The New Loud is a three-piece electro/punk/new wave band from Milwaukee, WI. Their debut EP, Can’t Stop Not Knowing, consists of six tracks, including a frenetic cover of Radiohead’s 2 + 2 = 5. The EP was produced by band member Shane Olivo and displays a tight mixture of electronic elements and natural sounds, layered obsessively, with some songs using up to 80 tracks in the mix.
Liz Phair / Fuck and Run Without Liz Phair there would be no Tegan and Sara or Sex In The City for that matter. Liz Phair took all the visceral thoughts lying publicly dormant inside the female id and put them all out in the open and she did it as if it was all part of everyday conversation.
With regard to album titles, Rewild is as apt a mission statement as Brooklyn band Amazing Baby could get. Formed out of the remnants of many a Brooklyn band, Rewild is the product of love and sustaining the loss of it, a car crash, a fourteen-piece orchestra, and the desire to make sense of – or escape — their surroundings. “We are fascinated with escapism and creating small worlds that can stand alone or be connected as stories within the context of our album,” says lead singer Will Roan. They are songs of catharsis, anthems of evolution, the marriage of feral emotionality with a deep intellectualism.
Cocteau Twins / Blue Bell Knoll This song is like Enya covering My Bloody Valentine. Actually, it sounds like that weird singing alien chick known as the Diva in the Fifth Element starring Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman. Sorry, I have a nosebleed and my Boba Fett helmet is upsetting my allergies.
Australian band Yves Klein Blue made a name for themselves with their EP Draw Attention to Themselves doing just that. The band has toured internationally three times to play SXSW, MusExpo and The Great Escape. Their hit single Polka sound-tracked a successful car ad and was picked up on more than 60 college radio stations in the USA as well as Radio 1 and XFM in the UK. Ragged & Ecstatic was recorded in LA with producer Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids) and features the singles Getting Wise, Polka and Make Up Your Mind.
Fleetwood Mac / Go Your Own Way It’s just such a great album, with a great story. Many things have been written about it, much better than I could even hope to, so look it up. It’s a song you will probably know well, but its so full of love, malice and all this broken, messed up relationship baggage that got carried through the band and onto the stage with this record. Perfect.
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