WRBC CHARTS & ADDS 4/13/10

April 12th, 2010 • Charts
Tags: black rebel motorcycle club, broken bells, drive-by truckers, dum dum girls, gorillaz, rogue wave, sarah jaffe, seabear, she and him, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

WRBC ROCK & INDIE CHARTS & ADDS 4/6/10

April 6th, 2010 • Charts
Tags: black rebel motorcycle club, broken bells, dum dum girls, frightened rabbit, gorillaz, Joanna Newsom, seabear, she and him, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, the whigs

2. BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB Beat The Devil’s Tattoo
3. FRIGHTENED RABBIT The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
4. BROKEN BELLS Broken Bells
5. JOANNA NEWSOM Have One On Me
6. GORILLAZ Plastic Beach
7.DUM DUM GIRLS I Will Be
8. SHE AND HIM Volume Two
9. TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS The Brutalist Bricks
10. WHIGS In The Dark Read more »

Music Video Log 4/6/10

April 6th, 2010 • Video
Tags: Losers, seabear, Yeasayer

Here are some more new music videos that have entertained me recently.

Losers feat. Riz MC & Envy - Flush

This is a really cool video featuring the artwork of Dan Hiller. It has shades of Monty Python animation.

Yeasayer – O.N.E.

A really cool song with a music video that starts of narrative and then explodes with a typically chaotic yeasayer performance scene.

Seabear – I’ll Build You a Fire

A really innovative artistic and etherial music video. Let’s be honest, I couldn’t resist.

She and Him – In the Sun

A cute little pop song with a music video that borrows elements from classic 1960s musical films. Read more »

Some more SEABEAR Photos

April 4th, 2010 • Photo Gallery
Tags: seabear

Check out photography editor Peter Senzamici’s pictures from the seabear concert.

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Seabear Photo Blog

April 1st, 2010 • Photo Gallery
Tags: seabear

Here are some pictures snapped by art editor Liana Blum at the Seabear concert on Monday, March 29, 2010

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Seabear Cometh

March 31st, 2010 • Folk, Iceland, Video
Tags: seabear

WRBC and Bates College were really fortunate to have world-class Icelandic indie-folk-rockers Seabear to drop by campus on March 29, 2010 for a little concert. With our new flipcam, The Monkey recorded the concert for those of you that were maybe too tied up with thesis or abroad to come. Here are a few of the highlights:

Sindri talks about performing at Bates

Arms from “The Ghost that Carried Us Away”

Cat Piano from “The Ghost that Carried Us Away”

Stay tuned for more videos as they become available. To those of you that came out on a rainy Monday, WRBC, Seabear, and all involved are really thankful. Read more »

Charts 3/30/10

March 30th, 2010 • 1 comment Charts
Tags: beach house, black rebel motorcycle club, broken bells, frightened rabbit, Joanna Newsom, rogue wave, seabear, shout out louds, Spoon, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

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March 26th, 2010 • BOBCATRACKS
Tags: infinite body, seabear, sleigh bells, the xx, tune-yards

Here are our editors top songs for March 25, 2010:

Doug Ray (Editor in Chief): Seabear – Cold Summer (We Built a Fire)

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Bradley McGraw (Deputy Editor in Chief): The xx – Teardrops (Tour 7)

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Liana Blum (Art Editor): Sleigh Bells - Ring Ring

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Charles Thaxton (Rock Editor): Infinite Body – Drive Dreams Away (Carve Out The Face of My God)

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Charlotte Simpson (Culture Editor): tUnE-YaRdS – Hatari (BiRd-BrAiNs)

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Charts for 3/23/10

March 22nd, 2010 • Charts
Tags: beach house, black rebel motorcycle club, broken bells, frightened rabbit, Joanna Newsom, rogue wave, seabear, shout out louds, Spoon, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Album Review: While the Fire Dies (EP) by Seabear

March 15th, 2010 • Album Review, Folk, Iceland
Tags: Iceland, seabear, while the fire dies out

Let’s make one thing clear here, Iceland’s Seabear is without a doubt one of my favorite bands of all time. Their succinct anti-folk sensibility is unique even within the confines of the seemingly overcrowded world of the folk revival that is currently still in its indie infancy.

From the time that I first played their 2007 debut, The Ghost that Carried Us Away, my love of Seabear, as my friends might tell you had bordered on insanity and irrationality, but its all in good fun.

Alongside their recent full-length release (a very good album, by the way), We Built a Fire, the band chose to also put together a brief EP called The Fire Dies Out. The two records seem similar at the core, obviously the instrumentation is basically the same, but the EP is, truthfully an experience unto itself. Read more »