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SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: June 13, 2015 in MUSIC
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KEXP Live presents Speedy Ortiz performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded May 27, 2015.

Songs:
The Graduates
Raising The Skate
Puffer
Ginger

Speedy Ortiz is an American indie rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. The band originated in 2011 as Sadie Dupuis‘ solo project while she was teaching songwriting at a summer camp, recording her own material using her laptop. Two releases resulted from this solo endeavor, the Cop Kicker EP, and the album, The Death Of Speedy Ortiz.

The project expanded into a full band in late 2011. The group independently released “Taylor Swift” b/w “Swim Fan,” which was followed by 2012’s Sports, released on Exploding in Sound Records.

Their debut album, Major Arcana, was released on Carpark Records in 2013. The album was well received. Pitchfork Media deemed the album “Best New Music” In 2014, guitarist Matt Robidoux was replaced by fellow Massachusetts musician Devin McKnight of Grass is Green. On January 21, 2015, Dupuis announced their second studio album, “Foil Deer”, which was released on April 21, 2015.

SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Basketball “

Posted: May 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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Massachusetts quartet Speedy Ortiz have offered up a demo of this unreleased track for a 12-inch featuring acts from the Carpark stable to celebrate the US indie label’s 16th birthday. A lo-fi affair featuring Sadie Dupuis’ cracked vocal over acoustic guitars, it’s less immediately biting than much of their superlative 2015 LP ‘Foil Deer’, but still rolls along with enough melodic idiosyncrasies to elevate it from mere acoustic pleasantness. Fourth single from a special basketball-themed picture disc to celebrate Carpark’s 16th anniversary. This release consists of nine exclusive, full-length songs and 19 locked grooves by artists from all across the Carpark catalogue. All proceeds go to the Little Kids Rocks charity. Limited to 600 copies. Out in July 24, 2015.

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SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Live at The Mercury Lounge ” 2014

Posted: March 23, 2015 in MUSIC
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Every review of Speedy Ortiz you read is going to acknowledge their debt to beloved nineties indie rock bands. I’ll resist enumerating them all here if only to focus attention on the band’s irresistible songs and serious chops. Begun as the bedroom project of singer-songwriter-guitarist Sadie Dupuis, she recruited Mike Falcone on drums, Darl Ferm on bass, and Devin McKnight on guitar for 2012’s “Taylor Swift” single. Two EP’s and one Pitchfork Best New Music LP later, Speedy Ortiz have a well-stocked arsenal of rockers to draw from. The band manages to keep it loose while cohering as a whole that sounds like they’ve been playing together for much longer than the math would indicate. Dupuis’ vocals somehow hover above and intersect with the music, alternating between complementing and contrasting it. These songs are infectious. Her confessional lyrics evoke a nostalgia for shared experience, even if it’s an experience you’d rather forget. At least, that’s how I feel when I hear “Indoor Soccer.”

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We were lucky enough to catch Speedy Ortiz at Mercury Lounge on their dual-headlining tour with Ex Hex. To illustrate how successful this band has been in such a short period of time, Ex Hex frontwoman Mary Timony happens to be the former frontwoman of one of those beloved nineties indie rock bands to which Speedy Ortiz are often compared. Speedy Ortiz can hold their own among giants.listen to selections from across their catalog; from the Major Arcana LP, Sports and Real Hair EPs, and even some deep cuts like “Doomsday” from a Less Artists More Condos 7” and “Bigger Party” from the 2014 Adult Swim Singles Series. Catching this band in a small venue is a major coup as they’re clearly going to be packing larger rooms very soon.

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SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” No Below “

Posted: March 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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I allowed myself to be surprised and wowed by acts like Har Mar Superstar, Diarrhea Planet, and so many others. The band I want to mention now was completely the band I wanted to see anywhere last year . They were called Speedy Ortiz, fronted by a badass named Sadie Dupuis. In the tiny venue, they blew me away, and I’ve since become a loyal fan of their music, which “rings loud and clear by way of ass-kicking guitars, thunderous rhythms and a promising new voice,”. So I give them my highest recommendation, but also have to insist that you spend some time adrift in Austin, pushed and pulled by forces out of your control, so that you can find your own Speedy Ortiz

SPEEDY ORTIZ – The Graduates

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Massachusetts quartet Speedy Ortiz have released “The Graduates,” the second single from their upcoming full-length album “Foil Deer”. Like first single “Raising the Skate,” the new track finds the foursome retreading the off-kilter, hypercatchy pop-rock that made their previous LP, 2013’s “Major Arcana”, a critical favorite. On the new track, the vocal layers are more ornate, the storytelling more elaborate and the instrumentation richer and more complex.The group’s penchant for lovable-loser subject matter persists: “I was the best at being second place, but now I’m just the runner-up,” frontwoman Sadie Dupuis laments of the love interest with whom she was a “French Club drop-out” and then a “law school reject.”

The track incorporates grunge grunge riffs that, when combined with Dupuis’ audible situational frustration, sound ripped from the Nineties underground – not exactly sugary but still an undeniable earworm. Though “The Graduates” is slower and more self-deprecating than “Raising the Skate”  which found Dupuis declaring, “I’m not bossy, I’m the boss” – when taken in tandem, the two new tracks reveal a flashier side of Speedy Ortiz than the one that made “Major Arcana”.

Foil Deer follows up last year’s four-song Real Hair EP, and is set for release on April 21st; “The Graduates” is available for instant download with any iTunes pre-order of the album.

SPEEDY ORTIZ – “Real Hair” – EP REVIEW

Posted: March 1, 2014 in MUSIC
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my current fav band SPEEDY ORTIZ and this is the new ep get the album tooooooooooo

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Speedy Ortiz “Real Hair”

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Last year, Massachusetts 4-piece Speedy Ortiz wowed me with their debut album “Major Arcana,” which found a way to make 90s nostalgia interesting and memorable in ways that few bands are able to accomplish. I love the band’s noisy instrumentation and lead vocalist Sadie Dupuis’ honest lyricism, but I think the band has a long way to go in terms of really perfecting their imperfect sound and ensuring that they don’t become a bad replica of Insert 90s Band Here. Before they potentially make or break their career with Album #2, they’ve put out a new four-song EP called “Real Hair.” I’m not sure if these are extra tracks from the “Major Arcana” recording sessions or what, but they do cover pretty much the same ground they did last year.

While I wouldn’t call “Real Hair” a change of pace, the band is still fun to…

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