Want to get tickets to see a bunch of bands we love? We're not giving tickets away -- but our friends at Pretty Much Amazing are -- details: Continue Reading...
Most of the time, I don't post press releases. You can file Shonen Knife under "bands I love so much I'll break the rules for", but anyways I'm super busy today yo --
Ichiban (Number one) in the world (Candidly, it is however Kakkoii (Cool) without affectation.)
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Slowly but surely, the machinery of Magnetic Fields is cranking back up. With their new album Realism set for release, they've decided to embark on a wee bairn of a tour. Check out these tour dates -- Continue Reading...
You already know how much I love the new O+S record. I'm thrilled to offer you a second song from the album, one that I think will give you an even better window into their sonic diversity. "Permanent Scar" is the first single from the self-titled album, and I hope you'll dig it as much as I have been.
O+S - Permanent Scar
You can purchase o+s from Amazon by clicking here. O+S will be appearing at SXSW on Friday, March 20th, 11pm @ The Radio Room.
There's a tricky dissonance that wafts through the undercurrent of the most beautiful recordings I've listened to in my life. It's the unexpected collaborations or spellbinding accidents of circumstance that unite elements into original flavors. The illogical syllogisms in music are the ones that surprisingly seem to work the best. Such is the case of O+S, whose self-titled debut will be released via Saddle Creek Records on March 24th.
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An observation: I think if Erlend Oye were a type of fabric, he’d be a smooth vinyl suede.
After all, the Norwegian crooner has made his career out of experimenting with various combinations of the synthetic and the smooth. The latest of these efforts is Rules, the second release from The Whitest Boy Alive, due out on Bubbles in March. The Berlin-based group’s 2007 debut, Dreams, was about as close as dance-rock can come to producing a concept album; the stripped-down guitar/bass/drums/vocals galvanized by spare, funky rhythmic consistency made for an album as danceable as it is listenable.
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