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Current Priorities: Late August

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

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Dondria
Dondria Vs. Phatfffat
So So Def Recordings / Malaco
Genre: R&B : Pop
UPC: 734373380123
Territories: World
Release Date: 08.17.10

It’s been a year since up-and-coming singer Dondria stepped into the Booth with her last feature, and her debut album still has yet to hit stores. Despite the setbacks, the album Dondria vs. Phatfffat is set to release August 17th. It features the single You’re the One, co-producered and written by Jermaine Dupri and Bryan Michael Cox. It has a classic vibe that fans of retro-informed R&B will find hard to resist!

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Bear In Heaven
Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Hometapes
Genre: Indie : Alternative
UPC: 847108081810
Territories: World ex. UK & Australia
Release Date: 08.24.10

Bear in Heaven have trapped echos, tremors, winds, and fading light. They’ve unbuttoned sound, and realigned it. Within four walls in Brooklyn, they mined the democracy of their collaboration, plus the endless hours of stream-of-consciousness recorded documentation of rehearsals over the past years, to conceive the crystalline form of Beast Rest Forth Mouth, their second album, their exaltation.

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Wason
Alma Mía
Premium Latin Music
Genre: Latin : Tropical
UPC: 171011000027
Territories: World
Release Date: 08.17.10

In his transition from lead singer of the quartet Negros to soloist, Wason has worked diligently to find his voice. Alma Mía, an expose of songs composed by Wason, not only showcases Wason’s unique musical persona – it brings to light a rising star who is poised for mainstream recognition.

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Various Artists
Dear New Orleans
ATC Benefits
Genre: Americana : Indie
UPC: 847108082701
Territories: World
Release Date: 08.24.10

Air Traffic Control has been hosting artist activism retreats in New Orleans for the last four years. To mark the 5 year anniversary of the storm and floods we thought it appropriate to produce a benefit album. We started by asking the 60 alumni artists who participated in the retreats if they’d be interested in donating a track for a benefit album — we had no idea over half of them would send us music.

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The Carter Family III
Past & Present
Cash House Records
Genre: Folk : Country
UPC: 844667021080
Territories: World
Release Date: 08.24.10

Undeniably one of America’s greatest areas of music heritage is a small quadrant of Southwest Virginia just north over the state line from Kingsport, TN. From here came the original Carter Family. The Carter Family III carries on the tradition. The sound is richly steeped with musical heritage of Dale Jett and John Carter Cash’s ancestors.

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The Polyamorous Affair
Strange Bedfellows
Winter Palace Records
Genre: Alternative : Electronic
UPC: 844185093200
Territories: World
Release Date: 08.15.10

Strange Bedfellows, the third release from The Polyamorous Affair finds the duo offering surprisingly few duets, instead each branching into two distinct styles – Eddie reconnects with his soul roots and traditional songwriting while Sissy taps into dreams and trails off on mystical disco byways. The album is a strangely seductive electronic hybrid laced with haunting guitars and live percussion that pull you in, spellbound.

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Les Shelleys
Les Shelleys
Fat Cat Records
Genre: Americana : Indie
UPC: 600116999627
Territory: World ex- EU, JP, AU, NZ
Release Date: 08.31.10

By eschewing textual complexity in favor of a simple acoustic guitar and voice combination, Les Shelleys allow a focus on the purity and sweetness of their intermixed voices. Tapping into those inherently romantic and tender qualities of vocal harmonies that serve pop and folk music so well, an instantly likeable, charming personality is given to a time-tested songbook.

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Kirk Whalum
Everything Is Everything: The Music of Donny Hathaway
Rendezvous Music
Genre: Jazz : Smooth Jazz
UPC: 881284514526
Territories: World
Release Date: 08.31.10

There could be no better standard bearer for Donny Hathaway’s work than eight-time Grammy® nominee, tenor saxophonist Kirk Whalum. Highlights include “You Had To Know,” featuring a heartfelt performance by Donny’s daughter, Lalah, and neo-soul crooner Musiq Soulchild’s retro take on “We’re Still Friends.”

Tourdate Round-Up: Dan Mangan, John Mellencamp, Starfucker, and Lee “Scratch” Perry

Friday, August 13th, 2010

328088 72 Tourdate Round Up: Dan Mangan, John Mellencamp, Starfucker, and Lee Scratch Perry Dan Mangan
“Robots” (mp3)
from “Nice, Nice, Very Nice”
(Arts & Crafts)

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Beginning with its reference to a Kurt Vonnegut poem, Nice, Nice, Very Nice is classic Mangan, brimming with irreverence that aims to capture the absurdity of life with astounding honesty and wit. Mangan effortlessly leads listeners through a true range of emotions, complete with earnest affection every one of us can appreciate. He’s soon embarking on a North American tour with the following dates:
Aug 20 – Austin, TX : The Parish (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Aug 21 – Norman, Oklahoma : The Opolis (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Aug 22 – St. Louis, Missouri : Old Rock House (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Aug 23 – Bloomington, Indiana : The Bishop (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Aug 24 – Chicago, IL : Schubas (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Aug 26 – Pontiac, MI : Pike Room @ The Crofoot (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Aug 27 – Dayton, OH : South Park Tavern (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Aug 28 – Buffalo, NY : Mohawk Place (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Aug 29 – Portland, ME : Space Gallery (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Aug 31 – Boston, MA : Great Scott (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Sept 1 – Brooklyn, NY : Union Hall (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Sept 3 – New York, NY : Mercury Lounge (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Sept 4 – Philadelphia, PA : North Star (w/ The Wooden Birds)
Sept 10 – Portland, OR : The Crystal Ballroom (w/ Okkervil River & Bobby Bare Jr.)
Sept 14 – San Francisco, CA : The Fillmore (w/ The Walkmen & Japandroids)
Sept 15 – Los Angeles, CA : The Music Box @ The Fonda (w/ The Walkmen & Japandroids)
Sept 17 – Tempe, AZ : Clubhouse Music Venue (w/ The Walkmen & Japandroids)
Sept 18 – Solana Beach, CA : Belly Up Tavern (w/ The Walkmen & Japandroids)

Artist: John Mellencamp
Title: No Better Than This
Label: Rounder Records
Genre:Rock & Roll : Adult Contemporary
UPC: 011661328426
Territory: Canada & U.S.
Release Date: 08.17.10
In an age of auto-tuned, computerized recordings, John Mellencamp’s approach on his Rounder debut, No Better Than This, is refreshing. The entire album was recorded with Mellencamp and his band all playing live in one room using a 55 year-old Ampex tape recorder and just one vintage microphone. The songs on No Better Than This reflect classic American musical traditions including blues, folk, gospel, rockabilly, and country, while addressing such themes as the need for hope, the nature of relationships, and narratives that recount extraordinary occurrences in everyday life. He’s currently on a North American tour:
Aug 18 – Las Vegas, NV : Colosseum @ Caesars Palace
Aug 19 – Ontario, Canada : Citizens Business Bank Arena
Aug 27 – Bend, OR : Les Schwab Amphitheatre
Aug 28-29 – Troutdale, OR : Edgefield
Aug 31 – Missoula, MT : Ogren Park @ Allegiance Field
Sept 1 – Post Falls, ID : Greyhound Park
Sept 3 – Yakima, WA : Yakima County Stadium
Oct 2 – Milwaukee, WI : Farm Aid 25 Miller Park

Artist: Starfucker
Title: B-Sides
Label: Badman Recording Co
Genre:Alternative : Pop
UPC: 847108047625
Territory: World
Release Date: 08.17.10
Portland, Oregon’s electro-pop favorites Starfucker recorded a 7″ single and two vinyl LP’s on the Badman label. Each piece of vinyl included tracks not released digitally. We are now making these 5 “b-sides” available as a digital only EP entitled B-Sides. Starfucker will be starting a North American Fall tour this September:
Sept 23 – Boise, ID : Neurolux
Sept 24 – Salt Lake City, UT : Kilby Court
Sept 24 – Salt Lake City, UT : Urban Lounge
Sept 25 – Denver, CO : Hi Dive
Sept 27 – Kansas City, MO : the Record Bar
Sept 29 – Little Rock, AR : Juanita’s Cantina Ballroom
Sept 30 – Shreveport, LA : the Collective
Oct 1 – Birmingham, AL : Bottletree Café
Oct 2 – Atlanta, GA : Drunken Unicorn
Oct 5 – Chapel Hill, NC : Local 506
Oct 6 – Washington, DC : DC9
Oct 7 – Philadelphia, PA : Kung Fu Necktie
Oct 8 – Brooklyn, NY : Music Hall of Williamsburg
Oct 9 – New Haven, CT : Café Nine
Oct 10 – Cambridge, MA : TT The Bears
Oct 11 – Montreal, Canada : Casa Del Popolo
Oct 12 – Toronto, Canada : Wrongbar
Oct 13 – Pittsburg, PA : Garfield Artworks
Oct 14 – Cleveland, OH : Grog Shop
Oct 15 – Chicago, IL : Bottom Lounge
Oct 16 – Minneapolis, MN : Triple Rock Social Club
Oct 19 – Seattle, WA : Neumos
Oct 20 – Portland, OR : Roseland
Oct 22 – San Francisco, CA : Great American Music Hall
Oct 23 – Los Angeles, CA : Echoplex
Oct 24 – San Diego, CA : the Casbah
Oct 25 – Tucson, AZ : Plush
Nov 4 – Costa Mesa, CA : Detroit Bar
Nov 5 – Petaluma, CA : Phoenix Theatre

326473 72 Tourdate Round Up: Dan Mangan, John Mellencamp, Starfucker, and Lee Scratch Perry Lee Scratch Perry
“Psalm” (mp3)
from “Revelation”
(Megawave)

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Dub reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry delivers a second follow-up album, plus this special vinyl edition of essential tracks, to his Grammy-nominated collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Steve Marshall and producer John Saxon. Perry continues to create unique, category-defying music. Be sure to catch him at these shows:
Aug 14 – Johnson, VT : Lamoille County Field Days
Aug 15 – Portland, ME : The Asylum
Aug 17 – New York, NY : Highline Ballroom
Aug 18 – Allston, MA : Harper’s Ferry
Aug 19 – Philadelphia, PA : World Café Live
Aug 20 – Stephentown, NY : Gardners Farm
Aug 22 – Los Angeles, CA : Sanborn Stage

Music Video Round-Up: Novos Baianos, Dan Mangan, Trek Life, and Starfucker

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Here we bring you this week’s videos: a lovely vintage video from Novos Baianos, an outstanding acoustic video from Dan Mangan, a hip-hop video from Trek Life and a trippy electro-dance video from Starfucker. It’s quite the mix, so enjoy!

Novos Baianos – “Mistério do Planeta”

Dan Mangan – “Road Regrets”

Trek Life – “So Supreme”

Starfucker - “Medicine”

Review: Starfucker – “Jupiter”

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Artist: Starfucker
Title: Jupiter
Label: Badman Recording Co.
Genre: Indie : Dance
Release Date: 5/5/09
UPC: 655037093022
Territory: United States, Canada

Part indie dance-rock band, part 8-bit electro, Starfucker has a unique take on the tunes that make you shake what your mama gave you. Besides a challenging name and a reputation for fully cross dressing at live performances, the Portland four-piece has been pulling in enthusiastic press and gaining new fans daily. Infectious and youthful, Starfucker is sure to be a much needed fresh injection of energy in Dj sets everywhere. Their label, Badman, describes their sound: “It’s like playing an 8-bit video game where your primary objective is to overcome heartbreak and an obsession with death, your only weapon a love laser mounted on a space bike that zaps out bright red blips and neon bleeps.” Awesome.

2008 was an incredibly successful first year for the band. Their self-titled debut album had been featured on iTunes Indie Spotlight and MySpace; their video premiered on Pitchfork, and they had one of the all-time most downloaded songs (“German Love”) on eMusic’s Daily Download. On Valentine’s Day they played to their largest sold-out crowd in their hometown of Portland, Oregon. And less than nine months after delivering their debut, they are back with an eight song record. Jupiter is a 26 minute mini-album showcases the dance-y upbeat tunes this electro-pop quartet is praised for. Just listening to it you get an immediate sense for how fun their live shows must be. Included is a great cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” which gets a makeover for a contemporary youth without loosing the spirit of the classic original version. The album gives listeners a chance to hear tracks previously dedicated solely to the live show; complete with the planet explorative patter well known on the last record, while reigning in their synth-heavy beat machine dialect for a fresh outlook on what dance music sounds like in their part of the universe. This may be the music founder Josh Hodges was playing for his imaginary audience of aliens when he was a kid. It’s poppy, it’s catchy, and it’s palatable, and that’s a good thing.

Check out “German Love” from their debut record:
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“German Love” (mp3)
from “Starfucker”
(Badman Recording Co)

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Current Priorities: April 21- May 5, 2009

Monday, April 20th, 2009

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In Flagranti
“Brash & Vulgar”
Codek Records
Electronic : New Wave
UPC: 370042905930
Territories: World
Release Date: 4.21.09

In Flagranti make neo-punkfunk the way it should be made; with no regards to structure or formality not as a rehash of tried and tested Mutant Disco templates. Not as fabulously fractured as their debut 2006′s ‘Wronger Than Everyone Else’ nevertheless there are more ideas and experiments in here than a million Bloc Party Lps.

256473 72 Current Priorities: April 21 May 5, 2009

Sleepy Wonder
“Injustice”
No Choice Music Group
Reggae : World
UPC: 844185034012
Territories: World
Release Date: 4.21.09

Featured vocalist Thievery Corporation’s latest release Radio Retalition, Sleep Wonder will be touring with the group through 2009. This is his solo effort- an album of electronic- tinged reggae tunes.

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Various Artists
“How To Be (Soundtrack)”
Dreamboat Records
Indie : Rock
UPC: 653225601226
Territories: World
Release Date: 4.28.09

The 23-track soundtrack features three orginal songs performed by Robert Pattinson, the striking original score by composer Joe Hastings and the quirky electronic sounds of musician-actor Johnny White (The Rollercoaster Project), who plays Ronny in the film. Other musical highlights include ‘Clear Spot’ by elusive genius Captain Beefheart.

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The Alex Dixon Band
“Rising From the Bushes”
Dixon Landing Music
Blues : Rock
UPC: 798304034806
Territories: World
Release Date: 4.28.09

Willie Dixon’s grandson and co-writer of one of Willie’s Grammy-winning albums, Alex Dixon, brings us Rising From the Bushes. Full of the most seasoned session musicians of Blues, Rock and Soul, The Alex Dixon Band would make Willie proud.

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Starf*$#er
“Jupiter”
Badman Recording Co.
Indie : Dance
UPC: 655037093022
Territories: US, Canada
Release Date: 5.5.09

The experience of seeing Starf*%#er’s live performance delivers a reminder of what it is like to be a teenager: inspired, curious, open, hungry for anything new, and smiling uncontrollably. And this 26 minute mini-album showcases the dance-y upbeat tunes this electro-pop quartet is best loved for from their high energy live performances. Includes a cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want To Have Fun.”

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Rae & Christian
“Raiding the Vaults”
Yes King
UPC: 843041067386
Territories: World
Release Date: 5.5.09

This remix album forms a collaboration between Yesking and Rae and Christian. Forged from unused beats and classic acapellas the results highlight the timeless sound of Rae and Christian, classic production and tough beats with soul.

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]

•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]