Luke Roberts recently signed to Thrill Jockey and announced he will be fleeing New York City in search of freedom. What form does freedom take in this day and age?
“…why leave New York? Well, for one, there’s no place to park a 1979 Chevy Tioga, it’s also expensive, and there are no alleys (which is annoying to everyone who’s ever lived anywhere else). “ Ultimately, though, the musician plans to eat “a lot of Arby’s Bacon Beef and Cheddar sandwiches”
Paper Crows show you how to make paper crows. The instructional video is put to the sounds of “Gone”, the B-Side track to their upcoming single “When Friends Survive” which you can listen to here:
Paper Crows – When Friends Survive by Paper Crows
Brooklyn band nihiti have put out a new ep entitled Faced with Splendor on lo bit landscapes record label. It’s a solid 5-track ep to follow up their previous release other people’s memories and is a more approachable album with its more pop-savvy, structured songs. You can grab the mp3 for the track Pinko Morning below.
Nihiti – Pinko Morning by goldestegg
The Golden Filter are collaborating with Scandinavian director Kristoffer Borgli to create a short film entitled Syndromes to be released on October 10. The trailer for the short film features their track called “Mother” and focuses on a protagonist with special talents such as self combustion and the ability to levitate inanimate objects without contact. The trailer is beautifully shot and paired with the score it promises to be a great collaborative effort. The film will be released on The
Keep an eye out for Audego, a Melbourne, Australia duo, comprised of Pasobionic (TZU & Curse ov Dialect) teams up with one of Australia’s finest female vocalists, Big Fella, aka – Carolyn Tariq (Defend the Melody). You can preview Rhapsody for the Wicked off their debut album that will be released this fall. The track features delicate and sexy vocals over some sick “smudged samples, blurred synths, and crooked percussion.”
Rhapsody for the Wicked
Brooklyn based rapper Richard Rich just put out Get Your Money Vol. 2: Sick & Tired, his 4th product in a little over a year. Sick & Tired is yet another hand-crafted and perfected piece of work that is accurately described as full of “classic/quirky rap instrumentals, motivational messages, obscure rock samples, introspective thoughts on the human condition, hood ass shit, bittersweet hope”. I’m sticking with hood ass shit.
Richard Rich’s vocals cut through the instrumentals like a knife delivering witty
Discosalt artist Viktor Timofeev has announced the release of his new album Give Health999 on Lo Bit Landscapes. Viktor has been getting a lot of attention the past couple of years since his move from New York City to Berlin focusing in on his visual art career but will soon be getting paralleled notoriety for his music career.
Give Health999 is an eerie yet cozy album that settles into an ambient but intensely distorted atmosphere. The first single off the album, Eden_Olymp|a, “thematically based
Rating:
MILK MAID: YUCCA
LABEL: SUFFERING JUKEBOX / FATCAT
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 20, 2011
Martin Chohen, bassist turned singer / songwriter and frontman of Milk Maid, formerly of Nine Black Alps, recently recently recorded and released the debut album Yucca. Recorded in Cohen’s apartment in Macnchester, UK Yucca is an intelligent and solid album that offers up gritty guitar and often dark or concerning lyrics over “sweet, sun-drenched pop hooks”.
Yucca is what I imagine a Sonic Youth album would sound like if they
White Hills have released a video for the song Paradise off their latest album H-p1. T This album finds more ambient sounds that “recall a German kosmische vibe” .The NYC act will be setting off their US/ European Tour in their hometown on September 3. Check out more dates and videos below.
White Hills – Paradise
White Hills – H-p1
Tour Dates:
Sep 3 Brooklyn, NY Aviator Sports Complex w/Psychic Paramount, Pictureplane
Sep 8
Plaid, one of the main pillars of atmospheric electronic music comprising Andy Turner and Ed Handley, are releasing a long-awaited new album Scintilli (“I am many sparks.”) It will be out on Warp Records on September 25 and you can check out the eerie video for ’35 Summers’ below.
Head on over to Hudson River Park’s River Rocks at Pier 54 in Manhattan tonight to see Metronomy play for FREE! They should be going on at 8:30PM just after Brooklyn based Class Actress opens it up. You can download their Free 2011 Digital Mix Tape, that contains tracks from a lot of the acts on their summer lineup, here.
See you there!
The long awaited debut EP from Botany is to be released on Western Vinyl on August 16th. The download below, Waterparker, is a light, breezy, bouncy and perfect up-mellow track to help you endure the heat this summer. You can preorder the album from Western Vinyl.
FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: Waterparker
Feeling Today by Botany
Waterparker by Botany
CANDOR (Botany Remix) by Botany
Tracklist for Feeling Today:
1. Feeling Today
2. Minnow Theme
3. Waterparker
4. Benefactress
5. Agave
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