Aria Jalali manages to retains the synth pop elements of his first ep, Cities vs. Submarines, on the new 12″ Cathedral With No Eyes (pre-order). What is added improves upon that template already laid to manifest itself as a dense, sonically packed experiment in noise.
Both of the ‘Passion of Saint Edmund’ tracks comprising the middle of the album particularly entrap listeners in that mesmerizing daze of sonic depth. But don’t think of Railcars as having gone experimental, Aria still arranges the same danceable pop songs that stick in your head for days.
Catch their live show which adds visuals, indescribable energy, and what appears to be a perennially botched cover of ‘Dreams’ by The Cranberries. Here’re some tunes.
noah’s beat: aria is also keeping a tour diary right here. it was originally going to be kept on fmly, but we couldn’t figure out how to work wordpress on his iphone. next time! and if you have a sec make sure to peep his equally as inspiring project micromagician (‘gospel girls’ = instant classic).
This week the world has been a-flutter with the news that Radiohead might be releasing new material on Monday, August 17 after a new song seemed to appear online.
Now, eagle-eyed observers have noticed that elements of the file and code attached to the song featured the words “wall” and “of” and “ice”, and that indeed the combination of the three appeared in a mysterious poem that accomanpanied the track on back-of-the-internet-lorry site what.cd. You can find all the Wall of Ice stuff hidden in the ASCII code here.
If you therefore assume that Radiohead follow the same model as they did with In Rainbows – ie they create a website based on the title of the release – you get www.wallofice.com. And that leads straight to the WASTE shop. In other words, it looks very much like the rumours are true: there’s an EP coming with that title and Radiohead’s site is all set up to receive the orders via that site.
It would also be a massive raspberry to EMI, who are reissuing a load more Radiohead back catalogue to feed Guy Hands’ coffers in a few weeks, not to mention being entirely in tune with Thom Yorke’s hints that the band are no longer interested in going down the path of releasing full-length albums.
Read some nerd discourse about it all here. Geeks not happy about Radiohead using geek thieving technology to release records before they can get hold of them, and so on.
Listen to what might, or might not, be Radiohead’s ‘Wall Of Ice’ below: [via the quietus]
I can’t verify if any of this is true mostly because I’d rather go to the beach than sit at my computer decoding Radiohead messages…but I appreciate the hell out of the folks that do this for us! Hopefully this is true, so here’s the “new tune.” Remember our last Radiohead scare? Cryptic message after the jump.
Dag för Dag is a group comprised of American-born siblings, Sarah Parthemore Snavely and Jacob Donald Snavely whom currently live and create in Stockholm, Sweden. They have just released a 6-song EP, Shooting from the Shadows this month and have wasted no time hitting the road. So far the tour has no shows set up in the states, though we’re hoping they make their way to our side of the world and share their lovely sound with us soon. So, keep your fingers crossed and your ears open for these two, they’re making their way and they’re making it fast.
Thank You Come Again
Lady Bird Lake Trail
March 20, 3PM
w/ dead gaze, easyboy, mistlefinger, big whup + pizza!, white fang, jonesin', tempo no tempo, dream panther
FMLY Group Hug
Dominican Joe, 515 South Congress
March 20, 8pm
w/ MillionYoung, Truman Peyote, Michael Parallax, Wampire, Idiot Glee, I Am The Dot, Magic Man, Philip Seymour Hoffman fbook event
Los Angeles
Kria Brekkan & Drawlings
McWorld
March 24th fbook event
Evan Voytas, WAMPIRE, Battlehooch, Pizza! + Afterparty for Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) and The Hood Internet
McWorld
March 25th Fbook event
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Dinowalrus, Tempo No Tempo
May 1
Santa Cruz
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Pacific and Water
Boston
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
PPALMM's Chinatown Loft
April 16
New York
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
April 18
Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) & Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Knitting Factory
April 24 fbook event
IcyDemons, Truman Peyote, Trouble Books
Glasslands
May 2
San Francisco
Thank you Come Again
The Neighbors, Wes Leslie, Shaw, Maus Haus, Mistlefinger, Goliath the Giver
March 21st
Dolores Park f book event
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