Colossal Yes Mojo Review.

POBPAH On The Carson Daly Show.

It's been confirmed that the The Pains of Being Pure At Heart will be performing on Last Call With Carson Daly on April 1st. After the taping the band will head over to Spaceland for a one-off gig. This April Fools' Day should be one to remember.

Phantom Limbs Trailer.

It's Time For Revolver USA Podcast #16.

Listen to over thirty minutes of music and babble as Uli & Potsie venture into new releases by: Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, Seeland, Syntheme, Astral Social Club, Phantom Limbs, Cobalt, Strange Boys, Odd Nosdam and Peter Walker on Revolver USA Podcast #16. You can stream or download an AAC file of this podcast and all other Revolver podcasts at the Revolver pod-page: http://www.midheaven.com/audio/podcast/

THEMSELVES theFREEhoudini Mixtape.

Click here to download almost forty minutes of free music featuring: Buck 65, Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Lionesque, Slug of Atmosphere, D-Styles, DJ Baku, Pedestrian, Sole, Serengeti, and Yoni Wolf and Odd Nosdam as cLOUDDEAD. How rad are Themselves? Thanks dudes.

Themselves will be in Austin this week:
3/18 Mohawk Anticon / Ghostly showcase 1:00 AM
3/18 Red 7 Force Field PR & Terrorbird Media SXSW '09 Blowout 3:35 PM
3/19 Beauty Bar The Bay Bridged Bay Area Takeover Day Party 4:15 PM
3/19 Smokin' Music Knitting Factory Showcase / DJ set between bands
3/20 The Sidebar Park The Van Records, Partisan Records, indie outlaw, The Knitting Factory 4:30 PM

Saros Decibel Review.

No Rules Kid606 Remix Contest - Get Sick!

Photo By Neofob

Attn: Aspiring remix jocks,

Tracksandfields.com is hosting a remix contest for Kid606’s new single "Mr. Wobble’s Nightmare" from his upcoming album "Shout at the Döner". The best mixes will be released on a forthcoming ep release from Tigerbeat6 and featured on Zero”. The remix with the most votes wins a free Ableton Live 7 LE license, while Kid606 chooses his favourite mix for a releases on his label Tigerbeat6. This single will be released in cooperation with the electronic music download store Zero-Inch.com. As Kid606 puts it, there are absolutely no rules to the remix contest, it can be in any style at any tempo. You probably have more chances of winning if your remix sounds as different from the original or released remixes as possible. The contest starts march 16 and ends end may 1st, 2009. Direct link HERE.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums Video For New Single.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums - There Is No Light from Leaf Label on Vimeo.

Video for Wildbirds & Peacedrums' latest tribal stomping, tambourine banging, banshee crying single 'There Is No Light'. W & P will be making a quick stop in the States this month to indulge in some SXSW madness.

03/20 Austin, TX @ The Sidebar (SXSW Park The Van Records, Partisan Records, indie outlaw, The Knitting Factory 4:30PM)
03/20 Austin, TX@ Antone's (SXSW The Billions Corporation showcase 9:00 PM)

Efterklang's Seattle Show Review.

Efterklang's first show of their current North American tour has received a glowing review by Seattle Show Gal. It appears the band is off to rulin' start, play on boys & girls.

Seattle Show Gal
Your Public Servant for Live Show Reviews

Efterklang
To See Rating 8/10
Just Curious Rating 8/10

Band Members: * Casper Clausen (Vocals & Various Instruments) * Mads Brauer (Computers, Seq. & Flute) * Rune Fonseca Mølgaard (Piano) * Thomas Kirirath Husmer (Drums, Trumpet & Choir) * Rasmus Stolberg (Bass, Guitar & Various Instruments) * Peter Broderick (live-band member – Violin, Guitar, Drums, Whatever he feels like, & Choir) * Anna Brønsted (live-band member - Piano, Vocals) * Niklas Antonson (live-band member - Trombone & Choir) * Frederik Teige (live-band member - Guitar & Choir)

Denmark’s finest!

I had the pleasure of being at the premier show on Efterklang’s American Tour. This was one of those shows that can’t ever be recreated. There were world premier songs that were played, and songs that were a work-in-progress debuted. For those of you who weren’t able to make it and for those of you who are just curious, here are some highlights.

Efterklang, the Danish word for remembrance and reverberation or ‘after sound,’ bring distinction and light to unchartered waters. Efterklang explores an area of sound that hasn’t been touched. There are so few bands these days that are indisputably original and leave no room for copy cats; Efterklang is one of them.

There are lots of layers and moving parts within Efterklang. I really like Efterklang’s approach to this because their moving parts are created and executed by individual contributors as opposed to being created by one mind and performed many. Having multiple minds at the source of Efterklang adds levels of individuality that translate into depth of sound. Although being created by several different minds, Efterklang has been playing music together for so long that all the sounds meld together as one cohesive unit.

Their approach to music is very story telling and progressive. With gradual mood changes though-out the songs and through-out the set, I was very compelled to put myself over in their world. Sit and listen. Their set was so moving and versatile that it was difficult for me to choose what to feature. I am giving you a world premier performance of a song that is currently called Friendfirmations. I am also going to give you a collage of three other songs in a separate clip that highlight the diversity of sound that is Efterklang. If you have the chance to see them first hand, don’t miss it.

There are still plenty of dates to go:
03/09 Visalia, CA @ Brewery
03/10 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
03/11 Tucson, AZ @ Plush
03/13 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
03/14 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
03/16 Norman, OK @ Opolis
03/17 Denton, TX @ Hailey’s
03/19 Austin, TX @ French Legation Museum (SXSW Other Music party 2:00 PM)
03/19 Austin, TX @ Habana Bar (SXSW Hometapes/Leaf showcase 11:00 PM)
03/23 Tallahassee, FL @ The Engine Room (w/ Canon Blue)
03/24 Atlanta, GA @ E.A.R.L. (w/ Canon Blue)
03/25 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 (w/ Canon Blue)
03/26 Washington, DC @ DC9
03/27 Philadelphia, PA @ The First Unitarian Church
03/28 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
03/30 Boston, MA @ TT the Bears
04/01 Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo
04/02 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artwork
04/03 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
04/04 Chicago, IL @ Schubas

Why The Guitar Solo Still Matters - Dusted Reviews Adam Payne.

Dusted Reviews
Artist: Adam Payne
Album: Organ
Label: Holy Mountain
Review date: Mar. 6, 2009

Residual Echoes head instigator Adam Payne deviated from his band’s reckless psych whirlwinds to deliver Organ, an album surprisingly full of power pop, balladry and crisp riffing. The comparisons to various rawk this’s and that’s are gonna fly like pies on a Three Stooges skit, so we may as well get a few of ‘em out of the way. Straight ahead opener, "The One After Eyes" suggests anything from the Only Ones to Thin Lizzy to the Raspberries. "In Hell,” piano and all, begins as an inspired-but-loose Muscle Shoals outtake before settling into bouncy pop.

A listener steeped in rock residue from the past 40 years is going to hear any number of bands tucked into this little record, but that has less to do with Payne’s lack of originality and more to do with guitar rock being something that’s simply been done and done and done. Yet, when it’s done as good as Payne does right here, comparisons mean little. For six songs and 36 minutes, Organ hones in on guitar pop’s core before stretching it out, chomping on chords and spitting out flurries of notes that remind one, ala Dinosaur Jr., why the guitar solo still matters. Just listen to "Never See You Anymore,” which earns the guitar climax Payne peels off toward the end.

The same can be said for the album’s instrumental centerpiece, "Incidental Arrangement." Awash in sputtering suggestions of riffs, it slashes its way uphill, finds its center and then chews on chords euphorically, repeating variations on its theme, surrendering to its own pulse before speeding up again. It’s simply one of the finer examples of electric rock and roll orgasm these ears have heard in a while, and gives the rest of Organ all the excuses it might need to matter.

By Bruce Miller

Moore Bros Receive A Killer Dusted Review.

Dusted Reviews
Artist: The Moore Brothers
Album: Aptos
Label: American Dust
Review date: Mar. 3, 2009

The Moore Brothers have been making music since the late ’80s, but their fifth and latest, Aptos, arrives on the heels of a publicity boost courtesy of fellow Californian Joanna Newsom. The duo joined Newsom on 2007 her European tour, and she puts in a guest appearance here, contributing harp to “Good Heart, Money and Rain.” The wider exposure is certainly merited: Aptos is, while humble and unassuming, compelling from start to finish, and both brothers are first-rate singers and songwriters.

The Moore Brothers’ sound is consistent throughout, generally consisting of sparse arrangements of guitars, bass and drums, which leave ample room for the flawless harmonies that are nearly ubiquitous. Despite the acoustic guitars and harmonizing, the brothers deal less in folk than in light pop. While they aren’t strongly evocative of any particular group or period, they clearly owe a debt to mellow early ’70s fare (Simon and Garfunkel in the harmonies, CSN on the David Crosby-esque “Aptos”, and America on the radio-ready chorus of “Heard About You“). The duo split songwriting duties evenly, with Thom penning the odd-numbered tracks and Greg the even ones. Like their almost indistinguishably similar voices, however, their work blends seamlessly together. Thom’s tracks are built around quirky stop-and-start melodies, and are generally brief and tightly wound. Lyrically, they tend towards character sketches, which aren’t fully fleshed out short stories (like those of say, Ray Davies), but rather oblique and evocative portraits (the lonely drummer girl of “Iraq” and the titular recluse of “Henry Alexander,” to name two). Greg’s, on the other hand, are generally mellower and more unabashedly lyrical, at times suggesting nothing so much as a Californian version of the Clientele (both musically and vocally, especially on the title track and “Pet Sidewinder”), evoking their almost-otherworldly melancholic beauty and dreaminess. While not radically different enough to constitute two irreconcilable aesthetics, the two tonalities complement each other well and lay out a propulsive push-and-pull between a more upbeat and energetic approach (Thom) and a less urgent, leisurely one (Greg).

Both lyrically and musically, the songs on Aptos are a strong set. At once effortless and masterful, the album suffers from no missteps or low points. While it may not deliver the utterly unique sound of a Joanna Newsom, it easily fulfills the expectations to which her endorsement gives rise. By Michael Cramer

THE MOORE BROTHERS CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THEIR NEW ALBUM THIS FRIDAY (03/06) AT THE MAKE-OUT ROOM, SF. CA.

Bad Beirut Review.

The concept behind Breakfast At Sulimays is simple but genius. Film three elderly townies from Philadelphia (Bill, Ann & Joe) listening to then reviewing modern indie rock while hanging out at a local coffee shop. It turns out they're not fans of Beirut's 'My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille'.