Jagwar Ma, who is producer Jono Ma & singer Gabriel Winterfield, along with Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint and producer Ewan Pearson, have released a new track called, “Man I Need”.

Some have compared them to The Stone Roses, which I don’t disagree with, but they also remind me of Tame Impala and The Charlatans UK.

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These are my music listening statistics for albums and songs released in 2012. Pulling from various sources and rating most played, highly rated, starred, loved, etc, depending on the source.

2012 music stats:
145 songs rated 4 or 5 stars from 107 different bands

most played song: Beach House – Myth

Albums with 3 or more highly rated songs (alphabetical order):
Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
Beach House – Bloom
Bear In Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool
DIIV – Oshin
Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
Lower Dens – Nootropics
Poolside – Pacific Standard Time
Purity Ring – Shrines
Tame Impala – Lonerism

Listen to them all here on Spotify.

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Slowness released their debut LP For Those Who Wish to See the Glass Half Full on March 12, 2013 with Blue Aurora Audio. The record was produced by Monte Vallier (Weekend, The Soft Moon, Tommy Guerrero) and mastered by Kramer (Low, Galaxie 500, Bongwater). The eight-song LP is reminiscent of IRS era REM, early Stereolab and mid-period Cure, running just under 34 minutes.

“Slowness wields an edgier, starker, more primal style that sounds like it could be traced back to all those Kiwi bands that loved The Velvet Underground.” – THE BIG TAKEOVER

Slowness was formed in San Francisco in 2008 by Julie Lynn and Geoffrey Scott. The group released their EP Hopeless but Otherwise in 2011 and toured America. After returning to San Francisco, Scott Putnam joined the group to begin writing and rehearsing songs for what would become For Those Who Wish to See the Glass Half Full. The group is scheduling a brief European tour for late Spring, 2013.

While the sonic scenery may be dark, the band never leaves the listener’s side, guiding the way with points of catharsis to reveal the beauty in discomfort. Lyrically, Slowness walk the line between the political and personal, with the words equally fitting to a relationship as they would be to a protest; anger mixing with sober reflection.

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I see around 20 shows a year on average. The Veils show on July 13, 2009 at The Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco was one of my top 3 shows of the year that year. Their 2009 release, Sun Gangs, was one of my favorite albums of the year too.

A lot of bands can stand on stage and play with energy or replicate the album but something about The Veils was more than that. A friend of mine who went, who lives in East Bay and usually leaves shows a few songs early to get home for a decent nights sleep now that he has a wife and kids, stayed through to the end.

The Veils new album, “Time Stays, We Go”, is due out on April 23. Here is a live clip from Abbey Roads studios of what to expect.

The Veils will be playing at The Independent on 4/24, the day after their album drops. It should be a great show!

You can pre-order the album and download a free track now from here.

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Australia’s Jagwar Ma, aka Jono Ma (you may have heard of him through his work with Foals), is the producer of some quality electronic vibes that swim through the rough terrain of yesteryear, but warps them for modern senses. “Come Save Me” is 60s bubblegum pop crystalized into tribal neon (much like TV Girl does) and features the vocals of Gabriel Winterfield (Ghostwood), additional production from Ewan Pearson and additional percussion from Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint). “What Love” is a slow building trance that picks up substance along the way, but still continuing the hypnotic thump.

Recommended if you like: The Stone Roses, The Happy Mondays, MGMT, Tame Impala

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Montreal’s Elephant Stone was formed in 2009 by sitarist/bassist Rishi Dhir. As one of the most highly sought out sitar players in the psychedelic music scene, he has recorded and toured with the Black Angels, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Horrors, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, and many more.

In 2009, Elephant Stone released their debut album, The Seven Seas. Perfectly melding Rishi’s obsession with the perfect pop song and the trippiest raga, The Seven Seas, was warmly embraced by the global indie/psyche scene and long-listed for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize

2010/2011 saw the release of The Glass Box EP, a 5-song suite of inspired power-pop/psyche classics, a supporting slot on the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s North American tour, multiple European/UK tours with sold-out dates in London and Berlin, and festival appearances at the Iceland Airwaves, Osheaga, and SXSW.

Today they’ve released their 2nd LP, self titled, Elephant Stone. [official site/buy]

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The much anticipated and rumored new My Bloody Valentine album, “MBV”, is finally out. Listen and download here.

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Interview with Peter Hook:

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(Peter Hook is introduced and the interview begins at the 10:35 mark after the introduction and video (audio only, not shown))

The interview is approximately 80 minutes long, after the 10 minute introduction, and is very entertaining and kept me fully engaged the entire time. He talks a lot about all aspects of Joy Division from recording, writing, bass playing, Ian’s death, modern day perception, and gets plenty of relatively good natured jabs in at New Order and Bernard Sumner.

Inside Joy Division
With David Pescovitz, Co-Editor of Boing Boing

Godfathers of alternative rock, Joy Division, reinvented music in the post-punk era, creating a dark, hypnotic and intense sound that influenced such bands as U2, Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. Founding member Peter Hook’s propulsive bass guitar melodies came to define an era and inspire a generation. After iconic lead singer Ian Curtis’s suicide, the remaining members went on to form New Order, creators of synth-pop and one of the most critically acclaimed and influential bands of the 1980s. Peter Hook’s new book, Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, tells the band’s definitive, long-awaited story.

“Hook evokes the spirit of the age with a bluff authenticity that no outsider could hope to emulate… explaining the creation of his band’s remarkable music with all the passion and insight it deserves.”
– Keith Cameron, MOJO

“With Joy Division, you felt from this singer, beauty was truth and truth was beauty, and theirs was a search for both.”
– Bono

Recorded on Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 at the San Francisco JCC.

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and read the rest of
Peter Hook’s stories here.

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