Archive for July, 2009

Wye Oak – The Knot

Wye Oak’s second album, The Knot was recorded in the band’s basement. For a two piece they deliver a full warm textural sound.

Wye Oak are an indie-folk rock duo hailing from Baltimore, MD. The duo comprises Andy Stack (drums, keyboards, backup vocals) and Jenn Wasner (vocals, guitars). Their sound is a blend of American folk and indie rock; their songs often focus on themes of family and maturing through youth. Often the first attention-grabbing aspect of the band is that Stack pulls double-duty on drums and keys, playing the drums with both legs and right hand and the bass line with his left hand.

Members Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner formed the duo under the moniker Monarch in mid-2006. Coinciding closely with their signing to Merge, Stack and Wasner decided to change their name to Wye Oak, in order to avoid confusion with myriad other bands named Monarch. The wye oak is Maryland’s state tree.

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Jokers Of The Scene (Fool’s Gold) in Honolulu

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Joker’s Of The Scene coming to Honolulu November 20th at Loft!
Also starring that evening: DJ ESKAE from the NSK, DJ KAUSE and local indie band, Girlfriends. Doors open at 8PM.

“It began…in Canada…”

Ottawa’s Jokers Of The Scene made the leap from party DJs to producers simply by working with what they knew best: the most mind-meltingly intense parts of dance music throughout history, from ecstatic big room house buildups to hyper-distorted electro basslines and the lighthearted samples of 90s techno, all thrown in a blender at 130 BPM. It was the sound of Bob and Doug McKenzie trading their fishing hole for a rave cave. Hoser house?? Whatever you want to call it, JOTS’ cheeky approach has been lighting up dancefloors worldwide for the past two years, with remixes for underground favorites like DJ Blaqstarr and Muscles and their own Fool’s Gold release, the heavily imitated, tempo-switching rap snack “Y’all Know The Name.”

Yet on the Jokers’ follow-up Acid Bagg EP, the duo has decided to take their sound much, much deeper. “Acidrod” is a refined (though no less ravey) take on their signature club collages, meshing crowd pleasing breakbeats with subtle tech house bleeps and hypnotic synths. “Baggy Bottom Boys” is their most ambitious track to date, a multi-part rave epic that DJs from Diplo to Erol Alkan can’t help but play out through every single peak and piano breakdown. And if these two massive originals weren’t enough, remixes from Brodinski, Destroy Disco and Canadian dubstep upstart DZ nicely round out the EP.

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Band Of Horses in Honolulu August 23

News Flash: Our friends at BAMP PROJECT have just confirmed Band of Horses on Sunday, August 23rd at Pipeline Cafe. Fantastic.

Band of Horses, previously known as Horses, is an American indie rock band formed in 2004 in Seattle by Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke. Joe Arnone joined the band in February 2006. They are currently signed to Sub Pop Records. The band often draws comparisons to My Morning Jacket, largely due to the vocal similarities between Bridwell and My Morning Jacket lead singer Jim James, the occasional Southern rock tendencies that the two groups have in common,and a penchant for glimmering reverb. Allmusic has compared Bridwell’s vocals to early Neil Young and Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips.

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Mieko in Honolulu August 3rd

Super cute attack! Mieko, pronounced MEE-ko, will be performing in Honolulu on August 3rd at Loft in Chinatown. This lady is pretty cool, she basically made a name for herself in 2007 when she made the iTunes top 100 charts without the help of a record label. That’s what I call girl power!

Meiko is an American singer/songwriter, born and raised in Roberta, Georgia and currently residing in Los Angeles, California. She independently released a self-titled album on September 1, 2007 — without the help of a record label, her album reached #35 on the iTunes Top 100 Albums chart. It was also iTunes’ #1 Singer-Songwriter album for over a month and in under nine months, over 200,000 singles had been downloaded from iTunes. On November 21, 2008, the Meiko LP became the #1 best-selling album on Amazon.com.

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