Thursday, March 30

Author: teal

28Mar By tealNo Comments
Music

ALBUM OF THE DAY: GASHCAT — “REUNION!”

  The whole album is really great from start to finish, but be sure to check out the songs "Melanie" and "I Build Machines," which has some excellent lyrics.  They self-released their first full length, REUNION!, about a year ago and their second album should be coming out soon.
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14Mar By tealNo Comments
Music, Shows, Song of the Week(end)

SONG OF THE DAY: Girls — “Honey Bunny”

Girls are a rock pop outfit based out of San Francisco, and Honey Bunny is from their most recent release, Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther, 2011).  They have a wonderfully accessible sound and lyrics that cut straight to the reality of it all, and have been compared (with good reason) to the likes of Buddy Holly and Elvis Costello.  This video was taken in an abandoned church in Brooklyn. Unknown Mortal Orchestra is from Portland, OR and they released their self-titled debut last year.  The album as a whole is a beautiful brief and entrancting foray into noise pop.  Be sure to check out their Daytrotter session.
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7Mar By tealNo Comments
Music, Song of the Week(end)

SONG OF THE DAY: Pearly Gate Music — “Daddy Wrote You Letters”

This video is a live performance at SXSW 2010, and if you like the melody/words be sure to take a listen to the record, which is quite pared down and wonderfully lo-fi (and rather a different feeling than the live performances).  Its difficult to choose a single song on the album because they are all excellent, but "Bad Nostalgia" is a personal favorite and "Oh, What A Time!" is a amusing little anecdote.
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29Feb By tealNo Comments
Music, Song of the Week(end)

SONG OF THE DAY: Menomena — “TAOS”

TAOS is from Menomena's most recent release, Mines (2010, Barsuk Records).  They hail from Portland, OR and their namesake is a combination of the words men and phenomena (not this, which is awesome and what I thought they were named after for a while).  They are in the final stages of recording their new album and with any luck they'll be out in Colorado sometime in the not-so-distant future.  If you liked their sound, be sure to check out their Blogotheque take-away show, which has amazing dancing and clapping children who happened to walk by as they were playing.
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22Feb By tealNo Comments
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SONG OF THE DAY: Wye Oak — “Fish”

Wye Oak is based out of Baltimore and is comprised of Jen Wasner and Andy Stack.  Wasner sings and plays guitar, and Stack drums and plays bass simultaneously (?!) using his left hand to play the bass line and his right hand and feet to drum.  This video features the art of Baltimore artists Katherine Fahey (cutouts) and Michael O'Leary (lighting and cinematography).  Civilian was released in March 2011 on Merge Records.  
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