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The Sweet Serenades: On My Way
September 30, 2009
Swedish duo The Sweet Serenades have now released their album Balcony Cigarettes
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Band Members are Martin Nordvall -vocals and rhythm guitar & Mathias Näslund – lead guitar. Other instruments played by [their] talented friends.
Martin and Mathias found each other for the first time in May 1991. They were both wearing the same CCCP-cap (a hip thing among pre teens in northern Sweden at the time) and riding similar BMX-bicycles. Ever since then they’ve been inseparable. The Sweet Serenades was officially formed in Stockholm, Sweden 2002. The sound is mainly influenced by great songs, broken hearts, sexual frustration and musical acts as Tom Waits, Clap your hands say yeah, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, ACDC, Eddie Meduza, ABBA, The Technicolors, The Perishers, The Shins and many more. [MySpace] |
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Anton Barbeau: Plastic Guitar
September 29, 2009
From the ever prolific Anton Barbeau, we bring you the title track from his 13th album Plastic Guitar.
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“With but a few years remaining until 2012, Anton Barbeau has been busier than ever, spreading his “pre-apocalyptic psychedelic pop” far and wide. California-born, but currently residing in Cambridge, England, Barbeau has toured the UK from tip to tail, and has confused and amused audiences from Istanbul to Berlin with his mind-bending stage-show and auto-neurotic humour. He’s supported a crazy range of other artists, from Martin Carthy to Mono, Robyn Hitchcock to Robin Williamson, and is as awkwardly comfy in a smoke-and-feedback drenched village farmhouse as he is in a Paris piano bar. As a songwriter/recording artist, Barbeau is remarkably prolific. His latest release, Plastic Guitar, is his 6th since 2006, and features a variety of styles, from 60’s-vibed classic pop to laptop bleep-bop and electro-kraut grooves.” [IODA Promonet] |
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- Angher
“Emerge and Be” (mp3)- from “Hidden Truth”
- (Dark Star Records)
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J. Tillman
“Earthly Bodies”
from “Year in the Kingdom”
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These United States: I Want You To Keep Everything
September 25, 2009
With their third full length release in 18 months, These United States surrender themselves to unbridled rock and roll exuberance: ringing guitars, thundering drums, desperate yearning bordering on hope. Everything Touches Everything came together the week of January 20th, 2009, as 4 million new friends descended on the city of Washington, DC (one of two places, with Lexington, KY, the band calls home). Laughter, belief, chaos, history, frigid cold wild mercury winter morning sunshine – it was a good place to be making music.By turns larger-than-life and disarmingly intimate, this is 42 minutes of folk in the truest sense – a record of the moment, of the cultural and emotional forces that animate everyday existence somewhere down below the headlines. (But never apart from them. Bandleader Jesse Elliott had two different albums in mind; he let the November election decide which one the group would record.) And These United States — Elliott, Robby Cosenza, J. Tom Hnatow, Justin Craig, and Colin Kellogg — play it the way folk was meant to be played: hard, fast, big, slow, long, loud, loose, at last unburdened. They play like they mean it. Like there’s never been a better time to be alive.
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Angher: Emerge And Be
September 24, 2009
From their Album Hidden Truth
ANGHER was basically a one man project started by cellist/guitarist Greg Korniluk shortly after he was invited to record/guest on the Apocalyptica album “Reflections”. Still, it became obvious shortly thereafter in early 2005 that in order to do this vision justice an entire band was necessary.
The band recorded “Hidden Truth” (Available now), a combination CD/DVD featuring music that mixes cello, guitar and bass producing a powerful, heavy and uniquesound that is simply ANGHER [IODA]
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The Dustys: Dangerous Little Signs
September 23, 2009
From their EP Sticky Blood
Emerging out of the garage-punk constellation around our nation’s capitol, The Dustys signal their arrival with a cacophonously brilliant debut EP, Sticky Blood, released earlier this month on Merrifield Records. Born to write chopper music for long-hauls across scorched earth, these noiseniks meld the power-pop of Big Star with the woozy psych-pomp of T-rex, while fusing the sneering energy of the Groundhogs or the Sonics with stoned-out passages that’d sound at home on any labyrinthine Red Sparrowes opus. After holing themselves up in the studio with producer Eamonn Aiken (who’d also man the rumble of the bass on the short-player), the band would win the attention of electro-rock stalwarts The Bravery, who practically begged the band to join them on a meaty 30-date jaunt across the states — a proposition the Dustys couldn’t refuse. [TheMuseBox] Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
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Vivian Darkbloom: Cold War
September 22, 2009
Vivian Darkbloom is a pseudonym for the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, a writer who loved controversy, intrigue, and continually thwarting the expectations of his readers. The band borrowed this name in homage to Nabokov (whom they love), and also as a nod to the simple idea of an alter-ego; the band, while riotous and raucous onstage, are in fact shy and bookish offstage. Founding members Rob Morris (vocals, guitar) and Brian Skerratt (bass, vocals) graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and are now quietly pursuing graduate degrees at MIT and Harvard, respectively.As composers, they pride themselves in what Morris refers to as making music that rewards simple song writing over anything else. Morris’s time at MIT has definitely influenced the band’s live aesthetic, and it has led to their must-see secret weapon: the Wii Guitar. Garnering attention from Gibson, Yamaha, Nintendo, and most recently, from members of Aerosmith, Morris’s musical innovation also counts appearances on usatoday.com, wired.com and engadget.com as some of its high-profile exposure.
The band’s first EP – “Let’s Become Machines” – was enthusiastically received by dozens of blogs and local press, earning them featured artist spots on cmj.com, sonicbids.com, ourstage.com, and garageband.com The band has shared the stage with national indie and major label acts, including The Cliks, The Rumble Strips, and Semi-Precious Weapons. As of July 2008, Vivian Darkbloom recorded with producer Scott Riebling (The Academy Is, Metro Station), leading to the online release of two new songs in October of last year, including this track, “Cold War”. [bio]
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Anton Barbeau “Plastic Guitar” (mp3)
from “Plastic Guitar”
(Pink Hedgehog Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store
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AMPed New Music Weekly: Show #198
September 28, 2009
This week’s host: Michael from Mikey Pod
Show: Insomnia Radio: The SoCal Sessions
Song: Come Alive (Still Time)Show: Ourobouros Podcast
Song: Bed Of Nails (Pluto Revolts)Show: The DarkCompass Podcast
Song: Her Bones in the Sand (Bury Tomorrow)Show: Kimmi & The Metal Deli
Song: I Will Remember You (Jamilya)Show: Mikey Pod
Song: 1901 (Phoenix)Show: Eclectic Mix
Song: Dusty Roads (Lesní zver)Show: The JogTunesIndie Podcast
Song: My Girl (Louinel Jean)Show: Indie Music Sampler
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Pablo: Hey Luci
September 28, 2009
New York indie group Pablo recently broke out with their long awaited follow up to the beloved debut “Half The Time”“Long nights will come along, I’ve gotten to give in a bit” are lyrics that help to sum up Pablo’s second album “There’s Rope To Leave”, out now.
The album leads the listener down a wooded path of cutthroat songwriting loaded with wonderful gems of piano, bass and drum fills, a myriad of astute lyricism and vocal melodies, as a dark current of mystery and optimism washes over the listener.
Talking 1 1/2 years to complete, Rope to Leave began as an 8 track bedroom recording in Pablo front man Paul Schalda’s home but ended at Levon Helm’s upstate New York recording studio. After a brief parting from the band during some tumultuous times Will Schalda was back on board with his brother and ready to lend his piano wizardry to the sketches that Paul had been working on in his apartment.
Enter Justin Guip long time friend and collaborator. Still hot from his recent Grammy award for sound engineering on Levon Helm’s 2008 “Dirt Farmer”. Justin’s enormous drum sound and colossal fills were the third link to the opening sessions behind “There’s Rope To Leave”. Rounding out the players is Dan Foder on Bass, the backbone to the highly regarded and well-revered group, The Budos Band, dropping some skull ringed-black waves of bass bombs.
Having toured with Kevin Devine, Jennifer Oconner, and Koufax,Straylight Run, The Hush Sound, and Spitalfield all across America, Pablo and crew are ready to hit the road again. Check out local NYC area dates being added alllll the time. [bio]
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Tripdavon: By The River
September 27, 2009
From their recent third album Sketches From Silence
Tripdavon is an independent band from Santa Barbara, California. Since forming in 2004, they’ve been featured on HBO’s hit show “Entourage,” named “Famecast Fenoms” and have released 3 albums while touring through 3 continents with acts as divergent as Eric Burdon & The Animals, War, The Bravery and Poison, among others. Their latest album, “Sketches From Silence,” was released in September of 2009. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
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J. Tillman: Earthly Bodies
September 26, 2009
From his 6th album Year In The Kingdom, this is J. Tillman with ‘Earthly Bodies’.
“Year In The Kingdom unravels some kind of galactic wilderness. Tillman’s 6th album lyrically borders on mystic; proffering a transcendent union, an effortlessness. Strange and honest, this song cycle inhabits it’s own idea-scape; one seemingly obsessed with wrestling death. These are afterlife dialogues of a mysterious future. Celestial badlands.Unknown to just about everyone, Tillman started recording in April, tracking most of the instruments during the two week session himself. Hammered dulcimer, banjo, recorder, cymbals of varying size and wheezing air organs all feature heavily and lend YITK it’s bizarre scale, conjuring tidal shifts with tiny movements. The string arrangements, performed by Jenna Conrad, as well as transposed from Tillman’s sung direction, were intended to rest on chords almost counter-intuitively, bringing to bloom complex, decontextualized tones. Most noticeable upon first listen, however, is the production itself. While most of Tillman’s records evidence some shambolic home recording, YITK is undisturbed throughout. Out up front of the mix, and dry as a bone, Tillman’s voice is featured in a way unlike any of his previous records.
YITK sounds liberated; it is far and away Tillman’s most joyful work. Created with little input or context, it is seemingly disinterested in communicating much else than a meditation for the few who allow themselves to listen with an open heart.”
[IODA Promonet]
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