Who: Wilderness of Manitoba.What: For fans of bands like Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes, here’s Canada’s Wilderness of Manitoba. Hymns Of Love & Spirits is their new EP and was born from drinking tea and bouncing minimalist arrangements and layered vocals off the walls on their basement on Delaware Ave in Toronto. Very lush and [...]
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There Are Listed Buildings from Los Campesinos! on Vimeo.This one’s the first single off the upcoming sophomore album Romance is Boring (January 26, 2010 on Arts & Crafts). Look for the single available digitally on Nov. 3rd (’09).
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‘Camilo (The Magician)‘ by Said The Whale
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Notice. A Meeting Of Important People will be taking place at CMJ on Thursday, Oct 22nd at Bruar Falls. Or, to phrase this so it makes more sense, the Pittsburgh band Meeting Of Important People will be performing at CMJ on the date and location listed above.They’ve recently popped up on my radar and I’m [...]
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Doing my best today, but its one of those days where I just can’t seem to stay focused on one thing.I’ve been daydreaming about Halifax this weekend and ended up stumbling upon some footage of Rich Aucoin performing Brian Wilson Is Alive from a show last week. He’s opening for Girl Talk this weekend.Rich Aucoin [...]
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You Don’t Exist If I Don’t See You by Reverie Sound Revue
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Who: Hatcham Social from London.What: An introduction to the the ‘well-scrubbed Londoneering indiepoptastic quartet’ called Hatcham Social,comprised of Toby Kidd (vocals / guitar), Finn Kidd (drums), Dave Fineberg (bass / vocals) and Jerome Watson (synth / guitar). They’ve recently signed to Radiohead’s label (TBD records) with their debut album You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide [...]
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My hiccups that is. Had them from last Tuesday until Saturday night when I was falling asleep. Maybe the medication I was taking took care of it? Maybe they went away on their own? Who knows, but hopefully with some good followup I’ll find out.Because no one needs 5 days of hiccups. What you do [...]
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‘Cutting Ice To Snow’ (live with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra) by Efterklang.
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‘Pastel’ by Still Life Still (from Pitchfork).
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Starting this week, Brooklyn’s Paul & The Patients will be releasing a new self-recorded composition to the public every week for the foreseeable future, available for free and paid download on their Bandcamp.com ‘Song Of The Week’ blog.Ambitious. Hope they can keep it up.The first track is ‘Tiny Red Light‘, a song that was written [...]
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Who: El Perro Del Mar from Sweden.What: I’d have this on my CMJ list if I were in New York this weekend. Sweden’s El Perro Del Mar will be doing a bunch of shows before heading out on the road with fellow Swedes Peter Bjorn & John. The new album (Love Is Not Pop) comes [...]
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They started on Tuesday afternoon and haven’t really stopped yet. This happened last summer to me as well, lasted four days that time. Hope it doesn’t last this long.I wouldn’t wish my enemies more than a days worth of them. Annoying, distracting, embarassing and eventually painful.Anyone got a solution? I’ve tried the peanut butter trick, [...]
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Super excited for Halifax next weekend. I’m heading east to do a panel on Social Media at the Halifax Pop Explosion. Founded in 1993, the festival is one of Canada’s premiere showcases of emerging music, art and culture from Halifax, Canada and around the world.Looks like another great lineup for this five day music festival [...]
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Who: Raveonettes.What: Can anyone tell me what song this reminds them of? Its so damn catchy, really makes me think I’ve already heard it in some other form. The song comes from the bands’ Oct 6th release ‘In and Out of Control’. Stream a bunch of the songs here. I would have saved you the [...]
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Urban Outfitters are still doing their music compilations. Just checked in the other day and saw that they are on #7 now! Think I missed three or four in between. LSTN #7 features The Dodos, The Depreciation Guild, Free Energy and two tracks we hyped on Indie Music Filter Volume 6 (Calypso Gold by Princeton [...]
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Who: Two Door Cinema Club from Bangor, Northern Ireland.What: Even though you can go to Two Door Cinema Club’s myspace and hear their newest single ‘I Can Talk’, I’m partial to an earlier single called ‘Something Good Can Work’ (below). Both will make the band’s debut album, due out early next year.Song: Something Good Can [...]
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Who: Phantogram from Saratoga Springs, NY.What: A duo of Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel who fuse electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, and pop into each of their beat-driven dreamlike songs. Sounding like what you wouldn’t expect from rural areas, the duo grew up in the municipality of Greenwich, outside of Saratoga Springs, NY where [...]
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Turkey that is. Will I ever learn to not over do it at Thanksgiving?Nope.-Have you heard the new Michael Jackson song? Its a co-write with Paul Anka and its streaming at his website.-Does It Offend You, Yeah want you on their next record.-Finally, take a look at Julianna Barwick performing at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Wonder [...]
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