Gavin of Florene sent over the closest thing to a Halloween post I will make. “Dream Master” is a 7-minute synth movement that draws heavily from the John Carpenter movie scores of the 80s. The song is dark, seething but upbeat and perfect for a Halloween dance contest between your friend in the Unicorn costume and the dude dressed up as zombie Abe Lincoln.
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White Fence was the act I wanted to see while at CMJ this past week, it came true on the last night and was an unforgettable experience. Here is “The Pool” being performed at a show they played earlier in the week at Cakeshop.
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Mathieu Santos, of Ra Ra Riot fame, employs the instrumental quirks of Delicate Steve on a remix for “I Can Hear The Trains Coming”. The end-product is a sugary-sweet pop anthem that might have found its home as the theme music for a 90s family sitcom. Santos’ smooth, stair-stepping vocals match well with Delicate Steve‘s wacky synth and and Caribbean drum-circle beats. Check out the remix and the original track below, the latter from Santos’ Massachusetts 2010 release on Barsuk. After the jump also check out the Ra Ra Riot/Delicate Steve tour dates.
Mathieu Santos – I Can Hear The Trains Coming (Delicate Steve remix)
Mathieu Santos – I Can Hear The Trains Coming
This entry was written by , posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:18 pm, filed under New Tunes, premiere and tagged delicate steve, mathieu santos, Ra Ra Riot. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Very proud to be apart of a great CMJ showcase this year presented by our label Forest Family Records and our friends Tangents & The Times and SarahSpy. Collectively we’ve put together a helluva a show with some great acts: Dent May, Holiday Shores, Dead Gaze, Night Manager, Long Walks On The Beach and Tommy Toussaint will be DJing the hits all night. The show is Wednesday, October 19th at Bruar Falls in Brooklyn, check out the fbook event here. Jam some tunes below.
Dent May – Fun
Holiday Shores – Threepeat Got Old
Dead Gaze – It’s Not Real
Night Manager – Pizza Pasta
Long Walks On The Beach – Literally Crazy For You
Tommy Toussaint – Only Want You
This entry was written by , posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:36 pm, filed under New Tunes, Shows and tagged brooklyn, bruar falls, cmj, dead gaze, dent may, forest family, holiday shores, long walks on the beach, night manager, tommy toussaint. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Landon from Animal Image Search sent over a unique project from Ryan Howe of Outer Limit Recordings and Punks On Mars. I’ll let the description below speak for itself but this certainly falls in the vein of those two projects–sounds as diverse as music from a 60s school film on space exploration to early 90s cheese-pop and power pop influences aplenty. Order the cassette via Animal Image Search.
in 1991, the zits on ryan howe (AKA luke perry AKA punks on mars)’s otherwise angelic face had been so well fed on curly fry grease that they were developing into sentient beings. after learning to play instruments, lengthy 36 hour jam sessions became a regular occurrence, finding their most focused works in the post-prom-night style for which they became best known prior to their mysterious disappearance. from the same demented lunch table as james ferraro and outer limits but with an acutane prescription all his own, ryan howe presents… “pimples in 3-D
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That thing where a band gets mad because you post an rough-early-recording. I’ve been holding off posting this for awhile because I had heard the band was recording new songs, but I figured what the hell. Pop Martyrs successfully usurped the position of my “new favorite Denton band,” which is certainly an exciting prospect considering the thousands of bands within such a small area. Even with a straight-forward recording such as the one below, it’s easy to see the potential this band contains. Post punk tendencies and maybe the less rambunctious songs of Sebadoh and Yo La Tengo. They’ve played a few shows around Denton but I’ve not been able to check them out yet.
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Okay. There is a whole lot going on here. Montage Populaire hail from Southampton, UK , that have spontaneously generated as far as I’m concerned. The five-piece create crowded and crisp experimental-pop music similar to what we’ve heard from Greatest Hits in the last year. Wide-ranging sounds from Space Oddity-era freak folk track to a chopped up, bizarro The Cure ballad. The stand-out track is “Separate Frames” where the singers voice hits an jerky falsetto, furthered by the frantic urgency in the jaw dropping chorus–only measurable against something like the 80s classic “I Need A Hero“. Montage Populaire are giving this away for free and the band has also made videos for all 4 tracks, one “Separate Frames” is below.
Montage Populaire – Separate Frames
This entry was written by , posted on October 13, 2011 at 4:13 am, filed under New Tunes, video and tagged David Bowie, greatest hits, montage populaire, the cure. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Down-tuned funk madness from Acid Glasses. Available on three-song single from Stroll On Records.
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Live rework of “The Fog Rose High”
Craft Spells – The Fog Rose High
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Delicate and unrefined, jangling all the way, the Hairs resemble Flying Nun bands of three decades ago rather than the current crop scattered through their home-base of Brooklyn. The musical composition is straight-forward and fetching: crunchy drums and hissing organ tones lay the ground work while the guitar and male/female vocals take the forefront. “Picasso vs. Frankenstein” might not be about the two famous characters, but more about how the Kiwis handed down a recipe for uncomplicated musical enjoyment.
The Hairs – Picasso v. Frankenstein
The Hairs have a four-song 7″ out now on Magic Marker Records.
This entry was written by , posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:00 am, filed under New Tunes and tagged brooklyn, the hairs. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
