Pleased To Meet You: Great Father

bbBeen looking for something a little bit along the vein of Americana lately, something with a story to tell. This tune I stumbled across from Cleveland’s Great Father is perfect, not to mention a pretty great song in and of itself.  There’s this lush blend of guitar sounds, both strummed and sliding, mixed around the soft-spoken voice of singer Brandon Stevens; I hear a little bit of Tweedy in his delivery.  They’ll be releasing their album Bicentennial Blue via Exit Stencil Recordings in September, but I wanted you to get acquainted with them now should you need the perfect tune to enjoy on your summer road trip.

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Show Preview: Dick Diver @ Mohawk (Tonight!)

dickdiverAre you a fan of great guitar pop? Fan of the ringing guitars coming from Australia? I know you are, which is all the reason you need to go to Mohawk tonight and check out Australia’s Dick Diver.  They’ve long been part of our favorite Aussie label, Chapter Music, and recently caught on with Trouble in Mind Records here in the States…so if you’re one of those folks that assigns worth to labels, then you can’t get better than that.  They’ll be touring behind the release of Melbourne, Florida, which is filled with excellent pop songs throughout, illustrating a huge step up in sound from Calendar Days. Also, they’ll be joined by Austin’s Jonly Bonly, who we’ve fawned over enough on these here pages.

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ATX Spotlight: Decider Prep EP

deciderFor all the nonsense about Austin music dying out here, our little town still has this ability to birth some really creative work, such as the new signing for Monofonus Press, Decider. The single we’ve been offered by the label has this stuttering post-punk that comes with some little interludes of careful guitar precision (reminds me of the first Liars LP).  Eventually, the song opens up for this blasting wall of noise that closes the track with an impending notion of of noisy doom. You can grab the band’s Sad Jose EP from the label this week on cassette; pick it up HERE.

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Have A Nice Weekend

TelepatheSo real life got in the way of me getting this post done for Friday. It was a busy and frustrating day in the home office. Yech. But hard work is its own reward, right?

So we all here stories about the records that take forever to make the light of day, recently a local band had such a record get released. Tiger Waves has a recording from 2012 finally make its way to the intarwebs and onto the presses. For this post, I bring you the “latest” from Telepathe. Also recorded in 2012, Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais’s record Destroyer will finally be available on August 7th on their own label BZML. Here is what we have deprived from hearing. This is a monumentally good track IMHO that first appeared online a year ago. Sorry for missing it, but if anything, it proves good songs don’t show their age.

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Festival Preview: Eaux Claires

Screen Shot 2015-07-02 at 10.00.28 PMSometimes the ATH crew ventures beyond the Live Music Capital and gets to experience rad festivals. Last summer, I had the pleasure of traveling to Barcelona for Primavera Sound, and while Spain may not be on the horizon for me this summer, Wisconsin is. In a few short weeks, we’ll be hitting the grounds of the first ever Eaux Claires festival, the love child project of Justin Vernon (Bon Iver/Volcano Choir) and Aaron Dessner (The National). While we’ll give you updates live from the festival so you can live vicariously through us and figure out which acts you need to see when they make their way through our neck of the woods, you can read on for the top five things we’re looking forward to about the inaugural festival.

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Shopping Are Back With Another Album!!!

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After the release of their great first record, Consumer Complaints, it brings me great pleasure to announce that Shopping are returning with a sophomore record called Why Choose on FatCat Records this coming October 2nd. With this news they’ve also given us a taste of what’s to come on this new record with, “Why Wait” that’s below for your ears. Like we’ve heard from Shopping before, you get the super crisp angular electric guitar work that cuts through the track sharply and up-tempo drums that seem to speed impossibly up as the song progresses. It’s a song that will certainly get you dancing. Get your Pre-Order on here.

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Diet Cig Share New Single

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I’m pretty sure we’ve shared some other great tracks from New York’s Diet Cig, and this is a yet another testament of their deserving place in your listening catalogue. They duo has a new single out digitally as of today called “Sleep Talk,” and you can take a listen to it below. You’ll note the prominent vocal performance of Alex Luciano, whose honest vocals and raw delivery dominate the song as she sings about a return home. Then you have the drums that take the wheel of the track and bring the tempo to a new speed as the song gets a little wild within the alt-rock genre. The single and it’s b-side, “Dinner Date” are out in physical format on September 18th through Art is Hard and Father/Daughter Records. Pre-order it here.

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Buy This Debutantes 7″ from Emotional Response

11020761_10153147013484577_8079677916334810216_nThe two sides of this new 7″ from the Debutantes are pretty brilliant, yet completely distinct in their respective sounds. The A Side “Adams Apples” is the punishing bit of noise rock with an underlying current of pop sensibility, and very likely to break through your speakers…in a really good way.  The flip side has “Kids,” which is a much softer look at the Irish act. This song stays true to the historical undercurrent of indiepop, though the recording has this endearing distortion to it, so as not to be too shimmering.  The 7″ just came out from the really awesome folks over at Emotional Response, so you can grab yourself a copy of it right HERE. Oh, and if you order it now, it comes with a 4 song download that makes up the band’s debut EP.

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Ultra Lo-Fi/ Punk From Childbirth

nastygrrlsIf you’re looking for pretty and clean girl pop then you’ve come to the wrong post. Childbirth is a supergroup comprised of members from Chastity Belt, Tacocat and Pony Time and word on the street is that they’re coming back with their sophomore record, Women’s Rights which is due October 2nd on Suicide Squeeze Records. This single from that record is called “Nasty Grrls,” and features perfectly imperfect punk vocals that chime in and out of the mix enumerating the rough edges and habits of these nasty gurlz while the guitars are fuzzy and lo-fi. The whole track will lodge itself into your brain for hours if you’re not careful, but maybe that’s a good thing. Get nasty with these ladies.

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Punk Track From PWR BTTM

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PWR BTTM are a punk duo comprised of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce who have put out a few EPs and demos, but are awaiting the release of their first full length record Ugly Cherries.  The title track from that upcoming record is below, and when you listen you’ll hear classic punk elements, but what makes this song striking for me are the vocals, which softens the vibe a bit and is different from what you would expect. Meanwhile, the guitar is still buzzy and those vocals gain grit and teeth as the song goes on. Lookout for more from these two and get ready for the new record due out September 18th via Father/Daughter Records and Miscreant Records.

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