Beck is back. With the exception of his appearance at the Serge Gainsbourg tribute and a warm up show two nights before, It has been a few years since he has performed live. Coinciding nicely with his recently announced “I Just Started Hating Some People Today” on Third Man Records, Beck whipped through a 21-song [...]

It's a gloomy Friday in Brisbane - well it is a Sonic Masala show on tonight, and it has rained on every occasion, so it makes sense. So I needed music that would get me through. Fang Island's newie got the ball rolling - then I cam across London collective Super Best Friends Club . Seeing as I'm in a party mood, but don't have the requisite drugs available to get it going (working in a school has that issue...), their EP People We Forget This Is Love was my substitute. An ecstatic tribal drone explosion that sounds like ...

Midweek madness: ► Robert Francis celebrates the release of his third album, “Strangers in the First Place,” with a headlining show at the Troubadour, with opening sets from Leslie Stevens (solo) and Edwards & Edwards. ► The Pharcyde celebrate the 20-year anniversary of “Bizarre Ride II” at the Roxy. ► Margot and the Nuclear So [...]

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Cotton Jones, Devendra Banhart Song: MV & EE - Sweet Sure Gone [download here ] What's so good? I really don’t know much about MV & EE, besides the fact that they’re a duo from Vermont and they’re into celestial psychedelic experimentalism. Can you dig it? MV & EE’s single, “Sweet Sure Gone” is the perfect track for a chilled out sunny day. There’s a huge emphasis on their lax approach to music making in every aspect of the song: the instruments sound as if they’re ...

The Soft Pack Recommended Shows :: May 21st – May 27th Monday, May 21 Gothic Tropic @ Bootleg Theater Tuesday, May 22nd Spiritualized @ The Wiltern The Mark Lanegan Band @ Autry National Center Plaza Beck @ El Rey Theatre (Sold Out) Wednesday, May 23rd I Break Horses @ The Echo Devendra Banhart @ The Observatory Robert Francis @ Troubadour The Pharcyde @ The Roxy Theatre Thursday, [...]

Tonight, in Washington, D.C., Pitchfork partners with the  Hirshhorn Museum  and  Wired  to present one of multimedia artist  Doug Aitken 's  "Happening"  events for his public art project  "SONG 1" . The "Happening" features musical contributions from  Collective">Animal Collective 's Geologist,  Nicolas Jaar ,  Oneohtrix Point Never ,  No Age ,  High Places ,  Tim McAfee-Lewis , and  Leo Gallo . You can watch the whole event at Pitchfork.tv on YouTube  starting at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Since March 22, "SONG 1" has transformed the exterior of the cylindrical museum into something of an outdoor cinema, casting nightly 360-degree projections onto the 82-foot ...

*‘The Great Enlightenment’ *is the new single from Israeli singer-songwriter *Geva Alon,* released on June 18th through 2B Vibes Music/ADA Global. Taken from his forthcoming album ‘*In The Morning Ligh*t’, produced by Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Silver Jews), ‘*The Great...

Far from her humble beginnings on Australian Idol, Brooke Addamo aka Owl Eyes has taken the Australian music scene by storm with her two EPs Faces and Raiders . Now she is back in 2012 with a brand new song and an album in the pipe works and she’s about to embark on a national tour to show off her hard work in the studio. We had a chat to Brooke about life after Idol, musical influences and her love of receiving postcards. Hey! How has 2012 been treating you so far? It’s been good so far I’ve ...

As reported , Pitchfork has partnered with the Hirshhorn Museum  in Washington, D.C. and Wired  to present one of visual artist Doug Aitken 's "Happening" events to go along with his public art project  "SONG 1" . The "Happening" takes place this Friday, May 11 at the Hirshhorn. For this one night, the project's recorded soundtrack will be turned off and replaced with a live one. We're pleased to announce that  Collective">Animal Collective 's Geologist, Tim McAfee-Lewis , and Leo Gallo will perform, in addition to the previously announced lineup of  Nicolas Jaar , Oneohtrix Point Never , No Age , and ...

By Ace Ubas I’ll admit that I’ve never heard of Lower Dens prior to the hype leading up to the release of their latest album, Nootropics (pronounced “No-eh-tropics”). Shame on me, I know. But after listening to this album, I am completely sold on the Baltimore-based quintet led by vocalist Jana Hunter . In the past she’s been a touring member for renowned artists such as Devendra Banhart, Marissa Nadler, Deer Tick, and Peter & the Wolf, so she’s definitely …

bye, hiver a last glimpse at the cold weather. Great Plains - Will Samson Hello Friends, Goodbye Friends (2011) The River Kings - Foreign Fields Anywhere But Where I Am (2012) Winter - Balmorhea Rivers Arms (2008) Prologue - Carter Burwell In Bruges Soundtrack (2008) 夕べの祈り - Haruka Nakamura Twilight (2010) Cristobal - Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (2007) Anywhere But Where I Am - Foreign Fields Anywhere But Where I Am (2012) Window seat & journey to home - Nitin Garg projections /selected singles (2012) November 1, 1832 - Balmorhea All Is Wild, All Is Silent (2009)

If Devendra Banhart is the prince of freak folk, Amanda Jo Williams is its… MP3: Amanda Jo Williams – The Bear Eats Me pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

-- On May 1,   Burst & Bloom will release  Lucky Numbers: A Tribute to Viking Moses . The compilation will feature 11 artists covering the cult artist 's songs, including Devendra Banhart, Malcolm Middleton of Arab Strap, and Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club. Listen to it here . --  Aufheben is the new album from the Brian Jonestown Massacre , out May 1 via 'a' Records. Listen to "I Wanna Hold Your Other Hand" here . -- On April 28, experimental music collective Bang on a Can will celebrate its 25th anniversary at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York. The concert will include performances from ...

I was having trouble describing what Lower Dens are trying to do on their new album Nootropics so I looked up the definition of “nootropics”. It is the collective term for 'smart drugs'; the narcotics that supposedly can enhance memory and intelligence, and it is derived from two Greek words which mean “mind” and “to bend”. This fact certainly helped me get a better handle on this 51 minute, shifting, dream-like collection of songs that manages to move between lengthy but intricate post-punk, folk melodies, drone and motorik repetition with a deceptive ease. Lower Dens were formed in 2009 by ...