April 2011
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Get Out The Vote - "Hit Me Where It Hurts" by The...
The Booze play R&B like the Brits used to circa Rolling Stones, Faces, etc. Like any great band that nods to the past, these Atlanta boys def put their own spin on things. They have toured the US (including an opening slot on a recent OK Go tour) and have a west coast tour and SXSW gigs coming up. ”At Maximum Volume” comes out in March on Underrated Records and the band will be...
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Get Out The Vote - "Festival" by @countrymice
What does Country Mice front-man Jason Rueger have in common with less than 300 people in the US? Growing up in Beattie, that’s ruralest of rural Kansas. On a farm of course, that was passed down through three generations of his family and old enough to be on the Pony Express route. “Family, friends, and working the land gave us a good wholesome life”. Walking dirt road paths, working and living...
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Get Out The Vote - "New Vaccine" by...
Singer and Songwriter, Jesse Macht, has recently completed “LOVE IS ANOTHER DRUG”, his debut EP set for release in early 2011. Recorded in Los Angeles, Jesse’s hometown, Love is Another Drug was produced by multi-instrumentalist Aaron Tap (Matt Nathanson). It will be available on ITUNES and AMAZON and includes the title track “Love is Another Drug”, as well as “New Vaccine”, and “Now I Know”. A...
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Get Out The Vote - "Artichoke" by @PanditMusicTX
Pandit is Lance Smith from Lumberton, TX. After many years of playing in various projects, he decided to go solo in mid 2009. With the right equipment in hand, a locker full of songs, and a strong determination, Lance released his debut, selt titled EP during January 2010, to rave reviews. Pandit also released a 17 track Demo record December 23, 2010. You can download it for free...
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Get Out The Vote - "Is There Any Hope?" by...
Diamond Doves was formed in 2010 by longtime friends and musical collaborators Nick Kinsey, Brigham Brough and Wyndham Garnett. They met as kids and began a friendship and musical partnership that eventually brought them around the world playing and recording with Elvis Perkins, known collectively as Elvis Perkins in Dearland. Apart from their experience with Elvis, the three have performed as...
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Get Out The Vote - "Golden Arrows" by...
Rising from the Brooklyn underground is Dynasty Electric, a band with an explosive live show and a unique sound weaving elements of electronic, punk, pop and psychedelic rock.
The band is fronted by the powerful and seductive vocals of Jenny Electrik and backed by the densely layered production multi-instrumentation and songwriting of Seth Misterka. Their retro-futuristic pop sound falls...
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Get Out The Vote - "City of Lights" by...
Five O’Clock Heroes are a New Wave influenced rock group currently based in New York City. Singer, Antony Ellis, is originally from Northampton in the UK. They first formed in 2003, and to date have released five singles and two albums, Bend to the Breaks and Speak Your Language. The band will be releasing their third record (and first proper American release), “Different Times”, on February 15th,...
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Get Out The Vote - "Model Son" by @heavenlystates
The Heavenly States are Ted Nesseth, Jeremy Gagon, Genevieve Gagon and Masanori Mark Christianson. A Minnesota lefty born of humble means, frontman/lyricist Ted Nesseth plays his guitar upside down and backwards because he taught himself to play on his friends’ guitars. Not wanting to wait to learn how to play straight ensured that he’d have an inexorable ticket to a certain kind of sound that was...
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Get Out The Vote - "Hollywood" by @theheadmusic
The Head Set came together like so many bands do – one guy screws around with a four track and puts together a bunch of songs. He shows his brother, who plays drums and happens to know a couple other dudes who mostly play Stevie Wonder songs but are up for a lark. Next thing you know, proper rehearsals are underway and everyone’s looking around thinking, “Yeah, I like this, this’ll work.” Starting...
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Get Out The Vote - "The Breakfast Song" by...
Somewhere out east, pretty much as east as you can go without leaving this isle, is the Southwold coast. A mystifying place…equal parts picturesque seaside town and desolate, barren frontier – largely determined by how kind the weather is feeling. Amongst the eccentric shoreline, raging waves and shiny pier is a beach hut offering respite from the chill wind – the sort that gives you earache. And...
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Get Out The Vote - "Sunlight" by @MeanCreek
Mean Creek is a genuinely unique rock band from Boston Massachusetts. They combine the energy and edge of rock music with the earnestness and sincerity of folk music to create a passionate and intense sound. Their songs leave a lasting impression that is sure to rattle even the most jaded of music fans. Mean Creek’s debut full length album “Around The Bend” was released by Clubhouse Records in...
March 2011
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Get Out The Vote - "Two Points" by @nortonmusic
“Two Points” first seconds reveal the way Norton crafted their upcoming record. Contagious beat, guitars swinging round your ears, the keyboards’ warm sounds building up melodies that keep coming back, a growing excitement which bursts in one of those chorus lines, leaving you in an out of control sing-a-long. In three words, the first take from “Layers of Love United” is the “perfect pop song”....
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Get Out The Vote - "Sparrow" by @AcrylicsLife
After forming in 2008, Acrylics (Molly Shea and Jason Klauber) became the first artist to sign to Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bearand Ethan Silverman’s label, Terrible Records (Twin Shadow, Class Actress) with the release of their Taylor-produced debut EP, All of the Fire.
Between tours and performances with A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Das Racist, Morning Benders and The Smith Westernsthrough...
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Get Out The Vote - "The Honest Truth" by...
Portland indie orchestra Typhoon turned many a critical head in 2010 after releasing their epic Hunger and Thirst on Tender Loving Empire. They were named as one of Portland’s best new bands by Willamette week, toured in support of Yann Tiersen, and opened for Belle & Sebastian and Avi Buffalo. A New Kind of House is Typhoon’s sequel to their epic 2010 release Hunger and...
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Get Out The Vote - "New Leaf" by @alamedamusicpdx
Compared to the baroque pop of Nick Drake and the slow-core dream pop of early Low, this Portland, OR three-piece blends orchestral arrangements with modern instrumentation, thus blurring the lines of genres and moods. At the core of Alameda issinger/guitarist Stirling Myles, cellist Jessie Dettwiler and clarinetist, Jenn Woodall. Joining them, in blending traditional folk song writing with lush...
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Get Out The Vote - "Killing For Fun" by...
WILDLIFE is five friends from Ontario - Five energetic, adventurous, youthful barbarians who held their first concert in a haunted ballroom on the Isle of Pines on the St. Lawrence River. As the name implies, Wildlife is very much a contingent of spirited Canadian mountain children. Though geographically distant from any actual peaks, it’s not difficult to imagine the band cutting loose through...
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Get Out The Vote - "Let It Fly" by
AudioDax is a two man Electronic Hip Hop band made up of members Thomas Balcom (Temble) and Matt Rivera (Krypton Flo). The pair climbed twenty feet above ground on the tree tops of DePauw University and spent hours on branches discussing their joys with music. After “Koala-ing” around for an afternoon, AudioDax became official. A band formed with a goal of creating music that will inspire good...
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Get Out The Vote - "Evil" by @Beadsmusic
BEADS are a side project of The Blakes from Seattle featuring brothers Snow Keim and
Garnet Keim from the band.
Their self-released debut album No One Knows was released on March 10th.
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Get Out The Vote - "Add It Up" by @brahmsband
BRAHMS formed in New York, are an unsigned band producing electronic pop music. BRAHMS are Eric Lyle Lodwick, Michael Cale Parks, and Drew Montag Robinson. To name your band after a towering figure of the romantic period takes balls. So does playing your first show to over 2000 people. But as the decade ticked over and clean slates were needed, Eric Lodwick, Cale Parks & Drew Robinson seized...
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Get Out The Vote - "A Darkness Rises Up" by...
Broken Records formed in 2007 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The seven members use their different musical backgrounds and a wide variety of instrumentation to compliment the eclectic sound they create. Their 2007 self released debut EP which was sold at shows created a wider interest in the band. Drowned in Sound said of the release, “This is magical, engrossing and wholly enveloping, genuinely and...
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Get Out The Vote - "Stupidland" by...
Los Angeles based four-piece Family Of The Year had a busy 2010. They self-released the EP Through The Trees as a follow up to their debut album Songbook, and were elated to find themselves on a tour with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros supporting their album. In Europe and the UK, developments were even more extraordinary as they fostered a quickly growing fan base with their first label...
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Get Out The Vote - "Don't Stop" by @dodobrainworms
The drums hit you in the chest first, spraying your speakers like swift gunshots. But then Meric Long’s finger-picked chords kick in, cascading across Logan Kroeber’s brass knuckle beats like only the best Dodos songs can. This forward motion feeling has driven the duo since 2005, but several key changes lift their fourth LP (No Color) to another level. For one thing, the band reunited with...
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Get Out The Vote - "Hard Time In A Terrible Land"...
Ezra Furman & the Harpoons were formed in 2006 because of songs. Ezra had written songs that were urgent, desperate, pretty, and explosive, and these songs had to be heard. From personal musical sketches to glorious, rollicking pop songs, Ezra Furman & the Harpoons work tirelessly toward capturing the beauty, despair and headlong wildness of life, that too-often overlooked magic and...
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Get Out The Vote - "I Can Be One" by...
Luke Rathborne is a prodigiously talented 22-year-old, originally from Brunswick, Maine, but now based in Brooklyn. He releases his debut self-titled double-E.P. will be released in the US March 8th on DILETTANTE and via his own True Believers label as a mini-album on March 7, 2011. It will be available on 12-inch vinyl and as a download. Luke has friends in high places: he is managed by Ryan...
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Get Out The Vote - "Sleep On The Dance Floor" by...
After much anticipation and a misadventure with a major label, The Postelles’ eponymous debut album will be released by +1 Records on June 7th. The record, co-produced by band and The Strokes’ Albert Hammond, Jr., exudes a raw exuberance that places the New York City-based quartet in an ideological lineage that can be traced back to such 50’s and early 60’s icons as Buddy...
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Get Out The Vote - "Giant" by @nownowband
Minneapolis, MN trio Now, Now have been thoroughly enjoying their early 2011 tour dates as they make their way from the west coast through the south. Their current run of dates, which now extends through the end of March, are in support of their recently released EP Neighbors. Extended tour dates below. The follow up to their critically acclaimed full-length debut Cars, Neighbors has been met...
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Get Out The Vote - "Forget That You're Young" by...
The Raveonettes are a rock and roll duo formed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2001. Comprising Sune Rose Wagner (guitar, instruments, vocals) and Sharin Foo (guitar and vocals), their music is characterized by close two-part vocal harmony inspired by The Everly Brothers, coupled with hard-edged electric guitar overlaid with liberal doses of noise. The name, The Raveonettes, is a direct reference to...
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Get Out The Vote - "I Don't Know How To Act" by...
“Teletextile’s music is riveting from note one - Pamela is a true original.” -Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls Teletextile is the creation of multi-instrumentalist (Harp, Piano, Violin, Guitar) and vocalist Pamela Martinez. A follow up to a previous release Care Package, theReflector EP was recorded with her primary band members Caitlin Gray (Bass, Guitar, Vocals) and Luke Scheiders (Drums,...
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Get Out The Vote - "Breadcrumb Trail" by...
Buried Beds was formed as a warehouse duo in 2003 by old friends Eliza Jones and Brandon Beaver, “Buried Beds” grew over several years into a chamber group of banjos, string quartets, electric guitars, broken glass, and aching harmonies. Their Americana influenced melancholy won them “Best Band” in Philadelphia Magazine’s “Best of Philly 2004” issue and a spot on the Believer...
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Get Out The Vote - "Backbone" by High Tension...
High Tension Wires is Mike Wiebe (showman from the Riverboat Gamblers) and Mark Ryan (from the legendary Marked Men and recently-hyped Mind Spiders). The current line up for album #3 is rounded off by members of Bad Sports (who will also release a new forthcoming LP on Dirtnap - last album was on Douchemaster). High Tension Wires will release “Welcome New Machine” on March 15th via...
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Get Out The Vote - "Bells Ring" by @empress_hotel
Empress Hotel is a pop ensemble based in New Orleans whose sound is inspired by both one hit wonders of the ’70s and legends such as Prince, Sparks, and Roxy Music. The band has a unique slant on their own pop songs though, with stream of consciousness lyrics, dynamic vocal melodies and layered harmonies. Their sound salutes the glory days of rock n roll, and truly lives on stage with an audience...
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Get Out The Vote - "We Have Everything" by...
Young Galaxy are a Canadian indie rock/dream pop band, whose members are Stephen Ramsay (vocals/guitar) and Catherine McCandless (vocals/keyboards), and Stephen Kamp (bass/vocals) Young Galaxy formed in Vancouver as duo including Stephen Ramsay and Catherine McCandless. Through that summer of 2005 and the spring of 2006 they recorded with appearances and contributions of friends at Jace Lasek’s...
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Get Out The Vote - "Majoring In The Arts" by...
Blue Skies For Black Hearts is the Portland-based project of producer Pat Kearns (Exploding Hearts, Dandy Warhols, Clorox Girls, Nice Boys, etc). They have been compared to the likes of Teenage Fanclub, the Beatles, Elvis Costello, etc. Def catchy power-pop indie rock type stuff. Also of note, the band is subject of a short sci-fi film. It was directed by Jon Griffith and written by bassist...
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Get Out The Vote - "Harvest Moon" by...
Pepper Rabbit is an experimental band from Silver Lake, CA composed of lead singer Xander Singh, bassist Shay Spence, and drummer Luc Laurent. “The recordings present a unique musical vision, with Xander Singh and Luc Laurent displaying an impressive mastery of their twisted but tasty pop…A treat-filled introduction to a duo unafraid to pound around on a variety of instruments such as trumpet,...
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Get Out The Vote - "Harvest Moon" by...
Pepper Rabbit is an experimental band from Silver Lake, CA composed of lead singer Xander Singh, bassist Shay Spence, and drummer Luc Laurent. “The recordings present a unique musical vision, with Xander Singh and Luc Laurent displaying an impressive mastery of their twisted but tasty pop…A treat-filled introduction to a duo unafraid to pound around on a variety of instruments such as trumpet,...
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Get Out The Vote - "Me Me Me" by @middle_bro
Middle Brother is an American Rock band and supergroup consisting of songwriters and musicians John J. McCauley III of the band Deer Tick, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit. They played their first show at the 2010 the SXSW film conference and festival at the Ale House in Austin, Texas, where they performed under the moniker “MG&V” in an unannounced appearance.[1] The...
February 2011
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Get Out The Vote - "Night and Day" by...
Chief is a alternative rock band from New York City by way of Santa Monica, CA. The four band members - Evan Koga, Danny Fujikawa, Michael Fujikawa and Michael Moonves - relocated to New York to attend NYU a few years ago from Los Angeles. College life took a swift backseat while the band honed their craft sharing stages with The Stills, The Pigeon Detectives, Glasvegas, The Whigs, among others....
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Get Out The Vote - "Always Everything" by...
Iceland’s Sindri Már Sigfsson or Sin Fang (formerly Sin Fang Bous of Seabear) has released the first track off his forthcoming sophomore album “Always Everything”, Summer Echoes, set for release March 15 on Morr Music. Having set himself the task of playing all of the instruments on his 2009 debut, Clangour, Sin Fang wanted to move closer to the sound of a live band for his...
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Get Out The Vote - "Locomotive" by @IamAlexWinston...
Alex Winston was given her first guitar when she was 7. When her Dad’s
advances to teach music to her older brother fell on deaf ears, she was gladly the runner up. Sitting in the basement for hours practicing chord progressions and listening to songwriters like Carole King and Laura Nyro, she was taught the importance of her home city of Detroit’s musical history. Classically trained in opera...
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Get Out The Vote - "The Kite" by @tsog
The Sound Of Growing Up is the moniker/band name of singer/songwriter Justin Kao (kay-oh). A Boston transplant via Long Island, NY, Kao moved to Boston shortly after finishing college to pursue his career in music. Having played small shows and open mics in the local area, Kao began building up a network of fans, friends and musicians with his catchy melodies and earnest lyrics. The band’s aptly...
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Get Out The Vote - "Baby Drugs" by @tristentristen
With her warm, guileless vocals and earnest, evocative songwriting, Tristen has emerged as a truly individual talent, bridging genres and emotions to create a distinctive sound all her own. The Nashville-based songstress’ American Myth debut, Charlatans At The Garden Gate, is an ambitious and impassioned collection of finely honed modern pop, rich with exquisite arrangements and a remarkably...
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Get Out The Vote - "On/Off The Ledge" by...
Amidst the dance-rock scenesters, the single-centric trendmakers, and the warhol-ist-photo-bloggers of Los Angeles lies a sleeping giant called ROBOTANISTS, who until now has been sitting it out and making music to do anything but dance to. Laying claim to no afro-pop influences, husband/wife duo Sarah Ellquist and Daniel de Blanke lie at the ghostly heart of Robotanists. The two x-classical...
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Get Out The Vote - "I Know Every Street" by...
Meeting of Important People is a nationally touring three-piece indie-pop band from Pittsburgh, PA. The band’s debut single “Mothers Pay More” ignited a media and blogging frenzy in the Summer of 2008, and their upcoming full-length debut on Authentik Artists is becoming a much talked about 2009 release. The band has recorded with producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron&Wine) for a subsidiary...
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Get Out The Vote - "Bombs Away, She's Here To...
Bird of Youth’s album Defender was produced by Will Sheff of Okkervil River and Phil Palazzolo (The New Pornographers, Ted Leo, Neko Case), recorded with the help of a cast of players that includes members of The Wrens, Nada Surf, The National, Okkervil River and the Mendoza Line. The album recalls the classic and college rock Wawerna grew up with, as well as the swagger of old New York...
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Get Out The Vote - "Young Hollywood" by @moreamor
More Amor is an electronic duo from Las Vegas, Nevada that currently reside in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of former YouInSeries vocalist Kyle Lobeck, former The Higherguitarist/songwriter Tom Oakes and Rami Jrade. They independently released their self-titled album, produced by Mike Green, on July 3, 2008 through iTunes and SmartPunk.
On February 4th, 2011 the band released the...
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Get Out The Vote - "Two Times" by @theblakesband
The Blakes recall the stinging catchiness of the early Who, Kinks, and other 60s spitfire rock bands. Brothers Garnet and Snow Keim (both on vocals) busked around the country, writing songs, ‘till they ended up settling in Seattle.’ There they met drummer Bob Husak and since have been touring the world with everyone from The Gossip to the Kills to Brian Jonestown Massacre, reached #1 on KEXP,...
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Get Out The Vote - "Dog Years" by @lukerathborne
The ridiculously prolific Luke Rathborne, has only existed on this earth for a mere 22 years, and has already found himself with a body load of work. His heavenly but haunting melodies and tales will leave you reawakened to a sound and intimacy that surpasses artists twice his age.
Rathborne relocated to New York from the deep woods & shallow waters of Brunswick, Maine at the age of 18. He...