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22 July 2014Video Premiere: "Skin To Skin" by Alejandra O'Leary and The Champions of the West
Here’s a fine thing for a lazy summer’s evening. We were struck by the balance of stoicism, vulnerability and grit in Maine-born, Ann Arbor, Michigan-based O’Leary’s vocal performance. “Anyone who has ever contemplated a person who was once an intimate friend from a instant distance that came all too suddenly will recognize themselves in this song,” she says. Yep.
Released today, “Skin To Skin” is the first single from their upcoming release, Hearyspave Timepiece. Feel free to download and share:
22 July 2014This week's "Big Takeover on Breakthru Radio" show: new Engineers, Dead Horse One, Proper Ornaments, and GBV, old Moody Blues and Dr. John, etc.!
Also on this week’s show: Cocoanut Groove, Slowness (new), The Rifles, Kaleidescope (U.K.), Allah-Las, Math and Physics Club, Maximo Park, The Steinbecks, Shoes, The Ramones, Beverly, The Outskirts, and Roddy Frame (new).
16 July 2014Amazon Essentials: Jack Rabid Revisits Stone Roses’ Guitar-Pop Masterpiece
Indeed, The Stone Roses remains an immortal moment in modern British pop history. A quarter century on, one is still held enthralled by John Squire’s lovely, commanding yet beautiful guitar passages, Mani’s booming, loping bass, and Reni’s kick-drum-heavy grooves, backing a bravura performance from smallish, po-faced frontman Ian Brown, whose almost whispery trilling belies an essential brashness. There’s not a false moment, from the opening buildup of the says-it-all “I Wanna Be Adored” to the concluding, psychedelic funky freak-out of the (also self-explanatory) “I am the Resurrection.”
14 July 2014This week's "Big Takeover on Breakthru Radio" show: new Slowness, Proper Ornaments, Len Price 3, Juliana Hatfield, old Ennio Morricone, etc.!
Also on this week’s show: Soft Science, Lightfoils (new), +/- (Plus/Minus), Sad Lovers and Giants, The Weirdos, Penetration, Radio Birdman (live), Bob Mould (new), Replacements, The Last, Throwing Muses, Tanya Donelly, Lisa Mychols, and an oldie by New Riders of the Purple Sage!
22 July 2014Men Oh Pause - Pulse Check 7"EP (Tuff Enuff)
Hailing from England’s Sussex countryside, Men Oh Pause deliver four dark, anxiety-ridden synthpunk tunes awash in paranoia.
22 July 2014Crabe - Anti-Vague (Cuchabata)
Many people may hold their ears and run from that, as they might from Crabe, but those that remain are like the first 5 people that thought Primus was the shit and bought a tape. The prescient among us might twig to what obvious genius and true punk sorcery is being offered in the oeuvre of this phenomenal band.
21 July 2014David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights - End Times Undone (Merge)
Kilgour’s newest chapter, End Times Undone, is a collection of songs that lie between his hazy jangle and that heavenly heavy-vibed treble clang only he can produce.
20 July 2014Bonsai – Bonsai EP (Bonsai)
NYC-based songstress Simone Stevens has a sumptuous, sultry voice that immediately impresses. Her new quartet’s music tones down the alt country/folk of past releases, in favor of dreamy mood-pop.
21 July 2014In a word, their hour long set was epic. We overuse that word in the human race just like we wear out words like amazing but nonetheless if you were hesitating even in the slightest about seeing them as they embark on their upcoming tour, think again. It could easily be the best show you’ve seen all year and one you’ll remember and cherish for decades to come. It will make any doubters a believer in the blissful power of shoegaze music.
Read more...Pitchfork Music Festival 2014: Saturday Highlights
20 July 2014It is strange to be anything at all and still we’re all glad for the shared experience of hearing someone like Jeff Mangum who is not like anyone else we’ve ever known.
Pitchfork Music Festival 2014: Friday Highlights
19 July 2014England’s Factory Floor three piece started out slow but pretty soon female lead singer Nik Colk was starting to dance to her own rhythms as the heightened sense of beats took over the crowd and made for an awesome beginning set for many people. Some fans were even so appreciative of the beats by live drummer Gabriel Gurnsey that they started crowdsurfing!
Jason Cruz; Howling For Change
Rasputina: 21st Century Victorians
It's Normal For Me: Jad Fair's Busy 2014 Schedule
7 Seconds Shine With Leave A Light On
Doomriders: From Darkness To Catharsis
The Sharp Things: Grand Ambition
DIY or Die; Kathleen Hanna Returns with The Julie Ruin
Dead Ending Release Second LP; Bondi Talks Punk Politics
21 July 2014We own all of the rights to our back catalog, so we asked ourselves for permission to use some older tunes, and we generously told ourselves that we would be happy to let ourselves use them (we have a very good relationship with ourselves in that respect)
Read more...An Interview with German Shoegazers Seasurfer
5 July 2014I love to play with all of these effects pedals and to create sounds. A lot of that stuff is from your country… the whole room flashes like a pinball game.
An Interview with Shauna McLarnon of Ummagma
29 June 2014That’s why a great song, just missing one or two pieces, can lie dormant for a few years before we finally polish it off, complete with icing and a cherry on top.
A Chat with the In-Between Girl, Tatiana Hammond of Daisy House
28 June 2014Daisy House is generous music, and very old school at heart. Who knows? It might even be revolutionary.
Ben Vendetta - From Wivenhoe Park to Los Angeles (and back)
14 June 2014You don’t have to go to music school to be a musician and so it’s the same thing. You don’t have to take writing classes to be a writer!
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