Four kids from Houston playing folky folk punk on this 12 track album with banjo, violin, mandolin, acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies that are fun to sing along with. Label: Plan-It-X Records; Website Favorite songs: Leah’s Song, Hit the Bottle, You Can Almost Hold It In Your Hands, Scan to Print, Whiskey, Starch and Carbohydrates [...]
A weedy florilegium
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The War on Ears, pt. 1
Tarantula A.D. Danny Bensi (Cello, Violin, Piano, Vocals), Saunder Jurriaans (Guitar, Bass, Vocals), and Gregory Rogove (Drums, Percussion, Piano, Melodica, Glockenspiel, Vocals) comprise the shuddering anthems of Tarantula A.D. Blending classical arrangements with elements of punk and metal, Tarantula A.D. delivers a hypnotic prog-rock sound with an ambient atmosphere. [...] –Last.fm profile, http://www.last.fm/music/Tarantula+A.D. When John [...]
Actarus – Self-titled
Actarus’s self-titled has a clean sound which fluctuates between post-rock and math rock – and no, not the kind math rock we know and love from old greats like Polvo. Their music is in the same vein as just about every other contemporary post-rock band; it’s that kind of “math rock” that actually means “progressive.” [...]
65daysofstatic – The Destruction of Small Ideas
65daysofstatic are an instrumental post-rock band from Sheffield, England. [...] The band intersperses heavy, progressive, guitar-driven instrumental sections with live drums and off-beat sampled drums akin to those of Aphex Twin. Their albums, as a result, maintain a distinctively gritty, almost industrial feel. –Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65daysofstatic Download: RapidShare, MediaFire, SendSpace
Cheval de Frise – Self-titled
Instrumental duo acoustic guitar/drums from Bordeaux, France born in November 1998. Cheval de Frise’s music unites a melodic approach with binary system. Cheval de Frise gets its own language and their unique music reminding us of Gastr Del Sol, Don Caballero and Ruins directions, intersections, juxtapositions, superpostions. Cheval de Frise runs in the same way [...]