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Browsing Archive: January, 2010

Everything Is Made In China-Automatic Movements

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Sunday, January 31, 2010, In : Reviews 

Artist: Everything Is Made In China

Title: Automatic Movements

Label: Self Released

Genre: Rock/Pop

Using what is probably the most obvious statement that has ever been uttered as a band name, Everything Is Made In China traverses the continents to bring their newest album to the United States shores. Being from Moscow, Russia raises an eyebrow to the  listener of even the most obscure indie rock music, and this band brings everything to the table as they want a piece of the listener...


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FM Belfast Debuts

Posted by P Shather on Saturday, January 30, 2010, In : Free Downloads 



After being one of the most talked-about bands all over Europe, due in no small part to their energetic and engaging live show, Reykjavik's FM Belfast are set to release their debut album in the US, how to make friends. Due out in Spring 2010 on Kimi Records (Benni Hemm Hemm, Retro Stefson, Reykjavik!), how to make friends is a careening electro-pop album full of unexpected jolts and turns, including trumpets, cowbells, and plenty ...

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Black Tambourine Anthology

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Friday, January 29, 2010, In : Free Downloads 
BT
Black Tambourine

Though they only released a handful of songs their two-year lifetime, Black Tambourine has been hugely influential in the world of indie music. Conceived of as an explicitly pop band at a time when such bands were pretty rare in America, Black Tambourine wore their influences on their sleeves: The Jesus & Mary Chain, of course, but also folks like Phil Spector, Smokey Robinson, Love, ...

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The Fresh & Onlys Tour

Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, In : Free Downloads 
MP3: "Invisible Forces" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/freshonlysinvisible.mp3

Fresh & Onlys
The Fresh & Onlys photographed by Brian Pritchard

When Tim Cohen told Shayde Sartin he was writing a song called "Be My Hooker," the Fresh & Onlys bassist looked at the singer/guitarist and said... "'There's no way we're gonna have a song with that title, dude,'" explains Sartin. "But sure enough, he laid a riff down and I was like, 'Jesus Christ, I can't believe you pulled something meaningful out o...

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Mumford & Sons Debut Album

Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, In : News 
New York, NY - London's latest indie rock sensation MUMFORD & SONS announce the new, earlier release date of their much-anticipated, critically-acclaimed debut Sigh No More.  The album will be released February 16th in the US on Glassnote Records.
 
In conjunction with the new release date, the band will perform their single "Little Lion Man" on February 17th on The Late Show with David Letterman.  There will also be an appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (air date TBA.)  The s...
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Spoon-Transference

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Monday, January 25, 2010, In : Reviews 

Artist: Spoon

Title: Transference

Label: Merge

Genre: Rock/Pop

It took Spoon fourteen years and four record labels to find major success. While most bands would have conceded defeat and the band members would have left to pursue other projects, Spoon persevered and not only made one of the top albums of 2007, they were all over the radio and television with some of the catchiest tunes of the decade from their album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. While their last album title may have sounded like a ...


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Inlets Debut Album

Posted by P Shather on Monday, January 25, 2010, In : News 
Inlets
Inlets

Bio:
A worrier, childhood choir member, and unfocused student of many instruments, Sebastian Krueger marries the darker ornaments of baroque pop with lo-fi intimacy. Far from his Wisconsin roots and perfunctory piano lessons, he works out of a small Brooklyn apartment as Inlets, incubating songs over the course of months and creating short, dusty suites.
 
Thanksgiving of 2006 brought the free online release of Inlets' first offering, The Vestibule EP, an eight-song collect...

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Parenthetical Girls Release EPs

Posted by P Shather on Monday, January 25, 2010, In : News 
PG
Parenthetical Girls

"We never meant you any harm." Ever the pragmatists, Parenthetical Girls are set to release Privilege--the band's new full length--as a box set of five extremely limited 12" EPs on their own Slender Means Society label. These EPs will be sold separately in sequence every quarter over the next 15 months, each as they are completed. They will not be distributed to stores. As the cycle concludes in May of 2011, the fifth and final 12" will come packaged in a be...

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Laura Barrett Opens For The Magnetic Fields

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Friday, January 22, 2010, In : Free Downloads 

MP3: "Bluebird" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/laurabluebird.mp3
Laura Barrett
Laura Barrett

Canada's beloved and bespectacled musical linguist Laura Barrett is heading out on an eleven-date North American tour supporting indie-pop legends The Magnetic Fields (dates below). Also be sure to check out Laura's new video for 'The Wood Between Worlds' from her album Victory Garden (Paper Bag Records). The video was directed by Jared Sales.

Laura Barrett introduces many us to the clock like tones o...

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Surfer Blood-Astro Coast

Posted by P Shather on Friday, January 22, 2010, In : Reviews 

Artist: Surfer Blood

Title: Astro Coast

Label: Kanine Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

An early nineties romp through the grass of the chamber pop genre. Catchy and strangely named by a drunken singer, this band ebbs with all the flow. Sober singing will lead to more drunken parties, but they will be fun parties.



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Vampire Weekend-Contra

Posted by P Shather on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, In : Reviews 

Artist: Vampire Weekend

Title: Contra

Label: XL Recordings

Genre: Pop

Proving you are no one time wonder is very hard to accomplish. Vampire Weekend gives us another dose of their infectious afro-pop and makes us look at a pretty girl on the front cover. A success yet again that makes me want to sip a bourbon and flip the vinyl from side to side all afternoon long.



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The Laureates Release EP and Tour

Posted by P Shather on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, In : Free Downloads 
FREE MP3: COVER OF "I CAN'T STAND IT" BY THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LAUREATES' VOW TO RECORD AND RELEASE ONE COVER EVERY MONTH
http://www.laureatesmusic.com/downloads/music/Covers/I_Can%27t_Stand_It.mp3
 
 
The No Kontrol EP, to be released February 16, 2010 via Funambulist Recording Company, is The Laureates' 3rd effort, preceded by a 7" EP and a full-length album. It was recorded by John Crawford (Paul Cary, Tiger Bones, France Has the Bomb) in Chicago in fits and starts...

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Spoon Tours

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : Tour 

As the January 19th release of Spoon’s eagerly anticipated new album, Transference, grows near, Spoon has announced the itinerary of its 2010 North American tour. The dates kick off with a March 17th headlining appearance at Stubb’s in Austin as part of the annual South by Southwest conference, and include the band’s first ever headline engagement at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

Transference, the seventh Spoon album and the first produced by the band itself, began streaming in i...


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The Strange Boys Tour

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : Tour 
STREAM: "Be Brave" -
http://www.myspace.com/thestrangeboys
SB
The Strange Boys

 
The Strange Boys are a phenomenal young group from Austin, Texas.

They are at the same time, both timeless and refreshingly avant garde. They have signed to Rough Trade Records for the world excluding the US (where they remain on In The Red Records). Set to appeal to anyone who has a liking for top quality beat and blues influenced rock n' roll, The Strange Boys have provoked excitement and reaction ...

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Dr. Dog Releases New Album and Tours

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : Tour 


Dr. Dog is very excited to announce the April 6th release of their Anti- Records debut, Shame, Shame. As a band that has traditionally built their spirited albums layer by layer in the undisturbed seclusion of their Philadelphia home studio, Dr. Dog realized that they would need to face the challenge of working in a professional studio and enlist the help of an outside producer (Rob Schnapf) if they were to continue their album-by-album evolutionary growth. The end result is the band's most ...

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New Deer Tick EP

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : News 
DT
Deer Tick

After finishing a US run with Neko Case late last year, Deer Tick completed a three week European tour - upon their return to the US on Dec. 13 the band entered the studio to put the finishing touches on its as-yet-untitled third album, which will be released in the first half of this year.  The band's first big show of 2010 will be in Los Angeles, as part of the First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum, then in April and May they'll head out with Dr. Dog wh...

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Annuals Releases EP

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : News 
In 2006, the six members of Raleigh, NC group Annuals earned critical adoration with their debut album, Be He Me.  Their expansive, energetic sound and tight pop sensibilities captured the hearts and ears of listeners and critics alike, propelling them toward the next step in their career: their first major-label release, Such Fun, on Canvasback Records in 2008. At an age where many are just starting their careers, Annuals, armed with a reputation for solid songwriting and several years of ex...

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Roy Orbison To Get Star on the Walk of Fame

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : News 
On January 29, 2010 Rock and Roll legend Roy Orbison will receive his Star on the Walk Of Fame.
 
Roy Orbison was one of the very first rock and roll stars, and was an international household name by the time he was 21.  Loved the world over for a soaring 5 octave voice, and his incredible and innovative way of writing songs, Orbison was an artist without limits. Orbison is one of the very few artists to have been accepted by the world in all forms of popular music, and Roy is one of the ex...

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Past Lives Tour And Release Album

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : Tour 
Loney Dear
Past Lives

Past Lives-the Seattle quartet consisting of Jordan Blilie, Mark Gajadhar, Morgan Henderson and Devin Welch-present Tapestry of Webs, their debut full-length release, due Feb. 23, 2010.  As the summer of 2009 pooled into the fall leaves and grey wash, the group captured 12 songs with producer/engineer Steve Fisk, taking initial tracks from Seattle's Avast! studios to Fisk's home recording den for completion.

The result is an album that crawls from the primordial ooze ...

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A Sunny Day In Glasgow Tour And New EP

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : Tour 
ASDIG
A Sunny Day in Glasgow

The recording sessions for Ashes Grammar stretched across 6 months and were fraught with all kinds of disaster. But they were also incredibly productive. After the album's completion, a good number of extra songs were put on the shelf for a while as the core trio of Ben Daniels, Annie Fredrickson and Josh Meakim reclaimed their lives. Not long after, Ben was laid off from his job and his afternoons were spent recording new music in the West Philly mansi...


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Dawes Tours

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : Tour 
ATO Records is thrilled to announce that Dawes has confirmed a co-headlining winter tour with Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons. The dates will kick off on February 5th at the Crepe Place in Santa Cruz, CA, and loop around the country, culminating with a show in the band's hometown of Los Angeles, CA, on March 11th. Today, NPR made the Dawes song, "When You Call My Name" their song of the day. You can listen to it here: NPR.

Dawes has spent the past several months on the road, as they've been...
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Rodrigo y Gabriela Tour

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : Tour 
ATO Records is excited to announce that the explosive Mexican guitar-shredding Rodrigo y Gabriela have announced their Spring 2010 tour of North America. The dates begin February 28th at the 9:30 club in Washington, DC, run through March, and culminate with a special performance at New York's historic Radio City Music Hall on April 29th. These dates are a part of Rodrigo y Gabriela's world tour in support of their acclaimed sophomore album, 11:11.

The follow up to their stunning self-titled de...
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Lali Puna Releases New Album

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : News 


More than half a decade has elapsed since the release of Faking The Books, Lali Puna's third (and hitherto most recent) long-player, but the band's impact on the climate of electronic rock music remains palpable.  Along with sister-group The Notwist, this Munich-based quartet has helped map out the musical landscape for modern, experimentally minded pop music. Now, with Our Inventions, the group's first album of new material to be released in over five years, Lali Puna continues to push t...

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The Bonfire Ball Tour

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : Tour 
 
Toronto, ON – Toronto, Ontario artists Jason Collett, Zeus and Bahamas have announced a North American revue tour featuring all three artists performing together and alone during a night long set of incredible music. The three acts have a long history of collaboration, as intertwined as their musical lineage. Instead of the typical show in which each act plays its own set, Collett, Zeus and Bahamas will all take the stage together, playing songs by all three. At times you will find Coll...

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Fela Kuti Reissues

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : News 
Knitting Factory Records is very excited to announce that the first set of Fela reissues will be released on February 16, 2010. Since the reissues are being made available in chronological order, these six CDs, that contain nine albums total, represent the earliest period of the Nigerian legend's oeuvre. The timespan of the releases is 1969 - 1974, the era during which Fela first created the sound he was to call Afrobeat, a music he always contended was a modern form of danceable, African cla...
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Josiah Wolf's New Album

Posted by P Shather on Sunday, January 17, 2010, In : News 
Loney Dear
Josiah Wolf

On his debut album, WHY? multi-instrumentalist Josiah Wolf offers up a rare solo work with true legs of its own. His voice deep and straight at times and impossibly fragile at others, Wolf deals both in visual snapshots that illustrate the wistfulness of a mundane moment, and canny excavations of those poignancies that lie beneath the surface: tough triumphs, tougher truths, and outright failures. Wolf's lean poems are set to an autumnal mix of warm folk and easy ps...

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Citizen Cope To Release The Rainwater

Posted by P Shather on Friday, January 15, 2010, In : News 
Citizen Cope, aka Clarence Greenwood, is very excited to announce the release of his new record, The Rainwater LP, on March 2, 2010. The record will be released digitally on February 9th. As on his past two records, The Rainwater LP was produced by Greenwood himself. It is his first record in nearly four years and the first on his own label, RainWater Recordings, Inc. A huge national tour that begins February 2nd in Carrboro, NC, and ends April 17 in Kansas City, MO, has been confirmed. Ful t...
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Cloud Cult Unreleased Songs

Posted by P Shather on Friday, January 15, 2010, In : News 

 

Cloud Cult is proud to announce the release of a new special collection of previously unreleased songs from the past 15 years: “Lost Songs from the Lost Years”. These limited edition CDs are hand numbered and are available only on the Cloud Cult website. Although Cloud Cult released a limited edition version of “Lost Songs from the Lost Years” in 2006, that album quickly sold out and has been unavailable since then. The new edition of “Lost Songs from the Lost Years” includes a...


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blink-182 Sell Haiti Charity Shirts

Posted by P Shather on Friday, January 15, 2010, In : News 

blink-182 have just released an exclusive Haiti Charity T-shirt. All proceeds from the sale of this shirt will go to the Red Cross. Each shirt is $15 and is only available on the bands official online store.

 

http://www.blink182merch.com


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The Vivian Girls Tour

Posted by P Shather on Friday, January 15, 2010, In : Tour 
STREAM: "He's Gone" (The Chantels cover) -
http://www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc
Vivian Girls
Vivian Girls
  
This February, the Vivian Girls will release their new vinyl & digital single, My Love Will Follow Me, as the seventh release on their own Wild World label. The single was recorded in Brattleboro, VT by Kyle Thomas of Happy Birthday and King Tuff, who also plays guitar on the B-side - a cover of The Chantels' "He's Gone." This single shows the Girls moving towards a Spector-esque ...

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The Besnard Lakes Free MP3 Download

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Friday, January 8, 2010, In : Free Downloads 


The Besnard Lakes are offering a preview of their much-anticipated album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night, the standout single, "Albatross." The single will also be made available on February 9th (8th in the UK) as a vinyl 12" with the exclusive b-side "Four Long Lines."

Download "Albatross"

The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night

Albatross 12"
February 9th, 2010 (February 8th in the UK)
Side A: "Albatross"
Side B: "Four Long Lines"

The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night LP
Mar...


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John Jorgenson Releases Two Albums and Tours

Posted by P Shather on Friday, January 8, 2010, In : Tour 

John Jorgenson Nashville, Tenn.— As one of the pioneers of American gypsy jazz music, Jorgenson is celebrating the father of gypsy jazz, Django Reinhardt, whose 100th birthday would have been January 23rd of this year, with two album releases and a touring schedule that takes him across the country and across the pond with the John Jorgenson Quintet. Widely known as the "U.S. Ambassador of Gypsy Jazz," Jorgenson has earned a reputation as a world-class musician and guitarist and has collaborated with the...


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Jagermeister Country Tour

Posted by Joseph Bridges on Wednesday, January 6, 2010, In : Tour 

(New Rochelle, NY) – Jägermeister, the brand known for decades of involvement with rock and metal bands, continues to expand its music presence with the 2010 Jägermeister Country Tour featuring Nashville singer-songwriter Eric Church with special guest and opening act Josh Thompson.  The tour, which is Jägermeister’s second in the Country Music genre, kicks off February 9th and visits 32 venues across the nation in celebration of Church’s critically acclaimed sophomore release Caroli...


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Nada Surf Tours and Releases Album of Covers

Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, In : Tour 

Nada Surf bring their trademark sense of harmony and musical craftsmanship to 12 of their favorite songs with their latest release, if i had a hi-fi, their first album of covers. Only a group with their wide-ranging and eclectic taste could bring songs from such artists as Kate Bush, Dwight Twilley and the Go-Betweens together into a coherent, intelligent record. hi-fi also includes some intriguingly obscure numbers like Spanish band Mecromina's "Evolution" and Bill Fox's power-pop "Electrocu...


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Field Music Tours

Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, In : Tour 
Field Music
Field Music photographed by Ian West

Field Music return to the North American shores in 2010 in support of their new double album Field Music (Measure) out February 16, 2010 on Memphis Industries.  The confirmed dates are below with more west coast dates to be confirmed shortly. 

Bio:

Following a self-imposed three year hiatus Sunderland, England's Field Music are all set to return with a new 20 track double album on February 16th 2010. Powered, as ever, by brothers and co-front...

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Headlights Tours

Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, In : Tour 
VIDEO: "Love Song for Buddy" -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu2BvoQ1sKw
Headlights
Headlights
  
Wildlife, Headlights' poignant third album, stems from particularly troubled beginnings. "It was a very difficult record," relates guitarist and songwriter Tristan Wraight. While Wraight, fellow songwriter and keyboardist Erin Fein, and drummer Brett Sanderson have been touring and recording since 2004, this year found the band as a five piece for the first time with the addition of bassis...

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Sam Phillips Gives Exclusive First Looks Into Long Play

Posted by P Shather on Monday, January 4, 2010, In : News 
January 4, 2010 - Los Angeles, CA - Songwriter/singer Sam Phillips has opened the virtual doors to Long Play, a unique and ambitious web-based art and music installation featuring new music, short films, original essays, candid footage of her at work in the studio, photographs by and of her and other exclusive material.  Phillips explains, "In creating Long Play I thought about how I would love to be able to get a glimpse into the creative process of people I admire, be it musicians, filmmake...
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Woods and Real Estate Tour

Posted by P Shather on Monday, January 4, 2010, In : Free Downloads 

MP3: Woods - "To Clean" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/woodstoclean.mp3

MP3: Real Estate - "Beach Comber" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/realestatebeachcomber.mp3

REANGEL
WoodsErina
Real Estate (top) & Woods (bottom)

About Real Estate

"Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past.  The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat.  Every song works its wa...

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