Tame Impala: Solitude is Bliss
December 30, 2010
Real Estate “Out of Tune”
December 28, 2010
Roman Holiday-The Long Way Home (Video)
December 14, 2010
If you missed the interview I did with them before you can check it out at Examiner.com
Moondoggies: Empress of the North (video) & free album stream
October 13, 2010
Gorgeous song and video
The Moondoggies record is available for free listening RIGHT HERE.
Music Monday: Twin Sisters
September 27, 2010
CocoRosie Concert Review: Brooklyn
September 17, 2010
CocoRosie played to a packed crowd at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn New York last Wednesday night (9.15.10). The evening started with an unusual DJ Set from the “Gay Mormon Kissing Club”.
Bianca (coco) and Sierra (rosie) Casady are the sister duo that make up CocoRosie. Their music is part ethereal, carny, hip hop with a lot of free spirited dance and theatrics. Some may label this as strange or gimmicky with their unusual music style and stage costumes but I would classify it as original and authentic to who they are as people. If you read their back history you will understand that this uniqueness of theirs stems from a nomad childhood brought up by free spirited parents. There was nothing mainstream about their lives so why would their music be mainstream?
The girls danced around the stage and performed to an enthusiastic crowd then give up the limelight to their own beat-boxer Tez, who ran into technical problems. Although Tez’s set was cut short the show continued with the return of the ladies in new outfits. The duo were joined on stage by a 4-piece horn section which added to the already impressive performance.
The crowd was ecstatic and familiar with all that CocoRosie brought to the evening. The rafters were shaking with amazing music, voices and foot stomping. I would say by the ear-to-ear grins on both the audience and the band, the night was a success.
Bianca
I had the opportunity to ask the ladies a few questions about their music and some of their influences:
How hard is it to separate the business side and the creative side to remain honest to your music as an artist yet successful as a performer?
ITS IMPOSSIBLE, WE ARE BAD BUSINESS PEOPLE, ITS ALL ROLLED UP INTO ONE POTATO.
Both you and your sister have very different vocal stylings, is this something you developed over time or was it a happy accident to discover they work so well together?
WE HAVE SOME OVER LAPPING VOICES. I DONT HAVE Sierra’s OPERA VOICE, BUT PERHAPS WITH A LOT OF SPANKS AND WHIPS AND SLAPS I COULD DO THE SAME. WE KIND OF GOT OUR VOICES FROM OUR MOTHER, AND THEN I HAVE SOMETHING PRETTY STRANGE WHICH I DONT FEEL SUITS MY FACE, MY HIGH WARBLY CHEST VOICE WHICH REMINDS ME OF CHINA AND INDIA WHICH SIERRA HAS HIGHLY ENCOURAGED.
How about sharing a few “Favorites” with your fans.
Who is your favorite:
Visual Artist
HENRY DARGER
(Henry Darger was a custodial worker from Chicago who’s impressive work was not discovered until after his death. This is truly an amazing story. To find out more about Darger’s work visit this site)
Author
JEAN GENET
(jean Genet spent a large part of his life in prison until he wrote “our lady of flowers” which was smuggled out of prison into the hands of Cocteau and Sartre who then started a campaign for his pardon from prison. Genet continued on to write other novels and was also a successful playwright. To learn more about Jean Genet visit this site)
Lyricist
DIANE CLUCK
(Diane Cluck is a solo performer who is classified as “anti-folk” check out her myspace page)
Fashion clearly plays a big role in your life what era would you say is your favorite in fashion history and why?
VICTORIAN, ITS GORGEOUS.
What modern day fashion designers influence you?
I LIKE TO SHOP AT THRIFT STORES AND DOLLAR STORES AND THATS ABOUT IT.
Do you remember the first CD you ever bought, if so what was it and how old were you?
ENYA AND I WAS 6.
Do you have any rituals before you go on stage?
TANGLING OUR WIGS, IRONING OUR NIGHTIES.
Thanks to Bianca for answering these questions for us.
CocoRosie are back on the road hitting a slew of cities they missed on the last go round. See below for a full list of tour dates. MP3 of “Lemonade” (Click track name to listen to song)
Sep 17-Town Ballroom, Buffalo (NY)
Sep 28-Oberlin College, Oberlin (OH)
Sep 20-Cat’s Cradle, Chapel Hill (NC)
Sep 21-Variety Theater, Atlanta (GA)
Sep 23-State Theater, St. Peterburg (FL)
Sep 24-Revolution, Miami (FL)
Sep 25-Social, Orlando (FL)
Sep 26-Downunder, Tallahassee (FL)
Sep 27- Republik, New Orleans (LA)
Sep 28-Fitzgeralds, Hosuton(TX)
Sep 29- Granada, Dallas (TX)
Sep 30-Emo’s, Austin (TX)
Oct 2-Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque (NM)
Oct 3 -Rialto Theater, Tucson (AZ)
Oct 5 -Regency Ballroom, San Francisco (CA)
Oct 6-Henry Fonda, Los Angeles (CA)
Oct 8-Teatro Degollado, Guadalajara (MEX)
Oct 9-Teatro De La Ciudad, Mexico City (MEX)
Oct 10-Teatro De La Ciudad, Mexico City (MEX)
Sierra
Music Monday: The Ruby Suns
August 2, 2010
The Ruby Suns:
And the seasons turn, turn, turn and New Zealanders The Ruby Suns have decided to swap their Spring for our Fall and head back to the states with Local Natives in tow. Click here for a full list of tour dates.
MP3 of “Closet Astrologer” (Click track name to listen to song)
Another Great song Kenya Dig It
FOALS ANNOUNCE FALL USA TOUR
July 14, 2010
Oxford, UK quintet Foals will embark on their first North American tour in support of their sophomore release, Total Life Forever.
The tour will begin on September 23 in Minneapolis and will include dates in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Austin, the latter to play this year’s ACL festival on October 10th.
Below is the list of confirmed tour dates, with more shows to be announced soon.
Foals released Total Life Forever this past May, the follow up to their 2008 debut, Antidotes.
Since that time, the band has played many sold out shows in the UK, including one at Camden Roundhouse, riveted crowds at Glastonbury and Rock at the Ring/Rock in the Park, and has sold-out shows at Reading & Leeds and Brixton Academy still to come.
06 Balloons Free Download!
As described by the Guardian UK, “A Foals gig is a chance for alt-rock kids to get down and sweaty to a band that produces highly danceable music, while preserving indie qualities such as angst and braininess”, in other words mind melting fun for everyone.
Foals Fall Tour Dates:
September 23 – Minneapolis, 7th St. Entry
September 24 – Chicago, Lincoln Hall
September 25 – Detroit, Magic Stick
September 27 – Toronto, Lee’s Palace
September 28 – Montreal, La Sala Rossa
September 29 – Boston, Paradise
October 1 – New York City, Bowery Ballroom
October 2– Brooklyn, Music Hall of Williamsburg
October 3 – Washington, D.C., Black Cat
October 5 – Atlanta, Masquerade
October 8 – Houston, Walters
October 9 – Austin, Stubbs
October 10 – Austin, Austin City Limits Festival
October 12 – Denver, Larimer Lounge
October 14 – San Diego, The Casbah
October 18 – El Rey, Los Angeles
October 21 – Portland, Doug Fir
More about Foals and Total Life Forever:
Following the release of their 2008 debut, Antidotes, comes a brand new record from Oxford, UK quintet Foals. Written primarily in the basement of their Oxford HQ (“The House of Supreme Mathematics”) and recorded in Gothenburg with former Clor man Luke Smith, Total Life Foreverfinds Foals singing rather than shouting, emotional as well as functional. The band’s soul-search reveals new antidotes found in infinite, internal spaces rather than carved violently upon the air–-Total Life Forever feels more the work of artists than artisans. It’s a triumph that they’ve managed to remain a band of progress and propulsion while investigating that vast, dark space lurking inside themselves-–that gap between ribs where “nature, or god or whatever you wanna call it, will come in.”
New Music: Jaill
July 7, 2010
“psych-Pop Combo” Check out their single “Everyone’s Hip” Their new album “That’s How We Burn” drops July 27.
jaill
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Music Monday: The Drums
May 31, 2010
New Music: CocoRosie
May 23, 2010
CocoRosie Grey Oceans
This dynamic psych-tastic sister duo are in the midst of wrapping up their month long European tour, and will be kicking off their 17 date US stint on June 8th, in Washington, DC. Be sure to keep an eye out for CocoRosie’s full length video to appear online in late May. You won’t be disappointed.
“Lemonade is a five-minute song that starts with a twinkly piano opening and adds strings, woodwinds, electronic percussion and interlocking vocals.”- Pitchfork (Download “Lemonade” )
“…this collection of hauntingly somber songs feels more fully realized than CocoRosies’ previous lo-fi offerings.” – Nylon
“…blend of scratchy gospel melodies overlaid with yelps and whirrs.” – Elle
Male Bonding
May 19, 2010
Male Bonding Nothing Hurts
Emerging from the fertile D.I.Y. rock scene in Dalston, a gentrification-proof London neighborhood with ample “lo-fi” bands and Turkish restaurants, noise-pop trio Male Bonding plays fast. Nothing Hurts, the band’s first full-length, gets it done in half an hour, and most songs clock in at around two minutes. But, there’s much more to Male Bonding than high-speed, high-impact punk. If you will know their velocity, you will remember their melodies. Every song on Nothing Hurts, whether a clipped, snarling rock anthem (“All Things This Way,” “Crooked Scene,” “Pumpkin”) or something more foggy and contemplative (“Franklin,” “Worse to Come”), carries a hook that’s immediate and permanent. Nothing Hurts was recorded in the fall of 2009 in New York and mixed and mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound.
After a triumphant return home to the UK, from their US tour with the Vivian Girls & The Soft Pack the band are gearing up to begin a pretty lengthy UK tour.
Interview with Dirty Laundry TV.
Band of the Week on Spinner.com
Free MP3 of Franklin, via Stereogum
Free MP3 of Years Not Long via Pitchfork
“Webb’s upper-register vocals have yearning nailed down, and the feeling is cemented by lyrics…”-Pitchfork
“…people of the world will finally know of Male Bonding’s gritty awesomeness.” – Fader
“…Male Bonding, gets friendly with choppy, high-velocity noise pop.” –Village Voice
Music Monday: The National
May 3, 2010
Straight out of Brooklyn, The National rocks.
Check out their Playlist here
And look for their new album High Violet out May 11.
Music Monday: Roman Holiday
April 26, 2010
Check out the new track Yellow Sun and other great songs by Roman Holiday!
Check out their video blogs too!
Roman Holiday on MySpace
These incredibly talented Washington State natives are creating some amazing music. You don’t want to miss this ride. They’ll be touring the West Coast so check them out if they come to your town, it won’t be long until small venues are a part of their past.
Roman Holiday “I Think It’s Her”
December 2, 2009
As you may tell from my last two posts Roman Holiday has totally captured my interest. The band clearly has the chops to deliver powerful music. These boys definitely have that “thing” the music industry needs and I can’t help but bop to the beat and wiggle my ass to all of their music.
Somebody needs to sign Roman Holiday pronto since they only seem to be getting better and better.
Check out their newest song “I Think It’s Her” on their MySpace Page
Did I mention they’re cute too.
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