This week’s music monday is Eddy Current Suppression Ring is a Melbourne-based Australian rock group. In 2006, Eddy Current Suppression Ring released their first full-length recording to critical acclaim. In May 2008, the band released its second CD, Primary Colours. Within three weeks it had sold more than 2,000 copies, already more than their debut album and was sitting at number 6 on the ARIA charts. In September 2008, Primary Colours was nominated in the Best Rock Album category for the 2008 ARIA Awards.
Here’s “Which Way to Go” from the album Primary Colours
This is such a great video, love the use of the super 8 for a beach jam. Also, gotta love the Texas props they are showing with their STUBBS T.
Today’s Music Monday is the amazingly talented Tristen with her song “Baby Drugs.” Tristen is an American musician and songwriter. She grew up in Lansing, IL, a blue collar suburb of Chicago. In February 2011 she released her label debut Charlatans At The Garden Gate to critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone magazine praising the record for its “catchy refrains with multiple meanings,” and “ear-tugging melodies with hidden hooks.”
Penny & The Quarters are a “lost” soul band which came to prominence in 2010 after an unreleased demo of their song “You And Me” was used in the film Blue Valentine. Sorry for the two Ryan Gosling videos in a row, but I saw this film the other day and just fell in love with this song, and of course a little Ryan Gosling doesn’t hurt. I hope you love this song at least half as much as I do and a very happy Music Monday to you.
“Presumably teenagers at the time, Penny & The Quarters were invited to audition by Harmonic Sounds Studio in Columbus, Ohio, recording three demo songs in all. The group consisted of Jay Robinson, the lead male vocalist and songwriter, and a female lead with three or four male backup singers and an accompanying guitarist.
The songs were recorded some time between 1970 and 1975 at either Harmonic Sounds Studio or at the home of studio co-owner Clem Price in Columbus. Relegated to storage, the songs were discovered after Price’s death in 2006 when a collection of tapes and acetate records was purchased at his estate sale. They were subsequently given to an archival record company, The Numero Group, after a Columbus, Ohio musicologist came into possession of the recordings.
One of the songs they recorded, “You And Me” was released by Numero Group and was later heard by actor Ryan Gosling, who recommended it to the director Derek Cianfrance as the song meant to bring the two lead characters together in Blue Valentine.
Numero Group announced in 2011 that they were actively seeking members of Penny & The Quarters or their surviving relatives in order to share the growing record royalties from “You And Me”. Ken Shipley of Numero Group told reporters, “we have played this recording to over 100 movers and shakers from the time and no one has a clue.” The members have since been identified as Nannie “Penny” Sharpe and her brothers Preston, Johnny and Donald Coulter. Jay Robinson, a singer associated with the siblings, died in 2009.”
Music Monday – this song rocks our socks! We first discovered it from the movie DRIVE (if you haven’t seen it, see it…amazing). The film plays this tune during the opening credits and it really sets the mood for the rest of the movie. Kavinsky’s steady beat and Lovefoxxx’s beautiful voice are a perfect blend. Night Call is an EP by French electro house artist Kavinsky released in 2010. The song “Nightcall” was produced by Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo and mixed by electronic artist SebastiAn. It features Brazilian lead singer of CSS, Lovefoxxx, on vocals.
This Music Monday we are takin’ it back to the 1960s with The Animals. The Animals were an English rock band of the 1960s formed in Newcastle and then later moved to London. The Animals were known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon. They are best known for their signature song “The House of the Rising Sun” and “We Gotta Get Out of This Place.” For this Music Monday we wanted to share with you the song “Outcast” from their 1966 album Animalism.
Tonight one of the great bands to come out of Texas is going to break their 11 year silence. Seminal post-hardcore act At The Drive-In was born in the summer of ’94, formed from the ashes of two of El Paso, Texas’ most popular underground bands. The band went on to become one of the most influential rock acts of the 90′s. At The Drive-In’s first 7″ EP Hell Paso was released in November of ’94 through the band’s own label. The following month, the band trekked 2,000 miles across the great state of Texas on their very first tour and never looked back. In 2001 the band decided to go their separate ways and pursue other projects such as The Mars Volta and Sparta. But now after an eleven year silence At The Drive-In is back for one last tour. The show they are playing tonight sold-out in exactly ten minutes, so if you were able to get tickets consider yourself extremely lucky. Tonight Red 7 presents At The Drive-In!
Here’s this week’s Music Monday At The Drive-In “One Armed Scissor”
Its such a beautiful day today, kinda feels like a Little Joy day. This amazing group is the side project of Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante and Binki Shapiro. This super group formed in 2007, and released their self-titled debut album in 2008.
This week’s Music Monday is White Rabbits with “Heavy Metal” off their new album Milk Famous. White Rabbits is a six piece indie rock band based out of Brooklyn.
The Black Belles, an all girl rock band, stayed very busy this SXSW playing throughout the week here in Austin. The Black Belles are signed to Jack White’s label Third Man Records, and they played along with Jack White and other Third Man Record Bands last Friday at the Stage on Sixth. The girls also played with The Strange Boys at the Mohawk on Saturday and a free show at Beerland on Sunday.
The Black Belles sound is described as, “a modern twist to a sound heavily rooted in the soul and garage rock of the 60’s.” Here’s their debut recording “What Can I Do” directed by Jack White.
Here’s a song from the B-side of the new single Charlene II (I’m Over You) by Stephen Colbert & The Black Belles released on 06/24/2011 and produced by Jack White. The Black Belles cover Stephen Colbert’s Charlene (I’m Right Behind You)
SXSW is here and in full effect! We are so excited to see so many great bands. One in particular that I’m most stoked on is Built to Spill. They’ve been around since the early ’90s and are still just as great.
Built to Spill is going to be playing tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Belmont 3/13 from 1am-2am. Then on Wednesday they are gonna be at IFC Crossroads House at VICE from 12am-1am, and on Friday you can see them at the Lustre Pearl from 11pm-12am
