August 2009
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Independent Music Discoveries Delayed Until...
…because I have some stomach flu that has rendered me somewhat incapacitated; all I have been doing is laying in bed listening to Spacemen 3 on repeat, pretty much. I don’t typically post messages like this, but I am not well at all…To all the artists that have sent music in for me to listen to and post about, I will get to it as soon as I am not ill (e-mails will be coming your...
July 2009
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Mid-Week News: Phoenix and Manic Street Preachers...
Brilliant French rock group Phoenix (who happened to win our Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix vs. Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest album battle) are embarking on a US tour this autumn! Check out the venues and dates below: 9/13 Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Monolith Festival 9/16 Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theater w/ special guest Metric 9/17 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield 9/21 Omaha, NE @...
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Paramore Retrospective and Brand New Eyes
So, Paramore have finally recorded their long-awaited third studio album, September’s to-be-released Brand New Eyes. Though it’s a highly anticipated follow-up to late 2007’s Riot, Paramore still have a lot to prove to the underground/indie/whatever it’s called scene of music skeptics. Perhaps it’s the suspiciously catchy power pop, or female fronted-ness that keeps...
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Post #200 Extravaganza - 100 More Music Websites!
Since I had done this for the 100th post back in March, and last week was A Future in Noise’s anniversary week after all, here I am going to bring you… 100 More Music Websites! Recommend your personal favorites in the comments if you don’t see them here (or in the previous 100 sites post)- this is an elite selection, I hope you have fun browsing through it! MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS...
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Dead Times w/ Graves House Split + Voidism Vol. 1
I first featured Dead Times here when I reviewed their brilliant 2009 album Midnight Glass (free download at Last.fm; “Mirrors in Reverse” is particularly epic) earlier this year. Their most recent endeavors include a split cassette release, Nature Nosebleed, with Graves House (now known as Timeload Fowl) and participation in Voidism, Volume 1, with the track “Wet Static”...
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Fav Albums Week: Pillows & Prayers: You know those...
On being asked if I’d like to write a short article about my favourite album of all time I immediately knew that it was Marquee Moon by Television. Then the problems started… Marquee Moon already tops the ‘top 100’ albums lists in various middle of the road music media across the world every year… we all know it’s amazing and no amount of gushing on my part will make that any more true. So then I...
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Fav Albums Week: The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our...
In this world there are few things that an individual can call flawless, however The Unicorns, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? is exactly that. When diving deeper into my musical psyche and developing my own tastes many groups, albums, and songs seemed to come and go. However The Unicorns have always been around, being amongst the first bands to truly inspire me to make my own music....
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Fav Albums Week: The Libertines - Up the Bracket
The Libertines’ Up the Bracket has been my favourite album of all-time since I first heard it in January 2005…and I really wish I hadn’t arrived so late to the party. As I had discussed in the AFIN feature on Andrew Kendall, it was spotting some of his photos of the Libertines in December 2004 at The Killers Network in some users’ avatars and signatures that caused me to...
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A Future in Noise: 1-Year Anniversary
One year ago today, I began this music blog, A Future in Noise. I wasn’t sure how long it would last, though I figured it might be a couple of weeks of fun, nothing serious…and then I realized how much I enjoyed writing about music! I promoted posts via Last.fm at first, where over time I encountered current AFIN contributors/team members Ian, Christian (who I met up with for the first...
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Tara Busch - Limited Edition 'Pilfershire Lane'...
Tara Busch (of the very cool AnalogSuicide.com, and who was previously featured here for her Bat For Lashes remix) has released a limited-to-100 box set of her debut album Pilfershire Lane on Tummy Touch Records, designed by Maf Lewis, with a load of goodies included: a CD copy of the album (deluxe digipack), “a 7” × 7” stainless steel mini popup stage set. This includes working...
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Indpendent Music Discoveies, Issue #15
A super-sized edition of our continuing series, with updates on some past inclusions and new independent artist features; recommend your fav indie artists in the comments! —- *UPDATES ON PAST ARTISTS FEATURED!* Henry’s Phonograph (Issue #4) - Psychedelic / Rock - London, UK: Fabulous new track!: “Nervous Wreck” Bombadil (The Weekend Review) - Folk / Rock Lyrical - North...
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Shonen Knife: 'Super Group' Gets US Release in...
Shonen Knife are a Japanese female pop-punk trio that formed in Osaka in the early 80s, and steadily acquired a cult following through their unique blend of 60s girl group and pop sounds with Ramones-esque D.I.Y. punk- a tribute album Every Band Has a Shonen Knife Who Loves Them, released in 1989, even included Redd Kross and Sonic Youth amongst cover artists, and Shonen Knife opened for Nirvana...
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AFIN Virtual Music Conference: You're Invited!
Starting 7/20/2009, at 1 PM PST (4 PM EST; 9 PM BST) and running all through the day, to mark the 1-year anniversary of A Future in Noise, I’m going to be hosting a chat focusing on topics like independent music, on-line promotion and radio, and the current state of the music industry. Of course, the chat is likely to run into other avenues as well- I hope you can attend for a fun and...
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Weekend Listens: Jaydiohead, The Dead Weather,...
Jaydiohead - Encore: Max Tannone (Minty Fresh Beats) has just put out a sequel to his original Jay-Z x Radiohead mash-up album (which A Future in Noise covered upon release in December and made MOG’s front page over!), Encore, which includes 5 additional quality mash-ups and is available for download at the Jaydiohead site! You can grab the first Jaydiohead release here, and I also recommend...
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Independent Music Discoveries, Issue #14
Another fresh round of up-and-comers, part of our continuing series- be sure to recommend your fav indie artists in the comments! —- Gospel Gossip - Shoegaze / Thrash / Pop - Minnesota, USA I knew fabulous things were to come from Gospel Gossip when I first saw that they were using eLouai dolls to represent their band members over at their MySpace Music page. Their recent album Dreamland has...
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Interview With Hakim Callier
Hakim Callier makes music for media productions, and blogs about it too, filling a much-needed gap with his niche expertise, and covering topics such as music supervision, the loudness race, and mixing tips and tricks. I got to chance to chat with Hakim recently and he answered some of my questions- check out what he had to say below! —- AFIN: What’s your musical background? Hakim: I...
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Starter Guide: UK Label Samplers
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LABEL SAMPLER: Or how the sampler album changed the face of British alternative Music, 1978 – 1990 SOME WILL RECALL, before the interweb and mp3s, that music geeks perpetually fuelled their addiction by trading LPs, reading music ‘zines and hanging around grubby 2nd hand record shops. And nothing seemed to shed more light on this dimly-lit and infinitely undiscoverable...
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Movie - White Whales
Movie are a band from New York made up of Austin Barney (guitars, vocals, synths), Jacob Brunner (drums, synths), and Stu Watson (bass, guitar, synths vocals) set to release their new album White Whales on Shatter Your Leaves Records on 7/7. Branded as “New Wave / Grunge / Experimental” on their MySpace Music page, Movie do indeed take inspiration from the 80s post-punk and late...