Sunday, March 18, 2012

Two Fresh at Trees

Video by Chase Monday

Fans of Hot Chip‘s inventive take on house-infused, indie-tinged pop are in luck, as the UK group’s new video for “Flutes,” the first single to leak from the their recently announced fifth LP, In Our Heads, has plenty to offer in both categories. The track is just the kind of elongated pop Hot Chip has pretty much perfected over the course of their existence, and the accompanying video shares a spinning look at the members in the studio while the tune moves [...]

Porcelain Raft, aka London dream pop composer Mauro Remiddi, is releasing his debut LP, Strange Weekend, on January 24th via Secretly Canadian, and it’s the first album of 2k12 I have genuinely been looking forward to. Though Strange Weekend is Porcelain Raft‘s first full length, he’s put out a number of releases over the past two years, and this album feels like the culminating statement of all all the hard work he’s put into creating this project. With soothing acoustic guitars and subtle effects washing over synths [...]

Up and coming North Texas music festival 35 Denton added a total 114 locally and nationally-based bands through to its four-day lineup Tuesday, including genres from all over the musical spectrum.

For the past several months, bands were able to apply for a spot on the 35 Denton lineup through SonicBids, a third party aggregate site. Many of the artists were nominated through this process. The festival also gave local booking companies to throw a showcase, a first in fest history, and [...]