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Featured Release: Touché Amoré – “Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me”

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download icon Featured Release: Touché Amoré   Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me “~” (mp3)
from “Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me”
(Deathwish Inc.)

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 Featured Release: Touché Amoré   Parting the Sea Between Brightness and MeFrom the first strikes of their angular yet melodic chords, it’s apparent that Touché Amoré have awoken something long forgotten in the hardcore/punk genre, bringing to mind the balance of rage and melody that “Revolution Summer” era DC bands Rites of Spring and Ignition once carried. Within each song they build an awe-inspiring musical tension while impassioned vocalist Jeremy Bolm’s shouts resonate, ripe with intellectual introspection. This collective outpouring of traditional hardcore anger and emotional hardcore openness ultimately coalesces into something beautiful, vulnerable, and refreshingly real.

Shortly after their formation in late 2007, Touché Amoré released their demo 7″EP on the No Sleep label. After touring the West Coast in support of that release, they recorded their debut album “…To the Beat of a Dead Horse” in early 2009. The album was co-released by the 6131 and Collect (Geoff from Thursday’s vinyl only imprint) record labels, and was praised by listeners and press worldwide as one of the best releases of the year. Soon after, they hit the road with a wide variety of bands including Converge, Coalesce, Thursday, Envy, and more. On the heels of these travels, Touché Amoré even managed to release a number of EPs, including splits with friends La Dispute and Make Do And Mend.

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Music Video Roundup: No Surrender, Pink Martini, Vast Aire

In this weeks Music Video Roundup No Surrender takes the art of collage to a whole new level, Pink Martini teaches the world how to “Tuca Tuca,” and Vast Aire puts the “mad” in “Nomad,” son!

No Surrender – “Godda Get It”

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Maestro Classical Podcast 026: Joseph Haydn

Welcome to the Maestro Classical Podcast. This is episode number 26 and we are featuring music from Joseph Haydn, with performances by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra & Andreas Delfs.

Learn about the artists and pieces featured below and listen to the episode at MaestroClassical.com or on iTunes.

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“Symphony No. 88″
from “Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 104, 88, 101″
(Philharmonia Baroque)

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Memorial Day Video Special: Steve Azar – “Soldier Song”

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Title: Soldier Song
Label: Ride Records
Release Date: 5.09.11
UPC: 847108018625

“Soldier Song” is a tribute to the men and women overseas and their families left behind, hoping, praying and waiting for the day when they can say to their loved ones, “Your soldier’s finally coming home to you and the kids the life I’ve missed.” The song’s inspiration came while Azar was on the road touring heavily with rock legend Bob Seger. After visiting the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Azar reflected on how soldiers across the world coped with being away from their loved ones, sometimes never knowing when that moment would be that they would be reunited as a family.

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Current Priorities: Early June

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Lonely Twin
Graveface Records
Genre: Indie : Pop
UPC: 643157415275
Territories: World ex- FR
Release Date: 6.07.11
If Oh, Ramona was Jordan Geigerʼs bedroom-pop debut album, then Lonely Twin is the sound of Geigerʼs Hospital Ships solo project moving up to a three-room suite. Exploding outward on album opener “Love Or Death,” Geiger gives voice to those “…on the outside, always looking in,” while injecting enough electronic beats, buzzing organ riffs, and joyous handclaps to elevate this album from modest humility to self-assured confidence.

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366169 72 Current Priorities: Early June The Head Hunters
Platinum
Owl Studios
Genre: Jazz+Funk : Rap
UPC: 879076060252
Territories: World
Release Date: 6.14.11
The Headhunters, legendary jazz-funk fusion band, immortalized as a result of their long recording and touring stint with jazz giant Herbie Hancock.  The Headhunters’ music is a complex but harmonious blend of many styles and genres, spanning the globe, from Africa to Broadway. The group is acclaimed for its musical pioneering and innovative concepts.

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Typhoon’s Entire Sasquatch! Set Streaming From NPR Music

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download icon Typhoons Entire Sasquatch! Set Streaming From NPR Music “The Honest Truth” (mp3)
from “A New Kind of House”
(Tender Loving Empire)

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IODA faves Typhoon kicked off their summer festival dates this past weekend at the Sasquatch! music fest outside of Seattle. The set was such a success that NPR Music has posted audio from the performance in it’s entirety for streaming or download. Head on over to NPR’s Sasquatch 2011 coverage to have a listen and don’t forget to grab the free PromoTrack above off their excellent new EP A New Kind Of House.

 Typhoons Entire Sasquatch! Set Streaming From NPR Music