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IODA’s Best Of 2011 Lists

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

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download icon IODAs Best Of 2011 Lists “Hours” (mp3)
from “Dive”
(Ghostly International)

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IODAs Best Of 2011 ListsOnce again we’ve opened up our annual Best Of lists to all IODA employees and received submissions from many different departments! The guidelines were simple; choose your top 5 IODA-distributed releases that came out in 2011. Enjoy the selections and be sure to hit the jump for the rest of the lists and lots of free Promotracks from these great releases.

Corey Sheridan – Client Manager:
Tycho – Dive [Ghostly International]
Oddisee – Rock Creek Park [Mello Music Group]
Panda Bear – Tomboy [Paw Tracks]
Other Lives – Tamer Animals [TBD Records]
Kool and Together – Original Recordings 1970-77 [Heavy Light Records]

Richard Leach – Head of UK Client Management:
Driver Drive Faster – Open House [Akoustik Anarkhy]
Amebix – Sonic Mass [Easy Action / Amebix Records]
Kuedo – Severant [Planet Mu]
Damu – Unity [Keysound]
Saul Williams – Volcanic Sunlight [Columbia / SME France]

Thorsten Sideboard – Systems Administrator:
Gold-Bears – Are You Falling In Love? [Slumberland Records]
Kids On A Crime Spree – We Love You So Bad [Slumberland Records]
Girls Names – Dead To Me [Slumberland Records]
Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls [Slumberland Records]
Spectrals – Bad Penny [Slumberland Records]

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from “A New Kind of House”
(Tender Loving Empire)

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IODAs Best Of 2011 Lists


Elijah Carroll – Marketing Coordinator:
Typhoon – A New Kind Of House [Tender Loving Empire]
Hassaan Mackey, Apollo Brown – Daily Bread [Mello Music Group]
Beans – End It All [anticon]
Benny Sings – Art [Dox Records]
Robin Bacior – Rest Our Wings [Consonants & Vowels Recordings]

Peter Arensdorf – Client Production:
Indian – Guiltless [Relapse Records]
Helms Alee – Weatherhead [Hydra Head]
Punch – Nothing Lasts [Deathwish Inc.]
Yuck – Yuck [Fat Possum]
Skeletonwitch – Forever Abomination [Prosthetic]

Christophe Le Breton – IODA France:
Magazine – No Thyself [Wire-Sound]
Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go [Melodic]
City Slickers – Still Smokin’ Cigarettes & Tellin’ Lies [Brick Records]
Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine [Carpark]
Ana Popovic – Unconditional [Eclecto Groove Records]

Hit the jump for more staff “Best Of 2011″ and additional Promotracks!

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Featured Release: Megafaun – “Megafaun”

Monday, September 19th, 2011

387088 721 Featured Release: Megafaun MegafaunArtist: Megafaun
 Album: Megafaun
 Label: Hometapes
Genre: Indie : Indie
Territory: Americas
Release Date: 9.20.11

The trail discovered by 2008′s Bury The Square, blazed by 2009′s Gather, Form & Fly, and tended by 2010′s Heretofore has run into a wide and rushing river. The band we know as Megafaun, born alongside Bon Iver in the ashes that rose from DeYarmond Edison (Brad Cook, Joe Westerlund, and Phil Cook’s former band with Justin Vernon), has woven years of writing, touring, and living into a new sonic language. Critically-praised and publicly-loved for their ability to speak in the many tongues of American musical history — all while blending it with their own energetic and personal form of Rock — Megafaun has staked a claim. But the lay of that land they call theirs — the hills, valleys, and caves beneath — is just revealing itself in the sunrise. This is the band we know, but in a new light. This is Megafaun.

“It represents a fluidness, a trust, and serves as a gesture to a type of music that we all grew up listening to,” writes Brad Cook about the new album’s opening track “Real Slow”. Like Megafaun walking on stage in a dark and crowded venue, igniting the crowd with a smile and a strum of the guitar, “Real Slow” opens the door and invites you in. You’ll hear a lot of stories tonight — from “These Words” and its journey of creation from Bali to South Carolina to California, to “Hope You Know” and its roots in Megafaun’s youth in Wisconsin, where they grew up together and where they returned to record Megafaun last November. “This is by far the most vulnerable I’ve ever felt about a song we’ve released,” writes Phil Cook about “Hope You Know,” hinting at the record’s audible honesty. Like the greatest albums of our time, Megafaun is a true reflection of its creators — but there’s room in that mirror for the rest of us.

Current Priorities: Late September

Friday, September 16th, 2011

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Megafaun
Hometapes
Genre: Indie : Alternative
UPC: 656605714721
Territories: World ex- UK, AU, SA, JP, CN
Release Date: 9.20.11		 The band we know as Megafaun, born alongside Bon Iver in the ashes that rose from DeYarmond Edison (Brad Cook, Joe Westerlund, and Phil Cook’s former band with Justin Vernon), has woven years of writing, touring, and living into a new sonic language. Critically-praised and publicly-loved for their ability to speak in the many tongues of American musical history, all while blending it with their own energetic and personal form of Rock.

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Friends
Mack Avenue Records
Genre: Jazz : Fusion
UPC: 673203106222
Territories: World
Release Date: 9.27.11		 Reflecting on the wealth of music inspired by collaborating with chosen peers on Friends, Stanley Jordan concludes, “I am so humbled and grateful to all of the wonderful musicians who graced this project. This collection truly speaks to my belief in the integrationist spirit of music. I’d like to move beyond ‘fusion’ and explore the concept of ‘integration.’

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Tour Date Roundup: Megafaun, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Himalayan Bear

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

387088 72 Tour Date Roundup: Megafaun, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Himalayan Bear Artist: Megafaun
 Album: Megafaun
 Label: Hometapes
Genre: Indie : Indie
Territory: Americas
Release Date: 9.20.11

Megafaun has woven years of writing, touring, and living into a new sonic language. Critically-praised and publicly-loved for their ability to speak in the many tongues of American musical history — all while blending it with their own energetic and personal form of Rock — Megafaun has staked a claim. But the lay of that land they call theirs — the hills, valleys, and caves beneath — is just revealing itself in the sunrise. This is the band we know, but in a new light. This is Megafaun.  Don’t miss out on a chance to catch their live show.

Sept 03:  Brudenell Social Club – Leeds, UK
Sept 04:  End Of The Road Festival – Larmer Tree Gardens, UK
Sept 05:  Cafe de la Danse – Paris, France
Sept 06:  Avonduren – Middelburg, Netherlands
Sept 07:  King Georg – Cologne, Germany
Sept 08:  Astra Stube – Hamburg, Germany
Sept 09:  Musik Loppen – Copenhagen, Denmark
Sept 10:  Take Root Festival – Gronigen, Netherlands
Sept 11:  Paradiso – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sept 12:   Incubate- Tilburg, Netherlands
Sept 22:  Cat’s Cradle #- Carrboro, NC
Sept 23:  Red Palace ^- Washington, DC
Sept 24:  Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
Sept 25:  Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
Sept 27:  Beachland Tavern – Cleveland, OH
Sept 28:  Schubas – Chicago, IL
Sept 29:  High Noon – Madison, WI
Sept 30:  Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN
Oct 01:   Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
Oct 04:  Tractor – Seattle, WA
Oct 05:  Electric Owl – Vancouver, BC
Oct 06:  Doug Fir – Portland, OR
Oct 07:  Cafe DuNord – San Francisco, CA
Oct 08:  Satellite – Los Angeles, CA
Oct 09:  McCabes – Santa Monica, CA
Oct 10:  Casbah – San Diego, CA

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Anticipation Building For Upcoming Megafaun LP – “Megafaun”

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

387088 72 Anticipation Building For Upcoming Megafaun LP MegafaunArtist: Megafaun
 Album: Megafaun
 Label: Hometapes
Genre: Indie : Indie
Territory: Americas
Release Date: 9.20.11

The trail discovered by 2008′s Bury The Square, blazed by 2009′s Gather, Form & Fly, and tended by 2010′s Heretofore has run into a wide and rushing river. The band we know as Megafaun, born alongside Bon Iver in the ashes that rose from DeYarmond Edison (Brad Cook, Joe Westerlund, and Phil Cook’s former band with Justin Vernon), has woven years of writing, touring, and living into a new sonic language. Critically-praised and publicly loved for their ability to speak in the many tongues of American musical history, all while blending it with their own energetic and personal form of Rock, Megafaun has staked a claim. But the lay of that land they call theirs -the hills, valleys, and caves beneath is just revealing itself in the sunrise. This is the band we know, but in a new light. This is Megafaun. Check out the single and the new exclusive video after the jump!

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Music Video Roundup – Breathe Owl Breathe, Matthew Dear, Megafaun

Friday, April 8th, 2011

In this weeks Music Video Roundup see Breathe Owl Breathe do their “Own Stunts,” enter the pre-performance psyche of Matthew Dear in “Black City Live,” and take a walk through American history with Megafaun in “Carolina Days.”

Breathe Owl Breathe – “Own Stunts”

Breathe Owl Breathe – Own Stunts from Magic Central on Vimeo.

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