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From London, Manchester and Nottingham, in the UK, Last Broadcast is from their second album Celeste

Here we have another blast of summer flecked sound. Last year’s album Harmonium found a lush and spiked musical template. In Celeste we find a tighter, more focused group. The same authentic analog warmth pervades, but with the addition of new sounds, playful blips and bleeps suggesting an extended musical canvas. The influence of jazz and ‘Kosmiche’ music becomes apparent as the muscular Last Broadcast floats from the turntable. What a groove! The bass work of Can’s Holger Czukay is instantly brought to mind, but soon we find ourselves in unexplored space-rock terrain. A denser sound pervades, that feels far removed from the lysergic whoosh of Harmonium. [IODA]

[SM - any band that references Can and/or Holger Czukay is going to be played on Insomnia Radio, if I can arrange it]

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• The Soundcarriers
• “Last Broadcast” (mp3)
• from “Celeste”
• (Melodic)

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Kelsey Elise Brown was born in Little Rock, AR in 1992. She sang with her grandfather’s bluegrass band at a young age and moved to Texas in 1997. She has been classically trained in voice, but began writing music and taught herself piano in 2007 and ukulele in 2009.

Kelsey is attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and is influenced by Regina Spektor, Joanna Newsom, Fiona Apple, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Beirut, Laura Veirs, Tegan and Sara, Camille, and more. [last.fm]

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From their new five track EP/Album Cruise of the Century, available as a free, or pay what you want, download from Bandcamp

Boston, Massachusetts Powerpop trio The Cinnamon Fuzz released their single Reboot my Heart earlier this year. There is a great video to accompany it, which you can see below. They just released the five track mini-album Cruise of the Century, which starts with the single and then continues on its way throught four more tracks which show their wide range of influences (which they list as Bowie, The Cars, The Rentals, Talking Heads, Roy Orbison, Gary Numan, Pink Floyd, Eurythmics, NIN, The Beach Boys, Type O Negative, Oingo Boingo) until the last track Strangers which we feature today. Check all the links below for social media and download/purchase links.

The band are:
Jonah – Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Nick – Drums & Percussion
Matt – Keys, Synths, BU Vox
And live they are joined by Dave Marvuglio on Bass

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• The Cinnamon Fuzz Web Site
• Social Media: Twitter | Facebook | MySpace | Reverb Nation
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This is the new name for the Glasgow, UK based band Union of Knives, changed up in early 2010. We discovered this Glasgow, UK based group through Admiral Fallow’s Facebook page.  They were posting about a compilation album that this specific track will be featured on in the near future.

This release is apparently an effort to help support a new venture in the south side of Glasgow called ‘Glad Cafe’.   The album will drop on OCTOBER 4th.

Check out this track and more at the SoundCloud link below.

• Song of Return’s Website
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• Listening Station:  SoundCloud

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From their forthcoming EP “Strange Boy”, released in October.

Graystar is a constantly evolving music project, a five piece band now based in Seattle, USA. At its core is Dominic James, singer songwriter from Liverpool who founded Graystar in 2003. Progressive, daring and highly acclaimed, often bursting out with radical and ground breaking songs and live performances with a fierce independence. Dave Chapaitis plays the bass; Billy Brush plays keyboards; Jon Oswalt is on the drums.

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Sleeperstar is a predominantly pop-rock group started in Dallas, Texas in 2007. Chris Pearson sings lead vocals and is joined by Nick Box on guitar, Jake Lester on keyboard, Shaun Menary on drums, and Brandon Rosas on bass. Pearson had his start with Barefoot before joining with Box and Lester of Iron Giants to start Sleeperstar. [last.fm]

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From the Album Supra / Infra released 26th August

Los Angeles’ Radars to the Sky have just released their first full length album and Mirror is the first single from it.

Radars to the Sky are
Rob Danson – guitars, b/u vox, banjo
Kenny Kupers – drums, b/u vox
Kate Spitser – keyboards, vocals
Andrew Spitser – guitars, vocals, etc. etc.
with: Dave Marchese – bass

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On September 28th, Vagrant Records will release the latest studio album from Pete Yorn. Produced by Frank Black (The Pixies), this visceral 11-song collection follows Yorn’s two 2009 releases.

Yorn’s forthcoming album, a self-titled volume with a plain black cover, was recorded on the spur-of-the-moment, in the summer of 2008. Yorn was in the middle of making Back & Fourth in Nebraska when he got an email from Black suggesting that they record some tunes. Intrigued by the notion of experimenting with Frank, Yorn hopped a plane to Salem, OR, where the two set up an impromptu studio. They recorded the album in a mere five days – even though the singer-songwriter-guitarist came down with the flu two days into the process.

“Frank didn’t give a shit about getting sick, so we stayed in the flow,” recalls Yorn. “He has an incredible ability to distill a song down to its core.”

Frank recalls, “Pete told me he wanted to better define himself as an artist. I think he just wanted to rock out. But as we headed down a path of realization I stripped him down a whole bunch. We battled in the best sort of way. I tried to get the session into a fearless and raw place, and to his artistic credit Pete took his songwriting to a fearless and raw place. This listener will find his or herself sitting right next to Pete on the couch. And the record totally rocks out.”

Yorn will be touring in Fall 2010 in conjunction with the new album’s release. Tour dates will be announced shortly. [vagrant]

• Pete Yorn’s Website
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• Vagrant Records

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From the album Hello All Seasons available on August 24th

Neo-psychedelic mastermind / producer Craig Morris (Thee American Revolution / Ideal Free Distribution / Apples in Stereo) presents an innovative fusion of garage rock and Appalachian folk with his band Terrapin Pond, incorporating friends, family and regional Bluegrass musicians (including members of the Kentucky family band The McKendrees) in a swirling folk-psych landscape.

Their debut album, Hello All Stations on Garden Gate Records, plays like an unheard mountain songbook discovered by latter-day indie rockers—full of the classic hooks we might anticipate from Morris and company, but this time growing in a darker, mossier forest.

Fuzz guitar, banjo, mandolin and Mellotron ebb and surge, buoyed by lush harmonies and a heavy rhythm section, as if Fleet Foxes collided with The Band. Described by Morris as “modern rural psychedelic music,” Terrapin Pond is certain to appeal to fans of Americana and of the new psychedelia.

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Tiddabadés is a Wellington based dancecore four piece in New Zealand, apparently self-proclaimed as ”The Most Mispronounced Band In The Southern Hemisphere ™ “.

Formerly Batman Tiddabadés, they weld the influence of early British Post Punk, New Wave & Electronica, The E.P is the result of The Tiddabadés collective passion for guitar & synth based music.

From the looks of it, Tiddabadés is currently touring throughout Japan the entire month of September.

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From the Astral Turf five track EP

LA’s indie-driven rock band Downtown/ Union formed in 2006 as a two-piece pop outfit by its principle songwriters Bo Bory and Jeff Electric. Known for their stripped down songs with fuzzy guitar, bouncy drum work and heartfelt lyrics, they released a six song EP appropriately dubbed “Six Song Super Set”.

Jeff and Bo saw the potential in furthering their songwriting ideas and in 2009 with Johnny Seasons on bass and Adam Bomb on lead guitar the quartet was perfected.

Over the years, D/U has collaborated with Andy and Joey Siara of “The Henry Clay People” & Jack Gibson of the Austin Texas Band “Tenlons Fort”. D/U hit the studio and recorded their newest effort to date, five song EP “Astral Turf” which is available on 12″ 180 gram black vinyl, itunes worldwide through Jaxart Records & digitally at downtownunion.bandcamp.com

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All the songs in this collection “It’s Been A Long Day” were recorded from 1991-1998. All have previously been released on various compilations and 7 inches with the exception of “Long Day”, which was recorded in 1992 but never released. The tape was lost up til’ last year, when the band found it in the corner of their basement. [ioda]

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Smoking Popes
“Sandra” (mp3)
from “It’s Been A Long Day”
(Asian Man Records)

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California 5-piece, Young The Giant have been very busy. Garnering a fervent and loyal fan base from their electric live shows, the release of their 2008 debut EP Shake My Hand, their recent tour with Minus The Bear, and opening up for the likes of Kings of Leon, The Whigs, Ghostland Observatory, it is clear their hard work has paid off. Their first piece of newly released music since 2008 comes in the form of “My Body,” the first track from their upcoming debut album.

“My Body” is a rousing first impression from the young rock band. Rollicking guitars compliment lead singer Sameer Gadhia’s perfect pitched vocals, while the infectious chorus swings with intensity and hard-hitting, toe-tapping drum rhythms. Produced by Joe Chicarelli (The Shins, My Morning Jacket, The White Stripes), and mixed by Michael Brauer (Coldplay, My Morning Jacket), “My Body” is a true testament that this band’s bound for big things. Band members, Sameer Gadhia (vocals), Jacob Tilley (guitar), Eric Cannata (guitar/vocals), Payam Doostzadeh (Bass), Francois Comtois (drums/vocals) share diverse backgrounds such as Indian, Persian, British, and French- Canadian. At such a young age (all 21 or younger) their music reflects cultural influences and the bands inherent talent to write a beautiful melody with an arena-ready delivery.

Be sure not to miss your opportunity to see Young The Giant live during their California residencies in August when they are playing in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and San Francisco.

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August California residencies:

8/01 The Troubadour Los Angeles, CA 8/02 The Casbah San Diego, CA 8/04 Detroit Bar Costa Mesa, CA 8/07 Bottom Of The Hill San Francisco, CA 8/08 The Troubadour Los Angeles, CA 8/11 Detroit Bar Costa Mesa, CA 8/15 The Troubadour Los Angeles, CA 8/16 The Casbah San Diego, CA 8/18 Detroit Bar Costa Mesa, CA 8/22 The Troubadour Los Angeles, CA 8/23 The Casbah San Diego, CA 8/29 The Troubadour Los Angeles, CA 8/30 The Casbah San Diego, CA

Bottomless Pit was formed in the fall of 2005 by erstwhile Silkworm members Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen. Their longtime friends Chris Manfrin (Seam) and Brian Orchard (.22) complete the quartet.

Blood Under the Bridge is the third record and second full-length by Bottomless Pit. The album explores the awful and thrilling randomness of fate, with a hard fix on the future. Affectionate and brusque, languid and bracing – it is nearly peerless modern postpunk. [ioda]

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Bottomless Pit
“38 Souls” (mp3)
from “Blood Under the Bridge”
(Comedy Minus One)

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From their album Ways of Escape out Oct 12

Great Lakes formed in Athens, Georgia in 1996. Founded around the songwriting partnership of Ben Crum and lyricist Dan Donahue, with multi-instrumentalist Jamey Huggins and a rotating cast of several other players, who included Kevin Barnes and Bryan Poole of Of Montreal fame. They released an eponymous debut in 2000. Over time Huggins began to switch his focus to other projects, and Crum and Donahue relocated to Brooklyn, releasing The Distance Between in 2002 and Diamond Times in 2006.

Adorned with gentle guitar, stately piano, beautiful pedal steel, soulful organ and subtle yet powerful drumming, Ways of Escape is distinguished by the accomplished musicianship of the group of veteran players who made it, and the backstory that makes the album the more personal Great Lakes album for singer/songwriter Ben Crum. With Crum singing and playing guitar, it also features Kevin Shea on drums, David Lerner on bass, Jay Israelson on piano, Joe McGinty on electric piano and organ, Jon Natchez on bass clarinet and saxophones, Heather McIntosh on cello, Linda Rosenbury on violin, Phillip Sterk on pedal steel, and Suzanne Nienaber singing backing vocals.

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New York’s Ra Ra Riot recently sent out a free gift to their fanbase to all those that had downloaded the original version of “Boy,” the very first single from their album The Orchard, which drops in a few days.

This remix of “Boy” was basically given out as a thank you for all the fans support. It’s done by the Remix Artist Collective and can be found over at SoundCloud for free download for all.

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From the Solo project So I Ate Myself, Bite by Bite of Ryan Graveface of Black Moth Super Rainbow

As Dreamend’s sole member and proprietor behind Graveface Records, an independent label with a sharp focus on hand assembled items and limited editions, Ryan Graveface has a dazzlingly complex album in SIAMByB. Heavy on banjo, bells, guitar, organ and fearlessly honest vocals, this record is relentlessly catchy.

The tale of SIAMBbB will have you reeling and so will its incredible packaging. The label who brought you indie-rock’s first bonafide, hand made pop-up book with Long-Forgotten Friend have upped the ante: the LP version of So I Ate Myself, Bite by Bite, is presented like a phenakistoscope, a classic Victorian animation machine. If you thought picture discs and colored vinyl were cool (both mediums you Graveface aficionados will know a lot about), wait until you get a load of William Schaff’s painstaking, brilliantly delivered design. It’s truly a remarkable accomplishment in the annals of the Album as Artform, which is a hallmark of Graveface Records.

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• DREAMEND
• “Magnesium Light” (mp3)
• from “So I Ate Myself, Bite by Bite”
• (Graveface Records)

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Somewhere in between breaks during Alkaline Trio’s relentless touring schedule, Matt Skiba found time to demo and record a whole slew of new songs. It’s been more than ten years since his last solo album (a split with Kevin Seconds), so enjoy “Demos.”

Album Notes

-first release in 10 years
-all home recording done by Matt on his laptop
-all unreleased songs

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Matt Skiba
“S.O.S.” (mp3)
from “Demos”
(Asian Man Records)

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From “Dear Hearts & Gentle People” on Phratry Records

Started in November 2008 by cousins Scot Torres and Matt Hemingway along with good friend George Jesse. All bandless at the time, they came together to turn their shared passion for music into a fruitful outlet. Currently State Song is working on learning songs with their new drummer and doing things for their upcoming release this summer.

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• State Song
• “Highway Machine” (mp3)
• from “Dear Hearts & Gentle People”
• (Phratry Records)

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What smells like special and sounds like awesome?

Dubbed ‘Best Lounge Act of 2009’ by New York Magazine, Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra play a brand of uncategorizable folk/jazz/country/lounge- lizardry that’s drawn comparisons to the music of Leon Redbone, They Might Be Giants, Randy Newman and Tom Waits. They released their sophomore studio album HONKER on June 29 of this year.

With melancholy wit and a cockeyed worldview, sepia-toned singer-songwriter Lipton and band-mates Eben Levy (guitar), Ian Riggs (bass) and Vito Dieterle (sax) deliver songs steeped in irreverent sincerity and soul.

Featuring guest vocals from Matt Berninger of THE NATIONAL, Cynthia Hopkins of GLORIA DELUXE and a chorus of middle-school students, HONKER was funded entirely by fans around the world through funding platform Kickstarter, and continues Lipton’s unique gift of conveying thoughts and emotions most don’t want to admit.

“I’m worried about how the soul is doing, mine and other peoples,” acknowledges Ethan. “I’m worried about what the world is doing to the soul, how it’s giving the soul a hard time. And I’m trying to give the soul a little comfort, a pat on the back, a reason to laugh at itself, or even just a clearer picture–a more compassionate explanation–of why, no matter how hard it tries, it’s never going to win.”

“We’re here to represent the half-empties of the world,” declares Ethan Lipton of his band, now entering its fifth year as a quartet. “We know there’s some good news buried in all the bad, and we’re trying to dig it out and get it to the people who need it—on finger sandwiches of delight, if possible.”

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