On Music
Genre: Rock
When trying to think of bands from Nebraska, very few come to mind. A quick Google search turned up a few notable bands such as Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Faint, and For Against. For Against started as all bands do with several name changes such as Glue which didn’t stick (yes, I know, a bad pun) and Four Against One that was shortened to its current incarnation. After the release of their criti...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Saturday, November 7, 2009,
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Reading the liner notes to an album is an important part of listening to any album (Note: For those of you out there who think an MP3 is actually music, go buy a physical cd. It costs about the same and includes notations and pictures that add to the effect and tone of the music. i.e The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band). Some notes are sparse as the musicians would like you to dream some of the meanings to the songs. Some notes are copious. Those are the ones I like and on The ...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Saturday, November 7, 2009,
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Artist: Brilliant Colors
Title: Introducing…
Label: Slumberland Records
Genre: Rock
Introducing Brilliant Colors is an introduction to guitarist Jess Scott’s band with only twenty-two and a half minutes of fuzzy ripped music that may be a prologue to a great career. With so little time and so much to explore, Brilliant Colors delivers a pitch on each song that is defining to a degree and at the same time defines nothing. There are tinges from the pre-punk era where bands reverbed...
Posted by P Shather on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
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L.A. five-piece Rooney is gearing up to release a new, limited-pressing EP, Wild One and will embark on a national headlining tour beginning November 27th at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre, in support. Fans can get a first listen to Wild One as the EP will be available exclusively at these upcoming shows before becoming available at iTunes in early 2010. Only 5,000 EPs will be pressed.
Wild One was produced and engineered by the band, and features four brand-new tracks. The EP was mixed by Dave... Continue reading ...
Posted by P Shather on Wednesday, November 4, 2009,
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Omara Portuondo, the world renowned vocalist, has received a Latin Grammy nomination in the category of Best Contemporary Tropical Album for her 2008 recording, Gracias (World Village / Montuno). Omara will appear as a presenter at The Latin Grammy Awards. The ceremony will be held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on November 5 and broadcast on the Univision Network. A member of the celebrated Buena Vista Social Club®, Omara is one of the first Cuban artists in six years to obt... Continue reading ...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Wednesday, November 4, 2009,
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Artist: Gabriel Sullivan
Title: By the Dirt
Label: Fell City Records
Genre: Rock/Pop
The subtleties of Arizona are an inspiration for Gabriel Sullivan’s debut album on By the Dirt. To pigeon-hole Sullivan though as a singer of the southwest would be a disservice to a nuanced writer and artist who knows how to mix well a blend of blues country with the spice of seventies punk.
Owing a voice to the likes of Tom Waits and Nick Cave, Sullivan gravelly gravitates throughout his debut l...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Monday, November 2, 2009,
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Artist: Timber Timbre
Title: Timber Timbre
Label: Arts and Crafts
Genre: Folk
Taylor Kirk brings us yet another folk reminder of our pop blues from the past with his band Timber Timbre. A big difference here between Timber and everything else coming out in this new genre bending line is that Kirk and his band mates come from Canada and not the down home country delta. Being Canadian has no bearing on how good the music is though. Our neighbors to the north still feel the soul, still ...
Posted by P Shather on Sunday, November 1, 2009,
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7dayBinge plans to release its debut, self-titled album via digital download portals on December 8, 2009, with hard copy release to follow on January 26, 2010. The group includes Todd Harrell of 3 Doors Down on bass, Jon Nicholson of the Muzik Mafia on guitar and vocals, Kenny Olson of Kid Rock’s band on lead guitar, and Shannon Boone on drums. “7dayBinge” will be released by Rock Ridge Music. The band plans to tour in support of the album; tour dates will be announced as they are co...
Posted by P Shather on Sunday, November 1, 2009,
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Beginning on Sunday and through the month of November, PJ Bond (New Brunswick, NJ) will be touring the U.S., covering most of the East Coast and parts of the Midwest.
The ex-Outsmarting Simon front man - fresh off a two week trek across the U.K. - is playing shows in support of his latest full-length, You Didn't Know I Was Alphabetical ... not to mention the homeless / life on the road experiment formally known as the Year Of A Thousand Roommates. You can read about PJ's daily nomadic adve...
Posted by P Shather on Sunday, November 1, 2009,
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The Books
With a cut-and-paste musical aesthetic, The Books, a.k.a. Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong, didnʼt invent the audio collage, but they have perfected the idea of incorporating found sound into their music. Not interested in repeating snippets of sound or vocals as in hip hop, The Books use whole sections of speech, where natural pauses and repetitions create an atmosphere all their own. As Zammuto explains, The Books record "little pieces and use the computer to organize...
Gigantic Music is pleased to announce the long-awaited release of ARMS (Todd Goldstein, guitarist for Harlem Shakes)' full-length debut, Kids Aflame, in the US! Previously only available on import through Melodic Records in the UK, the US version of Kids Aflame, complete with bonus tracks, is out this week digitally through Gigantic Music! In celebration of Kids Aflame's release, Todd is giving away a free mp3 Download for the song "Tiger ...
