Dreamers of the Ghetto full length coming

Dreamers of the Ghetto are an emerging band that likes big landscapes and aren't afraid of some space. This "family" band from Indiana has captured the art of using simple rhythms and minimal song structure to deliver large atmospheric sounds. In particular, they aren't afraid to open up a huge space in their songs and let a swelling rhythm carry everyone forward. And the vocals ... none of this would be possible if it weren't for the melodic Springstein-like grit of Luke Jones' vocals. Can you imagine a scenario in which Phil Collins adds a little heavier rock to bleed more deeply into romantic 80's dream-rock and then invites a Springstein/Bon Jovi combo. to lend some harmonic, yet occasionally dirty and growling vocal stylings? This is as close as you are going to get ... and it's happening now.

Listen below. In each of the numbers, you can hear that everyone in the band knows their role and plays it their best ability to create that big sound.

Full-length hits next week (first in October). Can't wait.



 Connection by Dreamers of the Ghetto

Note: The original cut of "Tether" that hit the interwebs clocked in at a trance-inducing 7:31. This cut from their bandcamp site is shorter by over 3 minutes. I'm guessing the band trimmed the number for the LP. I really like the tune, so I prefer the long-play cut.

Dreamers of the Ghetto - Phone Call by morrisday

Dreamers of the Ghetto - Regulator from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo.

Tuesday's Trimmings: Some Mid-September Ease

Fall is on the doorstep, supposedly. Steadily the music world turns as the more fall-feeling albums begin to drop (too many Fall analogies to pair with that, so I'll let you fill in your own). There are a good deal of more gentle numbers with an ease of pace appearing this week; even the rocky-er numbers have a more golden sense to them this time of year. Jump right in to this week's selections. 


For a real Fall treat, hit the previous post for a full stream of Twin Sister's first full-length In Heaven.


Artist                                                             Track

• AA Bondy                                            Surfer King
• Blitzen Trapper                                     Street Fighting Sun
• Lanterns on the Lake                             Keep on Trying
• ARMS                                                  Fleeced
• Caveman                                              Thankful
• Friends                                                 I'm His Girl
• Liam Finn                                             Cold Feet
• Los Campesinos!                                  By Your Hand
• PAPA                                                   I Am the Lion King
• The Rest                                               Always on My Mind
• Wild Beasts                                          Thankless Thing
• Weekend                                              The One You Want

• You Won't                                            Fryer (from Wild Honey Pie Studio Session)

• You Won't                                            Who Knew (from Wild Honey Pie Studio Session)

fun -- We Are Young


fun.: We Are Young ft. Janelle Monáe by Fueled By Ramen

Twin Sister "In Heaven"

The long anticipated full-length from Twin Sister in advance! These sharp, yet restrained pop numbers feel like fall encapsulated. Enjoy.

The album officially hits the shelves Sept. 27 via Domino.

New Tunes Tuesday: More of Less Heat

Let's not waste any more time on the heat, and get on into the fall. 


 Artist                                                             Track

• Carter Tanton                                        Horrorscope
• Hospitality                                            Friends of Friends
• Leisure                                                 Green Light
• Slow Club                                             If We're Still Alive
• The Big Pink                                         Stay Gold
• The Morning Clouds                               A Walk Home
• The Spires                                            Clock Out the Clocks
• Tiger Waves                                          Funeral March
• Tiger Waves                                          Slow Loris
• Wilco                                                    Dawned on Me
• Yuck                                                    Cousin Corona

... and two streamers .....


Sissy and the Blisters -- Let Her Go

Sissy & The Blisters - Let Her Go by charmfactory




I Break Horses -- Wired



I Break Horses- Hearts by Bella Union

Tiger Waves: Only Good Bands Have Animal Names

Here's to a celebration of our modern ability to share lots of high-quality information almost instantly (get your tri-quarters out!).

Tiger Waves (James and Reid) are a Postal Service-style effort. They crafted and produced their melodic, lo-fi, surf-influenced tunes through interwebs file sharing and emailing. The two collaborated on fragments of punchy, reverb-filled numbers and added layers of melody from separate locations in Austin and Chicago. That's right ... a true bedroom recording produced in two separate bedrooms with only the interwebs in between.

The result is a wonderful marriage of lo-fi reverb with surf punch and jangle. The bedroom production adds an appropriate amount of garage, while the melodic layering (not too thick mind you) keeps the riffs generally clean (with intentional exceptions on some numbers) and discernible below the vocals. Enjoy, and squabble after the break.






Head on over to Tiger Waves bandcamp page and grab the full album while it's still gratis!
http://tigerwaves.bandcamp.com/album/only-good-bands-have-animal-names

Some New Tunes Just Before The New Tunes

Why is it that simply being away from your usual abode disrupts the whole routine? After a 2.5 week stay in Long Beach and a short trip to St. Charles, Mizzou, I'm still recovering. Bring on the normalcy and the routine ... time to settle back in for the fall.

The travelogue is an attempt at an excuse for an untimely post. Today, I give you a quick-fire new tunes prior to a proper New Tunes Tuesday. Here is a list of tracks that predominantly preview some releases to come in the next few weeks. Enjoy and complain after the break.

       Artist                                                             Track

• Girls                                                         Honey Buny
• Dum Dum Girls                                          Bedroom Eyes
• Lower Dens                                               Deer Knives
• St. Vincent                                               Cruel
• Brown Bird                                                Thunder and Lightning
• Male Bonding                                            Tame the Sun
• Sundress                                                   Derelict
• Sundress                                                   Thirteen
• Widowspeak                                              Gun Shy
• Young Man                                                Tired Eyes 

Tempe to Long Beach, Long Beach to Tempe (i.e., reality): Stream Girls and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

   Is it really necessary to explain lack of posting when the people who read this blog are folks I strong-armed? Perhaps not ....perhaps .... We could argue, but you will have it regardless.

   I settled in Long Beach, CA for 2.5 weeks during a research get-away. It was a completely different world. The neighborhoods were cottage-communal, the landscaping was immaculate, the weather was a dream, and there was almost no need for a car. It already seems like the Long Beach experiment was not real. Overall, it was a lot of things that Tempe is not, and here I am back in reality ... that is Tempe.  

   To ease back into this reality of heat, let's begin with some out-of-the-gate streaming options (little work for me, and little work for you). 

   Stream the highly anticipated new Girls release Father, Son, Holy Ghost: 

                                

  Stream the long-awaited (and hopefully return-to-form) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah release entitled  

  Hysterical:

   
                                                **STREAM DISABLED    

Comments, thoughts, reactions, and irrational emotional responses ? Carry on with comments.