Peter Broderick – Old Time

by Erased Tapes

Peter Broderick – Old Time (Official Music Video)
from the album "Music For Confluence"
Directors: Vernon Lott & Jennifer Anderson / Cinematography: Philip Bloom / Copyright: © 2011 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.


"I had been asked to make the score for a documentary film called Confluence. The film is based in the Lewiston, Idaho area, not too far from where I grew up in the USA, and it chronicles several mysterious cases of young girls found murdered or gone missing around 1980, all of which seem to lead back to one man who for a variety of reasons has not been able to be charged with these crimes."
– Peter Broderick

New-Berliner Peter Broderick has released "Music For Confluence," a film score album for the documentary "Confluence," directed by Jennifer Anderson and Vernon Lott. 
It was preceded by the double A-side 7" single 'Old Time' b/w 'Solace In Gala,' songs from "Confluence" and the another documentary "Grace and Mercy," directed by Luis Peña, with a download of the full 14-track score entitled "Music For Grace And Mercy – a film of Haitians helping Haitians." 

Available now on Erased Tapes Records.

Bone & Bell

Photo by Kristy Ralston

Heather Smith is a Chicago-based artist and multi-instrumentalist. In the beginning Bone & Bell started as a musical project with her baritone ukulele and voice, and now it has become a quintet, Heather recently joined forces with Ryan Farnham (drums- formerly of Catfish Haven), Rick Roberts (bass, keys) and Jason Tuller (guitar, bass).
Bone & Bell's first 5-track EP "Loom" was recorded at home by Jason Tuller and was released September 2010. You can download the "Loom" EP for FREE through her bandcamp.

Loom by Bone & Bell

Krokodil by Bone & Bell
This an early demo for a song she's working on.
A new album is anticipated for Spring 2012.

Alex Chilton: Free Again: The “1970″ Sessions

Omnivore Recordings will release "Free Again: The “1970″ Sessions" (CD/Digital/LP/Limited Edition LP+7" Bundle), the first solo recordings from a post-Box Tops / pre-Big Star Alex Chilton, including previously unissued tracks. Available on January 10th, 2012.
Details and Pre-order >> HERE.

Also, Omnivore has released Big Star's "Third" (Test Pressing Edition), 500 copies Limited-Edition 180-gram clear vinyl as their first webstore exclusive, and the black vinyl as Record Store Day version.


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Alex Chilton - The EMI Song (Smile For Me)
from "Free Again: The “1970″ Sessions"
written by Alex Chilton and Terry Manning



released 21 March 2011

Fan Modine Cover of Alex Chilton song from his album '1970'. Mixing, mastering and additional instrumentation and backup vocals by original song co-writer Terry Manning. Also featuring Chris Stamey (Guitar Solo), Lee Waters (Essex Green, Dean Wareham), Michael Holland (Jennyanykind), Matt McMichaels (formerly of The Mayflies USA), Wes Lachot, Lisa Lachot, Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Seamus Kenney (SNMNMNM), and more. 
50% of proceeds to benefit the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic.


Fan Modine - Through the Valley

Taken from North Carolina's Gordon Zacharias aka Fan Modine's latest album "Gratitude for the Shipper" which was produced by Zacharias himeself, Chris Stamey (of The dB’s) and the former R.E.M. manager (1981-1996) Jefferson Holt. Available from Daniel 13 Press founded by Jefferson Holt. 
Purchase the album, HERE.



R.I.P. Alex Chilton (December 28, 1950 – March 17, 2010)
Thanks to ArAtAq!

Optigan Disc - VIBRASCAPE

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New 2011 Optigan Disc - VIBRASCAPE
Now available for Optigan owners, pre-order >> HERE,
along with the three new Vako Orchestron discs: VIBRAPHONE, FLUTE & CELLO.

VIBRASCAPE presents the sound of the vibraphone in a uniquely Optigan fashion. The keyboard tones are arranged as a series of rhythmic patterns that create hypnotic, pulsating soundscapes when chords are played. (This disc is not particularly suited to melodic playing). The chord buttons feature sustained bowed vibraphone chords. The special effects switches help keep the groove going with a selection of rhythms from the Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2, an old-school beatbox and technological contemporary of the Optigan. Optigans equipped with a spring reverb will provide the most haunting sound, which is further enhanced by inserting the disc upside-down for backwards play.

Vibraphone played and recorded by Mark Greenberg (of The Coctails, The Mayfair Workshop) / Music produced, edited, and mastered by Pea Hicks (of Optiganally Yours, formerly of Tit Wrench and Lucas & Friend)

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MELLODRAMA: Mellotron/Chamberlin Documentary Trailer

"Mellodrama," a documentary by Dianna Dilworth, explores the rising and falling fortunes of the Mellotron - the first musical keyboard to "sample" the sounds of other instruments - from its birth in a California garage in the 1950s, through its dominance on concert stages in the 1970s, through its almost religious cult of followers in the 2000s. From the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" to Black Sabbath to Kanye West, Mellodrama is a 50-year odyssey of musical invention, revolution, betrayal, and rediscovery.

The film features interviews with Brian Wilson (Beach Boys), Mike Pinder (Moody Blues), Ian McDonald (King Crimson), Rod Argent (The Zombies), Jon Brion, Matthew Sweet, Michael Penn, Pea Hicks and many more.

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William Tyler - Tears and Saints (live) (via nyctaper)

Listen William Tyler's recent live track via nyctaper! Recorded and produced by acidjack for nyctaper.com at Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY, 2011-11-16.

William Tyler is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and a guitarist who has spent the last several years recording and touring with Silver Jews and Lambchop among others. In addition he has contributed to albums by artists as diverse as Charlie Louvin, Candi Staton, Wooden Wand, and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, as well as taking part in a large ensemble piece by composer Rhys Chatham. And he also has his own record label, Sebastian Speaks.


William Tyler - The Green Pastures

Taken from his own name's solo debut album "Behold the Spirit," released by New York's Tompkins Square Records, 2010, after releasing his first album "Deseret Canyon" under the moniker the Paper Hats (Apparent Extent, 2008).

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William Tyler - Behold the Spirit
Directed/Edited by Zack Wilson. Music/Narration by William Tyler.

Thanksgiving "BLANK YOU"

Photo by Sarah Cass

Portland, Oregon-based avant-garde singer/songwriter/painter, Adrian Orange aka Thanksgiving has released a brand new 39-track digital album "BLANK YOU" which was recorded with Adam Forkner, Honey Owens, Dadricar Holder, Kyra Moon, Glenys Tennis Johnson, Rachel Nicole Roffman, Curtis Knapp, Brent Bielski. Available now on its bandcamp.


recorded 2009 / released 20 November 2011

Orange is also known as a member of the instrumental band The Watery Graves of Portland (Curtis Knapp on piano, Adrian Orange on drums, Davis Lee Hooker on upright bass) and co-founder of Marriage Records, and has collaborated with Phil Elverum (The Microphones, Mount Eerie), Adam Forkner (White Rainbow), Geneviève Castrée and various musicians of the Portland experimental music scene including members of Rob Walmart, Valet, Jackie-O Motherfucker and LAKE.

Post-Partum
taken from 2007's collaborative album with Geneviève Castrée, "The Watery Graves of Portland and/et Geneviève" (Marriage)

A RAY ARRAY

A RAY ARRAY is a new video directed by Sarah Rara that examines forms of visual and aural interference: from the failure of a message to be discernable, sudden interruptions, visual disturbance, the interaction of 2 sound signals, instability, and optical effects.

A RAY ARRAY features a soundtrack created by Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara, members of the band Lucky Dragons.

by Sarah Rara

A RAY ARRAY TRAILER



Lucky Dragons - Mirror Friends

Taken from the album "Dream Island Laughing Language" by Lucky Dragons (Marriage, 2008 )

Lambchop "Mr. M"

cover art: 'James E. Prudent, Jr.' by Kurt Wagner

"MR. M started in a painter’s studio in fact. Wagner explains. “As I worked, I was approached by Mark Nevers (former full time band member & producer for the likes of Andrew Bird and Will Oldham) with the idea of making another Lambchop record. He had a concept of a sound and a method that worked with the tone of my writing. His idea was a kind of ‘psycho-Sinatra’ sound, one that involved the arranging of strings and other sounds in a more open and yet complex way."


Lambchop - If Not I'll Just Die

Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow

Both tracks are taken from the forthcoming new full-length "Mr. M" by Kurt Wagner’s Lambchop, due out on February 20th, 2012 via City Slang (Europe) and February 21st via Merge (US).

The album was recorded at Mark Nevers’ Nashville Beech House studio, with Scott Martin (drums), Matt Swanson (bass), Ryan Norris (guitar, organ), Tony Crow (piano), William Tyler (guitar) and guests include Jonathan Marx (another ex-member of the band) and Cortney Tidwell. The strings were arranged by Peter Stopschinski and Mason Neely.

Kurt Wagner "LBJ" oil on panel

from the exhibition, "Beautillion Militaire 2000, LBJ, Portraits, and Commissions" by Kurt Wagner, this fall at Nashville's Zeitgeist Gallery


Lambchop - Came Home Late

Lambchop - Fa-Q

Both tracks are taken from the Lambchop Rarities LP entitled "Turd Goes Back: Essential Tracks from Secret Secret Sourpuss & Big Tussie" which was released as a part of their 2011 series of subscription-only Grapefruit Record Club, founded by Simon Joyner and Ben Goldberg. This limited, vinyl-only LP is an assemblage of Kurt Wagner’s early recordings, taken from two rare cassettes. Also, Nashville-based label Sebastian Speaks has released the vinyl of Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Present Kort.

Grapefruit Records' upcoming releases for 2012 include Bruce Russell & Roy Montgomery, Dump (James McNew of Yo La Tengo) and more!

Spencer Cullum Jr. & Jeremy Fetzer Present: Steelism

With core influences being legendary musicians such as Steve Cropper & Pete Drake and attributes of 60s European pop and swinging jazz entering into the mix, music lovers everywhere will dig the resulting collaboration of Fetzer and Cullum's unique yet classic styles. Introducing... Steelism!



"Steelism" is a pedal steel+guitar led collaborative project between Spencer Cullum Jr. and Jeremy Fetzer, both from Caitlin Rose band. Their debut two-track EP was recorded with engineer Mike Odmark, and fabulous crew of Nashville musicians: Jon Radford (drums), Mike Rinne (upright bass), Andrew Combs (acoustic guitar) & Matt Rowland  (keys). Available now on their bandcamp.


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Spencer Cullum and The Dads on Vacation - Egyptian Reggae
Jonathan Richman cover, Little Pad instore session on 10th July 2011

A student of pedal steel artist BJ Cole, Spencer Cullum Jr. has been playing pedal steel guitar across the U.K and U.S, and he is also known as a member of the Deadstring Brothers from Detroit, Michigan.




The Deep Vibration - Oklahoma City Woman Blues (Veracruz)

taken from "Veracruz" EP

Jeremy Fetzer is also known as the lead guitarist of Nashville's foursome, The Deep Vibration (named from Lou Reed). Their 2008's five-track EP “Veracruz” was produced by former Neil Young producer Niko Bolas and recorded with guests including Spooner Oldham, pedal steel veteran Al Perkins and Gillian Welch. Stream their first full-length "Strange Love," digital album (released 01 February 2011), available on their bandcamp, iTunes.

The Shrine / An Argument

by Sean Pecknold

The Shrine / An Argument
Director: Sean Pecknold / Animators: Sean Pecknold & Britta Johnson
Character Illustrations: Stacey Rozich / Art Assistant: Natalie Jenkins
Producer: Aaron Ball / Story: Sean Pecknold / Made in Portland, Oregon

This is a new stop-motion music video directed by Sean Pecknold, for 'The Shrine / An Argument' from the Fleet Foxes' latest album "Helplessness Blues" (Bella Union / Sub Pop, 2011).

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Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes) & Alela Diane - These Days
Live @ Teatro Smeraldo, Milano 20-11-2011 (via)

'These Days' is a song written by Jackson Browne and principally recorded by Nico, Gregg Allman, and Browne himself in three distinctly different musical styles... read more on Wiki.

Happy Thanksgiving from Twin Sister

Twin Sister - Hindoo House

Happy Thanksgiving! from Twin Sister,
this is one of their unreleased demos of this year. A message, HERE.

The Sandwitches' new videos

by Sophia Mcinerney

The Sandwitches - Benny's Memory Palace
Directed by Sophia McInerney.
The song is taken from the b-side to The Sandwitches' new 'The Pearl' 7" out now on Hardly Art. Recorded by Sic Alps' Mike Donovan.

by Ryan Browne

The Sandwitches - In The Garden
Directed by Ryan Browne (Sonny and The Sunsets / Tortured Genies).
The song is taken from the album "Mrs. Jones' Cookies" on Empty Cellar Records.

The She's - Jimmy

The She's - Jimmy

A brand new girl group hailing from San Francisco, The She's consists of Sami Perez - Bass, Hannah Valente - Vocals, Eva Treadway- Guitar, Sinclair Riley- Drums. 'Jimmy' is the first single from their debut full-length "Then it Starts to Feel Like Summer," due out on November 29th. The album was produced, record and mixed by WAM (Women’s Audio Mission) engineers and mastered at the Lodge by Emily Lazar and Jo La Porta.

Tashaki Miyaki - Get It Right

by The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing

Tashaki Miyaki - Get It Right
Directed by Juan Iglesias
The song is taken from the self-titled EP by Tashaki Miyaki, available on 12" and Download from The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing label's bandcamp.

Juan Iglesias' inspiration for the video is thus:
"East meets West. With its wild horses and vast landscapes, this video plays tribute to the American West while at the same time drawing inspiration from minimalistic Japanese imagery."


and here's another video directed by Juan Iglesias.....



Beth Jeans Houghton - Day at the Beach

Beth Jeans Houghton - Dodecahedron by Mute UK

David Garland - The Long View

“Witty, melancholy songs, arranged and performed with such careful skill and a natural unforced originality. David Garland and his friends have done it again!”  —Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine, etc., etc.), 2010



'The Long View' featuring David Garland: vocal, 12-string guitar, quartertone toy pianos; Sean Lennon: vocal; Charlotte Kemp Muhl: vocal; Vashti Bunyan: vocals (during coda). The song appears on the forthcoming full-length "Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton," released on January 17th, 2012. Also contributing for the album are drummer Otto Hauser (Vetiver, Espers) and the Osso string quartet (Sufjan Stevens, Clogs).

David Garland is a composer/singer/multi-instrumentalist, and is known for his innovative radio shows Spinning On Air and Evening Music on WNYC-FM 93.9 in New York City.



David Garland - How To

Taken from David Garland's 2003 album "On the Other Side of the Window" (Review Records), featuring Karen Mantler on vocal and harmonica by Karen Mantler.

David Garland - I Guess I Wasn't Made for These Times

David Garland - In My Room

Both tracks are taken from David Garland's 1993 album "I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times: David Garland performs Brian Wilson" which was released in Japan (「駄目な僕 - パフォームズ・ブライアン・ウィルソン」MSI)(. Cover art by Rodney Alan Greenblat.

Thee Oh Sees 2fer Cassettes

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Thee Oh Sees - Block Of Ice,
taken from "Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion" (2009)


Burger Records has released some 2fer Cassettes for The Oh Sees now,
"Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion/Dog Poison," "Cool Death of Island Raiders/Sucks Blood" and "The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In/Help."

History Grows: New K. Record

Photo by Kate Milford

IDAといっしょの来日からもう３年、K.ことカーラ・シックリーの新作が
Sweet Dreams Pressから日本先行でリリースされますヨ。詳細はコチラで。

Karla Schickele's band K. will release a new full-length album "History Grows" which was recorded by Warren Defever (of His Name Is Alive) at the Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, NY, and a couple of tracks was mixed by Tara Jane O'Neil. The musicians on the album are.... her fellow musicians including Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell of Ida, Ruth Keating and Matt Sutton of The Malarkies, and Rose Thomson (formerly of Babe the Blue Ox). Out on December 15th via Sweet Dreams Press, Tokyo. US release date TBD.

K. was founded by Karla Schickele, the bassist/singer/songwriter of the bands Ida and Beekeeper. She is also known as an executive director of Brooklyn's Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls.

k. (Karla Schickele) - Stevie by Sweet Dreams Press

'Stevie' is the first track on "History Grows," the album includes six more all-new, original songs, and covers of 'Baker Street' (Gerry Rafferty), 'For Me' (Julie Doiron), 'Passionate Kisses' (Lucinda Williams) and a few secret mystery covers.

Neal Morgan - Fathers Day

Neal Morgan - Fathers Day

Neal Morgan, known as Joanna Newsome and Bill Callahan’s drummer, will release his second drum and vocal album "In The Yard" follow-up to his 2009 first album "To The Breathing World" on January 24th via Drag City.


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"Move Your Money Portland"
in support of the Occupy movements in Portland.

"The energy of the local Occupy Portland movement got to drummer Neal Morgan, and he said Thursday he was inspired to reach out to Portland's music community after the initial march through downtown Oct. 6. Morgan got help from musician friends Rachel Blumberg, Lisa Schonberg and Sam Coomes."

An excerpt from an article from Oregon Live com (Nov. 03, 2011):

Hudson - Against The Grain

by Dropbear

Hudson - Against The Grain
from "Open Up Slowly" EP, released 10 January 2011 

The new music video for ‘Against The Grain’ from emerging Melbourne indie-folk artist Hudson (aka Travis Aulsebrook) sees him collaborate with film maker/animator/VJ Dropbear (aka Jonathan Chong), producing a vibrant and colourful clip based around a mainstay from our humble artistic efforts throughout childhood – coloured pencils.

Hudson - Against The Grain

Karen Dalton 1966

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Little Bit of Rain - Karen Dalton and Fred Neil
from 1969 album "It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best"



Delmore Recordings is incredibly proud to announce the February 2012 release of Karen Dalton - 1966 -- newly unearthed reel- ... more to-reel recordings made of the elusive songstress rehearsing with her estranged husband Richard Tucker, it was documented by Carl Baron who brought a tape recorder to their Colorado cabin.

Track List
01. Reason To Believe
02. Katie Cruel
03. Cotton Eyed Joe
04. Green Rocky Road
05. Don't Make Promises
06. Other Side To This Life
07. God Bless The Child
08. Little Bit Of Rain
09. While You're On Your Way
10. 2:19 Train
11. Misery Blues
12. Mole In The Ground
13. Shiloh Town
14. Hallelujah

Nightmare Before Christmas Mix by Caribou

From December 9th-11th 2011 at Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, UK, we present our yearly Nightmare Before Christmas festival. This year each day is curated by a different artist: Les Savy Fav on Friday, Battles on Saturday and Caribou on Sunday.

All Tomorrow’s Parties Nightmare Before Christmas Festival 2011 has released a free mix (including a new and previously unreleased remix of 'Improve Me' by Junior Boys) put together by Dan Snaith (Caribou).

Caribou - Nightmare Before Christmas Mix by All Tomorrows Parties

(TRACK LIST)
Toro Y Moi – Intro / Chi Chi
Pharoah Sanders – Prince of Peace
Sun Ra Arkestra – Saturn Research
Pharoah Sanders Interview
Theo Parrish – Goin’ Downstairs Parts I & II
Getatchew Mekuria, The Ex & Guests – Aynamaye Nesh
Theo Parrish – Feel Free To Be Who You Need To Be
Junior Boys – Improve Me (Caribou Synthapella Mix)
Connan Mockasin – It’s Choade My Dear
Orchestra of Spheres – There Is No No
Roll The Dice – The Suck
Four Tet – Pyramid
Silver Apples – Oscillations
Roll The Dice – Cause and Effect
Factory Floor – Wooden Box
Omar Souleyman – Dabke (Daphni Edit)
Four Tet – Our Bells
Pharoah Sanders Interview
Sun Ra Arkestra – Space Is The Place

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Sun Ra Arkestra: ATP Nightmare Before Christmas, December 5, 2009

STREAM :: Caribou Vibration Ensemble Featuring Marshall Allen
Live At All Tomorrow's Parties Monticello, New York, Sept 13th, 2009

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cymatic theremapy at family
A brief demonstration of cymatic theremapy presented by Ron Regé, Jr. at Family bookstore in Los Angeles.
 

The Cartoon Utopian (Lonely Gee Jr.: Comic Utopia / Utopia of the comic)
Size: 210 × 162mm  32 pages text book (full color)
Price: 1,050 yen (1,000 yen tax)
Available on Sweet Dream Press

Damien Jurado "Maraqopa"

Damien Jurado - Nothing is the News

A new Damien Jurado album "Maraqopa" is going to be released on February 21st, 2012 via Secretly Canadian, 'Nothing is the News' is the first track on the album.

by Lance Alton Troxel

Damien Jurado at National Freedom
Damien Jurado in the studio with Richard Swift.
A little teaser trailer for the upcoming Damian Jurado.
More info, coming soon ... Also Damien Jurado has produced an Americana songwriter, James Apollo's new record, titled "Little War, Little Less" recorded at Bear Creek Studio in Seattle. Due out in February 2012.

2011年多忙でしたで賞をリチャード・スウィフトに。
夏場はFruit Batsと一緒にツアー、今秋はThe Shinsのツアーをサポート。Cultsの「Bumper」が「The Bully」(from the "Ground Trouble Jaw" EP, 2009) のパクリか？騒動は無事にソングライティング・クレジットにスウィフトの名が記載されたことで決着した模様。彼のオレゴン、コテージ・グローヴにあるスタジオ、ナショナル・フリーダムはあたかも森のブリルビルディングと化し、Gardens & Villaのデビュー・アルバム、Laetitia Sadier、Josh Ottumのアルバムが録音され、朋友Damian Juradoや、再度The Mynabirds、ヴェティヴァーの二人のプロジェクト、Pure Bathing Cultureなども現在進行中との由。



From Old Lights' latest EP "Like Strangers," released 19 July 2011, recorded at National Freedom, Cottage Grove, Oregon with Richard Swift.
Digital download, HERE.

Old Lights is the mastermind of chief songwriter/multi-instrumentalist David Beeman. He is a transplant from southern California to St. Louis, Missouri. Known to date primarily as a drummer with David Vandervelde and a sound engineer for bands such as Cold War Kids, Delta Spirit and Elvis Perkins.

Ela Orleans - In The Night

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Ela Orleans - In The Night (alternative version)
from BEKO DSL single, 2011 / written and performed by ela orleans / lyrics: simon hayward / video: movies for ears / recorded and mixed in ridgewood, nyc / mastered by carl clandestine

the video footage comes from "everything for sale" by andrzej wajda (アンジェイ・ワイダ「すべて売り物」1968) and is a tribute to elzbieta czyzewska (エリジビエタ・チゼウスカ, 1938 – 2010). full version of the song appeared on "double feature" (split LP with dirty beaches) released by la station radar + atelier ciseaux and night people in 2011.

Dan Abary aka Four Visions

Four Visions - Sparked Fire (Fall Trees Are Spires)

A fall songs from Brooklyn-based Dan Abary's folkgaze/lo-fi side project Four Visions. He is a member of Sight Seeing formerly known as Youth Castles. Released 02 November 2011 on bandcamp.

The 78 Project: The Mynabirds

About The 78 Project: Each musician has an extraordinary moment to take one microphone, one authentic 1930′s PRESTO direct-to-disc recorder, and one blank lacquer disk anywhere they choose to make a recording that defies space and time. Alan Lomax has said that a large part of his training before embarking on his first field recording trip was learning how not to be afraid of the PRESTO. 

by The 78 Project

The 78 Project - The Mynabirds (Official Teaser)
Shot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2011

The Mynabirds - Numbers Don't Lie
taken from the last year's The Mynabirds full length "What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood" (Saddle Creek), recorded by Richard Swift. Currently they've been working on the new record with Swift again.

The Garment District - Only Air

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The Garment District - Only Air
Video editor: Keith Tassick / Art direction: Jennifer Baron
Copyright Jennifer Baron, 2011 (BMI)

Bird Or Bat by The Garment District

From "Melody Elder," the debut tape by The Garment District, a Pittsburgh-based new musical project of Jennifer Baron (formerly of The Ladybug Transistor). It was engineered by Kevin C. Smith (of The Artificial Sea) in the winter of 2010 in Friendship, PA, and in her home-base Golden Mountain studio, and recorded with her cousin Lucy Blehar on lead vocals, and legendary Television Personalities / Swell Maps' member Jowe Head on bass. Bass guitar on 'Bird Or Bat' were recorded by Gary Olson (of The Ladybug Transistor), at Marlborough Farms in Brooklyn, NY. Out now on Night-People Records.

STREAM :: Garment District on soundcloud and The Garment District Demos on bandcamp

Flying Circus Airport (Demo) by The Garment District

An avid crafter, Jennifer helps run Pittsburgh's award-winning independent craft fair, Handmade Arcade, and is co-editor of Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania.

Allison Schulnik's "MOUND"

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Film by Allison Schulnik, Copyright Allison Schulnik 2011
Cinematography by Helder K. Sun
Music: "It's Raining Today" written by Noel Scott Engel (Scott Walker), from the album "Scott 3" (Philips / Fontana, 1969)

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Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able [Official Music Video]
Video for 'Ready, Able,' from Grizzly Bear's "Veckatimest" (Warp, 2009)
Directed by Allison Schulnik.

Narrow Sparrow - Joe Meek's Dream

by Richard Portillo

Narrow Sparrow - Joe Meek's Dream
video by Ricky Portillo (of Narrow Sparrow)

Narrow Sparrow - Joe Meek's Dream

'Joe Meek's Dream' is taken from the forthcoming debut 4-song EP ''Synthworks'' by Chicago-based experimental electronic pop outfit Narrow Sparrow, due out on November 15th for free online through their tumblr site.  Also on  7” vinyl, December 21st, pre-order is available at HERE.


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I Hear A New World - They Might Be Giants w/ Robin Goldwasser
From TMBGs rarities CD Cast Your Pod to the Wind available at iTunes. 
A collage slideshow video dedicated to Joe Meek. 'I Hear A New World' (the title song from "I Hear a New World - an Outer Space Music Fantasy," a concept album devised and composed by Joe Meek and performed by The Blue Men in 1959) was also covered by Television Personalities, Mark Sultan.

Atlas Sound – Valley of the Saroos (Joe Meek Cover)
taken from "Orange Ohms Glow" EP (2008) by Atlas Sound (aka Bradford Cox of Deerhunter), 'Valley of the Saroos' was originally appeared on Joe Meek's "I Hear a New World."

Don Cherry "Brown Rice"

Don Cherry "Brown Rice" back cover (1975)

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Don Cherry - Brown Rice

The Sea and Cake at Bowery Ballroom, 11/08, 2011

by BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com

The Sea and Cake performs "Weekend" at Bowery Ballroom, NYC, Nov. 8th, 2011

The Sea and Cake: Sam Prekop (vocals, guitar), Archer Prewitt (guitar, piano, vocals), Eric Claridge (bass guitar, synthesizer), and John McEntire (drums, percussion)   WATCH more @ Bleary Eyed Brooklyn on Vimeo.

Salsa Chips

Salsa Chips' debut EP previously released only on cassette is now available for digital download through the Burger Records' bandcamp. Salsa Chips are Jamie Perelman and Lauren Milkie with Matthew Schmalfeld (of The Audacity), Bobby May and Jessica Vasquez.

Misty Roses

"We’re a transatlantic duo – Jonny Perl and myself – who make glamorous, spooky music. We’re influenced by non-rock popular music from the latter half of the twentieth century, such as soundtracks, exotica and dub, and ‘middle-of-the-road mavericks’ like Scott Walker and Serge Gainsbourg."
An excerpt from Bizarre Magazine's interview with Robert Conroy (of Misty Roses):


Misty Roses - Villainess
taken from "Villainess" album (Frog Man Jake, 2009)

Misty Roses - Fantastic Voyage (David Bowie cover)
taken from the live sessions on Irene Trudel's WFMU radio show, 26 October 2009. Robert Conroy performed a cover of David Bowie's 'Fantastic Voyage,' with his friend Greg Fasolino (of Bell Hollow) on 12-string guitar, they were both in the band Burning Rome back in '86.

READ more interview ::  
Misty Roses: Wichita Linemen from the Black Lagoon, on Dangerous Minds

A dark, cinematic, transatlantic pop combo, Misty Roses are Jonny Perl (from London, instruments/programming) and Robert Conroy (from New York, voices/words). Misty Roses' new 7″ vinyl, double A-side 'Puce Woman (for Kenneth Anger)' / 'Queen Cobra (for Jack Smith)' is out now via UK label, Exotic Pylon Records.




With a nod to the musical past, Misty Roses takes pop melodrama to modern heights. Their combination of electronic textures overlaid with a cinematic sense of musical storytelling reminds you somewhat of 60's icons like The Zombies and The Association.   -Irene Trudel  (via FMA)

リンチアン（リンチャンか？）とカナ書きしてしまうとミョーながら、デヴィッド・リンチ・マニアのことをそう呼ぶそうで、ジュリー・ロンドンで意気投合した二人のリンチャン、ロバート・コンロイとジョニー・パール。（和製怪獣映画への造詣も深くとっても映画狂と言っていい）この二人がロンドンとニューヨークを跨いでミスティ・ローゼズ結成し、はや５年.....。
ネーミングはもちろんティム・ハーディンのあの名曲から。