Talkdemonic - Ending the Orange Glow (World radio premier? i was told i was the first to get this cd in the US) Amiina - Sexfaldur A Northern Chorus - This open heart Why? - Fatalist Palminstry Helio Sequence - Hallelujah Son lux - Break Cursive - Into the fold Red lions - Bay of naples Cortney tidwell - la la Falcon - Listen In Conor Oberst - Sausalito Horse Feathers - Rude to rite Azeda Booth - Lobster Quadrille Faint - Fulcrum and Lever Apollo Sunshine - Singing to the earth Silent Years - On our way home Curse of company - parade divine Samantha Crain - Traipsing through the aisles Cut Copy - Feel the love Decemberists - The crane wife 3 Denali - Do something Dandy Warhols - Sleep Alias and Ehren - Lillian Mercury program - Slightly Drifting
css - left behind jovian - grendine girl the presets - my people daedelus - make it so bitter:sweet - get what I want mates of state - help help the chap - the health of nations minus the bear - lets play clowns the notwist - good lies the bridal shop - from seas modest mouse - you're the good things my brightest diamond - inside a boy antenne - gloves on lali puna - small things brazilian girls - lazy lover radiohead - high and dry death cab for cutie - long division airborne toxic event - sometime around midnight beck - orphans brazilian girls - good times the honorary title - stay away hercules and love affair - blind the ting tings - that's not my name the bravery - unconditional the egg - walk on the snow walter meego - wanna be a star yelle - je veux te voir the faint - get seduced moby - crookers mass in here
Remember that ex-upcoming album I mentioned earlier today? Well here it is. Can Blogger even handle that long of a post title? The (almost released) new album from Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong (here on referenced as "the band" because goodness I just can't type it anymore) was canceled at the end of July, just five days before it was due for release. The band said, "we can create a record that is much better, more exciting, more representative of our sound and generally more delightful to listen to."
I don't know about all that. This record is definitely a good listen. From a band that's played SXSW AND Glastonbury in one year, it's apparent that there is plenty of potential from this pop-indie group. The album opens with "Lucio Starts Fires," a single that was released back in October 2007. Upon listening, the Strokes might come to mind given all the clashing guitars and such. However, listen a little more closely. There is a stronger, more full sound to the track.
On "Where Do You Go," the band introduces the first of two great singles from this album. This track really highlights the bands energy which must translate to something fierce in the live performance. Check out the last portion of the song for an intense guitar riff.
My personal favorite on this album is "Brooklyn." It has a real doowop sound which seems to appear throughout the album but is at it's strongest here. Complete with background singers and a bass line, this one is a winner. Hopefully it will be re-recorded for the actual release of this album.
The album comes out sometime in 2009 when I'll most likely re-write this review. However, I won't leave you hanging! Here's one track to whet your appetite.
Have I got a treat or two for you folks! Got more music to review from some upcoming (and ex-upcoming) albums. What do I mean by "ex-upcoming?" Come back tomorrow (or late tonight) and find out! There's really good music out there and I intend to share it with you.
One group is an indie rock band from England and has toured with CSS and Kaiser Chiefs. They also played this year's SXSW and Glastonbury Festival. The other band is named after a Gastr del Sol song and is known as a Chicago-based indie super group.
It's been a while since anyone has posted an album review here so I thought it was high time to get some new music out to the masses.
After releasing the promising Ra Ra Riot EP last summer, dealing with the death of drummer John Pike, and going on two tours, Ra Ra Riot is ready to formally break onto the scene with The Rhumb Line. What is a rhumb line, you ask? Why, it's the path taken by a vessel that maintains a constant compass direction. What a fitting title it is, then, when no less than half of the tracks on this record are written by John Pike. His death definitely influences the tone of the album. But it's not all funeral songs. It is also a celebration.
The marriage of strings and indie rock is a good one. With Alexandra Lawn on cello and Rebecca Zeller on violin, Ra Ra Riot reminds me (and a number of other listeners, apparently) of Arcade Fire. The opening track, "Ghost Under Rocks," give the listener a sense of the profound loss endured by the band. Songs such as "St. Peter's Day Festival" and "Winter '05" only add to this tone.
However, they are able to provide enough variation that the mood doesn't get old. I don't think I've ever wanted to keep listening to an album about loss and death. Yet the celebratory notes in the tunes keep me drawn in. This is especially true for the album's single, "Dying Is Fine." Make sure to pay attention to the interlude from just before 2:00 to 2:40. The guitar/violin/cello dynamic here is intense and probably the height of the album for me.
Does the album get you down? Then check out "Too Too Too Fast," a upbeat synth track that provides a break from the chamber music sound. Listening to it reminds me of some modernized version of "Take On Me" but a little more mellow. And no, I'm not talking the Reel Big Fish or A1 versions.
I had a chance to see the sextet live at the SirenMusicFestival and did they ever provide an energetic show! Too bad you'll have to drive the 2.5 hours to Syracuse if you want to see them for yourself (Syracuse University, 9/7).
In any case, The Rhumb Line comes out August 19 but you can pre-order it now from the Ra Ra Riot website.
4/5
Tracklist: 1] Ghost Under Rocks 2] Each Year 3] St. Peter's Day Festival 4] Winter '05 5] Dying Is Fine 6] Can You Tell 7] Too Too Too Fast 8] Oh, La 9] Suspended in Gaffa 10] Run My Mouth
tilly and the wall - jumbler jovian - grenadine girl death cab for cutie - i will possess your heart mates of state - help help minus the bear - lets play clowns midnight juggernauts - into the galaxy cb radio - blue skies (booksworms remix) preshish moments - makes me better moby - crookers mass in here flying lotus - sample from his album los angeles the bug - freak freak Noisia - FabricLive.40 Mix the bug - angry sub swara - hi fidelity (shambhala riddim) css - lets reggae all night frank solono - the blues line dr dog - the rabbit, the bat and the reindeer conor oberst - cape canaveral conor oberst - sausalito antenne - gloves on bitcrush - an island, a penninsula bitscrush - of days bitcrush - what would hope be without disappointment the notwist - good lies my brightest diamond - inside a boy domestic blend volume compilation album (link to it here)
Battles - Race: In Octopus Project - Exploding Snowhorse Dead Science - last Return Animal Collective - Fireworks Le Loup - We are gods! We are Wolves! Annuals - Brother Bitter:Sweet - Get what i want Art in Manila - Set the woods on fire Ambulette - If you go away Conor Oberst - Cape Canaveral Margot and the nuclear so and so's - Bookworm (acoustic) Lackthereof- Fake empire Azeda Booth - In red *BAND OF THE WEEK* Falcon - Birds and mice Miss murgatroid and petra haden - Untitled 1 Inara George with van dyke parks - Track 2 Brendan Canning - Hit the wall Windmill - Asthmatic Olafur Arnalds - Track 1 Beck - Orphans The Album leaf - We need help Daylights for the birds - World's away pg.lost - Yes i am Pacific UV -Tremolo Midlake - Roscoe (acoustic) Japancakes- Doublejointed
artist - track tilly and the wall - jumbler cut copy - out there on the ice mates of state - get better the ting tings - great dj daedelus - make it so hercules and love affair - blind bitter:sweet - the bomb midnight juggernauts - into the galaxy the notwist - good lies minus the bear - lets play clowns the egg - forwards modest mouse - dashboard preshish moments - make me better n.e.r.d. - anti matter leila - little acorns bitter:sweet - sugar mama antenne - gloves on bittersweet - get what I want anthem in - hold onto me the faint - in concert mgmt - electric feel - justice remix <333 four tet - ringer walter meego - wanna be a star the octopus project - track 2 lymbic system
Bittersweet Playing at Revolution Hall in Downtown Troy on August 8th at 8pm.
Pre Show 5pm to 6pm Mono/World's End Girlfriend - Untitled 5 Giraffes? Giraffes ! - When catholic schoolgirls go camping... Black Kids- Partie Traumatic Computer vs. Banjo - Give up ghosts Calico Horse - Happy placebo syringe day Beck - Modern Guilt Haley Bonar- Something Great Sunfold- oregon Mrandmrsmays- milestone Duchess and the duke - reservoir park Matt pryor - Confidence man Olafur Arnalds - Lokadu Augunum
SHOW Start 6pm M83- Teen angst Stars- Heart Montag- Perfect Vision Lykke Li- My Neko Case- Star Witness Maria Taylor- Good start Paper Cranes- Triangle Never- On a mountain Mychael Danna- The winner is Submarines- Hope Six parts seven- Stolen moments Northern Chorus- Don't think of collapse Lackthereof- Last November Horse Feathers- Road to ruin Notwist- Boneless Brendan Canning- Snowball and icicles Windmill- Fluorescent Lights Falcon- The Sandfighter Boy in static- Innocent Alaska in winter- 24 hours on lake of ice Olafur Arnalds - 37:04 (last track on the Eulogy for evolution cd) Mogwai- Kappa Margot and the nuclear so and so's- Talking in code Neva Dinova- Did you disappoint your god? Sigur Ros- Med Sud i eyrum Faunts- Place i've found
My favorite find of the week is the band "Falcon"..here is the blurb from their myspace..it's a little gimmicky but I quite like the music:
"How many bands form with a finite amount of material? Really, think about it. How many bands form knowing, from the start, what the songs already are, and that there will never be another one? It's a problem tribute bands must often face. But what if the tribute band's songs have never even been heard before?
Enter Falcon. Falcon is not a tribute band. Falcon plays all new material.
But... Falcon will never write another song. In fact, they never have. Let me explain. Every Falcon song has already been written by the band's namesake, Jared Falcon. However, Mr. Falcon is not in the band. From 1986-88, Jared Falcon attended Petaluma Junior High in Petaluma, Ca.. He played baritone sax in the orchestra and did not do particularly well in school. However, he was a songwriting prodigy, writing close to a song a day and recording each onto a Fisher Price tape recorder. This practice started in January 1987 and ended, 336 songs later, in February 1988, when Mr. Falcon was instituionalized.
Luckily for us, however, Jared Falcon's classmates from Petaluma Junior High, Shannon Ferguson and Neil Rosen, have since found those tapes."
Son lux - Don't you (forget about me) Memphis- I dreamed we fell apart Lykke Li- Dance dance dance Denali- lose me (live acoustic) (SEE DENALI POST AND VIDEO BELOW) Great White Jenkins- Brother Margot and the Nuclear So and So's- Hello Vagina Twilight Sad- Here it never snowed, afterwards it did This will destroy you- They move in tracks of never ending light Boy in static- Violet Brendan Canning- Hit the wall Computer vs. Banjo- Guitars need a sinners touch Talkdemonic- Silvertone Xu Xu Fang- The Mourning Son Windmill-Plastic Pre-Flight Seats The Frequency- Talk to me Alaska in winter- The homeless and the hummingbird Giraffes? Giraffes! - Emily Sagees secret Calico Horse- Happy Placebo Syringe Day SJ Esau- Bubblehead The Decemberists- Engine Driver DNTEL- Dumb Luck Album leaf- Outer banks Olafur Arnalds- Haust Sigur Ros- Festival
mates of state - get better does it offend you, yeah? - dawn of the dead minus the bear - dog park bitter:sweet - sugar mama <---- playing 8/8 at Revolution Hall, Troy hercules and love affair - blind midnight juggernauts - into the galaxy cut copy - hearts on fire the chap -they have a name CB radio - blue skies moby - alice n.e.r.d. - spaz yacht - ring the bell (premix) daedelus - make it so feat. michael johnson ladytron - ghosts bjork - wanderlust the watson twins - how I am to be tilly and the wall - jumbler twink - i <3 rainbows weezer - the greatest man that ever lived mates of state - my only offer the notwist - good lies radiohead - high and dry my brightest diamond - inside a boy justice - let there be light yelle - je veux te voir the real mccoy - another night the ting tings - shut up and let me go
So after 5 years of waiting I finally got to see Denali in concert again. They broke up in 2004 (well I think the original members broke up in 2003..I saw their last show in richmond, the cd release show for the instinct). This show at Richmond's semi-new (amazing) venue The National was every bit as satisfying as when I saw them at that show.
The openers alone would have made a great show. Great White Jenkins (I'll be playing their CD on my show) was one of my favorites, with a more interesting Fleet Foxes sort of sound, and a small horn section joining them for the latter half of their set. Prabir and the substitutes wasn't quite was I was into, with a straight up 60's/Beatles kind of sound. Tulsa drone was the last opener. I had seen them a couple years ago at an odd little show in an art gallery in downtown richmond and liked them enough to pick up their CD but didn't listen to it much. They were pretty good live (the CD didn't quite compare) and this show had them in similar form but the anticipation for Denali was sort of overshadowing their western, hammer-dulcimer infused post-rock.
Denali built the crowd up for their set with a looping sound sample of cryptic organs and telephone rings. They also had some video stuff going behind a dark stage. After 5 minutes (too long! haha) of that, they finally entered and started with French Mistake. They only have 2 albums so it was pretty easy to play all of the crowd pleasing songs. Lose Me, Relief, Do Something were some of my favorites. The video work in the background was pretty amazing most times (I'm a VJ myself so I know how hard some of the stuff the artist was doing was). Not the tightest show ever but after 5 years you can't expect spot on accuracy. The important thing was that all of them looked like they were having fun with it. They did unveil one new song they had fleshed out during their practices called Church Hill Bricks (I caught the name on a setlist while I was waiting for an autograph). It sounded good, not typical Denali but hopefully they've all matured in their sounds in 5 years and taken on new influences, I know I have. Here's hoping they record that song (and maybe a couple others, pretty please) to release sometime, but that show will be enough to hold me for at least another 5 years, haha.
I know I saw several cameras recording the show, so a DVD or web series may also be in the works, I know they have a 4 part reunion web series coming out (part 1 has been out for a while). In lieu of that, I brought my own camcorder and recorded a few of the songs. That new one, Church Hill Bricks, is below..enjoy
As I've been telling you for the past (forever, really) we've got a pair of passes to Camp Bisco to give away. These passes are good for all three days of the event and include camping! I'll be on the air around 1pm today to give them away! Number at the station is 518.276.6248.
You can also buy your tickets online at www.campbisco.net
radiohead - high and dry my brightest diamond - pluto's moon the notwist - gravity ani difranco - decree tilly and the wall - jumbler mates of state - my only offer feist - 1234 bitter:sweet - sugar mama [[playing at REV HALL - Listen to win tickets in coming weeks!]] the watson twins - just like heaven (cure cover) emmylou harris - shores of white sand the racounteurs - consoler of the lonely does it offend you, yeah? - dawn of the dead midnight juggernauts - shadows lcd soundsystem - north american scum wolf parade - soldiers grin weezer - heart songs the chap - carlos walter wendy stanley hercules and love affair - blind james pants - dragonslayer N.E.R.D. - anti matter flying lotus - "los angeles" PLAYING AT CAMP BISCO:
DJ shadow - you can't go home again
cut chemist - motivational speaker + the garden
bassnectar - verbing the noun
cut chemist - what's the altitude
the disco biscuits - triumph
!!! - yadnus
calvin harris - acceptable in the 80's the ting tings - shut up and let me go [[playing at valentines on july 26th!!]] bitter:sweet - the bomb audio bullys - shot you down feat. nancy sinatra computer vs. banjo - guitar needs a sinner's touch portishead - the rip fleet foxes - white winter hymnal anthem in - down dosh - don't wait for the needle to drop frisbee - gettin' it down death cab for cutie - you can do better than me lali puna - small things radiohead - fake plastic trees lymbyc system - mates of state - get better the notwist - the devil, you and me my brightest diamond - the ice & the storm minus the bear - lets play clowns tilly and the wall = chandelier lake
artist - track WALTER MEEGO - wanna be a star midnight juggernauts - into the galaxy the ting tings - shut up and let me go bitter:sweet - the bomb mates of state - get better hercules and love affair - blind the chap - proper rock ladytron - ghosts four tet - ribbons bjork - wanderlust - ratatat remix robert hood - fabric live mix - the pace - m-plant n.e.r.d. - spaz flying lotus - camel, melt!, comet course domestic blend compilation album - click here for more info my brightest diamond - inside a boy portishead - silence the notwist - gloomy planets radiohead - high and dry death cab for cutie - no sunlight dosh - don't just sit there and wait for the needle to drop
NEXT WEEK: 4 hour show (but no Blar, boo), Camp Bisco Giveaway Extravaganza! 4-8pm
I won't be back next week or the week after..going on vacation inside a vacation..see you again mid july!
Pre-show
Battles- SZ2 Alla- Una dia otra noche Black kids- I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you Death cab for cutie- Grapevine fires Little Beirut- The Lottery Mar- Underwater SHOW START-------------- 6pm Hammock- Three sisters Georgie James- Cake parade Husky Rescue- Caravan Emily Haines - Doctor Blind Sigur Ros - Godan Daggin Mum - Marmalade Fires Goddamn electric bill - March at dawn Khoiba- Taste it Electric president- Ten thousand lines Forget cassettes- Quiero, Quieres The notwist- gloomy planets My milky way arms- All awful possibilities My brightest diamond- To plutos moon Wolf parade- Soldiers grin David Ramos- Pulse Calico Horse- Awake in the clouds Dead heart bloom - Come back Giraffes? Giraffes! - When catholic girls go camping, the nicotine vampies rule supreme Fleet foxes- Sun it rises Broken Social Scene- Hotel Grizzly Bear- Central and remote The twilight sad- and she would darken the memory God is an astronaut- Sunrise in aries Steve Reich - Drumming (Part 4)
As of Thursday, mash-up specialist Girl Talk's newest album is available for download on his label's (Illegal Arts) website. Word has it that it picks up right where his previous album, the excellent Night Ripper, leaves off. I just started listening to the album like 30 seconds ago and already have encountered a 'holy shit, awesome' moment.
The download works much like how Radiohead's newest album worked. Choose to donate as much as you want and you obtain a download of the album (including nothing, if you're feeling stingy). The quality of the content depends on how much you donate; the benefits of donating more are listed in the download link.
If for some reason you aren't sure whether or not to download Feed the Animals for free, it's streaming in full on Girl Talk's myspace. Personal favorites so far include "Play Your Part (Pt. 1)," "Set it Off," and "Let Me See You."
You'll surely be hearing more and more about Girl Talk and this album in the next few months, including on this blog. Enjoy the album.
My Milky Way Arms- Unbearable Lightness of Being Mason proper- A Chance Encounter Bell Orchestre- Throw it on a fire Sigur Ros- Inni mer syngur vitleysingur Under Byen- Pilot Le Loup- To the stars! To the night! Menomena- The late great libido Beck-New Round Morning Recordings- Sugar Waltz The Notwist- Good Lies My Brightest Diamond- The Ice & The Storm Wolf Parade- Language City Fleet Foxes- White winter hymnal My Education- Aria Cineplexx- A mi lado Tilly and the wall- Chandelier lake Watson Twins- Fall Nethers- Great big grave Jason Webley- Little Sister Bright Eyes- Middleman Maria Taylor- Clean getaway Camera Obscura- Knee deep at the NPL Iron and Wine- Such great heights Clare and the reasons- Alphabet City The Album Leaf- Broken Arrow
bitter:sweet - the bomb the ting tings - that's not my name does it offend you, yeah? - dawn of the dead walter meego - wanna be a star the futureheads - decent days portishead - silence ladytron - ghosts my brightest diamond - inside a boy death cab for cutie - no sunlight daedelus - make it so mates of state - my only offer feist - 1234 the notwist - good lies the bridal shop - from seas M83 - kim & jessie aimee mann - freeway modest mouse - so much beauty in dirt weezer - pork and beans radiohead - jigsaw falling into place midnight juggernauts - into the galaxy neutral milk hotel - two headed boy lymbic system - love your abuser architechture in helsinki - it's 5 four tet - ribbons N.E.R.D. - anti matter the knife - is it medicine dosh - kit and pearle hammock - mono mo aware explosions in the sky - memorial
The news has been out there for a while that Conor Oberst has been writing and recording new material outside of the Bright Eyes arena since late last year. His solo album will be coming out on Merge (not saddle creek or team love? wtf..) on August 4th.
and personally its going to be very hard for me to seperate them from sounding like Bright Eyes, but they have been obsessively one of my favorite bands for years..I saw them in concert 3 times last year..looks like those of you in the capitol region will be able to catch this new Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band experiment because on their tour page they list:
