Viva Voce’s first video from Rose City has hit Youtube. The song is for the brooding Octavio, and the video is set in an old worn mansion in the 1920s. Kevin Robinson types away on an Underwood typewriter while Anita Robinson writes a note and places it in a hole in the bedroom wall. The two find themselves performing with their newly formed band.
Fans can now follow Kevin Robinson on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bluegiantland
Luke Temple’s Here We Go Magic has a new video for Fangela, which premiered on Pitchfork TV today. The video was produced by Snejina Latev, her second video for Here We Go Magic.
“The video for Fangela was, for the most part, made by hand. It is composed of charcoal animations, small sculptural elements, super-8 footage, stop-motion animation and homemade light effects. The intention behind these methods was to compliment the qualities of the song. While the images reflect the mood of Fangela, the style resonates its recording, texture and composition.”
Every year brings a few surprisingly strong debuts by new artists. Last week we purchased Fanfarlo’s Reservoir for $1 (the offer ends on July 4), not expecting what we heard.
Fanfarlo - Harold T Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time
Whenever you receive an email saying that Jónsi of Sigur Rós is floored by a new artist, you need to at least check them out. Fanfarlo made such a strong impression on Sigur Rós that the album cover is a photo of Sigurrós (Jónsi’s sister) and her cousin Disa. Sigur Rós had this to say about this band from London:
“[Fanfarlo] made the record in Connecticut with a guy called Peter Katis and, as the more vigilant of you may have noticed, Jónsi liked it so much that he has started work on his own solo record with the same dude.”
David Davidson of Maps & Atlases has started a side project called Cast Spells. They’re debuting in July with the an EP titled Bright Works And Baton. After Maps & Atlases finish their June tour, Davidson will take Cast Spells on their first tour, accompanied by So Many Dynamos.
visit: Cast Spells on Myspace
Bright Works And Baton
1) Glamorous Glowing
2) War Story Hellos
3) Potted Plant
4) Pioneer Scalps
5) American Quilts
6) A Badge
(more…)
Curators of folk instrumentals will want to tune into Sleep Whale. They have a six song EP coming out on July 14th called Little Brite. They write acoustic driven melodies, mix in the emotive effect of strings, hand percussion when needed and process the recordings, adding electronic noises and ambient flares.
“For guitarist/cellist Joel North and violinist/sequence programmer Bruce Blay, the melding of traditional live acoustic sounds of violin, cello, and guitar with vanguard electronic processing is the most natural thing in the world. Woven throughout the infectious melodies of violin, cello, and guitar you’ll find music boxes, shortwave radios, tape machines, field recordings, and much more.”
RIO DE JENEIRO - The singer-songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor just premiered her new video for Eet on Myspace these days from her fifth studio album, Far. The follow up to her gold album Begin to Hope will be released via Sire Records on June 23, 2009.
Regina Spektor - Far tracklist:
1. “The Calculation” - 3:13
2. “Eet” - 3:54
3. “Blue Lips” - 3:34
4. “Folding Chair” - 3:35
5. “Machine” - 3:51
6. “Laughing With” - 3:18
7. “Human of the Year” - 4:12
8. “Two Birds” - 3:23
9. “Dance Anthem of the 80s” - 3:44
10. “Genius Next Door” - 5:10
11. “Wallet” - 2:30
12. “One More Time with Feeling” - 4:03
13. “Man of a Thousand Faces” - 3:12
iTunes pre-order
14. “The Flowers (Live, Begin to Hope Tour)”
iTunes Bonus Track Version
14. “Time Is All Around”
15. “The Sword & The Pen”
16. “Riot Gear”
17. “The Flowers (Live, Begin to Hope Tour) [Pre-order only]”
In a related news, Regina will be on 6/17 at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. With every ticket purchased, each fan will receive a download of two new Regina Spektor songs from her upcoming album “Far” including her new single “Laughing With” and “Blue Lips.”
Check out Eet (Myspace):
How do you familiarize the younger generation with your catalogue of music, forty years after your vinyls were originally pressed? Release a Rock Band game on Microsoft’s Xbox, of course! The Beatles announced today that they are doing just that. The Beatles: Rock Band will land on 09.09.09.
The Beatles: Rock Band will follow the band’s career, from their ’50’s influenced pop to their early ’70’s psychedelic songs. The younger generation will not only hear The Beatles, but they will be The Beatles, letting their hair grow long as they progress through The Beatles’ career.
Standing in front of a crowd of screaming fans, Ringo Starr had this to say about The Beatles: Rock Band, “The game is good. The graphics are very good, and we look great!” Paul McCartney added, “We love the game, it’s fantastic. Who would have ever thought we would end up as androids?” Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison were also at the press event to represent the deceased members of the fab four.
What is intriguing about this announcement is that The Beatles still refuse to release their music digitally. You cannot purchase any of their music on iTunes, Amazon Mp3, or other digital stores. This is due in part because of a drawn out lawsuit between Apple, their record label, and Apple Computers, who own iTunes. Instead, fans that purchase music legally are forced to search for their music on CDs.
Seeing that few teenagers purchase CDs, teens will most likely resort to piracy in order to upload The Beatles to their iPod. It would seem logical that if The Beatles truly want to capitalize on the younger generation then they would ink a deal with Apple (the compute company, not their label).
Will this announcement be followed by the digital release of their music? We shall see.
The Beatles: Rock Band trailer:
ISTANBUL - Thanks to Australia’s tasteful independent label Hidden Shoal Recordings, we now have a fresh new band to cherish our downtempo moments with: Apricot Rail. Perth-based band is being described as multi-instrumental pop quintet. Don’t let the word “pop” fool you though. Not that there is anything wrong with being pop; it is just not that pop. In the mean time you can so count on the word “multi-instrumental” which is seriously adding up a rich atmosphere to the notes of Apricot Rail. From clarinet, flute to saxophone, glock and electronica there is a wide range of diversity in the instruments base.
Debut single Pouring Milk Out The Window is standing out with the soft touch of clarinet over the instrumental post-rock simplicity. The unsurprising stabile chords sailing forward on the harmonical compound of diversity giving away a hat-in-hand type of relaxation. Rises and falls of tune effervescing in the shape of flute leaving a jazzy feeling behind. Having this low tempo melodic structure; Apricot Rail reminds me of another Trans-Tasman post-rock beauty. Jakob from New Zealand that is: only with more drums and less flutes obviously.
Apricot Rail. Now that is really a summery - juicy name for a band. Nice. Had to get that out of my chest before sharing this brand new instrumental fairness.
Apricot Rail’s self-titled debut full legth is due to release by 4th of July. Until then we have Pouring Milk Out The Window to soothe our curiosity.
ISTANBUL - There is nothing like receiving a big fat good news along with a groovy song while drinking your Monday morning coffee just before the devastating weekly work stress starts showing up slyly. That’s how you deal with the day and enjoy the m.u.s.i.c.!
Labrador neats The Radio Dept. are finally releasing the album #3: Clinging to A Scheme. It’s been 3 years! This is exciting! The blurred sound of this Swedish trio have made a strong base of fans to themselves despite what the magazines and critics have rated up to date. Their ambivalent sound curling between synths and distortion with a strict dreamy ambiance has already made itself a unique place in the Swedish pop department.
Following highly adored album by fans: Pet Grief (2006), the band were supposed to master this next stuff by the fall of 2007. Things happened and the big – torturant delay leaded the release until 2009. So what? More you wait more you appreciate it! They say…
First single from the album David is due to release June 24th of course in a Labrador royalty. David is a modest tune with its feet on the ground. Such a dreamy twee pop melody glued to the moderate beats along with the sine qua non shoegazing elements. And as usual Johan Duncanson’s frequent singing making a seducing breeze over the ears! This is far from being a grower as the catchy melody grabs your enthusiasm with first moment you click on play! Needless to say I am satisfied and highly eager and curious to hear the rest. Considering the amount of fun I had during their Istanbul gig about couple years ago, feeling even more dead set for an urgent European tour.
Ladies and gentlemen landing in the bourne of Dream Pop; here we are holding forth the dear David only for a starters from the upcoming wonders of The Radio Dept. Enjoy!
ISTANBUL - The name Rusty Santos would ring a bell in the obscure minds of experimental music diggers. His producing Animal Collective’s Sung Tongs have been long time praised by this new weird noise addicts. As some of you may know; his coming together with Jesse Lee (White Magic / Gang Gang Dance) and Mina formed The Present; another brave act to fill up noise lovers’ players.
Following their debut The World I See; this group of experimental people are to release the second album The Way We Are through Lo Recordings / LOAF.
New album seems to be coming quite promiseful of drone ambiance invaded by the obscure noise. Once again Andrew Kuo signed artwork is implying. Inspired by almost everything dark for your liking that you can imagine of. (This is for the dark types obviously.) Sizzling background sound ambiance of Lynch films to Warhol, Nietzsche; mountains to deep rivers… darker side of life supposedfully coded in between the sinister sounds of The Present.
In support of this very new project The Present are now touring all across the USA. For those who want to join to this freak-ish theraphy here is the list of where you can find them:
05.27 Brooklyn, NY @ The Bell House w/BLK JKS
06.04 Baltimore, MD @ Talking Head
06.05 Richmond, VA @ The Triple
06.06 Athens, GA @ Farm 255
06.07 Memphis, TN @ Murphy’s
06.08 Hot Springs, AR @ The Exchange
06.09 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
06.10 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
06.12 Phoenix, AZ @ Modified Arts
06.14 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
06.15 Bakersfield, CA @ TBA
06.17 Stockton, CA @ TBA
06.18 San Francisco, CA @ The Knockout
06.22 Portland, OR @ East End
06.23 Seattle, WA @ Comet Tavern
06.24 Missoula, MT @ The Basement
06.26 Minneapolis, MN @ TBA
06.27 Dekalb, IL @ Nutty’s North
06.28 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
06.29 Detroit, MI @ Garden Bowl
07.01 Rochester, NY @ TBA
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