Minneapolis-based songwriter Jeremy Messersmith has announced new tour dates for July in support of his new album, The Reluctant Graveyard. Jeremy will return to the west coast on this leg of his North American tour, which has included dates with Frightened Rabbit, KaiserCartel and Telekinesis, as well as a sold out release show at Minneapolis’s historic Cedar Culture Center — a record number of ticket sales for the venue. Read more...
Paper Bag Records is set to release All Red, the new album from Montreal’s Winter Gloves on September 7th. Recently, the band’s Charles F and Nico Ormiston recorded a stellar session with the tastemaker French website La Blogotheque while shooting offsite sessions in Montreal. The band’s session, recorded during a unique stroll through their hometown that included a stop to play amongst the deserted roller coasters at La Ronde Amusement park, features a stripped-down version of ‘Plastic Slides’ one of many stand out tracks on All Red (link below). Winter Gloves will be touring Canada through September and October in support of the new album, with confirmed dates to be announced soon. Read more...
Lo-fi is an extremely ambiguous word. By definition lo-fi is “music in which the sound is of a lower quality than the usual standard.” But as of late the term lo-fi has come to mean a whole lot more. It all comes down to authenticity. Free from studio sheen and basically any production whatsoever, lo-fi is considered by some to be the most genuine and pure music – and about as un-mainstream as it gets. Read more...
Video shot and edited by Paul Giret. Audio recorded and mixed by Alan Sanderson. Produced by Myles Crawley. Guitars provided by Taylor (except the Kay guitar which belongs to D. Kulash)
The 1986 Vancouver World Expo was a magical time. Miles Davis, Johnny Cash and The Beach Boys performed; a Floating McDonalds and the world’s largest ice hockey stick were all on display. This attracted a bevy of global icons including, but not limited to: Princess Diana, Bill Cosby and Jacques Cousteau. Another group of attendees were the then pre-adolescent members of Wolf Parade, who as rumor has it, actually met at the Expo and agreed to meet up some 17 years later to form a band. Read more...
New York City based singer-songwriter Alexa Wilding will be touring with galpals Au Revoir Simone, as well as playing additional NYC dates, throughout the summer. Wilding’s self-titled debut EP was mixed by Fred Smith of Television and features Tim Foljahn (Two Dollar Guitar, Cat Power, Townes Van Zandt) on additional guitars and lap steel. The album features her song “Black Diamond Day” and is currently included on the Morgans Hotel Group Vol 4 CD, alongside Peter Bjorn & John, Lissy Trullie, The Faint and others. Wilding also lends her music to the films and runway shows of Finnish design house, IVANAhelsinki, often appearing in designer Paola Suhonen’s films. The pair recently collaborated on a performance at Art Basel-Miami, in conjunction with the upcoming fashion and art publication, Love Contemporary. Read more...
Next week we will be posting some exclusive interview and performance footage that we recently shot at OK GO singer Damian Kulash’s house in Los Angeles. Damian and bass player, Tim Nordwind, sat down and spoke with us and played a couple of songs from their new album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, which released on the bands own Paracadute Recordings label on June 2nd. This is exclusive footage that can only be seen here on Project Rhythm Seed. So tune in and find out how the band came up with the name OK GO, as well as other tasty tidbits. Read more...
“John M. Perkins is an American civil rights leader. Born in Mississippi to a sharecropper, he grew up in the dire poverty and bitter racism of the time. At the age of 17 his older brother was murdered at the hands of a town marshal, so he fled the state vowing never to return. Yet in 1960 Dr. Perkins and his wife, Vera Mae Perkins, felt compelled to go back to help the poor in rural Mississippi.” Read more...
To look at them floating suspended in the air before a wide open sea in their press photos, the mind doesn’t scream disco beats and swank guitar riffs, yet Chicago trio Hey Champ knows how to make your butt shake and your body groove like there was no tomorrow. Read more...
Occasionally a song will come along that is so sonically flawless, that short of the artists responsible declaring their forthright love for Hitler’s policies, committing mass murder, or worse, selling their music to Starbucks – you will forgive them for almost anything. “Spanish Sahara” is such a single. Foals are such a group
And Foals’ sophomore album, Total Life Forever, is a damn good listen. Read more...
Rounder Records is pleased to announce that Robert Plant is back with Band of Joy, his first album since 2007′s six time Grammy® Award winning Raising Sand (Rounder). Band of Joy was recorded in Nashville with a stellar cast of musicians and will be released on September 14. Read more...
Sunday Night at the Belly Up in Solana Beach was a sold out show and for good reason: the night did not disappoint. The energy in the venue was palpable, undoubtedly due to the headliner Mumford & Sons, but the opening acts got the night off to a good start. “The Silent Comedy,” natives of Southern California, opened the show and the crowd loved the high energy, charisma, and style of this rocking band. While their appearance is decidedly old-fashioned, their performance at the Belly Up showed an effortless mix of styles and sounds often with loud, foot-stomping choruses that were made all the better by their lively stage presence. Simply put, their songs were fresh, fun and creative and had the crowd pumped up in no time. They have a new album out that can be purchased on their web site. Read more...
A large portion of the people involved in the “creative” side of the music business spend their entire career dedicated to the singular goal of recognition, specifically the type that gets you recognized – be it magazine covers, billboards, TV, etc. In a culture obsessed with becoming famous, what do we make of artists who chose to remain anonymous? Or, for that matter, use a jackalope as their visual representative? This brings us to Miike Snow. Up to this point they’ve remained pretty mysterious, proving nearly impossible to find any information about, photographic or otherwise. Man? DJ? Robot? Miike Snow is a band. Swedish duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg are childhood friends who spent time playing in bands and working on various projects in studios throughout Gothenburg. Read more...
Gruff Rhys, enigmatic lead singer and songwriter for celebrated Welsh space rock outfit Super Furry Animals, solo artist and one half of trans-Atlantic electronic duo Neon Neon, has spent the past five years crafting his first documentary, “Separado!” Directed by Dylan Goch & Gruff Rhys, “Separado!” takes us on a pan continental road trip in search of Rhys’ long lost Patagonian uncle, the poncho wearing guitarist Rene Griffiths. Dylan Goch follows Gruff Rhys on a tour that takes in the theatres, nightclubs and desert tea houses of Wales, Brazil and the Argentine Andes as he discovers what became of his family, the Welsh Diaspora and its musical legacy. Read more...
The 6th Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am presented by Hurleywill feature performances by Timmy Curran, Dynamite Walls, Jon Foreman and Friends, OK Go, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants, The Almost, Kate Voegele and Young the Giant. The concert/surf contest will take place on Saturday, June 26th, at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. Read more...
Old Crow Medicine Show(OCMS) have announced a new run of summer tour dates starting July 8 in Cincinnati, OH. The band also recently contributed a cover of “Angel From Montgomery” to the upcoming John Prine tribute album, alongside artists like My Morning Jacket, The Avett Brothers and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. Their version of “Angel From Montgomery” will be on the Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, out June 22 (Oh Boy Records). Read more...
Metric has just finished shooting a brand new music video for “Stadium Love” and is thrilled to share this wild video with you! As the fifth official music video from Fantasies, the band knew this video had to be something extra special. They brought on a couple of new friends to help create this video. Hope you enjoy!
Minneapolis-based songwriter Jeremy Messersmith has announced new tour dates for July in support of his new album, The Reluctant Graveyard. Jeremy will return to the west coast on this leg of his North American tour, which has included dates with Frightened Rabbit, KaiserCartel and Telekinesis, as well as a sold out release show at Minneapolis’s historic Cedar Culture Center — a record number of ticket sales for the venue. 
