Category Archives: Indie

12.14.10
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Feist Releases A Documentary

 

Feist’s album The Reminder was so great, they had to make a movie about it. Well, Look At What The Light Did Now is more about the collaboration between sound and imagery than just a Metallica-style “making an album” documentary, but it’s still damn cool.

Feist tells Pitchfork that she “wanted what’s in the movie to be things we’ve never seen before.” Explaining that “it focuses on the people whose job isn’t necessarily to be seen. Their part of the puzzle is to make imagery that gets seen, but they themselves are a bit invisible in the process. I wanted to show the smoke and mirrors a little bit.”

In her discussion with Pitchfork, Feist also mentioned that she will be making another album sometime this winter, but refused to elaborate any further. Look At What The Light Did Now is in stores now, and stay tuned for any other news about Feist’s upcoming album. In the mean time, check out the trailer for her documentary right here.

12.14.10
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New Collisions Announce Short Tour

 

New Collisions are enjoying a very positive, steady stream of buzz lately and with good reason. The band got picked to be on the CMJ music sampler CD (only 20 bands of the 1,000 that play get to be on it) and recorded their debut LP (The Optimist) in under ten days.

The album has gotten solid reviews and was featured as a full album premier on AOL Spinner. Now the group is releasing their first music video. The music video for the song “Dying Alone” which you can catch here:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/16352048

New Collisions – Dying Alone from Light Matter Films on Vimeo.

Now the band is ringing in the new year with style, with a quick jaunt on the road to build upon the heaps of positive buzz the band has already gotten. You can catch New Collisions at:

12/14 Westchester, NY @ TheCheapPop.com Holiday Benefit, Westchester Music Hall
12/17 New York, NY @ Crash Mansion
12/18 Dover, NH @ Dover Brick House
1/1 Allston, MA @ Great Scott w/ Plushgun

12.14.10
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British Sea Power Announce Release Date For New Album

Mark your calendars: The English outfit British Sea Power will be releasing their fourth album Valhalla Dancehall on January 11th, 2011 via Beggars Group! The album, co-produced by BSP and Graham Sutton, who has worked with the band in the past, was recorded in South East England and on the Isle Of Skye in Scotland. They are suspected to come visit the U.S. for a tour in the spring so be on the lookout.

If you want to have a listen at a protected stream of the record, click HERE .

 

12.13.10
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Unicycle Love You & The Holidays


Looking to wrap up a year that saw the release of their sophomore album, Mirror, Mirror, Unicycle Loves You have announced plans for a holiday show at Chicago’s Beat Kitchen. The cult-film inspired surf-rock group, who hail from Chicago originally, will invade Beat Kitchen on on Thursday, December 30 with help from openers Elephant Gun and Laarks.

Doors open at 9pm, and you’ll want to arrive promptly. Because, the first 100 attendees will received a copy Unicycle Loves You’s new album, as well as a 20 page “not-so-much for kids” coloring book created by guitarist Jim Carroll and bassist Nicole Vitale.  Unicycle Love You was also kind enough to offer us their new single “There’s a Giant Walking in My Heart” for free download. Grab it down below!

 

12.13.10
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Tokyo Police Club Premiere New Remix & Add Winter Tour Dates

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Tokyo Police Club have premiered a new remix of the Champ album track, “Favourite Colour” by Brooklyn-based DJs PUNCHES, now available for downloading on RCRDLBL.com .  PUNCHES is the Brooklyn-based disco project of twin brothers Greg and Darin Bresnitz-who can be found tearing up the dance floor as DJ duo Finger on the Pulse and nightlife pioneer Alan Astor.  After iterating the original track’s piano lick, PUNCHES takes over with heavy beats and synth, adding even more energy to TPC’s material.

Tokyo Police Club just announced additional dates to their Winter tour, kicking off January 13 in Ottawa, and taking them through their native Canada and most of the U.S. by mid-February.  Also, Champ just made Myspace.com’s “Year In Music”, landing at #31 – “In the end, this is TPC’s most “mature” effort, but the fact that they managed to create it without losing their sense of youth or spirit is what makes it such a rare, unlikely joy.”

Check out the remix, as well as the full list of tour dates below:

12/6/10 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
12/8/10 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
12/10/10 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones
12/13/10 – Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
1/13/11 – Ottawa, ON @ Capital Music Hall
1/15/11 – Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
1/16/11 – Montreal, PQ @ Club Soda
1/17/11 – Pawtucket, RI @ The Met
1/19/11 – Boston, MA @ Paradise
1/20/11 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
1/21/11 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
1/22/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
1/23/11 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
1/25/11 – Atlanta, GA  @ The Masquerade
1/26/11 – Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
1/27/11 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
1/28/11 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
1/29/11 – Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbit’s
1/31/11 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
2/1/11 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
2/2/11 – Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
2/3/11 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
2/5/11 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
2/7/11 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note

2/10/11 – Covington, KY @ The Mad Hatter