7/31/09

MP3 Mondays on MOTORCITYBLOG - early drop as usual

bottom line we try to do these whenever we have time
besides - Mondays suck ass and we are going on vacation
MP3 Mondays on MOTORCITYBLOG
Photo by Paul Hitz

take a look / listen

Check out Aluminum Babe who are releasing the new record "17" in Sept 2009

1st emailer to ask for it can have our advance copy

its a little worn out since the GGBB girls have been shaking some ass
to it for the past few weeks but still plays
Download the track “Repetition
for a taste of what to expect.
New album due out on Oct 6th 2009
Los Angeles’ The Willowz are back with their vibrant energy and vintage inspired new wave sound. The band’s new album, Everyone, is a strong statement of musical evolution. While staying true to their no-strings-attached soul infused garage rock sound, the band has incorporated stronger crafted pop hooks than ever before.

When The Willowz formed in 2002, they were just teenagers with ambitious dreams. Fast forward seven years and the band has found itself featured on the soundtracks to such award winning films such as “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind” and “The Science Of Sleep,” and on numerous publications’ “best of the year” lists. Nominated for L.A. Weekly’s “Rock Band of the Year,” making Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of the Year, and coveting the O.C. Weekly’s “#1 Rock Album of the Year” for their 2007 record, Chautauqua, The Willowz are gearing up for the release of their eagerly anticipated forth album, Everyone.

Opening the record is “Break Your Back,” a track that starts out with simple percussion and colorful vocals before crescendo-ing into a massive, heavily layered song, paving the way for the remainder of this dynamic rock album. “I Know” rides the waves between garage rock vigor and an undeniably addictive, anthemic chorus. “Way It Seems” highlights lead vocalist Richie James Follin’s incredible range as his falsetto accompanies the always tempo changing song, making it stand out as an original track that can’t be qualified as either fast paced nor a ballad, but rather manages to be both.

The Willowz once again challenge the rock genre with their unique and beautifully crafted sound. Their luscious harmonies and fiercely rocking melodies make Everyone a gem in their already expansive discography.

We are Vovete
a duo from New York and other places.
We've got an album of tunes coming out soon, self-released of course, and made with nothing but love, dreams and late nights.
get the MP3's here - http://drop.io/vovete_mp3s
Shades and Shadows is a chorus of voices, a layered prayer, incantation, or hope for guidance
House Of Dreams is a lonely island built for two.
The record will be out this fall, recorded by that wizard of sound - John Kilgore.
In local news - We've been asked to play at The Delancey, in nyc,
as part of the awesomeness that is SMALL BEAST -
which has been given much love by Brooklyn Vegan and others
We'll be there Monday, Aug 3rd, the show starts at 8PM,
we take the stage about 10 PM.
We're honored, humbled, excited - all those things.
xo danny/Vovete
SAOSIN
‘IN SEARCH OF SOLID GROUND’
OUT SEPTEMBER 8TH
FROM THE NEW ALBUM
and catch them at Vans Warped Tour this weekend
Check out Inward Eye @ WARPED Tour Detroit

Canadian rockers Inward Eye are set to release their debut album "Throwing Bricks Instead of Kisses" through J Records on August 18, 2009. The band, which consists of the Erickson brothers, Dave (vocals/bass), Kyle (guitar/vocals), and Anders (drums) will be on the Vans Warped Tour starting July 28th through August 14th. Inward Eye also have touring commitments with Flogging Molly for two weeks in October throughout Canada.

The same day the band is set to embark on Warped Tour,
they will be premiering a new video for the song "Day After Day"
off their forthcoming album.
Head on over to http://www.warpedtour.com/ to watch the video.
After watching the video, go over to the band's website http://www.inwardeye.com/ to download the 4 song "Inward Eye" EP completely for FREE which features the hit song "Shame."

ww.inwardeye.com
www.myspace.com/inwardeye
Don’t Be Scared, Tune In As HOLLANDS Play Fearless Music TV!

Download Hollands’ song “Coughing Boy” here

Everyone is looking for the next big band, the next group that is poised to create a shift in the musical cosmos. For several years now Fearless Music TV has been at the forefront of that search. And the Brooklyn rock/folk group, Hollands, are their newest candidate for success as they cross the East River to perform on the Fearless Music Stage at Manhattan’s Crash Mansion on August 19.

The performance will be airing later in the fall on the internationally syndicated television series, so be sure to stay tuned. Other acts that have recently taken the Fearless stage have been Gogal Bordello, DeVotchka, and Metric.

In preparation for their next release, Mother EP, in October, Hollands has been playing shows all summer and we’ll be wrapping up the season with a show at Brooklyn’s Pete’s Candy Store on August 21.

Show Details
8/21 – Brooklyn, NY @ Pete’s Candy Store @ 11:45pm

Fearless Music TV: http://www.fearlessmusic.com/
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/hollandsss

this band kicks the shit out of all these other bands - KR
free cd to the 1st emailer
motorcityblog@earthlink.net

currently on tour with Dave Mathews Band

HILL COUNTRY REVUE MUSIC VIDEO AND MUSIC
New Download “RAMBLIN” Live Performance

Video for “You Can Make It”: Click Here

Formed in 2008 by Cody Dickinson of the Grammy-nominated North Mississippi Allstars, Hill Country Revue are the "modern blues band for the new generation." HCR represents a return to the juke-joint one-chord trance blues of north Mississippi, styles made famous by local blues legends like R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. Drawing from the traditional songs and modes of the Hill Country, the band stays true to its roots yet pushes the boundary by incorporating new songs and elements for the next generation. HCR’s debut album, MAKE A MOVE, was released in May 2009 and the band continues to tour in support.

Hill Country Revue’s You Tube channel.
www.myspace.com/hillcountryrevue
http://www.hillcountryrevue.com/
Hill Country Revue on iTunes
Hill Country Revue on Amazon

If you haven’t heard French Miami yet, enjoy your last few minutes of peace.
Once their songs get inside your head, they start a permanent loop and you will wake up and go to bed singing along. The only way out of this musical addiction is sleep deprivation.

French Miami’s raucous live shows use rock music structures to hold together more technical musical ideas. Jagged guitars, pulsing synths, and precise stop-start rhythms launch seductive refrains that have forced the crowd’s feet off the floors in post-punk singalong deliriums from SXSW to CMJ. The first time you catch their live show you might be shocked to discover there’s no bassist as their ménage a guitar-synth takes the low end as far as it can go with the head-nodding precision of a mathematical equation.

How is this possible? It helps that they’re multi-taskers. Onstage, French Miami show off the technical cred behind their sound by moving non-stop and playing an average of two instruments apiece, usually at the same time. Singer Jason Heiselmann slides effortlessly between baritone guitar and keyboards while delivering vocal melodies in memorable strands too gritty to be called pop, too irresistibly catchy not to be. Multi-instrumentalist Roland Curtis is usually playing a guitar with one hand and a synth with the other with freakish proficiency. Meanwhile, drummer Chris Crawford does precisely what a drummer should do by anchoring their sound in a minimalist beat, knowing when to let loose and when not to.

This was no easy live show to wrangle onto a record, but French Miami knew the right man for the job. Phil Manley (Trans Am, Fucking Champs) committed their self-titled debut - a unique blend of prog, post-punk, and synth-art rock - to eternity. The album waxes nostalgic on anthemic 90s sounds from Archers of Loaf and Trans Am, tastes the angular grooves of Battles and Holy Fuck, and throws in the earnestness of the Boss and Fugazi to balance the sweet with the sour. The result is terse, jagged rhythms fueled by great hooks fulfilled in noisy abandon.

Download 'God Damn Best' taken from their
self-titled debut album: HERE

These guy play PJs Lager House on
www.myspace.com/mrfrenchmiami
www.myspace.com/takerootrecords
http://www.takerootrecords.com/

To listen to Blacklist is to listen to people who have chosen to stand in opposition. Complex and modern themes are wound tightly inside impressionistic lyrics, available to be unravelled by the curious listener or ignored by those who find themselves moved primarily by the force of the music. The band's debut LP, Midnight Of The Century, is raw ambition mixed with raw power. Mixed by Ed Buller (Suede, Slowdive, Pulp, White Lies) and mastered by Howie Weinberg (Muse, Jeff Buckley, Iron Maiden, U2, Nirvana), it is a potent dose of rock and roll maximalism.

When the revolutionary Victor Serge coined the idea of a midnight in the century, he was referring to the dark pact between two of the cruelest tyrants the world had ever seen. And yet Serge is perhaps best known for his rambunctious, stubborn attitude in the face of such darkness: "the course is set on hope," he wrote. It is precisely this marriage of extremity to romantic optimism that characterizes Midnight Of The Century -- not just in the realm of ideas, but musically as well. Despite its density of sound and shadowy atmospheres, the record is the soundtrack to an uplifting journey that is as personal as it is universal. It is also a fitting manifesto announcing the arrival of Blacklist.

"icy sound and quaking bottom end is
counterbalanced by a more inviting, anthemic impulse"

FREE MP3 of "Flight of the Demoiselles"
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HERE to Download
http://www.myspace.com/blacklistmusic