Canciones para ti

EELS "FRESH BLOOD"
(CD: HOMBRE LOBO -2 JUNIO 2009. Disponible en iTunes el 28 de Abril con la cara B "Devil's dog")



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GREAT NORTHERN "HOUSES"
(CD: REMIND ME WHERE THE LIGHT IS -28 ABRIL 2009)

Telekinesis - ¡ Escucha su debut !

Recomendación de StereoPills.

El disco saldrá el 7 de Abril, y en estas fechas también se editará un nuevo trabajo de bandas como Eulogies y Great Northern.



Información y escucha en Merge Records:

TELEKINESIS: A Factual, If Editorialized, Introduction

"Telekinesis is Michael Benjamin Lerner (drums, guitar & vocals) with Chris Staples (guitar), David Broecker (electric, acoustic & bass guitar), and Jonie Broecker (bass guitar & keyboards) joining him on tour. They all live in Seattle, WA. Telekinesis! (MRG344) was produced, engineered, and mixed by Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Tegan & Sara). Walla and Lerner tracked and mixed each of its songs to analog tape in a single day before moving on to the next song, with the ambitious goal of never over-thinking or sabotaging the spontaneous enthusiasm of the music."

It's such an impossible thing, at this funny little point in history, to not look back: We're recording every little thing with our cameras that make the little noise like cameras used to make; we're measuring our actual selves against our online selves with hopeful resignation; we're rendering and retouching the record of our lives at every turn. If it can be perfect then let's make it so, goes the wisdom of the moment.

To be fair, there's a certain convenience about perfection. It's easy to wear and see and swallow and enjoy, and it leaves the heart light. It's also totally boring. And though occasionally friendly and welcoming, literal perfection in pop music is never, ever awesome.

Which is where Telekinesis comes in. On record, Michael Lerner is the sole member of Telekinesis, more or less. He writes, sings and plays the songs. His love of Japan knows no bounds, though he's never been. He's a fantastic drummer and a fearless singer. And he does not look back willingly.

I mean, you can forcibly crane his head around in a pinch (mortal danger and Seinfeld reruns qualify). But Michael's songs are ridiculously immediate, and he delivers them with blinding velocity. His approach to music isn't unlike those spikes at the rental car place: Backing up deflates the tires, and not in a pleasant way.

It's reflected in Michael's writing, too, this philosophy of ever- forward motion. These are big-hearted songs, written quickly and from the gut. Telekinesis is the geography of dreams; a school year abroad; love letters from Liverpool coffee shops to the Carolina coastline and Tokyo and everywhere in between everywhere; a road trip waiting to happen. And it's absolutely perfect, but not because anyone went back to fix it. It just happened that way.

~Chris Walla, January 2009

Listado de canciones:

1 Rust 02:08
2 Coast of Carolina 03:31
3 Tokyo 02:53
4 Look to the East 03:13
5 Awkward Kisser 01:44
6 Foreign Room 03:29
7 Great Lakes 02:53
8 Imaginary Friend 02:52
9 All of a Sudden 03:44
10 Calling All Doctors 03:02
11 I Saw Lightning 02:12

Canciones para ti

Great Northern, "Houses" Audio
(Remind me where the light is, April 2008)
(Info en Filter-Mag.com)

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The Library, No Mercy, Only Violence MP3
(Info en Filter-Mag.com)
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Marissa Nadler, River of Dirt
(Little Hells, 2009)
(Info en Filter-Mag.com)
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Robert Francis, Little Girl MP3
(Info en Filter-Mag.com)
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Longwave- "Sirens In The Deep Sea" MP3 in Spin.com
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Smashing Pumpkins' Super Bowl Song -Spin.com-

Noticias sobre Great Northern

El 28 de Abril de este año tendremos nuevo trabajo de la banda, se llamará "Remind me where the light is" y la cuentra atrás se te puede hacer menos pesada en su web
http://www.kyte.tv/greatnorthern

Great Northern -"Telling lies" LETRA

Una de las canciones que suena en el blog (player #1 2008)

Step on the tracks
Feel you're alive
It's not any worse
Closer in time
It's like a perfect picture of
Ordinary life
You hit the bottom
To see if you're alive...
You'll be here some time
(tears are in your eyes) -?
Bending backwards to look behind
Pushing forward, killing in time
You thought it would change in time
You thought it would change your mind
You thought you'd be first in line
You thought it would change your life
It's like a perfect picture of
Ordinary life
You hit the bottom
To see if you're alive...
You'll be here some time
(tears are in your eyes) -?
You'll be better off not wasting your time
A sentimental heart is always last
In line
A sentimental heart is always last
In line
It's like a perfect picture of
Ordinary life
You hit the bottom
To see if you're alive...

It's like a perfect picture of
Ordinary life
You hit the bottom
To see if you're alive...
To see if you're alive...


[Thanks to Paul Knight for these lyrics]

Canciones para ti

Great Northern, Telling Lies MP3
(Info en Filter-mag.com)
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The Lazarus Plot - "Nothing is unforgiven" FREE MP3 in their MySpace
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CLUB 8 - JESUS, WALK WITH ME (Jimahl Remix) - MP3
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Wallpaper, EvryTM We Do It MP3
(Info en Filter-mag.com)
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Great Northern -Telling lies DIRECTO

Great Northern performs Telling Lies on Fuel TV

Great Northern - Low is a Height (video)

Por fin tenemos otro video de GREAT NORTHERN !!!


Filter-mag.com:Music videos are notorious for portraying the mood of a song, but with Great Northern’s latest video “Low is A Height”, it appears the video is exposing the mood of the band. If time lapses of traffic, late night freeways, the changing of seasons, and sunrises to sunsets did not reveal the lifestyle of living on the road, the live footage of the band performing certainly affirms that this video is about a band prepared to work hard for their vision. Moody and evocative, the black and white footage perfectly captures their onstage ambience.

Speaking of touring, what do you know, Great Northern is parading across the country with Robbers on High Street until mid November.

Great Northern - Home VIDEO

También por fin! hay video de Great Northern, concretamente de la preciosa Home, que sonó en nuestro blog, y cuyo MP3 está disponible.

Ver y escuchar

Los domingos apetece ver videos ;) .Asi que, éste no iba a ser menos.

Una banda de la que tenemos que hablar y que ya he mencionado por aqui, su disco merece la pena escucharlo.
GREAT NORTHERN (MySpace)
En su MySpace la primera que suena en Telling lies que es una de mis canciones favoritas. Y en el nuevo player, el número 5, suena su canción The middle. Antes ya sonó su Home.
-"Babies" (Live in Liquid Generation)

Check out this performance by Solon and Rachel of Great Northern at the Liquid Generation studios - March, 2007



Kristoffer Ragnstam

-"Breakfast By The Mattress"

Watch Kristoffer Ragnstam's new video "Breakfast By The Mattress" for a funky mix of scattershot guitar and falsetto vocals. (more)



MP3 aqui

SIERRA SWAN

-"Don't say" (Live at Liquid Generation)

Sierra Swan was the first Live at Liquid Generation performance that featured only vocals and a piano. We almost forgot how cool it is to watch someone play the keys and sing...guitars are soooo overrated. (more)

Canciones para ti

Great Northern - "The Middle" MP3
(Trading Twilight For Daylight,2007)

Después de escuchar esta canción y Home que escuchamos en el anterior player, todavía tengo más ganas de escuchar el disco.

Silverlake, California's Great Northern could be your new favorite band. Their music paints vivid scenes in your mind with soaring strings and pristine harmonies. It's the kind of music that you carry close to your chest when falling in (or out of) love. Their male-female harmonies weave seamlessly as unforgettable melodies are draped in stately piano. Great Northern's debut album Trading Twilight For Daylight (out this week via Eenie Meenie Records) serves up ten tracks of memorably bittersweet indie-pop. Pick it up now before everyone else catches on.-Filter-mag.
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The lodger - "Getting special" MP3

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The Boggs "Poor Things" MP3
(Forts)


Currently touring with The Long Blondes and Hot Chip, The Boggs are starting to make waves. The brainchild of New Yorker Jason Friedman, The Boggs have just released their album Forts on Gigantic Music. Joined by various member of indie-darlings The Liars and Au Revoir Simone, Forts sees The Boggs on familiar, experimental ground – blending elements of bedroom acoustica with dense nu-rave beats.

“Poor Things” sounds like the remix of a kids TV theme; all gently strummed ukulele crashing up against repetitive dance rock beats with breaks of overdriven guitar adding texture and flavor. “Poor Things” indeed!-Filter-mag.
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Shapes And Sizes "Alone/Alive" MP3
(Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner)

If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to distract Sufjan Stevens from his uncommon interest in Midwestern lore, your answer lies in Shapes and Sizes, the first and only Canadian act signed to Stevens’ indie-label Asthmatic Kitty. Instead of spinning yarns about the 4th tallest girl in Omaha, Shapes and Sizes record completely bombastic song-writing experiments, tricky tunes that graced their eponymous debut in 2006 and have now sprouted enough underlings to warrant a second release, entitled Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner.

Yes, it’s a bit of a mouthful, but it’s an earful too. Standout track “Alone/Alive” is like a piece of music stuck in a department store fitting room, switching back and forth between the monochromatic mod suit of its mechanical intro and the black-tie + loose jeans combo of its twice-realized breakdown, which brings to mind the image of a garage band tuning their instruments in an orchestra pit. The two outfits are equally entertaining, but whenever the music changes out of one and into the other, it reveals the wiry but broad-shouldered body behind the song’s frenetic, riff-heavy mid-section. Play peeping tom and listen to “Alone/Alive” below!-Filter-mag.

“Alone/Alive” MP3