New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
It begins…the festival that puts a boot in the teeth of SXSW, Chaos In Tejas, is shining up some chains and slouching into town. Full printable schedule right here, shows May 27th-30th, at Beerland, Red 7, Mohawk, End of an Ear, Trailer Space, and more. (Teenage Cool Kids, above, will be part of a free show Saturday at Trailer Space that also includes Ghost Knife and Mind Spiders.)
Tom Schraeder has always been ambitious, but in 2010 he plans to release three albums. On June 5th at Lincoln Hall he will celebrate the release of the first album, Once Lace, Now Cotton. We will have a full-review of that album next week, but in the meantime enjoy the above video for the song “Tomorrow We’ll Know Why” from the album. The video features Kenley Collins (yes, that Kenley of "Project Runway" fame) and was shot by Jimmy Giannapoulous (Pretty Good Dance Moves).
Woven Bones: their rock is so fuzzy even their images are fuzzed up. Here’s the "Your Way With My Life" vid, up yonder is the mp3, and the full album (In and Out and Back Again) shows extraordinary streamability right here.
Coltrane Motion is releasing a brand new album on June 1st called Hello Ambition! This is their first release since Feb 2009’s single “The Year Without Summer”. The band is known for their energetic mixture of dance music, pop, and noise-based layers of sound. The album features ten tracks and not a dull moment. The song they are giving away (one of two) reminds me a little of Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah. It’s called “I Forgot There Was A War” and it should be on every summer play list.
Coltrane Motion is playing tonight at Darkroom with Moxie Motive and Blueheels.
Here’s Bear Hands‘ video of the song "What a Drag" – we likey! The band will play Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 29.
We continue our "Best of NYC Countdown", covering every day one of the artists that made our Year End Best of NYC list (a chart compiled by a jury comprised of local bloggers, music writers, promoters, record store personnel and DJs).
A Rose Parade fosters a Lynchian world with its cinematic, dream-like music sequences. With her soulful and sultry vocals, Shannon Funchess of Light Asylum and !!! fame fronts a collective of musicians including Gerard Smith of TV on the Radio that produces detailed flourishes that meld into a surreal, genre-bending universe. In this constellation of colliding musical archetypes, dark, experimental pop tunes successfully co-exist with country-tinged, rolling folk songs. Although A Rose Parade only formed during the latter part of last year, the band has earned opening slots for the likes of Kaki King and tUnE-yArDs. -Nancy Chow
Late last month Welcome to Ashley released their latest full length album Beyond The Pale. My favorite track from the album has to be “These Dreams of Mine”. It perfectly encapsulates the bands mixture of grit and pop. You can purchase the album through itunes.
Welcome to Ashley will be performing at an KEXP sponsored show at Darkroom on May 28th with Ladies & Gentlemen. The show starts at 9pm.
Major Lazer just released their new collaborative mixtape with UK electro-pop duo La Roux titled Lazerproof. It also includes guest appearances from Amanda Blank, Drake, Gucci Mane, Gyptian and Rusko. You can download it for FREE here, or at this alternate link which was created because Mad Decent had tweeted that due to excessive traffic of 200,000 people who tried to download the file at once it crashed their site. – H.M. Kauffman
This is a brand new video by Nada Surf. The band release an album of covers a few weeks ago, this song entitled "electrocution" by Bill Fox, who was the lead singer and guitarist of the late 80s three-piece Cleveland, Ohio, garage pop band The Mice.
