Video Of The Week.

Hey gang!

Got a great little video here from Conor J. O'Brian who just happens to be founder of Dublin band "Villagers".

Check out the simplicity of this track and you must listen to the lyrics!!

Do as you're told!!

Snow & Voices Album Review.

Slightly haunting, slighty deep. The new album from Los Angeles duo Snow & Voices is a breath of fresh air for this listener. Echoing vocals take centre stage with bellowing piano melodies which magically twist and weave within each other. Lead singer Lauri Kranz has a voice to die for. Think Imogen Heap meets Dido and you would probably have hit the nail on the head. Such is her voice the listener is encaptured with every single note and these days that is getting rarer to find. Tracks like "Everything Coming Apart" and the track that got my attention "I Am A Storm" are great examples of how pulsating rythyms can emphasise such a delicate voice. With strong bass lines and tantalising dream pop like guitar riffs handed to you on a platter from Jebin Bruni, you find yourself floating above the music looking down at the notes as they drift on pass as if they were boats on a river. The new album, "Anything That Moves" is a moving collection of well structured, well written alternative pop tunes that is sure to grab your attention. If you do one thing right this year, make sure it's checking out this band. You won't regret it.

Snow & Voices Official Website
Snow & Voices MySpace Page
Art Of Broadcast Official Website

***MonthlyIndieMixtape #12***

So this is it. One year ago I started this little project and it's super cool to see how much it's grown. From maybe 3 or 4 downloads a month to over 500 is just grand!

I'd like to thank all of your personally so if you give me your home addresses I'll pop by sometime in the next 1000 years and shake your hand, hug you and even cook you dinner.

So here's to another year of great music and great memories. Enjoy!!


Tracklisting:

The Americas - Ted's Birth
Aqualung - 36 Hours
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round And Round
Arne Vatnoy - Colour Chalk
Band Of Horses - Way Back Home
The Bird And The Bee - Kiss On My List
The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
Blitzen Trapper - Laughing Lover
Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside
Caribou - Leave House
Cassette Kids - Spin
Ceremony - For Her Smile
Club 8 - Western Hospitality
CocoRosie - Hopscotch
Color Of Clouds - Brother
Dr. Dog - Where'd All The Time Go?
Editors - The Diplomat
Edyth And The Electric - To The Floor
Extra Life - Black Hoodie
Ferraby Lionheart - Holdin' Me Back
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! - War Coward
Foals - Miami
The Forest And The Trees - Escape
The Futureheads - Heartbeat Song
The Gaslight Anthem - The Diamond Church Street Choir
Gift Horse - Missionaries
Interpol - Lights
James - It's Hot
Jamie Lawson - Seven
Jim Luxon - In The Garden
Joel Alme - The Spell Of Brothers
Kate Nash - Higher Plane
Katy Wren - Sunshine
The Len Price 3 - The Girl Who Became A Machine
Lovedrug - Pink Champagne
Lucky Soul - White Russian Doll
Minus The Bear - Summer Angel
The Most Serene Republic - Pink Noise
Mouse Fire - Desert Woman
The National - Lemon World
The New Pornographers - Silver Jenny Dollar
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - 0=2
Open Hand - Old Hat
Patrick Park - Blackbird Through The Dark
Pin Me Down - Cryptic
Po' Girl - Follow Your Bliss
The Radio Dept. - This Time Around
Robert Pollard - The Weekly Crow
Robinson - Always Talk To Strangers
Robyn - None Of Dem
The Ruse - I Can't Stop
The School - The One Who Left Me
Serafina Steer - How To Haunt A House Party
Snow & Voices - I Am A Storm
Sweet Apple - Flying Up A Mountain
Taylor Locke & The Roughs - Hourglass
Teenagersintokyo - Long Walk Home
Tender Forever - Only The Sound You Made
Tyler Hilton - Keep On
UNKLE - On A Wire Feat. Elle J.


Not a bad little selection at all. Lots of artists have contacted me and asked to be featured so to all you bands, your wish is my command.


Linkbot:

MonthlyIndieMixtape #12 - Part 1.
MonthlyIndieMixtape #12 - Part 2.

Video Of The Week.

Hey gang!

Sorry I've been a bit slack with the VOTW but here I am with an absolutely amazing vid to make a comeback!

Check out Greg Laswell in his new clip below:

Greg Laswell "Take Everything" from Vanguard Records on Vimeo.

***MonthlyIndieMixtape #11***

Some interesting musical facts about 11:

- The interval of an octave and a fourth is an eleventh. A complete eleventh chord has almost every note of a diatonic scale.
- The number of thumb keys on a bassoon, not counting the whisper key. (A few bassoons have a twelfth thumb key.)
- In the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, Spinal Tap's amplifiers go up to eleven.
- In Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, there are eleven consecutive repetitions of the same chord.
- In Tool's song Jimmy, the number eleven is heard numerous times in the lyrics.

Pretty cool eh? Well so is the 11th MonthlyIndieMixtape!!

Just check out what we have in store this month!!


Tracklisting:

Amy McDonald - This Pretty Face
The Apples In Stereo - Dream About The Future
Archie Bronson Outfit - Magnetic Warrior
Arid - Something Brighter
Black Tambourine - Pack You Up
Brasstronaut - Lo Hi Hopes
Cady Groves - Real With Me
Chad VanGaalen - Bones Of Man
Clogs - On The Edge
Club Smith - Lament
Cults - Most Wanted
Dag For Dag - I Am The Assassin
David John Broughton - Perfect Louse
Dead Meadow - That Old Temple
The Deadly Syndrome - Party City
The Dolly Rocker Movement - Sad Sally
DOOMSTAR! - Ronald Ray-Gun
Dr. Dog - Where'd All The Time Go?
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
The Dynamites - Somebody Stop Me
Emanuel And The fear - Guatemala
Empire Of The Sun - Half Mast (Slight Return)
Freaky Age - A Little Late
French Cowboy - Girl
The Fresh & Onlys - Diamond In The Dark
Goldfrapp - Alive
Goldheart Assembly - King Of Rome
Here We Go Magic - Hibernation
Island - Mistral
Japanther - $100 Dollar Remix
Jason Collett - Love Is A Dirty Word
John Butler Trio - I'd Do Anything (Soldier's Lament)
Josiah Wolf - The Trailer And The Truck
Kaki King - Falling Day
Laura Marling - Alpha Shallows
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love - Where're You Goin?
Marching Band - It Will Never Slip
Matt Pond PA - Starting
Matt Wertz - Somebody New
MGMT - Brian Eno
Micky Green - The Game
Miles Kurosky - She Was My Dresden
Monster Movie - Down, Down, Down
The Pass - Colors
Pepper Rabbit - Harvest Moon
Plants And Animals - Tom Cruz
Portugal The Man - 60 Years
Quadron - Jeans
Roky Erickson With Okkervil River - Goodbye Sweet Dreams
S - We Are Not Friends
Silje Karlsen - You Shit Like Me
The Slack - Indier Than You
The Splinters - Sea Salt Skin
The Tallest Man On Earth - Troubles Will Be Gone
Tocotronic - Ein Leiser Hauch Von Terror
Very Truly Yours - The Ballad Of Growing Up
Violent Soho - Outsider
We Have Band - Love, What You Doing?
What Laura Says - Spoke
Wye Oak - My Neighbor


Ahh it's purdy ain't it?

You guys have got to spread the word about this!! These mixtapes are gradually gaining much more exposure and who in their right mind wouldn't want to be a part of the biggest thing since sliced ipods?

GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT MONTHLYINDIEMIXTAPES OR BE FORCED TO SPEND AN ETERNITY LISTENING TO LADY GAGA!!!

Peace Y'all.

A Goo Goo Goo, A Ga Ga Ga, here are the links so far:

MonthlyIndieMixtape #11 - Part 1.
MonthlyIndieMixtape #11 - Part 2.

***MonthlyIndieMixtape #10 - Part 2***

Welcome strangers and friends, and friends of strangers and strangers of friends. Here within your grasp is the second part to the magical 10th MonthlyIndieMixtape. Another 60 bands playing another 60 songs for well over 60 minutes! Well in fact it's more like 3 hours and 52 minutes but who's counting?

Well lets stop dilly dallying and get on with it shall we? Hmmm, Yes...........


Tracklisting:

Admiral Freebee - My Hippy Ain't Hip
Air Formation - Low December Sun
Alcoholic Faith Mission - Put The Virus In You
Angus & Julia Stone - On The Road
April Smith And The Great Picture Show - Movie Loves A Screen
The Automatic - Interstate
The Ballet - The House On Fire
Beach House - Walk In The Park
Bears - Let Me See You Again
Beck - Little Hands (Feat. Feist, Wilco & Jamie Lidell)
Bibi Tanga & The Selenites - The Moon
The Big Big Bucks - Do It Or Diet
Butterfly Explosion - Chemistry
Eagle Scout - Spies Like Us
Electrocute - My Tube Top
Ellie Goulding - Guns And Horses
Emerald Park - The Commonfield
Emily Arin - It Wasn't Love But It Was Lovely
Fishermans Mission - Torr
Frightened Rabbit - The Loneliness And The Scream
Ghost Society - Recognize
Giant Drag - White Baby
Golden Triangle - Jellyroll
Good Weather For Airstrikes - And All Seems Lost
Happy Birthday - I Want To Stay (I Run Away)
Have Gun, Will Travel - Wolf In Shepherd's Clothes
Hitide Lotide - Beaded Blood
Humanzi - Just Like Bukowski
Jaguar Love - Everything Is Awesome
Jay Malinowski - There's A Light
Joanna Newsom - Soft As Chalk
John Nolan - Screaming Into The Wind
Julia Nunes - Grown A Pair
Kiss Kiss Kiss - Scarlet
La Habitación Roja - Younger
Local Natives - Sun Hands
Look Mexico - They Only Take The Backroads
Los Punsetes - Dinero
Lou Rhodes - Circles
Love Is All - Never Now
Monzano - The Mannequin Wakes
The Mountains & The Trees - Up And Down
Murmansk - Sweet Trio
Nom De Guerre - Run Run Run
Nothing People - Explode A View
Per England - Lust Och Hägring
Rafter - Timeless Form, Formless Time
Scanners - Salvation
St. Claire - You Itch Like A Secret
Standard Fare - Let's Get Back Together
The Swimmers - A Hundred Hearts
Tindersticks - Harmony Around My Table
Tunng - Hustle
Turin Brakes - Sea Change
Volcano Choir - Island, IS
We Are The Willows - The Windows
White Apple Tree - Broken Bones
White Hinterland - Bow & Arrow
Wolf People - Black Water
Zeep - Hidden Surprises


Very cool eh? There are some wonderful songs in there that will be on high rotation for The Doc for sometime to come. I hope you find a new band, a new sound, a new favourite song. If you don't there is always next month!

Stinkin' Links:

MonthlyIndieMixtape #10/2 - Part 1.
MonthlyIndieMixtape #10/2 - Part 2.

Check Out MIDDLE DISTANCE RUNNER!!

The Sun & Earth
March Tour Dates Announced

QRO Magazine, in a review of their newest release "The Sun & Earth", says "If you don’t like pop, Middle Distance Runner might just change your mind" and "full of elastic creativity that plays off accepted idioms with an ease and fluency that most bands would kill for."

"MDR’s sound clearly draws on mid-’90s British rock — think pre-OK Computer Radiohead, Blur, Oasis — and exudes a confidence and professionalism that many young bands lack.” – Washington Post


With a blend of tuneful pop-inspired indie-rock and darker, heavier layered guitars, Middle Distance Runner have been cited by Paste Magazine as “on the verge of something big” and heralded by SPIN as “insanely catchy.” The band completed The Sun & Earth earlier this year and joined Engine Room Recordings’ roster in July.

Formed by four high school friends in 2005, Middle Distance Runner self-released their debut album, Plane in Flames in 2006. A 2008 self-titled EP followed. Most recently, the band released their new album, The Sun & Earth. The video for the “The Unbeliever,” a stop-motion animation piece created by Philadelphia-based filmmaker Maxwell Sorenson, garnered early exposure for the band on MTVu, The Tripwire, and Fuse.tv among other outlets.

Middle Distance Runner are Stephen Kilroy (lead vocal, guitar, keyboard), Erik Dean (drums), Jay Smith (guitar, keyboard, vocals) and Tony Acampora (bass, vocals).



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Album Art

Band Photo

Tour Dates

3/11 8pm IOTA Club & Cafe, Arlington, VA
3/12 7pm Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
3/14 8pm Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
3/15 7pm Hayride Diner & Venue, Shreveport,
3/18 4pm SXSW (Sonny's Vintage)
3/20 12pm SXSW (Lovejoys)
3/21 12:30pm SXSW (Austin's Moose Lodge)
3/23 8pm The 51st Speakeasy, Oklahoma City, OK
3/24 8pm Cicero’s, St. Louis, MO
3/26 8pm Huckleberrys Pizza, Rock Island, IL

3/27 8.30pm Founder's Brewing Co., Grand Rapids, MI
3/28 8pm PJ's Lager House, Detroit, MI
3/29 8pm The Summit, Columbus, OH

3/31 8pm M Room, Philadelphia, PA



For more information please visit:
Official Page
MySpace Page
Engine Room Recordings