Puddlegum http://puddlegum.net indie rock music blog Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:30:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://feeds.feedburner.com/Puddlegumnet?format=skinhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Landlocked Music and Russian Recording: It Happened Here http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Puddlegumnet/~3/PPhv46dM92g/ http://puddlegum.net/landlocked-music-and-russian-recording-it-happened-here/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:30:17 +0000 Flick http://puddlegum.net/?p=2185 Bloomington, Indiana’s Landlocked Music and Russian Recording brought in quite few artists traveling through Bloomington in 2009. Having recorded each performance, they’re releasing a vinyl compilation set on Record Store Day (April 17th, 2010). It Happened Here will be a limited print LP and 7″ set; 750 will be pressed to be exact.

The list of artists is quite impressive: Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Lou Barlow, The Delicious, Maps & Atlases, Rooms, Magnolia Electric Co., Tremendous Fucking, The Entrance Band, Prizzy Prizzy Please, Wovenhand, Alexander the Great, Damien Jurado, Whoa!Tiger, and Phosphorescent.

The 7″ consists of two live in-store performances at Landlocked Music, called Live At Landlocked Music, and the LP will have twelve tracks recorded at Russian Recording Studio, called We Just Call It Roulette V.III.

David Woodruff (The Delicious) of Woodruff & Sons and In Case Of Emergency Press are designing the artwork. The work of David Woodruff can be seen on many flyers, album covers, and t-shirts around Bloomington.

Engineer Mike Bridavsky moved Russian Recording to Bloomington in 2008, located at the previous home of Secretly Canadian Records. Bridavsky has managed to keep his rates affordable for local artists without sacrificing the quality of equipment.

Landlocked Records is one of the best vinyl stores in the Midwest, located in downtown Bloomington. Landlocked is always stocked with the best and most obscure indie artists. They opened on March 3rd, 2006, so this announcement couldn’t come at a better time.

Live At Landlocked Music 7″
 Instore Performances from 2009
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Beware Your Only Friend (live)
Lou Barlow – Imagination Blond (Dino Jr song, live)

We Just Call It Roulette V.III LP
 Recordings from Russian Recording Studio
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The Delicious – Something
Maps & Atlases – Pigeon (live)
ROOMS – Radio Ghosts
Magnolia Electric Co. – Rider. Shadow. Wolf. (live)
Tremendous Fucking – We’ve Got Your Daddy
The Entrance Band – Lookout (live)
Prizzy Prizzy Please – Let’s Go to the Zoo
Wovenhand – Kicking Bird (live)
Alexander the Great – Built From the Ground Up
Damien Jurado – Kansas City (live)
Whoa!Tiger – Calm After the Storm
Phosphorescent – South of America (live)

Listen: The Delicious – Something

For more information:
Landlocked Music
Russian Recording
David Woodruff
In Case Of Emergency Press

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]]> http://puddlegum.net/landlocked-music-and-russian-recording-it-happened-here/feed/ 2 http://puddlegum.net/landlocked-music-and-russian-recording-it-happened-here/http://media.puddlegum.net/wp-content/uploads/Something.mp3 The New Monarchs: Electrocaching http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Puddlegumnet/~3/oJk1gYtQf5M/ http://puddlegum.net/the-new-monarchs-electrocaching/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:57:41 +0000 Flick http://puddlegum.net/?p=2181 Sean Hogan and Taylor Nelson of The New Monarchs digitally released a new album called Electrocaching on March 2nd, while the CD will be released March 23rd. As the album name might indicate, The New Monarchs have an interesting experimental electronic sound that doesn’t abandon the importance of vocal melodies.

Electrocaching was released on March 2nd on Soup Bowl Records, a Minneapolis imprint. During the recording and post-recording process The New Monarchs recorded the album with Jeff Marcovis (Me & My Arrow), and Brian Moen of Peter Wolf Crier, “crafted the visual accompaniments.”

Sean Hogan repeats in both songs Tangent and Electrocaching, “I am searching for a message in the electric sounds that are running through my head.” The sounds and lyrics feed off each other as Sean sings, “these sounds keep me moving `round,” suggesting a theme that Electrocaching taps the aural imagery in Hogan’s psyche.

Listen: The New Monarchs – Tangent
Interact: The New Monarchs on Myspace
Watch: The New Monarchs on Youtube


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]]> http://puddlegum.net/the-new-monarchs-electrocaching/feed/ 0 http://puddlegum.net/the-new-monarchs-electrocaching/http://media.puddlegum.net/wp-content/uploads/01-Tangent.mp3 Peter Wolf Crier signs to Jagjaguwar http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Puddlegumnet/~3/S47b8X5gSnc/ http://puddlegum.net/peter-wolf-crier-signs-to-jagjaguwar/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:47:56 +0000 Flick http://puddlegum.net/?p=2175 Several months ago we pointed you towards Peter Wolf Crier, a project by Peter Pisano (Wars of 1812) and Brian Moen (The Shouting Matches with Jusin Vernon). After hearing Peter Wolf Crier’s debut, Inter-Be, we wished that this band would be heard by the indie-world, and in May it appears that we may get our wish. We’re excited to inform you that Peter Wolf Crier signed to Jagjaguwar, and Inter-Be will be released in the US on May 25th and the UK on June 7th!

Jagjauwar wrote:
“With our ears tuned into labelmates Gayngs, Volcano Choir, and Bon Iver, Peter Wolf Crier fits firmly into our developing Midwestern curatorial.”

Peter Wolf Crier will be performing SXSW at Emo’s Main Room (with Miles Kurowsky, Rogue Wave, Local Natives, Adam Green, and Delta Spirit), so be sure to look them up if you’re going.

Listen: Peter Wolf Crier – Crutch and Cane
Interact: Peter Wolf Crier’s website
Connect: Peter Wolf Crier on Facebook
Watch: Peter Wolf Crier performing on The Current


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]]> http://puddlegum.net/peter-wolf-crier-signs-to-jagjaguwar/feed/ 1 http://puddlegum.net/peter-wolf-crier-signs-to-jagjaguwar/http://media.puddlegum.net/wp-content/uploads/01-Crutch-Cane.mp3 Benni Hemm Hemm: Retaliate EP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Puddlegumnet/~3/9DcsOiz2MWE/ http://puddlegum.net/benni-hemm-hemm-retaliate-ep/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:09:53 +0000 Flick http://puddlegum.net/?p=2171 Being a sucker for Icelandic artists, I was excited to find that Benni Hemm Hemm is releasing Retaliate EP in April. Benni now lives in Scotland and this album marks the first time he has sung every song in English.

Benni recorded this album using his own recording gear, while the previous albums were recorded in the studio owned by Sigur Rós. The title song of Retaliate reveal a stripped down Benni Hemm Hemm, without the brass instruments breaking his song open. While Benni plas most of the instruments on the album, he is joined by Emily Scott on double bass and Peter Liddle on trumpet and alto-horn.

“The resulting EP is a collection of five songs which feature knives, gold, lazy pioneers, confident talibans, blood thirsty vampires, Stan-Stan-the-caretaker-man and last but not least blood, lots of blood.”

The EP ‘launch night’ is set for March 29th at The Bowery in Edinburgh. This will be his second album released on Kimi Records, an imprint based out of Benni’s native island, and it will be released as a 10″ vinyl in Europe, US and Japan.

Benni Hemm Hemm, whose real name is Benedikt H. Hermannsson, has been performing and recording with a large brass band since 2003, but it has been three years since he released Kajak, Benni’s first and only full-length.

Listen: Benni Hemm Hemm – Retaliate
Interact: Benni Hemm Hemm’s website

Benni Hemm Hemm tour dates:
24.03.10 Dublin (IR), Whelans
26.03.10 London (UK), tba
27.03.10 Oxford (UK), Jericho Tavern
28.03.10 Cardiff (UK), Buffalo Bar
01.04.10 Akureyri (IS), TBC
03.04.10 Reykjavík (IS), TBC
05.04.10 Dordrecht (NL), Bibelot
06.04.10 Brussel (BE), TBC
07.04.10 Luxembourg (LU), D:qliq
08.04.10 Paris (FR), Cafe de la Danse (tbc)
14.04.10 Vienna (AT), Chelsea
16.04.10 Erlangen (DE), E-Werk
17.04.10 Berlin (DE), Glashaus
18.04.10 Hamburg (DE), Hafenklang

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]]> http://puddlegum.net/benni-hemm-hemm-retaliate-ep/feed/ 0 http://puddlegum.net/benni-hemm-hemm-retaliate-ep/ A Weather: Everyday Balloons http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Puddlegumnet/~3/eNlpsFG0uug/ http://puddlegum.net/a-weather-everyday-balloons/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:36:59 +0000 Flick http://puddlegum.net/?p=2167 A Weather is releasing their sophomore album tomorrow, March 2nd, 2009, and Everday Balloons is one that I’m certain you’ll really get into. Released on Conor Oberst’s Team Love Records and Bad Panda Records, Everyday Balloons is a gentle indie-folk album that has an intimate and mellow sound. Produced by Adam Selzer (M. Ward, The Decemberists, Norfolk & Western), A Weather almost sings at a whisper, asking the listener to move in close and search deep within.

The album’s first single, Giant Stairs, has been released via Creative Commons (Creative Commons License: BY-NC-SA 3.0), an approach that we certainly embrace. If you’re new to their music as we are, you can stream their first music on their website.

Listen: A Weather – Giant Stairs
Interact: A Weather’s website


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