Today's update features an artist hailing from sunny Portland, OR. His name is Tom Fillep, but he goes by cars & trains. His music draws largely from that anticon/mush sound of Clouddead, Why?, Telephone Jim Jesus and others. In fact, Sole lends his vocal stylings to "The Sky is Clear". The iTunes genre tag calls it electronic/dance. I think you could dance to it, but it would be occuring at half-speed with soft lights pulsating on walls and lots of pillows strewn about. I didn't mean for that to sound so soft-core porn, but it speaks to the mellowww phantasmagoria of the album. The production sounds almost tactile and organic. I imagine it would translate well into an intimate live show.
"Rusty String" is out now on circle into square records.
website
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Cars & Trains
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The Company Kang
Word to dance music popping off at Whitman College. The Company Kang has got some tunes on their myspace and are currently working on their first album entitled "Winter Pimps". Don't miss the Wamp Wamp remix.
The Company Kang
Monday, November 26, 2007
Seabear - I Sing I Swim
Heres a cute little song accompanied by a cute little video from morrmusic's Seabear. The Berlin label's youtube account also has videos posted for Lali Puna (a personal fav. of mine) and cool electronic outfit ISAN among others. In an interesting but probably outdated bit of news, Seabear was said to be sharing a tour bus with Mum. Talk about cute overloading.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Fiery Furnaces - Navy nurse
Yay! Fiery Furnaces! The song is almost as weird as the video. But probably not as weird as that BMSR vid we posted a lil while ago.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
I'm Not There
So there's this movie directed by Todd Haynes with a bunch of different people playing Bob Dylan... yadda yadda movie shmoovie. The soundtrack, however is a x2 disc compilation of covers by bands/people like:
Yo La Tengo
Cat Power
Sufjan Stevens
The Black Keys
Sonic Youth
The Hold Steady
Karen O
Jeff Tweedy
Iron & Wine
Stephen Malkmus
Calexico
+MORE!!
You can listen to the Sufjan Stevens, Cat Power and Calexico songs here
The songs they cover definitely lend themselves to the styles of the artists that are covering them which is comforting, it seems like someone knows what they are doing.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Radiohead > Kiss + Oasis
kids enjoying "In Rainbows"
From a Billboard interview with Gene Simmons:
"Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work. How can you pick on them? They've got freckles. That's a crook. He may as well be wearing a bandit's mask.
Doesn't affect me. But imagine being a new band with dreams of getting on stage and putting out your own record. Forget it.
BUT SOME ARTISTS LIKE RADIOHEAD AND TRENT REZNOR ARE TRYING TO FIND A NEW BUSINESS MODEL.
That doesn't count. You can't pick on one person as an exception. And that's not a business model that works. I open a store and say "Come on in and pay whatever you want." Are you on f---ing crack? Do you really believe that's a business model that works?
And Liam Gallagher talking to Reuters:
"Gallagher, peppering his speech with expletives, told Reuters it would be over his "dead body" before he went into a studio and worked hard to release his work for nothing."
Broken Social Scene on NPR
"Broken Social Scene presents the music of band member Kevin Drew in a full concert, webcast live on NPR.org Nov. 18. The performance from Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club will begin at approximately 8 p.m. ET."
sounds like a good way to spend a sunday night.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Dylan's 2007 Top 10!
Well folks 2007 is winding down and what a year it was. Lots of cool things happened, a lot of crazy things happened too. Radiohead shocked the world with their free album, elvis came back, I got a new phone etc. Anyways, here it is. 2007 Top 10*
11. Kickball - Everything Is A Miracle Nothing Is A Miracle Is
10. Feist - The Reminder
9. Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar
8. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
7. The National - The Boxer
6. Menomena - Friend and Foe
5. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
2. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
1. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Yeah so definitely get all of these albums if you don't already have them. They're all good, I promise.
*I can change this because 2007 isn't over, and because maybe I'm forgetting something, and maybe I just want to just cus.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Win, Regine, & The Boss
this video kind of gave me chills. and i don't even listen to bruce springsteen.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
hello! it has been a while. i have heard your eternal clamoring for more audiosurface music-blog-nerdery from my private castle observatory nestled in the blue mountains of eastern washington . so, without further ado, here are new artists or albums i think are worth looking into:
Emily Jane White - Dark Undercoat myspace!
she sounds a lot like cat power. and that is a-ok in my book because i am love with chan. there, i've said it. also, this is her debut album and i can't really believe that.
Sigur Ros - Hvarf-Heim read about it here
new songs, old songs. all amazing, all the time.
Le Loup - The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium General Assembly myspace!
this is a really great album. sort of like the books with more banjo and vocal harmonies.
on an unrelated note, i love learning about outer space and dreaming about iceland.
