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Thursday, Jan 24 2013, 1AM
Exploring the impossibility of trying to understand relationships from an outside perspective (my take)
Brooklyn band consisting primarily of two childhood friends from Tacoma, Washington
“It seems we are too chill for punkers, too arty for the garage folk and too stupid for the indie crowd" - guitarist www.hearplugs.net
"Where do you start/stop being totally scientific and super-rational? I mean, were just apes with massive brains plopped out without question into a universe we can’t be sure we are equipped for, and that we have little clue about." - Lee Gamble, in an interview with 6:00 am magazine
/The Last Resort/ was named 28th best album of the decade by Resident Advisor www.residentadvisor.net
Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastien had chronic fatigue as a young adult and couldn't work for seven years; when he recovered he was a full fledged singer-songwriter
Playing Friday, March 15th at Neumos with Efterklang! (Nightlands is Dave Hartley of the War on Drugs)
Weird fact: Brian Eno's second album was named after a Chinese revolutionary opera, it's a loose concept album about that piece
Seattle's Ghosts I've Met are playing Wednesday, March 20th at the Tractor
See the always dapper Toro Y Moi - Wednesday, February 27th at the Crocodile
Sydney, Australia's Flume started producing music at age 13 with the help of a how-to CD in the bottom of a cereal box
In Ghost Colours is one of the most memorable albums to come out of 2008
This EP from Brooklyn producer is named after a Sega Megadrive videogame she played growing up in Kuwait during the Guld War
Icelandic artist Úlfur is part of Jónsi's backing back; Check out his new album - White Mountain - on March 5th
Arthur Russel was relatively unknown during his lifetime; rereleases during the 2000's have made the significance of his music more apparent
Kayla Cohen (a.k.a. Itasca) earlier project Sultan is "ambient drones and sunburnt loops inspired by the Tarot and occult studies" (Pitchfork)
Once We Were Trees was the last full-length before Beachwood Sparks took an unofficial hiatus; its members played in groups such as Interpol and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti in the meantime
New album from the London band February 4th!
Name-your-price download from their bandcamp chastity-belt.bandcamp.com
Lois Maffeo learned guitar from Olympia's legendary Calvin Johnson
If you're into this Brooklyn group, they have a mix on mix cloud - check out some of their influences www.mixcloud.com
“Funk is not a fad, it’s a way of life” - Dâm-Funk
Probably the only 7-piece to describe their performances as "live dubstep"
The album, streaming in full along with a few free downloads, available on The Books' members soundcloud soundcloud.com
The upcoming release from the Indiana trio is a collection of earlier works that gets back to their psych-folk roots
Since migrating to Seattle in 1998, the Colorado native has played with Carissa’s Wierd, Band of Horses, Betsy Olson, and singer-songwriter Patrick Park.
Mathieu's electroacoustics plus Sylvian's ambient instinct meet, Christian Fennesz guest stars
The London producer's sound is still coming together on his early EP's, which emphasize voice samples instead of James Blake's own soulful murmur
100% of the digital sales of LAMC#5 benefit the Ariel Panero Memorial Fund at VH1 Save the Music
More drum'n bass on their soundcloud for download soundcloud.com
Desire member Johnny Jewel on his time in Montreal writing their debut album - "I spent the next two months building a studio, watching the snow fall, getting a root canal, and making beats."
Pete Townshend and David Gilmour covered the song but encountered difficulty figuring it out at first because of the DADAAD guitar tuning
The track "Fireflies" is viewable via the band's tumblr stillcorners.tumblr.com
Io Echo spent January touring with Bloc Party ioechomusic.com
/Yeah Right/ is streaming on the Bleeding Rainbow's bandcamp, available for download next Tuesday bleedingrainbow.bandcamp.com
The lead singer of this band now works as a chiropractor in Wales
Aveo is a Seattle-based post-rock act, hear them at KEXP here: www.kexp.org
The Flower Lane has instrumental guitarist Matt Monadile (Ducktails) pursuing a more structural pop approach.. It's out Jan. 29th on Domino
Slumber Party was formed as an all-girl band in Detroit in 1998
Underwater Peoples Winter Review also features contributions from Julian Lynch, Real Estate, and Mountain Man
A bunch of talented electronic musicians... check them out www.fofmusic.net
