09/15/2008 00:36:32  ♥ written by vu ()

Worst Case Ontario - You're Glib Sheri Miller - The Blade Five A.M-Just Say Anything Gershon Veroba - Bamarom The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop Department Of Eagles - No One Does It Like You

What can I say? Another great show, and as I promised last week, I will be keeping these brief. If there is one podcast episode you have to listen to: it's this one.

Download this episode (44 min)

As usual, you can subscribe to the show via mypodcast.com

Also, for the first time, I think I've finally got the audio levels down so it's not too destructively noisy. This show is, once again, divided into three parts. Before I get to that, the music I excerpt throughout the show are: Sheri Miller, Worst Case Ontario, Five AM, The Ramones, Gershon Veroba, Bat for Lashes, and Laura Marling.

PART ONE
We talked to Sam from Worst Case Ontario about his band and living in New York and recording. Make sure they get to the top twenty for MTV2 by voting for them on addictedtonoise.com.

PART TWO
Brian and Alex talks about Apple's new line of iPods and iTunes 8 and its "genius" features.

PART THREE
Brody and Dolly talks about the music that they are loving lately. This includes Caroline Smith and Department of Eagles.

PS, please send me any suggestions and tell me what you like (do you want more band interviews? less news?).

UPDATE 9/15/2008:
This came kind of late, but I think I'm supposed to interview this guy, Kordan, when he arrives here tomorrow.  Here is an excerpt of the press release that came out:

Kordan is Arthur Eisele a Global Affairs graduate from Rutgers.  After having created drum n' bass music in Puerto Rico where he grew up, he had moved to Jersey City to pursue his education and is now currently residing in today's renaissance city Williamsburg. 

(excerpt)

Check out the demo for his upcoming single "Fantasy Nation" (MP3)

Kordan will begin working on his full-length soon after for a release early next year.

Tour dates opening for Cut Copy and The Presets:

September 16 @ Fine Line Cafe in Minneapolis, Minnesota
September 17 @ The Metro in Chicago, Illinois
September 19 @ Sound Academy in Toronto, Ontario
September 20 @ Club Soda in Montreal, Quebec
September 21 @ Webster Hall in New York, New York

Links: www.weheartmusic.com news.weheartmusic.com podcast.weheartmusic.com

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 05/24/2008 10:09:54  ♥ written by vu ()

Sheri Miller - The Blade

Sheri Miller

Sheri Miller is a folk/pop singer/songwriter from New York. She recently just released her debut EP, Mantra on February 25^th.

According to her biography, she's been composing her own music since she was a child... influences includes Beethoven to Pink Flloyd to Fiona Apple, a pretty interesting mix. She found herself moving from Long Island to Brooklyn, performing at open mics.

Here's Miller explaining about her first Casio keyboard purchase:

I clearly remember one Saturday night in particular, I had an extremely vivid dream about this small black, white and gray Casio keyboard. The next morning I woke up with the image of the keyboard still clear in my mind, and took a different more scenic route that day, through an underpass of green trees. So I’m walking, and there’s this one-day church sale, where they had the exact Casio keyboard I had dreamed of the night before. I quickly ran to the ATM, bought the keyboard for $20 and started seriously writing my songs on that sweet, broken-keyed, buzzing Casio from that day on.

So, I got to listen to 6-track EP, and I was really taken with "The Blade", what a great song to end the EP with. I felt like I know this song, especially with its sweeping chorus: "you're not the only one in the world/Everyone hurts, everyone hurts".

The first song, "Waste My Breath" is also worth checking out. This song is the poppiest/easily accessible song, and it's currently available for download on myspace. The other poppy song is "Devil in White", which sounds a little more country than you might think.

"Mantra (I'm in Love)" (which the EP is named after), "All He Has to Do", "The Blade" and "Right Here, Right Now", all features cello playing by Dave Eggar. If you listen carefully, you'll hear the subtle cello, it has a very distinctive sound. The strings (in some cases are accompanied by violins from Rachel Golub) does not take over the song, but instead serves to back up Miller, who is the real star here.

All these songs are streaming on her myspace, so check it out if you want to play along at home... or better yet, you can get Mantra via CD Baby and you can catch her at the Rockwood Music Hall in New York on June 8^th.

Links: www.sherimiller.com myspace.com/sherimiller cdbaby.com/cd/sherimiller

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