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ON AN ON

ON AN ON

I love this.

Here’s newly-formed band ON AN ON  with the song “Ghosts,” the first song off their forthcoming debut album, Give In, which is due out January 29 on Roll Call Records.   The band is Nate Eiesland, Alissa Ricci and Ryne Estwing, who had been performing together for the last few years with the indie group Scattered Trees. It was only this past March during the annual SXSW festival that they decided to follow their instincts and change course to form ON AN ON.  With the help of producer Dave Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) in a Toronto studio, the band birthed this ten-track debut album – “a dream-washed textural journey armed with a biting perspective on life, love and the commonality of loss”.

ON AN ON is scheduled to hit the road in September, supporting Reptar and Rubblebucket.

This band is what I’m going to say when you ask me what I’m listening to.

Press For Prints: Delicious Design League

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While surfing the store for Chicago’s Delicious Design League, I had this familiar feeling that I’d seen these prints before.  Turns out I purchased the above Metric poster for my brother a few years back at SXSW, so I probably even met either Jason Teegarden-Downs and/or Billy Baumann, the two friends who formed  Delicious Design League in 2006.  The company started as a hobby for the two (who work in the design and ad biz) but grew into a full-time design and illustration studio.

Check out some great examples in the store.delicious design league

On My Radar: When Saints Go Machine, We Are Augustines, Porcelain Raft

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I hate to be so brief, but I’ve let this day get away from me too much.

Just about to dive into the new album Konkylie by When Saints Go Machine, a band I’ve had my ears up since hearing their track “Kelly” hit the interwebs a little while back.

Kelly by When Saints Go Machine

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We Are Augustines have announced the release of their debut album Rise Ye Sunken Ships, due in August on their own label Oxcart Records.  The Brooklyn-based band of former by ex-Pela members Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson have already been having a lot of luck getting their single “Chapel Club” on radio stations, being the #4 most added at triple A radio in its first week.  “Book of James” is another solid track,  a gripping eulogy for this once-resilient spirit who succumbed to the pressures bearing down on him from both within and without.  One of several songs recorded with producer Dave Newfeld (Broken Social Scene). Listen to the former below and get the latter for free here.

We Are Augustines – Chapel Song by divisionpromotions

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Really diggin The Album Leaf’s remix of “Sympathy” by Scattered Trees.  Anthemic turns ‘slow-building ethereal epic’.

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Liking what I’m hearing from Porcelain Raft, specifically the track “Amateur’s Feeling” over at Disco Naivete.  Porcelain Raft is Mauro Remiddi, a recently signee with Secretly Canadian.