Mount Eerie ‘Pre-Human Ideas’ – Pitchfork Review
Phil Elverum, known to most as Mount Eerie, has a new release that is unlike any other he has made before. His new album Pre-Human Ideas is a reimagining of previous material in a synthetic manner. Recently, Pitchfork reviewed the album and said “There’s never a feeling that these are cheap 8-bit remixes, but rather these are experiments in how […]
Record Store Day – Back to Black Friday 2013
Thanksgiving is almost here and that means so is Black Friday. If fighting the crowds at a giant big box store doesn’t suit your fancy, you should definitely check out what’s going on at your local independent record store. November 29th marks the annual Record Store Day’s Back to Black Friday event which celebrates those places that […]
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Cass McCombs: At Triple A Radio – Tour Dates – Pitchfork Album Review
Cass McCombs will head out on tour this month in support of his double album, Big Wheel and Others. The album is a bundle of 22 songs that includes, in varying degrees, genres of: road songs, rock songs, folk songs, blues songs, country songs, rhythm and blues songs, skronk non-songs, cinema songs, cult songs, poem songs, jams, and ballads. The […]
Mount Eerie – Going For Adds
Mount Eerie’s album Pre-Human Ideas is going for adds this week. The album features all previously released songs, reinterpreted through a synthetic channel. Originally, these tracks were meant as exploratory and instructional demos to teach the songs to various touring bands. But after adding layers of severely pitch shifted and auto-tuned voices and singing newly written […]
The Melodic – Effra Parade Review – On Tour
The Melodic‘s Effra Parade is starting to pick up at college / non-commercial radio with stations like KTXT, KUCR, and WVIA/WVYA debuting it this week. Detroit’s alt weekly newspaper Metro Times says, “This band has the nifty gift of blending world music with traditional folk, and making it sound both intrinsically English…and natural”. To read the full review, click here. The album is […]
Boreal Sons – Live Session
Boreal Sons recently did a live music session with Toronto based video production company Wood and Wires. In the session, the band plays a stripped-down, but still powerful version of “Sparks” off their self-released album Threadbare. You can check out the performance for yourself here.
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Oh Land: At Specialty Radio – Noisey Interview
Danish singer, songwriter and producer Nanna Øland Fabricius, also known by her stage name Oh Land, recently sat down for an interview with Noisey to talk about her new album Wish Bone,her incurable awkwardness, and her encounters with Rihanna and Dave Sitek (of TV On The Radio). Oh Land also touched upon realizing her dream of moving to America and how sometimes the message of the “American Dream” can be […]
New Music from Mount Eerie
From Mount Eerie comes his latest album Pre-Human Ideas. The album is unusual in that it is essentially auto-tuned versions of previously released Mount Eerie songs. The original songs mostly come from last year’s Clear Moon and Ocean Roar. On this album, the songs are recorded on a computer and include synthetic, digitally garbled voices. Originally, these tracks […]
Inside Llewyn Davis – NPR First Listen
The Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack, for the Coen Brothers movie of the same name, has been featured on NPR’s First Listen. 12 tracks of the album were written specifically for the movie, and NPR describes the music as, “integral to Inside Llewyn Davis, from the moment it opens with Isaac’s roughly five-minute performance of the traditional ballad […]
Boreal Sons – “Threadbare” Reviews
Boreal Sons Threadbare has continued to hold steady on the charts at Radio 200. The band has taken time to do numerous interviews as they finish touring across Canada, receiving much praise for their album. “Overall, this is definitely an album for the introspective, the observer, and the thinker. I doubt anyone will have a hard time […]
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Cut Chemist – Going for Adds
“Work My Mind”, the latest single from Cut Chemist is going for Adds today & tomorrow! “Work My Mind” is the second single from the forthcoming album Die Cut due in 2014. The song features Chali 2na [Jurassic 5, Ozomatli] and Hymnal and samples “Alternative Fresh” by French, 80’s minimal synth group Vox Populi! “It’s a slightly new territory for me as it suggests […]
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings – Going for Adds
We are excited to bring you the latest singles, “North” and “South”, from Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. The band consists of Colin Linden (The Band, Bob Dylan, Bruce Cockburn), Stephen Fearing (multiple Juno award winner), and Tom Wilson (Junkhouse, Lee Harvey Osmond). Originally, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings was meant to be a one-off departure from their respective solo projects to […]
Kan Wakan – Milk & Honey Interview
A big thanks to the stations that have been supporting Kan Wakan‘s Forever Found. Gueorgui Linev, from the group, recently did an interview with Milk & Honey. Check it out here and get an inside look as to what they’re going to be up to in the upcoming months and what to expect on their album set to […]
Devendra Banhart – Für Hildegard Von Bingen” Video
Devendra Banhart has released a music video for song “Für Hildegard Von Bingen” off this years Mala. The video stars model Jodie Smith as Sister Hildegard, a 12th-century Christian mystic and saint, who escapes the church to pursue a more glamorous life of singing and modeling. You can catch the whole video here via Pitchfork.
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New Single from Cut Chemist – “Work My Mind”
“Work My Mind”, the latest single from Cut Chemist is finally here! “Work My Mind” is the second single from the forthcoming album Die Cut due next year. The song features Chali 2na [Jurassic 5, Ozomatli] and Hymnal and samples “Alternative Fresh” by French, 80’s minimal synth group Vox Populi! “It’s a slightly new territory for me as it suggests the Golden Hip House […]
Cut Chemist – “Work My Mind” Music Video Premiere!
To celebrate its release, Cut Chemist has also released a video for new single “Work My Mind”. Directed by Delaney Bishop, the concept was derived from a short video he directed for Cut Chemist‘s “Rare Equations” mixtape snippet feat Chali 2na released in 1998. The video’s spooky and dark imagery is perfect for this Halloween season, […]
