2021/05 #2 IndieRock DJ Playlist

Our monthly playlist of the songs we've been digging.

Songs of May 2021

Choices Of The Grasshopper May 2021

https://fortherabbits.net/2021/05/14/five-things-we-liked-this-week-14-05-21/

Five Things We Liked This Week - 14/05/2021

Destaques Zumbido Máximo (maio 2021)

Zumbido máximo é um espaço de divulgação de artistas do rock ao eletrônico.

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#alternative, #indie, #newwave, #pop, #punk, #rock

Mix May 2021

Root Playlist #1

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Impudent Hussy

Babe
Everybody talks so loud
Fighting over time
drowning each other out
Bombs like tears are falling now
I guess we’re not so far from where we started
How I wonder
Is it me or is it you?
Who needs this more
Who’s making do
Babe
Babe
Things keep falling right outside
And the fear it grips and chokes me from inside
Pull on your arms like a frightened child
Though I know you’re just as terrified
Babe
Are we in love?
Or is it the drugs, babe?
Still never feels quite enough
Babe
Can hardly sleep when you lie with me
Stay up all night so I can hear you leave
‘Cause I am many things
But I’m not naive
Babe
No I won’t be the fool waking up to haunted sheets
Babe
And it’s all piling up at our feet
Dust and rubble gathering in heaps
I’ll get lost in you
You can get lost in me
Being lost is a bit like being free isn’t it?
Babe
It’s not you it’s me isn’t it ?
Babe
It feels like we’re getting older doesn’t it?
Babe

Written and Performed by feeo
Coproduced by feeo and Upcycled Sounds

feels like we're getting older doesn't it

Sand Fight

It's Dangerous

What You Think?

Chinese Medicine

Going Down South

"Stateside"
Music & Lyrics by John Kunkel
Mix & Mastered by John Kunkel
Release Date: May 10, 2021
Label: Division 87 Records
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3sAQ7KV​
Bandcamp.com: https://thenewdivision.bandcamp.com/​
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenewdivision​
Facebook.com: https://www.facebook.com/thenewdivision​
Twitter.com: https://www.twitter.com/thenewdivision​

Spearheaded by John Kunkel (songwriter/producer), The New Division is an LA-based tour de force. Influenced by a mix of new wave, synthpop, and dancefloor sensibilities, Kunkel has taken the tastiest slices of these genres and blended them into The New Division's signature sound. With a sound that feels comfortably connected to the past but with a momentum that fastens them to the future, at its core The New Division's custom blend of electronic adds tugging lyrics to each track, bringing satisfying emotion to the party.

On the heels 2020s LP, "Hidden Memories," The New Division's latest effort, "Stateside" is The New Division's 2nd single for 2021. Featuring a unique rhythm section, ethereal atmospheres, and glistening vocals, "Stateside" offers its own take on settling for love across the pond. On the subject matter, John Kunkel (lead vocalist/producer) states, "I wrote this song during the pandemic and thought about all the people who were together before everything went down, but then got separated for one reason or another. Not being able to see each other during that time, all while under lockdown must've been difficult. I tried to put myself in their shoes, thought about how I would've reacted, how they would've felt and the lyrics stemmed from that very place." 

Stateside is out worldwide May 10th, 2021 on Division 87 Records.


"Stateside"
I won't let you run me down
I won't leave anything over 
As long as I'm away from you

Living a double life
These days I'm looking a bit older
A price for the sins I pay 

This isn't what you want
But I don't matter
Cause all the things I need are in my hands

To hold you over
I hold you

Runnin round just like your head cut off

The smilin' that your sportin' just says it all
So I won't let you try to win this
Before you know, before you know it all

I lead a simple life by msyelf
How could you add anything to it
Without breaking up?

The New Division - Stateside

Magic Taxi

Joseph Campbell describes a shaman as "person, male or female, who…has an overwhelming psychological experience that turns him totally inward.  It's a kind of schizophrenic crack-up. The whole unconscious opens up, and the shaman falls into it."  We'll never know the whole truth about what happened when (Foxyen drummer and former Disney child actor) Shaun Fleming moved from the West Coast suburbs to New York, but whatever it was fractured his psyche, opened it up, and gave birth to Diane Coffee. 

In 2013, after joining the band Foxygen, Shaun Fleming left the green and golden fields of his hometown of Agoura Hills, CA to become the third roommate in a 700 square-foot, pre-war, closet-free Manhattan apartment.  He was welcomed to The Big Apple by a nasty flu virus that drained the last bit of California sunshine out of the skinny, Macaulay Culken-looking 26-year-old's body.  As he recovered, cabin fever supplanted the flu, and his relentless creative drive took over.  Low on funds and bored out of his mind, he spent the next two weeks alone in his bedroom writing and recording what would become the debut Diane Coffee LP My Friend Fish.     

Despite his limited means (using a pseudo drum kit consisting of a snare, one broken cymbal, and a metal pot, recording parts with an iPhone's voice memo app, playing a detuned guitar rather than a real bass, etc) My Friend Fish sounds fully realized and remarkably polished.  From a Donovan-esque song about Sriracha, to experiments with distortion and garage-rock, to songs like "All The Young Girls" in which he gleefully channels Tom Jones with sex-bomb confidence, on My Friend Fish Fleming's spell-casting powers are in full effect, inspiring panty-tossing glee.  After you finish listening, you'll wonder as you stretch out in bed and enjoy a cigarette, "Who is Fish?"

TOUR DATES
Oct 29 – New York, NY • Pianos
Nov 2 – Austin, TX • Red 7 w/ Those Darlins
Nov 5 – Phoenix, AZ • the Rhythm Room w/ Those Darlins
Nov 7 – Los Angeles, CA • the Echo w/ Those Darlins
Nov 8 – Santa Ana, CA • the Constellation Room w/ Those Darlins
Nov 13 – San Francisco, CA • the Chapel w/ Those Darlins
Nov 15 – Seattle, WA • Barboza w/ Those Darlins
Nov 16 – Portland, OR • Bunk Bar w/ Those Darlins
Nov 19 – Denver, CO • Hi-Dive w/ Those Darlins
Nov 21 – Kansas City, MO • the Record Bar w/ Those Darlins
Nov 22 – Carbondale, IL • Hangar 9 w/ Those Darlins
Nov 23 – Louisville, KY • the Zanzabar w/ Those Darlins

DIANE COFFEE "Hymn"

Thunder Domino

Off The Rails

@holiday-ghosts single 'Total Crisis' from forthcoming album 'North Street Air' - out May 21st.

The new single was written by occasional member of the band Charlie Murphy.  "Total Crisis was written before the world descended into an actual total crisis. It’s about deciding whether you can live with a personal problem, or whether it should be the catalyst for a big change." says Charlie.

#alternative #indie #postpunk #altrock #HolidayGhosts #TotalCrisis

Holiday Ghosts - Total Crisis

From Keesh Mountain out May 28th on Fire Talk

Buy: https://ffm.to/wombo

Keesh Mountain

Wombo - Situations

Dumb - Pizza Slice
From the PIZZA PUNKS split 7 inch with Tough Age
Out now on Mint Records
Buy it on vinyl: https://dumbband.bandcamp.com/album/pizza-punks

Dumb delivers “Pizza Slice,” a piping hot pie of chopped chords drizzled with their secret sauce of jittery verse and tangy feedback that will melt your mozza and your face. Best served on a Saturday night with your best pals but also life saving the next morning when you wake up late and need something to get you moving!

Dumb
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Bandcamp https://dumbband.bandcamp.com/
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Spotify https://tinyurl.com/y2cs2pyr

Mint Records 
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Twitter twitter.com/mintrecords
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Pizza Punks

Dumb - Pizza Slice

LISTEN / BUY HERE: https://rse.lnk.to/UV1
WATCH THE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Hh8WTPnL-y8

FOLLOW EVIDENCE:
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SONG CREDITS:
Written and performed by Evidence
Produced by Animoss
Mixed by Philippe Weiss
Mastered by Bernie Grundman

Unlearning Vol. 1

Evidence - Pardon Me

Pan Daijing - Jade 玉观音
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 113
Release Date: 4 June 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Jade

What if a song was not a culmination but a singe, an imprint, or a crater left in the wake of creative process? On her new record “Jade”, Pan Daijing composes at a different scale than that we’ve come to know. Since the release of her groundbreaking LP “Lack” in 2017, Daijing has expanded her operatic vision into a series of major commissioned exhibition-performances at institutions including the Tate Modern, Martin Gropius Bau, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Developed for full casts of opera singers and dancers, and reaching for an all-encompassing durational experience of intensity for both performer and audience, the development of these works was for Daijing as emotionally disarming as it was thrilling. In order to continue accessing her own limits, Daijing had to develop a place of sanctuary within her own practice.

Its nine tracks written and recorded over the last three years, “Jade” is the sound of solitary release and refuge, of creative self-sustenance. Written without the imperatives of direct address to performers or audience, “Jade” speaks inward, while inviting a kind of rhetorical listening. The artist draws on materials familiar from her previous work: namely, ascetic electronic textures that rumble and pierce, and voice bent in irreverent directions. In place of catharsis, however, her arrangements here linger in tension, extending curiosity towards the delicate void that nourishes extremes. They toy with the minor capacities of song: repetition, chant, observations that conclude without resolving.

“Jade” comes from a vulnerable place, tender as in an undressed wound caught in the midst of healing over. Vocals, mostly Daijing’s own, arrive as wordless sequences of notes soaring alongside a drone, or plain laughter, or in a few places spoken word. What is said or sung provides fragments of experience and reflection. In the process of piecing together these fragments, the listener is confronted with the tender parts of her own. “Solitude is like an immense lake you’re swimming through,” says Daijing of these songs. “Sometimes you dip your head in and sometimes you lift it above. On album centerpiece “Let,” she speaks to us over the sound of rippling water, returning between anxious scenes to a refrain: “I take my bath in the ocean.” We are not just consuming Daijing’s story; we are being invited to join her in the water.

The album is mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Pan Daijing, cinematography by Dzhovani & design by NMR.

@pan-daijing

Jade 玉观音

Pan Daijing - Let 七月 (PAN 113)

PREDATOR -  RIPPED JEANS

Madi Diaz - Stay Together [Phantom]
Watch the music video on YouTube
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Phantom available now 
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Visit http://madidiaz.com for a free download 

Madi Diaz - Stay Together

Let My Baby Stay (Demo)

Soft Skin By Shiny Darkly
From the forthcoming album Little Earth

Shiny Darkly - Soft Skin

Rough mix of the tune "White Werewolf" from the upcoming LP Interstellar Skeletal, out Spring 2015 on A Recordings, Ltd.

WHITE WEREWOLF (rough mix)

The Air Conditioned Nightmare

My Friend Simjen

Doldrums - My Friend Simjen

SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE - IN YOUR ARMS (SLOWED)

Soccer Mommy on Audiotree Live

Inside Out (Audiotree Live Version)

Benadryl Dreams (Audiotree Live Version)

Last Girl (Audiotree Live Version)

A set of new tracks and mixes, taken from the new audio/visual DJ experience by James Lavelle.

Available to buy EXCLUSIVELY on Beatport: http://bit.ly/USVOL1

Restless (16 Bit Lolitas Remix)

Patterns Of My Mind (with Liz Cooper & the Stampede + Desert Noises)

Help is on the Way

'Movements' is all about a relationship that has broken down. When your gut is saying something is wrong but neither of you are saying anything. You know you are losing them, but you’re still besotted. You realise you aren't 'all over each other' anymore, your touches have lost any affection and you are in heartache limbo. It is about overcoming the fear of something ending and voicing your feelings in order to regain control of the situation. It’s like, enough is enough I’m calling you out mate.

Movements

My Old Bassist

Being the girl

Dirty Words

Wrong with You

From The Back of a Cab

Having personally witnessed firsthand a tragic incident on the London Underground, this song acted as a kind of catharsis. The song expands the occurrence into a fictional narrative around the central protagonist. An ode to the fragility of human life and the importance of leading our best lives despite the cards we're often dealt.

Reset

Sirens

Brightside is the second single taken from the EP "Unemployment, Broken Bones, Death, Baby", out May 14 on VÅRØ Records. Damen is Danial Bin Ismail Ärlig (vocals/guitar), David Nordell (bass), Adrian Gejrot (drums) and Gustav Bondesson (guitar). 

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Contact: hello@varorecords.com