MP3 - "Teen Creeps" - No Age
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Video: No Age - "Teen Creeps"/ "Sleeper Hold" (live at SXSW)
Indie Labels Try and Keep The Faith at SXSW
One panel from last week's SXSW music conference was entitled "Indie Labels Keep the Faith," though by all accounts the sentiment was fairly grim. “The decline in indie retail has continued in a free-fall," said Bloodshot Records co-owner Nan Warshaw. "Everything you’ve heard [about the troubles of major labels], it’s probably worse.” Todd Martens of the LA Times reports:Fellow panel mem
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New Music: Planet Earth - "Bergman Movies"
"Bergman Movies" is the debut single from UK duo Planet Earth, available now as a limited edition 7" from Young and Lost Club. The duo of Sam Lewis (acoustic guitar/vocals) and Nick Olorenshaw (electric guitar) boast a jangly lo-fi sound that reminds me of our LA friends The French Semester. There is also a vintage pop quirkiness reminiscent of Belle and Sebastian. The 7" artwork was done by...
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Video: PBS Interviews Ondi Timoner at SXSW
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Documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner (Dig) was at South by Southwest promoting her new film, We Live in Public. PBS caught up with her for an interview about the project.
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Video: SXSW Crowd
This makes me just a wee bit less jealous...
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Video: Lawrence Lessig at SXSW
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Famed copyright guru Lawrence Lessig has a new mission - Change Congress - which has become the focus of his work. His keynote at South by Southwest focused on this.
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Video: The Mae Shi - "Do This" (live at SXSW)
The Mae Shi have just begun to rock Austin, Texas. Follow them on Twitter for the latest on where to find them.MP3 - "Lamb and the Lion" - The Mae Shi
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Video: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - "Come Saturday" (live at SXSW)
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I may not be at South by Southwest, but I feel like I am given the sheer number of folks tweeting about it. And now some videos have even started making their way to YouTube, like this one of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart rocking yesterday's Terrorbird/Force Field party. We have been enjoying the band's self-titled debut - which is out on Oakland-based Slumberland Records - a great deal ar...
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Video: Grand Lake - "Concrete Blonde on Blonde"
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"Concrete Blonde on Blonde" is a fabulous track from Grand Lake's debut record, Nevermint, out next week on 500 Records.MP3 - "Concrete Blonde on Blonde" - Grand Lake
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Jukebox: Shiloe
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Jukebox is a feature where we ask our favorite artists, bloggers and DJs their opinions on four songs that are currently generating buzz. Then we ask them for four songs that we should be buzzing about. This week, we put quarters in the record machine with Melissa and Ken of Shiloe..."First Time High" - Of MontrealMelissa: Oh, this is not my jam. Way too poppy and twee. Probably not surprisin...
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Briefs: The French Semester, Birds and Batteries, Wait. Think. Fast.
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+ Our pals The French Semester (pictured above) won the Deli LA's Band of the Month Poll for March. The quartet plays the Knitting Factory in LA tonight! The French Semester have one more LA show scheduled before embarking on an international tour that will taken them to France, Spain and Germany.+ Birds and Batteries have a pretty sweet offer for you: "Hey. We're on tour and need music for l...
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Here We Go Magic Makes, Well, Magic
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MP3 - "Fangela " - Here We Go Magic This week, thousands of musicians, bloggers, critics, fans and a number of my friends will be descending onto the streets of Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. I will not be there, so the music conference taking place in my head will simply have to suffice. For those attending, one band they should certainly not miss is Here We Go Magic (from - where el...
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Jack White Gets It, Do You?
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It is really no big secret that I have a great deal of admiration for Jack White. In one of the very first blog posts I ever wrote, I said, "If music is the universe, then Jack White gets his own planet." Of course, when I look up to an artist in any medium (say Kanye West or Steven Soderbergh), it is usually not just for their talent but also their business savvy. Now, I can welcome White i...
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Mixtape: Themselves - theFREEhoudini
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Anticon recording artists Themselves have finally dropped their highly anticipated mixtape, theFREEhoudini. You can download it for free by signing up for the Anticon newsletter. Or if you would prefer a limited edition, individually numbered version with an additional 15 minutes, you can purchase one of those. theFREEhoudini marks a return for Themselves after a six year hiatus. The duo ha...
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Video: The Mae Shi - "R U Professional"
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The Mae Shi dropped "R U Professional" barely 24 hours after Christian Bale's on-set tirade hit the internets. Now it has a quality video celebrating Bale's body of work to go along with it...
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New Music: O+S - "Permanent Scar"
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MP3 - "Permanent Scar - O+SIt is a thrilling experience to see a band you have not heard before live and be compelled to buy their cd. That was such the case when we saw O+S Saturday night, following Kid Mud's set at Hotel Utah. O+S began as a collaboration between Azura Ray's Orenda Fink and Remy Zero's Cedric LeMoyne. The two recorded their debut (shipping now from Saddle Creek) with a hos...
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Sly Charles Playlist 3/15/09: Best of '09 So Far
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[mp3]1. Animal Collective "Summertime Clothes"2. Peter Bjorn & John "Nothing to Worry About"3. Matt & Kim "Daylight"4. Franz Ferdinand "No You Girls"5. Handsome Furs "I'm Confused"6. Bon Iver "Blood Bank"7. Neko Case "This Tornado Loves You"8. Papercuts "Future Primitive"9. Morrissey "All You Need Is Me"10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads Will Roll"11. Phoenix "1901"12. The Decemberists "The Rake's Song...
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