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Music Interview: Our Brother The Native
DOWNLOAD: Our Brother The Native - Manes
Our Brother The Native are Joshua Bertram and Chaz Knapp, from Michigan and Moreno Valley, California, respectively. Together they fuse a cabaret of musical instruments and voices, with a wide textural range of sounds including folk, noise, post-rock, gamelan and bluegrass, to produce their own dysfunctional and uniquely-American sound, [...]
Music: We Were Promised Jetpacks
DOWNLOAD: We Were Promised Jetpacks -Quiet Little Voices (Live)
Edinburgh-based fourpiece We Were Promised Jetpacks (Adam Thompson (Guitar/Vocals), Michael Palmer (Guitar), Sean Smith (Bass) and Darren Lackie (Drums)) have exploded on to the music scene of late, captivating audiences with their unabashed indie outpourings which follow closely in the musical footprints of fellow Scots Frightened [...]
Review: Our Brother The Native - Sacred Psalms
Having never heard Our Brother The Native (Josh Bertram and Chaz Knapp, both performing vocals and various instruments) before I received a copy of their third full-length, Sacred Psalms, I had no pretences about their sound or style, but even now if you plonked a new album of theirs down in front of me I [...]
Review: The Balky Mule - The Length of the Rail
Clichéd terms like “folktronica” are generally worth avoiding, but when the music in question features both plaintive guitarsong and electronic noodling in near-equal measures, as its two main components, it’s easy to be tempted. The Balky Mule is the pseudonymn of Bristolian multi-instrumentalist Sam Jones and his music does just that. The Length of the [...]
Review: Hauschka - Snowflakes and Carwrecks
Volker Bertelmann, alias Hauschka, is back (rather quickly) after October’s Ferndorf album, with this forty-minute EP entitled Snowflakes & Carwrecks, which features tracks culled from the Ferndorf recording sessions.
The German composer delivers more ostinato trickery, creating vivid dialogues between his transfigured piano voices (and occasional string accompaniments), which are evocative of a European hinterland and [...]
Enjoy some sweet, fuzzy, music, by Brakes.
The song is called Crystal Tunings and is nicely winter-ish, reflecting the icy weather we’re getting in Scotland just now. It’s taken from the album Touchdown, which drops next April on FatCat. More info follows:
Brighton supergroup Brakes have found a new home on Brighton’s favourite indie label, FatCat [...]
Photos: Ten Kens @ Nice N Sleazys, 29.11.08
Earz-mag snapper Chalaina Marshall caught Canadian post-indie troupe Ten Kens this weekend at Nice N Sleazys in Glasgow. Word is that they were awesome.
More photos after the jump…
Interview: Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit)
Technically speaking Frightened Rabbit are a band comprising Scott Hutchison (vocals/guitar), Grant Hutchison (drums/vocals), Billy Kennedy (guitar) and Andy Monaghan (keyboards), but put them in context and you have one of Scotland’s finest indie exports. Like fellow Glaswegians Shitdisco and Franz Ferdinand, the band are the next in line of students of the Glasgow School [...]
TEN KENS: Interview & video for Bearfight!
PICTURE: [TEN KENS: Dean Tzenos (guitar), Dan Workman (vocals), Lee Stringle (bass), Ryan Roantree (drums)] VIDEO: [BEARFIGHT! PROMO VIDEO]
Meet Ten Kens, fresh out of Toronto, Canada. They want to avoid being stuffed in a genre pigeonhole, but for sake of explanation, their sound translates roughly as intelligent indie-punk, loaded with crunchy riffs, ethereal vocal [...]
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