Genre: Folk / Bluegrass
Kossoy Sisters 2.0… Wonderful harmonies mix with foot tapping bluegrass….The Scarlet Runners play various traditional folk tunes as well as a healthy does of lonesome originals. We are three friends that love playing music together. Hope you like it too!
Emily:Vocals, harmonizing mastermind, banjo, guitar, mountain dulcimer, song keeper. Lisa: Vocals, guitar, harmonizizer. Chris: Mandolin, guitar, songer, good fella. Check It!
Genre: ghost-heavy weird-fi
Lower Dens is a new band, but feels like a second act. The music is reserved, but finds ways to be cutting, even as it holds back and spends most of its time in nocturnal sparseness. Twin-Hand Movement plays like the work of a group that has pulled bold moves already, made some good records, and is interested in investigating its internal rapport. Confined to basic instruments, each musician leaves space for the others. The holes in the music make little shifts in volume and twang unmissable, the way an invisible scar on your hand feels like a gash to your fingertips…. Dusted
Genre: Remixes / Electronica / Indie Rock
Ghosting is a project that gives listeners insight on the types of artists and music that inspires Buff1. Giving himself one week to write original material, Buff1 created this free project to be released into the blogosphere. Choosing songs that coincidentally had space for Buff1 to spit, none of the original songs have been edited. ~ KN
Genre: Indie Folk / Experimental
I say I’m anti-folk inspired by punk and outsider music, if you want though you can just call me out as just some guy who can’t play guitar very well. I wrote these songs out of frustration and sadness and they ended up making me feel a lot better, I hope they have a similar effect on you. I really want to start playing some shows soon, if anybody could help out that would be awesome. I don’t really care about money and i like travelling, ask me if you’d like a free house show or something 
~ Crywank
Genre: Electronica / Tropical Pop
Computer Magic is the solo project of 21-year-old DJ/blogger Danielle (she goes by Danz). Danz started doing Computer Magic a few months ago in her downtime between school, DJing, and graphic designing. She makes bedroom electronic pop music that feels equally whimsical, claustrophobic, and ethereal. It’s the kind of music the female leads in Sofia Coppola movies would make. ~ SG
Genre: Indie Dream Pop
Sweet, angelic ease! Like what I’m hearing from this band. Sounds like, Mojave really getting into their Elvis swagger!
“I Guess I’m Not Good Enough” is sparse and springy, with wispy vocals that sound as though they could just as easily be whispering beside you as they could be circling undetectably out and around the windblown treetops. “Elf In The Woods” has a lullabyish sway with the bass’s wavy trot and stomp facilitating duel-duets of acoustic guitar and mandolin and boy-girl harmonies that meld in such a idyllic swoon at choruses that feel like the bracing cool breeze of on-setting autumn. read more…
Genre: Indie Pop
This is pop music from the heart – to the feet.
Bedroom Eyes has recorded his debut album with engineer Herman Söderström (The Cardigans, Hello Saferide) in all-analogue studio Ocean Sound Recordings, built inside a small boat house on the sandy Atlantic shores of the tiny Norwegian island Giske. There simply can not have been a more fitting way to have recorded this debut album than out looking the Atlantic Ocean with charming people in sundresses and 60’s shades zooming by the studio’s big glass wall on bicycles. Families and young lovers frolicking and laughing in the ocean water just a few feet away from these brave little songs getting stuck on tape alongside the soft sounds of seagulls tweeting and the North Sea waves trying to kiss the studio wall.
Artist: Coelho Radioactivo
Genre: folk, lo-fi
Download: HF (fresh, complete link – last one had no track 2)
O Coelho Radioactivo (the radioactive rabbit) is a young singer-songwriter from Aveiro who blends contemporary portuguese lyricism with the universe of childhood (remembered but not lived) to create an ethereal sound that, though simple, fills the senses, space and to those who let it, the spirit.
He self-released his first EP in 2009 and will soon release a new extended play, as well as his first lp.
1. bom inverno
2. sem nome 2
3. sem nome
4. polónia colónia
5. escondidas
6. gigantes
7. sótão (canção feita com dor de cabeça)
Artist: Black Bombaim
Genre: psychedelic, stoner rock
Download: HF
courtesy of Lovers and Lollypops. Order (vinyl only) @ loverslollypops .at. gmail .dot. com
Can a power trio change a city in 2010? Can a band in these times of doubt and uncertainty drag others from the comfort of their couches (and TV Parties of this world) into the chaos of stages run by infernal riffs? The answer is, probably yes. Black Bombaim have done more for Barcelos in the last years than its local symbol, the Rooster has done in decades of history, and now, with “Saturdays and Space Travels” they write their name with golden letters in an imaginary wall, the same wall that has the name of all that make Rock an unpredictable and more exciting universe. Everyone knew that on stage, Black Bombaim were an explosive cocktail of demonic riffs and powerful hooks; what they didn’t knew was, even though after a promising debut EP, these guys from Barcelos would be able to confine in vinyl such a stoner and psychedelic discharge. From side A to side B there’s no time to breathe. There’s only time to pick up the shrapnel of unforeseeable explorations; where Ron Asheton and the Stooges take to the limit the chaos from the final disorder of “T.V. Eye”, where the Rock frees itself from decades and decades of rules and conventions. Can that way a power trio change a city in 2010? We don’t know, but we’re thrilled to get there, ridden by forbidden riffs and eternal feedback.
file under Album Reviews, Gratis, Submissions
Genre: electro-acoustic indie folk
Today I made a great meat and tomato sauce…. I was in a creative kind of mood, so I decided to empty the icebox into my swill. This kind of witchery is often the best end of week meal one could ask for… Each bite has it’s own surprises, sometimes the texture of the pork from last week’s roast grew more luscious on my palette, or the corn off the cob from the party hit that much needed sweetness disguising the slight rot from the zucchini…. The swill is a beast onto itself, yet every Sunday I brew my new pot without much resistance, and hold on for those little surprises. Kissed Her Little Sister, is like my sauce! Needs lots of components, lots of salt, lots of fresh tomatoes, and lots of tender loving care, and you regularly come back for more. Some Postal Service, some SJ Esaw, and some kind of tastiness in these mouthful! Recommended.
Genre: Melancholy Indie Pop
TrY / MySpace / Dirt Records
Two in a row, the dog house is gushing melancholy; Back to work…. seems like this is screaming fall!!! Saturnine 60′s first full-length record. Impossible!!! Galaxy 500 shallows REM. Thank you for this record. Enjoy.
Genre: Alt-Country / Dusty Northern Pop
TrY / MySpace / Mag Wheels
I’m going to start, a now and then post from my collection. Bands that missed the bus, but should ‘ve been on it! And now they lay dormant (in a cold dry place) but nonetheless dormant. This is the place I call…… FROM THE DOG HOUSE.
Sackville were a five piece from Montreal that played dusty, meandering country music… playing in dirty bars and wide-openned spaces. I saw them play at the now downsized “Bread and Puppet” in Vermont: the open air, bread with pungent garlic, crazy artists, extreme puppeteers and absolute wild energy… Those were the 90′s, an artistic experimentation in calming the mind and inspiring the soul, in uncertain times. Sackville was the antidote to that fear… but far to few seemed to notice, except for certain small air-pockets. There label suggests that their was an… intensity of Slint crossed with the “slacker country ethic” of Palace….Also a strong kin to such moody ramblers as Rex, Red Red Meat, and Scud Mountain Boys. On their 2nd release, “These Last Songs”, Sackville maintains the “urban country” feel, but with the addition of a second guitarist, they occasionally create a slight math rock feel. Still, the guitar riffs are still submerged in a thick melancholy, which makes Sackville one of Canada’s most enjoyable bands. And this guy (Tailspins‘ George Kowalski) boldly professed that they were, folksy, acoustic Americana. Probably the best record to come from Canada that I’ve ever heard.” Now what’da say about that! The Best!!!
Recommended for those long drives through the dusty desert or those romantic diners for two at home. Enjoy.
Artist: CFCF
Genre: electronic, mixtape
Download: HF
Montreal-based DJ and electronic artist CFCF (aka Michael Silver) is giving away a new mixtape, aptly titled Slow R&B For Zellers Locations Canada-Wide. The nearly 40 minute mix, available for download, features department store-ready jams, sufficiently chopped and screwed. Synth stabs are funkier, snare drums are splashier, saxes are sexier and crooners are sultrier. The end product could very well be the lovechild of Freddie Jackson and the Knife.
The Fader had some nice things to say: “We could go off on a whole thing about how that’s probably a reaction to the speed at which we’re required to take in new music. A reaction against the internet or something. But more than that, it’s just awesome to draw out sounds in songs that might have otherwise gone unnoticed. Also it sounds like wandering through a department store, which probably explains the name of the mix. Kind of a game changer.”
Artist: Tennis
Genre: Indie Garage Pop
I’ve been away… driving along the coastline of Quebec, Canada, and Tennis was the background for the many great vistas I saw. It has this older feel; like the Pozo Seco Singers, but kicked off of the PBS stage and into the garage, to grunge it up a bit for the kids…. This Ep is cut from the same musical skin as Throwing Muses, Rilo Kiley, yet simplified a few notches. I can’t wait till my next road trip.
Artist: Aeronautix
Genre: post-rock
Download: HF
Buy: here
The postrock debut by Aeronautix, filled with 5 tracks that describe the story of an astronaut which fell on planet Earth. „Eartheption“ is a pun of „Earth“ and „Perception“, right as the subject sees the world from a different angle.
Artist: Panorάmatak
Genre: indie rock
Download: HF
Panoramatak start making soundwaves in 1995…
Soundwaves that never fail to find a perfect alchemy of weirdness and directness, of melodic beats and rhythmic tones, of smart narrative songwriting and joyful abstract noise. Those instant underground favorites were built to impress! It figures…
There was no one to impress & no scene to embrace them. Still, the need to express their youth,ideas,passion,love,hate,
anger.. was enough to drive Panoramatak all the way to today?
With their own permanent sanctuary (the Panόrama studio) set by them at the bottom of the hill, Panoramatak played music non-stop (but with a few pauses) & joined forces with other musicians & friends trying always to combine creativity & improvisation, making it all an exhilarating experience..
Panoramatak went from pop to punk, from indie to alternative, from acoustic to electronic, from Greece to Tokyo & back.. without ever losing the very first thing that brought them together.. The heartfelt unpretentious need to breathe through music!
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Artist: Jolea
Genre: electronic, idm
Download/Buy: Bandcamp (name your price)
Following Jolea’s critically acclaimed debut album “Ghostly Figures”, Audiobaum is releasing a twin EP sequel ” ..And The Ghosts That Followed”. The first part of the release will be a collection of remixes of the tracks from the Ghostly Figures album made by some of Audiobaum’s favourite electronic artists including Bad Loop, Paul Easy, Recue and more. The genres are to cover more the danceable side of electronic spectrum not forgetting the deeper end either.
The second part is an EP worth of unreleased material that has been haunting the creative mind until now. The songs continue to tell the story that begun in the previous release giving it sort of a second chapter. Soundwise Jolea is moving in the same territory, dark, dreamy and ghostly… The second part will be released later in October.
Artist: Beeline (buy it there)
Genre: pop, experimental
Download: HF
After the release of their first EP “Welcome Back, Heart Attack!” in 2009 Beeline indeed seem worth the comparison of a myocardium which constantly keeps stretching and contracting with unfatiguing power. Their new EP “Mikado”, named after the widespread pick-up sticks game resp. the former term for the emperor of Japan embraces creativity, catchy pop melodies and a certain melancholy with a warm and honest group hug. The four new songs of the four young musicians from Cologne prove their passion for puzzles. A combination of impulsive drum patterns, thoroughly developed melodies and string and trumpet arrangements will give you the creeps.
Artist: Eliot Wilder
Genre: singer-songwriter
Download: HF
Here he is again, along with twelve more songs about hooligans, dirt eaters and one-way streets.
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