Arctic Monkeys have released yet another video off their fantastic 2013 release AM. It’s difficult to decide which one of the excellent tunes on the album is the best, but the track “Arabella” is definitely top two. The band recently dropped the video. One of these years these dudes will show up on line one at Coachella.
Watch “Arabella” here:
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 44 = The Naked and Famous
Performing = Saturday
The Naked and Famous are an electro alt-pop band that hail from New Zealand. The band originally formed as the duo of Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith in 2008, but has since expanded to a quintet. The group takes its name from lyrics in the song “Tricky Kid” by the English trip-hop artist Tricky.
The band released their debut full-length Passive Me, Aggressive You in 2010. The album produced five singles, one of which is the track “Young Blood.” The tune had the alt-pop world buzzing for most of 2010, and I think even Ryan Seacrest got his paws on it too, but I can’t be sure. Their sophomore release In Rolling Waves came out last September. The album opener “In Stillness” was named by contributing writer Present-Tense as his #9 Track Of 2013. Prior to all of this, the duo of Powers and Xayalith independently released two extended plays.
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 43 = DARKSIDE
Performing = Saturday
DARKSIDE are the electronic collaboration of Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington. The two formed the project in 2011 while Mr. Harrington was touring with Mr. Jaar’s self-titled project.
The NYC based prog-dance duo have an EP and a full-length to their credit. The eponymous 2011 EP was comprised of 3 untitled songs, known only as A1, A2, and A3. A1 happens to be included on the mix tapes, which coincidentally were dropped off at USPS today. The two released their full-length debut last October. The 11-minute album opener titled “Golden Arrow” was originally available as a free download on the band’s website. The song received favorable reviews from critics, and I noticed it on a few of those Best Tracks Of 2013 lists.
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Last Monday night GoINDEEpMusic was out at the Comerica Theatre in Downtown Phoenix. I took my act on the road to see my beloved Pixies for the tenth time since the band reunited in 2004, and eleventh overall. I’m not sure if that’s something I should be proud of, or embarrassed.
The band whipped through a 31-song set that lasted the better part of an hour and 45 minutes. The set featured seven of the eight new songs that have surfaced recently on EP-1 and EP-2. In addition, they played the single “Bagboy,” along with a new song “Silver Snail,” that has yet to see an official release. Many of the tunes that fans have grown accustomed to hearing at Pixies shows over the last ten years were present, however there were many glaring omissions. Moving forward, get used it, this is what it’s going to sound like, thankfully I dig most of the new stuff.
New bassist Paz delivered a solid performance, even if she needed a laminated cheat sheet. Ms. Lenchantin’s behavior seemed right in line with what’s expected of a Pixies bassist, at no time did she act in a way that was unbecoming of a Pixies bassist. I didn’t spend as much time analyzing Paz as I would’ve liked, that’s because I kept staring at David Lovering’s beard. When they first took the stage I said to myself, why did the roadie take the stage with them? Man, It took me a second to even recognize him, but then I realized… they just played Portland.
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Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 3/3/14. Watch previous week’s performances in the Indie on TV page.
Here’s the schedule:
Monday = Future Islands
Tuesday = Phantogram
Thursday = Bob Mould
Tuesday = Glasvegas
Friday = Broken Bells
Monday = The Hold Steady
Monday = Kaiser Chiefs
Saturday = The National
[HD] The National – Graceless – SNL 3-8-14 by IdolxMuzic
[HD] The National – I Need My Girl – SNL 3-8-14 by IdolxMuzic
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Check out previous days here:
http://goindeepmusic.com/coachella-2014-77-bands-77-days/
Day 42 = Waxahatchee
Performing = Friday
Katie Crutchfield is a do-it-yourself singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn that uses the moniker Waxahatchee. She formed her lo-fi indie-folk project in 2011 in her bedroom, and named her act after a Crick not far from her parents home in Alabama. Not sure if that’s the same bedroom she recorded her first release American Weekend in 2012. The debut release was initially recorded and made available on split cassette, imagine the look on her friends faces when she pulled that thing out of her pocket…
Ms. Crutchfield got her start with her sister playing in the punk band P.S. Elliot. Her sister Alison is currently in the band Swearin, and the two acts tour together frequently.
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Here’s the weekly Top 20 College Radio Albums from the Radio 200 list published by CMJ (College Media Journal). The reputable rag surveys up to 600 college radio stations of a weekly basis to compute the list.
In addition, here’s my Spicy Six Albums of the week. These are the six albums that can’t find their way out of my six disc changer. The list consists of my Top 5 Albums of the week, and one Heritage Album that’s worth dusting off and giving a listen.
Here’s the lists:
It’s three week at the top spot for Dum Dum Girls, while three new albums enter the Top 20. The latest EP from Speedy Ortiz (pictured) jumps 14 spots to debut at #12. On Spicy Radio, Broken Bells maintain a grasp of the pole position for a third straight week. The more I listen to Cheatahs the more I’m hearing Swervedriver.
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of February 25, 2014:
1. DUM DUM GIRLS Too True
2. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
3. SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Give The People What They Want
4. ANGEL OLSEN Burn Your Fire For No Witness
5. TEMPLES Sun Structures
6. WARPAINT Warpaint
7. MOGWAI Rave Tapes
8. HOSPITALITY Trouble
9. DAMIEN JURADO Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son
10. TOGETHER PANGEA Badillac
11. GARDENS AND VILLA Dunes
12. SPEEDY ORTIZ Real Hair (EP)
13. THUMPERS Galore
14. QUILT Held In Splendor
15. CHEATAHS Cheatahs
16. CIBO MATTO Hotel Valentine
17. NICK WATERHOUSE Holly
18. EAGULLS Eagulls
19. HABIBI Habibi
20. STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Wig Out At Jagbags
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. BROKEN BELLS After The Disco
2. DUM DUM GIRLS Too True
3. CHEATAHS Cheatahs
4. TEMPLES Sun Structures
5. FANFARLO Let’s Go Extinct
Heritage Album Of The Week
6. BELLY Star
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 40 = The Dismemberment Plan
Performing = Saturday
The Dismemberment Plan are an indie dance-punk band that hail from the Nations Capital. Some may argue that The D-Plan are emo, while others cringe that the dreaded emo label is attached to the band. There, twice in one sentence.The Washington D.C. based quartet formed in 1993, and have been able to keep the original line-up together with the exception of founder Steve Cummings, he departed after recording the debut album. The band is named after a line from the 1993 movie Groundhog Day.
From 1993-2003 the band released four studio albums and toured extensively. In the early 00’s they broadened their fan based by touring with Pearl Jam, and then later with Death Cab For Cutie. The critically acclaimed 1999 release Emergency & I, was named by Pitchfork Media as the #1 Album Of The Year and #16 Album Of The Decade. Upon the album’s release, Pitchfork scored it a 9.6 on a scale of 10, which I think is supposed to mean good, Jake Fogelnest would know better. The band’s 2001 album Change received similar attention by the same publication, as it was recognized as the #14 Album Of The Year and #97 for the Zero’s.
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 41 = Bombay Bicycle Club
Performing = Saturday
Bombay Bicycle Club are an alternative rock band that formed in 2006 in London. The underrated British band is named after a restaurant chain that was popular in the nineties that was known for their Indian cuisine. Raise your hand if you’ve eaten
at a Bombay Bicycle Club, I like making people raise their hand for dumb shit like that. Could be worse I guess, the band was originally known as The Canal.
The Crouch End based band has released four studio albums in the last six years . Yes America, there’s more than just the “Shuffle” song. Their debut album I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose was so well-received in the U.K. that the band was named by NME as the Best New Band, beating out The xx, The Big Pink and Mumford and Sons for the award. The all acoustic sophomore release Flaws was nominated for The Ivors (British songwriting and composing) Album Of The Year. In 2011 the band release their break-through album in the United States, A Different Kind Of Fix. The catchy single “Shuffle” was in heavy rotation on alt-radio for much of 2012, and the album produced other singles such as “Lights Out, Words Gone” and “How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep.”
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 39 = HAIM
Performing = Friday
HAIM are an indie pop band that formed in 2006 in the San Fernando Valley, California. The band consists of the three Haim sisters Alana, Danielle, and Este, along with drummer Dash Hutton. The ladies pronounce the band’s name and their last name HAIM as Hyme (as in rhymes with rhyme). Occasionally, you’ll run across someone who calls them HAME, these folks either just found out about HAIM or they don’t like HAIM, so they call them HAME. Sometimes I call them HAME, only because I think it’s fun to call them HAME.
The girls grew up around music, their parents were part of a 70’s cover band called Rockinhaim (pronounced rock-in-hyme). I wonder if people that didn’t like band called them Rockinhame…
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The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Beck “Morning Phase”
Read the Present-Tense piece on Beck here.
Download “Morning Phase” here:
Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 38 = Beady Eye
Performing = Removed from the poster today
Like I said, I do this in a random order. Last night I noticed that Oasis was planning an announcement today, and thought that I could tie that in nicely with a Beady Eye post, that is until today. What started out as a beautiful morning and most wonderful Day 1 in the world of Fun Coachella Games, comes the news that Beady Eye has been removed from the poster. At the time of this post there is no official word from the band or Coachella on the reason why. There will be rumors, the biggest one is that Oasis will now be a “Late Add” and take over the top line on Day 2. Let me be the first to tell you that ain’t happening, unless Oasis was already booked under the moniker Muse. Happy list updating day. I’ve decided to continue with the post basically because it was hard enough to find 77 Bands to begin with. Anyway on the band.
Beady Eye are an English rock band made up of former members of Oasis, with the notable exception of Noel Gallagher. The four former members of Oasis include Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell, and Chris Sharrock. The quintet is rounded out by former Kasabian bassist Jay Mehler. The band formed in 2009 shortly after Oasis split, well Noel Gallagher left, the band continued, and that’s another story for another day.
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!
Day 36 = Graveyard
Performing = Saturday
Graveyard are a heavy metal quartet from Gothenburg, Sweden that formed in 2006. Leading up to their formation in 2006, band members were part of other hot Scandinavian metals acts such as Norrsken and Albatross, I’m sure you remember them. The band came together because of their love for Black Sabbath and Cream, but cite early Fleetwood Mac’s bluesy vibe combined with Slayer as their motivation. We’ll there you go!
The group has released three albums, the self-titled debut in 2007, along with 2011’s Hisingen Blues, and the offering Lights Out in 2012. You would think that these guys have something new on the horizon, how else do you explain their presence on the poster, but this full time
blogger can’t seem to locate anything.
From the looks of these guys it appears they’re in the early stages of planning a visit to Portland, Oregon.
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English post-punk rockers The Horrors have announced that their fourth studio album Luminous will drop here in the States on May 6. The new release is the follow-up to the impressive 2011 LP Skying. To celebrate the news the group released a lyric video for the lead single “I See You.” The band describes the forthcoming album as fun and danceable. We here at the blog definitely enjoy fun.
Fans of The Horrors should check out the English psych-rock shoegazingish band TOY.
Watch the video “I See You” here:
Luminous tracklist
01 Chasing Shadows
02 First Day of Spring
03 So Now You Know
04 In and Out of Sight
05 Jealous Sun
06 Falling Star
07 I See You
08 Change Your Mind
09 Mine and Yours
10 Sleepwalk
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Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 2/24/14. Watch previous week’s performances in the Indie on TV page.
Seth Meyers premieres tonight without making a musical splash.
Kimmel
Wednesday = Sky Ferreira
Letterman
Wednesday = Band Of Horses
Daly
Thursday = Washed Out
Saturday Night Live
Saturday = Beck
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