Barsuk Records announced today that they have signed Say Hi. Oohs & Aahs will be released on March 3rd, 2009. Formerly known as Say Hi To Your Mom, Eric Elbogen "wrote and recorded the LP at his home studio over the course of 2008. The songwriter used to live in Brooklyn, New York, but moved [...]
From The Basement press release: Our second series is now being delivered to broadcasters and if you are in the UK you can catch the first show with Gnarls Barkley, Sparks and The Kills on Sky Arts 1 at 10 pm on Wednesday 4th December. Subsequent shows will be broadcasting each week through December on Sky: Weds 3rd [...]
There’s a new group from San Fransisco called Photons. This band has grown into an eight piece, equally four guys and four girls that feature the bassoon and glockenspiel with a regular rock outfit. They recently released a six track self-titled Photons EP and it’s well worth the $6.“Drummer/songwriter Calvin Liu formed San Francisco’s Photons [...]
The Twilight Sad Killed My Parents and Hit The Road
The Twilight Sad are releasing a limited edition CD with Fat Cat Records, "to help fund their tour with Mogwai." Titled The Twilight Sad Killed My Parents And Hit The Road, the disc will be out on CD and digital on December 8. The title of the disc continues the reflection of a homicidal adolescent [...]
It's A Musical have posted their third music video from their debut album, their second video since the album was released on 10.28.08. This song is the title track for The Music Makes Me Sick. It's A Musical - The Music Makes Me Sick To read about the duo's debut: It's A Musical debuts with The Music [...]
Seabear founder, Sindri Mar Sigfusson, is back with a solo project called Sin Fang Bous. Sindri's debut will be released in Iceland on December 5, and in the US on February 17 (2009). The digital version has already sprung among many online stores. 26 year old Sindri self-produced Clangour in his home studio while working [...]
Matt Pond PA is giving away a free nine song EP, titled The Freeep. All nine songs can be downloaded at mattpondpa.com. The Freeep comes with a new Matt Pond PA website and music video. The video is for People Have a Way from the band's latest full-length, Last Light, and mixes clips of vintage [...]
Puddlegum is giving away a pair of tickets for a Eulogies show in Indianapolis. They will be performing at Radio Radio with The Duke Spirit on Tuesday, December 2. Join the Puddlegum email update list this week (November 24 - 28) for a chance to win. If you are randomly selected, your name ( 1) will [...]
Architecture in Helsinki has a new video for That Beep, their new single. Travel to thatbeep.com and download the remix (by signing up for their email update list). "So, The single features remixes by our friends Radioclit, Haima and Kasper Vandergraff and is available on Itunes in Australia as of Today! Also, in breaking news…a CD version [...]
Midlake released The Trials of Van Occupanther in 1996, having reinvented themselves from jazz roots to indie rock, and have since become one of our favorite bands. In `97 they began recording their follow-up and released a beautiful acoustic EP, Oak and Julian. Puddlegum asked Eric Pulido a few questions about Midlake's upcoming album: Eric Pulido: [...]
The Swedish duo It's A Musical posted their second music video from their album The Music Makes Me Sick. This video is for the song Lazy. YouTube - It´s a musical - Lazy.
For the past four years the Chapman and Brocker brothers have been writing and recording Dance of the Crazy Man. The two began their music careers with scoring a documentary for Best Hours of The Day in 2004, Brocker was twenty years old at the time and Chapman only eighteen. Chapman and Brocker's Dance of the [...]
Point Juncture, WA had spent over a year recording Heart To Elk in their basement home which the members share, giving each other the needed time to add their cryptic layers… slow builds, selective brass, driving rhythms, overdriven guitars, vibes, layered and distorted vocals. They were patient in preparing the album, and self-released Heart To Elk [...]
Jeremy Enigk (Sunny Day Real Estate, Fire Theft) has announced that his new album is finished. "It's good. Really good. We can't wait to share it with you all. We're not announcing a release date just yet, but it's coming soon, we promise." The album was mostly tracked in Spain with Santi Garcia [...]
Critically acclaimed artists The Innocence Mission are releasing an EP titled Street Map on December 3. The album is made up of seven new songs, and one song "earlier unreleased song." Their website states that several songs will be on their upcoming full-length that has a planned for spring release. The Innocence Mission posted clips to [...]
(I meant to share this with you earlier.) From The Orchard press release: Barsuk Records is pleased to announce that the What Made Milwaukee Famous SugarHill Sessions digital EP is now available via eMusic and barsuk.com, and free to download until November 17th. The SugarHill Sessions EP offers listeners a chance to hear the pure heart of [...]
Zach Condon has ended his short break from Beirut and has announced a double EP and the formation of a new record label. The first EP is titled March of the Zapotec, aptly named since Condon "recorded in Mexico with the help of Oaxacan march masters The Jimenez Band." The Zapotec is an indigenous civilization [...]
It's A Musical released a debut album on called The Music Makes Me Sick (released on 10.28.08 in the US). This Swedish duo will crawl into the hearts of fans of Mates of State or Stereolab. Robert Kretzchmar plays drums and backs up on vocals, and Ella Blixt plays keys and leads the duo on [...]
The Alexandria Quartet has a new video for Into the Light. The band members hail from London and Norway, creating their own splended blend of indie rock. They are releasing a 7″ single for Into the Light on November 24. The band's bio explains that Into the Light was "the first song the band wrote together [...]
Today marks the ninety year anniversary of the end of the First World War, celebrated in Europe as Armistice Day and as Veteran’s Day in the US. The war that would end all wars saw over twenty millions lives lost. Twenty-one million were wounded, and the psychological affects of trench warfare troubled millions of men [...]
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