It’s Mad Lib Monday at ChinaShop, where they fill in the blanks and we make up the rest. Check out our exclusive portraits and listen to some brand new music.
Music Mad Lib Monday: Vanaprasta
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Gallery Music The Submarines: Into The Great Wide Open
Of all the things that are great about this world we live in, pizza, beer and live music are pretty high up on the list. So naturally we had a hard time staying away from Home Slice Pizza during SXSW, where the kegs flowed freely and a veritable cavalcade of doughy, cheesy goodness kept rolling through the plush artist area across from the stage. We also got to chat with John Dragonetti and Blake Hazard of the Submarines after their set, who are equally awesome and thankfully contain far fewer calories than the other aforementioned great things.
John and Blake have been writing songs together for just over ten years now. They’ve also been together together for the same stretch of time, which makes the songs that they write together all sorts of revealing and relatable and wonderful. The title of their latest album is Love Notes/Letter Bombs, which is tongue in cheek wordplay that can be appreciated by anyone who’s been together together with anyone or anything for even half that time. It’s also a near perfect piece of work that uses a little red wagon of sonically rich, melodic pop to transport a load of emotional highs and lows that you can only get from songwriters like Lyle Lovett and Robert Smith. (Stream the entire album here.) The Subs are officially on tour in North America—check the bottom of the post for tour dates—and they officially photograph really well.
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Music Home Video’s Collin Ruffino gets political with NiveHive
If you dial up your Home Video albums on iTunes, you’re bound to run across a track or two that touches on light sociopolitical discourse. But when singer/guitarist Collin Ruffino became engrossed in the ongoing WikiLeaks drama, he decided a track or two wasn’t enough, and that Home Video wasn’t necessarily the best avenue to deliver the particular message he wanted to communicate in support of the heavily criticized news source. Thus, NiveHive was born. (Download “The Stuffed Men Bristle” after the jump.) We got in touch with Ruffino to pick his brain about why the WikiLeaks drama is something everyone should be paying close attention to, and how he’s helping bolster their message in his own unique way: “WikiLeaks is not an organization, it is a backlash, a mutiny. NiveHive is here to provide the soundtrack.”
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Music Girls in a ChinaShop: Jenny O
New Year. New Music. New Favorites. ChinaShop handpicks the Women to Watch in 2011. Don’t sleep…
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Music Girls in a ChinaShop: Caroline
New Year. New Music. New Favorites. ChinaShop handpicks the Women to Watch in 2011. Don’t sleep…
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Music Exclusive: Hooray For Earth “Rolling/Nectarine” Remix
Who says new music needs to pop off on Monday? We’ve got hot and fresh Hooray For Earth tunes right here. Download the Chad Valley Remix of “Rolling/Nectarine” below—a ChinaShop exclusive—then jump on over to our 2010 Infinite Playlist to snag “Surrounded By Your Friends.” Make sure you stay tuned to Dovecote Records and ChinaShop for more on Noel Heroux and Hooray For Earth in 2011. Big things on the way, people. Big things.
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Music ChinaShop’s 2010 Infinite Playlist
Well, it’s not quite infinite, but we will be adding to it between now and the end of the year! But in the meantime, enjoy our nifty little SoundCloud playlist packed with songs from the past 347 days that really carved a niche in our brains. We’ve dropped a bit of everything in here, from the rousing beats of Groove Armada (nominated for a Grammy!) and the Midnight Juggernauts to the front porch balladry of Frazey Ford and Lou Rhodes. Double bonus: most of these tracks are downloadable and ready to be added to your own playlists. Enjoy the music, and stay tuned for some more ChinaShop Best Of’s!
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Featured Music Midnight Juggernauts release album, fold lots of paper
Not quite sure what they’re putting in the water over there, but Australia seems to have become a distribution hub for the kind of shoegaze dance pop that invariably puts you in a good mood every time you listen to it. What started in the ’80s with groups like Severed Heads continues today with groups like Cut Copy, The Presets and Melbourne’s very own DIY kings Midnight Juggernauts, whose latest full-length, The Crystal Axis, is in heavy rotation over here in the ChinaShop offices. Currently on tour–check the bottom of this post for dates near you–the three scruffy gents with a penchant for vintage synths and paper-folding (check the video after the jump) took some time out from being stranded in Miami to answer some questions about the new record.
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Daily Dots Daily Dots: Alex Chilton Tribute, U2 Remixes, Buy Perry Farrell’s House, Watch Spike Jonez New Film
Today’s bloggin best…
- Alex Chilton tribute to take place at SXSW tomorrow. NME
- Hot Chip, Justice and Trent Reznor remix U2 on vinyl. Artificial Horizon
- Buy Perry Farrell’s Venice Beach House for $1.6 Million. Huffington Post
- The Black Keys played a new Danger Mouse produced song on the BBC. URB
- Spike Jonez debuted a new short film online (if you can get the Flash site to work). I’m Here
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Music Liars
Photo by Paul Drake
Liars is a three-piece American band consisting of Australian-born Angus Andrew (vocals/guitar), Aaron Hemphill (percussion, guitar, synth) and Julian Gross (drums). Although initially lumped into the New York post-punk revival scene of the early 21st century, they have come to be categorized by their dramatic stylistic shifts between albums, while retaining a consistent interest in rhythm and sound texture. Have a listen.
Liars – Plaster Casts of Everything
Liars – Houseclouds
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