IR: UK #55 – Local Daily Overdose #1

 

A selection of songs by UK artists featured on the Daily Dose last year.

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The Whip: Trash

From Manchester in the UK, The Whip, from X Marks Destination.

Who the hell is making important music in Manchester these days? Well, The Whip, for starters. Just ask the Parisians who run Kitsun Records, a taste-making label/lifestyle company that dropped The Whip’s “Divebomb” 12-inch in 2007. Or anyone who’s been swept up in the band’s limb-loosening gigs. [MySpace]

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• thewhip.net
• myspace.com/thewhipmanchester

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Insomnia Radio: Double Shots #29 – Which One’s Pink?

Welcome to the first in the new series of Double Shots, this one is celebrating the longevity of Prog Rock, with a distinctly Floydian theme.

And this is dedicated to the memory of Richard Wright RIP and sadly missed, keyboardist with Pink Floyd.

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Darla Farmer: Big Accident

Playfully drawing their name from that of a simple Nashville bank teller, Darla Farmer is an eccentric 7-piece carnival-rock band that manages to gracefully shatter genre borders in ways that even the most critical of hipsters can’t pigeonhole.

Drawing from influences as diverse as Cursive, Blood Brothers, Tom Waits, and the greatest of high school marching bands and small town orchestras, Darla Farmer creates an entirely distinctive, yet universally appealing sound.

Darla Farmer recorded their new album “Rewiring the Electric Forest” in Omaha, NE at Mike Mogis’ studio and quickly gained positive traction with the city’s own Saddle Creek bands, including Bright Eyes, Maria Taylor, and Cursive.

The career of Darla Farmer has blossomed in the past year, having shared the stage with acts including Cloud Cult, LoveLikeFire, Eagle Seagull and more.

Drawing from influences as diverse as Cursive, Blood Brothers, Tom Waits, and the greatest of high school marching bands and small town orchestras, Darla Farmer creates an entirely distinctive, yet universally appealing sound.

Darla Farmer recorded their new album “Rewiring the Electric Forest” in Omaha at Mike Mogis’ studio and quickly gained positive traction with the city’s own Saddle Creek bands, including Bright Eyes, Maria Taylor, and Cursive.  [bio]

Look for their full-length debut album available on Paper Garden Records!

Darla Farmer Website
DF @ MySpace
DF @ Facebook
DF @ itunes | emusic | amazon

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Muddy Suzuki: D-Punk/Shimmering

From his second Album Meetoo, from London in the UK, Muddy Suzuki

Artist Bio   Damo Waters is a person who likes to make sounds. Muddy Suzuki is the name he uses for his personal endeavours, but he also plays with many other artists, too numerous to mention, but including The Electric Soft Parade, The Voluntary Butler Scheme, Ataraxy And Los Grecos

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Links

• myspace.com/muddysuzuki
• driftrecords.co.uk

IODA Promonet Links

Muddy Suzuki
 ”D-Punk / Shimmering”(mp3) 
from “Meetoo” 
(Drift)

 Buy at iTunes Music Store
 Stream from Rhapsody
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 Buy at mTraks
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Wintersleep: Oblivion

Indie darlings Wintersleep are wasting no time making 2009 another memorable year. This week the band climbs to #26 on CMJ’s Top 200 chart with their critically acclaimed third album Welcome To The Night Sky.

This rapid ascension on the chart should come as no surprise as radio trade CMJ New Music Report predicted Wintersleep would make a big impact in 2009 when they put the band on the cover of their October 6th issue.

2008 was a banner year for Wintersleep in their native Canada where they won the Juno Award for Best New Group and a Much Music Video Award for “Weighty Ghost”. Later in the States they toured extensively with Wolf Parade, Portugal The Man and Earl Greyhound leading into the November 11th U.S. release of Welcome To The Night Sky. The album reaches radical new territory for the band, and many critics have already hailed its ‘album of the year’ potential.

The band is also making waves across the pond, earning raves in such influential English mags as Q, Mojo, Uncut and the NME, all helping to build anticipation for their cross-European tour beginning February 10th.

Wintersleep is currently touring in Canada and will soon announce a new slate of U.S. dates that will coincide with South By Southwest.
[news release]

• Wintersleep Official Website
• Wintersleep @ MySpace
• Wintersleep @ Facebook
• Wintersleep @  itunes | e-music | amazon | store

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CHOO CHOO: A little wiser now

From Bern in  Switzerland, the band first came to our attention on Twitter

CHOO CHOO is bringing „the garage“ back into Pop Music. Drawing influences from 60-ies Teenage Beat, Soul, and Pop to today’s Garage Rock, these kids from Bern, Switzerland brew a fresh blend of Steam Powered Garage Pop somewhere between The Sonics and The Caesars.      Get CHOO CHOO’s debut Album:   [MySpace]

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• choochootheband.com
• myspace.com/choochootheband
• Buy Album from iTunes

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Insomnia Radio #160: Saga of the Sagebrush

An overdue Insomnia-laden journey has left us saddle-sore as we have traveled long and far these last few months in order to document a motley assortment of musicians.  We uncovered them amongst the wild trappers of Portland, to the silver ore miners flooding San Francisco – and deep inside the musical heart of old Texas.

Enjoy our Saga of the Sagebrush, presumably a soul stirring drama with short actors and actresses, but in all actuality; a long overdue collection of folk and Americana flavored music to tend your beards to.

Now, which one of you killed Tex Preston?

TRT – 70:48 | Work-SAFE

TRACK LISTING

• Blitzen Trapper – Furr
• Larkin Grimm – Ride That Cyclone
• Great Lakes Swimmers – Various Stages
• Jolie Holland – Mexico City
• Joe Pug – Hymn 101
• Horse Feathers – Curs in the Weeds
• Bloomsday Rising – Orange Flags
• Austin Hartley-Leonard – Golden Opportunity
• Ray’s Vast Basement – California’s Gone (Grapes of Wrath)
• Wye Oak – Regret
• Two Gallants – The Hand That Held You Down
• Mirah – Lone Star
• Sam Amidon – Saro
• AA Bondy – There’s a Reason
• Alela Diane – The Rifle
• South San Gabriel – I Am Six Pounds of Dynamite

Gangsta-Grass Opener: Rench – Oh Sleeper (clip)

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AMPed New Music Weekly: Show #163

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Emanuel & The Fear: The Rain Becomes the Clouds

With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece orchestra-rock band that focuses on intertwining the modern day pop song with extravagant and complex composition.

Drawing from romantic and modern composers like Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Glass; and then fusing in a modern rock sound like Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Daft Punk and Sufjan Stevens; Emanuel & the Fear displays a true understanding of sound all-the-while capturing audiences with their climactic electro/orchestral arrangements and quivering, poetic lyrics.

Emanuel & the Fear are currently recording their full-length album at Ishlab Music Studios (Jet, Kudu, and Dead Prez) and are comprised of members who have played/toured with Sufjan Stevens, The National, Akron/Family, and Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears. [bio]

The group will be releasing their self-titled debut EP, available digitally on Paper Garden Records on January 27, 2009!

• Emanuel & The Fear Website
• EatF on Myspace
• EatF on Facebook
• Paper Garden Records

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