This is a gem from Silver Swans’ — an San Francisco electro-pop outfit– 2012 album Forever. I instantly fell in love with the synth line and light xylophone. The female vocals, provided by Annie Yu, are quite nice as well. I’m in general agreement with Consequence of Sound’s album review (a 3 out of 5 star [...]

You better start loving this exquisite city named San Francisco.. because from the state of things, Sliver Swans are set on sitting you down and telling all you cross-legged & eager individuals about their fascinating tales of heavenly beguilement and trinket-enthralling … Continue reading →

You better start loving this exquisite city named San Francisco.. because from the state of things, Sliver Swans are set on sitting you down and telling all you cross-legged & eager individuals about their fascinating tales of heavenly beguilement and trinket-enthralling … Continue reading →

If only every city had a Hopscotch. Raleigh, NC’s big-big music festival has gotten even bigger this year, with the addition of historical (and possibly haunted!!!) sounding venues like the Long View Center, Memorial Auditorium and the Contemporary Art Museum to its 15 venues strong festival map. There are 175 artists playing this thing, people, with everyone from the likes of Class Actress and Baroness to Liars and Wagner">Mirel Wagner. This year is only Hopscotch’s third go-around, and already they’ve got swell headliners like Built to Spill, The Roots, and The Jesus and Mary Chain keyed ...

Brooklyn Vegan : HOPSCOTCH 2012 LINEUP Airstrip (Carrboro, N.C.) Altar of Plagues (Cork, Ireland) Altos (Milwaukee, Wis.) Alvarius B. (Seattle, Wash.) Amen Dunes (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun (Berlin, Germany / Durham, N.C.) Balam Acab (Mechanicsburg, P.A.) Baroness (Savannah, Ga.) Beat Report (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Big Troubles (Ridgewood, N.J.) Bill Orcutt (San Francisco, Calif.) Ritmo">Bio Ritmo (Richmond, Va.) BIrds of Avalon (Raleigh, N.C.) Black Skies (Carrboro, N.C.) Boy Friend (Austin, Texas) Built to Spill (Boise, I.D.) Burglar Fucker (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Calico Haunts (Durham, N.C.) Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan (Durham, N ...

We are dedicating this week’s Monday Threesome to bands that exude a dream-pop sound and incorporate pristine female vocals. Au Revoir Simone, Seven Swans and Erika Spring all have a distinct tone, but are rooted in the electronicdreamy-pop genre [...]

Spring Mix / Mix printanier                           ————————————————————————————-           Each year when Spring rolls around, bands take the opportunity to provide the world’s renewed sense of spirit with a soundtrack. Lately, new music has been flooding the internet, stimulating satellite radio, and basically making it impossible for me to do anything but enjoy it. Yes, my last few months have included hours of positively throttling my ears with fresh tunes, but little motivation to actually select songs and compile them into a dynamic and listenable playlist. However, with a sudden wave of ambition and some free time before my upcoming trip to New York ...

Silver Swans Forever (Twentyseven Records) This San Francisco duo truly gives justice to the name “Silver Swans,” a comic book super villain [...]

Whether you are heading to Austin this week to catch some great new bands or some already awesome bands that you are aware of, there are always going to be some hidden gems that you should get to know too.  Even if you’re not in Austin, you should definitely check out the band Silver Swans as they are quite awesome and have a fantastic sound. We were lucky enough to not only get a sneak preview of their new album (which we can’t stop playing) we also got to catch up with Silver Swans this week before they ...

SXSW in Austin is fast approaching and there are an absolute abundance of great artists playing this fine festival.  There are quite a few big names playing too, including Kasabian, Keane, Kaiser Chiefs, Bruce Springsteen, Norah Jones, Counting Crows and many more…. However, we thought we’d put a mini mix tape together with a difference by focusing on the up and coming bands that you might not have heard of yet but you should definitely be acquainted with.  You know….all that Your Music Radar type stuff we think you should hear. You may know some, none or all ...

Secrets has a real Friday vibe to it in my opinion and that’s part of the reason I’m featuring it. It’s music that has that atmospheric shoegaze aesthetic applied to its synths like M83 but it’s a little more bedroom dreampop (wow, that sentence ended up with a bunch of 2011 musical buzzwords, apologies). But [...]

Silver Swans : Let It Happen - Video

Silver Swans - House of Blood In the midst of a war of words about Lana Del Rey and her lofty ambitions, when a ‘ Video Games’ cover arrives in your inbox, the only reasonable response is to hit the delete button and banish the perpetrators of this desperate ploy from all existence. Silver Swans don’t owe me an explanation. They’ve helped me to forget about this criminal act of opportunism, through an exceptional debut full-length in the form of ‘ Forever ’. It follows on from the ‘ Secrets’ EP , building beautiful structures of tribal drums and dreamy vocals. It’s the ...

The dream pop side project of LoveLikeFire's Ann Yu fall short of expectations on their sophomore album. Music Player (reviews):  House_Of_Blood.mp3 16-SilverSwans.mp3 Arrows.mp3 read more

MP3s: Download all 01    RUN DMT "Dreaming" 02    Balam Acab "Oh, Why" 03    Dirty Beaches "Lord Knows Best" 04    Clams Casino "I'm God (Instrumental)" 05    Secret Colors "Heavy Sleeper" 06    No Ceremony "Deliverus" 07    Amen Dunes "Christopher" 08    Slime "Gals" 09     Matthew Joel "Sleepless" 10     SoKo "How Are You?" 11    Mac DeMarco "Only You" 12    The Caretaker "Tiny Gradiations of Loss" 13    Pure X "Back Where I Began" 14    Grandpa Was a Lion "OS X Lion" 15    Casually Here "Settle" 16    Silver Swans "Secrets" 17    Holy Other "Touch" 18    Angel Olsen "In the Morning" 19    (exitpost) "Lake Monster" 20 ...