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IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2012

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

IODA is super excited to announce our SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2012! This year is our biggest and most ambitious yet, featuring 13 amazing bands. We have some super hot, just released tracks from Poliça, Ruthie Foster, and The Wedding Present. And if that wasn’t enough we also have several previously unreleased tracks from artists like Pillow Fight, Y La Bamba, and Bright Moments.

The sampler is available for free on Amazon.com here, The 2012 sampler was also featured as one of the New and Noteworthy Alternative albums on iTunes. We at IODA couldn’t be prouder of all of this years artists, some of whom have been getting major love from all over. Poliça has been featured on NPR 3 separate times over the past month, and they premiered their very first video on Jay-Z’s site Life+Times. Ruthie Foster has been racing up the charts at Billboard, Amazon.com and iTunes, with her album ranked #1 in Blues for both services and #2 at Billboard. Both Ruthie Foster and Y La Bamba have also both been featured on NPR in the past couple of months.

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SXSW 2011 Final Wrap-up: IODA Favorites And Impressions

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Now a full week removed from SXSW 2011 we’ve taken some time to reflect on our favorite shows and moments from the 2011 conference. We asked all IODA attendees to throw together a few of their personal highlights and these are the responses we received (be sure to hit the jump for the rest):

Mike Drake, VP of Engineering:
My 2 faves were:
Ian Moore @ the Ghost Room
Queen Sea Big Shark @ the IODA party

Corey Sheridan, Client Manager:
Favorite show (IODA-distributed artist):
Weekend; 3/16 @ Emo’s Annex and 3/18 @ Cedar Street Courtyard -I could not get enough of this act. Great guys with a huge sound.
Favorite show (non-IODA-distributed artist):
Tie between Queens of the Stone Age; 3/16 @ La Zona Rosa and A Place to Bury Strangers; 3/18 @ Bungalow Billiards

Matt Wright, User Experience Engineer:
Gold Panda at our party!

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SXSW Wrap-up: IODA Opening Day Bash A Great Time For All

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Another SXSW Conference has passed and another IODA Opening Day Bash went off without a hitch! With 11 bands on 11 different labels hailing from 8 different countries it was one of our more ambitious bashes to date. From Withered Hand’s beautiful opening set to Gold Panda’s packed crowd shaking closer, this years Bash was a rousing success.

IODA’s own Fayvor Love was onsite all day snapping great pics of the Bash in action. Enjoy these highlights after the jump and hop on over to Fayvor’s Picasa albums SXSW Ioda Party I & SXSW Ioda Party II for over 350 great shots!

The crowd builds for the start of the Bash:

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Typhoon Makes Paste Mag’s “20 SXSW Bands You Might Not Know (But Should)”

Friday, March 11th, 2011

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“The Honest Truth” (mp3)
from “A New Kind of House”
(Tender Loving Empire)

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Typhoon Makes Paste Mags 20 SXSW Bands You Might Not Know (But Should)
While Typhoon’s epic debut album Hunger and Thirst somehow managed to fly under the radar (it was even named #5 on Amazon MP3′s Outstanding 2010 Albums You Might Have Missed) their brand new EP A New Kind Of House will surely launch Typhoon into the indie spotlight. With many appearances lined-up for this years SXSW Music Fest Paste Magazine has named Typhoon one of it’s 20 SXSW Bands You Might Not Know (But Should). We couldn’t agree more and can’t wait to see them at our annual Opening Day Bash!

They placed them at #18 and had the following to say:

“Music critics throw around adjectives like “orchestral” and “expansive” all the time these days. Now here’s a band that actually deserves such labels. Portland’s Typhoon is an indie rock geek’s dream: a dynamic 12-piece with a seemingly unending reservoir of energy, emotive vocals, arpeggiated guitars, horns, multiple drum kits, strings—there are so many sonic details crammed into the five tracks on A New Kind of House, the band’s second official release, that you might need two pairs of headphones to properly connect the dots. —Ryan Reed”

IODAcast 089, IODA In Austin Opening Day Bash 2011 Special

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Featuring many of the bands playing IODA In Austin Opening Day Bash 2011. For more info on IODA’s Opening Day Bash at SXSW please visit iodasxsw.com

Download now or subscribe on iTunes and download the tracks to go below and after the jump:

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“You” (mp3)
from “IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2011″
(ioda)

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IODAcast 089, IODA In Austin Opening Day Bash 2011 Special

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“What a Pleasure” (mp3)
from “IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2011″
(ioda)

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Beach Fossils and Sharron Kraus Get Pitchfork Love

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

We’re pleased to report wo of our favorite IODA-distro’ed artists recently made a solid impression the infamous taste-making music site, Pitchfork ; Beach Fossils and Sharron Kraus both earned Best New Music ratings with a 7.8 and 7.4 respectively. Beach Fossils come to us from the fantastic Brooklyn, NY label, Captured Tracks; you can catch them at our upcoming SXSW Opening Day Bash in Austin, TX. Sharron Kraus is a Strange Attractors Audio House artist who’s new album The Woody Nightshade has gained her a lot of critical acclaim as of late. You can read their reviews over on Pitchfork’s site: Beach Fossils and Sharron.
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“Vacation” (mp3)
from “Beach Fossils”
(Captured Tracks)