Neon Indian

Artist: Neon Indian
Album: Era Extrana
From: Denton, Texas

 

     If ears could breathe there would been many a thing that one could do. First of all you could probably talk without moving your mouth, spit on people who are directly on your left and right, and maybe even drool on your own earlobe. However, if one listened to Neon Indian with breathable ears, you might die of lack of oxygen from pure electronic sound fluid.
    A mastermind project brought on by Alan Palomo, Neon Indian is right now in the for-front of electronic music scene. Alan being brought up by a Mexican pop star father, he's always been at least waist deep in music. He is nearly involved in all aspects of music; whether it's from creating his own Midi, to producing a Miniature Tiger song, to doing an EP with none other than the Flaming Lips.

     Now releasing the his newest album since his stunningly successful debut, Psychic Chasms, Palomo destroyed our previous thought of what sounds actually makes music. It almost seems he uses pure magic to keep control of his original noises. Its beautiful and holds the statement that we can control the machine.
     Live, the sounds travel. The band uses things that look like giant circuit boards to things that look like TV antennas  to create a smooth psychedelic sound. That's not even it. The light show is also very impressive and dips in and out of the music perfectly. Also in use is random visual spectacles that will blow all reality for example. Last year the guitarist whipped out a guitar fitted with an LCD screen right behind the strings. If that's not what you're looking for (pure awesomeness that is) well then you don't know how to look.







Neon Indian - Polish Girl (New Song HD HQ) by itskatiebaabyy



 

Metronomy

Artist: Metronomy

Album: The English Riviera

From: Totnes, Devon, England

Metronomy - The Bay by acrylica




Metronomy - The Look by puppettotheman

MUSICTONIC

Best app of Google Chrome (okay at least amongst the best music apps). If you have Google Chrome and like being cool and popular, you need this thing. The basic idea is you type in an artist that you like (or don't like, the worlds your oyster) and it brings up a constant feed of music video's of that artist! Its like magic. But thats not even it. Next thing you know it, your wandering eyes connect to a list of 16 more similar artist that you can check out. Yeah i know, a miracle. Google does it again. A nice feature that musictonic brings to the show is it plays through the video's automatically! Yeah so basically select a band you like, then select one that has a nifty name, then sit and relax while you are put into a trance of beautiful moving pictures and sulky sounds. Look into it. Give a chance. Then realize how much I have made your life better. Yeah, your welcome.

Ben Howard

Artist: Ben Howard

Album: Old Pine - EP

From: Totnes, South Devon, UK

Ben Howard - Old Pine by fvfestival

Made In Heights

Artist: Made In Heights

Album: Aporia: in the Streets

From: New York

TAKEAWAY SHOWS

If you haven't heard, takeaway shows are all the rave. And rave's are what we're all about. Basically the idea is, you take a great band/artist/musician/rockstar and you put him/her/it somewhere random and ask for musical perfection. It works out very nicely sometimes. It's kind of like mixing flash mobs with talent. The best part is seeing the random passer by's wondering who these weirdo's singing in the middle of a busy street singing and player there flutes and maracas. Honestly its a flawless way to see how really talented these bands are. Some of the best takeaway shows I've seen has been put on by a bunch of french dudes at a website called http://www.blogotheque.net/ . I don't know what they've done to the website recently, but now its total crap (maybe its a french form of web building, it might be super trendy but I'm not up to date of foreign fashions). I can't really seem to get around the website very easily and get lost in bad google chrome translating. But thats not the point. The idea is brilliant. I recommend looking them up on youtube, its much easier to find the best ones. If you like good music, good music videos, and good music live takeaway shows are a must. Some of them take awhile to get started, but be patient, you will be peeing your pants soon.

Here's the youtube channel
            http://www.youtube.com/user/LaBlogotheque

Here's one of the best
            Local Natives- Who Knows Who Cares
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hhE_sqJG3g&feature=channel_video_title