Monthly Archives: June 2012

Jun 30 2012
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Indie, Rock, Video

Los Encantados – Ghosts

Los Encantados are a rising Brooklyn-based six-piece influenced by the likes of T. Rex, Television and the Beach Boys.

Their album, The Same Damned Soul, is a true story and took place over the summer of 2010 in France and New York and then France again. Most of it was written on the F train to Coney Island and on the C train to Rockaway during the summer of 2011.

Ghosts is taken from the first chapter of the album. It is 1/3 of the soundtrack to summer; the other 2/3rds will be released throughout the summer of 2012.

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Jun 29 2012
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Indie, Psychedelic, Video

Yeti Lane – Warning Sensations

Yeti Lane are a psychedelic rock/indie pop band from Paris, France consisting of Ben Pleng and Charlie B.

The members of the band were originally in the quartet Cyann & Ben. When singer Cyann quit the band early in 2008, the remaining three members renamed themselves Yeti Lane and guitarist/keyboard player Ben Pleng took over on vocals. The name comes from records by two of their favourite groups, Yeti by Amon Düül II and Penny Lane by the Beatles.

Their eponymous debut album was released in France in 2009. Shortly after, Loïc Carron left the band, leaving Ben and Charlie to carry on as a duo. The band altered their musical direction, moving away from indie pop to a more experimental “shoegazing” psychedelic rock sound.

Warning Sensations is taken from their second full length album, The Echo Show, released on 5 March.

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Source: Wikipedia

Jun 26 2012
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Dream pop, Electronic, Video

School of Seven Bells – The Night

School of Seven Bells is a dream pop/shoegaze band formed in 2007 by Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines, and identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza of On!Air!Library!. The band is named after the School of the Seven Bells, a mythical South American pickpocket training academy.

Curtis and the Deheza sisters met when both were opening on an Interpol tour. The three decided to end their commitments to their old bands, move in to a shared space and create a home recording studio together. Debut album Alpinisms was released in 2008 followed by Disconnect From Desire in July 2010. Shortly after Claudia left the band due to personal reasons.

The Night is taken from their album Ghostory.

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Source: Wikipedia, LastFM

Jun 25 2012
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Folk, Indie, Video

Oscar And The Wolf – Orange Sky

Belgium based Oscar & The Wolf live up to their fairy-tale name with their dreamy, dark indie folk. The band consists of Max Colombie, Filip Brans, Roland Spooren and Claudio Arduini. Their debut EP, Imagine Mountains, was often compared to the likes of Isbells, Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes.

Orange Sky is the first single taken from their new mini album Summer Skin, out now.

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Source: LastFM, Pukkelpop

Jun 24 2012
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Indie, Video, World Music

Beirut – The Rip Tide

Beirut is an American indie-rock and world music band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zach Condon and later expanded into a band.

Condon recorded before Beirut was established. When he was fifteen and under the name of Realpeople, he made an electronic record, fashioned after his love for The Magnetic Fields. Condon was a straight-A student until he dropped out at the age of 17 to travel Europe with his cousin in a drunken haze, cavorting and partying with the locals wherever he ended up. It was during one of these evenings that he was first exposed to Balkan music, blasting from the upstairs apartment. Condon ended up with the Serbian artists all night, going through albums country by country, note for note.

The first album under the Beirut moniker, Gulag Orkestar (2006), was the direct result of what he learned that night. After recording, Condon formed a full band which at times varies in the number of members, from six to ten.

The Rip Tide is taken from the 2011 album The Rip Tide.

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Source: Wikipedia, LastFM

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