San Francisco

Kacey Johansing Drops Sophomore LP + Noise Pop and SXSW Dates

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Kacey Johansing, an accomplished singer/songwriter based in San Francisco, has released her sophomore LP, Grand Estates. Her feminine and melodious new album is the follow up to her 2010 debut album, Many Seasons, and deals with the subject matter of loss. Grand Estates is dedicated to Kacey’s loved ones that she lost during the recording of the album. Kacey is also playing a string of shows in March between San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival and Austin’s SXSW Fest.

NOISE POP FESTIVAL – MARCH 2nd 2013 @ The Great American Music Hall – All Ages – Doors open at 7 pm

Advanced Tickets Here

SXSW – MARCH 12th @ Red 7 (Terrorbird Media Day Party)

MARCH 14th @ J. Blacks (The Deli Mag)

MARCH 16th @ J. Blacks (The Deli Mag)

Philadelphia

Free Download: Wrapped In Wire – Instamatic

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This morning started off right for us finding a link to a new 3-song EP titled Wrapped In Wire from synthpop outfit Instamatic. You can take a listen to it below, and if you like what you hear, the album is also available to be downloaded for free. However, we want you to support the music revolution from our favorite Philly keyboard army so donate some cash to help support the troops. (BTW: Instamatic will be in the studio of Y-Not Radio tomorrow morning for an interview and live performance that will be broadcast at 11am and 10pm HERE.)

San Francisco

Petejota Releases Debut EP – Hunting for Pleasure

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San Francisco based experimental garage rock band, Petejota has released their debut EP, Hunting for Pleasure. This band’s music is unqiuely interesting and almost embodies math rock components due to their experimental and strangly syncopated music. This fuzzed out Bay Area music project can also fall in sync with SF’s psych rock scene as the music is touched with reverb and a bit of passion. Give Hunting for Pleasure a listen if you’re looking to hear music that’s abstract and creative.

 

NYC

Eddi Front debuts EP + opens for Youth Lagoon on 03.06 at Bowery

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For all those quiet places you usually ignore or otherwise keep buried, Eddi Front has found the chords to pull them out into the open. In some ways an old artist, other ways brand new, Eddi Front has let loose her inner demons in her debut self-titled EP. Filled almost exclusively with delicate piano parts, the weight of her words is what’ll keep you from getting too comfortable. But with lyrics like: " …while you’re fucking some dusty chair, I’ll be eating bananas", you’ll have no choice but to keep listening.

Check out latest video for ‘Gigantic’ below, and see her when she opens for Youth Lagoon at Bowery Ballroom March 6. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

NYC

Upcoming Artists: More Humans

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The DC rock scene has helped unit bands like More Humans, who have ushered in a new identity as not only being the home to our country’s capital city, but also developing some serious music talent. The three-piece band has created many daunting moments balanced by some somberness situations. Their album Demon Station invokes a single-mindedness theme to their tone and harmonies, giving their attention the importance of vocals and the realness of clean-driven guitars. –Tina Aita

NYC

Upcoming Artists: Warchild

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Thrash metal-heads Warchild help fuel all those craves associated with bashing the hell out of your head. You’ve got your tight-knit mosh pit, your heavy erupting guitar solos, and you’ve got your extremely intense vocalist. The DC locals Warchild help conjure up those essential metal recipes to earn their spot as the new-school of the old-school metal bands much of the likes of Metallica and, you guessed it, Jethro Tull. Their lethal sounds and violent noises will surely amp up any sweaty and anxious crowd. –Tina Aita (photo by Metal Chris)

NYC

Cultfever releases new single “Animals” + plays Music Hall on 03.02

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On the surface, Cultfever has nailed every cliche in the contemporary indie playbook: Two-person band delivers angst-ridden lyrics over hazy electro instrumentals. It’s the perfect soundtrack for next week’s opening credits to the HBO show, "Girls." Yet, as the lyrics to Cultfever’s new single "Animals" proclaim: "There’s a fish at the end of this hook." In this case, it’s the way Tamara Jafar’s sexy, vulnerable vocals go up against Joe Durniak’s tripped-out guitar lines, neither of them landing square on the melodic nose, instead using every bit of feedback and falsetto swoon to transform the simplest of electro ditties into a full-blown psychedelic club experience. Nab a copy of the 7" of "Animals" (backed with the quadrupedal "Chicken") at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on March 2nd, where Cultfever open for AVAN LAVA . – Brian Chidester

Philadelphia

The Deli Philly’s Choice/Cuts: “Sunrise” – Grandchildren

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We’ve been on a brief hiatus while our pals at HotBox were moving and rebuilding their studio in Fishtown, but we are back with a sweet new Choice/Cuts. Check out our rad session with Deli faves, West Philly’s Grandchildren! The electro-acoustic orchestral pop six-piece performed a beautiful rendition of their lead single “Sunrise,” off the band’s forthcoming album Golden Age, which will be out on May 7 via Ernest Jenning Record Co. Grandchildren will be performing next in Philly when they headline this Friday, March 1 at Underground Arts, before touring down to SXSW. Enjoy! 

Philadelphia

Choice/Cuts: “Sunrise” – Grandchildren

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We’ve been on a brief hiatus while our pals at HotBox were moving and rebuilding their studio in Fishtown, but we are back with a sweet new Choice/Cuts. Check out our rad session with Deli faves, West Philly’s Grandchildren! The electro-acoustic orchestral pop six-piece performed a beautiful rendition of their lead single “Sunrise,” off the band’s forthcoming album Golden Age, which will be out on May 7 via Ernest Jenning Record Co. Grandchildren will be performing next in Philly when they headline this Friday, March 1 at Underground Arts, before touring down to SXSW. Enjoy! 

Chicago

The Atomica Project

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It has been awhile since we’ve heard anything new from Wade Alin and The Atomica Project, but a new single surfaced late last week and a cool full discography on USB. The 1gb USB holds all three of the projects albums plus 2 ep’s and 2 singles.

The new single is called "Casualties" and features two quality tracks.