WRBC Presents Washed Out with Small Black and Toro y Moi
February 1st, 2010 • Uncategorized • No comments
F
riday, March 5th, 2010 9.30pm
Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College
Lewiston, ME
More details coming soon, but this show, this musical experience if you will will make all others seem like a poor attempt at entertaining you.
WRBC Presents Hey Mama
February 1st, 2010 • Uncategorized • No comments
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010, 9:00 pm
Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College
Lewiston, ME
WRBC presents Hey Mama
Hailing from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hey Mama is a contemporary rock ‘n roll four-piece band, featuring Avi Salloway and Celia Woodsmith, formerly of the aptly named Avi and Celia. This show will be held in the Benjamin Mays Center.
Week in Review (January 24-30)
January 30th, 2010 • Maine, News • No comments
Joanna Newsom announces new triple album, due out Feb. 23. Mp3 streaming here.
New Panda Bear album also (distantly) forthcoming. Album to be released in September and called ‘Tomboy’. New songs available via various YouTubes.
Coachella lineup was announced.
There were many Haiti benefits.
Local Things:
Additionally, Maps and Atlases at SPACE Gallery in Portland on Monday.
Mates of State, February 18th at Port City Music Hall. Read more »
UPDATED: Get Excited, Upcoming WRBC Concerts
January 29th, 2010 • News, Press Release • 3 comments
Note: This is a republishing of an article originally posted on January 17th. The significant change is that the band Toro Y Moi has been added to the line up of the March 5 Washed Out and Small Black show.
This Winter Semester is going to be a decidedly epic time for concerts at Bates College courtesy of your friends at WRBC. While a few more shows are in the works, the first week of March will be a crowded, but decidedly epic week of shows.
The first show, to be held on Wednesday, March 3rd, will feature the music of Cambridge, Massachusetts’ Hey Mama. This contemporary rock ‘n roll four-piece band, features Avi Salloway and Celia Woodsmith, formerly of the aptly named Avi and Celia. This show, like most of our shows, will be in the Benjamin Mays Center at Bates College. Read more »
Fresh from the South: Toro Y Moi (with Video)
January 28th, 2010 • Electronic, News, Release Calendar, South Carolina, Video • No comments
We all know South Carolina as the bastion of the Confederacy, Palmettos, Boiled Peanuts and Sweet Tea… But Chillwave? Apparently. Toro Y Moi, a band that derives its name from a mashup of Romance language word meaning The Bull and Me, is a rising star in the growing genre, and he calls Columbia, South Carolina home.
His most recent album, Causers of This, was released this month as a digital download and will come out in a hard copy February 2 on Carpark Records. The Internet buzz machine is alive with support of what he is doing. Even Kanye West agrees with the hype of this former USC Gamecock, Chazwick Bundick (what a name!). Read more »
WRBC Charts and Adds – 1/26/10
January 25th, 2010 • Charts • 1 comment
1. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Contra
2. TEGAN AND SARA Sainthood
3. RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR 2
Vampire Weekend's "Conta"
4. AVETT BROTHERS I And Love And You
5. HEADLIGHTS Wildlife
6. TOM WAITS Glitter And Doom Live
7. WATSON TWINS Talking To You, Talking To Me
8. THEM CROOKED VULTURES Them Crooked Vultures
9. R.E.M. Live At The Olympia
10. RAVEONETTES In And Out Of Control Read more »
5 Albums for Sleep
January 24th, 2010 • Commentary, Op-Ed • 3 comments
A friend of mine once said, “are you planning on sleeping tonight? Because when you do, have a nice sleep.” For many, however, it is not that simple. It has been estimated that about one in every eight Americans suffer from insomnia, and, while this statistic may alarm you, it perhaps does not have to be this way. My secret to getting a good night’s sleep is almost always throwing an album on to lull me into my REM cycle. While there are a number of albums that really do the trick, I am going to leave you, insomniacs of the world with five of my personal favorites presented in alphabetical order by the band’s name.
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Certainly among the best albums recorded ever, its a drifty arhythmic masterpiece of sweeping multipart vocals and heavily layered instrumentals. It is certainly an album you should take a listen to while you are awake and conscious, but for me those horn lines on low volume are like musical NyQuil.
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
This low-fi masterpiece from 2007 has some heavy lyrics that may be off-putting to the average sleeper, but the drifty wistful nature of Bon Iver’s musicality easily deposits me into dreamland by the third or forth track of the album. Its earthy and elemental stripped down nature is something special. Read more »
Album Review: Teen Dream by Beach House
January 21st, 2010 • Album Review, Rock • No comments
Beach House: "Teen Dream"
To many, Baltimore, the city on the bay, may seem like a decidedly unlikely source for some of the most innovative music being produced currently in the United States. Quietly tucked between New York and Washington, the home of the Orioles has managed to produce numerous bands that represent a myriad of genres.
I think perhaps most surprising is that the still-fledgling genre of dream pop has managed to flourish on the mean streets of Baltimore of all places. Animal Collective is no doubt the biggest name to grow out of this tradition, but before you empty your crab bucket, take notice of the increasingly popular duo, Beach House, which also lives and works out of Maryland.
Their third album, Teen Dream, is slated to be released by SUB POP on January 26, 2010, but has been floating on the internet for several weeks. The band’s first major label release, Teen Dream is less ambient when compared to their two previous LPs, Devotion (2008) and their Self-Titled debut album (2006).
The elements that band members Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally draw upon in the production of Teen Dream are not all specific to the dream pop mantra. I am particularly fond of the use of percussion, which is a fairly significant shift in their music. This album is by no means dance music, but there is a decidedly potent rhythm that would lead me to believe that if I were to see a live show of theirs I would be raving about it for weeks and weeks after the fact. Read more »
Album Review: Heartland by Owen Pallett
January 20th, 2010 • Album Review • 1 comment
Owen Pallett's "Heartland"
Violin virtuoso Owen Pallet has finally dropped the Final Fantasy mantra in favor of his real name and to celebrate, the Canadian has released what might amount to being his best album to date. 2010’s Heartland is an early contender for this years retrospective best of lists, and represents a considerable departure from Pallett’s earlier works.
Obviously the star feature here are some beautiful loops of various orchestral pieces making for a sort of one man orchestra. Pallett has, however filled out his music with a number of different instruments including some well timed clarinet and glockenspiel lines which serve to deepen the album beyond its baroque pop roots into a sort of modern classical piece, which was an innovative and daring choice on Pallett’s part.
I could have done without much of the vocals in their current form. The lyrics themselves seem somewhat trite and the melodic rhythms of the singing often are sung counter to the rhythm of the instrumentation, which detracts from both elements. Pallett’s voice is, nevertheless, an excellent one for the world of indie folk, which he is on the fringe of. Read more »
WRBC Charts and Adds 1/19/10
January 17th, 2010 • Charts • No comments
2 AVETT BROTHERS I And Love And You
3 HEADLIGHTS Wildlife
4 TOM WAITS Glitter And Doom Live
5 THEM CROOKED VULTURES Them Crooked Vultures Read more »