+++ Ecto is a new crassical / wip-hop /nu-kali / splitno project by Keanan, a friend of mine from Oakland. I really love his first release ever, the song “Divisible”. Check it out here:
Last year singer Seth Bogart (aka Hunx) completely reinvented his band Hunx and his Punx and turned it into a pretty glamorous four-girls-one-fag-group. In autumn the new “girl group”, consisting of Bogard, Shannon Shaw (bass / vocals), Michelle Santamaria (guitar), Erin Emslie (drums) and Amy Blaustein (guitar/organ), released a new single called “Too Young To Be In Love” (see video below). Now the band has finished the production of a new album with the same title, which will be released on March 29 via Hardly Art. The release is followed by an extensive tour throughout the US and Canada in April and May.
Most of the these gigs are are an opportunity to see Shannon Shaw’s band Shannon and the Clams live. The trio, which seems to have the same passion for the wall of sound sound of the 50ies and the garage sound of the 60ies as Bogart releases its second album “Sleep Talk” in April 5 on 1-2-3-4-Go! Records.
Check out “Lover’s Lane”, the opener of the new H&HP album (featuring additional voices by Shannon) and “Sleep Talk”, the title track of the new S&TC album right here, both songs can be downloaded as Free-MP3s. I also posted the pretty trashy / campy clip to S&TCs “Hunk Hunt” and Justin Kelly‘s clip to H&HP’s “Too Young To Be In Love” below the jump.
After my first compilation Another Wave, the second free MP3-sampler released on CATCH FIRE is completely dedicated to True Panther Sounds, a small record label based in San Francisco which is the best proof that beyond the trend to self-promotion there is still an exciting label culture out there. TPS’s music ranges from the rather unconventional indie rock of bands like Girls, Magic Kids or Hunx and his Punx, to the experimental, mostly pretty hypnotic pop of acts such as Glasser, Lemonade or Teenage Fantasy and I guess it’s also worth mentioning here that an above-average level of these bands/acts have (or at least seem to have) a queer background or approach.
Like last time, the compilation is completely free, thanks to the guys of TPS who allowed me to collect my favourite ones of the free songs they’ve been released during the last few months and make a sampler out of them. I hope you like the result as much as I do. Below you find the track list, you can click on the single song links for the original sources of the tracks if you only want to download individual songs. The cover I posted on top of this post and a list of the tracks are included in the download file.
I proudly present the first official CATCH FIRE Compliation. It brings together a bunch of electronical pop songs by promising new bands and artists I stumbled upon during the past few weeks. Yesterday I suddenly had the feeling that it would make sense to bring them together and compile them, I guess what came out in the end could be considered a light summer album with a twist. All tracks are available for free on the internet at the moment so the whole thing is completely legal (click on the songs in the tracklist for the sources). You can download the compliation as a zip-file via sendspace by clicking here or by clicking on the picture on top of this post. Here’s the tracklist, feedback welcome!
+++ Tough Alliance’s Eric Berglund aka ceo has recently released his debut album “White Magic” on modular recordings, I already posted the video to the catchy single “Come With Me” in one of the tickers a while ago (the song can be downloaded here). Now the label is giving away the atmospherical bonus track “Everything Is Gonna Be Alright”. Here it is:
+++ Captain Ahab is a anarchic, sort of queer electropop duo from L.A. which is touring through Europe this month (tour dates on their MySpace site). At the moment you can download their song “I Don’t Have A Dick” taken from their current album “The End of Irony” on Bandcamp (thanks for the tipp, Cihan!). And don’t be impatient, the actual song starts at 2:16 +++
Seth from Hunx and his Punx and Nick Weiss from Teengirl Fantasy have teamed up to record some dancefloor tracks. The project is called H.U.N.X. Here’s their first song, “Can a Man Hear Me?” (via Cobain In Coma):
+++ Tanlines, one of my favourite new upcoming projects, have a new video for their song “Z”, which can be found on their “Settings-”E.P. Click here to watch it +++
+++ Here’s a colorful new video by !!!. Directed by Black Dice. What a perfect teaming! You can download the song on chkchkchk.net.
+++ Hercules and Love Affair have announced their tour dates for July and August. They can be found on omg blog. It’s where I found the photograph of hunky Andy Butler I posted on top of this post +++
+++ An mysterious artist from NYC called Sali has recently realeased a track called “Toldya”, which features a voice sample of M.I.A.’ and musically reminds of the stuff she’s into herself. You can download the song and two other ones on his website by leaving your email +++
+++ I’d like to introduce you to The Loveliers from Poland which wrote me a nice email a few days ago. Here’s their current song “Interactivity”, a chilled and melancholic low-tempo dance track:
+++ The awesome queer culture blog Young Creature has recently posted a mixtape by JD Samson. You find the download link here +++
+++ Rusty Lazer is a DJ from New Orleans who’s currently supporting the Sissy Bounce superstars Big Freedia, Katey Red and Sissy Nobby live. You can download two of his Bounce mixes on his Soundcloud profile (via omg blog) +++
Prizes is a one man project by a Londoner called Hari Ashurst who started making music in 2009 under the name “Treasure” and changed the name just a few days ago. Ashurst’s sound could be described as some sort of experimental pop – his compositions are based on a lot of sampling and reverb, but at the same time his songs have a certain smoothness and simplicity I really like. Here are two of his latest songs, “Dartmoor” (via Transparent) and “Golden Things” (via Stereogum). A third one, the song “Canada” can also be found on Stereogum (click here) where Treasure was nominated the “Band to Watch” in April. You can also download a mixtape of Prices recorded for Vice on the magazine’s webpage. An album will be out in 2011, dates of current live shows can be found on Prize’s MySpace page. Oh, and there’s also a tumblr and the video for “Canada”, a romantic reinterpretation of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex tape (after the jump).
