RELATIVE PITCH: Question of the Day - First album you ever bought
For me it was Billy Joel’s Glass Houses (hence the pic) in glorious 12” vinyl. Still one of my all-time favorite records. The sound of the glass crashing when you dropped the needle on the first cut. So good. So many memories.
And you?
Although the blogs name suggest that you might find trance music there that is not the case. What you will find is rap, dance-pop and other (non-trance-leaning) forms of dance music.
Just a little food for thought. Whenever I say “Thank God It’s Friday” I say it in my head like Wyclef Jean does in the The Ecleftic’s “Low Income” lyrics. If you’ve heard that song I’m sure that I’ve just gotten a little chuckle out of you.
In any case, it is Friday and I’m thankful. Every Friday we share a list of the tunes that have been keeping us going all week long. So with out further adieu.
The White Album
source: thewhitealbum.bandcamp.com
Lies
source: birp.fm
Caged Animals
All the Beautiful Things in the World
source: stereogum.com
Kinnie The Explorer
source: kinnietheexplorer.bandcamp.com
Spanish Prisoners
source: spanishprisoners.bandcamp.com
Sin Fang Bous
source: indietunes.tumblr.com
Sin Fang
Mister Heavenly
Cass McCombs
The Stone Foxes
source: soundcloud.com
The Rubens
source: musicvagabond.com
Le Butcherettes
source: lebutcherettes.bandcamp.com
Village Ghetto Land
source: http://soundcloud.com/rstvmo4/village-ghetto-land-r-stevie-moore/
Sun Ra
source: http://www.moteldemoka.com/2011/06/15/the-pan-galactic-summer-love-hit/
Pharoah Sanders
source: http://oidhsn.tumblr.com
FEATURED FEATURE: Lastest Loved
Want to see the latest real-time love action on exfm? We’ve made it super easy. Just hit up ex.fm/explore/latest. There you’ll find up-to-the-second sweet love action across all of exfm. Thousands and thousands of exfm’ers creating an endless feed of love. Listen in and spread a little bit while you’re at it. It is what makes the world go around after all.
The roots of Harmon Drive have always been a shelter for music discovery and a home to a creative community. Labeled a music exploration experiment, Harmon Drive’s name came courtesy of a street that the founder grew up on until he was nine months old.
All you need to do to enter to win a pair of tickets to the show of your choice is to do the following:
Follow @MyFreeConcertNY and @PulpLab on Twitter. Then Tweet: “Hey @PulpLab & @MyFreeConcertNY, I really want to see @Snowmine perform at @PianosNYC on [whichever date you prefer]”.
That’s it. My Free Concert and Pulp Lab will get ahold of you via DM if you’ve won. Stay tuned next week when we give away three pairs of tickets to Thursdays show in Feb 2nd plus merch from Snowmine and Spanish Prisoners!
It’s a new week which means that we are hitting you with six new Tastemakers. These guys are curating the crap out of all the music on the interwebs and you get to reap the benefits. Lucky you!
If you’re a fan of 60’s and 70’s classic rock then you’ll love Stone Foxes. The Bay Area band is made up of brothers Shannon and Spence Koehler and Aaron Mor who pull from The Band, Bob Dylan, and Led Zeppelin, they never sound like they’re trying to be anything but exactly who they are. But then they don’t need to: their style of blues-rock stands on its own.
Please join us for a very special celebratory Groundhog Day night of music with two of our favorite Album of the Week picks, Snowmine and Spanish Prisoners.
Brooklyn local Field Mouse and Academy Award nominated artist Ben Lear will be performing, too, making this is one helluva lineup you won’t want to miss.
Snowmine: The Brooklyn five-piece embraces an indie pop sound rich with echo pedals, tribal beats, electro-acoustic soundscapes and classical orchestrations. The band is fronted by new-classical composer Grayson Sanders, whose vocals have been compared to Robin Pecknold and Jim Jones. They’ll be heading in to the studio to begin work on their next full length LP, but for now keep an eye out for their upcoming duel remixes with Twin Sister.
Spanish Prisoners: Lead singer, songwriter and guitarist Leo Maymind and his bandmates – keyboardist/vocalist Amberly Hungerford, drummer/songwriter Mike DiSanto, and multi-instrumentalist James Higgs slowly molded fragments of home recordings into layered, fluid, headphone symphonies that emphasized the raw randomness in electronic sound. Their most recent release Gold Fools was recently recognized as one of the top five Bandcamp albums of 2011 by NPR.
Buy tickets here and rsvp. We can’t wait to see you and cheers to the little groundhog not seeing his shadow!
[Album of the Week] Kinnie The Explorer - Kinnie The Explorer
In 2010, Kinnie The Explorer released their first EP Blood, It’s On Every Wall. The EP was so well received that it earned them a spot as the opener of Noah and The Whale during their show at O2 Academy Bournemouth, UK even though it was only their fourth gig ever. Since then we’ve been patiently waiting for their first full length release which is why we’re very excited to give you an exclusive first listen to their self titled debut album, Kinnie The Explorer a week prior to it’s official release.
The album features full on interlaced guitar jam sessions and driving drum rhythms that keep you moving at a steady even pace throughout the album. “Scissor Dance” the opener is a pleasantly upbeat starter for an otherwise fairly mellow, but never boring ride. However, the real shocker on the track is the jazz inspired bass which gains momentum and then completely takes over in the end. Unexpected, but fitting to say the least. The perfect introduction to the jazz influence felt on nearly every track. “In Limbo” counters with singer Peter Lancelely’s previously absent falsetto stealing the show. The simplicity of the track mixed with Lanceley’s stunning vocals brings a whole new dimension to the band. Who knew he’d hidden that away this whole time?
Kinnie The Explorer proves to be a versatile rock band unafraid to experiment with various genres, picking out the pieces that suit them best and weaving them in to the original and comprehensive sound that you’ve heard here today. It’s hard to believe that all members of this band are in their teens. They continue to accomplish what many musicians with careers twice as long have only hoped to and this is just the beginning. Preorder their LP here which is due to ship around February 1st. We’re exited to watch their careers progress. This is a band that you’ll want to keep up with.
Scissor Dance
kirklove
jessicaivypage
