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It sounds as fresh as Monkey did when it came out in 2005. It's dark, it's sparse, it's got droning keyboards, and it's definitely go that Low vibe. But it's different. Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
Pitchfork has created a podcast that features the music of some of the bands with news about the festival. It's like NPR and Pitchfork, at the same time! Courtesy of Pitchfork
This is way to tempting to not post on a site named Spacelab. David Bowie's classic Space Oddity is being repackaged and resold. This is the perfect melding of 1970's New York vibes in a spacey pop song format. Courtesy of
Alias (aka Brendon Whitney) will release a new set of musical perceptions on May 15th with Collected Remixes, an album that sees Alias remixing the work of the likes of The One AM Radio, John Vanderslice, and his other gig, Alias and Tarsier.
What do you do when own a media empire that plays home to some of the best experimental music in the U.S? For Secretly Canadian and Jagjauwar the answer is simple. Launch another label. Here's the starting lineup: Courtesy of Dead Oceans
There's something tense in Marnie Stern's voice, and that lays oh so nice over the sugary pop experimentalism of her music. Courtesy of Kill Rock Stars
The band has moved in new directions, pushing on new wave experiments and funky rythyms. Recorded at Oneida's Okropolis in New York. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey
Citing influences like Fela Kuti and Africa 70, Antibalas brings a heady mix
of afrobeat tribalism to a global and worldly mix of jazz, horns, latin,
funk and more. Courtesy of Anti- Records
New music from Frog Eyes. In the true form of anyone even loosely connected to Spencer Krug, the music is unholy and rambunctious, beautiful and horrifying at the same time. Courtesy of Absolutely Kosher
Takenology. Combining tape manipulation with laptop experimentation, wires and machines, Lloyd Xihilisk is making the sounds of the new century and offering up the whole album for free.
Sonic goo, as their new label Jagjaguwar calls it. Elements of space, kraut, and electro create a mashup of sonic bombasity that you have to hear to believe. Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
Don't call it a flashback! The Besnard Lakes make music influenced by 70's pop and progressive sounds. Get your moonboots on. Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
There is life after Atombombpocketknife. Che Arthur took his back burner solo material and put out as new, thick, tough post-punk. Courtesy of Sick Room Records
This sounds like radiowave fuzz combined with classical music combined with a voyage through outer space. It was used in a Semiconductor project called Brilliant Noise that was done when the Semiconductor duo of Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt did an artist in residency project at NASA. Courtesy of FatCat Records
When she's not thinking about when death is coming, Frida writes beautiful but haunting songs that sound as cold as her native Sweden but sound incredibly human at the same time. Courtesy of Secretly Canadian Records
Everybody calls them shoegazer, but that only describes where Relay begin, not where they end. Droning keyboards and upbeat rythyms pull them out of the shoegaze box and put them into a more dynamic sound. Courtesy of Bubblecore Records
Emil Svanängen has been operating under the name Loney , Dear and making deep and impactful sounds in Stockholm, Sweden. Yes, another act from Sweden. Sub Pop calls it "soulful indie folk with a powerful mini orchestra." We call it good. Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
If you had to create a soundtrack for a documentary on the last thirty
years of college radio and couldn’t use the actual music you could use
Oxford Collapse. Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
If the goths got together with the brit pop people and decided to move to LA and starting making music in 2007, it might sound like Mezanine Owls. It's got darker elemets in a bright pop context.
Ranging from almost jangly indie rock to indie pop, Happy Hollows are experimenting with fragmented genres and bring some sort of edge at the same time. Singer Sarah Negahdari has this breathy chanteuse cool vocal style that's vampy and arty and quirky.
Music from Denmark for the saavy internationalist... Tobias Hellkvist has covered Efterklang's song Step Aside and offered it for free to start of 2007 right.
David Gordon stepped away from writing film scores long enough to write this masterpiece of post-rock epiphany. This is what keeps me coming back to music time and time again. Courtesy of Plug Research
After much label hopping, psych-metalists Grails have signed on to Temporary Residence LTD for their next album. There's no title for the release yet, but a statement from the label says that it will be a Spring 2007 release.
Oakley Hall's roots, Americana sound is rurally influnced, but the band resides in the middle of Brooklyn, so they obviously are connected to modern city life. Their music ends up somewhere in between, influenced by both. Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
Papercuts have very mellow and laid back vibe set on the edge of experimentation and psychedelic sounds. There's a folk undertone to this, so you probably won't be surprised to hear that this music comes from San Francisco.
The music is dark, but ambient-pop at the same time. It tends not to dwell on darkness, just an occasional spacey glance toward the dark mysterious side while meditating over pop rythyms.
Clinic have created a sort of throbbing, droning underbelly of an album -- only Clinic can evoke these kinds of sounds. There's slightly distorted but crisp vocal recordings from Ade Blackburn, steady rythym sections, droning keyboard melodies, all sounding like they're emanating from some foggy London pasture just after sundown. Courtesy of Domino Records
Experimental indie-pop band Deerhoof is back as a three-piece band. They may have lost a member, but they haven't lost their sound. Courtesy of High Plains Sigh
Bound Stems bring enough rock to not stray into the sterile and pedantic, and the toe-tapper “Western Biographic” perks the ears as out of sync voices and distorted guitar grunts all skip along on the same time signature. Courtesy of Flameshovel
Experimental indie-pop band Deerhoof is back as a three-piece band. They may have lost a member, but they haven't lost their sound. Courtesy of Kill Rock Stars
Don't let the name scare you off, this isn't algebra and Plus/Minus don't do math rock. What they do is indie rock with a pop twinge and a sound that's hard to compare to. Courtesy of Absolutely Kosher Records
Imagine an even more ambitious Ani DiFranco combined with dry, sardonic wit and stripped-down punk values laid bare by an acoustic guitar. Pure. Courtesy of Lovitt Records
Laid back punk that threatens to cross over the threshold of sanity at any moment. It's got elements of math rock, southern California punk, and a certain rocking edge that grabs you. Courtesy of Sickroom Records
The music is anthemic, cacophonius, and cathartic, in an almost feel-good sort of way. It's kind of like stepping into a particle accelerator to go for a ride, and Proton Proton is playing on the particle accelerator hi-fi during that ride.
The music is decidedly slow and focused, making you stop and actively listen to what's going on. You're rewarded with repeated listens as songs grow in front of your ears.
The Earlies have the funkiness mixed with a good capability for melody and song structure. They've also wandered into that otherworldly quality of dark and light that can be explosive when done right. Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
