Happy 2018
I’m back with an exciting mix of new music on this month’s tape. 2018 is off to a great start and the January mixtape offers nearly 80 tunes for your listening pleasure!
Some of my faves from the tape include songs from The Decemberists, Wooden Shjips, The Radio Dept., Shopping, Hookworms, The Night Flowers, Editors, and Jay Som.
The next time you have a spare five hours, check it out on Spotify.
Check out my latest Indie Mixtape over on the Spotify. This month’s tape is an extended mix that features 50 indie tunes from the past month. Extended mixes are fun!
You’ll find new music from the usual cast of characters including KASABIAN, Grizzly Bear, Broken Social Scene, and The National.
There’s long-awaited new tracks from The Horrors, Royal Blood, and Deer Tick.
The mix also includes, dare I say, a pop song, from former Gossip frontwoman Beth Ditto.
Finally, you get the mandatory Heritage tracks, this month I provided new music from The Church, Ride, and Gene Loves Jezebel. I also threw on the new track from Filthy Friends, a supergroup consisting of members from REM, Sleater-Kinney, The Minus 5, and King Crimson.
Enjoy and Happy INDEEpendence Day!
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To the best of my knowledge, Jackson Philips has yet to produce a bad tune under the moniker Day Wave. Seriously, everything that’s come out since 2014 has been solid.
The one-man bedroom-beats extraordinaire brings his talents to San Diego this evening, playing a show at The Casbah.
The Oakland, California musician tours with a full band, so I’m curious to hear how those flawless beats translate live.
Mr. Philips released his debut full-length The Days We Had back in May. The LP was preceded by countless catchy singles over the past few years.
His music is inspired by The Beach Boys and New Order, but I hear hints of The Cure and The Ocean Blue.
Doors are at 8:30, with the show starting at 930. There’s two openers scheduled tonight, Dear Boy and Blonder.
This post will update with vids and setlist.
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Hope you had a wonderful May. If you need help reflecting on the past month, take a listen to my monthly indie mixtape over on Spotify.
May’s edition includes new music from indie vets The National, Grizzly Bear, LCD Soundsystem, and Beach House. There’s also tunes from indie buzzbands Lunch Ladies, Japanese Breakfast, Soccer Mommy, and Zola Blood. There’s heritage representation from OMD and The Primitives.
HAIM fans will be happy to hear the ladies are working on their sophomore album, the mixtape includes the solid first single “Want You Back.”
Enjoy!
After a fifteen year break, Midnight Oil is back together!
The legendary Australian rockers, lead by 64 year old frontman Peter Garrett, have embarked upon The Great Circle World Tour. The tour kicked off in South America last month and is nearing the end of the North American leg tonight at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles.
This is no typical reunion tour, you know, the kind where a band plays the same seventeen tunes in order night after night. The Oils have rehearsed practically their entire catalogue and play a different set (23 tunes) each night. They’ve already introduced more than seventy different tunes on their tour so far, if you count a few warm up gigs in their home country to start the tour.
Fans can count on a run on the hits at the end of the set, including alternative rock classics “Beds Are Burning,” “The Dead Heart,” “Blue Sky Mine,” “Dreamworld,” and “Forgotten Years.” Other classic Midnight Oil tunes that show up on the setlist on a consistent basis include “Power and The Passion,” “King Of The Mountain,” “Truganini,” and “When Generals Talk.”
What’s your favorite Midnight Oil tune? Mine’s “Warakurna.”
Doors swing open at 7pm. All Our Exes Live In Texas is scheduled to open.
Can’t wait!
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Check out the setlist and some vids I shot from the show below:
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The latest edition of my monthly indie mixtape collection is finally available for your enjoyment on Spotify.
April’s mix includes tunes from indie vets Kasabian, Maximo Park, Ride, Saint Etienne, and The Charlatans. It also features songs from indie buzzbands such as The Born Love, Toma, Daddy Issues, Happyness, Jay Som, and See Through Dresses.
Check out all 38 tunes by hitting play below.
Enjoy.
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Nothing can be easy, can it? Seriously, the New Order set on Sunday night begins 20 minutes before the Real Estate set ends.
The first day of the 2017 Weekend 1 Coachella Music Festival has officially started, and my list of must-see bands thankfully comes to an end.
The #1 Band on my list is the indie rock band Real Estate. In honor of Real Estate being at the top, I took the liberty of making one of those fun Spotify Mixtapes, featuring nothing but Real Estate tunes, check it out down below.
The quintet is originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey, but now calls Brooklyn home. I guess when you become a band on the come, you start calling Brooklyn home.
Since forming in 2009, the band has released four well-received albums. Their self-titled debut arrived in 2009, followed by Days in 2011, and Atlas in 2014. A few weeks ago they presented the world with their fourth studio album In Mind.
The band has said fellow New Jersey indie rockers The Feelies are one of their main influences, another reason I really dig these guys.
Prior to the release of In Mind, founding member Matt Mondanile left the band to focus exclusively on the project Ducktails.
I’m happy Coachella 2017 has finally arrived, I’m happy this list is finally over, I’m not happy about these set times, I’ll see you in the desert.
Enjoy some Real Estate vids and check out that Mixtape:
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Do you know what the world needs more of? Bands like Car Seat Headrest, seriously. What a breath of fresh air to the indie rock scene this guy has been.
The man behind the moniker Car Seat Headrest is lo-fi extraordinaire Will Toledo. Dudes been making music since 2010, basically out of his bedroom.
I never heard of him until 2015, but apparently, he’s been putting out albums faster than Guided By Voices and Ty Segall combined, who knew. His latest effort Teens Of Denial, which is almost a year old, is his thirteenth fucking album. No shit, 13! The track “Fill In The Blank” was one of my favorite tunes of 2016.
Back in 2010, he used to throw albums up on his online store with a warning that read: the music isn’t very good. What a fun way to market oneself!
Based in Seattle by way of Williamsburg, Virginia, the one-man act has now blossomed into a full on four-piece band.
Surprisingly, Car Seat Headrest is actually playing on Saturday and not on Friday.
Can’t Wait!
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Wanna know why there’s no end time for the Guided By Voices set on the recently released set times at this year’s Coachella Music Festival? It’s because GBV may never end. Guided By Voices are scheduled to close the Sonora Tent on Friday night, a newly constructed venue on the festival grounds. The band is notorious for playing sets that last between 50-60 tunes deep, which makes The Cure’s sets seem like child’s play.
The Dayton, Ohio based band is basically the project of frontman Robert Pollard. The band has seen many lineup changes, as wells as countless breakups.
The band has released close to a gazillion albums since Mr. Pollard put the thing together back in 1983, that should make them Heritage, right? Their most recent effort August By Cake dropped last week.
I’ve never seen GBV, despite living outside of Dayton in the mid-nineties, around the time of the band’s heyday. Doesn’t look like I’ll be catching them at Coachella either, that is unless, they play until Tollett flips the switch.
Not seeing GBV, makes me sad.
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Coachella posted the schedule for the YouTube live stream that’s happening this coming week (April 14-16). The confirmed artists for the live stream is now up to 80 acts!
The three channel event gets under way shortly after 3:00pm Pacific Time. The live stream is only available for Week 1 of the festival.
Do you have any pretend conflict?
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Here’s the schedule:
Friday, April 14th:
03:35 – Tennis (1)
03:35 – Preservation Hall Jazz Band (2)
03:35 – Klangstof (3)
04:05 – Joseph (3)
04:10 – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (1)
04:25 – Sampha (2)
04:50 – The Lemon Twigs (3)
05:00 – Bonobo (1)
05:10 – Broods (2)
05:35 – SOHN (3)
05:50 – Mac DeMarco (1)
06:00 – Francis and the Lights (2)
06:50 – Oh Wonder (2)
06:55 – Glass Animals (1)
07:20 – Big Gigantic (3)
07:40 – Banks (2)
07:45 – Father John Misty (1)
08:10 – Crystal Castles (3)
08:30 – Richie Hawtin (2)
08:45 – Phantogram (1)
09:00 – Mac Miller (3)
09:30 – Jagwar Ma (2)
09:35 – The xx (1)
09:55 – Steve Angello (3)
10:20 – DJ Shadow (2)
10:40 – Radiohead (1)
10:55 – Empire of the Sun (3)
11:15 – Capital Cities (2)
11:50 – Dillon Francis (3)
12:10 – D.R.A.M. (2)
Saturday, April 15th:
03:35 – Local Natives (1)
03:35 – Arkells (2)
03:35 – Blossoms (3)
03:55 – Kaleo (2)
04:20 – Shura (3)
04:30 – Chicano Batman (1)
04:45 – Car Seat Headrest (2)
05:00 – Banks & Steelz (3)
05:15 – The Head and the Heart (1)
05:40 – The Atomics (2)
05:45 – Autograf (3)
06:10 – Bastille (1)
06:25 – Roisin Murphy (2)
06:35 – Little Dragon (3)
07:15 – DREAMCAR (2)
07:20 – Two Door Cinema Club (1)
07:25 – Mura Masa (3)
08:05 – Moderat (2)
08:15 – Gryffin (3)
08:20 – Future (1)
09:05 – Warpaint (2)
09:10 – Tory Lanez (3)
09:15 – ScHoolboy Q (1)
09:55 – Tycho (2)
10:00 – Röyksopp (3)
10:15 – Bon Iver (1)
10:45 – DJ Snake (2)
10:55 – Martin Garrix (3)
11:25 – Lady Gaga (1)
12:00 – Gucci Mane (2)
12:05 – Classix (3)
Sunday, April 16th:
03:35 – Ezra Furman (1)
03:35 – Grace Mitchell (2)
04:15 – Anna Lunoe (3)
04:25 – Whitney (1)
04:25 – Preoccupations (2)
05:15 – Toots & The Maytals (1)
05:15 – Goldlink (2)
05:15 – NAO (3)
06:10 – Grouplove (1)
06:10 – Jack Garratt (2)
06:55 – Kaytranada (3)
07:00 – Kiiara (2)
07:20 – Future Islands (1)
07:55 – Tove Lo (2)
08:10 – DJ Khaled (3)
08:15 – Porter Robinson & Madeon (1)
08:40 – Hans Zimmer (2)
09:00 – Galantis (3)
09:20 – Lorde (1)
09:45 – Kehlani (2)
09:45 – Justice (3)
10:25 – Kendrick Lamar (1)
10:30 – New Order (2)
11:05 – Marshmello (3)
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Do you ever feel like you’ve been kicked repeatedly in the testicles? Well, that’s the feeling I have, as I wake up this morning only to realize yesterday evening wasn’t a bad dream.
The fine folks over at the Coachella Music Festival unveiled the stage set times for the two-weekend festival yesterday (Conflict Day), one can only hope that this was some form of fake news.
I always knew Friday was going to be messy, but who thought the whole weekend would be this messy? The overlap of set times, the exact end/start times, and ultimately the addition of a new stage (Sonora), has completely blown up my list of must-see bands.
On a positive note, the lack of early afternoon start times throughout the weekend has created for more time for Craft Beer and Spicy Pie, a ride on the wheel, a more appreciation of art installations, waiting endlessly in line at the merch tent, and a trip down to The Antarctic. What the lack of early set times doesn’t mean is more sleep, a later departure time from the motel, and certainly not a trip to Panera.
Another positive outcome to the set times being released is hopefully the Kate Bush rhetoric will come to an end.
I’m not going to let Coachella ruin my Coachella. I’m going to watch ALL of the bands I’m going to miss on the YouTube live stream this weekend and pretend like Conflict Day never happened.
Here’s what I hope is just fake news:
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For the third consecutive year, SiriusXM will broadcast Coachella Radio on channel 18.
The broadcast will include a daily mix of Coachella-only artists, live performances, interviews, and a whole lot of chatter from Jenny LSQ.
Coachella Radio launched on April 10 and the plug is scheduled to be pulled on April 24. Tune in!
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I must say, I’m a little disappointed with the lack of Heritage Acts at this year’s Coachella Music Festival. Essentially, the only one there is in my #4 band, New Order.
Speaking of Heritage Acts, ICYMI, Matt Sebastian, the founder/editor of the 80′s alternative music blog Slicing Up Eyeballs, relaunched his site back on February 11, 2017. This is great news for us old folks that grew up on 80′s alternative, college rock, and old school indie. Over the last couple of years, I’ve missed making his site part of daily reading routine. Welcome back Slicing Up Eyeballs!
There’s not much left to say about the alternative dance band New Order. Formed in 1980 after the tragic end to the band Joy Division, the band has kept there original lineup in place with the exception of bassist Peter Hook, who left the band back in 2007.
The synthpop veterans have released ten studio albums, their most recent, 2015′s Music Complete, was the band’s first album in over ten years and first without Mr. Hook.
The Manchester-based outfit will be making their third Coachella appearance overall. The new-wavers last graced the Empire Polo Grounds in 2013 for that epic late night dance-fest in the Mojave Tent. Their first appearance at the festival came back in 2005, it was ruined by high winds that wreaked havoc on the sound of their sundown set on the Main Stage. Another late night set in the Mojave would be sweet!
What’s your favorite New Order tune? Mine’s True Faith, and the video is great as well.
I’ll close by wishing everyone a very Happy Conflict Day.
Here’s some of their newer stuff:
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That’s right, another Friday band.
I have Glass Animals at #6 and Jagwar Ma at #5, the two band are currently on tour together. I think I might just grab a ticket to their show in Ponoma at the Fox Theatre and be done with it, alleviate a little stress.
Jagwar Ma is an Australian indie dance band that formed in 2011. The trio’s music is very baggy, or Madchester if you will. If these dudes were making music circa 1989-1992 they would’ve fit in very nicely on many of the mixtapes I was making back then.
The Sydney-based act recently released their sophomore album Every Now & Then, its the follow-up to their 2013 kickass debut Howlin.
I caught their 2014 Coachella performance and can’t wait to see how much better they’ve gotten since then. My preference would be rail for this groovy good time.
Check out their beats below:
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I’m so stressed out over Conflict Day, I haven’t slept in weeks. Here’s another Friday band.
Glass Animals are an Oxford, England based quartet that’s been around since 2012. Their music drops an intriguing blend of synth pop, indie rock, and trip hop beats.
Their critically acclaimed debut release Zaba arrived in 2014. Last year, it was followed up by the concept album How To Be A Human Being, which was met with mixed reviews. Zaba was one of my faves from 2014.
I really dig these dudes and caught a portion of their 2015 Coachella appearance. I needed to split early in order to weave my way through Run The Jewels fans to get a spot on the rail for my beloved KASABIAN.
I hope to be on the rail for Glass Animals enjoying some peanut butter vibes.
More vibes below:
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