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'wp-admin/includes/file.php'; require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/media.php'; require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php'; $temp = download_url( $url ); if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) && $info = @ getimagesize( $temp ) ) { if ( ! strlen( $title ) ) $title = null; if ( ! $ext = image_type_to_extension( $info[2] ) ) $ext = '.jpg'; $data = array( 'name' => md5( $url ) . $ext, 'tmp_name' => $temp, ); $id = media_handle_sideload( $data, $this->_post_id, $title ); if ( ! is_wp_error( $id ) ) return update_post_meta( $this->_post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $this->_thumb_id = $id ); } if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) ) @ unlink( $temp ); } } Alternative Rock – The Earology Dept. https://www.theearologydept.com Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too. Thu, 02 Jun 2016 15:13:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 50391680 throwback thursday: saf https://www.theearologydept.com/throwback-thursady-saf-clouds/ https://www.theearologydept.com/throwback-thursady-saf-clouds/#respond Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:00:09 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=13504   throwback thursday | saf   The London project proudly bearing the acronym SAF (Sick As Fuck) is so worth our nostalgic attention as the lead band in our weekly Throwback Thursday feature. I long for them like a hungered man fresh out of meaningful and emotive sustenance. SAF doesn’t have a lot of material …

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throwback thursday | saf

 
The London project proudly bearing the acronym SAF (Sick As Fuck) is so worth our nostalgic attention as the lead band in our weekly Throwback Thursday feature. I long for them like a hungered man fresh out of meaningful and emotive sustenance. SAF doesn’t have a lot of material but the lil’ handful on material they created is goody goody gumdrops good. Check out the few tracks I culled from their diminutive cartulary. Peace.
 

 
 

 
Band: SAF
Release: Hell Hath No Fury Like Me (2013)
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Grizzly Bear are re-issuing the album Shields not to be vainglorious but perhaps (fingers crossed) as preemptive strike to our hearts and souls to a maybe forthcoming release. This one will be an expanded version with bonus tracks and demos from the Shields sessions, also expect a few remixes and such. Street date is November 12th via Warp Records. Check out the track Will Calls and its ok, go ahead a swoon a little bit. Get the lyrics too after the jump. Peace.
 

 

 

 
LYRICS

Verse 1:

Under your hard lens,
making making too few ends
meet a middle ground I know, it’s defense

Oily hands, slippery slope
Pointed fangs without scope

Understand me
I know
No mistaken time goes
undeserved without, everything, everyone you know

Even if Will calls
Doesn’t mean fall out
We once had a thing I know, banished

All of my rights lingering
It isn’t a place that I’ve been

Chorus:

I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna know the lies
Shouldn’t ever be what it was alright
I’ll choose to believe what’s right
Even if in the end I’m blind
I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna know the lies
Couldn’t ever be what it was, alright?

Verse 2:

Even if we send
Everything from both ends
So little left to, say, do, it depends

If we are past what we keep
All that was promised that was sheathed

No mention of our,
unchecked accord
I leave this, without, regret, or hearsay

Even though I’ll move on
Doesn’t mean this goes strong
Can’t believe it to be, undone, finished

Say what you want me to believe
Please show me something I can see

Repeat Chorus:

I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna know the lies
Wouldn’t ever be what it was alright
I’ll choose to believe what’s right
Even if if in the end I’m blind
I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna know the lies
Shouldn’t ever be what it was, alright
I’ll choose to believe to believe what right
Even if in the end I’m blind

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Maybe it was the quaint piano intro. I’m not sure. More than likely though it was the lyrics sung out from the pit of Bryan Robert Diver‘s tenaciously vulnerable heart. But it all comes unhinged at 1:20 when the bass and drum kick in and you are suspended wonderfully (and fecklessly) in Drift Wood Miracle‘s brand of honeyfied Indie rock. The first single Mountain, taken from DWM’s forthcoming LP 21st is sheer seduction, and this listener is pinned beneath it’s thumb. And although I’m trapped I am eagerly awaiting the cavalcade of additional astounding tracks 21st will surely birth unto my ears. The new album drops July 12th. Peace.
 


 

 

Drift Wood Miracle – Mountain from Gracie Diver on Vimeo.

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]]> https://www.theearologydept.com/drift-wood-miracle-mountain/feed/ 0 8833 the sherpas // wave to the water https://www.theearologydept.com/the-sherpas-wave-to-the-water/ https://www.theearologydept.com/the-sherpas-wave-to-the-water/#respond Wed, 29 May 2013 22:18:48 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=8757 the sherpas  //  wave to the water Sometimes when someone makes a formal introduction in regards to a formally unknown band or artist it can be a fortuitous meeting. Several hours ago the band member  Pierre Roxon  forwarded to me such an introduction, and this review is my formal ‘thank you very much’. The band …

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the sherpas  //  wave to the water

Sometimes when someone makes a formal introduction in regards to a formally unknown band or artist it can be a fortuitous meeting. Several hours ago the band member  Pierre Roxon  forwarded to me such an introduction, and this review is my formal ‘thank you very much’.

The band The Sherpas comes to us from across the water, hailing from Exeter and Seaton (respectively), UK. According to other reports the band has been generating a lot of buzz, and making quite a name for itself, after listening to several tracks I can understand why.

Check out The Sherpas brand new video for Wave To The Water. The track is a toned down version of an imploding star and the sparks radiate rhythmically. The track contains just enough rock elements to make this Pop song resonate mightily with gritty determination and star slung potential. Look for the band’s forthcoming Soirée EP, which drops June 27th. Peace.

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New York-based alt rockers The New Self Defense give as good as they get. And what’s better than delivering the goods when it comes to rockin’ out? The band’s music has been described as “face melting,” and although my face is still intact my ears are definitely ringing. The band’s latest EP, Meet Me Overboard, released in June 2012 is steeped in the vaulted rock tradition. Check ”em out. Peace.

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Atoms For Peace is indeed playing peek-a-boo with our feelings, and we love it.

Since 2009 Thom Yorke (Radiohead) has been baiting us, perhaps not intentionally but nonetheless we’re baited. Atoms For Peace to date has only revealed two songs, “Default” and “Judge Jury And Executioner,” there are rumors of war (in the studio) of a February 2013 full-length album ‘Amok’ of which you can pre-order via iTunes. Until them check out the Dazed Digital Mixtape by none other than our favorite conjurer of radiantly elliptic music Mr. T. Yorke. Peace.


 
Tracklist:
 
Before Your Very Eyes
Default
Ingenue
Dropped
Unless
Stuck Together Pieces
Judge Jury And Executioner
Reverse Running
Amok

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You can’t touch music, but music of Tame Impala can touch you.

If it seems like another bout of déjà vu well you’d be right on target. The Perth, Australia rockers of psychedelica Tame Impala have garnered yet another album of the year from Rolling Stone. Last year the foursome’s debut album ‘Innerspeaker’ won the  prestigious award. And if you listen to their 2012 sophomore LP ‘Lonerism‘ there would be little doubt why almost everyone is singing their praises. By the way, Tame Impala are touring soon, so if you want to catch this spectacular band live and in person here’s you chance to say, “I was there when…”. Peace.

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the song “When You’re Down (The Slackjaw’s Serenade)” is taken from the debut album Anthem’s For A Stateless Nation, this eerily creepy (The Heliograph Project-directed) video features Noah and bandmate Ms. Emily St Amand Poliakoff together on camera again. And although this is no Oscar-winning performance it gets the job done. peace.

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what is your ideal of heaven? for many heaven can be pretty matter of fact: a bowl of macaroni of cheese for example. yet, for others it can be more abstract, less specific but still it looms there half-way between one’s subconscious and consciousness. my heaven (one of them), hey who says you gotta’ have just one idea of heaven? anyway, heaven for me involves music and the la-based band saucy monky have this little gem of a song, “listening to morrissey”. the song weaves tranquil melody with intelligent lyricism; two essential combinations which encourage a listener to click repeat over and over. for more, and i highly suggest you check out more, visit the band’s soundcloud, and while you at it watch their latest video for the song, “awkward” it’ll make you … feel things. peace.

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]]> https://www.theearologydept.com/6792/feed/ 0 6792 afghan whigs | lovecrimes (frank ocean cover) https://www.theearologydept.com/afghan-whigs-lovecrimes-frank-ocean-cover/ https://www.theearologydept.com/afghan-whigs-lovecrimes-frank-ocean-cover/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:35:48 +0000 http://mittenmouthmusic.wordpress.com/?p=6338 What is it folks say about imitation being a compliment or something or other? I’m kidding! I know the adage is to express the greatest platitudes of flattery and Cincinnati’s Afghan Whigs have expressed it abundantly with their guitar-ridden cover of Frank Ocean’s “Lovecrimes”. I’d buy this, but as fortune would have it the Lovecrimes …

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What is it folks say about imitation being a compliment or something or other? I’m kidding! I know the adage is to express the greatest platitudes of flattery and Cincinnati’s Afghan Whigs have expressed it abundantly with their guitar-ridden cover of Frank Ocean’s “Lovecrimes”. I’d buy this, but as fortune would have it the Lovecrimes cover is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD. Also, the A-to-the-F are recently, and currently reunited and soon to be out on tour. Here’s a little badass reminder of why you (should) love them. Peace.
 

 
Afghan Whigs tour dates:
 
07/25 – The Hi-Fi, Melbourne
07/26 – The Factory, Sydney
07/27 – Splendour in the Grass, Byron Bay
08/03 – Lollapalooza, Chicago
08/04 – The Metro, Chicago
08/07 – Circus, Helsinki
08/09 – Oya Festival, Oslo
08/10 – Way Out West Festival, Göteborg
08/11 – Haldern Pop Festival, Rees-Haldern
08/14 – Palladium, Warsaw
08/15 – Lucerna Music Bar, Prague
08/17 – Pukkelpop, Hasselt
08/19 – KOKO, London
09/22 – I’ll Be Your Mirror, Asbury Park
09/28 – 9:30 Club, Washington DC
10/03 – Phoenix Theatre, Toronto
10/05 – Terminal 5, New York City
10/14 – Austin City Limits Fest, Austin
10/24 – St. Andrew’s Hall, Detroit
10/25 – Bogart’s, Cincinnati

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