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blizten trapper | lonsome angel
Acclaimed Portland, Oregon rock quintet Blitzen Trapper will release their new album All Across This Land on October 2nd through Lojinx in Europe (on Vagrant in the US).
This is a rock band’s rock band and they deliver a sound deeply embedded in Americana, fitted with Folk elements and the foundational and requisite Blues. It’s all there refined in rough and tumble environs of the Pacific Northwest. Also, check the SoundCloud media player after the jump and click for the FREE DOWNLOAD. Peace.
Band: Blitzen Trapper
Album: All Across This Land
Featured Track: Lonsome Angel
Label: Vagrant
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mimicking birds | bloodlines
Mimicking Birds opens up a main vein and let’s the essence of audible offerings out. We’re thankful as Sunday parishioners for the track Bloodlines. This song is of such character it’ll manage subtle slights of hand and leaves you wanting to visit often to unravel it’s tricks. But there aren’t any charades here, the music just surrounds you in feelings seldom unleashed. The track Owl Hoots is a flourish of breath stealing vapor and I am enamored like a certain Montague sweet on a beauteous Capulet.
Check out the band’s Eon album out now via Glacial Pace Records. Currently, the band is on tour with Modest Mouse and mayhap you can catch ’em. Peace.
Get Mimicking Birds via glacialpace.com and via iTunes.
Mimicking Birds 2014 Tour:
Jul 16 Big Sky Brewery w/ Modest Mouse Missoula, MT
Jul 17 Idaho Botanical Gardens w/ Modest Mouse Boise, ID
Jul 18 The Showbox Seattle, WA
Jul 22 MacEwan Hall w/ Modest Mouse Calgary, Canada
Jul 23 MacEwan Hall Calgary, Canada
Jul 24 Shaw Conference Centre w/ Modest Mouse Edmonton, Canada
Jul 25 Conexus Art Centre w/ Modest Mouse Regina, Canada
Jul 26 O’Brians Event Centre w/ Modest Mouse Saskatoon, Canada
Jul 28 Burton Cummings Theatre Winnipeg, Canada
Jul 29 7th Street Entry w/ Trails & Ways Minneapolis, MN
Jul 31 London Music Hall w/ Modest Mouse London, Canada
Aug 01 Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre w/ Modest Mouse Toronto, Canada
Aug 03 The Mercury Lounge New York, NY
Aug 05 The Capitol Theatre w/ Modest Mouse Port Chester, NY
Aug 06 The Dome at Oakdale w/ Modest Mouse Wallingford, CT
Aug 07 Starland Ballroom w/ Modest Mouse Sayreville, NJ
Aug 09 The Hideout Chicago, IL
Aug 11 Hi-Dive Denver, CO
Aug 12 The Shred Shed Salt Lake City, UT
Aug 15 Mississippi Studios Portland, OR
Aug 23 First City Festival Monterey, CA
Aug 24 First City Festival Monterey, CA
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Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the young Turks of Rare Monk have a sonic resilience that’s like everything and nothing you’ve ever heard. While the obvious signposts are there to guide you (Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Phoenix), Rare Monk combine their love of both 90s and contemporary Indie Rock with a fevered Pop intensity, before shooting the whole thing into outer space to see what comes back. As frontman Dorian Aites puts it, “Although we draw upon many genres for inspiration, we’ve been creating our own thing based on nothing other than the idea that, ‘these are the songs we wrote cause they sound cool’”.
The psychedelic insanity can be traced back to their college roots, when the guys were the go-to band for drunkin‘ dorm rooms and sonic exploration. In 2012 Rare Monk teamed up with noted producer Skyler Norwood (Blind Pilot, Horsefeathers, Talkdemonic) for their self-released EP, ‘Death By Proxy’. The giddy pop thrill of the title track and the funky, slow burn of “Underground” act as the band’s mission statement, and according to Dorian, “Is pretty genuine. I think the important thing here is not to try and fit a compartmentalized soundscape, or to try and be different from everyone else; the importance lies in doing what you are passionate about. Passion is genuine.” Rare Monk is definitely a band to watch. After the jump check out their amazing Bill Withers cover Ain’t No Sunshine. Peace.
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Portland-based five-pointed star ship Wampire unveil a bangin’ new video (directed by David Fine by the way). The short contains equal parts mirth and the oft times mendicant and tumultuous push-n-pull between hirsute men and blue-eyed women the world over. You’ll adore the ‘Lac emblem, beach dancing, and actor Patrick Dunnam’s longish pit follicles blowing in the Pacific airstream. I did. Yes, I am apologetically weird.
Anyway, the track is one of many (originally there were ten but Beyoncé strong-armed one) from Wampire’s latest ensemble of sound, Curiosity birthed into existence courtesy of Polyvinyl Records. Peace.
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As their name implies there is nothing boring about Portland-based Wild Ones. And although things are decidedly much less hectic than way back in the days when respective band members were suffering collapsed lungs and blown out eardrums. Now, fit of body and mind (mostly), the five-member Rock/Folk/Pop makers of the good stuff are out touring and singing and playing the living daylights out of the songs from their July 2013 release Keep It Safe.
Keep It Safe, the album that finally emerged after well over a year of gestation, is bigger than the sum of its meticulously gathered parts. Even now, the band’s sound continues to evolve. Wild Ones’ members come from vastly disparate musical backgrounds—guitarist Nick Vicario was a Portland punk icon long before he turned 18; bassist Max Stein is a classical composer—and all of their experiences inform pop music that is influenced by everything from German techno to American R&B. These are sounds that don’t usually come packaged together, but in the able hands of Wild Ones, they seem like a perfectly natural fit.
And finally, where would the Wild Ones be, much sound like, without the saccharin and impossibly seductive lead vocals of Danielle Sullivan? Let’s not even go there, I’ll just say my ears are happy, and having happy ears is one of life’s greatest endeavors. Peace.
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menomena // co-headlining fall tour with the helio sequence
Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Menomena is touring this fall in support of their latest album Moms. The co-headlining tour with fellow Portland duo The Helio Sequence starts on September 28th 2013 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and ends on October 25th at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. Full tour dates are below.
Moms is the Portland-based band’s fifth album, and their first as a duo. The album has been receiving wide praise, with Pitchfork proclaiming “Moms is without doubt the most aggressive record Menomena have ever made” and calling the lead single “Heavy Is As Heavy Does” “gloriously morose.” Rolling Stone likewise hailed the track as “an emotive outburst of a song that expertly sidesteps melodrama – confessional rock thrills without the cheesy aftertaste.” Paste remarked that the record is “the most candid and personal Menomena release to date,” while Under the Radar called Menomena “one of the most well thought-out bands working today, never sacrificing structure or composition in the name of delivering a series of power chords.” Alarm declared that Moms “is arguably Menomena’s best effort to date.” Peace.
Menomena tour dates:
9/28 – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
9/29 – Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
9/30 – Constellation Room – Santa Ana, CA
10/1 – Pub Rock – Phoenix, AZ
10/2 – Plush – Tucson, AZ
10/4 – Mohawk – Austin, TX
10/5 – TBA – Denton, TX
10/7 – Club Downunder – Tallahassee, FL
10/8 – Bottletree – Birmingham, AL
10/10 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA
10/11 – Visulite – Charlotte, NC
10/12 – TBA – Raleigh, NC
10/13 – Black Cat – Washington, DC
10/15 – Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA
10/17 – Webster Hall – New York, NY
10/18 – Sinclair – Boston, MA
10/19 – The Haunt – Ithaca, NY
10/21 – Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL
10/22 – Varsity Theater – Minneapolis, MN
10/24 – Bluebird – Denver, CO
10/25 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
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Today is a good day. Why? Today the Portland, Oregon-based band Typhoon premiered their Matthew Thomas Ross directed video for Dreams Of Cannibalism. The song, with all of it’s wild ranging folk-rockin’ docility comes from their forthcoming album White Lighter, which drops August 20th, 2013 courtesy of Roll Call Records. My favorite song on the new album is “Common Sentiments,” and man can Kyle Morton sing his heinie off!
Of note, if you like what you hear then check out the bands much lauded and sweetly colossus EP, A New Kind Of House. Peace.
Dreams Of Cannibalism: Lyrics
unhand me i am not a criminal
though i’ve played a guilty part
in the modern sense that one pretends
their life is original
i wrote a book and i will call it something cynical
the story is slow the hero does not change
and if he can then he won’t anyway
instead his foes and lovers all become identical
i fled the country
i thought i’d leave this behind
but i built the same damn house
on every acre i could find
and i tried to fake my own death
just shake the devils from my mind
i said
unhand me i am not a criminal
and if i am i paid the man just let me go
soon enough you will be dancing at my funeral.
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for STRFKR‘s third full-length album group helmsman Josh Hodges retreated to the wilds of astoria, oregon and went to work. the result the lp ‘Miracle Mile’ and is said to be the band’s …”biggest and brightest to date…” expect the album to drop february 19th 2013. also, you can pre-order it via Polyvinyl Records. peace.
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i’m always excited when i hear news about one of my favorite bands …ever! so, needless to say i am more than a little excited to announce the swift sessions record store day exclusive 7-inch single, available at select retailers on November 23rd.
the forthcoming single will feature the swift session versions of “no way down” and “fall of 82”, produced by the shins most excellent keyboardist, richard swift.
stay tuned to RecordStoreDay.com for details about where you can purchase. peace.
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the chromatics have been getting a lot of request for the songs used in a recent interview, so the ever gracious johnny jewel put together this sunday morning mix minus with a few extras thrown in for good measure. you’ll hear from bands symmetry, new farah, komeda and tangerine dream just to name a few. by the way, i’ve also included the complete chromatic’s album ‘kill for love’ for your listening pleasure. peace.
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