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New Releases >> February: Phantogram | Crosses | St. Vincent | Band Of Horses | Beck | Wild Beasts

Posted on February 3, 2014 by marc

February >> is representing the new album rack with some classic artists as well as some freshness.

Veterans in Beck and Band Of Horses help us celebrate the first New Music Tuesday of the month along with Primus' bass-slapping frontman Les Claypool in his latest project Duo De Twang.

But it’s the indie electro dream combo of Phantogram and ††† [Crosses] that got me stupid excited for fresh music this month. Wurd.

Phantogram's sophomore album Voices is about 5-years overdue but should be the shit. The self-titled - or, self-stylized more so - album from ††† [Crosses] is also much anticipated but only the 1st full length studio release. But a few EP's by the super collaboration plus a handful of underground gems I've come across over the years have gotten me in need for a legit dose. Said rarities alongside more and refreshingly distinct creations spearheaded by Chino Moreno of The Deftones should have everyone excited as fuck too.

But enough about my earhole anxiety over this sample size. Here’s a complete list of all the notables about to drop in February:

CYMBALS The Age Of Fracture >> 2.4

Les Claypool's Duo De Twang Four Foot Shack >> 2.4

Xiu Xiu Angel Guts: Red Classroom >> 2.4

Band Of Horses Acoustic At The Ryman >> 2.11

††† [Crosses] ††† >> 2.11

Eric Church The Outsiders >> 2.11

The Glitch Mob Love Death Immortality >> 2.11

Bayside CULT >> 2.18

Phantogram Voices >> 2.18

Beck Morning Phase >> 2.25

St. Vincent St. Vincent >> 2.25

Wild Beasts Present Tense >> 2.25

marc

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Pinback >> Good To Sea in San Francisco [Bimbo's 365 Club]

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Carmichael

Pinback >> It’s been 10 years since I first saw a Pinback’s video for 'AFK' on MTV’s excellent but now defunct Subterranean. At the time, I was obsessed with music that sounded bad on purpose, which was the norm for most indie rock bands at the time. When Modest Mouse and Built To Spill defined indie rock with 12 minute songs rife with dissonant, distorted guitars and singers who sang like shit - but in a good way. It was a simpler time, a time when indie music didn’t have a lead banjoist or rhythmic clapping or require at some point in the song for someone to shout “ha!” or “hey!” away from the microphone.

Pinback came into this post-grunge indie scene with a different perspective. They presented bass-driven melodies that were precise and layered like Tetris blocks instead of lasagna. I read somewhere a long time ago that Armistead Smith and Rob Crow - the two driving forces behind the many iterations of Pinback - would work on songs separately from one another by sending each other tapes of ideas. They would each individually take the idea and add to it.

The result are songs that sound like two similar but separate songs that met, got to know each other, went to dinners, watched movies and made love - until there was a situation where logistically and financially it made sense to move in together. So they did, then over time the songs slowly took on aspects of each other’s character and personality while still remaining true to themselves.

This is how Pinback writes songs with a lot going on that comes together so perfectly. Songs that transition from bridge to chorus to verse to outro in such wonderful and unexpected ways. Songs that have a bass line that should compete with the guitar phrases but instead combine and support one another.

This style comes at a price, and in my experience, that price was their live performance. This is the 5^th Pinback show I have seen, and the 4 times previous I have told myself I will never go to another one as each time something was wrong, when they played these songs I loved live, they simply sounded off. The different pieces of each song must align perfectly, the tempos must be exact, the volume levels complimentary, or you run the risk of sounding muddled and confusing. It was clear that time in the studio afforded them the ability to make sure everything was in its place when producing their recorded albums.

This time around they sounded excellent. Everything gelled and as an extra 'Fuck you!' to my apprehensive scowl, they played 'AFK' at a blistering fast tempo. Again, perfectly. I grinned, looked at Rob from the stage and thought, 'Alright, I get it. Fuck me. I’m the asshole. I was wrong and you guys sound dope'. I am pretty sure he looked back and me and understood what I was thinking.

It was a 3-piece this time around and the fewest I have ever seen. It was only Armistead, Rob and a drummer I didn’t recognize. They were assisted by background tracks, which may have accounted for the new found precision to their live show. Amistead wore a t shirt and jeans, a blank colored one without any ironic designs or obscure band names, the kind you find in a 3-pack at Kohl’s. Rob wore black shorts and a simple short sleeve buttoned up. They looked exactly how I thought they should, like two veterans in the indie music scene who never made it big enough to be assholes, and who are too old to care how cool they are. Ironically, they couldn’t have looked any cooler.

Amistead’s virtuosity was in full display, at Bimbo’s 365 it was easy to work your way to front and it was the closest I have been able to get to them. At that distance, it was easy to be marveled by the speed and technical ability of Amistead's bass playing. Their songs were complimented by a movie projector screen that played random images from old movies. Whether on purpose or not, I could not help but read into the relationship between the images and the songs being played, drawing out themes that might have been important and recognizable only to me.

Someone in the crowd shouted 'Welcome back Pinback!'. Indeed.

Setlist: Tres * Rousseau * Bloods On Fire * Devil You Know * Non-Photo Blue * True North * Drawstring * His Phase * Walters * Penelope * Loro * Diminished * Sender * Proceed To Memory * Boo * Barnes * Fortress * Good To Sea * Sherman * Offline PK * Syracuse * From Nothing To Nowhere * ENCORE: Grey Machine * Prog * AFK

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zTALK >> French Horn Rebellion

Posted on January 13, 2014 by marc

French Horn Rebellion >> recently visited Phoenix to perform a kickass and steady brass show downtown so I sat down with FHB's frontman, Robert Perlick-Molinari and we shot the desert cool breeze about all sorts of random stuff like Band Geeks Gone Wild, being truly indie, Next Jack Swing and twerking - that is, after he finished eating his post-performance silver platter of various vegetables.

MARC: So your special request as the talent was radish, broccoli and celery?

ROB: On our rider is actually tequila, grapefruit, a bottle of whiskey, some beers and like tons of fresh vegetables. We never get our rider filled out - even in the big places - because nobody ever really takes the time to look at it. But here they’re fully filled out. It’s amazing. We’ve got to come back to Phoenix.

MARC: Agreed, and more frequently please. The last time was at the Rhythm Room almost 3 years ago with Yelle, from France, playing with French Horn Rebellion. Is that a French coincidence or did they recruit you?

ROB: You know what’s funny is that we actually met each other through a German. Actually, he’s Swiss but he’s from the German part of Switzerland. Tepr is one of the 3 guys from Yelle and he’s like best buddies with this friend of mine. Then he was like 'Yelle is looking for support act, shall I put them forward?' So we played with them a one off at Highline Ballroom in New York. They were like 'You’re great, let’s do the whole tour,' but in French. I can’t do all the accents. Then they asked to do like 30 or 40 shows or something. It was a lot of shows.

MARC: So you played quite a bit with them. Is that Phoenix twice here then?

ROB: We’ve been here twice, the time before that was a long, long time ago. It was the first national tour we ever did and we were not ready for a national tour. We just did it because we wanted to. We were straight out of college and we were like, 'I don’t have a booking agent. I’m in a Rock ‘n Roll band. Go on a tour.'

MARC: Where did you go to college?

ROB: I went to Northwestern and Dave was at NYU. We both studied music.

MARC: So do you rep Brooklyn or do you rep Milwaukee?

ROB: I think we rep Milwaukee. Brooklyn is a lot of people, it’s hard to feel like that’s your home.

MARC: In years past it was just you two - the brothers - on stage and now you’re equipped with a band.

ROB: We’ve got a band now!

MARC: What else is different between that French Horn Rebellion and the French Horn Rebellion of today?

ROB: The difference between then and now is huge. I think every artist goes through a period in their career at least when they’re starting out, where they’re not necessary in complete control of their project. So at that time we kind of gained a lot of opinions from labels and management and executives and all that type of jazz. What we should be doing and who we should be. We need to be skinnier or cooler or less geeky or whatever. Stop playing French Horn. Start singing stuff like that. So now we’re completely independent and we hire our management. So they’re supporting us, it’s just a little different. The difference between then and now is tonight we had some fans here and back then we didn't have any fans.

MARC: What do you think has been your biggest challenge to be independent?

ROB: The biggest challenge is a lot of challenges. In some ways it’s easier though because if you’re under a big label and you want to do something, like you get an idea. 'Oh I want to collaborate with my friends and then I want to go on tour with my friends and do bunch of songs together and people are going to love it because there are two of us together doing something unique and individual and it’s totally different'. But to get back through the seven layers of industry is really difficult. The label has to approve, the band has to approve, the booking agent has to approve. The booking agent has to work with the other band’s booking agent who is also on a different label and a different manager. They’ve all got to work together and they don’t want to work together because really that band is competition. There is a lot of blessing to being independent, which is that you get to do what you want when you want it and you can plan very far in the future. We have a release schedule all the way till the end of next year when we want to release tracks and what kind of tracks, when we want to release seasonal tracks. We want to change what we’re wearing depending on the season and want to be something that's current and always changing and fluid. But if you’re under a big label it’s like a one album campaign and you’re gone for a year and half and then you don’t even know when your next album is going to be released. It could be released in the summer or the winter. It might not be at the right time because of culture or whatever. There’s a lot of plus to be independent. But the minus is that you’re the boss so everything bad that happens is pretty much your own fault and you can’t blame anybody but yourself.

MARC: Are you doing any crowdfunding campaigns like through indiegogo or Kickstarter?

ROB: We thought about doing a Kickstarter in the past but I don’t think it really works with us because I don’t really consider us to be Art-Pop - like an art band - or like a band that’s making Avant Garde music. I do think that we are doing something that nobody else is doing. Like we had this new style of music called 'Next Jack Swing' which is I think very innovative.

MARC: Is that anything like New Jack Swing?

ROB: It’s like an evolution of New Jack Swing. I think that we’re able to survive right now, you know keeping the wheels running. We’re trying to think of other fun ways to get to people, which we’re trying to figure out exactly how to monetize that, which is the challenge. We’re sort of like a start up App. What we’re trying to do right now is capture peoples hearts and minds and imagination. But I think our number one; what we really want to do is just; we want to be the band that’s like… hey man you can play a French Horn really loud and it will still be fine. In the world of music - especially classical music - you play your instrument in a certain way or you’re not going to succeed unless you play this excerpt. You’re never going to play a horn outside an orchestra or you’re never going to play your violin outside an orchestra or you’ll never be creative. In classical music you never really encourage people to be creative with who you are or what you want to do with your instrument. You’re taught to play a sheet of music on a piece of paper or see music on a piece of paper and it doesn’t change. It hasn’t changed for hundreds of years. It's exactly like the guy did it in 1850 or whatever. So we just created a new website where we made it easier for kids to get creative. It’s called bandgeeksgonewild.com. What we really want to do is reach kids that play horn or clarinet or something and say, 'Hey, you can be creative too. The sky is the limit as far as what you can do with your instruments. You can try a bunch of different stuff. You don’t have to do what you’ve always been told that you have to do. You can be an individual.' That’s the message of the band. I guess for the moment we’re just worried capturing people’s hearts and minds.

MARC: Genius idea.

ROB: We’ve already got a lot of submissions. Every week we put on our Facebook a video of a kid doing it. The website is like an instrumental that you can play and there is sheet music available that you can play along with. The instrumental is like a hot ass feed that we make. Sorry, leave the ass part out.

MARC: Ass, fuck, shit. No big deal.

ROB: That’s what it’s for, so kids can play their instrument and then they upload videos themselves on YouTube.

MARC: You're essentially fostering more classical rebellions then, right?

ROB: In a lot of ways what happened to me is what I would like to have happen to a lot of other people. That is, I was a sophomore in college and everybody was saying play it like this, you have to do it correctly, your life depends on it, you’re going to be a starving musician unless you can play this excerpt really well. I was like 'I don’t think this really identifies with me. I’d rather be creative in my instrument and do something different.'

MARC: How many years have you been playing the French horn?

ROB: I’ve been playing the horn since I was about seven. So I’ve been playing for almost 20 years. That’s a long time.

MARC: Awesomeness can take a long time.

ROB: Thanks man, I try to play it at like volume 11. That’s pretty loud, right?

MARC: Yeah, that's 1 louder than 10. Okay lightning round. The theme of this is favorites from 2013. Favorite song. Go!

ROB: Drop Out Orchestra. 'Tough Love'.

MARC: Favorite album?

ROB: The St. Lucia album.

MARC: Favorite article of clothing purchased in 2013?

ROB: We bought these jackets that have light-up wire in them.

MARC: Favorite new artist?

ROB: HAERTS. She actually used to be our backup singer, now she’s a rockstar. our next single features her on vocals. It’s called 'Swinging To It'.

MARC: Favorite app discovered this year?

ROB: Spotify. I used that all the time this year. I just discovered it. That’s a this year thing.

MARC: Favorite city played?

ROB: Favorite place I visited was the Dominican Republic but the best show was in Brooklyn at The Music Hall of Williamsburg. We were headlining with our friends Savoir Adore.

MARC: Last one, favorite place to twerk in 2013?

ROB: In my living room! You know what I’m saying!

MARC: That is correct! Congrats, you scored a perfect 10 out of 10!

ROB: I actually know how to twerk. I went onto eHow. I’m serious. You want to see?

MARC: Yeah. Why wouldn't I?

ROB: [proceeds to twerk for everyone backstage]

MARC: Anything else you want to get out to the zBORED audience?

ROB: Band Geeks Gone Wild, Next Jack Swing and play at volume 11.

MARC: Those are wise words to live by.

ROB: That’s how we do it, man. That’s how we do it.

marc

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Coachella >> 2014 Lineup [Virgin Ears Edition]

Posted on January 12, 2014 by marc

Coachella >> 2014's lineup was officially announced this week and to no surprise this lineup is as solid as ever. While there's tons of artists taking part that I've experienced before and I know will have strong performances, there are quite a bit I'm looking forward to seeing for the very first time. Barring any godforsaken schedule conflicts between stages, here's a lineup of artists I look forward to seeing at Coachella this April and knocking off my bucket list.

Outkast ☻ Chvrches ☻ The Knife ☻ ††† [Crosses] ☻ Alesso ☻ Broken Bells ☻ Little Dragon ☻ Lana Del Rey ☻ NAS ☻ Fatboy Slim ☻ The Glitch Mob ☻ Tiga ☻ Flosstradamus ☻ Pet Shop Boys ☻ Ellie Goulding ☻ DJ Falcon ☻ Warpaint ☻ Lorde ☻ HAIM ☻ The Internet ☻ White Lies

marc

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New Releases >> January: Broken Bells | Warpaint | Of Mice & Men | Against Me | Painted Palms

Posted on January 6, 2014 by marc

January >> marks the beginning of a new year of course and this new year is welcomed with an array of new albums from some very eclectic artists fittingly representing newness in some way, shape or form.

New beginnings seem to be a theme in this class of releases. While I was a huge fan of Gnarls Barkley when St. Elsewhere dropped in 2006, I have always thought Danger Mouse was the true talent in the duo. I really dug The Shins for a hot minute too so it was great to see frontman James Mercer and Danger Mouse combine forces to create Broken Bells. These common denominators will release their sophomore album After The Disco this month which is a follow-up to their self-titled and very innovative first LP.

It's said that all good things must come to an end but that doesn't mean more good things can't come elsewhere. John Frusciante's tenure with Red Hot Chili Peppers eventually ended but his talent persisted and his sound lent to a band full of gals in Warpaint whose self-titled album will be their 3rd to evolve from Frusciante's production.

Sometimes people get an unexplainable urge for change no matter how cozy the current situation. Tom Gabel fronted a truly raw punk band for more than a decade before coming out as a transgender in 2012. Against Me!'s upcoming album Transgender Dysphoria Blues will be the band's first album under the newly genetically transitioned frontman now known as Laura Jane Grace. The lyrics to 'Stop!' from their New Wave album in 2007 now have a whole new meaning, right?

Stop! Take some time to think, figure out what's important to you

You've got to make a serious decision

These are just a few of the artists setting the tone for 2014 and below are the other notable albums to be on the look out for this month. Happy 2014 yo!

Broken Bells After The Disco >> 1.14

Bruce Springsteen High Hopes >> 1.14

Mustard Plug Can't Contain It >> 1.14

Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues >> 1.21

Mogwai Rave Tapes >> 1.21

Painted Palms Forever >> 1.21

Ultra Music / Ultra Records Ultra Dance 15 >> 1.21

Warpaint Warpaint >> 1.21

Young The Giant Mind Over Matter >> 1.21

Dum Dum Girls Too True >> 1.28

Of Mice & Men Restoring Force >> 1.12

marc

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Best in SHOWz >> 2013

Posted on December 29, 2013 by marc

Wonder Showzen 2013 >> was absolutely remarkable and just like every other year in live music for me this series of concerts, parties, festivals and such, each had an identity of its own. Artists have continued to develop, galas have grown and newly discovered bands have come into fruition, making all events and even the most familiar of productions a whole new experience.

I experienced more than 100 live performances once again and still can confidently state that the quality of this year's collections has been the best yet. From the valley to Cali and from here to there I experienced many an artist for the first time [Empire Of The Sun, Mumford & Sons, The Killers], 12th time [Jimmy Eat World], long-awaited [Prince, Depeche Mode, Fleetwood Mac, The Cure], and some I haven't seen in close to a decade [Wu-Tang Clan].

This year I basked in festivals across state lines like Coachella, Austin City Limits and Life Is Beautiful, experienced local classics like Soundwave take the next step in grandioseness and the valley's own THAT DAMN SHOW making a comeback. Staples like AXIS-RADIUS and Martini Ranch were put to rest while Crescent Ballroom and Marquee Theatre continued to assert their presence into the scene and old ones arose from the dead, reinvigorated from dormancy like the newly remodeled Pub Rock Live in Scottsdale.

Net net 2013 was a superb year and once again I got to wander a music lover’s paradise. As always I had the blastest blast with my best friends, made a shit ton of new ones and even partook some of these gigs on the solo tip. It's far too difficult to decipher the best of 2013 because each were unique from the performance aspect, my variety of company and each experience was distinct for one reason or another. Thus, in lieu of choosing, I’ll salute all of the artists that took part in my phenomenal 2013 in a Flickr tribute and healthy shout-out list. Happy 2014, my friends!

2 Chainz 2 Door Cinema Club Aesop Rock AFI The Airborne Toxic Event Alabama Shakes x 2 Aston Shuffle Atmosphere Atoms For Peace Audacity Audien AWOL Nation Bad Religion Baggi Begovic Bassnectar Benny Benassi Biffy Clyro Bingo Players Blur The Bright Light Social Hour Capital Cities Childish Gambino Crystal Castles x 2 The Cure Cut Copy Depeche Mode Divine Fits x 2 The Dirty Heads DJ Craze DJ Noah Wylie x ? Doldrums Dragonette Dresses Dry River Yacht Club Empire Of The Sun Face To Face The Faint Fedde Le Grand Fleetwood Mac Flying Scorpion French Horn Rebellion The Gaslight Anthem Grouplove Grimes x 2 Holy Coast Holy Ghost! Hot Chip How To Destroy Angels Jake Bugg Japandroids The Joy Formidable Jimmy Eat World Judgment Day Jurassic 5 Kaskade x 2 Kill The Noise The Killers Krewella The Limousines Lionel Richie Major Lazer Man Or Astro-Man? Manufactured Superstars Matt and Kim Midi Matilda Midnight Magic Modest Mouse MONA Mourning Maxwell Mumford & Sons Muse Mystery Jets Nabiha NERVO Oh No Fiasco Parallels Passion Pit x 3 Pastries With Teeth Penguin Prison Phoenix x 3 Pinback x 2 Porter Robinson Portugal. The Man Postal Service x 2 Prince Purity Ring x 2 The Presets Pretty Lights x 2 Puscifer R3hab Ra Ra Riot Rancid Red Hot Chili Peppers Robert Earl Keen Shiny Toy Guns Slightly Stoopid Slow Magic Slowpoke Social Distortion Speak Snake Burner x ? Steve Aoki x 2 Strung Out Tame Impala Tiesto Tiger Army Transplants Tranzit x ? The Used Vampire Weekend x 2 Walk The Moon We Came As Romans Wolfgang Gartner Wu-Tang Clan The XX YACHT x 2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs x 2 Youth Lagoon Zedd

marc

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zLISTED >> Best Albums of 2013

Posted on December 27, 2013 by marc

2013 >> boasted a shitload of new music and amongst those plentiful releases was a plethora of greatness. Dozens of veteran artists as well as some rookies dropped albums each month which added up to a fuck ton of albums that I really dug. It was quite a challenge to put together this best of the best list but I fucking tried okay? So without further ado, in my humble opinion here are the best albums released in 2013.

15 >> The Knife Shaking The Habitual