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Arden: A Slow Spiral Geoffrey
May 31, 2009
{From the Editor: The Editor is on vacation. Besides, we love when bands can speak for themselves}
Hi! We’re Arden. Basically, we’re a group of friends that enjoy writing, recording, and performing music together from Baltimore, MD. We’ve all been around music in some capacity for years, whether it be studying it in school, playing in other projects/bands, or just jamming with friends. Music is something that seems to just keep each of our motors running, while we fly through the ups and downs of young adulthood. It is a wonderful experience.
Arden currently has one EP out, called “The Pursuit,” which was released in May of 2007; however, we are currently working on some new music that really has no release date as of now. We will probably release one song at a time, until we feel comfortable enough to put together an entire collection of songs on one cd.
The new music is very different from the material that we presented on “The Pursuit,” although that EP is still something we are proud of. As you are reading this, you are probably listening to our song “A Slow Spiral Geoffrey.” Geoffrey is a song that more accurately represents the direction our band is heading in.
We really hope you enjoy the music, whether it be new or old, and if you were a big fan of the older material, we sincerely hope you follow us down this ever changing and expanding musical journey that we are living. Either way, there should be something for everyone.
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A 750ml Affair: Second Time Around
May 30, 2009
Pour yourself a drink. Place those expensive headphones gently over your ears. Turn the lights down. Light a few candles and a stick of Nag Champa. Kick back in that comfy chair you inherited from your Grandpa. Close your eyes. Press play. And listen. Listen closely.
You’re about to enter a world of love, hate, joy, and pain. Feel nothing. Feel everything. Laugh, cry, and when the last song ends, open your eyes.
If you’re still breathing, you’ve just experienced A 750ml Affair.
- Artist Website
- 750ml @ MySpace
- 750ml @ Garageband
- 750ml store | emusic | itunes | amazon
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IR: UK #69 – Leaders & Riots
May 29, 2009
Episode number 69 of Insomnia Radio UK.
Welcome to this somewhat delayed episode. Eight songs from UK artists.
Recording Date: Friday 29 May 2009
TRT: 36:40
Rating: Work Safe
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Playlist and MySpace links
- The Exits – Fever
- The Chinese Firework Co – People Say
- Driver – Change Your Ways
- Acroama – Blue Or Real
- The Fuse (aka Lato) – Everybody Knows The Way
- The Mike Brown Band – One Of These Days
- Dead World Leaders – Fall
- The Gin Riots – The Polka
Other links
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Born on a Day the Sun Didn’t Rise
May 29, 2009
From their album Eating Us
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Black Moth Super Rainbow come from deep within the woods of Western Pennsylvania. An actual, 5-member band not comprised of the expected laptops and sequencers, BMSR is a psyche-pop group in early ’70s electronic clothing. Sometimes the songs feel like pagan rituals in a sugarcoated fairyland. Other times they’re like sad thoughts on the happiest days. All played and lovingly assembled by real people with real hands. BMSR lives and makes music in their own lollipop neon folktale world.
Most people associate sounds like a vocoded vocal with techno and novelty, and analog synths with electro, but BMSR is coming from a different place and trying to re-contextualize these sounds. They’re categorized in the Electronic Genre, but their heads are somewhere else. [IODA] |
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Links
IODA Links
- Black Moth Super Rainbow
”Born on a Day the Sun Didn’t Rise” (mp3) - from “Eating Us”
- (Graveface Records)
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Apteka: The Sheet
May 28, 2009
What if Jane’s Addiction had been more inspired by Ride and late 80’s U2? What if Perry Ferrell would have been a little less neurotic and a touch more intense? What if a band said “You know, shoegaze could be totally punk rock.”
Then, my friends, you’d have Apteka. And thankfully, you DO.
There’s two other things we love about this band:
1: Their idea of an EP is 9 songs. Hell. Yes.
2: Just like The Perfects, they’re giving away their recent “Tour EP” for free.
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Insomnia Radio #165: Homecoming
May 27, 2009
Hey gang! I can’t accurately express the myriad of feelings (including anxiety & excitement) I experienced leading up to this episode, nor the overwhelming sense of completion and contentedness when it was finished. Over the past 18 months my life has run the gamut of changes, but Insomnia Radio has soldiered forward thanks to Charles, Stuart, and the rest of the gang. Because of them, I’m able to grab the mic once again and rock the music I love for the world.
I had aspirations to record a gigantic, super-produced episode that would be a marathon of awesomeness, but instead I’ve opted to stay the course and serve up some killer indie music with my trademarked non-professional rambling in between
One more thing to mention: This ain’t no guest hosting gig 
Now kick back and enjoy the show…
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13 Reasons Insomnia Radio exists:
- The Winter Sounds: O’Fear | Site | Store
- Anemo: She’s Not Me | Site | Store
- Chance: Finger on the Trigger Makes a Man Feel Bigger | Site | Store | Twitter
- EDITORIAL: The Pirate Bay Decision | by Sarah Morrison
- Geri X, Geri X: Kiss on Both Eyelids | Site | Store
- The Exits: You Gotta Help Me Out | Site | Store
- The Perfects: End of Us | Site | FREE Store! (thanks Tim!)
- Ashtray: Brainless | Myspace
- The Bloodsugars: Purpose Was Again | Site
- Esquimaux: Gleaming the Truth | Site | Christian Slater!
- Pawnshop Diamond: Cabernet Sauvignon | Myspace
- Nelo: Love Solution | Site |
- Renegade Ride: Stars | Myspace
(“Welcome Back Kotter” a capella intro by After Dark, out of Trinity College in Hartford, CT.)
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Deastro: Vermillion Plaza
May 27, 2009
When Randolph Chabot first began recording his own albums at age 12, he discovered a means of living out his fantasies. Using whatever instrument he could find, Chabot began constructing hyper-emotional dream worlds—teenage symphonies peopled by superheroes, aliens, lost souls, and star-crossed lovers. He’s been zipping through the clouds ever since, streaking the skies as his superhuman alter-ego, Deastro.
The 22-year-old pop prodigy records in the basement of his parents’ house. He’s self-released more than three albums’ worth of songs, drawn all his own album covers, and played countless ecstatic, synth-driven live shows in Detroit’s network of DIY venues. Chabot’s demos eventually found their way to digital-download site eMusic, which released Keeper’s, an exclusive “greatest hits” package that quickly became one of the site’s best-sellers. After Deastro’s elegantly lurching instrumental “Light Powered” appeared on Ghostly Swim (Ghostly’s collaboration with Adult Swim), it was clear that Chabot had found a home for his joyful electronic pop, and Ghostly had found a kindred spirit in Deastro.
Like their hyperactive creator, Deastro’s songs can’t sit still, hopping from swoon-worthy dream pop to gonzo TV theme songs to whisper-soft folk to crunching robot rock. It all rings with Chabot’s insistent, earnest tenor. Chabot grew up on a steady diet of “weird Christian music,” and though he’s since moved on to more secular interests, the glow of positivity emanates from his music’s every crevice. (As Chabot says, “No matter what has happened, no matter how bad things get, we can change it because we’re still here!”) For Deastro’s Moondagger LP, Chabot has expanded his vision to encompass a full band. He still records in his parents’ basement, though, building his dreams with a musical omnivore’s appetite, an artist’s ear, and pure, boundless enthusiasm.
Vermillion Plaza, the second single from Deastro’s full-length debut, Moondagger, miniaturizes the album’s best assets and shoots them out of a cannon. Plucky synth arpeggios, end-of-the-world choruses, joyously careening melody lines-it’s all there! [ioda]
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Deastro
“Vermillion Plaza” (mp3)
from “Vermillion Plaza”
(Ghostly International)
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IR Detroit #26: Interview with The Transfer!
May 26, 2009
The Transfer at The Token Lounge In Westland, MI
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IR:Detroit returns with a great interview with a band that has roots with Scott Sigler and his first podiobook, Earthcore- The Transfer! A lot has happened with the band since I last interviewed them 3 years ago, this interview will catch everyone up, as well as give you a taste of their great new sound!
The Watermarks: R.A.Y.
May 26, 2009
From their EP I Will Still Be Wishing
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“If Phil Spector made an album with Jesus & Mary Chain and New Order it would sound like The Watermarks.”
“Imagine rock, pop, and electronics creating a wall of sound where melody is the main character. That is perhaps the best way to describe The Watermarks’ music.” Fans of both rock and electronic music The Watermarks effortlessly bridge the gap between the two genres. The band began out of a desire to re-inject life and fun in the music scene today. Their search is one to make music they really love in their hearts. Along the way, they have found a sound that is fresh and modern, but at the same time familiar. Perhaps the best way to categorize their music is Electro-Pop-Rock, but the band would rather not be placed under any category, because their best weapon is diversity. |
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Links
- myspace.com/thewatermarks
- twitter.com/thewatermarks
- thewatermarks.net – download all their music for free, or make a donation
- CD Baby – buy the CD
- iTunes – buy as download
Nelo: Footsteps
May 25, 2009
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For Matt Ragland, primary songwriter and acoustic guitarist, the release of their debut album, nelo, was a dream nearly 10 years in the making; going all the way back to when he first picked up an acoustic guitar in high school. He was soon writing songs and jamming with school friends and fellow Dallas natives Stephen Goodson (electric guitar) and Chris Hill (drums). A couple of years later, while in college, Ragland was refining his songwriting and performing around Austin with singer Reid Umstattd while Goodson and Hill were perfecting their own chops studying jazz at the University of North Texas in Denton. By 2002, they all reconvened — along with another UNT alum, multi-instrumentalist Mike St. Clair (bass, trombone, trumpet), — and nelo was born.
Well, unofficially, at least. According to Ragland, nelo didn’t officially take off until August of ’05 — the month he and the rest of the band left Texas for Athens, Ga. “That was really the defining moment,” he says, “when I called everyone and said, ‘OK, I’m ready to really do this. If you want to do it, too, come and join me.’ I wanted there to be that unifying moment where we all packed our bags and moved somewhere with one goal in mind. It was time to get serious.”
Years before moving to Athens, Ragland had a feeling he had the makings of the perfect ensemble. All he lacked was a proper singer. “Reid and I had been going to Camp Longhorn in Texas together for many, many years — from third grade all the way up to college,” he says. “I remember Reid singing one day and being blown away. Our connection was immediate. I wanted to write songs and Reid wanted to sing. It was a good match.”
Fast forward a few years, and nelo was well on its way toward firmly establishing itself on the Athens music scene. But a homemade demo was stirring up quite a buzz back home in Texas, too — so much so that nelo was soon playing to packed crowds in both states. Among those drawn to the buzz, was producer, studio owner and Willie Nelson-nephew Freddy Fletcher, who quickly made a deal that led Ragland and Co. straight into an Austin studio to work on their debut.
Today’s Daily Dose selection is taken from their debut release, but stay tuned to Insomnia Radio where we’ll be showcasing music from Nelo’s “Two Years Ago EP.” From what we’ve heard so far, this is a band to pay close attention to.
Enjoy!
