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Sugarpill
“A Gift To” (mp3)
from “Disciples of Headtron: Vol. I”
(Muti Music)
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UHT°
“Le cycle” (mp3)
from “H20″
(No Fridge)
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Dana Falconberry
“Petoskey Stone” (mp3)
from “Though I Didn’t Call It Came”
(Crossbill Records)
Dana Falconberry’s newest release, Though I Didn’t Call It Came, celebrates, explores, and at times laments the vast landscapes in which the songs are set. Touching on themes of childhood curiosity, mortality, and the aching beauty of solitude, the EP’s songs interweave the human experience with the world surrounding it. She guides her listeners down moonlit paths and sandy shores until they are standing right alongside her under the birches, wide-eyed and wondering at the eagles circling overhead.
A Michigan native, Falconberry has thrived musically in Austin, TX, hailed by the Austin Chronicle as one of the city’s “most promising singer-songwriters” and “most arresting female vocalists.” She has captivated audiences with her powerful live shows and haunting recordings, receiving acclaim far beyond the reaches of her hometown. The past few years have found her touring extensively through the US, Europe, and Japan. In 2011, she starred in the critically-lauded music documentary on the Austin music scene, Echotone, which was awarded a New York Times Critics’ Pick. Catch the rest after the jump!
The Darcys
“Josie” (mp3)
from “Josie”
(Arts & Crafts)
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Three years of struggle, patience and loss. Thorough contemplation and tests of faith. The Darcys persist in 2011-12 with two releases. The first was an original studio album produced by Murray A. Lightburn of The Dears, and featuring 10 hauntingly beautiful songs, meticulously crafted and rich in dynamics and noise. The second and latest is a chilling and unlikely reimagining of Steely Dan’s 1977 classic AJA. These recordings, along with The Darcys’ massive, immaculate live performances, are evidence of a band whose moment has finally arrived. A group strengthened by its time and trials, whose future is built solely on the strength of its ideas and music of genuine depth and substance.
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Ruthie Foster Let It Burn Blue Corn Music Genre: Blues : R&B UPC: 677967120128 Territories: World Except Australia Release Date: 1.31.12 |
Soulful vocalist Ruthie Foster’s latest work is a deeply intimate recording: a smoky mix of original songs coupled with inventive interpretations of an unexpected collection of covers. Recorded in New Orleans at Piety Street studios, with a small group of A-List musicians, this album takes the listener on Ruthie’s most personal journey yet. With her deeply moving vocals at the core, Ruthie is supported along the way by some very special guests. |
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Union Analogtronics Fat Beats Genre: Hip-Hop : Rap UPC: 659123514422 Territories: World Release Date: 1.31.12 |
Parisian duo Union take an otherworldly approach to analog-driven, melodically abstract, sample free hip-hop, and unleash a musically challenging, painstakingly crafted, MC-packed album – Analogtronics. Producing space-aged bangers that mold perfectly around each guest, sprinkling in a few lush, instrumentals. This is the album we have all been waiting for, as bonus tracks provide over twenty songs hypnotic interstellar boop-bap. |
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In this weeks video roundup Old Monk creates frenzied noisy rock and roll, built on solid pop backbones and piercing hooks in their video for “Sacred Birds”. Dana Falconberry offers up a lilting, folksy “Petoskey Stone”, and Thieves Like Us reminisce about youth and love in the video for “Your Heart Feels”.
Old Monk – “Sacred Birds”
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Agent Ribbons
“I’m Alright” (mp3)
from “Chateau Crone”
(Antenna Farm Records)
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The Uptown Nightclub in Oakland, CA is featuring not one, not two, but four IODA-distributed artists next Friday, January 27th at 9pm. California’s own Agent Ribbons heads the bill with the Sunbears!, Social Studies, and Emily Jane White all on the bill as well. Check out The Uptown Nightclub’s website for more event details.
Originally hailing from Sacramento, CA, Agent Ribbons isn’t just a band–it’s a tree house club of post-feminist dreamers trying to find their place in the scheme of things, like a hand-sewn and lovingly-crafted garment in a modern, disposable world. Listening to everything from Eartha Kitt to the Velvet Underground and taking notes from bands like The Shaggs, Th e Boswell Sisters and The Zombies, they miraculously reconcile seemingly-unrelated genres, sounding something like Girls in the Garage doing the Three Penny Opera. Waxing sentimental over the eerie beauty of all things lost to time, the emphasis is undoubtedly in the lyrics, which favor clever turns of phrase and occasional humor, but never at the expense of the melodic integrity of their catchy, memorable songs. Agent Ribbons released their sophomore album Chateau Crone in the fall of 20101 on Oakland-based Antenna Farm Records over the course of a year. With delicate violin arrangements, noisy dissonant tangents, Spector-esque vocal harmonies and clever melodic phrasing, the album cannot commit to a genre but always manages to sound like the same brand of baroque pop.
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