Category Archives: Indie

11.24.10
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Carpark Records Signs Young Magic

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Carpark Records, which is already home to acts like Panda Bear and Indian Jewelry, have now added Young Magic to their continuously growing roster.  

Australian import Young Magic, made up of Isaac, a portable studio and numerous friends, currently resides in New York City.  For the last six months, Young Magic has been recording songs in various places to add to the song’s unique and organic psychedelic sound.  Sounds sampled from old spy bases in Berlin to children’s playgrounds in Melbourne to flats in New York City were all integrated into creating these songs.  In Young Magic’s first single, “You With Air”, the listener is taken on a journey to a place where young children are playing and laughing while Isaac’s vocals add a layer of soul creating a perfect combination of modern-day drum beats and matter of fact lyrics. 

Young Magic will be releasing its debut single, “You With Air” backed with “Sparkly”, digitally and in a 7” vinyl format February 8, 2011 on Carpark Records.

Young Magic “You With Air” by carparkrecords

11.24.10
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Rival Schools Release First Single In A Decade


Rejoice. With their first studio album since 2001’s United by Fate, New York rock outfit Rival Schools, release their first single for Pedals, due out March 8, 2011. In an effort to satiate those in wait for the past ten years, the song, “Shot After Shot,” is out now on Itunes as a deluxe single, featuring both the original and acoustic versions, along with the video and a b-side, “Arranged Marriages.”

Check out the official video for “Shot After Shot.”

 

 

11.24.10
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Delicate Steve Premieres “Butterfly” Single And Announces 2011 Album

Delicate Steve, the 5-piece instrumental band from Newton, N.J., has released their debut 7″ “Butterfly” this week.  The experimental rock group was discovered in the parking lot of a strip mall in NJ and was signed to Luaka Bop before the label “heard even a moment of their music.”  Their LP, Wondervisions, will be released on February 1st.
Here’s the single: Delicate Steve – Butterfly by latitude32

Tour Dates:
12/4/10 Pub on Main Allentown, PA w/Javelin

11.24.10
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Birds & Batteries Release New Video


The new video for “We’re An Industry” by the San Francisco band Birds & Batteries conveys a lot using just some metal and other hard materials employed by the method of stop motion. The video was carefully crafted by the Made By Cabbage Head production company who designed the set by hand and filmed frame by frame.

The protagonists of this video – seeming like more of a short film – are two steel wool people placed in a desolate, industrial setting with pipes, coils and other constructional  components who discover they create sparks when touching together.

The song itself is a lamentation of belonging to the center of the earth with lyrics describing baring the burden of causing natural disasters under rough and hot conditions, sorrowful strings and mechanical, almost militaristic drums.

Then, the instrumentation becomes looser and builds up with the percussion quickening and the vocals all the sudden taking a new, proud tone. Greenery begins to grow up the metal structures and flower as the vocals harmonize and reach higher notes and the two steel wool characters look on, sparking hand-in-hand. By the end of it, you are left with a beautiful, resolved feeling.

Birds and Batteries are currently on an American tour:
November 26, 2010
9pm
San Diego, CA
Soda Bar
with: Longstay, Patrick Norton & The Saints, DJ Lord Nelson

November 26, 2010
5pm
Los Angeles, CA
Origami Vinyl

November 27, 2010
Tucson, AZ
Cafe Passe

November 28, 2010
Albuquerque, NM
Low Spirits
with: The Cave Singers, Excalico

November 30, 2010
Lubbock, TX
Bash Riprock’s

December 1, 2010
Austin, TX
The Mohawk
with: The Authors, Sunset

December 2, 2010
Frisco, TX
Lochrann’s

December 3, 2010
Fort Worth, TX
Lola’s

December 4, 2010
Denton, TX
A Spune Christmas
Hailey’s
with: Telegraph Canyon, Doug Burr, Monahans

December 7, 2010
Memphis, TN
Buccaneer

December 8, 2010
Louisville, KY
Zanzabar

December 9, 2010
Pittsburgh, PA
Thunderbird Cafe
with: Nik Westman and the Central Plains

December 10, 2010
New York, NY
Pianos
with: ARMS

December 11, 2010
Boston, MA
Great Scott
with: Marconi, Mean Creek

December 12, 2010
Brooklyn, NY
Littlefield
with: Scrambler Seequill, Tallest Trees, Elastic Summer

February 4, 2011
Tacoma, WA
The Warehouse
with: Grand Hallway

February 5, 2011
Seattle, WA
Chop Suey

http://player.vimeo.com/video/15017110

Birds & Batteries- We’re an Industry from Birds & Batteries on Vimeo.

11.23.10
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New York’s MAKE OUT Is Set To Release Their Debut EP In Early 2011


Drawing on their eclectic backgrounds, the quartet intentionally makes music against the mainstream grain as they see it, eschewing contemporary indie sounds. MAKE OUT plays fast, concentrated pop songs as evident in their first single releasing December 14th, the anthemic, “I Don’t Want Anybody That Wants Me.”

Formed in 2010, MAKE OUT features Leah Hennessey on vocals, former Junior Senior member, Jesper Mortensen on backing vocals and guitar, Anders Christiansen on bass and Olivia Alminiana on drums.

MAKE OUT was excited to work with producer Nicolas Vernhes (Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, The Fiery Furnaces) at his Rare Book Room studios in Brooklyn, feeling an instant connection and shared vision for what the band should sound like.

Check out the new single available now on Spin.com