Dr. Dog will be performing on CONAN Wednesday, February 8, and in anticipation of their appearance, Team Coco will be streaming the band’s new album Be the Void for an entire week starting today HERE. The LP will be released on February 7 via Anti- Records.
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Hospitality celebrates release of Self Titled CD at Glasslands on 02.03
Recently signed to Merge Records, home to numerous indie luminaries, Hospitality is in excellent company. There’s something irresistibly charming about the band members’ unassuming dispositions that bleed into the quartet’s accessible pop music. The band will be releasing their debut, self titled full length with a show at Glasslands on Friday 02.03. – Read Nancy Chow’s interview with the band here.
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Moonmen on the Moon, Man – EP release party at Cake Shop on 02.03
Moonmen on the Moon, Man, the lo-fi project involving Cake Shop owner and booker Andy Bodor, will be celebrating their debut EP release with a show on Friday February 3, at the Ludlow Street venue. The band blends punky guitars, lo-fi attitude and girl vocals accompanied by a somewhat crooked choir of backing vocals.
Philadelphia
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Photo Recap: Ape School, Nightlands & Norwegian Arms at KFN
This past Saturday Kung Fu Necktie was taken over by plenty of familiar faces from local (and national) indie music scene sharing their latest works with friends and fans. Drummer extraordinaire Eric Slick was in the house behind the skins opening the evening with his partner in crime Brendan Mulvihill as Norwegian Arms. Slick was also pulling double duty laying down some thunder with headliners Ape School. This all came after a rollicking set with Dr. Dog the day before at WXPN’s Free at Noon. (The guy is a drumming machine.) Sandwiched in between Norwegian Arms and Ape School was Nightlands a.k.a. Dave Hartley who found the time from touring with The War on Drugs and Sondre Lerche as well as watching, tweeting, thinking, talking and writing a column about NBA basketball to deliver his own solo performance. You can check out our photos from the night HERE. (Photo by Brandee Nichols)
San Francisco
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Get Excited: Ezra Furman Record Release Show @ Hotel Utah
Have we mentioned how excited we are that Ezra Furman (the Ezra Furman of Ezra Furman and the Harpoons) recently relocated to San Francisco? Well, we are soooooooooo excited! We’re also excited about his solo record, The Year of No Returning, which comes out next Tuesday and promises a more raw sound. It was recorded in the attic of his Chicago home.
Next Saturday, February 11th our new San Franciscan friend will grace us with an awesome release party at Hotel Utah Saloon. And hot damn! We are so super, freaking excited because the show includes another San Francisco transplant, pianist Debbie Neigher, who used to perform with Furman back on the right coast when they were undergrads at Tufts.
Okay. Enough excitement for one day. We’ll return to our breathing exercises to contain our composure until next weekend.
–Justine Fields
Chicago
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Rockie Fresh Mixtape
Rockie Fresh has released a new mixtape called "Driving 88". The mixtape has been for a week, and already has over 20,000 downloads. Rockie is on his way, and is giving you some beats to make you drive down 88 or any hectic highway a little more enjoyable.
Chicago
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Champions
The Traveler is polished debut from Champions, and the band celebrated the release earlier this month at Beat Kitchen. Recorded at Gallery of Carpet, this album filled with blistering and passionate indie pop. It is perfect balance of fuzz and polish that makes this radiate right now. There is a solid node to the ’90’s, but a few tricks that keep them fresh and modern. You can stream and purchase their debut through bandcamp.
San Francisco
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Interview with Artist of the Month, Cruel Summer
Perhaps inspired by the Bay’s gray June and July, Cruel Summer‘s dreamy, noisy sound hit the scene in late 2011. Singer/guitarist Thea Chacamaty and guitarist Josh Yule talked to the Deli about their first few months as a band. Read more here.
Next up for these Mission dwelling musicians (which include drummer Sean Mosley and bassist Chani Hawthorne)? Studio time with Jason Kick of Maus Haus. We can’t wait to hear the result. Don’t miss Cruel Summer with Micro Mtns February 17 at Makeout room.
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Thieving Irons play Monday residency at The Rock Shop
Nate Martinez’s brain child Thieving Irons recently released this video of the song "So Long," which sent us flat out on a trip to the early 2000s, when The Beta Band was our favorite band in the universe. This music’s most peculiar quality is that it manages to be haunting and melancolic but at the same time also fun. The band will be playing a Monday February residency at The Rock Shop, we recommend indie pop seekers to make plans to catch at least one of their shows.
New England
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Onslo — Quartumdimensio ᴁdificium
Wow. Onslo’s Quartumdimensio ᴁdificium is a barrage of noise—but what fantastic noise it is!
It’s as though Karl Alverez and Bill Stevenson, the rhythm section of the Descendents and ALL, joined Weezer and started covering Frank Zappa tunes. This record is fast and hard with angular edges and bombastic choruses. Its 7 tracks clock in at well under 15 minutes so the only drawback is that it’s over so damn quick. With its mix of jazz and punk, prog and indie it’s hard to tell if these guys are serious or not but the sheer audacity of this combination of influences is some serious fun.
Stream or download Onslo’s Quartumdimensio ᴁdificium over at their bandcamp page or catch them live, opening for Grandchildren and Dinosaur Feathers at Church on April 11.–George Dow
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RPM Challenge 2012
If this newly-arrived winter weather has got you down, don’t succumb to SAD—join the RPM challenge. RPM (Record Production Month) is an annual event established by The Wire (arts & culture magazine based out of Portsmouth, NH) in the month of February. The rules are that an individual (or group of individuals) must write and record an entire album’s-worth of material (ten songs or 35 minutes) in the month of February. All entries are compiled by a committee of volunteers and displayed at a special “listening party” (usually held in Portsmouth and the surrounding areas) where every entrant has a chance to have one song of theirs played for the public. All submissions must be either mailed or physically dropped-off at the RPM headquarters (on or before 12 noon, March 1, 2012. For more details and to sign-up visit rpmchallenge.com.–Daniel McMahon
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Austin Year End Poll SonicBids submission winners: Holy Wave
There’s a very simple way to describe Holy Wave‘s music: the Austin based group sounds like a shoegazer version of early Pink Floyd (the awesome ones still under Syd Barret’s musical influence). Barret’s unpredictable but haunting songwriting and his band mates’ knack for droney experimentation are revisited here and taken to the sonic extremes proper of shoegazer music. Psych rockers from every corner of the universe will surely be happy to get lost in this (interstellar) ocean of sound. Holy Wave qualified to the final phase of our poll through SonicBids.