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It’s Friday night, what are you doing behind a computer?
Here’s a few tunes from the Hype Machine Top 50 that caught my ear tonight, take a listen.
https://soundcloud.com/amazon-music/surfer-blood-hey-ya
It’s Friday night, what are you doing behind a computer?
Here’s a few tunes from the Hype Machine Top 50 that caught my ear tonight, take a listen.
https://soundcloud.com/amazon-music/surfer-blood-hey-ya
Thinking of taking a break? Wait, if you’re reading this, you might already be avoiding work. Well, spend some time at the Allsaints Basement Sessions this afternoon. Recorded and filmed in a warehouse space below their E1 London design studios, this site is a collection of live performances, lectures, interviews and unique insights from some hot names in the indie rock world. Start with vids from Little Comets, then on to Warpaint. Surfer Blood‘s set is pretty rad too.
Check it out.
Seems as if I’m still dealing with technical problems on indie music filter. You’ll notice a hell of a bunch of my posts include weird characters (ie. a question mark in a black diamond), which I think I know how to fix. Also, last weeks issues made my twitter feed go nuts. Sorry if it looked like I was being overly keen on new music, I didn’t mean to clog anyone’s stream. In the meantime, here’s a whack of different things I’m into online.
-As part of Giant System Chicago, here’s a band called Golden Birthday. Cool video, track and bandname (mine was my 19th).
029 Golden Birthday from Kyle Obriot on Vimeo.
–Two new videos of The Walkmen (via Stereogum).
–Canada Day celebrations in Toronto with Tragically Hip, Weezer, BSS, Hey Rosetta! and Buck 65.
and now for the remixes:
–Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio redoes “Young Blood” by The Naked and Famous.
–RAC puts a spin on Washed Out’s “New Theory”.
–RAC (Maury) takes on Surfer Blood’s “Take It Easy”
Start your week off with a new track from Brooklyn indie pop threesome* The Drums. Even though the band perform this song a lot live, it didn’t find its way onto wax, perhaps because they knew we’d need it as a surprise down the road.
*The band is normally a foursome but recently guitarist Adam Kessler quit the band while on tour in the US with Surfer Blood.
The Drums – “When I Come Home”
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Now in its 16th year, NXNE is set to hold its annual music/film/interactive conference and festival on the week of June 14th-20th. It puts 625+ international and local bands on 50 stages, screens 40+ films, populates Conference Village sessions with groundbreaking keynotes and inspired panel discussions, and breaks ground in the interactive media arena. From small intimate shows to stages at Lester B. Pearson International Airport and Union Station, to free open?air concerts in the heart of the city at Yonge?Dundas Square, the NXNE experience permeates Toronto.
As always, I’m really looking forward to the shows. This year features performances by Iggy and the Stooges, The Raveonettes, Sloan, Japandroids, Surfer Blood, The Soft Pack, Avi Buffalo, Timber Timbre, Diamond Rings, The Besnard Lakes and Free Energy, to name a few. I’m also psyched for the Interactive element of the festival, called NXNEi. This will be its first year, aninteractive media conference and workshops programmed in conjunction with FITC to bring the key players in new media innovation for featured talks, frank discussions and community?voted panels.
For more info, and info on passes, visit NXNE.