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The Soundcarriers: Last Broadcast
September 2, 2010
From London, Manchester and Nottingham, in the UK, Last Broadcast is from their second album Celeste
Here we have another blast of summer flecked sound. Last year’s album Harmonium found a lush and spiked musical template. In Celeste we find a tighter, more focused group. The same authentic analog warmth pervades, but with the addition of new sounds, playful blips and bleeps suggesting an extended musical canvas. The influence of jazz and ‘Kosmiche’ music becomes apparent as the muscular Last Broadcast floats from the turntable. What a groove! The bass work of Can’s Holger Czukay is instantly brought to mind, but soon we find ourselves in unexplored space-rock terrain. A denser sound pervades, that feels far removed from the lysergic whoosh of Harmonium. [IODA]
[SM - any band that references Can and/or Holger Czukay is going to be played on Insomnia Radio, if I can arrange it]
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Kelsey Brown: Piccadilly Circus
September 1, 2010
Kelsey Elise Brown was born in Little Rock, AR in 1992. She sang with her grandfather’s bluegrass band at a young age and moved to Texas in 1997. She has been classically trained in voice, but began writing music and taught herself piano in 2007 and ukulele in 2009.
Kelsey is attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and is influenced by Regina Spektor, Joanna Newsom, Fiona Apple, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Beirut, Laura Veirs, Tegan and Sara, Camille, and more. [last.fm]
Kelsey Brown @ Last.FM
Social Media: Facebook | MySpace
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The Cinnamon Fuzz: Strangers
August 31, 2010
From their new five track EP/Album Cruise of the Century, available as a free, or pay what you want, download from Bandcamp
Boston, Massachusetts Powerpop trio The Cinnamon Fuzz released their single Reboot my Heart earlier this year. There is a great video to accompany it, which you can see below. They just released the five track mini-album Cruise of the Century, which starts with the single and then continues on its way throught four more tracks which show their wide range of influences (which they list as Bowie, The Cars, The Rentals, Talking Heads, Roy Orbison, Gary Numan, Pink Floyd, Eurythmics, NIN, The Beach Boys, Type O Negative, Oingo Boingo) until the last track Strangers which we feature today. Check all the links below for social media and download/purchase links.
The band are:
Jonah – Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Nick – Drums & Percussion
Matt – Keys, Synths, BU Vox
And live they are joined by Dave Marvuglio on Bass
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- The Cinnamon Fuzz Web Site
- Social Media: Twitter | Facebook | MySpace | Reverb Nation
- Purchase: iTunes | Amazon
- Download: Bandcamp
Song of Return: The Story of a Cell
August 30, 2010
This is the new name for the Glasgow, UK based band Union of Knives, changed up in early 2010. We discovered this Glasgow, UK based group through Admiral Fallow’s Facebook page. They were posting about a compilation album that this specific track will be featured on in the near future.
This release is apparently an effort to help support a new venture in the south side of Glasgow called ‘Glad Cafe’. The album will drop on OCTOBER 4th.
Check out this track and more at the SoundCloud link below.
- Song of Return’s Website
- Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | MySpace
- Listening Station: SoundCloud
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Graystar: A Picture Of You
August 29, 2010
From their forthcoming EP “Strange Boy”, released in October.
Graystar is a constantly evolving music project, a five piece band now based in Seattle, USA. At its core is Dominic James, singer songwriter from Liverpool who founded Graystar in 2003. Progressive, daring and highly acclaimed, often bursting out with radical and ground breaking songs and live performances with a fierce independence. Dave Chapaitis plays the bass; Billy Brush plays keyboards; Jon Oswalt is on the drums.
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Sleeperstar: We Go Tonight (Say It Again)
August 28, 2010
Sleeperstar is a predominantly pop-rock group started in Dallas, Texas in 2007. Chris Pearson sings lead vocals and is joined by Nick Box on guitar, Jake Lester on keyboard, Shaun Menary on drums, and Brandon Rosas on bass. Pearson had his start with Barefoot before joining with Box and Lester of Iron Giants to start Sleeperstar. [last.fm]
- Sleeperstar Website
- Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | MySpace | PV
- Purchase: amazon | itunes | store
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Radars to the Sky: Mirror
August 27, 2010
From the Album Supra / Infra released 26th August
Los Angeles’ Radars to the Sky have just released their first full length album and Mirror is the first single from it.
Radars to the Sky are
Rob Danson – guitars, b/u vox, banjo
Kenny Kupers – drums, b/u vox
Kate Spitser – keyboards, vocals
Andrew Spitser – guitars, vocals, etc. etc.
with: Dave Marchese – bass
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Pete Yorn: Velcro Shoes
August 26, 2010
On September 28th, Vagrant Records will release the latest studio album from Pete Yorn. Produced by Frank Black (The Pixies), this visceral 11-song collection follows Yorn’s two 2009 releases.
Yorn’s forthcoming album, a self-titled volume with a plain black cover, was recorded on the spur-of-the-moment, in the summer of 2008. Yorn was in the middle of making Back & Fourth in Nebraska when he got an email from Black suggesting that they record some tunes. Intrigued by the notion of experimenting with Frank, Yorn hopped a plane to Salem, OR, where the two set up an impromptu studio. They recorded the album in a mere five days – even though the singer-songwriter-guitarist came down with the flu two days into the process.
“Frank didn’t give a shit about getting sick, so we stayed in the flow,” recalls Yorn. “He has an incredible ability to distill a song down to its core.”
Frank recalls, “Pete told me he wanted to better define himself as an artist. I think he just wanted to rock out. But as we headed down a path of realization I stripped him down a whole bunch. We battled in the best sort of way. I tried to get the session into a fearless and raw place, and to his artistic credit Pete took his songwriting to a fearless and raw place. This listener will find his or herself sitting right next to Pete on the couch. And the record totally rocks out.”
Yorn will be touring in Fall 2010 in conjunction with the new album’s release. Tour dates will be announced shortly. [vagrant]
- Pete Yorn’s Website
- Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | MySpace
- Vagrant Records
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Terrapin Pond: Medicines and Motions
August 25, 2010
From the album Hello All Seasons available on August 24th
Neo-psychedelic mastermind / producer Craig Morris (Thee American Revolution / Ideal Free Distribution / Apples in Stereo) presents an innovative fusion of garage rock and Appalachian folk with his band Terrapin Pond, incorporating friends, family and regional Bluegrass musicians (including members of the Kentucky family band The McKendrees) in a swirling folk-psych landscape.
Their debut album, Hello All Stations on Garden Gate Records, plays like an unheard mountain songbook discovered by latter-day indie rockers—full of the classic hooks we might anticipate from Morris and company, but this time growing in a darker, mossier forest.
Fuzz guitar, banjo, mandolin and Mellotron ebb and surge, buoyed by lush harmonies and a heavy rhythm section, as if Fleet Foxes collided with The Band. Described by Morris as “modern rural psychedelic music,” Terrapin Pond is certain to appeal to fans of Americana and of the new psychedelia.
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Tiddabadés: Colours
August 24, 2010
Tiddabadés is a Wellington based dancecore four piece in New Zealand, apparently self-proclaimed as ”The Most Mispronounced Band In The Southern Hemisphere ™ “.
Formerly Batman Tiddabadés, they weld the influence of early British Post Punk, New Wave & Electronica, The E.P is the result of The Tiddabadés collective passion for guitar & synth based music.
From the looks of it, Tiddabadés is currently touring throughout Japan the entire month of September.
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