Holopaw is a little known band formerly on big indie label Sub Pop. Their third LP, Oh Glory Oh Wilderness, is out via Bakery Outlet Records. John Orth’s quivering vocals built on lush string harmonies work well with my ears.
“The Art Teacher and The Little Stallion”
“Black Lacquered Shame”
2009 has been quite a successful year for Deer Tick. They released Born On Flag Day in June which was promptly rated as “country-rock breakthrough of the year” by Rolling Stone and were featured in the first installment if BriTunes. After a month long recording session known as “The Black Dirt Sessions”, More Fuel For The Fire was born. With three new studio tracks and a live version of fan favorite “Straight Into The Storm” from Born On Flag Day
Tracklist
01.” La La La”
02. “Dance Of Love”
03. “Axe Is Forever”
04. “Straight Into The Storm” (Live from the Visulite Theatre, Charlotte, NC)
More Fuel For The Fire is available December 1st via Partisan Records exclusively through iTunes.
As an added bonus Deer Tick released a live version of “Baltimore Blues No.1″ for free download yesterday as their thanks to past and present veterans.
We disliked them before we liked them. Now we like them. Now they have a new single out, called There Are Listed Buildings. It is an advance track from the forthcoming LP, Romance is Boring, which we will no doubt like.
Ladies and gentlemen, Los Campesinos!
Celebration released their last album in 2005 to mixed reviews. Afterward they began writing more tracks for a follow up album and ended up with 22 tracks that they were happy with. And in a recent blog post said this.
When we finally poked our head out into the light of the living, we had brought 22 songs in tow. On just a chance, when noting the oddity and seeming significance of the number 22, we remembered that the tarot had 22 major archana cards. So, when playing with the idea, listening to the songs and the lyrics, we noticed striking parallels. So much so, we feel it fated. Once this perspective hit us our next path on our journey became illuminated. We had already long decided that we wanted to embrace a new way of sharing our music. So we are weaving a web portal to share this idea as an unfolding experiment. Every month on our web site, http://celebrationelectrictarot.com, we will post new songs for free download.
We have made video’s for the first two songs/cards. “I Will Not Fall” is The Fool card and ‘What’s this magical” is The Shaman Magician card.
And that’s what they’ve done. So far we have three tracks that are all worthy of taking up space on your mp3 player of choice. They’re psychedelic and at times sound like a female fronted Mars Volta. The videos are all pretty trippy and get a little mundane about halfway through but are still worth watching at least once.
Just days after performing at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin Atlas Sound has released a free virtual 7″. The EP features the new track “The Screens” as well as a cover of the doo-wop band Five Disc’s “Doctor”.
The EP can be downloaded here.
After catching the pre-release bug we never followed through: Land of Talk issued their four-song EP Fun And Laughter in mid-October. Stream “May You Never” at their Myspace page: a remote prologue opens a fun and anthemic rock track. “Land” of “Talk,” indeed. We won’t go missing, either.
Some will argue that music is as much about fashion as it is about the actual music. But that’s a debate for another day. Today’s question is what are we to do with the out of date forms of media. Not surprisingly records have stuck around for their nostalgic pleasure but something tells me that 8-track and cassette tapes aren’t going to have the same opportunity.
It takes somewhere between 450 to 500 years for plastic to decompose and there are a lot of cassette and 8-tracks in land fills. Some people have used these old tapes to make art and some are starting to use them to make fabric. Alyce Santoro and Julio Cesar have begun making neckties using half cassette tape and half thread. Santoro even says that the ties are “actually audible if you run a tape head over it.”
the idea behind the tie is that the wearer becomes a beacon for other-dimensional, intangible, subtle forces of good…much in the manner of a superhero. only this part of the superhero garb can be worn on the outside in the most conservative environment without detection!
The below video is of the antique loom at the New England manufacturing plant that is used to make the fabric.
College attendance, in my view, is usually a drain on our economy and society. Encouraging talented people to spend many years in wasteful status contests deprives the economy of millions of man-years of output. If this were really an “investment,” of course, it might be worth it. But I see little connection between the skills that students acquire in college and the skills they’ll need later in life.
Source here. Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, and well-known blogger.
Relevance to music? We’re pretty sure you know by now.
Brett Dennen is a musician that I have been listening to since what Fred refers to as my “strum strum hippie yodel” days. Dennen has been quite busy since the last time I checked up on him. He now has three full length albums, has toured the world, done the late night talk show circuit and was rated as Rollingstones “10 Artists to Watch”.
More recently though Dennen released an iTunes exclusive EP with the help of Brazilian ex-patriots Forro In The Dark and Jason Mraz. Dennen’s songs already had some feel for some reggae so it was the natural combination to match him up with Forro In The Dark and the combination is well received. The EP features reggaefied songs from his latest LP Hope For The Hopeless and one older track from his debut self-titled LP as well as the new track “Joan of Arc”.
Dennen is currently on tour with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. You can check out his MySpace page for tour dates and locations.
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