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Video: “Roni” by Chikita Violenta

Video: “Roni” by Chikita Violenta: "

“Roni” by Chikita Violenta, from the album TRE3S, available now on Arts & Crafts.

The Builders and The Butchers – Dead Reckoning [Album Review]

The Builders and The Butchers – Dead Reckoning [Album Review]: "

The Builders and The Butchers are back with their third effort, Dead Reckoning, and it picks up where Salvation Is A Deep Well left off. I recently described B&B as a blend between the ambitious lyrical content of The Decemberists with the dark gothic folky feel of O’Death. Dead Reckoning was recorded live in eight days with no overdubs and, other than a couple of violin parts, the boys played every last instrument on the album.

The setup and process seems to agree with them as the album has a very loose feel. A meaty stew of blues, folk, and gothic gospel (or as I like to call it – “gothpel”), the Portland-based outfit continue to churn out albums rich in vision. Lead singer Ryan Sollee:

Like our previous records, the settings of the songs follow a few main ideas: the father and the son, early 1900s America, absolute good and evil, addiction, and religion. On this album, I really thought a lot about the end of the world and the dark times we live in, how the feelings we feel and the world we experience is not that different from 1930s America, and I thought about the music that was created at that time. This is where the inspiration for these songs originated.

Their sound takes you to the turn of the century – a band of gypsies traveling town to town playing in a tent revival show, fronted by Sollee as some sort of warped preacher. “All Away,” a song without any percussion, would be the perfect benediction as you exit the tent. It’s only Sollee singing over an acoustic arrangement and it’s gorgeous in its dark, foreboding way. On Dead Reckoning, The Builders and The Butchers continue to carve out a genre defying niche. And for that I am thankful.

The Builders and The Butchers – Lullaby

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Death Cab For Cutie: il nuovo album annunciato dalla band per il 31 Maggio

Death Cab For Cutie: il nuovo album annunciato dalla band per il 31 Maggio:

Codes And Keys, il nuovo album della band di Bellingham, prodotto da Alan Moulder, uscirà il prossimo 31 maggio. (Death Cab For Cutie - A Lack Of Color - video tratto da youtube)

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Video: “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster The People

Video: “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster The People

“Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster The People.

Dear Sister by Team Me

"Dear Sister" by Team Me:

Team Me first started turning heads after making the finals in NRK P3’s (Norwegian National Radio) Best New Band/Song contest. Soon after, their songs ‘Fool’ and ‘Weathervanes and Chemicals’ hit the radio in Norway while they performed in 8 Norwegian festivals last summer. The band are now set to release their first EP on April 4th in the UK, consisting of five songs recorded in Oslo and produced and mixed by by Tom McFall (REM, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol). Expect the full length album in the fall of 2011. Lucky UK fans will be able to catch them supporting British Sea Power and The Wombats.Song: Dear Sister. Check out their video game while listening to “Weathervanes and Chemicals”

Team Me – Dear Sister

Video: “Equestrian” by US Royalty

Video: “Equestrian” by US Royalty:

“Equestrian” by US Royalty, the visual story of a band trying to make it on the road, playing gigs, recording songs, exploring new places, and meeting friends along the way. Check out the Flosstradamus remix of the track.

Dum Dum Girls – He Gets Me High

Dum Dum Girls – He Gets Me High:

Dum Dum Girls release their new EP He Gets Me High via SubPop at the beginning of next month. You can download the title track from the label in exchange for your e-mail address. The EP also includes a cover of The Smith’s There Is A Light That Will Never Go Out. You can stream that from here. The full track listing is:

1 Wrong Feels Right

2 He Gets Me High

3 Take Care of My Baby

4 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

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Uscite: L’Enfance Rouge, “Bar-Bari”

Uscite: L’Enfance Rouge, “Bar-Bari”:

"Il trio franco-italiano torna con un nuovo album dal titolo significativo : “Bar-Bari” per Wallace Records. Un nuovo viaggio tra due punti geografici (Montenegro-Puglia), oltre che una dichiarazione istintiva di fronte al sentimento internazionale, diffuso e imperioso di barbarie contemporanea. Un disco elettrico, sinistramente occidentale, un album senza concessioni, dritto e dinamico, potente e ricercato. [...]"

(da ItalianEmbassy)

CD BABY's Editor’s Pick – Sewing Pattern: The Bicycle Songcycle

Editor’s Pick – Sewing Pattern: The Bicycle Songcycle:

Sewing Pattern is a band out of Chicago which is (from what I can tell) the solo project of Angie Ma, who also plays with indie orchestral pop band Canasta. Taking inspiration from Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois project, and “originally created as a senior thesis project, this album weaves through songs saluting the history of bicycles and lost love”. So that concept grabbed me immediately, as elaborate chamber pop & bicycles are two of my favorite things.

What’s more, the album is a great mix of twee, baroque pop that calls to mind everything from Van Dyke Parks and Margot Guryan to Belle & Sebastian to (natch) Sufjan Stevens. Really fun stuff that I can’t wait to dig into more and absorb the songs. Check out this brief song snippet, then get The Bicycle Songcycle on CD Baby.