Milano January 6 at Beat Kitchen
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January 2012 Concert Guide in photos thanks to RedEye Chicago.
Third Round of Official 2012 Showcasing Artists have been announced. Soon, I'll start posting our SXSW 2012 picks -- bands we plan to see. In the meantime, browse the list below or check out all the bands announced so far here.
Peter Bradley Adams (Brooklyn NY)
A.Dd+ (Dallas TX)
Alberta Cross (Los Angeles CA)
Allah-Las (Los Angeles CA)
All The Young (Stoke-On-Trent ENGLAND)
ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) (San Francisco CA)
Alpha Rev (Austin TX)
Amoral (Helsinki FINLAND)
Amplified Heat (Austin TX)
Anamanaguchi (Brooklyn NY)
Ancestors (Los Angeles CA)
Ancestros (Cali COLOMBIA)
Ancient Astronauts (Cologne GERMANY)
The Apache Relay (Nashville TN)
Arborea (Lewiston ME)
Arkells (Hamilton CANADA)
The Art (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Atash (Austin TX)
Attwenger (Vienna AUSTRIA)
Authorities (Vancouver CANADA)
Automelodi (Montreal CANADA)
Maya Azucena (Brooklyn NY)
Andrea Balency Trio (Mexico City MEXICO)
Balkan Beat Box (Brooklyn NY/Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
Baloji (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)
Jef Barbara (Montreal CANADA)
Beach Fossils (Brooklyn NY)
Michael Beach (San Francisco CA)
Arthur Beatrice (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bez (Lagos NIGERIA)
The Big Pink (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Big Sleep (Brooklyn NY)
Bitches (London UK-ENGLAND)
Black & Gypsy / Raimundo Y Diego Amador (Chucena SPAIN)
The Black Belles (Nashville TN)
Bleached (Los Angeles CA)
Bliss N Eso (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Blitzen Trapper (Portland OR)
Blitz the Ambassador (Brooklyn NY)
Blood Orange (New York NY)
Blunt Fang (Atlanta GA)
BoDeans (Milwaukee WI)
The Bombettes (Umea SWEDEN)
Bonaparte (Berlin GERMANY)
Bonfire Nights (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Bos Angeles (Bournemouth UK-ENGLAND)
Dela Botri & Hewale Sounds (Accra GHANA)
Cory Branan (Nashville TN)
Breton (London UK-ENGLAND)
Brite Futures (Seattle WA)
Brother & Bones (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Brute Chorus (London UK-ENGLAND)
Built to Spill (Boise ID)
Busby Marou (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Cairo Knife Fight (Christchurch NEW ZEALAND)
The Calm Blue Sea (Austin TX)
Candy (Mexico City MEXICO)
Canteca de Macao (Madrid SPAIN)
Chapter 24 (London UK-ENGLAND)
Cheap Girls (Lansing MI)
Cheif Boima (Brooklyn NY)
Cheny Wa Gune Quarteto (Maputo MOZAMBIQUE)
Chicha Libre (Brooklyn NY)
Chokeules (Toronto CANADA)
Chris T-T (Brighton ENGLAND)
Inch Chua (Singapore SINGAPORE)
Circuit Des Yeux (Layfayette IN)
A Classic Education (Bologna ITALY)
Clock Opera (London UK-ENGLAND)
Clubfeet (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
The Coathangers (Atlanta GA)
Jordan Cook (Saskatoon CANADA)
Copacabana Club (Curitiba BRAZIL)
The Copper Gamins (Zinacantepec MEXICO)
Jonny Corndawg (Brooklyn NY)
Cosmo Jarvis (Plymouth UK-ENGLAND)
Cosmonauts (Fullerton CA)
Cotton Jones (Cumberland MD)
Cousins (Halifax CANADA)
Craft Spells (Seattle WA)
Crazy P (London UK-ENGLAND)
Creamers (Austin TX)
Creature (Montreal CANADA)
Cuba Cuba (Cardiff UK-WALES)
Cuff the Duke (Toronto CANADA)
The Curious Mystery (Seattle WA)
Da C.O.D. (Austin TX)
Dama do Bling (Maputo MOZAMBIQUE)
The Dandies (Hochdorf SWITZERLAND)
Dash Rip Rock (New Orleans LA)
Daughter (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dead Black Hearts (Austin TX)
Dead Letter Circus (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
The Defiled (London UK-ENGLAND)
Delta Spirit (Long Beach CA)
Dent May (Oxford MS)
DevilDriver (Los Angeles CA)
Dignan Porch (London UK-ENGLAND)
Diplomats of Solid Sound (Iowa City IA)
Dirty Karma (Mexico City MEXICO)
DIVE (Brooklyn NY)
DJ Dus aka El Dusty (Corpus Christi TX)
DJ Jester the Filipino Fist (San Antonio TX)
Thomas Dolby (Suffolk UK-ENGLAND)
Dope D.O.D. (Groningen THE NETHERLANDS)
Dorian (Barcelona SPAIN)
Lila Downs (Oaxaca MEXICO)
Dry the River (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dutch Uncles (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Dying Fetus (Baltimore MD)
Early Graves (San Francisco CA)
Ear Pwr (Asheville NC)
Electric Empire (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Electric Guest (Los Angeles CA)
Electric Jellyfish (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Elephant Stone (Montreal CANADA)
The Evaporators (Vancouver CANADA)
Extra Action Marching Band (Oakland CA)
The Extremities (Toronto CANADA)
Father John Misty (Los Angeles CA)
Lee Fields & The Expressions (Brooklyn NY)
The Foreign Resort (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Guy Forsyth (Austin TX)
Marcus Foster (London UK-ENGLAND)
Frank (Just Frank) (Queens NY)
The Fray (Denver CO)
French Films (Helsinki FINLAND)
GAMEBOUY (Soweto SOUTH AFRICA)
Ganglians (Sacramento CA)
Gappy Ranks (London UK-ENGLAND)
Garland Jeffreys (New York NY)
Gliss (Los Angeles CA)
The Golden Awesome (Wellington NEW ZEALAND)
Gold Fields (Mitchell Park AUSTRALIA)
Gold Motel (Chicago IL)
The Good Natured (Newbury UK-ENGLAND)
Gospel Music (Jacksonville FL)
Grave Babies (Seattle WA)
Great Lake Swimmers (Toronto CANADA)
Peter Gregson (London UK-ENGLAND)
Grimes (Montreal CANADA)
Gross Magic (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Half Moon Run (Montreal CANADA)
Harouki Zombi (Athens NE)
Billy Harvey (Los Angeles CA)
Hatcham Social (London UK-ENGLAND)
Heartless Bastards (Cincinnati OH)
Hellogoodbye (Long Beach CA)
The Higher State (Sandgate UK-ENGLAND)
Hillfolk Noir (Boise ID)
Micah P. Hinson (Abilene TX)
Hollie Cook (Londres ENGLAND)
Audrey Horne (Bergen NORWAY)
Horse Feathers (Portland OR)
Hospitality (Brooklyn NY)
Housse De Racket (Paris FRANCE)
Hull (Brooklyn NY)
I am Oak (Utrecht THE NETHERLANDS)
Idle Warship (Brooklyn NY)
Anna Ihlis (Leksand SWEDEN)
Imaginary Cities (Winnipeg CANADA)
Imperial Teen (Los Angeles CA)
Institutional Prostitution (Montreal CANADA)
The Interbeing (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Sarah Jaffe (Denton TX)
Japanese Gum (Genova ITALY)
JENNY O. (Los Angeles CA)
Joe Volume (San Jeronimo Lidice MEXICO)
Jonti (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Jovanotti (Cortona ITALY)
Junius (Boston MA)
Kao=S (Kamirenjaku JAPAN)
Kenny Ken (London UK-ENGLAND)
Kimbra (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Kindest Lines (New Orleans LA)
Kindness (London UK-ENGLAND)
Michael Kiwanuka (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sorie Kondi (Freetown SIERRA LEONE )
Talib Kweli (Brooklyn NY)
L.A. (Palma De Mallorca SPAIN)
Lady Leshurr (London UK-ENGLAND)
Lagitagida (Tokyo JAPAN)
Laki Mera (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Larkin Poe (Atlanta GA)
The Last Skeptik (London UK-ENGLAND)
La-33 (Bogota COLOMBIA)
League of Extraordinary G'z (Austin TX)
Lecrae (Atlanta GA)
Led Er Est (New York NY)
Benjamin Francis Leftwich ( UK-ENGLAND)
L.E.$ (New Orleans TX)
Sylvie Lewis (London UK-ENGLAND)
Lights (Toronto CANADA)
Li'l Cap'n Travis (Austin TX)
The Lions Rampant (Cincinnati OH)
LIRA (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Little Hurricane (San Diego CA)
Xoel López (A Coruña SPAIN)
Lost Lander (Portland OR)
Emma Louise (Toowong AUSTRALIA)
Gary Lucas Plays Coffin Joe's "This Night I WILL Possess Your Corpse"(New York NY)
The Magnetic Fields (New York NY)
Magnetix (Bordeaux FRANCE)
M.A.K.U SoundSystem (Jackson Heights NY)
Danny Malone (Austin TX)
Dan Mangan (Vancouver CANADA)
Anya Marina (Portland OR)
Charlie Mars (Oxford MS)
David Mayfield Parade (Nashville TN)
Andy McKee (Topeka KS)
MC Lars (Carmel Vally CA)
Metric (Toronto CANADA)
Milow (Leuven BELGIUM)
Miracles of Modern Science (Brooklyn NY)
Mr. Bleat (Medellin COLOMBIA)
Tashaki Miyaki (Los Angeles CA)
Ariane Moffatt (Montreal CANADA)
Monsieur Perine (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Mord Fustang (Tallinn ESTONIA)
Mother Falcon (Austin TX)
Krista Muir (Montreal CANADA)
Munchi (Rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Chrissy Murderbot (Chicago IL)
My Jerusalem (Austin TX)
Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang (Brooklyn NY)
Naeto C (Lagos NIGERIA)
Natives (Louisville KY)
Natty (London UK-ENGLAND)
Neon Trees (Provo UT)
New Cassettes (Northampton UK-ENGLAND)
Nguzunguzu (Los Angeles CA)
Night Beats (Seattle WA)
Nü Sensae (Vancouver CANADA)
Jennifer O'Connor (Brooklyn NY)
Oh Land (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Oh My Me (Lexington KY)
Lisa O' Neill (Dublin IRELAND)
1,2,3 (Pittsburgh PA)
PAPA (Los Angeles CA)
Paula & Karol (Warsaw POLAND)
Peter Case & Paul Collins (New York NY)
Pets With Pets (Carlton North AUSTRALIA)
Pillowfight (Dan the Automator) (South San Francisco CA)
Pinkunoizu (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Pinky Piglets (Toquiwa) (Tokyo JAPAN)
Planes (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Polica (Minneapolis MN)
Steve Poltz (San Diego CA)
Popstrangers (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Pow Wows (Toronto CANADA)
Prince Rama (Brooklyn NY)
Prizehog (San Francisco CA)
Protoje (Santa Cruz JAMAICA)
Joe Purdy (Los Angeles CA)
Purple Pilgrims (Christchurch NEW ZEALAND)
Quantic (Cali COLOMBIA)
Quiet Company (Austin TX)
The Rasites (London UK-WALES)
Nathaniel Rateliff (Denver CO)
Gemma Ray (London UK-ENGLAND)
Reptile Youth (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Res (Philadelphia PA)
The Riff Raff (London ENGLAND)
Finn Riggins (Boise ID)
Ringo Deathstarr (Austin TX)
The Ripe (Austin TX)
Roach Gigz (San Francisco CA)
Alice Russell (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Rachael Sage & The Sequins (New York NY)
Scale The Summit (Houston TX)
Scars On 45 (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Schiller (Berlin GERMANY)
Scoundrels (London UK-ENGLAND)
Screaming Females (New Brunswick NJ)
S.C.U.M (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Seedy Seeds (Cincinnati OH)
Serenades (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Shandy Mandies (Leipzig GERMANY)
Shiny Toy Guns (Shawnee OK)
Charlie Simpson (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds (Brooklyn NY)
Skindred (Newport UK-WALES)
Frank Smith (Austin TX)
Soft Swells (Los Angeles CA)
Solander (Malmö SWEDEN)
Sonic Avenues (Montreal CANADA)
Son of Jack (Porthcawl UK-WALES)
Charlene Soraia (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sore (Jakarta INDONESIA)
Soul Khan (Brooklyn NY)
Sparkadia (Annandale AUSTRALIA)
The Spinto Band (Wilmington DE)
Spirits of the Dead (Oslo NORWAY)
Spoek Mathambo (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Squarehead (Dublin IRELAND)
Stars (Montreal CANADA)
The Staves (London UK-ENGLAND)
Stereo Is A Lie (Austin TX)
Strange Boys (Austin TX)
Suckers (Brooklyn NY)
Sulk (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sumsun (Palm Beach FL)
Patrick Sweany (Nashville TN)
Taken by Cars (Quezon City PHILIPPINES)
Tall Ships (Falmouth UK-ENGLAND)
Tammar (Bloomington IN)
Tea Leaf Green (San Francisco CA)
Tearist (Los Angeles CA)
Telephunken (Madrid SPAIN)
Terakaft (Murs Erigne FRANCE)
Tesla Boy (Moscow RUSSIA)
Therapy? (North East ENGLAND)
This Will Destroy You (San Marcos TX)
Three Blind Wolves (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
3 Dudes & a Mullet (Mexico City MEXICO)
Tilly and the Wall (Omaha NE)
T. Mills (Los Angeles CA)
Torreblanca (Mexico City MEXICO)
Treetop Flyers (London ENGLAND)
Lissy Trullie (New York NY)
Trust (Toronto CANADA)
Tumi And The Volume (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Turbina (Mexico City MEXICO)
22 (London UK-ENGLAND)
Two Cow Garage (Columbus OH)
2Face (Lagos NIGERIA)
Ume (Austin TX)
U.S. Girls (Chicago IL)
Valient Thorr (Raleigh NC)
Väljasõit Rohelisse (Tallinn ESTONIA)
The Vasco Era (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Vetusta Morla (Madrid SPAIN)
The Violet May (Sheffield ENGLAND)
Vockah Redu (New Orleans LA)
Leif Vollebekk (Montreal CANADA)
Voltaire Twins (Perth AUSTRALIA )
J Roddy Walston And The Business (Baltimore MD)
The War On Drugs (Philadelphia PA)
We Are Standard (Bilbao SPAIN)
Wet Hair (Iowa City IA)
Wheeler Brothers (Austin TX)
The White Eyes (Taipei City TAIWAN)
Whitehorse (Hamilton CANADA)
Witchburn (Seattle WA)
Carolyn Wonderland (Austin TX)
Grace Woodroofe (Perth AUSTRALIA)
Paul Woolford (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Workout (Brooklyn NY)
Wussy (Cincinnati OH)
Xxxy (London UK-ENGLAND)
Yip Deceiver (Athens GA)
The Young (Austin TX)
Young Galaxy (Montreal CANADA)
Zeus (Toronto CANADA)
Zorch (Austin, TX)
Milano January 6 at Beat Kitchen
( HANDOUT )
January 2012 Concert Guide in photos thanks to RedEye Chicago.
What is Spotify? A new online music service that might or might not revolutionize your life. Though it's been popular in Europe for several years (with more than 10 million registered users), the site just launched in the U.S. on Thursday, after months of speculation.
How is it different from all the other music services? It's still a little unclear. With Pandora's soaring IPO and the recent launch of Turntable.fm — a site that allows you to play songs for others as if you were a DJ — it's hard to keep track of the competition. But Spotify is different from those in at least one important respect: It has secured contracts with all the major record labels, along with some independent ones. That means you can listen to just about any well-known song past or present whenever you want, without being beholden to the tastes of either your friends or Pandora's customized artist algorithm. Instead of typing in the Rolling Stones and getting Creedence Clearwater Revival, you'll just get the Stones.
So should I be using this? It definitely sounds good. Spotify empowers its users with lots of options — in addition to streaming songs, you can import the ones you already own and share playlists. And unlike Rhapsody, a similar on-demand music-listening service, it's totally free. (There are also paid options that get rid of the ads.) But there are still plenty of restrictions: Users will be capped at 20 hours of listening per month, and you can only play a single song so many times. That means it might make a nice preview of a new album you heard about, but no, it will never replace your vinyl edition of Exile on Main St. (Will anything?)
via www.esquire.com
Are you using Spotify? Has it surpassed iTunes or Pandora as your source for new music?
Check out Today's Top Tune on KCRW -- "Foregone" by The Decemberists. A smooth, twangy mellow jam from a new EP that features b-sides from one of my favorite albums of the year, The King Is Dead.
This summer, when All Songs Considered asked listeners to vote for their favorite albums of the year so far, there were a handful of shoo-ins. Instantly beloved releases by Bon Iver, Adele, Fleet Foxes, The Decemberists and others all made a predictably strong showing.
via www.npr.org
Top albums of 2011 according to All Songs Considered listeners. What are your favorites on this list? What did All Songs listeners miss? I can think of a dozen or so albums on my list that don't show up here (of course, my 2011 list is long). If I had to add one, it would be the dynamic release by Garland Jeffreys, "The King of In Between."
Great season for "best of" music lists. Looks like there are more than ever this year. Daytrotter continues to be one of my favorite destinations to find new music. The Trotters were busier than ever in 2011 shining the light on new and upcoming artists and providing the DT touch to some established performers like Rodney Crowell. Now Daytrotter is asking its listeners to share their best songs of 2011.
This week, my son Jonathan asked, "Dad, where do you find new music?" Well, son, here are the top 3 places I go to discover new tunes:
Other places I turn to hear new tunes:
I’m also experiencing an emerging obsession this week with Tom Sharpling’s newly launched musician interview podcast, Low Times. The first ep featured Wild Flag drummer Janet Weiss, Owen Ashworth of Advance Base, and bassist Catherine Popper, who's played with Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson and -- don't take my word for it, listen yourself -- Chevy Chase. Low Times is freaking awesome. Thanks, Tom, Maggie and Daniel. I eagerly await episode 2.
Jonathan, I hope I answered your question.
Where do you go to find new music? Let me know and I'll post the resources you share.
Just announced, the second round of bands playing at SXSW 2012:
Alabama Shakes (Athens AL)
Asking Alexandria (York UK-ENGLAND)
Atlantic/Pacific (Brooklyn NY)
Bad Weather California (Denver CO)
Belligerence (Portsmouth UK-ENGLAND)
Ben Howard (Devon UK-ENGLAND)
Blouse (Portland OR)
Capsula (Bilbao SPAIN)
Choir of Young Believers (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Dikes of Holland (Austin TX)
Duran (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Edison Chair (Austin TX)
Electric Eel Shock (Tokyo JAPAN)
Electric Wire Hustle (Wellington NEW ZEALAND)
Elias Haslanger (Austin TX)
Extrawelt (Hamburg GERMANY)
Fallulah (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Films of Colour (London UK-ENGLAND)
Go Back To The Zoo (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Hunters (Brooklyn NY)
Idiot Glee (Lexington KY)
J.R. Patton (Dallas TX)
Juan Cirerol (Mexicali MEXICO)
Lanie Lane (Sydney NSW)
Led Er Est (New York NY)
Lilly Wood and the Prick (Paris FRANCE)
Lonsdale Boys Club (London UK-ENGLAND)
Lucero (Memphis TN)
Miles Zuniga (Austin TX)
New Look (Hamilton AB)
Nick Jaina (Portland OR)
Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children (Nuuk GREENLAND)
Oh Mercy (Melbourne VIC)
Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders (Los Angeles CA)
Polarsets (Newcastle UK-ENGLAND)
PUJOL (Nashville TN)
Psychic Ills (New York NY)
Radiation City (Portland OR)
Schmillion (Austin TX)
Teengirl Fantasy (New York NY)
The Abramson Singers (Vancouver BC)
The Record Summer (New York NY)
Turbo Fruits (Nashville TN)
Wheelchair Sports Camp (Denver CO)
You Can't Win, Charlie Brown (Lisbon PORTUGAL)
Zulu Winter (London UK-ENGLAND)