Evan Weiss / Into It Over It
1. Papermoons – new tales
2. Native – wrestling moves
3. Pirouette – sometimes sad isn’t funny
4. Fight Amp – manners and praise
5. Phoenix – wolfgang amadeus phoenix
6. V/A – dark was the night compilation
7. Coalesce – ox
8. Pearl Jam – backspacer
9. Owen – new leaves
10. Capsule – blue
In addition to releasing a fabulous demo in 2009, the new Football, Etc. / Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) split 7″ is out now via Count Your Lucky Stars. Well worth checking out.
1. Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship
2. Sonic Youth – the Eternal
3. Owen – New Leaves
4. Mars Volta – Octahedron
5. Metric – Fantasies
6. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
7. Coalesce – OX
8. P.O.S. – Never Better
9. Age Sixteen – Open Up Finders, Please
10. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Chase Igliori – US label manager for Big Scary Monsters
Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today…
Pissed Jeans – King of the Jeans
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Passion Pit – Manners
St.Vincent – Actor
The Twilight Sad – Forget The Night Ahead
Converge – Axe To Fall
Owen – No More Leaves
Mount Eerie – Wind’s Poem
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Tegan & Sara – Sainthood
Girls – Album
Castevet – Summer Fences
Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Harlem Shakes – Technicolor Health
BLK JKS – After Robots
Who? Talons’
Where are they from? Madrid, Spain by way of Central Ohio
What do they sound like? Ah, the mysterious Talons’…it is hard to believe I have never covered the prolific songwriter before now. Talons is mainly Mike Tolan (The Six Parts Seven, Trouble Books) with a little help at times from various musician friends. The monotony of everyday life is made beautiful and profound in the Talons’ world. Complete with background noise and tape hiss, ripe with intimacy and awkwardness, Talons’ work is pure honesty. A definite for fans of Mike Kinsella (Owen, American Football, etc). You can download most of the Talons’ discography here. I would start with Rustic Bullshit and Songs For Babes. Go buy something of his at Bark And Hiss, an amazing label which is putting out some really beautiful stuff.
Fuck Everything from Rustic Bullshit
Maddy from Songs For Babes
Every now and again, the hours spent clicking random Myspace links pays off in a big way. Seattle’s Chris Mansfield and Matt Beacham, collectively known as Fences, are easily my best accidental find of the year. An intimate, introspective brand of poppy acoustic folk music that isn’t just another drop in the bucket of Northwestern singer/songwriters. Everything about the four songs I’ve heard from the forthcoming The Ultimate Puke EP (due out in September – don’t let the name fool you) is instantly memorable and will have you singing right along after the first play. This is a beautiful collection of songs to say the least.
I haven’t been this excited about an acoustic songwriter since Mike Kinsella started recording as Owen — it’s that good. I suspect that you’ll be hearing a lot about Fences in the future, so you might as well hop on board now.
