Loveless Music Group

Panda Riot, Daniel Klag (CD release), this Thursday, May 13th

2010-05-10T20:33:00.005-05:00

Panda Riot

Panda Riot play NYC this Thursday at Lit Lounge.

Daniel Klag

Opening up in support of his new release, Tetraedr, on Self Storage Recordings is Daniel Klag. Tetraedr is three part piece recalling the more ambient side of Krautrock and of Pygamlion era Slowdive. It's limited to 100 hand made and numbered CDs. You can listen (and, if you're so inclined, buy it) here.

New videos galore....

2010-04-02T10:19:00.004-05:00

Aarktica - I Am (The Ice)

Soundpool - Mirrors In Your Eyes

Insect Guide - Dark Days and Nights

Picnic - Who Do You Love?

Luga (featuring Winterlight) - Waved Goodbye

Dorias Baracca

2010-03-31T17:37:00.003-05:00

These guys are fantastic. You need to check them out....

from their myspace...
Hailing from Odense in Denmark, Dorias Baracca are almost too young to be making the intense, yet beautiful shoegazing music that they do.
Following their debut London shows back in October, the Hands At Melting Point EP is their debut release, produced by Jonas Munk (Manual).
On stage they are a blisteringly loud maelstrom of swirling feedback and melodic chaos that rivals other self-confessed noisemasters like A Place To Bury Strangers.
“Silence” has had plays so far on Gideon Coe (BBC6 Music) and John Kennedy (XFM) as well as an evening playlist on NME Radio.
And a Video for the track "The Only Touch", made by Progress Film Company, has been released.

Dorias Baracca - The Only Touch from The Progress Film Company on Vimeo.

Mark Van Hoen played The Bellhouse 2/25 (VIDEO)

2010-03-31T11:47:00.002-05:00

Loveless/Seamless No. 9

2010-03-29T21:59:00.004-05:00

Shave Your Head - Viola Peacock
You Win Hearts - Elika
Dark Days And Nights - Insect Guide
But It's So - Soundpool
Where Is The Truth - Mark Van Hoen
Try Me, Mental-A - Jatun
Shareware - Picnic
Blue Lily - The Depreciation Guile
As Link - Seefeel
Issa - Manual

Download it here...

LMG exclusive - Daniel Klag MP3 Mix

2010-03-24T12:00:00.001-05:00

Daniel Klag is an ambient musician residing in NYC. This mix was previously broadcast live somewhere on the internet. He has kindly given it to us to repost here. Daniel's next release, Tetraedr (of which you can hear two parts here), will be released on Self Storage Recordings very soon...details to follow....

tracklist:
00:00
Daniel Klag
"Tetraedr (Part III)"

03:15
Ashra
"Deep Distance"

08:40
Iannis Xenakis
"Concret PH"

10:15
Fred Frith
"Not Forgotten"

11:43
David Bowie
"Moss Garden"

16:23
Harmonia
"Ahoi!"

21:04
The Durutti Column
"Sketch for Winter"

23:17
Raymond Scott
"Cyclic Bit"

24:05
Tangerine Dream
"Sequent C'"

26:00
Brian Eno & David Byrne
"Solo Guitar with Tin Foil"

28:44
Loren Connors
"Earth"

31:55
Brian Eno
"Lizard Point"

34:54
Gas
"Pop 2"

41:40
Roy Montgomery
"Clear Night, Port Hills"

44:40
Fennesz
"Vacuum"

47:25
Daniel Klag
"Tetraedr (Part I)

download it here

LMG Exclusive - Remarkably Spry MP3 mix

2010-03-18T10:38:00.000-05:00

a Mix by Remarkably Spry a.k.a Christo Buffam. Christo also plays guitar with The Vandelles and Dead Leaf Echo. Remarkably Spry recently remixed a song by Screen Vinyl Image which is due to be released on their upcoming 12".

Bark Psychosis - From What Is Said To When It's Read
Ringo Deathstarr - Your Town
Swans - Blood Promise
Sparklehorse & Fennesz - If My Heart
Lusine - Drip (Apparat Remix)
M83 - Run into Flowers (Jackson remix)
Washed Out - Track 7
Kiln - Isthmus Krest
Health - Die Slow (Pink Stallone Remix)
93 Million Miles from the Sun - Step in the High
Dykehouse - When You Come
the December Sound - Truth Hurts
Medicine - Something Goes Wrong
LSD and the Search for God - Starshine
Mountains - Sheets Two
The Morning After Girls - Theres a Taking

download it here

New album from Mark Van Hoen, "Where Is The Truth", out soon on City Centere Offices

2010-03-09T16:24:00.005-05:00

Mark Van Hoen - Where Is The Truth
1. Put My Trust In You
2. Where is the Truth
3. Yourself
4. She's Selda
5. 1979
6. Your Voice
7. I Need Silence
8. Render the Voice
9. Beautiful
10. Photophone Call
11. Soyuz A
Out 4/27/2010

Originally due out in February its been pushed back until late April. No matter, it's worth the wait as this album is absolutely superb. But you don't have take my word for it...

"you can hear elements of his more industrial work in there, but also stuff that links back to "morning light" as well as "playing with time" - great stuff!" - Ulrich Schnauss

Jatun - Blanket Of Ash out today, release party on March 12th

2010-03-09T15:38:00.004-05:00

The heavily anticipated sophomore ablum by Jatun, Blanket Of Ash, is available today via Other Electrcities

you can preview some tracks here and here

There will also be an invite only release party on March 12th...

"Screen Washed", A Visual/Audio Experience, March 13th

2010-03-09T15:29:00.002-05:00

"Screen Washed"

A NYC Neo-Shoegaze Video Debut Night

Video Debuts by Serena Maneesh, Panda Riot, Screen Vinyl Image, The Sky Drops, Highspire, Sounpool, If When and Elika and more to be announced!

With Special Electronic/Laptop Performances from Dead Leaf Echo and Resplendor

Spectacular Cocktails to "Blur" your senses served free with $6 admission

Early Show!
Free Drinks!
All ages, 21 and over to drink
Saturday, March 13th, 7-10pm

Vaudville Park
26 Bushwick ave at Devoe, L train to Graham ave
(www.vaudvillepark.com)

LMG Exclusive - Aarktica mp3 mix

2010-03-09T13:32:00.006-05:00

An MP3 Mix by Jon DeRosa of Aarktica

Half String - Hue.mp3
Alisons Halo - Chalkboard James.mp3
Secret Shine - Loveblind.mp3
Boyracer - Buffalo.mp3
Hood - Field Is Cut.mp3
Azusa Plane - Eric Gaffeny.mp3
Blueshift Signal - Halo.mp3
Idaho - Skyscrape.mp3
Remora - Rivin.mp3
Attrition - Into The Waves.mp3
Lycia - Nine Hours Later.mp3
Where I Wake Warm - Neither Sleeping Neither Waking.mp3
Ultracherry Violet - Falling In Love.mp3
Love Spirals Downward - Mediterranea.mp3
Loveliescrushing - I Want You.mp3
The Chills - Submarine Bells.mp3

or you can grab the whole thing here

The latest Aarktica releases, In Sea and In Sea Remixes, are out now on Silber Records

Manual - Drowned In Light, due April 19th

2010-03-05T21:24:00.002-05:00

Pretty excited for this judging by the 2 tracks I've heard so far.... will have some steaming clips for you soon....

New Dead Mellotron album

2010-03-02T17:00:00.002-05:00

Dead Mellotron released their second album, simply titled, Dead Mellotron on February 22nd. If you at all familiar with this blog then you know i love this band. The new record is just as good as the first and you'll be doing yourself a favor if you go to his myspace and download the whole thing for free. don't wait, go there now

Thrushes release new album, play show on March 5th

2010-03-02T11:04:00.005-05:00

Thrushes release there 2nd full length, Night Falls, March 9th. They're playing at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore on March 5th to celebrate with Screen Vinyl Image, Jack Chick, and The Sugarplums.

you can listen thier cover of the Mazzy Star classic, Fade Into You, here...

Rest In Peace, Larry Cassidy (Section 25)

2010-02-27T21:14:00.003-05:00

I had planned to write about a bunch of new records I'd heard over the past couple days. All that has taken a back seat now that I've learned of the untimely death of Larry Cassidy. Although no official cause has been given I'm assuming it was of natural causes, though he wasn't that old, I'm guessing mid-50's.

Section 25 had regrouped in 2001 but the death of Larry's wife in 2004 delayed new material until 2007. According to Section 25.com they were about 75% finished their 3rd record since reforming.

My introduction to S25 came in 1992 as a fledgling Factory Records obsessive. We were at an indie record store (can remember the name but I'm sure it's long gone) in Lancaster, PA. They had a copy of Always Now and Key Of Dreams. I had read somewhere perhaps in the sleeve notes(both copies were open and loaded, like all LTM releases, with information. I ended up getting The Key Of Dreams pretty much thanks to this quote from Larry...

"It's just possible that these songs will give comfort to someone who's having a bad time. Whether or not it's got to do with drugs we don't know. We just see that in them."

I was 17, starting to smoke weed, and "depressed", that line spoke volumes to me.

It's a fucking weird record but absolutely brilliant and certainly not of it's time. It truly does make more sense today than it did when it was released but it's still fucked up. I remember it being winter, or at least cold and it fit the mood. I loved it, and read the liner notes over and over and over. My friend Ryan hated it, well hate might be too strong of a word but it wouldn't be his first choice if someone said let's listen to S25. He really wanted From The Hip, which we found some months later, but that's another story...

LTM has reissued the entire catalog (twice) along with the excellent Live in America from 1982 and an outtakes and live called Deus Ex Machina which collected some studio demos and live stuff from 83 to 85 including the never officially released Loving No One which was intended to be on the follow up to From The Hip until the band started to fall apart. Their potential around this time was incredible, after listening to the live version of Sweet Forgiveness(from said album) which, in my opinion is pretty bland on the Love And Hate album. The label has also released their new albums and several DVDs of new and old material.

It's a bummer of a day... but if there is something after, Larry is a somewhere with Ian, Tony, Rob, and Martin and I bet they're having a blast...

Section 25 bio
Buy their records
John Robb's Obituary

a quick one while he's away....

2010-02-14T18:50:00.004-05:00

a short mix for all the lovely lovers and lovelesses. Happy Valentines Day!

Oh My Heart - James
No One In The World - Locust
I Believe In You - Talk Talk
Late Night In A Snowy Field - Andy Durutti
Hazey Jane I - Nick Drake
Waiting - The Durutti Column

get it here

Elika - "There Was No Summer" out now....

2010-02-10T19:37:00.005-05:00

Received a pleasant surprise in the mail today and I must say this works really well with the so called blizzard we're having. I highly recommend picking up a copy of this as soon as possible. I Win Hearts is classic Elika and will soon be your new favorite song, but then again Death & Avalanches is sick and so is...shit, the whole thing is great, who am i kidding...

details below. limited to 111 copies so get one soon...

"There Was No Summer" EP available through Chat Blanc Records.
$9 US/Canada; $11 worldwide
Contact: chatblancrecords@yahoo.com to order!
Tracklisting:
01-Already Know
02-Analog Alpha
03-Death & Avalanches
04-You Win Hearts
05-Catalan

CD 2 Haiti

2010-01-21T12:42:00.006-05:00

Autorotation has set up a blog to benefit the people of Haiti. All proceeds(except a small portion for shipping) go to assist the people of Haiti.

Contiributing aritists are
Colour Kane
Autorotation
Self Storage Recordings
Soundpool
Autumn Thieves (whose EP has not been available for several years and is for sale exclusively for the cause)
Le Ren

please help out if you can and pass it along...

CD 2 Haiti

Join the Facebook group too

LMG Exclusive - The Abyssal Suite MP3 Mix

2010-01-19T11:07:00.003-05:00

The Abyssal Suite is Ryan Freeman. He's also a member of Luxa.

1. Windmill Wedding - Air France
2. As Far As You Can - Alpha
3. The Boxer (DFA Version) - The Chemical Brothers
4. Life Support - Fluke
5. Boca Raton - Fila Brazillia
6. Lochness - LFO
7. '84 Pontiac Dream - Boards of Canada
8. Best Mamgu Ever - Underworld
9. Dodecatheon - Kiln
10. Woman of the Sea - Blue Six
11. Cloud People - Sweetback

get it here

The Offering reforming?

2010-01-18T20:26:00.003-05:00

One of my faves, The Offering, are apparently getting back together. A new Facebook page and a note that reads "A band that once was and will soon be again."
very glad to hear it....

The Offering are signed to Safranin Sound, which is run by Screen Vinyl Image.

Nadja

2010-01-18T14:24:00.006-05:00

Nadja is a 1994 film by Micheal Almereyda. It was shot mostly in the NYC's East Village. While it's a bit pretentious it's got some really great perfomances from two Hal Hartley regulars, Martin Donovan and Elina Lowensohn, and a wacky Peter Fonda as Van Helsing.
The soundtrack is dope too, boasting tunes from My Bloody Valentine, The Verve and Portishead. The score was performed by Simon Fisher Turner and is up there as one of my favorite records. I believe the album is still in print and is well worth seeking out. You can hear one of the tracks on the latest Loveless/Seamless mix. Pretty sure this is where Fleeting Joys got there name too...
I've must have seen this movie a million times. It was one of those movies, along with Woody Allen films and Julian Schnabel's Basquiat that i used to watch before i moved to NYC. As if New York is really like any of them...but hey, I was young and idealist...regardless, it can still be a quite a romantic town when you need it to be.... just don't ride the subway... ;-)

Loveless/Seamless No. 8

2010-01-18T13:29:00.004-05:00

Usually i don't put these out so close together but i've been feeling rather inspired lately...despite the fact that i'm hung over like a mother today....but sometimes things just need to be said....

The Devil You Know - Jesus Jones
Kangaroo Court - Adorable
The Trees - Pulp
About 3Am(Overseer Ping Pong Remix) Dark Star
Red Shoes - The Durutti Column
Holidays To Wales - July Skies
Full Speed Nowhere - The Invisible Kid
High Expectations - Stereolab
Into Sun and Dark - Fleeting Joys
Love, Death, Avoid it - Simon Fisher Turner

get it here and don't roll your eyes at Jesus Jones. that track is badass....

Loveless/Seamless No.7

2010-01-15T00:17:00.003-05:00

Cloudless(Live) - Cranes
Far From Grace - Doves
Chromakey Dreamcoat - Boards Of Canada
Real Love - Mark Van Hoen
Sowiesoso - Cluster
Murmur - The Sight Below
Quick Canal - Atlas Sound
Seasun - Delorean
Mercury - The Ocean Blue
I'm Believing (In Love Again) - The Sunshine Factory

get it here

Music For Rabbits

2010-01-08T22:21:00.007-05:00

So i've been listening to quite a bit of ambient music these last few months. My 2 rabbits find it most agreeable. Dub Techno has really got me excited lately.
here's a list of stuff that I've been thoroughly enjoying....

Relapxych
Atheus
The Sight Below
cv313 (and everything else Rod Modell; Deepchord, Echospace, etc. does)
Pulshar (Pablo Bolivar solo is amazing too)
Quantec
Arc Of Doves
Christy Romanick
Intrustion
Simon Scott
bvdub
i could go on but these are just a few to get you started...get you mellow...

also i'm looking for acts (ambient/electronic) to play shows and/or release some records.
get in touch at lovelessmg(at)gmail or send demos/bribes to...

Self Storage Recordings
57 Thames St
Suite 4A
Brooklyn, NY
11237

Best of 2009 - # 1 Atheus/Relapxych.0 - Shapes and Phases

2010-01-08T12:42:00.000-05:00

Atheus / Relapxych.0 - Shapes and Phases 12"

Best of 2009 - # 2 The Depreciation Guild - Dream About Me 7"

2010-01-08T12:40:00.000-05:00

The Depreciation Guild - Dream About Me 7"

Best of 2009 - # 3 Dead Mellotron - Ghost Light Constellation

2010-01-08T12:32:00.000-05:00

Dead Mellotron - Ghost Light Constellation

Best of 2009 - # 4 Autorotation - Everything is Everything

2010-01-08T12:28:00.000-05:00

Autorotation - Everything Is Everything

Best of 2009 - # 5 Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth

2010-01-08T12:26:00.000-05:00

Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth

Best of 2009 - # 6 Screen Vinyl Image - Interceptors

2010-01-08T12:22:00.000-05:00

Screen Vinyl Image - Interceptors

Ulrich Schnauss, Mark Van Hoen, and Luxa at The Bellhouse, Feb 25th

2010-01-07T12:13:00.001-05:00

buy tickets here. hurry they won't last...

Best of 2009 - # 7 Washed Out - Life Of Leisure

2009-12-15T14:52:00.017-05:00

Washed Out - Life Of Leisure

Best of 2009 - # 8 SPC ECO - 3D

2009-12-15T14:52:00.015-05:00

SPC ECO - 3D

Best of 2009 - # 9 - Dead Leaf Echo - Truth

2009-12-15T14:51:00.004-05:00

Dead Leaf Echo - Truth

Best of 2009 - #10 The Sunshine Factory - Vintage Revolution

2009-12-15T14:46:00.004-05:00

The Sunshine Factory -Vintage Revolution

Screen Vinyl Image and Ceremony in Japan

2009-11-06T13:03:00.003-05:00

November 5
Shinokubo Earthbom
Tokyo, Japan
w/ Ceremony

November 6
Kouenji UFO Club
Tokyo, Japan
w/ Ceremony

November 7
Nishiazabu Bullet’s
Tokyo, Japan
w/ Ceremony

November 9
Shindaita Fever
Tokyo, Japan
w/ Ceremony

Aarktica "In Sea" CD release show tonight(10/26) w/ Luxa

2009-10-26T13:53:00.004-05:00

Come help celebrate the release of the 6th album by Aarktica at Matchless in Greenpoint, Brooklyn tonight. Luxa plays at 10 followed by Aarktica at 11.

Harmonia & Eno '76 -Tracks and Traces reissue

2009-10-01T01:13:00.005-05:00

i just got this the other day. i'd never heard it. and i've never heard anything like it. my jaw still has a bruise on it from hitting the floor. this is also being released as a double vinyl. i want it...

from the wiki...

Tracks and Traces is the one and only album credited to Harmonia '76, but it is generally regarded as the third album by the highly influential Krautrock/Kosmische Musik group Harmonia. Harmonia was formed by the addition of Neu! guitarist Michael Rother to Cluster, the duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. Harmonia '76 is the name assigned by Rykodisc, the label which released Tracks and Traces to Harmonia after British ambient musician Brian Eno joined the group. The recording sessions which resulted in this album took place in September, 1976, hence the name.

Tracks and Traces was recorded at Harmonia's studio in Forst, Germany. It was not released until November 4, 1997 by the American Rykodisc label.

Various websites quote Eno as saying that Harmonia was "the world's most important rock band" in the mid '70s, including Sherman Wick in his review of Musik Von Harmonia, the first Harmonia album. Daniel Dumych, who also cites that quote, writes in his article for hyperreal.org: "Perhaps Eno's reason for praising Harmonia so highly was that their music fit the requirements of ambient rock. Its music was equally suitable for active or passive listening. The careful listener found his/her attentions rewarded by the musical activities and sounds, but Harmonia's music was also capable of setting a sonic environment." Clearly Eno had been very impressed with both Musik Von Harmonia and Cluster's fourth album Zuckerzeit and had joined Harmonia on tour, first playing with the group at The Fabrik in Hamburg.

Jeff Melton, who reviewed Tracks and Traces for the Expose Progressive Music website, described the album, in part: "Overall the album is relaxing and evokes dream like images but doesn't force you to passively count sheep. For a lost project which had been unreleased for over twenty years, I'd say it's as current [as] any techno project if only for the strength of the collaboration and the blurring of egos." The album has only one vocal track, "Luneburg Heath". Jess Barnett, writing in her review for FensePost, comments that the song "has a strong Eno presence and a disembodied voice singing, 'Don’t get lost on Luneberg Heath'. The synth lines are twangy and muffled, repetitive but not boring." Ned Raggett, writing the review for Allmusic, says in part: "Having already created two excellent albums, the core Harmonia trio was easily placed to whip up a third, with Eno the wild-card factor who turned out to be a perfect addition. While contributing some lyrics and singing at a time when he was steering away firmly from both in his own solo work, most of the time Eno lets the band speak for themselves musically, most notably adding snaky, quietly threatening basslines."

After Michael Rother left Harmonia Eno continued to work with Moebius and Roedelius, recording two albums: Cluster & Eno in 1977 and After the Heat in 1978. Harmonia also continued to influence Brian Eno's work long after its demise. A review of Musik Von Harmonia on the Cult Cargo website cites the track "Ahoi" as "the blueprint for a couple of the tracks on Eno's Apollo LP, with its minimalist picked guitar and simple piano runs."

Bear In Heaven

2009-10-01T00:28:00.005-05:00

i caught the brilliant Bear In Heaven at Union Hall a few weeks ago with Sian Alice Group(also excellent). I bought their Wholehearted Mess 12". it's a snarling piece of Krautrock...er...well...heaven. it's out now on Hometapes with the full length to follow soon...
they're on tour now too, so check there myspace on the link above listen to some tunes and then go see them.
Buy the glorious red marble vinyl 12'' for Wholehearted Mess here

Soundpool - Mirrors In Your Eyes(VIDEO)

2009-09-28T14:17:00.002-05:00

Soundpool's Mirrors In Your Eyes set to Derek Jarman's Art Of Mirrors

new Syntaks album, Ylajali, out November 3rd

2009-09-24T12:44:00.004-05:00

The new record from Jakob Scott and Anna Cecilia is due November 3rd on Ghostly International. Syntaks may best be known to most for the album Golden Sun with Manual but Jakob has had his hand in a slew of projects over the years. The new album is based on the character Ylajali from the book Hunger, written in 1888 by Knut Hamsun. It was it was recorded in the very spot the book was written. The record is a truly stunning and has been getting a lot of play around here lately.

for more info and a track listing check out the Ghostly International website.

new Port-Royal album, single, and video

2009-09-23T17:52:00.004-05:00

the excellent new Port-Royal album, Dying in Time, is set to be released October 5th. the first single, Balding Generation(losing our hair as we lose hope) is available in mp3 format via n5MD. it features remixes from Ambidextrous, Jatun, and Bitcrush
this is the video...

Aarktica - Am I Demon(Video)

2009-08-28T01:03:00.003-05:00

beautiful cover of the Danzig (yes, that Danzig) tune, 'Am I Demon?'

This and and 11 other haunters will be avaiable on the new record entitled, 'In Sea', October 27 on Silber Records.

Sharon Van Etten @Joe's Pub 9/4

2009-08-28T00:42:00.004-05:00

The genius that is Sharon Van Etten is playing Joe's Pub Friday, September 4. If you are a frequent visitor to this blog, then you know how much we love her. You should also grab her newly released album, Because I Was In Love, out on Language Of Stone, which scored a nifty 7.7 on pitchfork. I highly recommend you check out this show. Joe's Pub has one of the best sound systems in the city. It will be amazing...no question....don't miss it.

Sharon Van Etten has a soft, strong soprano that trembles with slight vibrato in the long sustained notes. High, angelic, disembodied, without audible strain or breath, she traces out melodies, yet just when the tone seems too pure, she slips into the smallest earthy slides, the slightest Appalachian catches and yodels, an angel trying out the blues. You could imagine her as one of the 1960s’ long-lost flower children – more grounded than Vashti Bunyan, less overtly jazzy than Linda Perhacs, but in the same family. Still there’s a touch of modernity, of self-direction and self-reliance in her work that places her firmly in the here and now."
-Dusted Magazine

Meg Baird (The Baird Sisters, Espers) has been playing music with her sister Laura for as long as she can remember. The sisters were introduced to a trove of traditional material via Smithsonian Archives LPs early in life. Their natural gravitation to folk music must have been strong if they felt compelled to write to agencies associated with the Federal Government to unearth old tunes from the vaults. In preparation for Dear Companion, her first solo outing, Meg chose songs that showed signs of holding up to repeat listenings. The result a beautiful collection of melodies, some ancient, some old and some refreshingly new.

who the hell is Skypilot?

2009-08-28T00:16:00.004-05:00

Great design and great songs yet absolutely zero information...i love it....

listen to these 2 songs and call me a liar...

430.mp3
440.mp3

go to the his/their website and grab 14 more brilliant tracks for free

Self Storage Recordings releases finally available online

2009-08-27T22:40:00.010-05:00

LMG and it's label, Self Storage Recordings, are pleased to finally make available all of our releases through these fine online distributors. Northern Star, Darla, n5MD, and Tonevendor(sometime soon...).

Currently the Self Storage Recordings Compilation Volume 1 is sitting pretty at number 10 in Darla's best sellers. The compilation features songs from Ulrich Schnauss, Auburn Lull, Soundpool, Elika, Winterlight, The Invisible Kid, Dead Leaf Echo, Thrushes, Project Skyward, Luxa, Panda Riot, Autorotation, Le Ren, Monocle, The Soundscapes, and Ifwhen.

The comp can can also be purchased, in person, at Other Music in NYC and every release is available at Deluxa in Brooklyn.

It's currently streaming in it's entirety on last.fm.

Various Artists - Self Storage Recordings Compilation Volume 1
SSR 001

other titles available from SSR are

Luxa - Drawn To The Sea CD Single
SSR 002

By Night With Spear- Fortune EP
SSR oo3

Slow - Sealand LP
SSR 004

By Night With Spear - Cipher EP
SSR 006

Snow In Mexico - Snow In Mexico EP
SSR 007

Yuki just released an EP

2009-08-27T22:10:00.003-05:00

Yuki is Gwynn Reitz, Rob Guernsey, Tony Reitz, and Jason Crews. Past alliances include (but are not limited to): Svetlana, Majhas, Turncoat Serenade, Lunar Event, Endive... Taking pages from Shoegaze, Dreampop, Britpop, Experimental, and Alternative music, Yuki is a poppy, jingle-jangly, band that incorporates soft male and female vocal harmonies juxtaposed with loud, crashing tones. Some of their influences include Slowdive, Low, Charlatans UK, My Bloody Valentine, The Field Mice, 14 Iced Bears, Leonard Cohen, The Jesus and Marychain, Brian Eno... They rarely leave their humble basement. They spend most of their time writing, recording, and collecting gear.

Indiana's Yuki just released their second EP on August 22nd. The title track is featured on the lastest Loveless/Seamless mix. grab it here.

Loveless/Seamless No. 6

2009-08-25T23:59:00.011-05:00

Desertkarnival (Rua Rebuild) - Kiln

Dream About Me - The Depreciation Guild

Pony Play - Yuki

Self-Imperfectionist - Adorable

I Burn Myself On You - The Lionheart Brothers

Hazey Jane II - Nick Drake

Don't Stop - The Stone Roses

This Dark Matter - London Elektricity

Beaches and Deserts - A Guy Called Gerald

Acid Bells (Martyn's Bittersweet Mix) - Efdemin

Chinook - Loscil

Desert Nightfall - Reapxych.00

Fleeting Moment...Lost - Angelmark

From A Late Night Train - The Blue Nile

will someone tell me why Self-Imperfectionist was a fucking B-side and not a single? i mean really....

http://www.sendspace.com/file/rx5406

Dead Mellotron - 1993(VIDEO)

2009-08-14T13:32:00.001-05:00

i love me some Dead Mellotron...

Mark Van Hoen @ Monkeytown, Friday, August 14th\\

2009-08-13T16:24:00.005-05:00

Mark Van Hoen is the man, straight up. He's a legend and we're very pleased to be involved with this show at Monkeytown tomorrow night. Don't know who he is? He's a founding member of the highly influential band Seefeel. He formed the underated and sadly over looked band Scala (which was essentially Seefeel sans Mark Clifford). He's put out some amazing records in his own right, as Locust and Mark Van Hoen. He produced Out Of Tune, Excuses for Travelers, and Spoon and Rafter by Mojave 3. He produced both albums for Emma Anderson's post Lush outfit, Sing-Sing. And that's just the tip of the iceburg....

His new record is due early next year.

also on the bill are LMG favorites Dead Leaf Echo and Luxa.

this is going to be a solid night.

we hope you can join us for what will surely be an amazing show.

Bonus Tracks (via the MVH website) from the brilliant Locust album, Morning Light.
The Daydream Girl From Sea Land
Touched on Every Side
Morning

more free tracks here

Menkena

2009-08-13T15:18:00.003-05:00

Came across this yesterday on the old shoegaze forum, now a haven for self promotion and pseudo elitists. These guys caught my ear though. Big sound but a nice mellow vibe and good understanding of space. a very Slowdive/Mojave 3 feel without ripping them off too hard. find out for yourself at their myspace page...here.

Menkena is also playing in Dallas at The Prophet Bar on Friday, August 21st. check them out if you get the chance.

LMG Exclusive - Luxa MP3 Mix

2009-08-05T22:53:00.005-05:00

A Mix by Andy Durutti of Luxa

I Believe - Jai.mp3
I Think Of You - Ivy.mp3
Elevator Love Letter - Stars.mp3
The Trees - Pulp.mp3
Dont Destroy Me - Golden.mp3
Spanish Heart(Featuring Bernard Sumner) - 808 State.mp3
Touched On Every Side - Locust.mp3
No Ordinary Morning - Chicane.mp3
SPC ECO - So Special.mp3
Always On - Zaza.mp3
Kinky Love - Pale Saints.mp3
Golden Heart Of The Year - ESP Summer.mp3
You Already Know - Swing Out Sister.mp3
Reason I Feel Like An Alien - Twenty Four Hours.mp3

Mark Burgess (The Chameleons) at The Bellhouse 8/10

2009-08-05T11:36:00.002-05:00

Mark will be performing with a full band and performing Chameleons songs.

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS ≈

There's a wonderful - if apocryphal - story about the major-label A&R team that was dispatched to Manchester in the 1980s with instructions to sign the band that was making enormous waves in the north-west. The industry bods took one listen to the sounds at the Hacienda, and Geffen signed the Chameleons. The story goes that it wasn't until much later that someone told them they'd actually been sent to secure the Stone Roses.

The tale underlines the peculiar seductiveness of four lads from Middleton, Manchester, who should have shook the world. Sadly, just when they were on the verge of massive US success, they split in 1987 after the death of manager Tony Fletcher.

The oddest thing about the Chameleons' comeback is that they've carried on exactly where they left off, with their devoted fanbase still intact (the Verve and the Gallaghers reputedly among its members) and new album Why Call It Anything? picking up their trademark sound as if it were something they'd left in the garage.

In the old days, their elemental anthems came from somewhere deeper than a record company balance sheet, and this hasn't changed. When singer Mark Burgess loses himself in the still awesome Soul in Isolation, you wonder what on earth went on in those mysterious lost years.

The gig has an eeriness that makes for an untypical but thoroughly hypnotic two hours. In a low-key warm-up for their Manchester homecoming, the band mostly ditch the rockier numbers in favour of a stream of introspective songs. Of the old, the heroin-haunted Caution (from 1987's Strange Times, their sole work for Geffen) is particularly stunning. But the newer songs, with Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding's interlocking guitars at their telepathic best, have a positivity to match their melodies. Anyone Alive? stands defiant in the face of Dubya Bush, while Miracles and Wonders sees toaster/ percussionist Kwasi Asante step on stage for a beautiful and optimistic reggae lilt.

The Chameleons may have missed the commercial boat in 1987, but they have still made a fascinating voyage.

Panda Riot on tour...

2009-08-05T11:24:00.003-05:00

Panda Riot are on tour this month. make sure you check them out....

Saturday, July 25th St. Louis, MO, The Firebird

http://www.last.fm/event/1124406

Wednesday, August 5th Cincinnati, OHWOXY Radio live radio set

http://www.woxy.com/

Wednesday, August 5th Chicago, ILBroadcast of our Live set on WLUW

http://www.wluw.org/

Thursday, August 6th Pittsburgh, PAKopec’s bar w/ Aydin

http://www.last.fm/event/1111133

Friday, August 7th NYC Pete’s Candy Store

http://www.last.fm/event/1111146

Saturday, August 8th TBA

Sunday, August 9th Philadelphia, PAThe M room

http://www.last.fm/event/1111155

Monday, August 10th College Park, MA The House of Awesome Times

http://www.last.fm/event/1118821

Wednesday, August 12th Chapel Hill, NC Reservoir w/Minor Stars

http://www.last.fm/event/1140542

Thursday, August 13th Athens, GA Caledonia Lounge

http://www.last.fm/event/1111162

Friday to Sun, August 14th-16th Gainesville, FL Pop Mayhem Festival

we are playing @ the Atlantic on August 15th.

http://www.last.fm/event/1110436

Saturday, August 22nd Chicago, ILPanda vs. Panda (loft show)

http://www.last.fm/event/1140567

Saturday, September 19th live on WNUR

http://www.last.fm/event/1140553

Wednesday Oct. 14th Chicago, IL The Empty Bottle, w/ School of Seven Bells

http://www.last.fm/event/1123391

Mark Van Hoen, Luxa, and Dead Leaf Echo @ Monkeytown 8/14

2009-07-21T15:36:00.002-05:00

LMG exclusive... Elika - Already Know

2009-07-21T15:29:00.004-05:00

brand new song from Elika entitled "Already Know". enjoy...

Elika-Already Know by andydurutti

new Aarktica record, "In Sea", this fall on Silber Records

2009-07-21T15:23:00.004-05:00

can't wait...

new song here

Archway People next Monday(7/20) @ The Bell House

2009-07-13T19:18:00.003-05:00

Archway People return next week in the front lounge of The Bell House spinning all your favorites, new and old...kicks off at 9PM

LMG exclusive... Jatun vinyl podcast

2009-07-13T18:59:00.004-05:00

My friend Scott Worley of Jatun did an all vinyl podcast some months ago for a blog that ended up going under before it saw the light of day. LMG is honored to present it here for the first time...enjoy

Download parts 1 and 2 and the recording info here

pt 1:

- Stars Of The Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers Part 1 and Part 2 - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid
- Hammock - Stranded Under An Endless Sky - Stranded Under An Endless Sky
- National Skyline - Some Will Say - This = Everything
- B.fleischmann - Sad Star - Sidone EP
- Ulrich Schnauss - Einfeld - Goodbye
- Manual - Stealing Thru - Isares
- Limp - City Speaks Tonight - Orion
- M83 - Teen Angst - Teen Angst Single
- Glowworm - Something Told Us That We Should Be Getting Home - Glowworm / Slyven 7" Split
- American Analog Set - The Green Green Grass - Set Free
- My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes - Loveless

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pt 2:

- Sun Ra - Onward - Interstaellar Low Ways (formerly: Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus)
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - The Lady's In Love With You - Vince Guaraldi Trio
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Yesterdays - Jazz Impressions
- Thelonious Monk - Monk's Mood (with John Coltraine) - Thelonious Himself
- Radiohead - Pyramid Song - Amnesiac
- The Notwist - N.L. - Shrink
- 33.3 - Joanne Will - Plays Music
- Couch - Plan - Profane
- Alles Vie Gross - Gaststätte - Vertonung
- Barry Black - When Sharks Smell Blood - Tragic Animal Stories
- 13 & God - Superman On Ice - 13 & God
- Ms John Soda - I & 8217 (Ms John Soda works adapted by Subtle) - While Talking

Lawrence Chandler @ Make Music New York 2009

2009-06-24T11:25:00.005-05:00

sadly the rain would not stay away and we had to move the whole thing to the Bellhouse at the last minute. it was very bittersweet.

this is an edit of Lawrence Chandler's beautiful 23 minute performance. it was shot by our friend Jason Banker. check out more of jason's film at www.jasonbanker.com

construction time again...

2009-06-04T15:44:00.001-05:00

going to be making some changes to the blog layout, so if you see any weird posts please ignore...

Yuki

2009-06-04T15:34:00.003-05:00

"Yuki is Gwynn Reitz, Rob Guernsey, Tony Reitz, and Jason Crews. Past alliances include (but are not limited to): Svetlana, Majhas, Turncoat Serenade, Lunar Event, Endive... Taking pages from Shoegaze, Dreampop, Britpop, Experimental, and Alternative music, Yuki is a poppy, jingle-jangly, band that incorporates soft male and female vocal harmonies juxtaposed with loud, crashing tones. Some of their influences include Slowdive, Low, Charlatans UK, My Bloody Valentine, The Field Mice, 14 Iced Bears, Leonard Cohen, The Jesus and Marychain, Brian Eno... They rarely leave their humble basement. They spend most of their time writing, recording, and collecting gear."

myspace

Kiln

2009-06-04T15:22:00.003-05:00

"KILN construct radiantly textured soundfields that envelope and immerse the listener in a panoramic smudge of chromatic rhythms and syncopated tones."

for real...
amazing stuff...

myspace
web
listen to Airplaneshadows, which is on the Loveless/Seemless No. 5 mix

Loveless/Seamless No.5

2009-06-03T22:19:00.006-05:00

Seekers Who Are Lovers(Remix) - Cocteau Twins
Courants Intimistes - Millimetrik
Underwater (Isan Mix) - Televise
Wish - Hammock
At The Seaside - Guitar
Time To Find Me(Come Inside) - Seefeel
Messages(BBC Session) - OMD
I Can See You(Fierce Panda Version) - Sing Sing
Circumstance - Real Cool Rain
Airplaneshadows - Kiln

download it here

Make Music New York, LMG Style, June 21st

2009-05-12T14:47:00.005-05:00

Make Music New York, described by city officials as “one of the largest musical events in the city’s history,” returns for a third year of free concerts in public spaces throughout the five boroughs of New York City, all on Sunday, June 21st, the first day of summer. MMNY takes place simultaneously with similar festivities in more than 327 cities around the world — a global celebration of music making.

From 11 in the morning to 10 at night, musicians of all ages, creeds, and musical persuasions — from hip hop to opera, Latin jazz to punk rock — perform on streets, sidewalks, stoops, plazas, cemeteries, parks and gardens. From high school bands to marquee names, MMNY is open to anyone who wants to take part, enjoyed by everyone who wants to attend.

Loveless Music Group in conjunction with Deluxa, Self Storage Recordings, Hidden Shoal Recordings, Make Music New York and Time Out New York give to you...

and yes that is the Lawrence Chandler, formerly of Bowery Electric

The LMG Monthly May 21st

2009-05-06T14:20:00.004-05:00

By Night With Spear write up at Jezebel Music

2009-05-06T14:16:00.002-05:00

from Jezebel Music

May 4, 2009

By Night With Spear

LOCAL SPOTLIGHT NYC
As spring bestows its seasonal virtues upon the city and connecting boroughs, a resounding feeling of hope envelops the land and the people. The visual body count goes up on the streets and any vestige of public land available for recreational use is quickly taken over. As people fill the streets and parks, they also begin to fill the bars and clubs at night – and it is here that the visage of the NYC music scene starts to show its vibrant colors. Outdoor festivals are aligned, barbeques are enlivened with live music, and flocks of people feel motivated to venture out to explore the options of the city. People make conscious decisions to exhibit local music, but how is it that they come to these choices?

People know what is delivered to them – and what is delivered through the local scene seems, for the most part, to be larger indie acts that already have the driving PR wheels behind them. When it comes to the fresh, up-and-comers new bands, those that are selected to be in the spotlight always tend to amaze and befuddle the smaller community of musicians and promoters that often see their work turned a blind eye to.

One particular worthy new band, that delivers those resounding surges of springtime hope is By Night With Spear. Unfortunately, they will probably only come into the x-ray view of the few fortunate enough to stumble across them and appreciate their offerings.

Their name was inspired by the American artist, sculptor and avant-garde filmmaker, Joseph Cornell. His last film, the silent 9-minute, By Night with Torch and Spear, was produced in 1979 and explores the world of a steel foundry. It’s exactly this type of artistic inclination and exploration that inspires their current body of work. Heavily influenced by 80s post-punk and British new wave, this four-piece, fronted by the lovely Anaben, proves that their worth their weight in spirit. After initial ideas of the group were discussed around 2004, the band finally began performing out in legendary and now deceased LES venue The Continental. With a recent show at Santos Party House with Longview and Dead Leaf Echo, and a current signing with Self-Storage Recordings (who plans to release their first two EPs), By Night With Spear will undoubtedly make an indelible impact upon those listeners that prefer their drops of beauty mixed equally with majestic power.

By Night With Spear will be performing at the outdoor music festival Make Music Make New York at Deluxa on Sunday June 21st.

by Gordon Sharp

Scala - Slide(VIDEO)

2009-05-01T15:06:00.000-05:00

fantastic...

The LMG Monthy kicks off this Thursday (4/23)

2009-04-21T18:46:00.009-05:00

things kick off this thursday with a the sharp little 2 band bill of Luxa and Telltale.

Telltale...

Brooklyn’s Telltale showcases an intriguing mix of experimental no-wave, reverb-soaked post-punk, and dark shoegaze. Featuring Eric Gilstrap, Laurie Ruroden, Stephan Cherkashin, and Lauren Andino, the quartet's ear-splitting washes of guitar feedback, deadpan chants and ominous droning wastelands doesn't so much blanket you as it does envelop you, overpowering you with Sonic Youth caterwauls and JAMC-esque walls of sound. The music churns in a slow burn, awash in effects, but there’s an aggression lurking just beneath the surface that maintains an uneasy atmosphere. There’s also a healthy dose of reverb to help wash down all the gauzy noise... "This will destroy you... and you will love every second of it." -The Free Times

Luxa

Luxa has a dim relation to the newer offshoot genres of shoegaze, but enters greater landscapes with a volatile adventurism and a new kind of dynamism in its swirling beauty. raw and tender. complex and simple. consumable and out of reach.

doors at 7PM show starts at 8

coming up at The LMG Monthly

May 21st
Aarktica, Luxa, Millimetrik + more
w/ DJ Mark Van Hoen(Seefeel, Locust)

June 18th
Project Skyward, Himalaya + More TBA

Interview with Sergey Soukas of Slow

2009-04-16T18:57:00.006-05:00

translated from here

Slow - ambient-project of Sergey Suokasa

Author: Bulat Sharipov

Before the speech at a Moscow club young musician of Karelia Sergey Suokas 44100Hz tells about how his music a career, than the difference between copyright and Projects Slow Suokas, role of Scandinavia in his work in Sweden and why so many suicides ...

44100Hz: Recently, the name of one of your projects, Suokas, often can be seen on posters big techno-festivals and apples plates known labels, such as, for example, Multivitamins. Have you had hoped for such a development a couple-three years ago?

Sergey: I do not think that everything turns. Just wanted to write music. And then happily coincided circumstances.

44100Hz: What?

Sergey: It is not only creative but also life in general. For example, I went to work with the firm intention to deal only with music, although this has not been a single statement. And suddenly I began to invite me to clubs. In parallel, a lot of events happened in his personal life that have consistently not allowed to relax.

44100Hz: So now you are not doing anything except music?

Sergey: Yes, the music and just a pleasant thing.

44100Hz: How do you allocate time among their projects - Suokas and Slow?

Sergey: It happens spontaneously. Sometimes, like vyplesnut energy into the music, then this is techno, Suokas. When you want to relax, look at life more broadly, beyond time, it Slow.

44100Hz: Slow - this is meditation?

Sergey: Both meditation, in a sense. But Slow, of course, more profound.And sincere.

44100Hz: sincere in the sense that you want to do it this music?

Sergey: I try to put the sincerity of both projects. In Suokas more power, shaman dance. This music is suitable for танцпола when people are staying together. Mass meditation, in other words. A Slow - solitary. Therefore, it must get more deeply.

44100Hz: If Suokas - this is music for the big events, what a place is suitable for Slow?

Sergey: We played ambient in a cinema with the guys from Norway, it was great. It was the soundtrack to the film nemomu 1926-year "Mother" Vsevolod Pudovkin. In the winter we are Mental Overdrive and his wife Aggie during the week working in a studio in Tromso in the north. Future autumn, we plan to make several more times in Norway and in the next year - in Russia.

44100Hz: Do you have a special relationship with Scandinavia. For example, a lot of the tracks named after the Scandinavian cities.Why?

Sergey: Honestly, I do not know ... This is a secret relationship. Maybe Scandinavians perceive Karelia as part Ckandinavii and are looking for people who are close to them in spirit.

44100Hz: Clushaya Finns like Vladislava Dileya, or Swedes, like Fever Ray, you might think that the cold and the dark polar night correspondingly affect the mental state of people living there. On the other hand, there is a nude disco and balearik in which the Swedes succeed. Perhaps the reason that - nostalgia for the spa heat?

Sergey: I think everything is very individual. Swedes - the master copy, can make beautiful, fashionable, but their music little individuality.

44100Hz: Nevertheless, Sweden can now claim to be a major country music, judging by the number of projects, which at the time of becoming successful.

Sergey: Yes, they were always ahead.

44100Hz: Thanks plagiarism?

Sergey: Rather, the State, which cares for its people. In Swedish with children a lot of opportunities to grow in different directions.

44100Hz: Why, then, is the highest number of suicides?

Sergey: Because there is no fire, bored. And the Finns are just frozen people.

44100Hz: How do you think of the suicide and the desire to create a roots music? In addition to boredom?

Sergey: I know that in a state of despair is very good and great music, go out and hidden deep within the emotions. You zlishsya, for example, or offended, or very sad. In all of this creativity can be released. Especially in the technology. In the percussion takes aggression. In psychedelia and events happening in the background meditation. And in principle, constant repetition is something divine.

44100Hz: For people who listen to, this principle works in the same direction, or vice versa? They are charged or discharged?

Sergey: On the dance floor is - the exchange of energy, and in the process of creating the track - an emotional discharge. Music is seen as a language.People are meditating in a dance with me, and the exchange occurs between the aggression, which are released in the dance.

44100Hz: Project Slow - What are the emotions he goes?

Sergey: Emotions are different: love, sadness, fear. But they did not play a major role as a filter. The more I manage to convey infinity, wisdom, so I am more than happy track. Most importantly - it is the inner harmony and purity, openness, honesty, intuition. Often most of the problems, especially in the works, due to the fact that too much thinking. And intuition is helping to set up and do the right steps. You intuitively feel the music, and from this it becomes even more music. Because the language of feelings in the music dominates.

44100Hz: Tell me about the next steps the project Slow. What we hear in "Shanti" on your statement?

Sergei: There is something to load and may be a bit flashy. The fact that in April will be released as an album of "Sealand". This is my first official album.I would be happy to be free to put his music on the site. But someone is doing better than me. With their help, more people will hear it.

myspace.com / slowartist

Shanti, 22 April

Myasnitskaya proezd, 2 / 1

Start: 20:00

Live: Slow

DJ: Anrilov, Khz

Admission: free

his album Sealand with be available in May from Self Storage Recordings

LMG is now on Facebook....

2009-04-15T21:19:00.003-05:00

one more way to stay up to date with all the happenings at LMG. we'll be doing a monthly at Fontana's starting Thursday, April 23rd. go here and add us to find out who is playing...

Screen Vinyl Image, Luxa...Tonight (4/12) @ Fontana's

2009-04-12T11:46:00.007-05:00

SVI and Luxa wrap up their mini tour tonight in NYC at Fontana's.

April 9th, Velevet Lounge, Washington DC

Luxa

Ports Of Call

Screen Vinyl Image

ZAZA

2009-04-04T16:05:00.004-05:00

ZAZA
known about these guys for awhile but i always forget to post about them.

good dark stuff...

you can download a three song free EP here.

they're also going on tour with the hyped out pains of being pure at heart in late april

Vanishing Point presents... Tonight(4/4) at Public Assembly

2009-04-04T15:44:00.003-05:00

VANISHING POINT PRESENTS:

AUDN (midnight)
www.myspace.com/audnmusic
Brooklyn-based quintet Audn combines the swirling layers of early shoegaze sound with ringing psychedelic guitars, intricate Kraut-rock-inspired textures and a Madchester sensibility. With intertwining guitar and vocal melodies, shifting rhythms, Audn's spacey shoegaze is dreamy but focused.

SOFT (11pm)
www.myspace.com/soft
Taking the psychedelic pop of Manchester's finest, The Stone Roses, as a starting point, and incorporating the lush atmospherics favored by the shoegazers who supplanted them in the early 90's, Soft has condensed a five year era of British music into one seamless, signature sound.

SOREN WELL (10 pm)
www.myspace.com/sorenwellnoise
Maybe Soren Well feels like falling out of the sky a into that place where those babes serve xanax cupcakes on ice skates and bite your ear but it feels good instead of hurting or feeling bad.

TELLTALE (9 pm)
www.myspace.com/telltalemusic
"Telltale’s thick, reverb-soaked post-punk doesn’t so much blanket you as it does envelop you, overpowering you with Sonic Youth-inspired caterwauls and Jesus and Mary Chain-esque walls of sound. This will destroy you, reader, and you will love every second of it" - Free Times (Columbia, SC).

ASTRID PIERCE (8 pm)
www.myspace.com/astridpierce
Born in the jungles of West Bengal and on the banks of Wisconsin, these individuals found homes in New York City and brought their musical influences together to form a uniquely powerful pop-rock band.

DJ set by ELIKA
www.myspace.com/elikamusic

Sat, April 4th @ Public Assembly (Back Room)
8 pm/ $8 / 21+

$3 well vodka drinks till 10 pm.

Loveless/Seamless 4

2009-04-04T15:10:00.009-05:00

Green Army Choir - Autorotation

Hearing Lights - By Night With Spear

Stars - The Clean

My Girls - Animal Collective

Gracedelica(Black Star Liner - Live At The Leopard Lounge) - Dark Star

Song For Sunshine - Belle & Sebastian

Oh Boy, The Feeling When You Held My Hand - Sarah Cracknell

No One In The World - Locust

The Samurai In Autumn Pet Shop Boys

Surface To Air - The Chemical Brothers

http://www.sendspace.com/file/yszeya

Dead Leaf Echo "Truth" CD release at the Cake Shop April 4th

2009-03-28T13:42:00.004-05:00

the DLE celebrate their 3rd release at the cake shop on april 4th. it's been mixed by John Fryer of 4AD, Mute, Rough Trade and Beggars Banquet and has worked with Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget and the Cocteau Twins. it's limited to 100 hand mad and numbered copies. go and get yours.

Dead Leaf Echo CD Release Party!
Saturday April 4th Doors at 7:00PM

2 for 1 Drinks!!!!!!!!!

Dead Leaf Echo 9PM
The Jaguar Club 8PM
The Living Sea 7PM

$7/21+

Cake Shop
152 Ludlow St.
btw Stanton and Rivington
F to 2nd ave or J to Delancey

Slow - preview of Sealand (live set)

2009-03-20T21:06:00.005-05:00

Slow - Sealand(live album preview) by andydurutti

(ignore the fact that above it says "by andy durutti", that's not the case.)

recorded live by Sergey Suokas aka Slow as a preview to his debut for Self Storage Recordings entitled Sealand. due out April 2009. Sergey lives somewhere deep in the Russian Federation and his music reflects that. think Ulrich Schnauss but a little bit darker. also recommended if you like some of Manual's more ambient stuff. all three artists Slow, Ulrich, and Manual) have contributed mixes to this blog which you can find under the "LMG Exclusive Mixes" link on the right side of this page

Soundpool, Jaguar Club at the Bellhouse tonight (3/19)

2009-03-19T11:39:00.003-05:00

Soundpool and The Jaguar Club play tonight at the Bellhouse. show starts at 7:30 and there's free Brooklyn Lager from 7:30 to 8:30 and it's only 5 bucks to get in.

Soundpool haven't played in awhile, they might be playing some new stuff tonight too.

The Jaguar Club are a 3 piece that play shambolic garage-y post punk with an obvious Morrissey fan as a singer judging from their myspace tunes. no idea what they're like live.

Audiomantra - Peru Radio

2009-03-13T13:44:00.002-05:00

www.myspace.com/audiomantra

Screen Vinyl Image, Ports Of Call, Luxa on (mini) Tour in April

2009-03-13T12:36:00.003-05:00

April 9th - Velvet Lounge - Washington, DC
April 10th - Manhattan Room - Philadelphia, PA
April 11th- Octoraro - Oxford, PA
April 12th - Fontana's - New York, NY (SVI and Luxa only)

Cactus Killer Radio

2009-03-10T20:12:00.002-05:00

Lito Vales of the Astoria, Queens based dream pop outfit, Phillip Eno has a wonderful podcast series called Cactus Killer Radio. you can veiw the tracklist and download each and everyone right here. you can also subscribe to the RSS feed here. and what's more you can download every Phillip Eno album for free here. looks like you've got a listen to for awhile....

Longview (w/ Ulrich Schnauss) Dead Leaf Echo, and By Night With Spear 3/24 at Santo's Party House

2009-03-10T19:25:00.007-05:00

Longview will be making a stop in New York after they hit SXSW. Ulrich Schnauss will be joining them on keys. Also on the bill are Dead Leaf Echo who have a new album out soon. You can hear a track off that here. Kicking the night off is By Night with Spear who signed to Self Storage Recordings in December. Their first EP, Fortune, will be availble at the end of March. Ulrich Schnauss and Dead Leaf Echo also have tracks on the excellent Self Storage Comp which you can get when you visit the myspace page. It has not and will not be release digitally. Ulrich will also be doing a DJ set after the show. Advance tickets are $9. $11 the day of the show.

Soundpool Inteview in The Deli

2009-03-10T19:21:00.004-05:00

Soundpool
a high better than ganja
by Becky Firesheets

Soundpool’s heavily layered, dreamy tunes conjure up images of a queen soaring on a throne made of clouds, singing while her smiling band mates float beside her. Vocalist Kim Field’s pure, angelic voice ranges from sexy, deeper notes to high-pitched melodies that mirror her keyboard playing. Active yet appropriately subtle, drummer James Renard works with the bassist to form a tight rhythm section, creating an urgent, driving groove. The nonstop, ethereal synths compliment the angular, sometimes haunting guitar, which recalls the sounds of 70s psychedelia, 80s pop and 90s shoegaze. Soundpool’s supremely pleasing music leaves listeners with a euphoric high that’s only heightened in their dynamic live performances.

On your myspace page, the genre “shoegaze” is mentioned often. Do you guys write with a sound goal in mind?
Ceparano: The sound happens organically. It just started evolving more and we were getting a lot of attention from shoegazers. But we have multiple labels. Mark and James both have huge 80’s influences. Depeche Mode and Morrisey especially. We also like bossanova and Stereolab. We’re not going for one particular thing, but more of a collective collaboration. We make stuff up and then label it because we have to.

Why music, and Soundpool?
Ceparano: I love being in a band because it’s the ultimate creative outlet. With Soundpool, we have autonomy over everything. It’s nice having no director.
Renard: My older brother’s into music. When I was young, I used to hang around and watch him play. One day I just decided I could do the drumming. Then I found Soundpool on Craigslist...
Robinson: My dad and brother are musicians, too. I was shy as a child, but performing helped me get over that. Now I enjoy all the levels of it—performing and the creative process.
Field: My joining was kind of accidental. John and I were together for years when he started writing some material for a female singer. He asked me to try a harmony so I did, and he was like, “Oh my God, you can sing!” I kind of begrudgingly kept going, but also wanted to. I had fun learning how to write, but performing is still freaky. It gets easier though!

this originally appeared in the print version of The Deli mag a few months ago but made it onto their website today.

Loveless/Seamless 3

2009-03-07T02:00:00.005-05:00

Don't Leave Me, Baby - Astrud Gilberto
Heaven's Knot - Spoonfed Hybrid
Southern Trees - Sub Sub
Your Selfish Ways - Locust
Self-Imperfectionist - Adorable
Summer - Dedo
The Gentle Nod(Remixed by Romakid) - Luga
So Special - SPC ECO
Velvet - Snow In Mexico
Echoes Answer - Broadcast
MockBa - Steiber Sound
Ghost Light Constellation - Dead Mellotron

download it here

The Antlers just played Union Hall, Sharon Van Etten

2009-03-06T15:34:00.007-05:00

caught The Antlers at Union Hall last night by chance. bumped into the amazing Sharon Van Etten who told me she was singing back up with them so that peaked my interest. got the record today. beautiful stuff.

Sharon Van Etten

Sharon also has an album coming out soon which i will post about at a later date. she's ridiculously talented. you need to check her out.

here are 2 songs by The Antlers(the 2nd of which features Miss Van Etten) or you can stream the whole thing here...

Sylvia.mp3
Thirteen.mp3

Luxa to record new EP

2009-02-28T17:23:00.005-05:00

Luxa are set to go into the studio next week and record the long delayed follow up to their single, Drawn to the Sea. Luxa is the new-ish band from Autumn Thieves main man Andy Durutti. the Ep will appear on Self Storage Recordings sometime in late April to coincide with a mini tour with Screen Vinyl Image and Ports of Call

you can download the the Drawn to the Sea single here for free...

Mahogany, Blacklist and more tonight at Mercury Lounge

2009-02-28T17:17:00.003-05:00

this should be a good time...

Bowery Electric - Fear of Flying (VIDEO)

2009-02-25T22:37:00.003-05:00

we've been super busy, hence the lack of posts. exciting stuff to tell you about in the next few days. mixes will return next week. in the meantime check out this video by Bowery Electric for Fear of Flying off their album Beat. if you're not familiar with them i suggest you do something about immediately...

LMG Exclusive - Ports of Call MP3 Mix

2009-02-17T18:22:00.001-05:00

A Mix by Tom and Thomas from Ports of Call

(tom)
On Your Own Again.mp3 Scott Walker
Things I Did When I Was Dead.mp3 No Aage
Mist.mp3 Shugo Tokumaru
Face To Face On High Places.mp3 School of Seven Bells
black white.mp3 The Raveonettes
(thomas)
Daily Routine.mp3 Animal Collective
Vox Celeste.mp3 Deerhunter
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur.mp3 Sigur Ros
My Game of Loving.mp3 White Noise
Quick Canal Part 1.mp3 Atlas Sound

Rex Nexus Mixes

2009-02-14T12:58:00.004-05:00

here are some mixes our friend Rex has done over the last few years. no track listing for these but if you need them you can get them from him here. enjoy!

Gale Force Shoegaze 8 - Enter the Drone Roller #1
Gale Force Shoegaze 10
Gale Force Shoegaze 13
Gale Force Shoegaze 14 -Retrogaz'n (music trivia mix)
Gale Force Shoegaze 15
Gale Force Shoegaze 16
Psyche-rolla mix
Bam Jangle Roll'n

Snow In Mexico

2009-02-13T15:00:00.000-05:00

Snow In Mexico are Massimiliano Cruciani and Andrea Novelli. They live in Italy and they make beautiful music...

You and My Winter.mp3
Velvet.mp3
Ride.mp3
Cinema 5010.mp3

download the EP for free from their website

Lmg Exclusive - Ulrich Schnauss Mp3 Mix

2009-02-13T12:02:00.003-05:00

A mix by Ulrich Schnauss

01) P-Machinery.mp3 Propaganda
02) Ice.mp3 Daniel Lanois
03) Dont Use My Broken Heart.mp3 Leona Naess
04) Llife Of Surprises.mp3 Prefab Sprout
05) Darkest Dreaming.mp3 David Sylvian
06) Wind Was Playing With My Hair.mp3 Katharina Franck
07) Riesenrad.mp3 cosa rosa
08) Armageddon In The Rose Garden Part II.mp3 Edgar Froese
09) Riot in Lagos.mp3 Ryuchi Sakamoto
10) Mirage.mp3 Jean-Luc Ponty
11) Magical Dream.mp3 808 State
12) Sunflower.mp3 Quazar
13) Apollo.mp3 Voyager
14) Force Majeure.mp3 Tangerine Dream

or download the entire mix here
or here (courtesy of Wes)

Real Cool Rain, part 2

2009-02-12T15:14:00.004-05:00

for those that saw the previous post and liked what they heard here is a handy .rar file of all the tunes that i previously posted (all of which were legally downloaded of their virb page) for a much quicker download.

Real Cool Rain.rar

Luxa, Elika and Arbol (ex Piano Magic) March 8th, Union Hall

2009-02-12T15:01:00.004-05:00

if you're familiar with this blog or the LMG Myspace page then you already know all about Elika and probably Luxa too. if not, the links are there for you. opening the show is Miguel Marin who is perfoming as Arbol. he used to be a member of the excellent Piano Magic. check out his myspace for tunes and a lengthy bio.
this is a free show and also the birthday of your humble writer. should be a good time...

Screen Vinyl Image show Feb 14 moved to Pianos

2009-02-12T14:46:00.003-05:00

from their website...

Our album release show for Interceptors has been moved from Vanishing Point in Brooklyn to Pianos in Manhattan. Same band line up with a fantastic DJ addition! All info is listed below.

VANISHING POINT PRESENTS:

THE VANDELLES
SCREEN VINYL IMAGE (CD release party)
AUDN
VIOLET HOUR

DJs:

LAUREN ANDINO (MUTE RECORDS / TELLTALE)
THE INVISIBLE KID
STEPHAN C (AUDN/VANISHING POINT)

http://pianosnyc.com
158 Ludlow NY

apparently VP has been having some issues with the local neighborhood peace officers...hopefully it gets sorted out

LMG Exclusive - Panda Riot MP3 Mix

2009-02-12T12:31:00.001-05:00

A mix by Brian of Panda Riot

1 Panis Et Circenses.mp3 Os Mutantes
2 lights always.mp3 The Mobius Band
3 Alpha Rainbow.mp3 Boards of Canada
4 I`m Afraid They`re All.mp3 Dawn
5 High Writer At Home.mp3 Lilys
6 Untitled (Shes Goin Bald).mp3 The Beach Boys
7 My Ice Cast.mp3 Lucky Pegasus
8 Im With You.mp3 Love
9 Nin-Com-Pop.mp3 Lali Puna
10 Bread.mp3 On! Air! Library!
11 Led Byrd - unknown song.mp3 Helium
12 Everybodys Talking.mp3 Harry Nilson

Real Cool Rain

2009-02-10T23:38:00.015-05:00

mother of god...

from their virb.com page
"We existed from 1993 - 1996 in the DC suburbs on the Virginian side of the Potomac.
Everything we released is long out of print and this site is an attempt to make at least some of that available again...in all its obscurity and imperfection.
We hope you enjoy.

Love,
Nathan
Anthony
Emre
Brian"

i can't even begin to tell you how excited i am right now. so let's flash back to when i was a young lad, around 19. that was 1994 for those keeping score at home. i used to go to this great record store called Vinyl Ink in DC (it's were i picked up the Verve-Voyager 1 blue vinyl). i was way into the Durutti Column at the time, granted i'm always way into the Durutti Column, but i was looking the local and DIY indie section and saw a cassette that said something to the effect if you like the Durutti Column you'll love this. i asked the guy at the counter how he felt about that and he tried to sell me Windy and Carl. I passed on the Windy and Carl for Real Cool Rain. i was blown away by it. very raw yet beautiful and perfect. i'm no wordsmith, i'll be the first to admit, but i absolutely loved it. over the years the tape deteriorated because i played it so much and the fact that it lived in my car, which was not safe for animal nor human. plant life maybe... one day it broke and i was crushed. never heard anything about these guys ever again.
flash forward to the internet...
every couple years i'd do a search for Real Cool Rain when i was bored or started to think about awesome songs i hadn't heard in a long time. well tonight i struck gold. sure enough i typed it in and there it was on virb.com of all places. (i love the fact that they don't have a myspace page. so perfect.) and 9 songs free to download which you can also listen to here and download if you choose. i also found one of the members flickr pages with some posters of their old shows. since there's such little information about them i'm posting the captions to them as well. here we go...
snagged from Anthony's Flickr page...

"This is ancient history, just about 10 years ago now if not slightly more. I'd actually forgotten we'd played there. I have now vague recollections of the performance. It was fun putting together these flyers with Nate. Leka was a good band, a 3 piece. Nice people. I wonder where they are now."

"Sarina Simmom was this great band fronted by an extremely talented Jennifer Herbst. They totally blew us off the stage."

"Always ones for variety, we made a couple different flyers for each of the shows we did. As a band we recorded 4 albums (actually, slightly more) worth of material but only managed to play 10 shows total due to half the band being in university. The only time we had was holidays and summers and it actually was easier to record than to try to get shows. We'd practice for upwards of a month for just one show and I don't think we ever had more than 3 shows in a single month."

and now a selection of tunes that they made available for free on virb. i hope you enjoy them as much as i do...it's great to have the old tracks from my driving days and hear some that i hadn't...

A Deserts Warning to a Late Night Tr.mp3
Afterlife.mp3
Am I In You.mp3
Can I Get One of You Smiling.mp3
Circumstance.mp3
Eros.mp3
Fountain of Youth.mp3
How to Say Goodbye in the Future.mp3
Restless.mp3
Thanatos.mp3

Thrushes are busy playing good shows....

2009-02-05T15:15:00.006-05:00

Baltimore's Thrushes have a bunch of good shows coming up if you're in the area. their original drummer is returning too.

Feb 8th - WMUC Third Rail Radio- Live on the air! w/ Ceremony in College Park, MD
March 14th - The Talking Head Club w/ The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Baby Aspirin
March 27th - The Ottobar w/ Asobi Seksu

Thrushes also have a track on the recently released Self Storage Recordings compilation...

and speaking of Factory Records....

2009-02-05T14:55:00.004-05:00

this a is a great blog for all things Factory, past and present. i've been addicted to it for years....
props to John Cooper for keeping FCL alive...

Hotels, new album(free mp3), tour dates

2009-02-05T14:34:00.006-05:00

Hotels reside in Seattle although they used to be based in New York. They always sort of reminded me of great Factory Records band, the Stockholm Monsters. Rich Bennett of Monocle played/plays guitar for them when he's on the west coast or they're out here. They have a new album coming out on Hidden Shoal Recordings February 14th. here's a tune they've been giving away for free...

01 Hydra.mp3

they've also got a ton of shows coming starting with a Valentines Day tribute show to Factory Records . the flier is sooper cool. how come no love for Factory in NYC? that needs to change...

Hotels tour dates....

Feb 14 2009

8:00P

Dancing On The Valentine Benefit Show (Covers)

Seattle, Washington

Feb 20 2009

2:00P

Live In Studio Performance

Seattle, Washington

Feb 20 2009

9:00P

Sunset Tavern- HOTELS CD Release Party

Seattle, Washington