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Delta Spirit's Ode To Sunshine!!!

noreply@blogger.com (BBQCHICKENROBOT) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:12:00 +0000

All the moments in life need good soundtracks, know what I mean? That's why when you listen to old favorite Weezer albums or 80s, 90s hits you reminisce about what you were doing, who you had crushes on, and in my case, how immature you were based on the stupid things you did for fun! I've heard so much good stuff this summer but I really have to hand it to Delta Spirit's debut Ode To Sunshine as one of my top feel good favorites! I'd go on about San Diego's awesome 5some but I just really want you to hear it! When you're done with those tracks, hype up for the August 26th release, and when you're hooked go check a show here, and I'll totally see you there.

Trashcan
Parade

The Pop Project's Not-so Concept Album!

noreply@blogger.com (BBQCHICKENROBOT) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:42:00 +0000

Half a decade after their 2nd full-length release, Life is Life, The Pop Project has finally dropped their lastest, Stars of Stage & Screen! This Michigan pop 4tet has taken several elements like indiepop, jazz, broadway, and other can't-quite-put-your-finger-on-it piles of music into one sweet album. They've got lil pieces of everything and have the ability to make it really fun. It's sometimes sounds like 80s and 90s television showtunes! Bottom line this is the good kind of contagious music good for anytime. Pick up this album here! Get a taste below!

You've Won The Lottery
Stand In

The Karoshi Bros. Love The World!

noreply@blogger.com (BBQCHICKENROBOT) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:08:00 +0000

I've recently come to realize that UK's Karoshi Bros. really just want you to get up and dance, a lot...maybe even forever! The dancey pop hit The Original dropped late last year but now we got the mixes done up by peeps like Ingo Star and Magik Johnson. Don't about their personal lives but if you open your ears, you'll know they are gettin' some mad play. Check out Love The World on 7" vinyl available here. We got one of them digital for you below!

Magik Johnson Vox

Lucky Lucky Dragons!

noreply@blogger.com (BBQCHICKENROBOT) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:45:00 +0000

Happy Thursday, I just wanted to give a little attention on a duo named the Lucky Dragons. Sarah and Luke make entirely too experimental crazy noisey electronic music. They are known for their crazy interactive gallery shows which humans in the experimentation. Heartbreaker is the first song I heard from them and with the bottle rockets noises and the drop-in percussions, I had to hear more. Their latest is Dream Island Laughing Language which they are supporting on tour right meow! Check out some tracks, I'm going to sleep!

Heartbreaker
I Keep waiting for Earthquakes

Band Of Annuals Showin' You the Countryside!

noreply@blogger.com (BBQCHICKENROBOT) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:14:00 +0000

Salt Lake's 6-piece, Band Of Annuals has all the heartfillers of country, unique blends of folk-pop, and enough story tellin' to keep you company. I begin to reminisce a compilation of bitter sweet moments when I listen to tracks like "If You're Looking for Love" and "Don't Let Me Die." This stuff is turning indie kids into country lovers. They've got a couple EPs out and their full-length release last year, Let Me Live is full steam ahead to your ears with an awesome tour going on and and and there's a Cinema Bar show tonight in Culver City!

Blood On My Shirt
If You're Looking For Love

Week-ending Mix 7

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:15:00 +0000

Howdy y'all, it's been a while. Random updates over here: WideEyedEggPlant is relocating to New York! I am waiting for the new Macbooks. I think the world of indie music is getting a little flooded with music. These days I am slowly finding less good things and more "plain" stuff. We are looking for writers for BBQ, if you think you have what it takes, email us! I have a mix of songs I've been wanting to share so if you need a fix, it's comin' to ya! It's a week-ending mix.

The Very Most - Spilt, Spilt Milk
Phantom Planet - After Hours
Paper Rival - Cassandra
Aviary Ghost - The Brain Is A House
The Kooks - All That She wants (Ace of Base Cover)
The Weepies - All This Beauty
Backyard Tire Fire - The Places We Lived
Ayatollah - Charlie Is Brown
Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me
Matthew Perryman Jones - Don't Fall In Love
Alexander Martin - Kuroma
Liz Durrett - Wild As Them
Jeff Hanson - If I Only Knew
Emi Meyer - One Good Song
Super XX Man - Medication
Hooverphonic - Wicky
Capitol Jay - You Drew The Line

Also if you missed this video like my friend Yen Ling, here it is. It's the Beijing Olympics 2008 'Welcome You' video!

A little B-side love

noreply@blogger.com (wideeyedeggplant) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:45:00 +0000

Happy Tuesday to all of y'all. It's August and I can't believe that another Fall is approaching agh. Anyway I was hunting up some B-sides the other night and thought you might enjoy some of these. Some of these have been around for awhile but my favorites are Deathcab's best version of Cyndi Lauper and Sufjan's Jacob. Enjoy!

Kevin Drew - One Night Man
Sufjan Stevens - Jacob
Metric - Parkdale
DeathCab for Cutie - Girls Just Want to Have Fun (live)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion (acoustic)
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)

Bark Hide & Horn Embark On National Roads!

noreply@blogger.com (BBQCHICKENROBOT) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:26:00 +0000

My brother is always talkin' about all the dope things Portland has to offer and though I totally believe him, these guys really push the case. Portland's quartet, Bark Hide & Horn, has been around since 2005 but they're finally debuting with their first full-length, National Road. It's filled with high horn content folk thrown in there are things like glocks, vibraphones, mandolins and trombones. The album was inspired by past issues of National Geographic and spefically tell a story of the magazine's editor, Melville Bell Grosvenor. Sounds dope to me! They also got some upcoming shows after their August 8th release.

Treasure of The Everglades
Grandfather

Jordan Geiger Goes Solo!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:21:00 +0000

I like the big fat tiger cat sitting on the piano bench haha, LOLz! Sitting next to fatty is Jordan Geiger who you might remember from such bands as the guitarist for Appleseed Cast (one of my huge favs), Minus Story and Shearwater. Come October you can pick up a copy of his debut Oh, Ramona which features his bedroom style recordings of sweet poppy, synthetic and lo-fi little darlings. Hospital Ships is the official moniker and oh lucky you, we've got the single! Pre-order via Graveface Recs.

Bitter Radio Single

Give Us Some Love To Make Music To!

noreply@blogger.com (BBQCHICKENROBOT) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:04:00 +0000

LA's very own experimental electronic producer, Alfred Darlington aka Daedelus has just dropped us a brand new album called Love To Make Music To via Ninjatune. With a handful of releases, Daedelus is back with more unpredictable, groove heavy beats and samples. Some say it is chaos fluxed everywhere but at the same time it's brilliant and track to track you can't really sum it up. Each track progresses into something faster, sometimes clunkier, and basically a mini set if you will. There's a lot of dope tracks and one of my favs is If We Should (yes typical me) which has Alfred's wife Laura on the mic. Just as I was thinking that they should make more together, they have an album coming out together called The Long Lost. If We Should is just a 4 minute tease of what's to come!

If We Should
Get Off Your HiHats

P.S. Daedelus will be at Low End Theory next Wednesday, if you're in LA, do not miss it!

Noah and the Whale

noreply@blogger.com (wideeyedeggplant) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:02:00 +0000

With their boyish good-looks and London charisma to add, the members of Noah and the Whale, are probably anticipating a good day for their September 16th release of their new album "Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down." Not to judge a record by its cover (or title), or an artist(s) by his looks, but this was probably one of the coolest packaged CDs we received, in its simple brown paper case, semi-abstract/semi-lego-like cover art and neatly printed type/font slightly reminiscent of a refined version of comic sans.

But let's get to the meat of the matter, which is the music. Simply put, "Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down" is a "nice" collection of folk-pop songs. What I mean is that there are some songs that are stronger than others, and others that feel randomly out of character like "Second Lover." The crisp clear guitar picking, though simple in it's melodic character, makes it's motif-like appearance throughout the album and I enjoy it. It peeks it's head out to say howdy in "2 Atoms in a Molecule," subtly makes it's reappearance in "Death by Numbers" and serves as a beautiful, simple (though repetitious) accompaniment in "Mary" - one of my favorites of the albums which, along with other songs on the record, incorporate violin (trumpets, female vocals and such make their appearance on others).

I'm not sure how people will feel about listening to an entire album of frontman Charlie's voice which is reminiscent of Emmanuel and the Fear meets Jens Lekman, which is up some people's alley. Whatever your preference, you will be sure to find your joy in corners and places of their album, whether you dig upbeat, feel good songs with a twinkle-like timbre (I mean this in a good way), or more mellow tunes. And for self-proclaimed "Serious Amateurs" I definitely give them applause.

2 Atoms in a Molecule
Mary
Shape of My Heart

Btw, they have a well put together/designed site which in itself is pretty cool to check out.

Case Of The Mondays Mix!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:07:00 +0000

Welcome to almost August. It's your last Monday of July 2008, there won't be another quite like it, ever. We've been backed up with tons of music for you guys but haven't had the chance to make a mix for a long long while so that's what we're going to do today! So enjoy some new tracks, discover something different, and spread more music!

Pelle Carlberg - 1983 (Pelle & Sebastian)
The Very Most - Love At Home
Sondre Lerche - Modern Nature
Ave.To - Bahia
Cool Kids - Black Mags
Paper Rival - Cassandra
The Uglysuit - Chicago
Vicious Vicious - We Don't Call It Love
Catherine MacLellan - Dreams Dissolve
Via Audio - Harder On Me
Taken By Trees - Hours Pass Like Centuries
The Octopus Project - Bees Bein' Strugglin'
Pas/Cal - Glorious Ballad of the Ignored
The Kooks - Young Folks (cover)
Lack Thereof - Last November
Ratatat - Bird Priest

...boom bip.

Wintersleep Welcomes YOU to the Night Sky!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:21:00 +0000

After a successful 2005 self-titled sophomore fully, Wintersleep is back on the scene with their brand new album, Welcome to the Night Sky, set to drop in mid October. These guys have already received acclaim and a Much Music Award for their Weighty Ghost music video. Also these Halifaxians are touring in support of that album with Wolf Parade and others! Just some really good indie rock and my favorite is when other members of the band rock with their back-up vocals on choruses and echoes. Check out two tracks below and hit their tour here.

Weighty Ghost
Archaeologist

French Artist elodieO's Stubborn Debut!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:07:00 +0000

Where to begin? When I first heard Wake Up Without You it began with a subtle, darker electronic sound but swiftly developed into a funkier disco beat. ElodieO's soft haunting vocals over her own arranged and composed electronics creates an interesting experience of various complimenting moods and tempos throughout her new debut album. Stubborn drops August 19th and features guesties like Aaron and Jesse of the Brazilian Girls and the Cure. Also her French lyrics over the down tempo is real rad. We'll be expecting some kind of tour from the French artist in the near future so be on the up and up here.

Wake Up Without You
L'eau A La Bouche

Pocketknife's Adele Remix!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:53:00 +0000

It took me a while to get to this so hopefully there are still a few out there who will find this to be new! Pocketknife has rolled out an awesome new remix of Adele's Hometown Glory, that was for Adele's camp but they rejected it and so of course, without going to waste, we all get it for free! I don't know why they would reject something like that but no matter to us I suppose. The track we got from Cousin Cole is an exteneded version so you get over 7 minutes of this remix.
Check out some other tracks from the Tambourine Dream mix cd!

Adele - Hometown Glory (Pocketknife's Familiar Faces Remix)
Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You (Pocketknife's Considerate Eagle Scout Remix)
Nico - I'll Keep It With Mine (Pocketknife's Odd Beauty Remix)
Scenic World - Pocketknife's Breathtaken Remix

London's Chew Lips!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:38:00 +0000

This morning I heard about a synthy pop group called Chew Lips from the UK and I'm definitely seeing potential for a full length. You can catch this trio playing various shows around London here. I couldn't find much about these guys but check back as we'll be covering any releases they've got. In the meantime enjoy one of their tracks below!

Salt Air

Dope Vids: My Drive Thru

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:44:00 +0000

My Drive Thru from Below The Clouds on Vimeo.

This is one of my newest favorite vids. It's a collabo of the Strokes' Julian Casablancas, Santogold, and Neptunes producer/ N.E.R.D. member Pharrell. The song was created for Converse's centennial and was released in June 2008. Also here's the track incase you don't have it bumpin'!

My Drive Thru

The Avett Brothers' Second Gleam!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:19:00 +0000

We didn't really discover the Avett Brothers until recently and it's not a moment too soon. Tomorrow the brothers from North Carolina will be releasing their beautiful 6 song follow-up to The Gleam and Emotionalism. The Second Gleam EP contains more of their subtle acoustic singer-songwriter delivery with very real themes on life. Apropos, I love the stand-up bass. Check out the single from The Second Gleam EP below! It's a really warm love filled song about family and growing up. I love it! They're also touring so check the dates!

Murder In The City

Peachcake Debuts!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:46:00 +0000

Come later October, Peachcake is finally releasing a full length debut titled What Year Will You Have the World? They've got some serious history as they've been on and off together for over 5 years. During their various hardships, they released an EP via Jimmy Eat World's label Western Tread which really introduced their electronic, synthy pop sounds led by Stefan and John's vocals. Peachcake is encouraging you to bring mix-tapes to its shows (CDs, tapes, etc.). Bring one and you will be entered into a raffle to win a copy of the new album. If you're mix is one of the top 3, you'll win a special Peachcake prize pack! We were lucky to get the single from the forthcoming album! Check it out below and check their 'The Make Mixes, Not War Tour' tour dates.

Stop Acting Like You Know More About The Internet Cafe Than Me

Big Kid Table!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:10:00 +0000

My favorite Thao song done up by the waters. Check it out!

Free Event Tonight! TONALISM @ Santa Monica's Glow Fest

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:58:00 +0000

What's up! It's the Weekend! Check out this dope event tonight at GLOW!
Tonalism takes place in the historic Looff Hippodrome carousel building on the Santa Monica Pier as a part of the GLOW festival sponsored by the City of Santa Monica. Glow is a unique overnight experience happening in the beaches of SantaMonica. Billed as "a dusk to dawn festival on the beach and pier in Santa Monica," Glow will feature a dazzling array of interactive art, actions, sights and sounds by a diverse selection of installation artists, performers, musicians, video and visual artists, and DJs.

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:
Albert Ortega
Steve Roden
Unrecognizable Now
White Rainbow
DUBLAB SOUNDSYSTEM DJS:
frosty
Carlos Nino
Hoseh
Jimmy Tamborello
Sam Cooper
Katie Byron
Ale
Michael Stock (Part Time Punks)

VIDEO PROJECTIONS BY:
Jessica Bronson
Cal Crawford
Carole Kim
Matt Sheridan

FREE!!!
Time: 7:30pm until dawn
Where:Looff Hippodrome Carousel on the Santa Monica Pier
200 Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica, CA 90401
www.dublab.com
www.sassas.org
www.glowsantamonica.org

Fania Likes It Like That!

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:11:00 +0000

A couple months back, the salsa heavy, latin soul shop Fania Records, released their first (certainly not last) remix collection called I LIKE IT LIKE THAT. Some dope DJs and producers including Louie Vegas and Aaron Jerome have remixed Fania heads like Pete Rodriguez and Héctor Lavoe to a new beat! Check out this track and go pick up the albummmm.

Feel Like Making Love - Ricardo Marrerro (Ashley Beadle remix)

Also check out this dope video of Hector Lavoe's Mi Gente

Jay Brannan 'Can't Have it All'

noreply@blogger.com (wideeyedeggplant) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:01:00 +0000

So I really dig this new guy, Jay Brannan. He's got a really light smooth voice, that pairs awesomely with the light guitar picking on his tracks and simple melodies. In a way he kind of reminds me of a simpler, happier version of Jason Mraz meets Sondre Lerche. It's lighter fare that reminds me of happier times, but with lyrics that are straightforward in their storytelling narrative.

My favorite is "Can't Have it All" below, and "At First Sight" which addresses issues like responding to craiglist ads and not loving the guy you're sleeping with. Interesting, haha.

He's got some tour dates too so check them out if you like what you hear.

Jul 18 2008 8:00P Vinyl Atlanta, Georgia
Jul 20 2008 8:30P The Loft Dallas, Texas
Jul 22 2008 8:00P El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, California
Jul 24 2008 8:30P Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, California
Jul 25 2008 6:00P Doug Fir Portland, Oregon
Jul 26 2008 7:30P Triple Door Seattle, Washington
Jul 28 2008 9:00P Lakeshore Theatre Chicago, Illinois
Aug 23 2008 7:00P Bodega Nottingham, UK

And so on and so forth.
Can't Have it All
At First Sight

Courtney Marie Andrews brings some lovin' from Phoenix

noreply@blogger.com (wideeyedeggplant) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:20:00 +0000

Thanks to one of our readers, we were introduced to Courtney Marie Andrews -a Phoenix native, songwriter, guitarist, banjo-ist and singer. This folk indie artist has brought back something that a lot of popular indie music has been lacking lately - depth and substance. I love the banjo, guitar picking, the accordian, vocals and harmonies.

Here's one her videos, and of course, check out her myspace here.

Psychic Stunts' 101 Pick Up Lines

noreply@blogger.com (2Scoops) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:14:00 +0000

The Stockholm duo, Psychic Stunts, have a new EP called 101 Pick Up Lines which in fact are a small handful of songs that refer to pickup lines! I wanted to specifically tell you about their catchy synth pop single Speaker's Block. In finalizing the song, they had a release show of sorts where everyone got to participate in singing the chorus for the recording. Check out the video here. You can get the songs here and we got two below for you.

Speaker's Block
Last Bottle, Lost Battle