March, 2016 Mixtape features tunes from Car Seat Headrest, Quilt, The Kills, Fear Of Men, Mitski, and the recently reunited Lush.
Listen to all 19 Tracks on the Spotify.
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#19: M83
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#19. M83
Still no package. I wonder if Goldenvoice is upset with this list?
I wasn’t playing with myself nearly as much in 2012, as I do today. The Top 40 game was trending and becoming a country-wide phenomenon. It was being played by as many people as I could pressure into playing, all for my ultimate enjoyment. As silly as this game may seem, I know everyone had a small guilty pleasure in playing along, not to mention, playing by the rules. Rules, you ask? Yep, there were rules, my rules, and lots of them.
In 2012, the French electronic act M83 finished at #1 on my Top 40 Must-See Coachella 2012 Bands list. Additionally, the Anthony Gonzalez fronted band would finish at #3 on The Twist, right behind The Shins at #2, and Radiohead at #1.
The Twist is a project developed by deepster19, Owner and Editor-In Chief of the indie music blog Goindeepmusic.com. Its origin traces back to 2009. The game is played by actual people, within the game these people are known as the players. The players are planning on, or pretending to, attend the Coachella Music Festival. Each day, for 40 consecutive days leading up to the festival, the players text out their must-see Coachella bands to the other players in the game. Sound fun? Bands would receive points based on where they landed on each player’s list, for example, 1 point for #40, 2 points for #39, 3 points for #38, and so on. You can stream the 2012 Coachella Twist Mixtape here.
In the end, players that endured the game would receive a commemorative compact disc mixtape to celebrate their misery, and their Top 19 bands. Each player would receive an additional disc to honor the group’s Top 19, which is eloquently known as The Twist. Said discs would be part of the “welcome” packet at Motel 6, distributed on Arrival Day (Thursday).
On Reflection Day (Monday), the Top 40 game players would toss the compact discs out of the car window on their way back home, usually depositing them somewhere along the I-10 freeway. This silent gesture was their way of saying:
“He’s not making me play that silly game again next year.”
Oddly, everyone was back for more fun and games the following year, that is until 2015…
The backlash over the game was brutal, to the extreme that some people stopped going to Coachella altogether. Who knew?
Maybe the array of splash colors weren’t resilient enough. Maybe the frequent update wasn’t updated frequently enough. Maybe there was nowhere to play a physical compact disc anymore.
Or maybe… It wasn’t the game, it was Coachella!
Maybe the Spicy Pie wasn’t as tasty. Maybe the Toaster Pastries weren’t up to standard. Maybe the dead animal had become a tired act. Maybe there wasn’t enough time being wasted at Panera. Maybe it was “the lineup.” Maybe the coffee wasn’t being stirred correctly. Maybe there was just way too much left over Pub Mix, Pringles, and Gatorade. Maybe the Sharpie jokes were no longer funny. Maybe the handicapped porta potty wasn’t clean enough. Maybe it was the cymbal. Maybe it was The 1975. Or maybe, the fear of catching bed bugs is real. Who knows?
Back to M83, they’re now based in Los Angeles and are planning to release Junk, the follow-up to the commercially successful 2011 double-album Hurry Up, Were Dreaming on April 8. The new material has received less-than-stellar reviews. Joziah Lambert, music critic and DJ at North America’s Indie Rock Channel Sirius XMU, compares the first single “Do It Try It” to the first time you heard “Flash Delirium” by MGMT. Junk will be the band’s seventh studio album, and hopefully it’s not junk.
Mr. Gonzalez recently conducted tryouts for a new female vocalist. Kaela Sinclair won the American Idol style contest and will replace the lovely Morgan Kibby. The 2012 Coachella performance in the Mojave Tent was a great show. I always envisioned myself seeing M83 again, in a theatre playing a full set, not at Coachella. You take what you can get, if set times dictate my presence, I will be there.
I really enjoy the band’s earlier shoegazing influenced style that showed up on 2003’s Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts and 2005’s Before The Dawn Heals Us. To a lesser extent, but equally as good, the 2008 release Saturdays = Youth.
As for the game, join in right here with your #19 band, or join in whenever you want. If not, it makes no difference to me. I’ll still shoot out #18 tomorrow, as I sit here and patiently wait for my package to come.
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Source: Jimmy Eat World Is EMO
A few weeks ago, I was surfing the world wide web and happened to stumble upon an entertainment blog called Rolling Stone Magazine.
I came across a post entitled The 40 Greatest EMO Albums Of All Time. I couldn’t resist, sorry, I double clicked on it immediately, I know you will too. What’s the saying, curiosity killed the cat?
What I discovered will finally put closure to the most asked question in music history…..
Is Jimmy Eat World EMO?
Rolling Stone spared no expense on this project. They recruited only the finest EMO experts on the planet to conjure up this list. The six EMO connoisseurs consist of Jonah Bayer, Aaron Burgess, Suzy Exposito, Leor Galil, James Montgomery and Brittany Spanos.
The results are truly breathtaking.
Apparently, these six experts couldn’t decide on what the worst Jimmy Eat World album is, so they had to include two of them. As mind-boggling as it may seem, Jimmy Eat World is the only band to place two albums in the countdown. The pride and joy of Mesa, Arizona came in at #13 with 1999’s Clarity, and at #8 with the 2001 release Bleed American.
I won’t give away too much information, that would ruin your stroll down memory lane, but, Sunny Day Real Estate is represented. Did you ever notice that Jenny LSQ can’t go an entire episode of the Old School Show on Sirius XMU without including a track from Sunny Day Real Estate? What is it with that?
To my surprise, The Jealous Sound came in at #31 with their 2003 release Kill Them With Kindness. I always liked The Jealous Sound, I guess I’ll have to start not liking The Jealous Sound, or at the very least, I won’t tell anyone I like The Jealous Sound. Who remembers the tune “The Fold Out?”
Dashboard fans will be none too pleased with this list. Just sayin.
I think we’re all fighting a never ending battle with this EMO thing, it just won’t go way. I’m proud to officially announce that Jimmy Eat World is EMO, always was, is, and ever will be, EMO.
Amen.
If you have a guilty EMO pleasure, enjoy “Lucky Denver Mint” below:
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#20: HAELOS
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#20. HAELOS
Before I move on to #20 on my list, here’s a quick update on my package, it didn’t come.
HAELOS is an East London trip hop trio that have been around since 2014. Recently, the band was placed on many of those bands-on-the-come-up lists.
They’re cut from the same mold as a Portishead or Massive Attack.
The debut album Full Circle arrived last Friday with decent reviews.
They were originally known as Halos, but probably saw the fun things that the Brooklyn-based indie pop band HAERTS did with their name, and said, if they can get away with it, so can we.
HAELOS is one of my most interesting discoveries on the Coachella 2016 poster.
I wouldn’t be surprised if HAELOS kicks off my Weekend 2 experience with an early afternoon set in the Mojave Tent.
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#21: Ex Hex
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#21. Ex Hex
E
x Hex is a indie rock trio from Washington D.C.
The band was formed by guitarist Mary Timony (Helium, Wild Flag) when her band Wild Flag went on permanent hiatus in 2013. Ms. Timony recruited drummer Laura Harris (Benjy Ferree) and Betsy Wright (Fire Tapes) to play bass.
The trio came together with former Let’s Active founding member and record producer (R.E.M.) Mitch Easter, to record the debut album Rips in 2014.
Look for the ladies to play a loud mid-afternoon set on the Outdoor Stage.
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#22: Melody’s Echo Chamber
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#22. Melody’s Echo Chamber
Melody Prochet is the woman behind the French dream pop project Melody’s Echo Chamber.
Originally, she was known as My Bee’s Garden, that is, until she met and collaborated with Kevin Parker of Tame Impala in 2010. Since 2012, her new material has been released under the moniker Melody’s Echo Chamber.
So far, Ms. Prochet has only released one studio album, a 2012 self-titled effort. In 2014 she released the single “Shirim,” along with rumors that a sophomore album would soon follow, still nothing. Maybe when it gets real quiet between songs during her Coachella set, I will yell “where the hell is the new album?”
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Indie On TV Alert For The Week Of March 28, 2016
Here are the Indie Bands scheduled to perform on late night television for the week of March 28, 2016. Check the Indie On TV Alert page to view previous week’s performances.
Colbert
Monday = Frightened Rabbit
Tuesday = Savages
Fallon
Tuesday = Michael Stipe
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#23: The Heavy
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#23. The Heavy
The Heavy are a British rock band that formed in 2007, they call Bath, England home. The band’s sound has influences from funk, soul, hip hop and garage rock, neo-soul if you will.
The group’s fourth studio album Hurt & The Merciless drops this coming Friday, and will include the badass tune “What Happened to The Love,” which surfaced a few days ago.
The band is probably best known for the tune “How You Like Me Now?” which has been used in a shitload of TV shows, movies, and commercials. I hear it everyday on the MLB Network show Intentional Talk.
If Present-Tense was going to Coachella this year, I bet he would have The Heavy in his Top 10, just sayin.
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#24: The Last Shadow Puppets
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#24. The Last Shadow Puppets
The Last Shadow Puppets are an English indie rock supergroup formed in 2007 by Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane of The Rascals. They would later recruit James Ford from Simian Mobile Disco and Zach Dawes (no relation to the shitty folk-rock band Dawes) from Mini Mansions to complete the quartet. Turner and Kane met when Kane’s former band Little Flames were supporting the Arctic Monkeys on their 2005 tour.
The group released their baroque pop debut album The Age Of Understatement four days before the Coachella Music Festival in 2008. Since 2009, both Turner and Kane threatened to record a second TLSP album, but nothing ever materialized. Late last year, the band finally announced plans to drop the follow-up album, and have since released three singles from it. You may have heard Sirius XMU overplaying “Bad Habit” and the title track “Everything You’ve Come To Expect.” Recently, the third single “Aviation” surfaced. Jenny LSQ and her colleagues haven’t had enough time to ruin that one yet. The sophomore album will be in record stores next Friday.
I would’ve rather had the Arctic Monkeys, but I don’t make the poster, I just pretend to make the poster.
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#25: Young Fathers
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#25. Young Fathers
Young Fathers are the pride and joy of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The lo-fi R&B trio formed in 2008 and have two albums in their discography. Their debut full-length Dead won the U.K.’s prestigious Mercury Prize back in 2014. The sophomore effort White Men Are Black Men Too was released last year to critical acclaim.
Besides lo-fi R&B, their sound could also be categorized as hip hop pop, indie pop, electronic, or, wait for it… reggae. I don’t care what it is because I dig it, reminds me a lot like TV On The Radio.
The band’s name comes from all three members having their fathers’ names. Fun fact are fun!
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An Update On The Dandy Warhols
With the release of the ninth studio album Distortland just two weeks away, the practitioners of neo-psychedelic rock, updated fans today on a few of the fun happenings in Dandyland.
First of all, they unveiled another track “Catcher In The Rye” from their forthcoming 180g long playing maxigroove polyvinyl phonograph record. This tune has already been preceded by “You Are Killing Me” and “STYGGO.” You can pre-order a copy of “Distortland” on the band’s webstore and receive some nifty bundles to go along with the LP, compact disc, or cassette tape.
The Portland legends also announced that a 1994 live recording of their eighth show as a band, performed at the X-Ray Café in Portland, was recently unearthed. The recording is only available on EP and can be obtained here.
For those of you that in enjoy Dandy merch, the latest creation is a Distortland TrailBlazers t-shirt. The limited edition tee is only available through April 1 and is an official licensed NBA product, no shit, admire it below.
Don’t forget, the spring tour kicks off in Salt Lake City on April 1 and continues in North America until April 19 in Louisville. Catch them in a town near you, they won’t disappoint.
Distortland tracklisting:
| SIDE A | SIDE B |
| 1. Search Party | 1. STYGGO |
| 2. Semper Fidelis | 2. You Are Killing Me |
| 3. Pope Reverend Jim | 3. All The Girls In London |
| 4. Catcher In The Rye | 4. Doves |
| 5. Give | 5. The Grow Up Song |
#26: The Arcs
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#26. The Arcs
Just when you thought The Black Keys’ streak of playing the Coachella Music Festival would come to an end at twelve years in a row, this happens.
Apparently, Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach pulled the wool over the eyes of everyone down at Goldenvoice. Folks, I regret to announce that The Black Keys will playing the festival again this year, this time under the moniker The Arcs. What’s more, they’re showing up with an outfit of six members. Furthermore, they even have an album available if you’re interested in hearing what The Black Keys would sound like if they toured under the name The Arcs. Recently, “The Arcs” have been releasing singles one after another, those tunes are sure to show up on the next Black Keys’ album.
This appearance by The Black Keys will tie them with DJ Deep with thirteen consecutive Coachella’s.
Unbelievable, you can’t make this shit up, even if you tried.
Enjoy some music below from “The Arcs.”
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New Indie Music: Friday March 25, 2016
Here’s what’s new today. Stream these new releases on Spotify.
Bob Mould “Patch The Sky”
The Range “Potential”
The Thermals “We Disappear”
White Denim “Stiff”
#27: The Damned
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#27. The Damned
Before I unveil my #27 must-see band, I can’t help but wonder when my package will come.
The Damned are an English gothic punk heritage act that formed way back in 1976. The band has had a gazillion lineup changes, countless break ups/reformations, and a myriad of studio albums.
The one constant member has been frontman Dave Vanian who’s been around for the entire ride. Beside an eleven year break from 1985 to 1996 to work on a solo career, co-founding member Captain Sensible is another mainstay. The current lineup of Vanian, Sensible, Monty Oxymoron, Pinch, and Stu West have been together since 2004, most recently releasing the album So, Who’s Paranoid? in 2008.
Coachella is always good for a heritage act or two on the poster every year, some years are better than others. Someday when there’s more time, I’ll list them all out.
The Damned will probably play the Gobi Tent at quarter past midnight to a room of 25 people. Just sayin’.
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#28: Alvvays
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#28. Alvvays
The Toronto-based jangle pop quintet Alvvays (pronounced Always) comes in at #28 on my list of Coachella 2016 must-see acts.
I originally had Alvvays much higher on my list until they were announced as the opening act for the sold out CHVRCHES show on April 13 in San Diego. In the event I run into traffic or my dinner goes too late and I miss Alvvays’ opening act, I’ll catch them at the Empire Polo Field.
First it was deer-bands, next it was beach-bands, and now the ridiculous trend seems to be V-bands. When does all this nonsense stop?
The group released their self-titled full-length debut back in 2014. They’re currently working on new music which I’m sure they plan on sampling in the desert next month. By now you know my opinion on new music that’s not supported with an EP or LP…. If I wanted to hear your new music, I would go and see you next year.
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