March 2009
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thenewno2 - You Are Here
thenewno2 are a group I have discussed frequently since early stages of A Future in Noise, shortly after their debut LP You Are Here was released digitally on iTunes in August of 2008. Months later, on March 31st, 2009, the album has been released as a physical CD at long last, after several web broadcasted Stickam concerts, a release on a new-fangled slotMusic card format, relying on mostly...
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Dead Times - Midnight Glass: Available For Free...
Arizona experimental duo Dead Times (Travis Bunn and Calvin Markus) have recently released their album Midnight Glass for free on-line download. Their sound resides in a spooky dreamworld- perhaps what would happen if Fever Ray, William Basinski, and Department of Eagles were rolled into one dark ball of glorious noise. “Stellar Souls” drips darkly into “Warp Rhythm”; Dead...
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Seeland - Tomorrow Today
Comprised of Tim Felton (Broadcast) and Billy Bainbridge (Plone), Seeland is an electronic/experimental group which previously released single and EP material for Duophonic- the recent Tomorrow Today is their full-length debut. With influences including “space age pop, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Joe Meek and eccentric 60’s library music”, this is an album awash in retro chic, with...
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Örnsberg - Redlinespotting
Örnsberg, the music of Swedish electronic artist Johan Ragnarsson, will have his debut LP Redlinespotting (named after a station in the Stockholm Metro) available through Perfectly Charming Records on April 27th. From the “Intro” into “For Me and Everyone”, interspersed with skateboard-swooshes, the mood is set to conjure images of swift-moving city life through the...
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Team Teamwork - The Ocarina of Rhyme: Video Game +...
Remix artist from Massachusetts Team Teamwork has recently released The Ocarina of Rhyme, a curious concept, and incredibly enjoyable mash-up remix album, combining songs from Koji Kondo’s soundtrack to the beloved classic Nintendo 64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with tracks from notable rap artists. Highlight-moments include the opener, a mix of Clipse -...
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Independent Music Discoveries: Issue #3
This is the third installment of the Independent Music Discoveries series- see also Issue #1 and #2. Recommend your favourite indie artists in the comments! Le Fils des Trois Mousquetaires - Acoustic / Alt-Folk - Belgium This is an artist that had come across my profile on MySpace Music- he has three incredible albums, all available for free download on Last.fm: pendant ce temps-là, en 1942, les...
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White Lies Perform "To Lose My Life" on David...
UK band White Lies, offering up a fresh spin on post-punk, made their network TV debut last night on The Late Show with David Letterman performing the title track to their impressive 2009 release To Lose My Life. White Lies - Official Site | On MySpace Music
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L'Avventura - Your Star Was Shining
L’Avventura are a rock group based in San Francisco, California made up of Jeff Davis (vocals, guitar), Fergus Griffin (vocals, guitar), Aldo Silver, (bass, vocals), Stevie Utstein (cello, keyboards vocals), Arthur McConnell III (drums), Shaina Evoniuk (violin, vocals), and Helen Aki (acoustic guitar, vocals). Members Jeff, Fergus, and Aldo had initially encountered one another busking in...
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Starter Guide: Cornershop (with links to their...
A few days, Marilyn took on the herculean task of writing about Mancunian post-punk legends The Fall. Now, I’m going to go a bit south and write about one of Britain’s most criminally underrated bands: Leicester’s Cornershop. Cornershop are nowhere near as known and influential as Serge Gainsbourg or The Fall, but in my opinion, they fully deserve to be. In the interest of full...
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Label Feature: Engine Room Recordings - Lowry,...
Engine Room Recordings (ERR) is a record label and music distribution company based in New York City, particularly notable for releasing previously the Guilt By Association compilations (“today’s most exciting Indie talent re-interpreting their favorite guilty pleasure pop songs”) which included artists such as Bonnie ‘Prince Billy, Devendra Banhart, Mooney Suzuki, and Luna...
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AFIN Mini-Shop Launch / Sponsorship of Stereo...
Just because I think Zazzle is really cool and I wanted a chance for our readers to obtain A Future in Noise swag if they so chose, I have launched the…: A Future in Noise Mini-Shop …which currently has a few varieties of t-shirts, postcards, and mouse-pads, hopefully with some more nifty items to come about in the near future. Zazzle custom creates these items based on chosen designs,...
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Here's a load of MBV rarities!!!
I’ve been a huge fan of My Bloody Valentine for at least three years now. They are one of the most unique, transcendent, beautiful bands ever to enter a recording studio. And they only got round to releasing two albums, 1988’s Isn’t Anything and 1991’s Loveless, before essentially vanishing right at the cusp of stardom. Needless to say, every scrap of their genius we have...
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Starter Guide: The Fall
The Fall are a band that inexplicably escaped my attention for far too long. I only became aware after someone posted an mp3 of “Dead Beat Descendant” at the Killlers Network in spring of ‘05. I liked the song, it quickly became a mix CD staple, and I recalled that I had read somewhere about LCD Soundsystem having been influenced by them, but it wasn’t until a year later...
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I Was A King - Album Review
I Was A King is a Norwegian rock band led by Frode Strømstad on vocals/songwriting, Anne Lise Frøkedal (guitar/songwriting), Håvard Krogedal (bass), Kristoffer Solvang (drums), and Kjetil Ovesen (synth). While the fuzzed-out, psychedelic elements of their 2007 release Losing Something Good for Something Better are still present, 2009’s self-titled I Was A King offers up a powerful expansion...
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Post 100 Extravaganza - 100 Music Websites!
*POST 100* Yes, here it is, the 100th post at A Future in Noise! When I started it in July of 2008, I can’t say that I expected to be plugging along with a music blog for more than a few weeks, but then I realized that I could make an effort to bring more exposure to independent artists and cover the music that I found interesting, with the much-appreciated, excellent contributions from...
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100th Post Is...
…coming up. 99th post red herring, here. The 100th Post Extravaganza is going to kick off tomorrow, with A Future in Noise bringing you all kinds of specially-selected, fantastic content as a thank-you for reading, commenting, and sending your music to us! Stay tuned for the A Future in Noise YouTube channel launch, a new addition in our Starter Guide series, and some top-secret special...
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Discography...
Mute Records is set to re-issue (and digitally remaster, including some B-sides) the entire discography of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, beginning with From Her to Eternity, The First Born Is Dead, Kicking Against the Pricks, and Your Funeral, My Trial on 4/7/09. This first string of albums are among the very best of their output, with From Her to Eternity being one of my favourite albums of...
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History of Rock: 1960's Surf and Pop
Note: To expand upon what is featured in articles, I was thinking of making an A Future in Noise video channel page at YouTube- what do the readers (and contributors!) think about this? This is the continuing ongoing History of Rock series that accompanies the workshop on the subject that I teach- previous installments: Part 1: Blues, Part 2: First Wave of Rock, Part 3: Soul/Funk Today’s...
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Artist Feature: Neil Nathan
Neil Nathan is a singer/songwriter (or glam rock animal?, as his bio posits) from New York, New York. Sometimes folky, sometimes country-tinged, and influenced by wide range of fantastic musicians (see MySpace Music page) ranging from Neil Young and Bob Dylan to T. Rex and David Bowie and Tom Waits and Nick Cave to Creedence Clearwater Revival and Lynard Skynard. I have recently listened to his...
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Andrew Kendall - Music Photography in the 2000s
It would be impossible for me to mention all of my favourite pictures of musicians and music photographers in one post; this is to be a multi-part series in the long run. For now I’d like to highlight a certain modern photographer and his pictures that has greatly affected my outlook on photography and taking pictures myself. Onward! ANDREW KENDALL As many pictures of the musicians I admire...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs 3rd Album Leaks
Yeah Yeah Yeahs don’t exactly move at a fast clip, do they? After becoming the toast of the NYC underground in 2001 with their first EP, particularly the song “Art Star,” they wait two years to issue a debut album. Thankfully, 2003’s Fever To Tell was an instant classic. Comprised of equal parts raunchy punk noise, art-school experimentalism and pure pop, it managed to go...
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Interview with Me at Smashingpumpkins. com
The article Last.fm: A site for music lovers everywhere, also appearing on the front page of the official Smashing Pumpkins site includes some remarks from me on how unsigned artists can benefit from using Last.fm- special thanks to saeed1985 for making this happen!
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Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson To Be...
On 24 March, Serge Gainsbourg’s 1971 magnum opus, Histoire de Nelody Nelson, is set to be reissued. This will be the first time the record is properly released in the United States. It’s been remastered and will be available on CD and - begin drooling - limited-edition, hand-numbered 180-gram vinyl. No bonus tracks, but there will be a 40-page booklet with an interview and liner...