Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too.
Orbital are brothers Paul Hartnoll and Phil Hartnoll. They are intergalactic electronic music time travelers come to save us from ourselves one funky beat at a time. Who says nothing cool never came out of Sevenoaks, England? Not I. Rock it. Peace. Continue reading “Orbital // New France (L-Vis 1990’s Rewound Mix) + Straight Sun *Video”
San Diego/Long Beach band Delta Spirit is Jon Jameson, Brandon Young, Matthew Vasquez, Kelly Winrich, and Will McLaren, but they are much more than a bunch of guys banging drums and wrenching the blood, sweat and tears from guitars and other instrumentation. They are more than songs shot through with intensity and a hefty dose of gilded sweetness. These guys are the kind of band you listen to when you want to go home, grab a beer and shed all the bullshit of the day and just chill out. You listen but you don’t really listen, you absorb the quaint melodies and let the music settle around your ears like wood smoke, and the vocals of Matthew Vasquez can work tenseness out of you like a master masseuse on top of their game. Listen to the entire self-titled album Delta Spirit at www.deltaspirit.net. Honorable mentions, the very first song “Empty House”, “California”, “Into The Darkness” and my favorite “Otherside” with its sexy Bossa Nova structure. Make no mistake, these aren’t the only gems, there are 11 of them. Let me know which ones you fall to pieces listening to. By the by, you can get the FREE DOWNLOAD of the track “California” on the bands’ Facebook Fan Page. Peace. Continue reading “Delta Spirit / / Self-Titled Album Delta Spirit”
Tim Presley sheds his punk persona with his side-project White Fence to delve into something more rustic and dusted with 60’s folk/rock cool. It’s a pleasant mix of Bob Dylan meets The Beatles. Basically, it’s something old made new again and that is as much a compliment as I can come up with right now. And by the way, I’m sending this one out to a fellow Beatles fan, Ms. Aston E. and if your reading this I hope you smile a mile wide. Peace. Continue reading “White Fence / / It Will Never Be”
According to his label Sub Pop Spoek Mathambo, “Spoek Mathambo makes the Afro-futurists look old school. With the arrival of his second album, Father Creeper, he’s one man building up an army to make his creative visions a reality, rewriting any artistic laws in his way.”
Well, I’m totally smitten and I’m loving the music, the flow, the vibe, his swag. Basically, I’m a fan, a new convert if you will. Plus, I’m earning massive cool points for puttin’ on music out of Johannesburg, South Africa. And oh, you got to check his take on the Joy Division‘s “She’s Lost Control” and if that doesn’t get you, well my friend we need to talk. Peace. Continue reading “Spoek Mathambo / / Put Some Red On It (Shabazz Palaces Remix)”
The band Tribes always manage to bring it, and bring it they do with their latest album Baby, which contains a whole lot of raucous noise intertwined with a few tender moments thrown in for good measure. And their song “Nightdriving” is reminiscent of that one song from XTC’s Skylarking LP circa 1996, yeah you know the one. Is it me or does listening to this album tell you these guys are lovers and not fighters, and that’s a good thing. Peace. Continue reading “Tribes // Sappho (Video)”
Jules De Martino and Katie White definitely have a good thing going, especially with the mega awesome Sounds From Nowheresville LP on their hands. My ears are finicky listeners but they’ve practically salivating for much more when I play the latest from The Ting Tings. This new joint is practically jumping off the player and onto the dance floor. Now, here is my disclaimer, if you break something while dancing to this I am not liable. Check out the “Hang It Up” Banana Dynamite Remix plus more after the jump. Peace. Continue reading “the ting tings // soul killing”
As always, there exists much fragility in the world and the songs of Perfume Genius not only embody those easily broken parts of the human heart and soul; they expand upon them in the role of one who has endured much. When I first listened to the musical renderings of 26-year-old Seattle resident Mike Hadrea I was at once struck, not only by the beauty of the songs, but also the very raw and uncontrived nature of Mr. Hadrea’s voice, for it is the voice that conveys the pain and exposed nerve endings of one whose felt much the dark underpinnings of heartache. Listen to the songs, “Hood”, “Normal Song” and “Dark Parts” all of which are taken from the album Put Your Back N 2 It (2012). I’m certain you’ll love them enough to want them all for yourself as salve against the small meteors that assail one’s existence from time to time. Peace. Continue reading “perfume genius / / hood + normal song + dark parts”
Right away your swept away by the fresh picked vibe of the song, “Our Love’s Taking Strange Ways” by the wondrous, and always unpredictable band The Mary Onettes. One of cool things I truly love about today’s musical landscape, is how one can find great music the globe over. Yes, The Mary Onettes are from Sweden, but they could just as easily be from LA, NYC, as well. Their new Love Forever 12″/EP is available on iTunes and Amazon. You can also get a FREE DOWNLOAD. Peace. Continue reading “The Mary Onettes // Our Love’s Taking Strange Ways”
Admittedly, I know little about this kick-ass duo, other than they are Annie Gardiner on vocals/bass and on drums Tom Gardiner. Sister/Brother combo? Don’t know. Is their music giving me something to smile about? Hell fuckin’ YES! The music they make is hard-edged like a street brawlers’ brass knuckles, so be careful where you point the songs coming out of your speakers. Check out Hysterical Injury and their debut LP Dead Wolf Situation, and believe me it’s alive a kicking in your teeth. By the way, those little yelps Annie does, totally do something crazy to the mechanical inner workings of my soul. Peace. Continue reading “Hysterical Injury / / Dead Wolf Situation”
I’ve been listening to Danielle “Danz” Johnson bka Computer Magic for a couple of years now, and the growth has been nothing less than amazingly well deserved. Funny, I remember when the only song by CM that was available on iTunes was VHS. But what a difference a few years can make. Currently, Computer Magic is signed with a cool label, and you can best believe there is now more than one song available on iTunes. Give her listen and let me know if your like her too. Peace. Continue reading “Computer Magic / / Trinity”