Cassettes Won’t Listen, the one-man project of Jason Drake (partner and former director of marketing at the famed indie hip hop label Definitive Jux) announced the release of his full-length album Evinspacey. Known best for the single “Cutting Balloons” and official remixes of notable artists such as Aesop Rock, El-P, Midlake, Mr. Lif, Morcheeba and others, Drake’s track “The Echoes” mixes futuristic hip hop beats with his melodic vocals. The album itself is Drake’s nod to his new address (LA from Brooklyn) as well a musing on despair in the city. Summer and Fall tour dates for Cassettes Won’t Listen will be announced soon. Meanwhile, listen to “The Echoes” while meandering down the street and you will find yourself transported into a completely new world. A world you won’t need much convincing to explore.
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Jonathan Mann’s” Song-A-Day: The Album” with Nick and Tom from The Spinto Band
Yesterday Jonathan Mann started his collaboration with The Spinto Band’s Nick and Tom, on a month long journey of music fun. With a few musician friends in tow, Mann and Co. recorded their first track yesterday, as well as the video to go with it. Titled “The Song A Day Welcome Song,” featuring a good ole’ ukelele and is only the start of something great. Keep up to date as it’s recorded on on Songatron.com.
You can watch the video from yesterday’s session below:
Or take a listen!
Teen Daze Travels To A Silent Planet
In February of 2008, Teen Daze, spent seven weeks studying philosophy in a somewhat remote village in the Swiss Alps. His engulfed himself in books, filling his mind with the teachings of great thinkers who had passed long before he was born and fiction novelists such as C.S. Lewis. In fact, it was Lewis’ Out Of The Silent Planet that served as the inspiration for Daze’s new EP, A Silent Planet.
The six songs that appear on the EP are the result of many musical experiments, auditory accompaniments, and an attempt at a re-creation of Daze’s experiences with this novel. A Silent Planet is set for release on August 9th, but you can pre-order your copy HERE. Below, we’ve included the EP’s lead single “Surface” for free download.
The Spinto Band Team Up with Jonathan Mann to Create a Song a Day
As you all know, The Spinto Band is one of Modern Mystery’s most favorite bands around, so when they are involved in something new and exciting, hell we are on it. Spinto vocalists Nick Krill and Thomas Hughes are about to embark on a month long live recording project with musician friend Jonathan Mann. This venture will be something like you have never experienced before. It will involve audience participation (hey, that’s you!). Mann has been writing a song a day for nearly three years, and he is about to hit his 1,000th tune. Krill and Hughes will be producing Jonathan’s record this June in San Francisco, and trust us, it is far from conventional. The recording sessions have been funded completely by Kickstarter donations of nearly $13,000 as over 250 people have backed the project. You will also get to see what goes on in the studio 24/7 as there will be live web-streaming throughout the whole time. This obviously means hearing amazing tracks as they are getting put down (and possibly Super Smash Brothers challenges). Other musicians will also be involved in the collaboration from long distances as well which makes it super exciting as we have no idea who may appear. Nick Krill has stated that it will involve “various forms of audience participation,” and that sounds super cool to us. Who doesn’t want to be a part of rock n’ roll history? Every day will bring a new song in the month of June with an accompanying music video for each one. Yes, this sounds super ambitious, but you know they can pull it off flawlessly. There is no doubt about it.
You will be able to experience this glorious project starting tomorrow at Johnathan Mann’s site, Songatron.com
For more information on the project please go HERE.
Modern Mystery will be spreading the tracks and songs as they come along.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Releases Album News, Tour Dates
After a long wait, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will release their newest record, Hysterical, on September 12th. This album will also be self released by the band and this time around they worked with producer John Congleton who has worked with Modest Mouse, St. Vincent, and The Walkmen. Impressive roster to say the least. The band will re-release their debut album on vinyl, June 14th. CYHSY has also announced a handful of tour dates for the time being. Time to get excited folks.
August
12-14 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Outside Lands
27-28 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Sunset Junction Street Fair
September
2 – North Dorset, England @ End of the Road Festival
6 – Sheffield, England @ Queens Social Club
7 – London, England @ Scala
9 – Berlin, Germany @ Airport Tempelhof
12 – Paris, France @ La Maroquinerie
13 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
14 – Cologne, Germany @ Gebaude 9
Florence + The Machine Talk New Record
It hasn’t been too long since Florence + The Machine hit the music world by storm with their debut, Lungs, and the group is already working on the follow-up.
Singer Florence Welch spoke to Nylon Magazine recently and stated the band has been working on new songs with producer Paul Epsworth who has also worked with Kate Nash and Adele. Nice choice. Welch also said that this time the lyrics would be a bit darker and the songs would be about imaginary things. No release date has been set yet, but keep your ears and eyes peeled. Keep checking back for more updates on Florence + The Machine’s progress.
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