Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Campus A Low Hum 2010: Photos
Campus A Low Hum
23,24,25 January 2010
Flock House, Bulls
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Dent May
Signer
Batrider
DZ
O’Lovely
Bum Creek
Monster Mash
Pets With Pets
Dear Time’s Waste
Jens Lekman
Polka Dot Dot Dot
More Campus A Low Hum photos
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Caribou: New Song
Drooling Abacus
Dan Snaith aka Caribou recently released the first single from his forth-coming album Swim, due for release on April 19 via Merge Records (North America) and City Slang (world-wide). Titled ‘Odessa’, it takes his music in a very swampy direction, leading with a crunchy punk sounding bass riff and howling guitar parts. He sings […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Scalper- Flesh & Bones
Scalper- Flesh & Bones
8/10
Nadeem Shafi is a well-travelled individual, born and raised in East London, he now lives on Auckland’s West Coast. Throughout the ’90s Shafi fronted the now legendary hip-hop group Fun-Da-Mental (founded by Aki Qureshi aka Propa-Gandhi), whose politicised hip-hop was pivotal in the fight against social injustice and racism in the UK. […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Hands
Rainbow Flex
Adventurous two-piece Hands will instantly spark your creative imagination. Originally from Philadelphia and now based in Los Angeles, Geoffrey Halliday and Ryan James Sweeney are all about wide angled tribal rhythms, decorum toe tapping drums and they sprinkle everything with a dose of metropolitan airiness. They dabble in folk, electronic pop and even lash […]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
FUR
\\P-ro-li-fic//
If you liked Washed Out, Neon Indian and Rebel Peasant, all of whom we posted on in 2009, here’s another artist to help curve your chilled out starvation. With the buzzy vibe of summer decorating his music, Bryce Isbell pulls together wavy synths and dulcet bass notes, creating what could be termed an easy listening […]
No Comments » - Posted in Texas, U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Vampire Weekend interview
A Celestial Affair
Vampire Weekend has transformed. With their 2008 self-titled debut, Rostam Batmanglij, Ezra Koenig, Chris Tomson & Chris Baio captured the ideals of young pop fans everywhere with their witty, intellectual constructions of strong pop songs executed with a standard rock set up. Their wistful dreaming from the dorms of an ivy league university […]
2 Comments » - Posted in New York, U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Pearl Harbor: New CD-R
Blonde Warriors
My obsession continues. One of my favourite bands of 2009 has a new CD-R to perfectly serenade us in the New Zealand sunshine. Pearl Harbor’s first EP Something About The Chaparrals was one of my favourite releases last year and already they’ve returned with something equally charming and mystical. The CD-R titled Wish We […]
No Comments » - Posted in Los Angeles, U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Dinosauruxia/Moron Says What?! Split 7″
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Norwegian record label Envex Records has just released a new split 7″ featuring Finnish band Dinosauruxia and New Zealand’s Moron Says What?!. Both bands delivered two of my favourite songs of 2009 and one of the songs, Dinosauruxia’s ‘Sky (Time Is Unfolding)’ features on the 7″ record, along with their song […]
No Comments » - Posted in Finland, New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Looking Back: Photos from 2009
Metronomy
The Dodos
Spiritualized
So So Modern
No Age
My Disco
The Ruby Suns
Dan Deacon
High Places
Of Montreal
Grouper
Die! Die! Die!
Golden Axe
Tommy Ill
Matt and Kim
Sora Shima
Tiger Tones
Dear Time’s Waste
Deerhunter
BANG BANG ECHE
Bandicoot
Crackhouse 5
Moron Says What?!
Disasteradio
Lightning Bolt
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Harlem
Shake It Up
Incorporating the ecstasy prescribed by The White Stripes’ early raw blues-soaked rock and roll and the charming glow of ’60s pop warmed through vinyl, Harlem distills that glorious free spirit so many bands are chasing but so few have managed to pin down. Skewing their songs with love and heartache, their jangly party […]
