May
21

Music Video: The Ghost Wolves- Big Star

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Turn the White Stripes inside out and you have The Ghost Wolves— Carley “Carazy” Wolf on the mic and guitar and Jonathan “Little Hammer” Wolf on the drums and backing vocals. This new Texas based duo blend gritty backwoods blues with hints of Pyschobilly and folk that are conjuring up garage ghosts from the 60’s and demons from the Delta. Known around the city for their energetic live show and infectious on-stage chemistry, The Ghost Wolves have been relentlessly touring their debut album, In Ya Neck!, bringing the raw and rabid rock and roll sound from their digitally unscathed record to dive bars across the plains.

With songs like Big Star (above video), Curl Up & Dye, Gonna Live, and The Snake and Jake Shake, The Ghost Wolves prove they are separate commodities not to be lumped in with The White Stripes, The Dead Weather, and other known blues rock hybrids. Carley and Jon are in their own swamp-world building their own boussilage of organic punk-blues blight. Now all that’s left for us to do is get drunk, dirty, and dance.

The limited edition white vinyl of In Ya Neck! is now available. You can pre-order it here (or grab the digital copy). Free digital download of the album available in the same link!

Inside Out - My Dynamite

Inside Out

by My Dynamite
album My Dynamite

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Nostalgia is in the air as My Dynamite, a five-piece rock and roll band out of Melbourne, Australia, shred through the modern muck and present the world with a soulful, southern rock and roll throwback album. Their new debut self-titled record has made critics and rock fans alike ecstatic over their Black Crowes-like sound. One writer said: “This is the best album that The Black Crowes never released…I am thankful that I now have a follow up to Shake Your Money Maker.”

“Inside Out” is a song that proves the blogger white noise to be true, as My Dynamite drives home a classic southern rock tune that contains just as much soulful swagger as Chris Robinson and company. 

Buy My Dynamite’s debut album here.

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Old Abram Brown- Restless Ghosts (Free Album Download)

I decided to pull this Old Abram Brown album out of the BandSoup vaults because for some reason I never got around to publishing the draft I had saved in the old blog system. It’s a 2010 album, but a good one nevertheless. Enjoy.

Live performance of “Novelty Prize” at the Hunt Memorial Library

“There’s a density to Old Abram Brown’s music that makes every song sound as if it’s bursting at the seams… Songs swell to momentous, tense climaxes on the backs of interlacing melodies that combine shades of blues, folk, indie, and alternative with a sandpaper edge.” - AV Club Philadelphia

Old Abram Brown’s sophomore album Restless Ghosts, the follow-up to their 2009 debut Alive in Winter, is a tight collection of nine songs ranging from the somber and introspective to the buoyant and celebratory.

With this release, the band has amplified the fullness already present in their previous work; Eric Bolton’s jangling, atmospheric guitars guide the songs, facilitating the often epic, spacious trajectories of songs like Your House on the Hill, the single Tides, and the adamant Novelty Prize. But rather than drowning under the weight and scope, the songs retain a poppy immediacy indebted to frontman Carson Lund’s towering melodies and poetic lyrics, bassist/pianist Dylan Vukelich’s eerie harmonies, and Erik Lund’s alternately understated and grandiose drum work. As dynamic as it is nuanced, Restless Ghosts provides something for both adventurous listeners and those with a more pop sensibility.

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18

Here Today. Gone to Maui. - The Passenger

Here Today. Gone to Maui.

by The Passenger
album Here Today. Gone to Maui.

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Soup of the Day: The Passenger- Here Today. Gone to Maui.

Formed in the summer of 2011, The Passenger is an alternative rock band hailing from the state where old people go to die: Florida.

Mentally rooted in the mid-nineties Saturday Night Live/”Grunge” Era, The Passenger’s music wants to inspire you to dust off your Doc Martens and tie a flannel around your waist. Their self-produced debut album, “Here Today. Gone To Maui.,” mixed by Ed Rose (Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, Appleseed Cast…), embodies a well-rounded, full bodied, super catchy rock sound reminiscent of bands like Jimmy Eat World, The Get Up Kids, and Weezer.

Buy “Here Today. Gone To Maui.,” here.

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May
17

Footsteps - Hidden Orchestra

Footsteps

by Hidden Orchestra
album Night Walks

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Footsteps is the first single to be lifted from Hidden Orchestra’s fantastic debut album, Night Walks. 

Edinburgh-based Hidden Orchestra combine two live drummers, organic samples and dubby basslines to make cinematic, emotive, percussive music. Their sound, resplendent with layers of intense soundscapes, takes audiences on a deep and truly original sonic journey containing elements of jazz, classical, drum’n’bass, rock and hip hop, molded into a coherent whole.

“intriguingly masterful concoction of sinister samples, eerie electronics and raucous acoustic beats… a dark and rich sonic layering that seems to inspire tranquility and disquiet in equal measure. This night walk takes you from a smoky jazz bar through dodgy estates to the open expanse of the sea.”

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