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10/31/2015
Joanna Newsom video "Divers"
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10/30/2015
Le Volume Courbe's I Wish Dee Dee Ramone Was Here With Me Out Now
LE VOLUME COURBE’S
I WISH DEE DEE RAMONE WAS HERE WITH ME OUT NOW ON RING THE ALARM |
French singer and producer Le Volume Courbe’s new album I Wish Dee Dee Ramone Was Here With Me is out now on Ring The Alarm/Pickpocket Records. Get it here.
NPR Music recently premiered the video for “Rusty,” watch it here.
Recorded by Le Volume Courbe frontwoman and creative force Charlotte Marionneau, the album is part solo effort and part collaborative project with Marionneau’s longtime band members Melanie Draisey, Chris Mackin, Lascelle Gordon, Theodore Hall, Wildcat Will and Barney Slater. I Wish Dee Dee Ramone Was Here With Me also features My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields on guitar on Roky Erickson cover “I Love The Living You” and the album’s title track as well as shooting a toy gun on “The House.” Martin Duffy of Felt and Primal Scream plays piano on “Monte Dans Mon Ambulance.” Marionneau also covers Nico’s “Le Petit Chevalier” alongside her own original compositions.
The new album comes ten years after Le Volume Courbe’s debut, I Killed My Best Friend, was released on Astralwerks in the U.S. and Honest Jon’s in the U.K.
“Now I understand why second albums are ‘difficult,’” Marionneau says of recording the new album. “Your first album is your ‘best of; the music you’ve made all your life; then you start again from scratch. I’m not prolific, but I need an album to be strong throughout. I have to build it like a collage; I feel more like a producer than a musician really. So I pick up ideas and create songs around them. It’s about trying things, experimenting.”
Marionneau grew up in a small town in Pays de la Loire in northwest France before moving to London in 1995. Encouraged and inspired by friends including Shields, Duffy, Hope Sandoval, David Roback and Colm O’Ciosoig, she recorded I Killed My Best Friend. In 2007 Marionneau joined forces with her band and the Theodaurus Rex EP followed in 2011. I Wish Dee Dee Ramone Was Here With Me is the culmination of that EP featuring those four songs plus seven new tracks. Le Volume Courbe has toured widely, including dates in Europe with My Bloody Valentine, and has been featured in TV and film soundtracks the world over. Marionneau’s cover of Nina Simone’s “Ain’t Got No…I Got Life” is played regularly on French radio. Ten years have passed since the first Le Volume Courbe release, but Marionneau's songs, once heard, are not easily forgotten.
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10/29/2015
Beach House: Thank Your Lucky Stars: #38 / Billboard Top 200 + #1 / vinyl; Updated tour dates
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ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER Announces New View LP out Jan 22 + Shares New Song!
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33 1/3 reading at WORD 11/5
33 1/3 AUTHORS BRYAN C. PARKER (BEAT HAPPENING'S BEAT HAPPENING) AND GEORGE GRELLA (MILES DAVIS' BITCHES BREW) WILL BE READING FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE BOOKS AT WORD BROOKLYN ON 11/5! WE'D LOVE TO SEE YOU THERE (AND PLEASE BLURB/SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS IF YOU'RE SO INCLINED)
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MORE INFO/RSVP HERE
WHERE: WORD BROOKLYN, 126 FRANKLIN ST.
WHAT TIME: 7 PM
BRYAN C. PARKER: BEAT HAPPENING'S BEAT HAPPENING:
This is the album that sent a shockwave of empowerment through the nation's cultural underground. In 1985, Olympia, Washington band Beat Happening released their eponymous debut of lo-fi pop songs on K Records and challenged every conception held about music. At the center of the group was the enigmatic Calvin Johnson and his revolutionary vision of artistic creation.
GEORGE GRELLA: MILES DAVIS' BITCHES BREW
It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams.
WHERE: WORD BROOKLYN, 126 FRANKLIN ST.
WHAT TIME: 7 PM
BRYAN C. PARKER: BEAT HAPPENING'S BEAT HAPPENING:
This is the album that sent a shockwave of empowerment through the nation's cultural underground. In 1985, Olympia, Washington band Beat Happening released their eponymous debut of lo-fi pop songs on K Records and challenged every conception held about music. At the center of the group was the enigmatic Calvin Johnson and his revolutionary vision of artistic creation.
GEORGE GRELLA: MILES DAVIS' BITCHES BREW
It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams.
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SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, SVIIB
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, SVIIB
To Be Released February 2016 via Vagrant Records
Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen & Mixed by Tony Hoffer
Read the in-depth story behind SVIIB at Stereogum
Photo Credt: Justin Hollar (left) / Clarke Tolton (right)
(October 29, 2015)- Today School of Seven Bells announced the band’s fourth and final studio album, entitled SVIIB, will be released February 2016 via Vagrant Records in the US and Full Time Hobby in Europe. In a note to fans, Alejandra Deheza explains the story behind the record and shares a snippet of new music. Find both the letter and music below.
Friends,
Benjamin and I wrote this record during a tour break in the summer of 2012. I can easily say that it was one of the most creative and inspired summers of our lives. What followed was the most tragic, soul shaking tidal wave that life could deliver, but even that wouldn't stop the vision for this record from being realized. This is a love letter from start to finish. It's the story of us starting from that first day we met in 2004, and that's the story of School of Seven Bells. So much love to all of you. Thank you for being a constant light in our lives. This record is for you <3 em="">
-Alejandra
Hear a preview of SVIIB: http://smarturl.it/SVIIB2016
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Julia Kent's Asperities streaming now/released tomorrow
Julia Kent - Asperities |
Julia Kent's "essential" (Drowned in Sound) new album Asperities is released tomorrow and can be streamed now via The Out Door and her own Bandcamp.
Listen to a recent session Julia played on Irene Trudel's WFMU show.
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On Asperities:
"Darkly evocative"
4/5 Mojo
"The finesse and dexterity of these compositions makes Asperities her most complete record to date. Essential"
Drowned in Sound
"A masterclass in tonal diversity, expressionist narrative and finespun drama… Recommended without reservation, Asperities is an edifying and invigorating spectacle"
5/5 The Skinny
"Asperities is Julia Kent’s most mesmerizing album. Every moment is shot through with tones that entrance and moods that transfix"
The Out Door
"This is a cinematic journey, meticulously sculpted to keep you on the edge"
Headphone Commute
"Accessible yet deep, Julia Kent‘s cello-based music provides an entry point to those who might not otherwise have considered listening to instrumental music. Her new album offers a mix of pensive, emotional tunes and the stringed equivalent of bangers"
A Closer Listen
"Julia's fully devoted to the exploration of the relationship between emotive cello-generated constructions and electronic manipulation. Her new record, Asperities, demonstrates brilliantly how fruitful, fascinating and effective this relationship can be"
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asperity (æˈspɛrɪtɪ) noun (plural) -ties
1. roughness or sharpness of temper 2. roughness or harshness of a surface, sound, taste, etc 3. a condition hard to endure; affliction 4. (physics) the elastically compressed region of contact between two surfaces caused by the normal force
“I was thinking about the concept of difficulty. Whether in life or in nature - of conflict, of being troubled. The idea of friction. Also in geology, an asperity is some part of a fault line that doesn't move that can create an earthquake, which is an evocative concept.”
Asperities is the fourth solo album by acclaimed Canadian cellist Julia Kent. As the title suggests, this is a record born of conflict: internal, personal and global. Universal themes. The build of pressure and the threat of violent release. Modern guilt. Modern fears.
Kent draws from a rich well of emotion, the pieces deceptively rendered, each feeling like a miniature dramatic epic in its own right – sculpted and self-contained. Her work on recent film scores is very much in evidence. While cinematic in scope, there is nothing as trite as a Hollywood ending here. There is tension and darkness, the edges cracked and frayed. “A lot of the melodic material is based on semitones,” Julia elaborates. “So in the music there is an inherent sense of dissonance; that things are too close for comfort. More generally, it seems like a particularly dark time in the world right now, and I think that definitely had an influence too.”
The album was recorded, produced and mixed in its entirety by Julia in her New York studio. This method of working lends the record a sense of isolation that carries a powerful resonance in our modern over-connected world. “I really like the autonomy of working alone,” she says. “I feel that I can transmit something emotionally that I might not be able to if there were someone else involved.”
Utilising looped cello, electronics and found sounds, Kent creates a world where the technological and the organic merge in perfect symbiosis, the layers of sound peeling back to reveal a beating, bloody human heart at its centre. “I did quite a lot of processing of the cello sound and used different electronic textures,” she explains of her technique. “I was trying to get away from the acoustic cello sound and find one that was more textural and more expressive of the material.”
Throughout the plaintive strains of opener ‘Hellebore’, the prowling grace of ‘The Leopard’, the elegant restraint of ‘Heavy Eyes’ and onto immersive closer ‘Tramontana’, Kent’s cello evokes romance and loss, a yearning for simplicity. This is the soundtrack to the transitory nature of life and the inevitability of death.
Vancouver-born and New York-based, Julia Kent rose to prominence with Rasputina andAntony & The Johnsons. Her extensive résumé includes recent work with Swans, Aidan Baker,Rachel Grimes, Rutger Zuydervelt, Barbara Morgenstern, Library Tapes and Khan of Finland.
Kent has also composed extensively for film, theatre and dance. Her cinematic work includes the documentaries The Boxing Girls of Kabul and Rwanda, L'Impossible Pardon, American feature A Short History of Decay, short films Doppio Urlo, and the award-winning Oasis. Her music also was used in Paolo Sorrentino's 2011 film This Must Be The Place. As a solo artist she has toured extensively in Europe and North America and performed at festivals including Primavera Sound, Reeperbahn, Unsound, and Meltdown.
CD: LP:
1. A1. Hellebore 2. A2. Lac Des Arcs 3. A3. The Leopard 4. A4. Flag Of No Country 5. B1. Terrain 6. B2. Empty States 7. B3. Heavy Eyes 8. B4. Invitation To The Voyage 9. B5. Tramontana |
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Mystic Braves Premiere "Spanish Rain" on Huffington Post
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Can Founding Member Irmin Schmidt Releases Retrospective Box Set
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MIIKE SNOW RETURN WITH "HEART IS FULL"
MIIKE SNOW RETURN WITH “HEART IS FULL”
ACCLAIMED SWEDISH-AMERICAN TRIO REVEAL FIRST NEW SONG IN THREE YEARS
THIRD ALBUM iii COMING SOON
“HEART IS FULL” IS STREAMING NOW VIA STEREOGUM
LISTEN HERE
Miike Snow return with the release of the rapturous track “Heart Is Full” – marking the acclaimed trio’s first new music in over three years.
The kaleidoscopic track, which blends futuristic synths with hip hop beats, will appear on the band’s forthcoming LP, iii, slated for global release next year. “Heart Is Full” premiered worldwide today as Zane Lowe’s “World Record” on Apple Music’s Beats 1 and is now streaming in its entirety via Stereogum. The track’s cinematic companion video from director Lance Drake will premiere next week via Facebook. "Heart Is Full” will be available for purchase worldwide via all digital retailers at midnight tonight.
Formed in 2007 by Swedish musicians Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg (a.k.a. production duo Bloodshy & Avant) and American songwriter Andrew Wyatt, Miike Snow unveiled their self-titled debut album two years later, earning international acclaim for the distinctive fusion of plaintive pop songcraft and atmospheric electronics found on tracks like the breakthrough single, “Animal.” Miike Snow also made a name as an electrifying live outfit around the world.
Happy To You followed in 2012, drawing critical applause from such high profile outlets as Entertainment Weekly, which praised Miike Snow’s “meticulous sonic-palette landscapes,” noting, “The spirit of Happy To You is indie rock, but the sound is as addictively sharp as anything in the Top 40.”
The members of Miike Snow have spent much of time since traveling fresh creative avenues, including solo albums, the formation of new bands, and a wide variety of production and songwriting collaborations. The trio first began work on their third album in late 2013 and then continued over the next two years, convening in studios in New York, Los Angeles, and Stockholm, often times teaming with other songwriters and producers in search of new sonic and emotional approaches. The result is Miike Snow’s most innovative and creatively unified work thus far, typified by the propulsive pop soul of tracks.
“It’s the original Miike Snow sound,” says Winnberg, “but taken to the next level.”
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