Mar 15 2010

Music Monday – 03/15/2010

Category: Media & More, Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 12:00

It’s SXSW Week, which definitely explains why last week’s horde of music and video was bigger than that of this week. All of the label and PR people are already busy in Austin, TX, scouring the streets of the city hawking their wares and/or looking for the newest, greatest, not-quite-yet-buzz bands.

I myself will be immersing myself in the musical milieu from Thursday through Sunday of this week, so be on the lookout Wednesday for my schedule of where you can find me.

1. Music:
a. Soft Pipes, Play OnFever Sleeves (as sponsored by Sound As Language)
b. “Arm Over Arm”Screaming Females
c. “Good Feelings”Light Pollution
d. “Saturdays”Screens
e. “I Was Gone”Woods
f. “Only Man” (Reset! Remix)Audio Bullys
g. “Hide Me”The Golden Filter
h. “Round and Round”Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
i. “In Heat” (Javelin Remix) – HEALTH
j. “Heat & Hot Water”ARMS
k. “Diddley Bo”Seasick Steve
l. “Third Of Life”A Weather
m. “Bright Orange Air”Inlets

2. Video:
a. “Just Like A Drummer” (directed by Eduardo Benchoam on the streets of Guatemala) – The Wave Pictures
b. “This Is A Test”Hurricane Bells

3. Media:
a. On the Monday, March 15th, 2010 episode of No Reservations, Tony will be visiting Harbin in China’s northeastern “Dongbei” area in the cold of winter, and here’s a sneak peak of his trip.


Mar 15 2010

One For The Team – Ghosts

Category: Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 07:00

One For The Team
Ghosts
Afternoon; 2010

What I enjoy most about the music of One For The Team is how the band effortlessly blends together two of the key sounds of recent indie scene – epic, post-Springsteen rock and reconstituted ‘80s pop and post-punk. Unpacking that weighty statement, I’d have to start making easily recognizable comparisons: Arcade Fire meets The Cure, Modest Mouse covering Blondie, or Wolf Parade teaming with Siouxsie and the Banshees. But what I find most palatable in the songs of Ghosts is how they’re up-front and aggressive without being blustery, and display bravado without being annoying and pompous.
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Mar 12 2010

Freelance Whales – Weathervanes

Category: Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 07:00

Freelance Whales
Weathervanes
Frenchkiss; 2010

As I’m sure that many other music critics reviewing this record will note, Weathervanes veritably swims with the sounds of Sufjan Stevens, Postal Service, and Death Can for Cutie. It’s impossible to get past those sonic touchstones when banjos, organs, accordions, bells, xylophones, programmed beats, and a pristine, clear tenor are ringing into your ears. But I’d rather lay down another basis of comparison here in that this outfit is a bona-fide anti-Owl City. Whereas that latter bit of musical huckster-ism has rightly been exposed for being the sham it always was, the music of Freelance Whales actively resists the quaintly cutesy tag by actually being able to twist popular motifs with a measure of real creativity.
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Mar 11 2010

Paper The Operator – Goodbye God

Category: Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 07:00

Paper The Operator
Goodbye God
Viper Bite; 2010

While the title is a bit ominously Nietzsche-esque and the subject material tends to drift into “sad bastard” territory, Goodbye God stands up tall as a zippy pop record that brings to mind early ‘00s emo and chewy chunks of early Weezer and The Rentals. Paper The Operator remains the primary musical outlet for the songs of Jon Sebastian, and this album retains all of the upbeat overtones of Solemn Boyz EP, while allowing for a few more introspective moments. This music has my early twenty-something self dreaming of a mythological project crafted by Chris Staples in twothirtyeight, Bleed American from Jimmy Eat World, and anything Chris Carabba recorded before he started penning songs for over-the-top superhero movies.
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Mar 10 2010

Peasant – Shady Retreat

Category: Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 07:00

Peasant
Shady Retreat
Paper Garden; 2010

Shady Retreat

Guest Contributor: Jen Broadwell

I’m driving down a curvy two-lane highway in Northern Michigan. It’s dark and the trees on either side encase me. This is where I am within the music anyway. If you’re like me, songs often take you back to a different time and place in your life. They can remind you of your past. Usually, I go back with an old song and remember a specific moment when it blew my mind. Sometimes, however, one listen to a new one can send me into a reverie of what went on before. Such is the case with “Thinking” by Damien DeRose (who operates under the moniker of Peasant), a stirring track on his new record – Shady Retreat.
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