yes, actually his guitar picking stuff is stellar. cool metamorphosis though. idm funk?

bibio - s’vive

artist: home video genre: idm lovin indie electro rock

yes, this is technically more indie rock than electronic. yeah, the thom yorke comparisons are there, though not as bad as muse. and the music is good. i’d like to just post the entire album actually. the entire thing flows from track 1 to 10. which is rare these days. Creed and other date rape rock lovers will not enjoy…

home video - dialogue box

and gotcha pegged like a wooden leg indeed:

home video - gas tank

just saw Gran Torino, it was to be expected…great. of course it assumes that you find Archie Bunker to be a humerous. Also, the Gran Torino song that ends the movie is a perfect end to the film. Don’t look it up, just go see it.

Also, Battlestar Galactica tonight at the alamo drafthouse (anderson lane) at midnight.

And finally i see Morrissey is coming to Austin again. At the Bass Music Hall too. Which is where i saw the Magnetic Fields a couple years ago.

ok, I KNOW THESE LAST 2 POSTS SHOULD BE IN OPPOSITE ORDER, WHATEVER!!!

the-knux-cappuccino.mp3

THIS IS A REPRINT FROM…
http://freehiphopnow.blogspot.com
THERE’S ALSO AN ARTICLE IN MASS APPEAL
THIS MONTH AS WELL, ENJOY.

The Knux are a self-produced group comprised of two brothers (Krispy and Al Millio) from New Orleans. They play all their own instrumentation and fight like The Kinks. Their debut album, Remind Me In 3 Days, sounds like Outkast, Juvenile, Tha Pharcyde, and The Strokes concurrently blasting, out of a drop-top Jag on Sunset Blvd. on a Saturday night in the summer. Wrap your head around that!!???

“When we made the album we refused to give the album to the label one song at a time,” says Krispy, who at 25 is the elder Knux brother. “We knew that they wouldn’t get it, they’d think we were buggin’ and they’d try to make us change things.” Instead, the two, who signed to Interscope in 2006 thanks to an incredible demo and manager Paul Rosenberg (Eminem’s manager) holed up in a mini-mansion in the Hollywood Hillsnew artists that they barely even knew were on the label.”

Just as their recording came to a standstill the Knux were met with great misfortune: Hurricane Katrina. “We never evacuated when the hurricanes hit,” says Krispy, “But for whatever reason when Katrina hit we left with our mom to go to Dallas for the weekend. When we were driving back to New Orleans on the Monday all the cars were going the other direction. The radio wasn’t working, so we had no idea about the flood ‘til someone flagged us down and told us that we weren’t gonna’ be allowed into the city.” After a week of the entire family sleeping in their car, they relocated to Houston and found an apartment. “Man, we lost everything, our whole apartment building burned to the ground, says Krispy. “So we were grateful that everyone was okay, but we weren’t happy to be in Houston.”

Fortunately things looked up for the group when their demo fell into the hands of Paul Rosenberg’s A&R man Dart Parker, who brought the group to his attention. Over the next months Rosenberg signed on as their manager. “We weren’t doing anything in Houston,” says Krispy. “Because of Katrina and how unhappy we were in that city we weren’t inspired to make anything new. So the whole thing with Paul was blessing.”

By the fall of 2006 the brothers had moved to the Hollywood Hills and begun the recording process. “Once we got out to L.A. there was just such a different vibe,” explains Al, “And we were going to all the downtown clubs with fuckin’ socialite girls and, like, the so-called hipsters, and guys like Steve Aoki. It was a totally different scene from what we were used to in New Orleans and the music we started making just reflected that.” The two wrapped the album during the summer of ’07 and hit the road hard. “We started by just inviting people over for house parties and performing the album on top of our couch,” says Al, “That’s how we knew what worked and what didn’t.” After a string of successful events at L.A. cool-guy emporiums the two got added as the opening act of Common’s Finding Forever tour.

With shows booked through the end of the year, and press clippings stacking up left and right—all without a single song available commercially—the ground swell is evident, and The Knux impact in 2008 is imminent. Act like you know. And if you forget, don’t worry, The Knux will Remind You!

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artist: printed circuit genre: vocoder magic

claire does all her own music and stuff. so check it. she seems to be making documentary about the local DIY music scene too.

printed circuit - acrobotics.mp3

So I’ve seen Operator a few times, I can vouch.

Of course you can judge for yerself.

http://www.myspace.com/operatorsound

Rage Ranger sounds interesting:

http://myspace.com/rageranger

Shuttle Debris

http://www.myspace.com/shuttledebris

and finally

matsonbelle.com

artist: james figurine (postal service dntel) genre: electro clash synth pop

I’m confident that he will have trouble eclipsing the popularity of his Postal Service, but this is a good stab. It still amazes me how long it takes a popular indie record to propagate thru the masses. I’m just as guilty of being woefully unaware to my current musical surroundings, but it still amazes me. I guess that is why we started this blog, to do our little part to bring good music to the masses.

James Figurine - Ruining the Sundays

On top of this, here is a video to another track called “Apologies”