Archive for August, 2011
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Announce New Album
Springfield, MO’s Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin have a put together a special release to celebrate their 10 year existence. After releasing three LPs, they were bound to have some extra material that never made it to the record stores. Those songs will now be getting their time in the spotlight with the release of Tape Club, a 26-song double album that brings you best of the SSLYBY archives. It will be available October 18th on limited edition 180-gram maroon 2xLP, CD, and digital formats via Polyvinyl, but can already stream it on the band’s bandcamp page now. The album’s title is a direct reference to a subscription service the band started in late 2005 to raise money for tour while copies of their debut Broom; things have come full circle! The next 10 years for SSLYBY can only go up from here!
August 31, 2011 at 11:00 am Sedera Ranaivoarinosy Leave a comment
Robbers on High Street Announce West Coast Tour
Four years after the release of their second full length, Robbers on High Street have a new album in the works with a reworked lineup, and they’re hitting the road to celebrate both.
The group’s third album, Hey There Golden Hair, will be arriving September 13th via Rocco Grecco Records and the band will be bringing their unabashed love of the ’60s and ’70s out to the West Coast.
The group will be on the road with the Allah-Lahs throughout the month of September. You can find them:
Sept 14 – San Diego, CA – Bar Pink – w/ Allah-Las
Sept 15 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy – w/ Allah-Las, Street & Babe Shadow & DJ Kevin Bronson – LA CD RELEASE PARTY
Sept 17 – San Francisco, CA – Hotel Utah – w/ Allah-Las
Sept 19 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge – w/ Allah-Las
Sept 21 – Seattle, WA – KEXP Live in Studio
Sept 21 – Seattle, WA – Fun House – w/ Allah-Las
Sept 22 – Vancouver, BC – Waldorf w/ Allah-Las
Oct 7 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge – NYC CD RELEASE PARTY
Oct 15 – Pensacola, FL – DeLuna Fest – w/ Cold War Kids, Matt & Kim and more
Real Estate Announces New Album
People don’t always think very much of New Jersey, especially when its standout celebrities right now are the cast of Jersey Shore. Real Estate proved that not all that comes out of the Garden State is terrible with their first self-titled album released in 2009. Can they keep it up? We’ll find out on on Tuesday October 18th, 2011 when they release the follow-up, Days, which was recorded in Upstate New York through the late winter/spring of 2011 with Kevin McMahon.
For now, we know the album is made up of nine new recordings and a revisit of last year’s standalone single “Out of Tune.” You can listen to the first single off the record, “It’s Real,” HERE. It’s due out on September 27th in the US and October 10th in the UK. In the meantime, the band is touring around the US and Canada for the rest of July so check below to see if they’re headed near you!
August 29, 2011 at 9:08 pm Sedera Ranaivoarinosy Leave a comment
Neon Indian’s New Album Gets A Release Date
After earning practically universal critical adoration for his first album, Psychic Chasms, Neon Indian mastermind Alan Palomo is finally ready his second offering.
Neon Indian’s sophomore album, Era Extrana, will be released September 13th. Here’s a video for the song “Heart: Decay” off of the upcoming LP.
NEON INDIAN – HEART : DECAY from gorillavsbear.net on Vimeo.
While understandably pressed for time due to performing at massive festivals like South by Southwest and Bonnaroo and touring with the Flaming Lips, Phoenix, and Massive Attack, fans can’t help but be antsy for new material.
To create the newa lbum, Palomo holed up in an efficiency apartment in Finland and cobbled it together from journal entries he made during the time. The album has Neon Indian treading darker waters and exploring a little more somber territory.
Following the album release is a full tour, which has Neon Indian traversing the nation. You can see the new material live here:
9/15 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
9/16 Washington DC – Rock n Roll Hotel
9/17 Carrboro, NC – Moog Festival
9/19 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
9/20 Birmingham, AL – Bottletree *
9/21 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks *
9/22 Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds *
9/23 Austin, TX – The Mohawk
9/24 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
9/26 Tucson, AZ – Club Congress
9/27 San Diego, CA – Belly Up Tavern *
9/30 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour *
10/1 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop * ^
10/3 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge *
10/4 Vancouver, BC – Venue *
10/5 Seattle, WA – Crocodile Cafe *
10/7 Boise, ID – Reef * ^
10/8 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge * ^
10/10 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater *
10/12 Kansas City, MO – The Record Bar * ^
10/13 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry * ^
10/14 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall * ^
10/15 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop * ^
10/16 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick * ^
10/18 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace * ^
10/19 Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa
10/20 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall ^
10/21 New York, NY – Webster Hall ^
* w/ Com Truise
^ w/ Purity Ring
Joy Formidable Support Foo Fighters on Tour
The Joy Formidable scored a very high honor when Foo Fighters’ front man Dave Grohl asked them to tour along side the heavy rock giants for a slew of East Coast tours.
The two bands will provide quite the contrast to audiences when they take the stage. While the Foo Fighters are touring behind their newest full-length, Joy Formidable is focusing more on the work of others with their new EP Roarities which features covers from The Naked and Famous and Innerparty as well as a couple live tracks.
The band also released their newest video, for the song “A Heavy Abacus” which you can see right here.
You can see the Foo Fighters and Joy Formidable in these cities:
Sept 2 Redmond, WA @ ENDFEST
Sept 4 Edmonton, AB @ Sonic Boom Festival
Sept 8 Portland, OR @ Music Fest NW
Sept 22 Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival
Sept 23 Philadelphia, PA @ Popped Festival!
Sept 24 Atlanta, GA @ Music Midtown
Nov 7 Duluth, GA @ Arena of Gwinnett Center*
Nov 8 Charlotte, NC @ Time Warner Cable Arena*
Nov 10 Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center*
Nov 14 Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center*
Nov 16 Boston, MA @ TD Garden*
*With The Foo Fighters
Catch CASEY SHEA with TALLY HALL & APRIL SMITH and the GREAT PICTURE SHOW, FRIDAY NIGHT @ Bowery Ballroom
One of our brand new favorites, Casey Shea, is heading to the Bowery Ballroom tomorrow night, Friday, August 19th. What is to be one hell-of-a-show, Shea will be performing on the line up with Tally Hall and April Smith and the Great Picture Show.
A little bit of southern charm, the New York by way of New Orleans singer-songwriter is set to release his third record, In Your Head, on Family Records, October 11th.
Influenced by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, BEck, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, you know Shea has a good musical head on his shoulders.
Being no stranger to the music world, Shea has been a member of several bands, pop, rock and soul alike, bringing his sound on the road.
Download an MP3 of “Chelsea” HERE
My Name is Jimmy Lloyd and I Have a TV Show!
We’ve been discovering some great little gems at Modern Mystery lately, and we wanted to share one of our favorites with you. “The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase,” which is starting to pick up momentum on TVS around the country, airs interviews and live performances on indie greats such as Jeffrey Lewis, Hank and the Cupcakes, and tons of others.
Since its premiere on NBC’s digital channel NY NonStop in January 2010, “The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase” has rapidly achieved widespread success. Now available in the 9 biggest US TV markets, the show’s rapid ascendancy clearly demonstrates not only the quality of the programming, production and concept but also the confidence and excitement host and curator Jimmy Lloyd has inspired in NBC. “The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase” is featured on NBC’s digital channels in NYC, Chicago, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Dallas and Miami.
The series is the creation of Lloyd and co-executive producer Ashish Naik and resembles “Inside the Actor’s Studio” for up-and-coming songwriters. The program’s mission is to identify the best undiscovered songwriting talent and bring it directly to a mass audience complete with high quality live performances, artist interviews and an existential monologue about songwriting done by Lloyd himself in each episode. The show, which originally began in NYC was introduced by NBC into 3 additional markets late last year and has recently started airing in 5 additional markets, is curated solely by Lloyd, a NYC-based singer-songwriter who is plugged directly into the local music scene. Guests for the program are selected organically through word of mouth, personal referrals, or via the email submissions he invites viewers to submit at the end of each episode.
Audiences and musical guests alike have been incredibly receptive to Jimmy’s straightforward charisma and charm. Brooklyn-based band and musical guests Hank and Cupcakes even went so far as to write a song about Jimmy after their very first encounter with him, titled “My Name is Jimmy (and I Have a TV Show)”, which gives a good idea of just how much excitement and passion Jimmy brings to the table with every interaction.
“Jimmy Lloyd totally ‘gets’ the truth about music – that it is the one thing which truly unites everyone around the world,” says E! True Hollywood Story producer Michael Lynn. “Thanks to his dedication and passion, promising singer-songwriters are able to receive the attention they deserve without having to compromise their artistic integrity.”
The show has continued to evolve throughout its run, first being filmed at New York’s Gibson Guitar Showroom and recently expanding to include shooting at live venue settings in New York and Los Angeles with both up-and-coming and more established names. Recent guests have included Ari Hest and Jonatha Brooke. In addition to continuing to grow into new markets, there are near term plans to combine the TV series with Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase-sponsored live concert events which will begin this Fall along with the inclusion of a new Title Sponsor that the producers are currently in discussions with.
Lloyd is also pitching a reality show that is getting some traction about songwriters in NYC called “The Scene…L.E.S. (a trailer for which can be seen online at: thesceneles.com)
To watch “The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase”, check your local listings for broadcast times or catch episodes online at: http://jimmylloyd.com
Current Air Times by Market:
New York City: Mondays at 4:00 am and 9:30 pm
Washington, D.C.: Saturdays at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm
Philadelphia: Saturdays at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm
Chicago: Saturdays at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm
Los Angeles: Saturdays at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm
San Francisco: Saturdays at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm
San Diego: Saturdays at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm
Dallas/Ft. Worth: Saturdays at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm
Miami: Saturdays at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm
Check local listings for channel information.
Warm Ghost Releases Video For Claws Overhead
As readers of this site are probably aware, Paul Duncan is currently recording under the moniker of Warm Ghost. Initially conceived as side project that would allow him to experiment with electronics, synthesizers, drum machines and processed field recordings, Warm Ghost has grown into a full-fledged collaboration with Oliver Chapoy.
With their debut LP slated for release this fall, the duo have released a new music video for their song “Claws Overhead.” Check the video out down below and visit the band’s website for more info on upcoming tour dates.
Tom Vek – Leisure Seizure
So yes, Tom Vek has been MIA for five years, bla bla bla… We can skip the story of his long, mysterious absence from the airwaves to get to what’s important: he’s back and still kicking butt.
His newest album, Leisure Seizure, which is already available digitally but will only get a physical release on September 13th, kept the essence of what made his first album special but polished it, making his sound more coherent. We’re far from the lo-fi vibe of We Have Sound, but that doesn’t mean Vek’s taken away what was gritty and interesting about his music; the better quality of the production actually makes all the subtleties of his arrangements shine through more distinctly.
We Have Sound played a lot with dissonance and Leisure Seizure is no different. From the electronic loops he integrates in his songs to flat tone of voice when he sings, he manages to find the right balance to make all his seemingly cacophonous elements fit together in a pleasing manner. “World of Doubt,” with its pounding drum, clashing guitar riffs and almost spoken lyrics is a perfect example of that skill.
“We Do Nothing” is like a condensed mix of all the good things from his first LP. There’s a little bit of “C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)” in it, some “Nothing But Green Lights” mixed in as well, which is a nice indicator that Vek’s taken all the years since We Have Sound listening back to the songs to synthesize the best things from his first album and build on them.
What he’s gotten really good at is creating a really hypnotizing ambient mood in his songs, no matter how slow or upbeat they are. You hear it as much in the single “A Chore” or the electronic “Close Mic’ed,” which both succeed in how repetition is used to move the song forward rather than become boring and redundant; it’s quite a feat.
All in all, Leisure Seizure is bigger and bolder than We Have Sound was. It’s more mature but it’s also more danceable. Tom Vek is definitely forgiven for having made everyone wait so long for this sophomore release.
August 15, 2011 at 10:35 am Sedera Ranaivoarinosy Leave a comment
CONTEST: Win Two Tickets to The Duke & The King This Saturday @ City Winery!
The weekend is quickly approaching and are you looking for something to do? Of course you are. Don’t pretend you have plans. We don’t believe you.
ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE DUKE & THE KING this SATURDAY at CITY WINERY in NYC!!!
To Enter just send an e-mail with “The Duke & The King,” in the Subject Line stating your name and phone number. Winners will be chosen by tomorrow at NOON so act fast!
EMAIL YOUR RESPONSE TO MODERNMYSTERYBLOG@YAHOO.COM
The Duke & The King was formed by Simone Felice of the Felice Brothers and Bobbie “Bird” Burke. With the good Felice name on it, you know it’s a winner.
Their new album entitled Long Live The Duke & The King, the album captures the band’s essence, a ramshackle travelling circus in which different voices tell different stories. Felice and Burke remain the central architects, but it’s a more collaborative project than its predecessor. Haskins’ gospel-tinged lead vocal on ‘Hudson River’ recalls the greats of classic R&B, while ‘No Easy Way Out’ combines Stone’s vintage soulful tones with a pop-orientated country rock sound that matches Felice’s light-hearted description of the band’s new sound as “Fleetwood Black.” Elsewhere, the band’s collective voices often flourish in the ether before dramatically taking centre-stage, notably on ‘Shine On You’, while ‘Shaky’ represents the most compelling example of the band’s progression from their debut album.
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