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IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash 2009- Next Wednesday!

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Can you believe SXSW is next week?!

Start it off right with IODA’s 5th Annual Opening Day Bash at Emo’s Annex from Noon-6pm. We’ll have some special brunch treats for all to enjoy- Batter Blaster pancakes served by your favorite IODAns! (while supplies last)

The event is free, no wristbands or badges required.

Performing artists include: Easy Star All-Stars, Deer Tick, J. Tillman, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Blind Pilot, maus haus, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Deastro, Marching Band, Theresa Andersson and Y La Bamba.

Visit http://iodasxsw.com to get more details on our event.

http://iodasxsw.com/download will get you 11 free tracks from our performing artists! This sampler is also available at most online retailers including Limewire Store, iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and more.

http://iodacast.com features a special SXSW episode that’ll also give you event info and music from the performing artists.

Thanks to our sponsor- Limewire Store.

IODAcast 052: IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash 2009 Preview

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

By: Jillian Putnam-Smith

Check out the newest episode of IODAcast that features songs by all artists playing our 5th Annual IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash on March 18, 2009 in Austin, Texas! Artists include: Easy Star All-Stars, Deer Tick, J. Tillman, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Blind Pilot, Maus Haus, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Deastro, Marching Band, Theresa Andersson and Y La Bamba! Thanks to our sponsor: LimeWire Store.

You can listen at IODAcast.com or on iTunes!

Various Artists
“IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2009″ (mp3)
(ioda)

IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler Out Tomorrow!

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Artist: Various Artists
Title: IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash 2009 Sampler
Label: ioda
Release Date: 2/24/09
UPC: 844185034371
Genre: Alternative
Territories: World

The sampler will be available tomorrow at LimeWire Store, iTunes, eMusic, Amazon and other major retailers but you can get the sampler for free now at http://iodasxsw.com/download! One song per eleven performing artists, including: Easy Star All-Stars, Deer Tick, J. Tillman, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Blind Pilot, Maus Haus, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Deastro, Marching Band, Theresa Andersson and Y La Bamba!

IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash 2009

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Visit IODASXSW.com to get all the details and access PromoTracks by each artist performing at our 5th annual Opening Day Bash! It’s open to the public and no wristbands or badges are required! Thanks to our sponsor, LimeWire Store!

Here’s a brief introduction to each of the amazing artists performing:


	Easy Star All-Stars The East Star All-Stars are a collaboration of many different artists from the label who have come together to cover classic records, like Dark Side of the Moon, Ok Computer, and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club transforming them into deep dub and reggae grooves. Their record, Dub Side of the Moon (2003), the complete reggae re-vision of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is one of the most successful reggae albums of the 21st century. It has spent over 5 years on Billboard’s Top Reggae Chart and Reggae Catalog Chart. Label: http://www.easystar.com/ Artist: www.myspace.com/easystarallstars
	Deer Tick “War Elephant displays an astonishing level of complexity and lyrical depth in spite of its melodically simple facade. Maybe McCauley’s an older soul than he lets on.” – Treble Label: http://www.partisanrecords.com/ Artist: http://www.deertickmusic.com/
	J. Tillman “Singer/songwriter J.Tillman’s music paints languid, sadly beautiful portraits of love and life on the margins with the moody depth of Nick Drake and the country-influenced textures of Ryan Adams.” -Mark Deming, All Music Guide Label: http://westernvinyl.com/ Artist: http://www.myspace.com/jtillman
	We Were Promised Jetpacks “The phrase ‘guitar band’ covers a multitude of sinners in the pop battleground. We Were Promised Jetpacks, apart from having the best name in showbiz, meet all other requirements necessary to lift them above their peers. Their live sets rip along at breakneck pace but somehow deliver a mini-anthem in every tune, merging Postcard and C86 jangle with full-on alt.rock.” - The List Label: http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/ Band: www.myspace.com/wewerepromisedjetpacks
	Blind Pilot “Sounds a lot like what James Mercer of The Shins would sound like if he recorded a solo, acoustic album. It’s quite wonderful” -Paste Magazine Label: http://www.expungedrecords.com/ Artist: http://blindpilotmusic.wordpress.com/
	maus haus “Maus Haus combine a paranoid insomniac vibe with playful pop lines and cleverly cinematic lyrics that make them out to be the bastard child of Kraftwerk hanging with Captain Beefheart that would obviously have a video starring Simon Le Bon and the boys. That is an admittedly nutso sentence, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what Maus Haus is – other than totally rad.” -Christen Thomas, RCRD LBL Label: http://www.prettybluepresents.com/ Artist: http://www.myspace.com/maushausmusic
	The Phenomenal Handclap Band Embassy Sound Productions’s Daniel Collás and Sean Marquand, two New York underground club DJs who became restless with the concept of playing other people’s music, began to focus on producing: The PHCB is their result. They are a supergroup comprised of a “who’s who” of the indie rock and underground soul scenes. Members of such diverse bands as TV on the Radio, L’Trimm, Calla, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mooney Suzuki, and Sí Se all contribute their individual talents. “New York’s answer to Broken Social Scene” –Music Snobbery Blog Label: http://friendlyfirerecordings.com Artist: http://phenomenalhandclapband.blogspot.com/
	Deastro “As synth-soaked electronic pop attacks the entire world, Detroit musicans have the distinct advantage of being surrounded by the click, whir and constant hum of factories and automobiles” –Paste Magazine Label: http://ghostly.com/ Artist: http://www.myspace.com/deastro
	Marching Band “I think what we have here is one of the dark horses of 2008, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Marching Band become one of the festival-circuit buzz bands next year. Girls room poster-worthy pop, indeed.” –Other Music Label: http://www.urbandlazar.com/ Artist: http://www.marchingband.se/index.php
	Theresa Andersson Melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre; these are the traditional building blocks of pop music. Recorded in her kitchen, DIY indie-pop songstress Theresa Andersson plucked, picked and even tapped everything from violins to soda pop bottles to create her uniquely beautiful album alongside songwriter/producer Tobias Froberg (Peter Moren’s The Last Tycoon). “Brokenness, resolve, loneliness and redemption pour from the belly deep grain in her vice. Recommended.” – All Music Guide Label: http://www.basinstreetrecords.com/ Artist: http://www.myspace.com/theresaanderssonmusic
	Y La Bamba “This is an astonishingly confident breakthrough with a precise scope in its angelical vocals and the revelatory lyricism which is evocative and religiously codified. With huge possibilities to succeed in the world music circuit, it’s also a charmingly catchy album that should be able to overpass its folk and break into the pastoral side of the melodramatic popular song.” - Club Fonograma Label: http://gypsypoprecords.com/home.html Artist: http://www.myspace.com/ylabamba

Music to Pull You Out of Your January Blues… or Help You Dwell in Them

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

By: Jillian Putnam-Smith

Finally, some scientific backing to the funk most feel around this time of year:

“If you woke up Monday morning feeling like your life was particularly in the toilet, you may have validated the formula that claims that the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year.

Cliff Arnall, a psychology professor at Cardiff University in Wales, came up with the following formula to determine Blue Monday for 2009:

1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA

The variables relate to things like weather, debt, Christmas bills coming due, failure of New Year’s resolutions, and the need to take action versus general motivational levels.” (source: CTV.ca)

Here are some songs to help lift you out of the funk and a few to help you dig deeper in (in case you’re a masochist or just happen to enjoy a sad song or three):

Depressing:

J. Tillman, the drummer extraordinaire for the Fleet Foxes, has released 3 solo albums and the most recent, Vacilando Territory Blues, is named appropriately. It is dark, expansive and solemn as all hell.

From Pitchfork:

“Tillman’s stories sound as elliptical as his music, as if the lyrics demand such sparse arrangements. “Everything moves so fast,” he sings on “Steel on Steel”, “leave no time to ask, does nothing last? Do all things pass, just ash to ash?” These songs whisper loudly to slow the world down, to preserve a moment and all its emotions, whether they’re pleasant or– more likely– painful.”

239698 72 Music to Pull You Out of Your January Blues... or Help You Dwell in Them J. Tillman
“Steel on Steel” (mp3)
from “Vacilando Territory Blues”
(Western Vinyl)

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The album that topped many Best Of lists in ’07 (even some Best Of lists in’08) features warped vocals, described by the artist as “angelic and haunting”, set against crackling waves of echoes and ambience:

Music to Pull You Out of Your January Blues... or Help You Dwell in Them
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“Ghost Hardware” (mp3)
from “Untrue”
(Hyperdub)

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Uplifting:

Blue Giant might have the word “Blue” in their band name and this song title, but this is a bright, shiny and anthemic Southern rock tune:
248079 72 Music to Pull You Out of Your January Blues... or Help You Dwell in Them Blue Giant
“Blue Sunshine” (mp3)
from “Target Heart EP”
(Amore!Phonics)

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Record label Ghostly International and modern cult classic programmers, Adult Swim, have paired up for a compilation of new music and art. One tune on the comp, “Light Powered” by Deastro, has a crunchy, marching beat that’ll kick your ass out of bed. Take a listen and tell us you don’t feel reinvigorated:

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“Light Powered” (mp3)
from “Ghostly Swim”
(Ghostly International)

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IODA Marketing Team’s Picks for Best Albums of 2008

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

What a year 2008 has been! As all of the Best Of lists have been flying around the music world, each member of the IODA U.S. marketing team took a stab at narrowing down their favorite albums of the year to only five! We cheated a little and let reissues released in 2008 count!

Burial was the king of IODA’s best of lists last year, but in 2008, not one release made it on to more than one marketing team member’s list (although there was overlap when you include the client relations team).

From the rave throwback release by Zomby, the lost gem of a reissue from Rodriguez, the avant classical of Max Richter to the karmically balanced hip-hop of MC Yogi, IODA was all over the place with their top picks. It just goes to show the wide variety of top notch independent releases that hit the digital shelves in 2008.

Adam Rabinovitz

•Rodriguez- “Cold Fact” [Light in the Attic]

•Steinski- “What Does it All Mean?” [Illegal Art]

•Max Richter- “24 Postcards in Full Coulour” [Fat Cat Records]

•School of Seven Bells- “Alpinisms” [Ghostly International]

•Y La Bamba- “Alida St.” [GypsyPop]

Greg Beshers

•Hymns- “Travel in Herds”
[Blackland Records/ High Wire Music]

•Delta Spirit- “Ode to Sunshine” [Rounder]

•location location- “Snow Covered
Morning EP” [Dogjaw Music]

•Curumin- “JapanPopShow” [Quannum]

•Larry Norman- “Only Visiting This Planet” [Solid Rock]

Oz Okter

•James Blackshaw- “Litany of Echoes” [Tompkins Square]

•Akimbo- “Jersey Shores”[Neurot]

•Disfear- “Live the Storm” [Relapse]

•Grails- “Take Refuge in Clean Living” [Important Records]

•Saviours- “Into Abaddon” [Kemado]

Craig O’Neill

•Evil Nine- “They Live!” [Marine Parade]

•Gecko Turner- “Manipulado” [Lovemonk]

•Spam Allstars- “Introducing Spam Allstars”[Introducing]

•Benja, Bo Marley, Disrupt- “Bo Marley vs.Disrupt” [Jahtari]

•V/A- “Objektivity Volume 1” [Objektivity]

Matt Wright

•Zomby- “Where Were You in ‘92?”[Werk Discs]

•Mrs Jynx- “Standoffish Cat” [Planet Mu]

•The Chap- “Mega Breakfast”[Ghostly International]

•Dykeritz- “Rearrangerologystics” [Lucky Madison]

•Starfucker- “Starfucker” [Badman Recording Co.]

Jillian Putnam-Smith

•Son Lux- “At War With Walls and Mazes” [anticon]

•The Black Angels- “Directions to See a Ghost” [Light in the Attic]

•Hauschka- “Ferndorf” [Fat Cat Records]

•J. Tillman- “Vacilando Territory Blues”[Western Vinyl]

•Three Trapped Tigers- “Three Trapped Tigers EP” [Blood and Biscuits]

Alyssa Fredericks

•Herman Dune- “Next Year In Zion”
[Everloving]

•MC Yogi- “Elephant Power” [White Swan]

•V/A- “People Take Warning!: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938” [Tompkins Square]

•dan le sac Vs. Scroobius Pip- “Angles” [Strange Famous]

•The Carter Family- “The Carter Family” [Sphere Records- Nashville]

Erik Nava

•Siah & Yeshua dapoED- “The Visualz
Anthology” [Head Bop Music]

•Michna- “Magic Monday”
[Ghostly International]

•Restiform Bodies- “TV Loves You Back” [anticon]

•Tobacco- “Fucked Up Friends” [anticon]

•KMD- “Bl_ck B_st_rds” [Metal Face Records]

Justin Johnson (Client Relations Representative/ Podcast Producer)

•Zomby- “Where Were You in ’92″ [Werk Discs]

•Rodriguez- “Cold Fact” [Light in the Attic]

•Prince Jammy vs. King Tubby- “His Majesty’s Dub’ [Original]

•School of Seven Bells- “Alpinisms’ [Ghostly International]

•DJ Nomad NYC- “Lights Out (Remixes)” [Cable Recordings]

Lizy Reierson (Client Relations Representative)

•King Khan and the Shrines- “The Supreme Genius of King Khan and The Shrines” [Outside Music/Vice]

•Rodriguez- “Cold Fact” [Light in the Attic]

•Grails- “Take Refuge in Clean Living” [Important]

•Terakraft- “Akh Issudar” [World Village]

•Various Artists- “The History of Northwest Rock, Vol 2 – The Garage Years” [Jerden]

Posts Tagged ‘J. Tillman’

IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash 2009- Next Wednesday!

IODAcast 052: IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash 2009 Preview

IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler Out Tomorrow!

IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash 2009

Music to Pull You Out of Your January Blues… or Help You Dwell in Them

IODA Marketing Team’s Picks for Best Albums of 2008

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