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Henry Homesweet: Okiirobo_Navigation_System
June 30, 2009
I’m on a retro video game kick lately, and when I stumbled across this artist @ The Sixtyone, I was hooked. Here’s his bio:
Henry Homesweet is a music project to express all of my creativity. I work with lots of diffrent styles, experimenting with all sorts of retro video game consoles to create my sound. I have produced a lot with the Nintendo Gameboy but more recently have been Composing with the NES and Commodore64. This type of music is known as Chiptune, the sounds from my childhood consoles make me shiver with Nostalgia! Im a geek at heart! I hope you enjoy my music 
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- Henry Homesweet @ The Sixtyone
- Henry Homesweet @ Last.FM
- Henry Homesweet @ 8-bit Collective
IR SoCal Album Release: Still Time – See America
June 29, 2009
As a nice audial cannonball into Summer, we’ve got a handful of tracks from San Luis Obispo roots-rock group STILL TIME’s newest album “See America” which were recently passed along into our greedy little hands.
Just a short week back or so, we featured the first single from this album, “Come Alive” over at our Daily Dose feed – and have three more tracks we’d like to present to you here; a nice cross-section of the album, but certainly not the only quality tracks therein.
SAMPLER TRACKS
1) 27
2) Tedd the Monster
3) The Girl I’ve Always Loved
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See America is a musically diverse album full of instrospective lyrics, amazing musicianship and thoughtful well structured compositions from front to end. The thematic vision of the album is appropriately topped off with a notable quote by mid-20th-century politician and diplomat Adlai Stevenson, underneath the plastic CD mount:
“When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England Hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.”
- Artist Website
- ST @ MySpace
- ST @ Reverbnation
- ST @ Twitter
- ST @ t61
- ST store | itunes | emusic | amazon | cdbaby
Throw Me The Statue: Ancestors
June 29, 2009
Seattle, Washington’s Throw Me the Statue is currently working on their second album, Creaturesque, available August 4 (Worldwide) and August 17 (UK), via Secretly Canadian.
Originally the one-man project of multifaceted musician and songwriter Scott Reitherman, TMTS has since expanded to a quartet with drummer Jarred Grimes, and multi-instrumentalists Aaron Goldman and Charlie Smith. The album is produced by TMTS and Phil Ek (The Shins, Built To Spill, Band Of Horses), and while the band retains much of the lo-fi bliss found on their critically acclaimed debut Moonbeams, Phil Ek’s mixing of Creaturesque brings the band’s maximalist pop sensibilities to new heights.
On lead single “Ancestors,” Reitherman spins a somber story into a pop song tour de force amidst gazing guitars, athletic fuzz-bass and a crystalline wall of synthesizers. Perhaps more sonically upbeat than its predecessor, Creaturesque’s details are at times painted in both optimistic and sobering tones. Reitherman’s scattershot poetics touch on an array of ideas; it’s oppressive American machisimo and Suburbanite sexuality. It’s soft drugs and convertible cars. It’s the struggle for higher expectations within the mess of modern life, and when wrapped up in the structures of TMTS’ sure-handed tunes it’s an all too delicious combination. [bio]
- TMTS @ MySpace
- TMTS @ Twitter
- TMTS tracks @ Secretly Canadian!!
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Megafaun: The Fade
June 28, 2009
From their album Gather, Form & Fly
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This is the Summer of Megafaun. Their highly-anticipated second album, Gather, Form & Fly, is a monument to a band that hundreds have experienced on stages, under trees, in galleries, on ?oors, in headphones, and through radios-with-the-windows-down over the past three years. All the hints they’ve given us — from songs Stereogum described as “mournful, slow-blooming banjo-and-white-noise-laced epics” to tours with The Rosebuds, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Akron/Family — have culminated in a record that is an ode to death, love, musical history (from blues to musique-concréte), community, tradition, and experimentation. In all, it’s an ode to the listener. |
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Math the Band: Why Didn’t You Get A Haircut?
June 27, 2009
“More expensive Casio equipment than Devo” – CMJ
Math the Band is equal parts Atom and His Package and Andrew WK. Sampled casio sk1 drums, paired with solid square waves and more BPMs than can possibly be considered reasonable. Started by a sixteen year old kid who was kicked out of his high school pop-punk band, Math the Band has been going strong for 5 years, playing well over 400 shows throughout the US, Mexico and Canada.
Math the band will play (pretty much) any show anywhere anytime. For booking, either send a message, or send an email to fender_kid_978@yahoo.com
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- Math The Band @ Facebook
- Math The Band @ Twitter
- Math The Band @ MySpace
- Math The Band: Music Store
The Papertiger Sound: Tiny Robot Love
June 26, 2009
The Papertiger Sound is a transatlantic project created in 2006 by Dan Gelder who is from England’s Eastern shore.
Hailing from the Eastern shores of Canada, Kerstin Wilson later joined when both Dan and Kerstin were living in Leeds later that year. They now function as a long distance duo between Canada and the UK and occasionally get together for tea and a chat.
In anticipation of their mini album, ‘The Last Days Are Taking Forever’, put out last month, the band released the EP ‘Tiny Robot Love’, which has five tracks and is 15 minutes in length.
THIS EP IS COMPLETELY FREE SO GO GRAB IT BELOW!!
- Artist Website
- tPS Blog
- tPS @ MySpace
- tPS free music!
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Deer Tick: Standing at the Threshold
June 25, 2009
To mark the release of the second album “Born on Flag Day”, here is a song from their first album “War Elephant”. Head over to Partisan Records to check out both of them.
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Deer Tick is a rock n roll band originally from Providence, Rhode Island. The band is John Joseph McCauley III, Andrew Grant Tobiassen, Christopher Dale Ryan, and Dennis Michael Ryan. The band began in December of 2004 as a drums and guitar duo. Within a few years the band developed into a quartet featuring two guitars, bass and drums, with three members singing and writing, and one writing string arrangements. As of January 2009 they have released countless CD-Rs and one official release, 2007’s (and re-released in 2008) War Elephant.
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- “Standing at the Threshold” (mp3)
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Plajia: Dummy
June 24, 2009
Note from Jason: I’m a sucker for “The Bends”-era Radiohead. Plajia (pronounced “plah-gee-ah”) scratches that itch nicely!
Lauded by music critics in Canada and abroad, trip-rock group Plajia, composed of Patrick Pleau (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards and harmonica), Simon Boivin (bass and backing vocals) and Pascal Laviolette (drums, percussion and backing vocals) feels compelled to buy a crystal ball in order to preview its future successes.
But let’s get back to ongoing reality. With its first sonic offering entitled “Beautiful Explosion”, the Montreal trio renews a struggling tradition in this hypermodern and fragmented musical era: the full-fledged album. No respite for the listener here, the experience is total.
From gripping beginning to grandiose end, this voyage through eleven songs transports us in an impressionist soundscape, where unbridled imagination, open emotion and gleeful sarcasm colour an ethereal and melodious music. And stylistically speaking, “Beautiful Explosion” is certainly audacious, as Plajia infuses its atmospheric rock with brit-music references, psychedelic accents and eccentric arrangements, the whole with a pop focus and technical mastery.
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- Plajia @ The Sixtyone
- Plajia @ Homepage
- Plajia @ iTunes Music Store
IR: Detroit #28 – Interview with Mikal
June 23, 2009
IR: Motor city is back again for another interview episode – this episode is an interview with Mikal, a great up and coming indie artist from South East Michigan! This was a fun interview, it was a pleasure to talk with Mikal. He is also playing live in Redford Michigan at Bullfrog on June 28th, 2009 (sponsored by The Olin Ezra Show, another great Detroit podcast!) – which I will also be attending!
Mikal has received 24 Detroit Music Award nominations, including 16 in one year, which has only been accomplished by one other artist.
Mikal’s pre-debut release, the acoustic EP “Only Enemies Tell The Truth… Friends And Enemies Lie Endlessly” is now available on iTunes for only $1.99.
This interview was first broadcast on my live internet radio show on BounceRadio.net – Mondays from 7pm-10pm ET and Tuesdays 6pm-8pm ET – Tune in to catch other new interviews before they’re on the podcast!
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Signal Hill: Stunning Clarity
June 23, 2009
Los Angeles instrumental outfit Signal Hill is back with a new album as of June 11th, twelve songs and 61 minutes of universally understood tracks without the vocal interjection that occasionally takes away from the artistry when the songs are played outside the realm of the band’s native tongue.
We recently featured a few tracks from their self titled debut called “This New Years Absence”, and “Standby Sir”, and listened to several new songs they sent us before we settled on this gem of a track “Stunning Clarity”, from the newest “More After We’re Gone”. Its a languid yet beautiful song that slowly unwraps over the course of about five minutes, really helping this listener clear his head, refocus and tackle all of the tasks at hand this evening.
All “More After We’re Gone” orders from SignalHillMusic.com include an immediate digital download of the 12 track album in Premium 320 kbps MP3 or FLAC (highest audio quality available) formats.
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