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Damn, the 18-year-old boys in Let’s Wrestle have that catchy, wonderful british indie punk sound (straight out of the Kinks) that is difficult to fake if you aren’t the genuine teen thing. You just want to wrestle them! Buy everything of theirs before they get older and improve their musicianship.
We Are The Men You’ll Grow To Love Soon
Bitte Orca
Bought their album Bitte Orca last night. 3 listens later, I think it is one of the best complete albums I’ve heard in a long time. It’s both indie pop accessible yet jangily, off-beat with a dollop of Devendra thrown in to keep you on your creative toes. As we listened to it over dinner last night, wife kept hearing 80’s Robert Plant guitar licks and post-Mariah vocal highs, and unashamedly liked it.
The vibrant Brooklyn music scene is one of the most exciting in the country right now, with the unique sounds of Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer, MGMT, A Place to Bury Strangers, and the Muggabears.
Temecula Sunrise
Rock! Rock! Rock!
Dananananaykroyd is a six-piece Scottish rock band that describes their sound as “fight pop”. This band makes we want to jump around if not take a wild swing at someone. Not every song on their latest release, “Hey Everyone” is a balls-out double drummer slug fest, but it’s worth the download.
Reminds me a good deal of Chicago’s late great Cap n’ Jazz meets Despistado.
Pink Sabbath
New York’s Love is All is one of my favorite new bands. They rock so much. You will have a hard time standing still.
They have a very early Ice Cubes feel to them that is amazing. Catch them on tour this Spring and Summer.
Wishing Well On A Beach
— Anthony P. Munoz
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Anathallo is a 7 member band originally from Mt. Pleasant, Michigan band now living in my home city of Chicago. Originally from Michigan myself this band is extra special to me. I love to see Michigan folks making it. It helps for me that this band occupies the same vocal, indie rock place as The Most Serene Republic which makes them endlessly listenable for me.
released 11/18/08
They are fresh off a European and Japanese tour and will be at SXSW this Spring (2009) supporting their current release, Canopy Glow. Until then they are playing a handful of shows across the country, seemingly randomly. It’s worth checking out their website to see the schedule or at least look at their nice little blog they have going.
Italo [live]
from Canopy Glow
Anathallo is:
Matt Joynt: vocals, guitar, auxiliary percussion, piano
Bret Wallin: trombone, auxiliary percussion, vocals
Danny Bracken: guitar, auxiliary percussion, vocals
Seth Walker: bass, vocals
Jeremiah Johnson: drums, percussion, vocals
Erica Froman: vocals, auxiliary percussion
Jamie Macleod: trumpet, piano, auxiliary percussion, vocals
Anathallo are on collectively owned Anticon Records.
— Anthony P. Munoz
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Hometowns
released 11/18/2008
by The Rural Alberta Advantage
Thanks to eMusic’s Selects program, I discovered the as-of-yet unsigned The Rural Alberta Advantage this past November. This great trio from, of all places – Alberta, describe themselves as indie-rockers singing about hometowns and heartbreak, summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta.
Their first album is titled, Hometowns and is an instantly classic indie-rock recording. Do yourself (and the band) a favor and buy their album from eMusic or their website.
The Rural Alberta Advantage
by Marc Hodges Photography
One of the few things available from them on YouTube.
The Rural Alberta Advantage is:
Nils Edenloff:
Amy Cole:
Paul Banwatt:
— Anthony P. Munoz
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In Loving Memory Of
released February 11, 2008
Let’s Wrestle have the kind of balls out rock that only comes from youth or drugs or both. Mix the Libertines, Kinks, and Buzzcocks with a little early Wedding Present. The slightly off musicianship coupled with slightly off vocals equal to a sound that is perfectly on.
I Won’t Lie To You
by Let’s Wrestle
released February 11, 2008
They are going to be playing a handful of dates in the US in March of ’09 as the march their way to SXSW in Austin, TX.
Let’s Wrestle are:
Wesley Patrick Gonzalez: L.Vocals, L.Guitar,
Mike Lightning: Bass, Vocals,
Darkus Bishop: Traps, Ralph Petrie
Let’s Wrestle is on UK label Stolen Recordings.
— Anthony P. Munoz
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This is a great first release by a Columbia, Missouri indie powerhouse group fronted by Bill Schuh. Originally known as Bill Schuh and the Foundry, it consisted mostly of a revolving band of musicians supporting Bill’s talent. When the group finally came together in a true collaboration during 2005, the name was changed to the Foundry Field Recordings.
Holding the Pilots/Holding the Facts
This first full-length release has some obvious early Cure guitar influences on “Holding the Pilots/Holding the Facts” coupled with Schuhs, Sufjan Steven’s-like vocals. Other tracks are a bit more like Broken Social Scene or another “social” band, Washington Social Club. It’s a winner all around.
The Foundry Field Recordings are (at various times):
billy schuh: vocals/guitar
becky baxter: bass
benjamin hook: drums/vocals
daniel stegall: guitar
maura dunst: violin
jen johanning: cello
joey hook: trombone, tambourine
marty hook: trombone, father of genius music offspring
flex: trumpet
the cast of bald eagle: backline and performance
Prompts/Miscues was released on Emergency Umbrella Records.
— Anthony P. Munoz
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