Wolves In The Attic
July 2, 2009
http://www.myspace.com/wolvesintheatticband
Wolves In The Attic – “Electronic Hearts”
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San Francisco must see show! The Veils, Foreign Born & The Other Girls at The Bottom of the Hill!
June 17, 2009
Sonicliving.com event info, Monday, July 13th, 2009
The Veils
The Veils (formed in 2002) are a New Zealand band based in London, fronted by Finn Andrews. Their sound has been compared to artists as diverse as Jeff Buckley, The Birthday Party, The Smiths, and Joy Division. Their live shows have become famed for their emotional intensity and Finn’s often scarily possessed stage presence.
On Beggars Group… does this label have any artists that sucks? I don’t think so.
Recommended if you like: The National, The Walkmen, Cold War Kids
The Veils – “Sit Down By The Fire”
The Veils – “The Letter”
The Veils – “Killed By The Boom”
The Veils – “Three Sisters”
Foreign Born
Foreign Born began in San Francisco shortly after Matt Popieluch and Lewis Pesacov became roommates. They’d first met a few years earlier in a university piano practice-room, jamming out to the classic strains of “Sunny Afternoon.” Many years and projects later, they found themselves in Los Angeles, where they hooked up with Lewis’ old high school pal, Ariel Rechtshaid and his accomplice, drummer Garret Ray. They played together for only one weekend and thus Foreign Born was, er- born.
Foreign Born – “It Grew On You”
The Other Girls
The Other Girls on myspace
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Interpol’s Paul Banks to release solo album as Julian Plenti
June 10, 2009
Interpol’s lead singer, lyricist and guitarist Paul Banks will release a solo album under the name Julian Plenti, according to the Matador Records blog. The new project, “Skyscraper,” will be released on August 4th.
Banks has written and performed under the Plenti moniker for several years, according to a source close to the situation. While the album was recorded recently, some of the songs were written more than ten years ago. The album is described as having a “cocky, sexy” feel, with tracks that sound similar to Interpol, as well as some straight-ahead guitar rock songs.
Julian Plenti – “Fun That We Have”
live version of ‘On The Esplanade”
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Music For Animals, tonight at Popscene SF
June 4, 2009
http://www.myspace.com/musicforanimals
Friendly Fires-like sound
The Killers-like cheese (just check out their myspace profile photo)
danceable indie pop
Playing at 330 Ritch in San Francisco tonight and at Live 105’s BFD this weekend…. which might be the only time you’ll hear anything other than Green Day and Weezer with regards to Live 105.
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The Soft Tags (lo-fi, shoegaze)
June 2, 2009
The Soft Tags – “Lunar Eclipse Song”
Bio:
Soft Tags are from the indie music hotbed of Portland, OR. It rains constantly. We live in direct sight of at least one volcano at any time. Sometimes they spew smoke. Under the volcanoes, we have been playing for sold out shows in the Pacific Northwest and writing music that we feel is pretty unique – acoustic guitars are fuzzed out through tube amps and melodic, chiming guitars carry the melodies we couldn’t get out of heads back on college radio circa 1981.
Taking place over the course of a particularly spooky and fog-gauzed November, BLUE HOUSE (their best record and 4th in just over a year and a half) is a collection of short story songs that find strange transmissions coming through on radios, volcanos about to explode and cults taking over abandoned government satellite dishes in order to communicate with the dead.
This band started like most bands do ….. former rock journalist Richard Shirk (lead vox, gtr right) met Nick Ocon (drums) in the elevator of our building. he met Adam Jones (vox, gtr left) while filming a movie and met Paul Notley (accordion, bass) through a pal. Shirk grew up in the midwest where he lived in a haunted house, saw a UFO in close proximity, and generally felt the spookiness of the vast, empty spaces dotted by luminous water towers and strange burn-marks out in the corn-fields. All of these factors lead to tags songs that tend to gravitate towards storytelling rather than than girl-I-like-you songs as seen in most of the tracks on ‘Blue House,’ especially lead track ‘The Appeal of Alice to the Spectre of Walter’ and fan favorite ‘Lunar Eclipse Song.’
Tags have been enjoying a growing cult audience over the last year of playing shows with bands like Neva Denova, Chikita Violenta (the best band in Mexico City and Broken Social Scene associates), Ladyhawk, The Mint Chicks, The Prids, and psychedelic legends Green Pajamas. The band recently contributed a track to ‘Dots to Connect’ a benefit compilation for their friends the Prids on NYC’s Five03 Records. Soft Tags appear alongside A Place to Bury Strangers, the Upsidedown and the Wendy’s (a former Factory Records band) along with many others.
Influences: go-betweens, R.E.M., velvet underground, smiths, orange juice, wire, elephant six bands, flying nun bands, La’s.
http://www.myspace.com/softtags
buy their 8 track cd for $5 here
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Steve Wozniak likes Nine Inch Nails… but he likes Tetris more… way more.
May 25, 2009
This weekend we went down to Mountain View to see Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction. We went into the venue through the VIP gate and went up to the bar to get our drinks. We noticed that sitting down near the bar with a few friends was Steve Wozniak, Apple cofounder. We got our drinks and went on our way.
We walked across the venue to the other VIP bar and went down the ramp backstage. It was nothing special. Just a bunch of unknown people standing around chatting. The lone exception was Kevin Rose, digg.com founder.
The tour manager told us that Trent Reznor was getting ready to go on stage so we’d have to come back after the show. We walked back up the ramp to find our seats.
Our seats were in one of the box seat sections in the middle of the two reserved sections. We noticed that Steve Wozniak was seated right in front of us. We also noticed that he and his buddies were playing Tetris on a Gameboy. Somehow I noticed that Kevin Rose was seated behind us. I feel like nerd for knowing this but whatever… I work in tech… and know someone who works at Digg.
Nine Inch Nails came on within five to ten minutes. I kid you not, Wozniak and his friends played Tetris for the ENTIRE SET! It was hysterical. He didn’t look up once.
Kevin Rose is in the black sweatshirt. Click on the photo to enlarge.
After the NIN set we left our seats for backstage. We waited around casually for quite a while. Jane’s Addiction had taken the stage and we could see their set from the backstage televisions.
Eventually we were told that Trent Reznor was available so we were led back to his trailer. I have to admit Shoreline doesn’t keep the nicest of rooms for their guest. Very ugly 1970s wood paneling everywhere. We talked with Trent for a few minutes, took some pictures, and made our way back to our seats to pay our tab so we could leave before Jane’s Addiction finished their set.
Back at our box, I noticed “WOZ” in large letters indicating Wozniak’s box in front of us. We also noticed that Wozniak was STILL playing Tetris. Probably through the entire concert except to eat.
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‘Notes’, brand new infectious indie pop from London!
May 22, 2009
Notes (UK) are a new band from London. They are a 4 piece, who for the most part originally hail from York. Consisting of Simon Hutchinson (Vocals & Guitar), Louis Bamber (Guitar), Charles Beckwith (Bass) & Lucas Atkin (Drums). They write razor sharp, unforgettable, infectious English indie pop.
I am happy to be the first to give you the chance to hear these guys. You can’t buy this yet but keep checking their myspace site. Shouldn’t be long. Thanks a lot to Giles and Notes for providing this for me!
Recommended if you like: Vampire Weekend, Ra Ra Riot, MGMT
Influences: Joe Meek, Heinz and the Wildboys, The Beatles, The Blue Rondos, Pulp, Lord Such, Stones & Captain Beefheart
Notes – “Maybe Baby”
Notes on myspace
Notes on last.fm
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Advanced Twilight Sad track from the forth coming sophomore release
May 19, 2009
Pitchfork reveals their ignorance by referring to Twilight Sad as ‘emo’ but they get a pass, I guess, for giving us a free, forthcoming track from the upcoming new album called “Forget the Night Ahead”.
Twilight Sad – “Reflection of the Television”
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CBS Flashpoint “Perfect Storm” song by Golden State
May 2, 2009
I just watched the CBS show Flashpoint for the first time tonight. Tonight’s episode, called “Perfect Storm”, really caught my attention at the end. The song during the ending was by Golden State. I hadn’t heard the song before but I recognized the voice.
James Grundler, the singer in Golden State, was also in a couple of other bands. The Din Pedals & PaloAlto. He is a fan of Radiohead and U2, which you can tell by his vocal style, but another band who he’s a huge fan of is The Catherine Wheel, who’s first two albums are in my top 10 albums of all time.
I saw the Din Pedals play in San Francisco back in the 90s and it was obvious at the time that they drew some inspiration from The Catherine Wheel. Pick up the albums “Ferment” and “Chrome”. If I remember correctly, I even gave him a homemade cd I made of a bunch of Catherine Wheel b-sides. This was before Napster took off and popularized mp3s.
You can download the Golden State mp3 here from Amazon.com. It was on the Henry Poole Is Here soundtrack.
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Twitter Indie Song A Day just started
May 1, 2009
http://twitter.com/IndieSongADay
“Request and feedback welcome”
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