From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Mark Your Calendars, Grab a Ticket, Pack Your Bags – Monolith Festival is coming up!

08.13.2009

The 3rd annual Monolith Festival is coming atcha. And soon. Hosted in an incomparable venue – nature’s perfectly sculpted outdoor amphitheater, Red Rocks, in Morrison, CO (just outside Denver) – Monolith Festival 2009 will bring 60+ of the hottest indie bands together with about 10,000 fans in this stunningly unparalleled setting, amidst rattlesnakes, scrub jays [...]

Dawes visits Luxury Wafers, Releases North Hills on ATO, Tours with Langhorne and Generally Melts the Studio with Rich Americana Soul

08.13.2009

When My Time Comes [mp3] I’m sitting in the studio right now with Dawes. They’re recording Western Skyline at the moment for their Live Luxury Wafers Session. A liitle ragged from last night’s show at the Echo, Dawes’ lead singer, Taylor Goldsmith, is about to lose the right-arm sleeve on his ripped button down and [...]

Les Paul dies today at age 94…So long and Thanks for the guitar

08.13.2009

Les lays down a hot solo at NYC’s Iridium during his 85th birthday performance in 2000.The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise [mp3] Les Paul (born Lester William Polfuss on June 9, 1915), creator of the solid-body electric guitar, pioneer in modern recording techniques (electronic echo, studio multitracking) and guitarist extraordinaire has left our world [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Cryptacize, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and mp3s

08.13.2009

Heady would be an understatement when referring to Nedelle Torrisi and her band, Cryptacize. At once, there’s no mistaking apparent intellectualism and social consciousness in the confident bunch. As soon as they get to making music, it’s again easily obvious that Nedelle and crew have training and experience under their belts. And while this daughter [...]

Shuta Hasunuma, Pop Ooga Plus, Power Osci (mp3)

08.12.2009

Power Osci [mp3] Happy and bright, like cherry blossoms in springtime and a friendly breeze, or the way sunlight feels in the afternoon when seasons change, Shuta Hasunuma’s Pop Ooga (Plus) songs float along wondrously happy, brightly embodying and evoking childlike awe. Bonus: Every month through December 2009, Shuta Hasunuma is offering one new track, [...]

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, 40 Day Dream (Mp3)

08.12.2009

40 Day Dream [mp3] It feels like acid’s just been invented. We are one, united in truth and goodness. Rolling like Jesus – the man, with his family of a dozen or so, Edward Sharpe (formerly Ima Robot’s Alex Ebert) is being watched, and he seems to be comfortable with that. His group re-embarks on [...]

Volcano Choir (Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon + Collections of Colonies of Bees) releases Unmap on Jagjaguwar 9/22; Island, IS (mp3)

08.11.2009

Island, IS [mp3] Volcano Choir is a collaborative effort between Wisconsinites Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Jim Schoenecker, Daniel Spack and Thomas Wincek (Collections of Colonies of Bees). As everybody’s been busy with their main gigs, the band is just now getting around to releasing their debut album, Unmap, a group [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Interview with Oliver Ackermann of A Place To Bury Strangers; Exploding Head & In Your Heart (mp3s)

08.11.2009

I just got off the phone with Oliver Ackermann, singer and guitarist for Brooklyn-based, notoriously loud, dark and hard ambient experimental rockers, A Place To Bury Strangers, who recently signed to Mute Records. In addition to leading APTBS, Oliver is a former member of Skywave and the inventor of Total Sonic Annihilation, his first effects [...]

Junk Culture signed to Illegal Art, tours NW with Girl Talk; West Coast EP and mp3

08.11.2009

West Coast [mp3] Deepak Mantena is Junk Culture, recently relocated to Portland, OR, signed to Illegal Art (Girl Talk, Steinski, Bran Flakes), and playing some NW shows with Girl Talk. Although these tracks are samples, loops, electronica, there’s a warm, humanly personal vibe about them that I find inviting. Junk Culture’s debut EP, West Coast, [...]

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour debuts FRUIT, Around The Bend (mp3) + video for The Golden Age

08.11.2009

Around The Bend [mp3] The Sun Ain’t Shining No More [mp3] Flowing a high-energy, eye-popping blend of Scandinavian down-to-earth with over-the-top, friendly cosmic fantasy, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour is finally out with their syrup-soul, pop-psych, groovy album, FRUIT (Small Giants, 10/13/09). Although they’ve been busy getting instantly huge, TAGT offers FRUIT as their debut. As [...]

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