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New Music: Slapping Purses
Recorded at New Tectonics
.. Will feature super sweet packaging by our own favorite damnial (of courses)
Face Candy @ Black Dog Cafe
Tonight, January 9th at the Black Dog Cafe (308 prince street St.Paul, Minnesota 55102) we, FACE CANDY (micheal larsen, christopher keller, casey o’brien and j.t.bates) will be recording our performance for our upcoming release “waste-age teenland” We are also making a documentary about our band and our creative process and would like you to be part of it all!
Doors at 9pm.
5 dollars.
ALL AGES!!!!!
Exclusive First Listen: M. Ward's 'Hold Time' on NPR Music next Monday
See also: Andrew Bird – ‘Noble Beast’ exclusive stream on NPR
Full disclosure, Matt is without a doubt my favorite solo artist post ’00, so i’m a WEE bit excited for this 
Exclusive First Listen: M. Ward’s ‘Hold Time’ : NPR Music.
The songs of singer-guitarist M. Ward seem to drift in on the crackling radio waves of a distant time. Warm and intimate, his largely acoustic and usually spare arrangements are a tribute to what Ward sees as the greatest era for American music: the 1950s and early ’60s, when singers like Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison infused country-rooted pop with honesty and romance. Ward’s latest album, Hold Time, continues this tradition, with a gorgeously produced mix of finger-picked guitars, upright bass and shuffling rhythms, all tied together by his achy voice.
Hold Time won’t be released until Feb. 17, but listeners can hear the entire album here on NPR Music as an exclusive preview, beginning at 11:59 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 12.
The new disc was mixed by producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis, with guest appearances by Lucinda Williams, Zooey Deschanel (She & Him), Rachel Blumberg (The Decemberists) and others. Though it mostly features all-new songs, Hold Time includes a handful of cover tunes, including Don Gibson’s “Oh Lonesome Me” and “Rave On,” made popular by Buddy Holly.
“I think the songwriting style of (Buddy Holly’s) period was superior,” Ward says in an interview with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen. “There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I’m attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.”
Watch the video for the title track, ‘Hold Time’
Thunder In The Valley Release 'Aloha'
Minneapolis mainstay ‘Thunder In The Valley” have been disbanded for about two years, just hours before 2009 they released their album ‘Aloha’ online.
| “Dec 31st, 2008 at 01:26:46 pm |
| Thunder in the Valley’s Aloha It better work this time. Anyway, like I said, got tired of sitting on this for no reason. We recorded it in Philadelphia in July, 2007 with Bill Moriarty. 5 of the songs were on an EP we put out a few months before we broke up. It’s not mastered.” |
City Pages’ David Hansen interviews guitarist Nick Ryan..
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Animal Collective 'Listening Party' @ Electric Fetus
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE LISTENING PARTY
When: Tues., Jan. 6th
Where: The Minneapolis Electric Fetus
The Electric Fetus and Radio K are having a listening party for the new Animal Collective album, Merriweather Post Pavilion. The double, gatefold vinyl LP (180 gram) version of the album will be available for sale for the first time that day. The LP includes a full album download card in both wav and mp3 formats inside. The Fetus will also be taking pre-orders for the CD version which comes out Jan. 20th. Customers that pre-order the CD or buy the LP that day will receive a download card with an “Animal Collective Mix” of live tracks.
The Fetus will also hold a raffle for a set of Animal Collective vinyl and two limited edition tour posters – MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN. This is an in-store event only.
Sole & The Skyrider Band release REMIX ALBUM
It’s pretty neat but I wish it didn’t exclaim “This Is A Promo Album!” Over & Over…
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Official Press Release A year after the release of the self-titled lp from sole & the skyrider band, many of the songs have become prophecy. After 2 world tours as a band, and ten years of touring the globe, sole has witnessed the decline of the the west, from France to america, the first world is becoming the third world, one giant conflict zone where there are no innocent bystanders. The stupid things have indeed begun to implode on themselves, and this year has indeed turned out to be a “sad day for investors.” This is sole’s first major release outside of anticon on his new imprint “black canyon recordings.” The new strategy embraces a shift away from the pay for play politics of the past, inflated publicity budgets and chart infiltration. This marks a return to the DIY guerilla roots, a re-ignition of the culture war, and the clarion call that “the only role of art is to challenge the status quo.” What better way to celebrate such an occasion than a remix album with old and new friends? Featuring up and coming artists and indy stalwarts alike, the record features; Dosh, Andrew Broder of Fog, Electric President, Astronautalis, Son Lux, Sleeper, Telephone Jim Jesus, Odd Nosdam, Thavius Beck, Subtitle , Bit tuner, DJ Egadz, Otem Rellik and {ictureplane. This record is a departure from the post-rock influenced lp that came last year and is re-visited in a more IDM/electronic fashion. Song structures are destroyed, but the theme remains, whether it’s Pictureplane calling for a return to 68, Dosh’s re-emphasis of “to know thy enemy is to know thyself” or Son Lux recalling “everyone you know is on a tiny blue dot,” in this rapidly changing world these aren’t empty songs of protest, love, or gluttony, they are calls to arms. Sole & the skyrider band go where no one else in hip-hop or indy rock dare to go, stock up on guns, grains, and ammo; fill your library, you won’t be needing your i-phone much longer. Strange days are upon us yet there is no need to fear, the burning plastic smell can’t last forever… tracklisting: 1. sad day for investors (astronautalis remix) for more information:
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Gay Witch Abortion & Seawhores @ 22nd Ave Station
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
P.O.S. To Release 'Never Better' February 3rd on Rhymesayers
Stef Alexander will release Never Better his follow-up to 2006′s fantastic Audition on February 3rd on Rhymesayers. The album features fantastic artwork by Eric Carlson of Hardland Heartland (the packaging sounds incredible from the PR as well).
Tracklist:
1.Let It Rattle
2.Drumroll (We’re All Thirsty)
3.Savion Glover
4.Purexed
5.Graves (We Wrote the Book)
6.Goodbye
7.Get Smokes
8.Been Afraid
9.Low Light Low Life
10.The Basics (Alright)
11.Out of Category
12.Optimist (We Are Not For Them)
13.Terrorish
14.Never Better
15.The Brave and the Snake
Press Release:
P.O.S. returns with Never Better, February 3rd on Rhymesayers. It’s the follow-up to 2006′s critically acclaimed Audition. Most of P.O.S’ new album was written in a moving car. On it, he raps at full-clip to ride rolling drums and revving distortion. There’s an urgency that he keeps in careful check, and then unleashes for spring-loaded verses that represent his best work. P.O.S built his reputation as an innovator, with an unlikely punk rock past and expressive, honest content. He re-earns the accolades with every release. His records capture his charisma-they’re driving and sincere, the dark moments counterbalanced by some giggling banter with the engineer. On Never Better, the new disc, he conjures get-away cars, racing chariots, the pursuit of sirens, and the occasional rueful nighttime drive.
P.O.S. himself made more than half of the beats on Never Better, and the production bears his unmistakable signature. The album enters a room like bombshell with a black eye-badass, noisy, impossible to ignore. Feedback and relentless drum rolls are only occasionally tempered by sung choruses and clean, chiming guitar lines. Some critics will be eager to categorize the album as a hybrid-some kind of crossover project. But it’s probably not. P.O.S is a rapper with range, he’s a real musician and an unstoppable performer. For him, genres are as they ever were: permeable.
The packaging for P.O.S’s new album Never Better is a one of a kind four panel transparent plastic Digipak that holds 16 solid and 6 Transparent inserts. The solid inserts have artwork on the front and lyrics/credits on the back. The Transparent inserts have artwork that when placed over the various solid cards, enhance and change the look of the art underneath, hundreds of combinations are possible. Look for P.O.S. to embark on a headlining tour for the month of February and he will stay on the road through the summer, where he’s confirmed for the entire Vans Warped Tour.
P.O.S.’s two plus years on the road in support of Audition proved that no genre can contain him. He’s just as comfortable performing in front of punk and rock crowds as he is with his ever growing loyal hip hop fan base. On different tours, he went out with Atmosphere, Minus the Bear, Gym Class Heroes and Underoath plus did 50+ dates on the Vans Warped Tour. Audition made it up to #13 on the CMJ Radio Top 200 and was #1 on the Hip Hop chart for three weeks. The video for his single “Bleeding Hearts Club (MPLS Chapter)” received heavy rotation on MTVu and also on MTV2′s Subterranean.