July 2010
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Song of the Day: Battles - Snare Hanger
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What Is Up: DC Edition 7/26 - 8/01
Some good shows going down this week, and a few of them still aren’t sold out (surprisingly, actually). For my money, Seu Jorge and Almaz are sure to be phenomenal, as their new record together is top class, and the Windian Records 1 Year Anniversary shows are jam packed with great punk/rockabilly acts. Venture on to see What Is Up this week here in the Nation’s Capitol (and...
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Audio Download: Shigeto - What We Held On To EP →
This free EP from electronic music artist Shigeto comes to us courtesy of the fine folks at Ghostly International, one of my favorite record labels of all time. A work of stunning texture and expansiveness, the What We Held On To EP is an exciting precursor for what is in store on his upcoming full length, Full Circle.
Song Of The Day: Holy Fuck - Red Lights
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Playlist Foundation: Fake Teeth and Bathing Suits
So, some friends of mine regularly put together a when-they-feel-like-it collection of songs that they distribute to the masses via the magic of the internet. The members of the “Playlist Foundation,” as they call it, have impeccable taste, and this go round they have served up quite the mash up of music.
The playlist and the download link are as follows:
Dont Fucking Tell Me What To...
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Music Release List: July 20, 2010
Standing in stark contrast to last week’s release list, which included Danger Mouse and Sparklehorses’ (Dangerhorse) Dark Night Of The Soul, M.I.A.’s MAYA, and Sting’s Symphonicities to name but a few, this week seems a little… sparse. Still, here are the highlights for this twentieth day of July, without further equivocation:
Sleigh Bells - Treats
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What's Up - DC Edition: 7/19 - 7/25
The live calendar this week is basically overflowing, and some of DC and Baltimore’s finest local talent are heading out to play. I’m looking forward to making it out to see Konono No. 1 and Eyedea and Abilities this week, and the Deer Tick show at the Ottobar is a chance for anybody who missed out on the tickets for their Rock N Roll Hotel gig to catch them. How will you be spending...
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Quick Hit: Fol Chen - Part II: The New December
This week I picked up Fol Chen’s latest release, Part II: The New December, which was released earlier this month. Full disclosure here, I owe my interest in this album to Bob Boilen over at NPR, who included the album’s second track “In Ruins” as a part of All Songs Considered’s Summer LIstening show.
If you are a fan of the sound typified by bands like Dirty...
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What's Up - DC Edition
Welcome to the return of the “What Is Up” post, something that I have not done for a while because of, well, a lack of time frankly. HOW EV ER, we should not dwell on the past. It’s back! Unfortunately, I could have picked a better week for the auspicious return of this list, as the show schedule is a little thin. The highlight seems to be local band Milk Machine’s...
June 2010
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Audio Download | Mondo Generator - Dog Food (Feat.... →
This cover of the Iggy Pop track features Mr. Dave Grohl on drums and has been provided by the the fine folks at Some Kind of Awesome.
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Song Of The Day | Bit Shifter - Hexidecimal...
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May 2010
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Song Of The Day | My Name Is John Michael - The...
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Audio Download | The Mynabirds - Let The Record Go →
From the newly released What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood on Saddle Creek records. The band will be playing a show June 2nd at the Black Cat in Washington DC. A complete tour listing can be found here.
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The Mynabirds latest is perfect late night listening. We’ll link it in the AM, or out “Let The Record Go” now- http://bit.ly/bTbT7g
Off Topic: Finally got to start watching Treme. Contemplating packing up and heading back this instant.
Bob Boilen reveals, through song and speech, how boring the Arcade Fire actually are - http://n.pr/aau0F7
Just in case you were wondering what seeing the Dillinger Escape Plan is like - http://bit.ly/c9wexe
Chip tune music is so boss hog when it is done properly: check out “Hexidecimal Genome” by Bit Shifter - http://bit.ly/2tbkUb
March 2010
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Song of the Day | Madvillain - “Great Day...
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this is the most awful thing ever
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti signed for 4AD recently. Good for him. He also has a single out, “Round and Round”. Doubly great for him (shame it sounds like Hall & Oates on a lot of depressants, but even worse). This, however, the artwork from the single, may put a few potential listeners off, while simultaneously exciting those who “get it” and enjoy shocking...
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Some American Radio 3/15/2010
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WatchThe National are one of our favorite bands here at SoAm, as anybody who listens to the podcast has undoubtedly realized. The New York based….there are a lot of people in the National… have a signature sound that evokes bands like Joy Division and Portishead (to my ears at least). In all honesty, if you are reading a music blog, then this band needs no introduction.
“Terrible...
Galactic feat Cheeky Blakk- "Do it Again"
Galactic - “Do It Again” ft. Cheeky Blakk from Galactic on Vimeo.
Big Booty Beats straight outta new orleans and a music video of nothing but…well, big bootys. Need I say more?
Visit galacticfunk.com
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what is up
Springtime is springing, and SXSW is about to kick off the year’s musical festivities. In the event that you will not be in Austin, TX, why not see some live music closer to home? There’s not likely to be free PBR and the presence of every indie music notable trawling thousands of shows, but one shouldn’t get too greedy.
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930 - DROPKICK MURPHIES + guests |...
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No howling dogs in the background this week, we...
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damien jurado / peter wolf crier
Damien Jurado, fresh off his Hoquiam project with Jurado hermano, Drake, has his own album coming out this May - Saint Bartlett - and his label Secret Canadian has just made available a preview from said release, the song “Arkansas”. A new, more “grandiose” sound is thanks to Richard Swift’s throwback production, emphasized on this track by tinkling ivories straight...
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Song Of The Day: Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish...
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soundgarden to re release debut vinyl single
So it seems that in getting back together, Soundgarden are determined to turn the clock back and act like the past decade and a half haven’t happened. To that end, the band will be re-releasing its debut single “Hunted Down” along with its B-side “Nothing To Say” on April 17th, which is Record Store Day (apparently). The two songs will be sold in select independent...
February 2010
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Some American Radio 2/22/2010
The full crew...
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Song Of The Day | Pantha Du Prince - “The...
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zombies + folk + precipitation = hoquiam
St. Ives is an off-shoot of the Secret Canadian label that puts out select, limited edition runs of albums only on vinyl, with the added bonus of handmade covers. Their latest is Hoquiam, the moniker for songsmith Damien Jurado and his previously non-musical brother, Drake. Their self-titled album is full of spartan folk ditties recounting macabre tales influenced by horror movie fare, set in...
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what is up
An interesting variety of music this week, from St. Vincent to Turbo Fruits, from George Clinton and P-Funk to Rodrigo y Gabriela, from Flogging Molly to T-Model Ford, an 89-year-old Mississippi blues hound. Spring is in the air, too, as good gigs are beginning to come thick and heavy in the coming weeks and months. Those of us at Some American are already getting the vapors over the arrival of...
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Song of the Day | White Hinterland - “No Logic”
Back in January, we shared the ethereal “Icarus” with you on Some American Radio, the first single from the upcoming album, Kairos, by White Hinterland, essentially the creation of Casey Dienel, assisted by musical partner Shawn Creeden. Dienel’s first album, Philactery Factory, was a collection of strange, lyrical...
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Some American Radio 2/15/2010
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a considered opinion | phantogram - eyelid movies
Saratoga Springs, NY must have something going on by night that the rest of us cannot even begin to suspect. Though it is an extremely unfair assumption to make, one hears “Saratoga Springs” or any similarly out-of-the-way locale out there in America, and it is hard to imagine cryptic, compelling electronic music emerging from such a place. But here is Phantogram to prove such...
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what is up
If the mountainous drifts of snow have receded from your doorways, Metro tracks, and parking spaces, you can venture back out into the world having survived two weeks of nival madness to see some very good gigs this week. If you can, be sure to stop by DC 9 on Monday night, Ottobar on Tuesday, and the Black Cat on Saturday to see Phantogram, Fucked Up, and Mission of Burma, respectively.
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Die Antwoord...I...they... *shrug*...
Okay…. So as near as I can tell, Die Antwoord (‘The Answer’) found fame in one of two ways: 1)Through a die hard belief that they were actually put on this earth with the unique and specified task of spreading ZEF kulture to all of us puritanical americans who quake in light of their oh-so-very-far-from-politically correct lyrics or 2) They watched 8-mile with AQUA’s...
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a considered opinion: george stathakes - drawings...
Folksier strains of music escape me in the same way that hip hop often does. Raised as I was in an upper middle class (and mostly white) suburb of a major city, my only contact with wild mountainsides, untamed stretches of country road, and big sky occurred through car windows as my family drove from a to b. Essentially, I am Donny. I am out of my element and I have no frame of reference. In...