Posts Tagged ‘SXSW’

BLEACHED – ” Wednesday Night Melody “

Posted: March 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Whenever I see the date 4/1/16, I immediately think “oh hey, that’s when the new Explosions In The Sky album is coming out.” I believe, however, that it’s time for me to amend that thought to also include an equal amount of excitement for Bleached’s new LP. Today their latest single, which may be among my favorite of the bunch so far.

Garage pop trio Bleached are releasing their new LP, “Welcome The Worms” on April 1st via Dead Oceans. They’ve now shared a new single off the album, “Sour Candy.” It’s sugary pop with a hint of Joan Jett in it.

They also shared a mini-documentary of of the band making the new album, which the band recorded at legendary L.A. studio Sunset Sounds. They open up about the inspirations for their songs and the excitement that comes with recording in the same studio as legendary bands like The Beach Boys, Prince, Rolling Stones.

Bleached are heading on tour this month, kicking it off with SXSW in Austin Texas .

 

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SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” The Graduates ” Live at SXSW

Posted: April 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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Live at House of Vans at the SXSW festival in Austin Texas. 

Members of Speedy Ortiz are beginning to hit their stride.  This band of Western Massachusetts guitar music heroes The band — singer/guitarist Sadie Dupuis, new guitarist Devin McKnight , and drummer Mike Falcone  It’s a rare moment in the life of Speedy Ortiz — a day off. Over the last year, and 2014, in particular, they’ve been Road Dogs of the Highest Order, schlepping out on tours that have taken them all over the United States, Canada, Europe, and back. They’ve been on some impressive bills along the way: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, the Breeders, Los Campesinos, Joanna Gruesome, and Bonnaroo. shared a stage with Dinosaur Jr., Mac DeMarco, Those Darlins, and many more) on Saturday, July 12th, it’s out on the road again. One of the gigs on their upcoming tour will be at Chicago’s Pitchfork Festival, the eponymous live-music extravaganza of the site that, it can’t be argued, kicked the band into high demand in the first place when it rightly named their album Major Arcana Best New Music a year ago.

Major Arcana takes the guitar acrobatics and straightforward swing of many a ’90s band — Pavement, Helium, Polvo, Dinosaur Jr. — and wraps them all in Dupuis’s powerful, quivering voice and wry lyrics. Sadie Dupuis’s crunchy guitar histrionics are joined by the beefy chords of former guitarist Matt Robidoux (who took an indefinite hiatus from the band in May, replaced now by McKnight), and songs like “No Below” and “Tiger Tank” get their hooks in you on first listen. Falcone’s thundering drums and Ferm’s steady back end tie the whole thing up. Major Arcana is a major success, and it’s only now, with this bit of time off, that Dupuis and company have had time enough to work on any new material.

MEW – ” Water Slides ” and ” Satellites “

Posted: March 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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Danish prog space rock outfit Mew have shared another song off their new album +/- (Plus Minus) which is out April 28th. “Water Sides” shows off the band’s more ethereal side and you can let it wash over you here, Mew is a Danish alternative rock band, consisting of Jonas Bjerre (lead vocals), Bo Madsen (guitar), Johan Wohlert (bass) and Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen (drums). Johan Wohlert left the band in 2006 before the birth of his first child, but made a return in 2013 while the band were in the studio, before making his first live appearances since his departure in 2014.

Whilst their music may be classified as indie and on occasion progressive rock, the band’s guitarist Bo Madsen said “I usually say we are ‘indie stadium.’ A mix between ‘feelings’ and ‘thinking’ is usually good, The band announced on 19th January 2015 that the sixth album, + –, will be released on 27 April through Play It Again Sam. They also released the first single off the album called “Satellites”. Mew has been announced to play South by Southwest in Austin, Texas on March 18, 2015.

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ULTIMATE PAINTING – ” Ultimate Painting ” and ” Ten Street “

Posted: March 15, 2015 in MUSIC
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The UK group Ultimate Painting and Australia’s Twerps are in NYC currently and are playing two shows this weekend: March 13th at Rough Trade and March 14th at The Mercury Lounge. .

Last night Ultimate Painting played a surprise, late night show at Elvis Guesthouse which is quickly becoming the place for secret squirrel activity. Their 40-minute set included a lot of last year’s self-titled debut, plus two songs from their next album which is currently being mastered by Total Control’s Mikey Young for release on Trouble in Mind Records  later this year.  James Haore and Jack Cooper’s VU/Dead-style guitar interplay comes off even better live than on record, and their rhythm section  with Jack’s Mazes bandmate Neil Robinson and CoCoComa’s Anthony Cozzi on bass) is tight.

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Next week, Ultimate Painting and Twerps will be in Austin for SXSW.

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HANNE KOLSTO – ” One Plus One Makes One Out Of Two “

Posted: March 8, 2015 in MUSIC
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Hanne Kolstø is a musical trapeze artist. She evolves, pulsates and lives to find what is true for herself, and she does so while balancing high above the circus ring. Her music exudes confidence, but the underlying uneasiness poses a constant threat to the comfort of the listener. You look up and keep your fingers crossed.

“Forever Maybe” is Hanne’s fourth album in four years, and there are more doors open to different genres than before. However, there are still airy vocals, soaring under the canvas ceiling, and still it sounds like something coming directly out of nature. After all, that is where she belongs.

She drew a full tent crowd at Øyafestivalen this summer; a concert rewarded 6 out of 6 by national radio station NRK P3. Her last two albums were both nominated for Best pop album at the Norwegian Grammy awards. In addition, all singles from these albums have been playlisted on NRK P3.

 

FORT ROMEAU – ” Not A Word “

Posted: March 6, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Fort Romeau is Mike Greene, a London producer whose bright, glimmering form of house music is both forward-thinking and physical in that old-school Chicago way. Greene released his debut album Kingdoms in 2012, and it’s been a steady stream of one-offs and remixes ever since. Soon, he’ll be back with a sophomore album called Insides. Its title track is also its first single, and it’s a glassy, composed six-minute instrumental.

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AARON SINCLAIR – ” Shiny Things “

Posted: March 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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A stalwart of Austin indie rock and one of the city’s most highly regarded songwriters, Aaron Sinclair has teamed up with Dangerbird Records for the national release of the new album “Pretty Girls” under the moniker of      A. Sinclair. His recent releases have drawn the attention of press around the country, intrigued by a sound that the Austin Chronicle described as “tension-driven” with “tight, rough riffs and sharp post-punk lines.” the underlying feeling of “twitchy paranoia” that permeates Sinclair’s songwriting, and a “strung-out urgency.

Aaron Sinclair’s rock passport has a number of notable stamps: First Houston, his hometown, where he initially picked up a guitar with friends and considered it to be a reasonable enough vehicle by which to leave. Then it was on to Boston, where Sinclair established himself in the mid-aughts as a member of The Lot Six, the widely-beloved band that grew out of that city’s fertile Tarantulas punk scene, and with whom Sinclair crisscrossed the country for 4 years, building a steady following on the East Coast until it was over in 2006.

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Sinclair made a name for himself with his own band Frank Smith, the vehicle through which he explored a rootsier sound while touring, recording, and collaborating with friends like Juliana Hatfield, who released two of the band’s albums on her own label. Later that year, Sinclair made the decision to relocate to Austin in his home state of Texas and rebuild first his band and ultimately, himself. With a fresh start, a new band name and a collection of songs that more than validate the impressive display of resolve, A. Sinclair’s ‘Pretty Girls’ is the sound of an artist crashing ahead, with the ability “let the music speak for itself” with a sound that can only be described as “full-on rock,” with a combination of “massive guitars” and “boozy vocals,” with “swagger, melody and timeless drive.”

AMASON – ” Duvan “

Posted: March 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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With lyrics in both their native Swedish and the Swedish musical language of choice, English, Amason create in the moment, record almost instantaneously, and soon after scan the horizons for a stage, where the music truly comes alive, where they can share their collected collective moments. They fill their together time with sound, with music-making, with production and lyric-crafting and the joy of the song. Not to say that they don’t have to work to create what they get. Bringing five busy people together and getting crafted songs down in a state of permanence is a mammoth undertaking in and of itself. But as the old adage goes, where there is a will, there is a way. And the Amason will, the Amason way, is celebrated and magnified and revolves around the power of music. While the classic Volvo Amason still motors onwards in its intention to take people places, so too will a pure love of music drive Amason the band far into the future.

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GENEVIEVE – ” Colors “

Posted: March 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Genevieve is a born singer. As with contemporaries like Sia or Thom Yorke, Genevieve has that rare capacity to channel the physical aspects of her singular voice- The warm clarity of her notes, the wide spectrum of her vocal range, the inventive tonal subtleties- into pure expressive meaning. And like Bjork or Fiona Apple, her voice is so much bigger than her slight frame that, as it pours out of her, she both shapes it and is herself transformed by it into an almost otherworldly character onstage.

Rich in texture and multi-layered harmonies, Genevieve’s debut EP “Show Your Colors” is a triumphant collection of songs that focus on the power of celebrating one’s true self. “I am an emotional being in a world of duality,” she says, and set out to reflect this message within the musical landscape. “I wanted a lot of sonic imagery, a blend of organic and synthetic elements with colorful tones and textures. “

HOWARD – ” Falling “

Posted: March 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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The lyrical content of current song “Falling” by Howard more or less sums where we’re at mentally right now. A shame spiral. A pit of dispair. Interestingly, and perhaps more relevantly, Howard is (or are? Dunno) three dudes from Brooklyn as opposed to a single dude. They released an album in January of this year, following racking up an impressive one million streams on t’Spotify for debut effort “Money Can’t Buy” at the tail end of the last year in 2014. In contrast to its predecessor single, “Falling” more or less fully extrapolates the folktronica tag that Howard have earned themselves throughout this period rather than the charmingly-plodding pop sensibility that we’re gathering from the former single. Cool. Both are still rad, by the way.

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