Can’t get enough of Sky Ferreira? I sure can’t! The synth pop hipstress recently released the video “I Blame Myself” from the solid 2013 album Night Time, My Time. Shame on you if you don’t own this album. Sky recently performed this tune on Jimmy Fallon. Since I’m making a 2015 Coachella wish list, add Ms. Ferreira.
Watch the video for “I Blame Myself” here:
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As hard as it is to believe there was other indie music news happening over the last two weeks besides the Coachella Festival…. Last week the band Real Estate released the video for the tune “Crime.” The New Jersey indie rockers have released one of 2014’s finest albums in Atlas. Add Real Estate to the 2015 Coachella Perfect Poster wish list.
The band recently expanded their upcoming world tour, check out the dates here.
Watch the video for “Crime” here:
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Parquet Courts recently announced that the follow-up to their incredible 2013 debut album Light Up Gold will be released on June 3. The sophomore album titled Sunbathing Animal, follows the EP Tally All The Things You Broke which the Brooklyn indie rockers shared last October.
I saw the band back in January in the intimate setting of The Che Café in La Jolla, Ca. That night the band performed four of the tunes scheduled to be on the forthcoming release. The set opener that evening was “She’s Rollin,” I took the liberty of recording it, check it out below.
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The following album dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Cincinnati, Ohio’s pride and joy are releasing their first album in nearly 16 years. The album’s release coincides with a tour that kicked off with a fantastic show last Thursday night at Pappy and Harriet’s in Pioneertown, Ca. The opening night of the tour saw the live debut of eight songs off of Do To The Beast. The Heritage alternative rockers are performing at the two
weekend Coachella Festival. The first single is “Algiers,” watch it below. I highly recommend this album if you’re a fan of the band, as well as checking out a show at Pappy and Harriet’s.
Watch “Algiers” here:
Download “Do To The Beast” here:
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Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 4/7/14. Remember you can watch previous week’s performances in the Indie on TV Alert page.
Here’s the schedule:
Monday = MGMT
Wednesday = Bastille
Thursday = Broken Bells
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The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Animal Collective member Dave Portner aka Avey Tare has a new project that includes Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors) and Jeremy Hyman (Ponytail). Mr. Tare had a solo release back in 2010 titled Down There.
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Well that was a delightful 11 weeks!
Special thanks to Present-Tense for his big-time contributions to this project. Also, a HUGE thank you to Jimi Jam and his team down in the IT department, this would not have been possible without your support. This project was surely unprecedented, not to mention an immense undertaking. I have to admit there were times I felt like pulling the plug on it, but I was way to deep into it to not see it through. Present-Tense and I finished this endeavor by writing about our #1 band on the 2014 poster. Queens Of The Stone Age for Present-Tense, and The Replacements for me. It was almost like we were playing a game or something.
Hope you enjoyed 77 Bands In 77 Days, see you in the desert.
Day 77 = The Replacements
Performing = Friday
The Replacements are an American alternative rock band that hail from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band formed in 1979 under the name Impediments, when frontman Paul Westerberg joined a band made up of Bob Stinson (guitar), Chris Mars (drums), and Bob’s 12 year-old brother Tommy Stinson (bass) that called themselves Dogbreath at the time The moniker Impediments was short lived, apparently they showed up wasted for their first gig in a church basement, a non-alcoholic affair for a group of recovering alcoholics. Westerberg got his start in the mid-seventies playing lead guitar in a band called Neighborhood Threat, mostly doing a bunch of Rush and Budgie covers. The day he got his hands a copy of the Sex Pistols record he said “I ain’t playing with these fuckers ever again.”
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Present-Tense here giving daver a bit of a break. I’m helping to 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 76 = Queens of the Stone Age
Performing = Saturday
Queens of the Stone Age are a desert rock band that formed way back in 1996. Formed out of the ashes of the stoner rock band Kyuss, QOTSA are categorized into the very specific subset of ‘Desert Rock’ which is basically just ‘rock n’ roll’. The media loves labels and I’m just doing my part. QOTSA have released critically acclaimed albums over the years and their group has been quite the revolving door of musicians. Several members have left (Nick Oliveri, Alain Johannes) but their sound has remained consistently awesome regardless of who they plug in their line up. The central figure since the band’s inception has been Josh Homme (a Coachella Valley native). I once had the pleasure of almost having my photo taken with Mr. Homme but I pussed out, fearful of that whole ‘meeting your idols’ thing. Queens of the Stone Age also feature a guitarist by the name of Troy Dean Van Leeuwen who just happened to play in one of my favorite bands – Failure.
Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 4/7/14. Watch previous week’s performances in the Indie on TV Alert page.
Watch David Letterman announce his retirement here:
Here’s the schedule:
Wednesday = Real Estate
Thursday = Wild Cub
Monday = Band Of Skulls
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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 75 = Pet Shop Boys
Performing = Saturday
Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic duo that consists of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Formed in 1981, the two have enjoyed a lucrative career, and are regarded as one of the most successful pop duos of all-time.
Originally they called themselves West End, after an area in London, but later switched to Pet Shop Boys, named for friends who worked at a Pet Shop. The two enjoyed immediate success with the release of their first single “West End Girls.” The tune was originally released in 1984, but didn’t top Casey Kasem’s charts until it was rereleased in the States
in 1986. The debut full-length Please followed, and so did the hits: “Love Comes Quickly,”
“Opportunities,” “Suburbia,” and the aforementioned “West End Girls.”
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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 74 = Muse
Performing = Saturday
Muse is an English alternative rock band that formed in 1997. The band consists of Matthew Bellamy (vocal, guitar), Chris Wolstenholme (bass), and Dominic Howard (drums), all friends from school. As early as 1994, at the tender age of thirteen, the trio played under the names Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty, and Rocket Baby Dolls, before settling on the name Muse in 1997. The band’s sound is a fusion of progressive, space, and alternative rock, with a light dusting of electronica. Bellamy serves as the band’s pianist.
The band is headlining the Coachella Festival for the second time in five years, and making their third appearance overall. Their high energy shows are an extravaganza, which in turn has placed the band in the conversation as The Best Live Act In The World.
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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 73 = Fishbone
Performing = Sunday
Fishbone is an alternative rock Heritage Act that formed in Los Angeles in 1979, when they were in junior high school. The band’s unique sound fuses rock, ska, punk, soul, and funk. The current seven-piece collective consists of three original members, including frontman Angelo Moore aka Dr. Madd Vibe, more on that imbecile later.
The group enjoyed the most success during the mid to late eighties, and developed a cult following around the L.A. club scene. They dropped their first single “Party At Ground Zero” in 1985, and then followed it with a self-titled EP. The band’s full-length debut In Your Face dropped in 1986, two years later they released the critically acclaimed album Truth And Soul. The 88′ album housed some of their more popular material such as “Freddie’s Dead” and “Ma And Pa” (a DJ DEEp fave). In 1991 they released the album The Reality Of My Surroundings, the highest charting album in the band’s career. The LP sported the singles
“Fight The Youth,” “Everyday Sunshine” and “Sunless Saturday.”
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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 72 = Young & Sick
Performing = Saturday
When I started out sculpting this enormous task I had 75 acts on my list. I figured I would hold out for some “late adds” and then add two more to my list after the fact. Courtney Barnett was added, but nothing worth writing about since. The musical act I’m writing about today was the last one added to my list (for those of you that keep track of that sort of thing). I’m still holding out for a Pixies “late add.” It made perfect sense initially that they should have been on the poster from the beginning, and since then, they scheduled a show in Big Sur, Ca. between Weekend 1 and Weekend 2. Maybe they’ll surprise us, they seem to enjoy surprises lately. If you missed it last week, The Naked and Famous switched days from Saturday to Sunday.
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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 71 = The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Performing = Friday
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are a New York based punk-blues band that formed in 1991. Yep, 1991, who knew? certainly not I. I guess that would qualify them as a Heritage Act. The band consists of Jon Spencer (vocal and guitar), Judah Bauer (guitar), and Russell Simins (drums). They formed shortly after Jon Spencer’s former band Pussy Galore, an eighties noise rock band called it quits.
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The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
English alternative rockers Band Of Skulls return with their third studio album. Himalayan is the follow-up to 2012’s Sweet Sour. The lead single from the new album is “Asleep At The Wheel.”
Watch “Asleep At The Wheel” here:
Download “Himalayan” here:
Dylan Baldi and Co. are back with their follow-up to 2012’s Attack On Memory. Cleveland, Ohio’s pride and joy are releasing their third album overall, that is if you count 8-song, 30 minute pieces of work as albums. The band shared the video for “I’m Not Part Of Me” today!
Enjoy “I’m Not Part Of Me” here:
Download “Here And Nowhere Else” here:
British indie fun rock band Kaiser Chiefs are releasing their fifth studio album. This is the first we’ve heard from the Leeds based quintet since 2011’s The Future Is Medieval, the album was released in North America in 2012 under the title Start The Revolution Without Me……who knows?
Watch “Coming Home” here:
Download “Education, Education, Education & War” here:
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