Portland

Video Premier: Rio Grands “Liz”

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Portland soft-rock studs Rio Grands have a killer new music video for their track “Liz,” from their March, 2014 album A-Z. It’s a loungy, Strokes-meets-Beach Boys song featuring the band playing on a yacht named “The Sun Princess” on the Willamette River. The music pairs very nicely with the imagery, which depicts the timeless tale of unrequited love…and weed. Measure 91 enthusiast and frontman Colin Jenkins explains, “…it’s basically about me chasing around a girl, Liz, who’s too stoned to notice I’m around.” The video was shot and edited by Josh Spacek and John Denlinger, and features some spots around Portland you probably recognize.
 
Catch Rio Grands live at Holocene on Sunday, Nov. 30th for the non-internet premiere of the video. They will be joined by New Move, who will also be releasing a new single, "Don’t Wanna Lose," as well as No Lala featuring members of Minden + Papi Fimbres + Seth Mankowski. Should be a night filled with tasty grooves and very tight arrangements. Also a boat/yacht-themed photo booth.

– Chandler Strutz

Nashville

Bones Owens Releases EP “Hurt No One”

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We caught Bones Owens by chance in March at The End. We were there to see the band before, and figured we’d stick around a little to check out the next guy. We could always bounce if he sucked. What we heard left us gobsmacked. Owens and his band whipped through a set of beautifully hewn, strikingly sad, alt-country twinged songs that gave us the same sort of shivers we’d probably have gotten if it were fourteen years ago and we were watching Ryan Adam’s try out some tunes from his new solo album. Since then we always managed to miss the scant handful of shows he played around Nashville, and Owen’s appeared to be pretty busy as a touring musician for Yelawolf. So imagine our surprise when this 5-song EP "Hurt No One" was quietly released a few days ago with a brief message and some thanks to its many contributors. We’re so glad that it wasn’t a fluke that we witnessed back in the spring. Do yourself a favor and throw the man five bones (c’mon folks, you knew it was coming) and download the EP from iTunes. -Terra James-Jura

http://www.bonesowens.com/

 

San Francisco

Ghost Town Jenny Releases New Music Video Lights

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Oakland based singer/songwriter, Ghost Town Jenny (Kym Kylland along with her great band) has outdone her with the new music video, Lights. This romantically fluid video is touched with glamour and sorrow as it is an appropriate motion picture to bring to life the equally elegant single. We like it when local artists really put time into their productions and this music video is well crafted and was directed by artist, Samantha Shay.

Check it out and give a listen to Ghost Town Jenny’s debut EP, Golden Hour.

NYC

The madness of Ice Balloons at Baby’s All Right on 11.26

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From their records, it sounds like Ice Balloons are trying to be the Sonic Youth of the digital age, or maybe the Suicide of the new millennium – both pretty fascinating ideas: electro-lofi-noise-rock madness! The band released their debut, self titled album about one year ago, and it’s… insane. But not necessarily impossible to appreciate, in particular when the vocals and the bass follow some kind of discernable song pattern, like in our favorite song "Dragonfly," streaming. On the other hand there’s nothing discernable, ever, about the digital noise created by their keyboards, whose granular wall of sound is like a permanent, rough sonic sea in which the other musical element alternatively drown and float. The guys have TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone as an occasional band member, and enjoy wearing costumes live. Their show at Baby’s All RIght on November 26 should be fun – with earplugs.

NYC

Nicholas Nicholas opens for High Highs tomorrow (11.08)

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With those vocals filtered, heavily effected and drenched in never ending reverbs, Brooklyn’s Nicholas Nicholas on record sound like the ghost of a band from the ’80s. Chris Masullo (pictured, the creative force behind the band) obviously enjoys using a heavy hand on his voice and most other sonic elements, a trait common to many creative producers and arrangers. The band will be opening for High Highs on Tuesday November 11/18 with Fascinator and Gold Lake. On the bill also two other Brooklyn bands: electro-crazy one man band Fascinator and dream rockers Gold Lake.

NYC

Bugs in the Dark play Union Pool on 11.21

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A band blessed with the gift of seriously rocking (we know that because we booked them for one of our NYC B.E.A.F. Fests), Brooklyn Bugs in the Dark are back with a new album of dark, brooding rock’n’roll, entitled "Cross My Heart Little Death." They’ll be celebrating this release with a show at Union Pool on November 21, check out single "Red Lines" below.

L.A.

YACHT release new EP Where Does This Disco?

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Living in a world where technology rules and controls everything around us, I find it quite ironic to listen to an electronic band that pays homage to the vinyl roots most of us grew up to. Claire Evans and Jona Bechtolt of YACHT are slowly becoming Los Angeles’s future of music technology. Within their single, “Where is the Disco?”, Claire and Jona engraved their entire musical catalogue into the background of the song; however it is unplayable in the grand scheme of things, we are taught that music is more than an emotional thing, but is actually tangible. Something society is slowly losing grasp of – with so many ways to download music straight off the internet, we lose the simplicity of physically holding our media close to us. YACHT’s electronic abilities to extend the boundaries of how we see and hear music works like magic, creating a genre-defying concept that infiltrates every type of music. A satisfying twist to how we hear our music, rethinking the possibility of teaching an old dog new tricks; YACHTs utopian style of music has just set the bar that much higher. – Kayla Hay

 

NYC

Orange Television becomes Howard, plays Rockwood on 11.22 + announces full length “Religion.”

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Today, this song by Brooklyn (via Massachusetts) trio Howard is helping us make this Monday more bearable. We’ve never really been into Gregorian chants, but the way these guys integrate a melody reminiscent of those religious choirs with their post-rock arrangements is very interesting, rather comforting and totally cool. Kudos are due, in particular considering this is a completely self-produced effort. Howard, previously known as "Orange Television" in its MA version, will be playing Rockwood Music Hall on November 22. Their album "Religion" will be out soon.

We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!

Philadelphia

The Bad Doctors Opening for Thee Oh Sees at Underground Arts Nov. 17

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Tonight’s show at Underground Arts is definitely one that I said to myself when I first saw it on the calendar: “Oh, why the fuck does this have to be on a Monday night?!” One of my favorite bands Thee Oh Sees are back in town, and though they’ll be returning as a different configuration, John Dwyer and crew will surely provide a signature amped up performance. For local support, synth-punks The Bad Doctors will be gettin’ the crowd warmed up. Armed with an arsenal of material from their latest LP Burning City (FDH Records), the energy level will be set to full throttle from the get go. Drag City’s Jack Name, a.k.a. White Fence’s touring guitarist John Webster John, will be the psych-pop filling to this rockin’ sandwich for the evening. Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., 8pm, $18, 21+ – Alexis V.