A brand new song today from Chelsea Taube, one of my absolute favorite unsigned songwriters that I've featured here at Bag Of Songs. Someone give this girl a record deal.MP3: Chelsea Taube - She Cheats
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A brand new song today from Chelsea Taube, one of my absolute favorite unsigned songwriters that I've featured here at Bag Of Songs. Someone give this girl a record deal.
First up, Bless 1. One of Chicago's finest hip hop producer/artists, Bless 1 has teamed up with producers from around the world as Digital Invaders. They've put together a very cool all instrumental hip hop disc entitled Invasion. In addition to Bless 1 the also featured are are SUFF DADDY, HAZEEM, LOKID, ELLIPSIS, POWELL, THEWORTHLESSFEW, and AL'KAY FOUNDATION And to make it even better they're giving it away FREE. Check out these couple tracks then download the whole thing here (as a .RAR file).
Next up, Chelsea Taube one of the very first Artists Of The Day we featured. Chelsea's song Desperate Winters is featured on the new Loose Music compilation disc Country Girl :New Sounds Of The Old West Vol.5 alongside other artists such as Devon Sproule, Laura Gibson, Jaimi Shuey, Oh Susanna, Jenny Whiteley, The Watson Twins, Cat Martino, Jenn Grant, Jill Barber, Emily Barker, Nina Violet & The Invisible Orchestra, Salt, Ana Egge, The Mendoza Line, Rachel Ries, Lana Rebel, Redlands Palomino Co. Pick up your copy here. Here are two brand new songs Chelsea recently posted to her myspace page.
Last but not least is Desmond Reed. Desmond has his song Who I'd Like To Meet featured on a recent compilation, Baby Boom Records Sampler 002 Desmond's quirky, catchy, songs instantly embed themselves permanently into your world. Here's a couple recent new ones from him.
What I've been listening to the most this past week :The Broken West - I Can't Go On,I'll Go On, Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy(remaster), Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up, Bright Eyes - Cassadaga,Limbeck - Limbeck,The Swimmers - Fighting Trees,The Creeping Weeds - We Are All Part Of A Dream You're Having
The ~K'nise Music Maker Of The Week is the lovely piano playing Skyler Stonestreet.
Bag Of Songs Artist To Watch Chelsea Taube has gotten her song Desperate Winters placed on an upcoming Loose Music Country Girl compilation and is playing a couple shows in New York City this week.
Good Sounds Good is a collective of amazingly talented female artists mainly based out of Toronto consisting of Emer, Emma-Lee, blueVenus, Melissa Bathory, Sarah Shafey, Moulann, Kirsten Jones, Clare Love and, Saidah Baba Talibah. They have a big showcase show coming up as well as shows by a few of their members.
The two piece band has already become almost cliche in today's indie rock scene. Well, The Somme are not just another White Stripes or Black Keys wannabe peddling rough and raunchy blues based tunes. They go for a more epic wall of sonics in their purely instrumental songs. There's enough intricacy going on that you'll forget you're just listening to one guitar and drums.THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME
The 1916 Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War. With more than one million casualties it was also one of the bloodiest battles in human history.
2007. Nearly half a decade has passed now since the mighty duo Somme first emerged from a
Chicago basement, endlessly cultivating, refining and rebuilding the ferocious guitar/drum offensive that's since become their signature sound. Their debut EP, Weight, recorded in one day at Steve Albini's legendary Electrical Audio Studios with revered engineer Greg Norman (High on Fire, Pelican, Mclusky, Magnolia Electric Co.), is a massive battle cry, at once reflecting the bloodsoaked triumphs of the allied forces and the thousands floating dead in the crimson River Somme on the day that remains, 87 years later, the British Army's goriest onslaught in history.
Somme is guitarist Daniel Medina, a 20 year-old chemical worker who spends his afternoons in a gas mask at a nearby plant hauling hazardous and contaminated materials, and drummer Kenny Preski whose mammoth drum sound is the explosive foundation and structural framework of
Somme's epic colossus.
Laid to tape in January 2007, with Norman at the decks, Weight is the first of a two-part series of sister recordings, the second of which is planned for release later this year. Due to the band's intense working dynamic, it was essential that their music be captured live to analog equipment. The result is a spectacularly ambitious sonic marvel, owing as much to key influences Spacemen 3, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Slow Riot-era Godspeed You Black Emperor as to the spectres of that brutal 1916 holocaust.
Upcoming Shows
March 4 2007 8:00P The Canopy Club Urbana, IL
MP3: Somme - Massless
MP3: Somme - Forge
Awesome Color
Thanks to Adam for the tip-off on these guys. Awesome Color is a New York City via Ann Arbor, MI trio that blends the raw power of Iggy and The Stooges with Goo-era Sonic Youth. It's pretty obvious why Thurston Moore signed them to his Ecstatic Peace label and partly produced their self titled debut disc.
Check out this video for the cooking garage rocker Free Man.
Derek Stanton - Guitar, Vocals The Slip is making their live performance debut on network television this coming Monday on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Michael Troutman - Bass
Allison Busch - Drums
Upcoming Shows
02/11/2007 09:00 PM - BAR New Haven, CT w/ Calla
02/12/2007 08:00 PM - Glasslands Brooklyn, New York w/ Demons and Religious Knives
02/14/2007 08:00 PM - Academy of Music Northampton, Massachusetts W/ Sonic Youth and Wooden Wand
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Some other things you'll want to check out this week:
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At the Blue Bar and Rack Room in Nashville, Me and the Machine Records is holding its very first album release party. Josh Preston, Nick Shelton and Brad Sweitzer will each perform. And it's FREE so get on down there.
Me and the Machine Records First Album Release Party
Tuesday February, 6 2007 6pm Blue Bar and Rack Room 1911 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee
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Bag Of Songs favorite the lovely and talented Chelsea Elizabeth Taube plays
Tuesday February, 6 2007 at The Modern Exchange Southgate, Michigan
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For the East Coasters, another Bag Of Songs favorite The Shrinking Islands also play their smart jangly pop this week
Tuesday February, 6 2007 at Bullfinch Yacht Club w/ Tom Thumb & The Latter Day Saints Boston, Massachusetts
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The Swimmers are a band based on a story. It’s not the story of how theLet me be one of the first to proclaim their new album Fighting Trees the first truly important release of 2007. Forget all about the new Shins,this is one disc you need to have right now. In trying to find a way to describe their sound, names like Tweedy, Dando, and McCartney spring to mind. This is an album chock full of intelligent, catchy songs. Watch for it to be released early this year, it is a must have.
Philadelphia four-piece met or of how they came to music or even how they shook
off their alt-country tendencies; it’s the story of a young man who swims home
through the backyard pools in his affluent suburban town only to find his home
abandoned and ruined.
Former One Star Hotel frontman Steve Yutzy-Burkey
based his new pop project on the famous short story, “The Swimmer” by John
Cheever, suddenly so inspired that he dismantled One Star Hotel to complete an
album’s worth of ambitious, upbeat songs far removed from the band’s jangly
country style.
Up next is Pittsburgh based band Triggers
Imagine if Ben Folds and Devo joined forces with some help from Elvis Costello to form a band, and you have an idea of what Triggers sounds like. Triggers new EP, Elude the Suits, takes the sound introduced on their first demo and refines it even further. From the jumpy staccato new wave guitar hook of Eyes Like A Ninja to the hyper pop She Had Me At Takeoff with its falsetto vocal, to the piano pounding rocker Anyone At Anytime, Elude The Suits is full of great pop songs.
Triggers are :
Joe Kasler – Bass, Vocals
Rich Kawood – Drums, Vocals
Adam Rousseau – Guitar, Vocals
Brett Zoric – Keyboards, Vocals
MP3 : Triggers How Do I Get To The Roof
from Triggers Demo
Stream the new Elude The Suits EP on their website: www.triggersmusic.com
Upcoming Shows
Jan 19 2007 Southminster Church PGH, PA 8pm ALL AGES w/ TBA
Jan 26 2007 Brillobox PGH, PA 10pm w/ Life in Bed, The Receiver. 21+
Mar 9 2007 Brillobox PGH, PA 10pm w/ Donora and Librarians. 21+
And last but certainly not least, a new song called Wilson, from Bag Of Songs favorite the lovely and talented Chelsea Taube.
Hey all, I'm going to be on vacation hiatus for about the next week, so there will not be new daily posts for a bit. I'm going to leave you with a special feature on one of my personal favorite new artists of the last year or so, Chelsea Taube.