2013 Albums

Bowie
http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/68051

David Bowie has announced his first new album in 10 years.

Titled 'The Next Day', the album has been produced by Bowie's longtime collaborator Tony Visconti and will be released in the UK and most countries worldwide on March 11. Australia will get the albums three days earlier on March 8, while American fans will have to wait until March 12.

ha, i came to post the same news:

David Bowie Returns From Decade-Long Hiatus With New Album, Single
http://www.spin.com/articles/david-bowie-returns-hiatus-new-album-single-where-are-we-now

John Davis and Chris Richards (Q And Not U) have a new duo project, Paint Branch. Debut album I Wanna Live drops today on Bandcamp. Name your price and get it here!

the album cover for the new bowie is crazy.. its the heroes cover with a giant white circle over most of it and the word heroes crossed out

what do we know about new album.. tony visconti produced and tony levin and earl slick play on it.. 17 songs on itune deluxe.. will have cd and vinyl issue.

i''m super stoked for it.. now if only he will play a few shows but i think he won't…

love me some bowie . . . love me some of him, too

http://pitchfork.com/news/49073-new-devendra-banhart-fur-hildegard-von-bingen/

"Folk vagabond"  -  i like that

Finally:
http://www.friendsrecordsbaltimore.com/releases/fr022/

Friends Records presents the debut long player from Baltimore?s Secret Mountains, a young sextet whose handful of EPs and singles have captured a new take on an ancient yearn for psychedelic exploration via the deep soul, heavy pop and lush noise they?ve grown up engulfed in.

Rainer is the dark answer to each member?s storm, prompting listeners to roar through their own tempestuous experiences. It is an inclement but brave battle fought by the authoritative percussion of Chris Muccioli, the calculated frenzy of Jeffery Silverstein and Cory Lawrence?s guitars, Kelly Laughlin?s commanding soul-gaze vocals, the sub-earth bass of Alex Jones and the blinding glow of Jake Winstanley?s keys.

The debut record was recorded at Chris and Mickey Freeland?s Beat Babies Studio outside of Baltimore, and was mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering. Art and design are by Chris Muccioli, and the limited vinyl release is hand numbered and accompanied by a download code for the full album in their choice of file type.

Flooded by the squalls of Arbouretum, the interstellar hail of Celebration, the thunder and lightning of Wye Oak and the howling rage of Sri Aurobindo, Baltimore?s psychedelic downpour has been bountiful. Secret Mountains offer a new ark to voyage the cosmos, a heavy path that starts deep in the grooves of Rainer.

killsaly wrote:
Finally:
http://www.friendsrecordsbaltimore.com/releases/fr022/

Friends Records presents the debut long player from Baltimore?s Secret Mountains, a young sextet whose handful of EPs and singles have captured a new take on an ancient yearn for psychedelic exploration via the deep soul, heavy pop and lush noise they?ve grown up engulfed in.

Rainer is the dark answer to each member?s storm, prompting listeners to roar through their own tempestuous experiences. It is an inclement but brave battle fought by the authoritative percussion of Chris Muccioli, the calculated frenzy of Jeffery Silverstein and Cory Lawrence?s guitars, Kelly Laughlin?s commanding soul-gaze vocals, the sub-earth bass of Alex Jones and the blinding glow of Jake Winstanley?s keys.

The debut record was recorded at Chris and Mickey Freeland?s Beat Babies Studio outside of Baltimore, and was mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering. Art and design are by Chris Muccioli, and the limited vinyl release is hand numbered and accompanied by a download code for the full album in their choice of file type.

Flooded by the squalls of Arbouretum, the interstellar hail of Celebration, the thunder and lightning of Wye Oak and the howling rage of Sri Aurobindo, Baltimore?s psychedelic downpour has been bountiful. Secret Mountains offer a new ark to voyage the cosmos, a heavy path that starts deep in the grooves of Rainer.

The first few times I saw Secret Mountains I really liked them.  They had a banjo and they played americana type music than I saw them a year later and they sounded like a boring shoegazing band.  I was quite disappointed. If they are still doing the latter style I will skip this release. 

Not everyone is bored by shoegaze or the sound that Secret Mountains have (NOT shoegaze). IF anything, you could call them Psychedelic Rock.  They do not use enough fuzz/effects to be shoegaze.

This is an example of a newish release:
http://friendsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/winter-sessions

The new Poltergeist album, ?Your Mind Is A Box? (Let Us Fill It With Wonder) is available to order right now, through pledge music. The album features original Echo & the Bunnymen members Will Sergeant on guitar & Les Pattinson on bass & Nick Kilroe on drums. To order your CD or double vinyl in a double gatefold sleeve along with extra exclusive goodies, please go to : www.pledgemusic.com/artists/poltergeist

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Specter At The Feast" is confirmed for release on  March 19th (US, Canada, Everywhere else).

Also looking forward to some albums I helped KickStart coming out this year.

Alice Smith - She
E.Joseph and The Phantom Heart - Burn All The Documents
Parthenon Huxley - Thank You Bethesda
Ramesh - first solo album from the singer in Voxtrot

Mark Morriss - second solo record from the Bluetones.  His first five year old solo has been in heavy rotation at HQ of late, having just found out about it this year.  Bummed The Bluetones never broke in the US, would have loved to have seen them live.

am i missing something; is not all shoegaze . . . the same?  there are different shades of the gaze?

Shoegaze is shoegaze, the same way way hip hop is hip hop or indie is indie or Jam Bands are Jam Bands. 

Different shades. 

Now shoegaze in particular has the related sub-genre of dream pop, which is a bit less noisy and a little more dreamy.  Secret Mountains falls more into this category then just straight ahead shoegaze. 

Uh. Hm…

http://www.qotsa.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shgpssp9ZpA

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
Uh. Hm…

http://www.qotsa.com/

what's the password?

EDIT: it's an e-mail signup form.  puts you on their mailing list, i believe… the reply/confirmation message is a little unclear.

I did that but didn't even check my email til this morning. That was a sad email hahaha

This is as adorable as it is deplorable. Lefsetz is a reasonably smart guy in the music industry but this is just laughably and sickeningly arrogant.

David Bowie

Yesterday?s news.

I?m not talking about the man himself so much as his new track, his new album? A circle jerk publicity campaign that the old wave ate up and we?ve already moved on from. I mean how can someone who used to get it so right, who was on the bleeding edge, get it so wrong?

This is the guy who did Berlin/electronic before most people had a clue who Eno was and did the Bowie Bonds deal and now he signs with Sony and puts out a new album and the sycophantic press hypes it and drives those who care, who aren?t that many, hell there are only 29,359 views on Vevo as I write this, to the video which features a song so dirgey and so mediocre as to tarnish his entire legacy, if he hadn?t been doing that himself for decades.

How come these oldsters don?t get it? They made music that lasted forever, now they just want to play for a day. Employ the old school publicity paradigm on steroids which is ignored by everybody but the aforementioned sycophants who think we?re still living in 1974.

Bowie, want to get it right?

Do it the Mumford way.

(cont.)

I guess old Bob doesn't understand how viral actually works.  Because on my twitter feed, with lots of like minded individuals, there is plenty of excitement about the single and the forthcoming album.  Buzz created for free, kinda like how we post on the 9:30 club stuff on the forum for free :)

beetsnotbeats wrote:
This is as adorable as it is deplorable. Lefsetz is a reasonably smart guy in the music industry but this is just laughably and sickeningly arrogant.

David Bowie

Yesterday?s news.

I?m not talking about the man himself so much as his new track, his new album? A circle jerk publicity campaign that the old wave ate up and we?ve already moved on from. I mean how can someone who used to get it so right, who was on the bleeding edge, get it so wrong?

This is the guy who did Berlin/electronic before most people had a clue who Eno was and did the Bowie Bonds deal and now he signs with Sony and puts out a new album and the sycophantic press hypes it and drives those who care, who aren?t that many, hell there are only 29,359 views on Vevo as I write this, to the video which features a song so dirgey and so mediocre as to tarnish his entire legacy, if he hadn?t been doing that himself for decades.

How come these oldsters don?t get it? They made music that lasted forever, now they just want to play for a day. Employ the old school publicity paradigm on steroids which is ignored by everybody but the aforementioned sycophants who think we?re still living in 1974.

Bowie, want to get it right?

Do it the Mumford way.

(cont.)

Yeah I read this yesterday and was pretty ticked..

For a second I thought he might be Atomicfront

;D

The main thing is he didn't realize the video had been seen on Youtube over 2 million times not a few thousand on VIMEO! He corrected himself this morning on that point…


Bob comes off as the cranky old out of touch man he writes about!

;D

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
Uh. Hm…

http://www.qotsa.com/

FYI a new Hello=Fire album would be greater than a new QOSTA one :)