July 2011
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Magic Trick - Daylight Moon
The Glad Birth of...
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BK-One - Tema Do Canibal EP →
Minneapolis DJ/producer BK-One has announced the follow up to his Brazilian inspired opus, 2009’s Rádio Do Canibal. The forthcoming EP, dropping on August 30th, is comprised of remixes of the album cut “Tema Do Canibal”. With contributions from the legendary MF Doom, Brazilian maestro Arthur Verocai, West Coast producer Exile, Chicago’s Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, famed São...
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Teen Daze - The Harvest
In February of 2008,...
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Elephant & Castle - "Sweet Someone" →
David Vincent Reep (aka Elephant & Castle) isn’t really from any one place. The young producer has lived in Colorado, Texas, London and California. First picking up an acoustic guitar while living in London (his artist moniker comes from a particular London neighborhood), young David didn’t really come from a particularly musical background. His teenage years saw him introduced to the SP-303...
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Sea of Bees - Wizbot
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Web the Free Range Human Remixes Eyedea →
Web the Free Range Human (of The Illusionists) had worked on a By the Throat remix album with E&A’s permission during 2010. A new remix is being unveiled every week, and Web has graciously agreed to donate every penny toward the picnic table plaque being dedicated to Eyedea this October in Cherokee Park. It’s technically a free download, but any donations made will go toward the...
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Matt Ross - Fathom →
Life IS random.
FATHOM by M@tt Ro$$
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WatchThe Mountain Goats, the devoutly worshipped band led by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, released their 18th studio album All Eternals Deck this spring. The trio kick off their summer tour with Bright Eyes today, and to celebrate they dropped their new video for the lively skiffle “Estate Sale Sign.”
Directed by Brooklyn’s animation team Awesome and Modest (Miike Snow), the new...
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Balkans - Flowers Everywhere
Atlanta’s...
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Here it is...the first single from my new album!... →
astronautalis:
Ladies & Gentlemen, here it is. After 3 years of touring, researching, and writing…my new album is finally done and set for release on September 13th. However, i was so excited about the result, i couldn’t wait any more to keep it from you, so i am giving away the first single for free! This song, produced by Alias (Anticon/Sage Francis), was one of the first i wrote for...
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Baby Got Sauced at the Seaside Stage →
07.22.11
It takes a strong set of binoculars to see past North County privilege and beautiful women in stupid hats to catch the new Seaside Stage at Del Mar. Only those with focus could ignore the fruitless bet stubs in their pockets and puke-tipped sneakers waiting in line for fried artichoke hearts to catch G. Love kicking off this season’s 4 O’clock Friday series with an...
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Watchcarsandtrains:
video for loden’s new song “enough for one”, by joëlle lê.
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Apricot Rail - Surry Hills
“Surry...
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Jay-Z & Kanye West - "Otis" →
Here’s Jay-Z on the “Otis” intro: “It sounds so soulful! Don’t you agree?” Well, yeah. If you’re willing to plunk down enough money to sample “Try a Little Tenderness”, that’ll happen. But even if the sample works as a sort of audio money-flaunt, it’s also a tough and hard chop from Kanye— Otis Redding’s magnificent...
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Aesop Rocks The Casbah with Kimya Dawson (Live... →
The stage presentation of Aesop Rock’s new crew Hail Mary Mallon, which features emcee Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz, is one of relentless upbeat fun. Their caffeinated onslaught of back-and-forth rhymes hits like A Tribe Called Quest for the ADD generation. “Smock” quickly got the audience in convulsions with Wiz’s deft scratches serving as the exclamation point. When fists nearly flew between a...
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Shlohmo Remixes Burial's "Shell of Light" →
From the first glimpses of Henry Laufer’s work as Shlohmo, it was clear that the LA native and visual artist turned self-taught musician was onto something. With an effortless grasp on sound design, Laufer combines deceptively simple and emotive melodies, subtle bass drops and swinging slow motion drums. His early work has placed him at the forefront of a new wave of rising talent amongst...
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Music Is A Weapon For Tinariwen (Live Review) →
07.12.11
By the time the soundman got the mix right, which was about four songs into the set, a near-capacity crowd had climbed over numerous spilled drinks and filled every nook and cranny of the Belly Up to catch a proper vantage point of Saharan rebel rockers Tinariwen.
The band’s inspired journey from fighting in the Tuareg resistance against Mali and Niger in the early ’90s to...
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Is And Of The - "Sleepless Dream" →
Is And Of The is the project of Drew Bandos, a 20 year old experimental musician from Philadelphia currently studying in Washington DC. Writing journal entries in the form of music, his songs constantly shift from one style to another, drawing influences from the likes of Slowdive, Do Make Say Think and Boards Of Canada. His tracks blend together fingerpicked acoustic melodies, delay-saturated...
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The Pack a.d. unveils "Sirens," the lead single... →
Vancouver-based Mint recording artists The Pack a.d. are getting set to release their new album Unpersons and are celebrating by revealing the album cover and offering up the first single ”Sirens” as a free download.
From the band: “Sirens” original name was “Hoot” as in literally what I am doing in the chorus. Then I wrote the lyrics and it became about...
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Wu-Tang + Fugazi = Wugazi (Mixtape) →
A few weeks ago, we got ourselves into a bit of a tizzy when rapper Stranger Day sampled Fugazi on the track “Not Playin.” And since no good meme goes unduplicated, you could have guessed that within no time there would be this project by Minneapolis producers and MCs Cecil Otter & Swiss Andy, who spent a good year combining the DC post-hardcore legends instrumental bits with the Wu-Tang...
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Jack White Goes Hip-Hop With Black Milk →
For all of his myriad projects, Jack White’s sound has never veered far away from his guitar-centric blues rock roots. So you’d be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the news that White’s Third Man Records is releasing its first hip-hop single by Detroit MC Black Milk, and might even be shocked to hear that White co-produced the songs while adding guitar to the A-side “Brain” and drums on the...
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Astronautalis announces new album: This Is Our... →
It’s been some three years since we last got a full LP from the Jacksonville, FL-now-Minneapolis, MN rapper known as Astronautalis. Since then he’s released an enjoyable mixtape, picked up a full band, teased a single, and waxed about the state and future of his career. Now, though, Some Kind of Awesome points out that Astronautalis’ followup to his CoS Top-Star earning Pomegranate is finally...
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Pregnant Readies Mush Debut Life Hard : I Try →
Pregnant’s first Mush release, Life Hard : I Try, consists of fourteen stuttery pop songs encompassing beautiful instrumentation, glitchy beats, and the unique voice of singer-songwriter-producer Daniel Trudeau. Written and recorded during a time of impending fatherhood and the start of his family, the album radiates opposing emotions. Songs feel heartwarming yet drip in a sense of...
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Willie Evans Jr. Drops First Single From... →
Willie Evans Jr, the Floridian emcee/producer, has been paying dues for years with his work alongside The Alias Brothers (formerly known as Asamov) while collaborating with folks like Mr. Lif and Akrobatik for their Perceptionists album Black Dialogue, released on the legendary Def Jux label.
Here we have the first leak from Introducin’ for the song “Fisbawdup,” a great...
“Anybody who wanders around the world saying, “Hell yes, I’m from...”
– HST
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The Heavy Guilt Set To Unveil In The Blood + Al... →
When the K23 Orchestra called it quits in late 2008, the fire was still burning for lyricist Al Howard and keyboardist Josh Rice. In a last ditch effort to keep it lit, the band sent out a mailer seeking a brooding baritone to flesh out the blues rock sketches Howard and Rice had been working at for years. As fate would have it, Erik Canzona, a web designer with a voice like a grizzled...
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Tinariwen - Tenere Taqqim Tossam →
Tinariwen are a musical collective from Mali who have gained wide recognition for their brand of desert blues thanks to excellent albums and acclaimed performances at some of the world’s biggest festivals. Incorporating Algerian rai, Egyptian pop and Led Zeppelin, their last album, 2009’s Imidiwan, won an Uncut award for being “the most inspiring and richly rewarding album of...
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Godcast II: The Bright Side of Witch Burning →
Sage Francis has dropped the second installment in his Godcast series, this one inspired by the witch burnings currently taking place in Kenya.
Godcast 2 - THE BRIGHT SIDE OF WITCH BURNING by Strange Famous Records
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Buck 65 Announces U.S. Dates →
The legendary Buck 65 has announced that in addition to his east coast jaunt this month, he will be touring the west side in August in support of 20 Odd Years. His newest single “Paper Airplane”, featuring Jenn Grant, is now available for free download. Watch the video for “Paper Airplane,” directed by Sophie Levy and shot in Paris with French actress Roxane Mesquida, after the jump and catch...
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Fair Ohs - Baldessari
Eddy Frankel...
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