This was a nice find on my inbox. Submitted to The Flip Skateboards Extremely Sorry soundtrack, Baron’s Extremely Sorry with desert rock outfit Black Mountain has this familiar sound of early UNKLE. Dark, heavy, and fitting for a soundtrack focused on skateboarding.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]Baron (ft. Black Mountain) – The End of [...]
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We at Kata Rokkar would like to congratulate Alice Kao for winning two tickets to tonight’s 5th Anniversary Show for Judgement Day’s debut album, Dark Opus. Below is out top 4 submissions along with our 1st place winner’s epic description.#1 – brutal searing power [demonic speed + agility] / [raw metal -exorcism] + imagination [emotion [...]
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Swedish indie pop sensation El Perro Del Mar’s new album Love Is Not Pop, which was released in the US by The Control Group on October 20th, has gotten a pretty positive response from the music critic community (Redefine gave it A-). And for good reason, Love Is Not Pop proved she can be consistent [...]
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After researching them due to their involvement in opening for acts like The Album Leaf, dredg, and Busdriver; El Paso, Texas’ Zechs Marquise has colored me impressed with their progressive indie-rock instrumentals and spastic live performances. Featuring multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez (who also plays in The Mars Volta) and bassist Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez, both siblings to legenda.
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The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo played a true-to-record, low-gloss, blur-rock that sometimes sounded like the Sundays and sometimes like Loaded-era Velvet Underground the other night at San Francisco’s Bimbo’s 365. Strapped with jazzmasters and vintage pedals, they opened with Gone Forever from this year’s In And Out Of Control.During the show, Sune [...]
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Portugal. The Man’s newest album features more than just eleven fiercely transcendent vignettes. The Satanic Satanist is a single machine as well as a long suite of compositions, segued together into one seamless presentation. Born from the band’s ravenous creative appetite, many months of dedicated touring and their rare commitment to challengingly perfect songcraft, all [...]
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Saul Williams with his album, The Inevitable Rise & Liberation of Niggy Tardust, Saul showed that he truly is a genuine and unique ‘hip-hop’ artist. Featuring a cover of U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday, the album produced by Trent Reznor/NIN is a clash of industrial clangs and free flowing hip-hop with a dash of Prince. First [...]
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To celebrate 20 years of Doolittle, the album that influenced a generation of bands, and the start of the Pixies USA Doolittle Tour, The Pixies are giving away four live tracks from a recent show in Paris.You might be able to catch them this weekend at the Fox Theater in Oakland from the 8th of [...]
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I’ve been really digging Vetiver ever since their new album and their stellar performance at the Treasure Island Music Festival. The band returns this winter with the new single More of This – a lovely slice of chill out folk pop. More of This will be released on limited edition 12” vinyl on Monday 30th [...]
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Attention – Everything Takes Forever (2009)A few years back a band called Gratitude featuring Far’s Jonah Matranga burst onto the rock scene with minimal success. Jonah left (as he usually does) and did his own thing while the rest of the members went on to start Attention. Attention is basically Gratitude’s 4-minute rock song formula [...]
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Chicago’s My Gold Mask left a pretty good impression on the crowd that gathered for their CMJ performance last week at Europa in Brooklyn. Both Gretta Rochelle and Jack Armondo are now riding the wave of support with their upcoming EP, out late November. To tide you over is their spaced out and lush percussion [...]
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Five years ago in November, string metal juggernauts Judgement Day released their first full-length record entitled Dark Opus. While many other acts have covered traditional metal songs with strings, Judgement Day went out on their own and created a paralyzingly haunting first album of original songs. When I first bought Dark Opus, I had seen [...]
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Amon Tobin – Bloodstone from Foley Room (2007)Set Fire To Flames – There is No Dance in Frequency and Balance from Sings Reign Rebuilder (2003)Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words – I Could Have Sworn I Heard them SING from Fall, Fall, Falling (2007)Jonny Greenwood – Open Spaces from There Will Be Blood OST (2008)Aphex Twin – Gwarek [...]
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With Embrace, the Santa Cruz-based retro-rock act Sleepy Sun has really worked through its influences, delivering a classic portion of new stoner/headphone rock. The band’s suitably named debut treads through the catalog of many a classic rock and folk artist’s greatest hits album, picking the best bits from Rainbow and Black Sabbath here, Mountain and [...]
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photo by Sean VallelyWarming up to promote his next album, Fall In, due out in January, and an EP, Honeybees Falling, scheduled for release next month, Sean Hayes visits The Independent again to share his folkish coastal drive music tonight. Over the years his music has gone from stripped down lo-fi acoustic recordings [1999's A Thousand [...]
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NYC/Portland’s Trevor Giuliani isn’t singer-songwriter material; this is way too structured to be your basic singer-songwriter. Subcontrario (In Stereo), the new album from Trevor Giuliani makes layed pop music that works well for the coffee shop crowd as well as those looking for very detailed and colorful tunes. Sounding like the next Swedish multi-instrumentalist sensation, [...]
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Minus The Bear are done with the new album, which they’ve been working on since April. Rumor says they are planning a February release if they can find distribution.The unnamed album however has leaked a few songs to tide fans over. The band will release a new 7-inch on Oct. 27 featuring album track Into [...]
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El Perro del Mar – Change of HeartThoughts: …interesting.Amazing Baby – Supreme BeingThoughts: Looks like a cross between a Gap commercial and an iPod Commercial.Cursive – Let Me UpThoughts: A bit slow at first but an awesome ending. Download their Daytrotter session here.Cursive – Modern Love [David Bowie Cover] from Daytrotter Session – 9/22/2009 (2009)______________________________
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Day Two started out…awkward. I had chase down a few scalpers to get my girlfriend a ticket but ended up meeting up with someone from craigslist. Our deal got a little odd when the scalpers started harassing us buy saying that the guy selling my tickets shouldn’t be trusted. I politely told him to fuck [...]
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Does the sound of explosive rock & roll tickle your eardrum? Well then head over to the Rickshaw Stop to catch Daytrotter Presenting rock-pop group Ezra Furman and The Harpoons, fuzzed up brit-punk influenced BrakesBrakesBrakes, and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Goodrich at 8pm. BrakesBrakesBrakes - Crush On You from Touchdown (2009) Ezra Furman and The Harpoons - We Should Fight from Inside the...
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