Category Archives: alt rock

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled onto Rainbow Arabia, and now they popped in my mail.

Like many before them, they grab onto “the Eastern influence” and.. you know, turn it into something new. I’m not going farther back in time than Madlib, whose Beat Konducta in India should not be missed. If you want to chill, pick up Madlib’s nuggets.

For the more punk-minded, Rainbow Arabia go off the beaten path and frolic with the African, the Eastern, the sadness, the gladness in a dizzy genre-dismantling dance.

Omar K mp3

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So this is psyche-rock! Psyche-rock, meet the people of eashfa.. Let us bow our heads from side to arrow in this marsupial pocket of a sound.. It sounds like it’s not there, actually it sounds like Air, what era, ah who cares. Great stuff from the LP Dandelion Gum

Black Moth Super Rainbow – Forever Heavy mp3 

Black Moth Super Rainbow – The Afternoon Turns Pink mp3

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E drăguț (deși nu mai găseam ț-ul) să auzi -de văzut văd cu ochiul meu de amoebă călătoare- cum se schimbă scena în Anglia. Cum nu s-au poticnit după ștampila de britpop din anii ‘90, știi?

 Love Ends Disaster! – Pigtails mp3

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În timp ce alții nu pot decât a imita.

Regardless of the fact that you’ve either purchased or leached the album Tired Of Hanging Around up until now, here’s the Zutons. You can always check out their un-unnerving, eye-easy myspace for tour dates. Their latest single release is probably meant to re-unleash some sort of interest..? Valerie I remember as the soundtrack to getting my passport, so I’m inclined to give them space here with a very pop-a-Brit-rocker song that you can download off iTunes anyway but here it would be…

The Zutons – It’s The Little Things We Do mp3

The Zutons – video stream

I think I mentioned something of a dance of tiny dimensions on eashfa, well here you have it – and no, no Elton John referencing here, just a bunch of funtime-peddlers with conspicuously stuffed animals during performances. Tiny Dancers are growing out their small-town, formerly-marooned roots into a musical role that might seem excessively zealous but isn’t that just the point. There’s a touch of post or prog that wraps like a ribbon around a box of catchy guitar gems. The teeny bunch sound stamina-ridden and sprinkle their multitude of influences (around and over the Pond- The Flaming Lips for instance) like soy sauce on Basmati rice. Mmm.

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Tiny Dancers – 20 to 9 mp3

Their albums’ out, so raise thy warrior and go amazon.

I’ve been listening to Nellie McKay’s latest LP and have been mesmerized whilst ipodding, by her song There You Are In Me. It pianos and pleas in pure unsought-out Nellie style. Her sophomore recording has a playground of its own, and her grandfather did time in San Quentin.

Nellie McKay – There You Are In Me mp3 (via mammothpress)

I supp-hose I did miss out on Nightmares on Wax, I have been severely admonested by some people who I consider to be authorities on that front. But, hah, I did get a middle laugh (not last, mind, cos I missed the third festival day altogether) and scheduled my second day in Gdynia perfectly.

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