Mauro Remeddi the Italian composer who goes by the moniker Porcelain Raft, has planned an August 20th release date for his follow up to the impressive 2012 full length debut Strange Weekend. The new album Permanent Signal has produced it’s first single “Think Of The Ocean”
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Sea Wolf Carves Up Memorable Night
Deepsters were out in full force Thursday night at the Belly Up Tavern, Southern California’s premiere live music venue. Sea Wolf, the LA cutting edge indie folk act lead by frontman Alex Brown Church was the attraction. The band sliced through a beautifully arranged 16 song set (see setlist below) that was lead off by the 2007 indie smash hit “You’re A Wolf.” Their latest record “Old World Romance” (released September 2012) was showcased in half of the set. The three song encore was highlighted by an Alex solo acoustic performance of “Leaves In The River.” among other things…
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New Arcade Fire Album Soon?
According to the music blog Revolt (owned by P Diddy) there may be a new Arcade Fire album dropping on September 9th. The internet research site Wikipedia also has a date of September 9th.
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Arctic Monkeys Release Single “Do I Wanna Know?’
Arctic Monkeys released a new single this morning on iTunes titled “Do I Wanna Know?” The Sheffield, England indie rockers will be headlining Glastonbury next Friday (June 28) and they plan to include the new single along with another new song “Mad Sounds” which has turned up on some recent set lists. The forthcoming album which is planned for a late 2013 release should include both of these tunes.
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Palms Debut Album ‘Palms’ Streaming Now
Palms, a new band featuring Chino Moreno from Deftones and former members of the post-metal band ISIS, will release their self-titled debut album on June 25.
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New Music Tuesday June 18, 2013
The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Austra “Olympia”
Austra, an electronic three piece from Toronto have released their follow up to the 2011 critically
acclaimed debut “Feel It Break.”
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Local Natives Release Video “You & I”
Local Natives, the powerful indie rockers that call the Silver Lake District in LA home, have released a video for “You & I.” The opening track off “Hummingbird” becomes the third single from their latest album.
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Okkervil River Returns
“It Was My Season” the first single from Okkervil River’s upcoming album “The Silver Gymnasium” has been released through the band’s website. The seventh studio album is scheduled for release in the U.S. on September 3rd. This is their first release with ATO Records after a long relationship with Jagjaguwar. According to frontman Will Sheff the new album takes place in 1986 in a small town in New Hampshire.
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Indie on TV alert for the Week of 6/17/13
Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 6/17/13.
The notable performance of the week comes from Grouplove, scheduled to perform on Leno Tuesday night. After squeezing as much as possible out of their debut record “Never Trust A Happy Song”, Grouplove returns with the follow up “Spreading Rumours”, due in record stores September 17. Look for them to play the first single off the album “Ways To Go”.
Kim Deal Resigns As Pixies Bassist
The last ten years seemed too good to be true… Non-stop touring, nearly every show available for download, physical copies of the show available twenty minutes later, Doolittle performed in it’s entirety for two straight years, and every show ending like it was something out of The Waltons.
Then we wake up this morning to find out Kim Deal has quit as bassist of the Pixies. Kim has yet to speak, however it was confirmed by the band in this statement from the Pixies facebook page: We are sad to say that Kim Deal has decided to leave the Pixies. We are very proud to have worked with her on and off over the last 25 years. Despite her decision to move on, we will always consider her a member of the Pixies, and her place will always be here for her. We wish her all the best.
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Bonnaroo Announces Webcast Schedule
Not making your way to Manchester, Tennessee this weekend… No worries, the fine people at the Bonnaroo Festival are hooking
you up with select sets that will be streaming via Ustream all weekend long. Bonnaroo plans to stream the first hour of Paul McCartney’s headlining set. Now you and your friends can sit around the computer all weekend and pretend you’re at Bonnaroo. Happy Pretending!
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Can’t Hardly Wait
As I wrote approximately two months ago the Heritage of all Heritage Celebrations would be the one WHEN The Replacements reunite. WHEN happens to be today! The Replacements announced today that they will headline three Riot Fest dates; Toronto (August 24-25), Chicago (September 13-14-15), and Denver (September 21-22).
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Digital Noise Academy Release Debut – Synemy
Digital Noise Academy has released their debut album ‘Synemy’ today.
The band consists of a revolving group of L.A. musicians including: Ken Andrews (Failure, Year of the Rabbit), Charlotte Martin, Sharky Lagauna (Creeper Lagoon), Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Fernando Sanchez and Jordan Zadorozny (Blinker the Star).
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New Music Tuesday June 11, 2013
The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Surfer Blood, CSS, Portugal. the Man, Rogue Wave
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More Carles this week on XMU
More Carles this week on XMU
Carles from Hipster Runoff, everyone’s favorite blog radio DJ is expanding his role with North America’s Indie Rock Station this week. Carles will be filling in for Julia who has the week off. Carles will hit the XMU airwaves from 4 to 9pm Pacific Time spinning a blend of the latest indie buzzbands, chillwave and boring cool Dad music. This should make for a fun and interesting week of indie satellite radio.
Carles can be heard every Monday from 9am to Noon and 9pm to midnight Pacific Time with his ever-popular Hipster Runoff radio show. Julia, Josiah, and Jenny LSQ may want to reconsider taking time off in the future, however Jake Fogelnest can take as much time off as he likes.
Check out the blog worth blogging about here:
www.hipsterrunoff.com
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