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On the Move...

Order the LP/free download: https://hardleft.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-hard-left

"We Are Hard Left" is the debut album from Hard Left. Brought together by the music, held together by the outrage -- Hard Left are a hard-mod/punk band borne out of a desire to explore leftist political ideas and marry them to rabble-rousing music worthy of the worldwide struggle against capital. Far from a dry exercise in doctrinaire thought, Hard Left's songs are great punk first and foremost, and ripping good fun.

The band members have been involved with punk and DIY music for nearly a century combined, including time in bands like Boyracer, Jüke, Whorl, Lunchbox and Black Tambourine, and operating the respected labels 555, Emotional Response and Slumberland Records. Initial Hard Left recording sessions in Spring 2014 led to the release of two limited edition lathe-cut singles, the Situationist-inspired "What's That Sound?" and the tough-as-nails "Safety." The band set to writing and in August 2014 gathered in the desert of Flagstaff, AZ to record. The results were two more singles ("Skinheads Home For Christmas" and a split 7" with Bad Daddies, both released in December 2014), and now this album.

"We Are Hard Left" is a concise and explosive punk record, packed with anthems of resistance and calls to action. These are crucial times that we live in, and Hard Left seek to inspire and invigorate. The opener "New Year" sets out the band's stall in fine fashion, urging listeners to "give up false needs" and embrace new beginnings. They follow with the blasting "Hard Left Rules OK," a call to arms if ever there was one. The album is tightly edited, each song on the heels of the previous one, exemplifying the group's eagerness to broadcast their message and energize their fans.

To that end, rousing chants and noisy interludes are interspersed throughout, cheeky but pointed references to their mod forebears and street-level terrace "politics." The message is always positive, the underlying mood is of hopefulness. "Hand In Hand" is an exhilarating call for solidarity and collective action, while "Future Perfect" imagines a world where the people were the true beneficiaries of the surplus created by progress, the perfect future we were all promised during the golden age of capitalism. Previous singles "Safety" and "Stay True" appear in re-recorded form, hard as nails and fitting in perfectly.

From the super-tough "Kicking If Off" to the Occupy-inspired "Red Flag" and the supremely uplifting (and also Situationist-inspired) closer "Imagination," this is a record that hits hard, crammed with guitars that soar and rage, group chants and raw-throated vocals. It's anthemic in the best way -- inspiring but never heavy-handed, a worthy successor to records by bands like The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols and The Dils.  Call it "utopian Oi" if you will, or "hard mod" or just plain punk, but don't miss out on this passionate, thrilling record.


Hard Left are:
Mike: exhortations
Donna: bass, vocals
Tim: guitar, vocals
Stewart: drums, vocals


We Are Hard Left

The 3rd single from the Blackchords record 'A Thin Line'

Sleepwalker (single release)

Twenty Reasons

Movie

free dl @ https://redalder.bandcamp.com/track/softspeak

Softspeak

Taken from Actress' 'Grey Over Blue' 12", released on Werkdiscs / Ninja Tune.

Buy now at the <a href="http://smarturl.it/actressgob">Ninjashop</a>

Pre-order <a href="http://www.werkdiscs.com/actress">Ghettoville</a> at the <a href="http://smarturl.it/ghettoville">Ninjashop</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/ghettovilleit">iTunes</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/ghettovilleam">Amazon</a>

<a href="http://www.werkdiscs.com">werkdiscs.com</a>
<a href="http://www.ninjatune.net">ninjatune.net</a>

Grey Over Blue

Buy 'Grey Over Blue'

Actress - 'Grey Over Blue'

Die Höchste Eisenbahn - Aliens (Lambert Rework)

*for those of you asking, I performed and recorded the whistling parts myself.

'Heart' my song on Hype Machine here: http://hypem.com/track/245qa/Sylvan+Esso+-+Hey+Mami+(Big+Wild+Remix)

I haven’t put up any new music for a while but this is the single for my new EP coming out in May. It’s an unofficial remix of Sylvan Esso’s “Hey Mami”. The vocal melodies of the original just had me hooked instantly and inspired me to make this!

The music I’ve been making lately is some of my best and I’m stoked to show you guys! I just finished driving/moving from Massachusetts to California and I have a lot of new inspiration and ideas for music! This is the tip of the fuckin iceberg. Enjoy :)

Sylvan Esso

blog.sylvanesso.com
www.twitter.com/SylvanEsso
www.facebook.com/SylvanEsso
@sylvanesso

Big Wild

twitter.com/bigwildmusic
facebook.com/bigwildmusic
MGMT: evan@indigobeyond.com

Sylvan Esso - Hey Mami (Big Wild Remix)

Download the full album "+ + +" at https://theaddingmachine.bandcamp.com/album/-

Overture

Wasted Away

Order the LP/free download: https://hardleft.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-hard-left

"We Are Hard Left" is the debut album from Hard Left. Brought together by the music, held together by the outrage -- Hard Left are a hard-mod/punk band borne out of a desire to explore leftist political ideas and marry them to rabble-rousing music worthy of the worldwide struggle against capital. Far from a dry exercise in doctrinaire thought, Hard Left's songs are great punk first and foremost, and ripping good fun.

The band members have been involved with punk and DIY music for nearly a century combined, including time in bands like Boyracer, Jüke, Whorl, Lunchbox and Black Tambourine, and operating the respected labels 555, Emotional Response and Slumberland Records. Initial Hard Left recording sessions in Spring 2014 led to the release of two limited edition lathe-cut singles, the Situationist-inspired "What's That Sound?" and the tough-as-nails "Safety." The band set to writing and in August 2014 gathered in the desert of Flagstaff, AZ to record. The results were two more singles ("Skinheads Home For Christmas" and a split 7" with Bad Daddies, both released in December 2014), and now this album.

"We Are Hard Left" is a concise and explosive punk record, packed with anthems of resistance and calls to action. These are crucial times that we live in, and Hard Left seek to inspire and invigorate. The opener "New Year" sets out the band's stall in fine fashion, urging listeners to "give up false needs" and embrace new beginnings. They follow with the blasting "Hard Left Rules OK," a call to arms if ever there was one. The album is tightly edited, each song on the heels of the previous one, exemplifying the group's eagerness to broadcast their message and energize their fans.

To that end, rousing chants and noisy interludes are interspersed throughout, cheeky but pointed references to their mod forebears and street-level terrace "politics." The message is always positive, the underlying mood is of hopefulness. "Hand In Hand" is an exhilarating call for solidarity and collective action, while "Future Perfect" imagines a world where the people were the true beneficiaries of the surplus created by progress, the perfect future we were all promised during the golden age of capitalism. Previous singles "Safety" and "Stay True" appear in re-recorded form, hard as nails and fitting in perfectly.

From the super-tough "Kicking If Off" to the Occupy-inspired "Red Flag" and the supremely uplifting (and also Situationist-inspired) closer "Imagination," this is a record that hits hard, crammed with guitars that soar and rage, group chants and raw-throated vocals. It's anthemic in the best way -- inspiring but never heavy-handed, a worthy successor to records by bands like The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols and The Dils.  Call it "utopian Oi" if you will, or "hard mod" or just plain punk, but don't miss out on this passionate, thrilling record.


Hard Left are:
Mike: exhortations
Donna: bass, vocals
Tim: guitar, vocals
Stewart: drums, vocals


Hard Left - Hand In Hand

ALSIOSUS DROPPIN SOON
@_YUUKON
@theghostnghoul
+ + +

S/O GHOST/\/GHOUL N SESH

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH.

+ BLESSHUE DRUGS [PROD. GHOST/\/GHOUL] // YUUKON +

Hard Left - Hard Left Rules OK

Hard Left - New Year

"When I Was Your Age" is the first single to be taken from "Hide and Seek", the debut album from Mammoth Penguins, the new band fronted by Emma Kupa (formerly of Standard Fare). The song is gloriously messy and loud, about feeling inadequate about one’s achievements. As Emma explains, "It started off with a birthday card from my granddad saying that he was married with kids at 28 and then I started thinking about what my parents, grandparents and family members had achieved by the time they were my age".

"Hide and Seek" is the debut album from Mammoth Penguins, the new band fronted by Emma Kupa, formerly of BBC 6 Music favourites Standard Fare. Due out on 6 July via Fortuna POP!, the album is an exhilarating collection of indie anthems, with Emma's candid songwriting and heartfelt vocals at the fore. Chugging away like the greatest Weezer record you’ve never heard, the songs are bold, loud and outrageously catchy, with lyrics that hit just the right chord, exploring the burgeoning responsibilities of being in your late 20s/early 30s.

Mammoth Penguins - When I Was Your Age

Neurotrash - turbocharged leftfield beats meet electropunk brainfood. Inspired by science wars about the brain it namechecks Rosalind Franklin, and features in drag queens film ‘Dressed As A Girl’.
https://feralfive.bandcamp.com/track/neurotrash

Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering

Neurotrash

FERAL FIVE - Neurotrash

Taken from the forthcoming "I Had Grown Wild" EP

Buy the I Had Grown Wild EP here:
http://smarturl.it/AKR344iTunes
Asthmatic Kitty Records

My Brightest Diamond - "Lover Killer" (The Hood Internet Remix)

Hard Left - Future Perfect

Listen on Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/track/7e5a5X2poEtq95Bow0Adnb

Buy on iTunes

Lewis Lane - Play

produced by Nico Constantine & Jason Kingsland ©Institution Records
captured and mixed by Jason Kingsland
mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering


Powder

PRODUCED BY MILES FAREWELL
FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSE! 
DIOR SENTAI COMPILATION
https://diorsentai.bandcamp.com/album/friends-of-the-universe

SWAG SAFARI ft. SENSI BOY & DELI MANE

Hard Left - Stay True

ALBUM IS OUT 5TH OF MAY. BUY ON iTUNES: 
https://itunes.apple.com/album/priest/id983727591

Priest - Staring At The Walls

From White Reaper's debut full-length album, White Reaper Does It Again, out 7/17/15.

Pre-order CD, LP, tape, MP3:
http://polyvinylrecords.com/doesitagain

White Reaper - I Don't Think She Cares

Since the release of my latest album 'White Light' I've been spending some time playing guitar and experimenting with fx pedals and beats. Here's a new track I made.

iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/leaving-single/id990594671
[Also available on all other streaming services such as Spotify etc.]

⇩ free download ⇩

Leaving

ESQUISOMBIE- DEPRESION POST MORTEM †

So Fine

Hard Left - Imagination

Rich Homie Quan - Get Better (Prod By Goose)

New Metric single "The Shade" out now. Stay tuned for our latest full length studio album coming soon! 

The Shade

The Swimmer

METZ - The Swimmer

"K.K. Cruisin' (Interstate 5)"
aivi & surasshu
originally composed by Kazumi Totaka
from the game Animal Crossing

aivisura liner notes:

- We love Totaka!
- We worked on this remix in between projects for a year.
- When we lived in separate countries, we played Animal Crossing: New Leaf together all the time, and went to K.K. Slider concerts on Saturdays. We requested "K.K. Cruisin'" every time.
- We started this remix in an attempt to answer the question, "Why is K.K. Cruisin' so great?" After listening to it and studying it, we determined that, for us, the heart of the song was its groove. The same five chords repeat throughout the entire song (five extremely creative chords--Mr. Totaka is always a step ahead of us all), and it never changes in rhythm or energy level. We used that concept as the main inspiration for our arrangement, where instead of ramping up the energy for the chorus like we'd normally do, we pulled back and settled into a comfortable groove. Keeping "still" was a big exercise in confidence for both of us.
- We named our remix after the road trips we'd take together down I-5, between San Francisco and LA. Those trips felt like mini-vacations for us (though we still worked on the road and in our hotel room) and making this song has been a mini-vacation for us, too.

Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VGT5NfBPus

Animal Crossing - K.K. Cruisin' (Interstate 5)

Released on May 26th, 2015.

Digital: http://smarturl.it/teatime
Physical: http://www.capturedtracks.com/?p=25733

Martin Newell // Liverpool Judy

Taken from Brain Disease EP - out 8th June on limited edition red vinyl and digital download.

Pre-order:
https://www.musicglue.com/theo-verney-1/shop/ 

On tour:
May 
14th - Brighton - The Great Escape @ Bleach (unofficial show) 
16th - Brighton - The Great Escape @ Pav Tav (unofficial show) 
25th - Leeds - Gold Sounds festival @ The Brudenell Social Club
June
9th - London - Birthdays (Support from Kagoule and Puppy) 
10th - Brighton - Prince Albert (Support from Kagoule and Gang)






Brain Disease

Forest (Versión Home Studio)

from their sophomore album "Green Lanes" - out August 7th, 2015 on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Ultimate Painting "Break The Chain"

Westkust - Dishwasher

Thirteen Times the Strength

SAVOIR ADORE - OUR NATURE

<b>Savoir Adore on Tour </b>
January 25th, 2014 - MECA Festival at Porto Alegre - www.mecafestival.com.br
January 29th, 2014 - Rio de Janeiro - www.mecafestival.com.br/mecapresentrio.html
January 31st, 2014 - Sao Paolo - www.mecafestival.com.br/mecapresentsp.html

savoiradore.com

Loveliest Creature (Our Nature)

Purchase "Save Your Season" via:
unseen.bigcartel.com/artist/mint-julep
itunes.apple.com/us/album/save-your-season/id476215151

www.facebook.com/mintjulepmusic | twitter.com/_mintjulep

Mint Julep music videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P9t0eU_drQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxckeXA5tY&feature=relmfu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEOmpbk4ya4&feature=relmfu

Formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2007, MINT JULEP is the husband-and-wife team of Keith and Hollie Kenniff. Subsequently relocating to Portland, Oregon, the duo cut a limited release album, Songs About Snow, in 2008 and the EP, Adorn, in 2010 – effectively a trial run for further recording in their home studio, the fruit of which is a sublime follow-up, Save Your Season, released by Village Green in 2011. The couple is currently writing and recording their next album, Broken Devotion, which is slated for release in mid 2013.

Hallmarked by Hollie’s seductive, dreamy vocals and a succession of memorably soaring choruses, all of it etched with Keith’s vivid, glinting keyboards, towering guitars and miscellaneous instrumental hooks, Mint Julep make lustrous modern pop music that is wistful and mellifluous yet simultaneously powerful, even epic – equal parts shoegazing romanticism and cool, Kraftwerkian polish. Their songs seem instantly familiar, like old musical friends, a ’classicism’ offset by the freshness and luminosity they exude as they usher you on a breathless ride through the sunlit uplands of electronic indie-rock.

Mint Julep was designed as a conscious departure from Keith’s previous, ambient-orientated projects. “When Hollie and I set out to do something, I wanted to find some way to incorporate her vocals into a slightly different style, rather than just write similar material to my solo work and lay her vocals over top”, he says. “I had the need to write something that had some distorted guitars, loud drums and was a little bolder than what I had previously done. We messed around with a track one night (which became ‘Stay’) and it was a fun process, so we just kept writing more songs so we could do a project together.”

Soon a working pattern emerged, with Keith composing music around Hollie’s lyrics or making tracks which Hollie would then add to. “It just developed after a lot of trial and error, and after a while the material started to plateau and began to sound like an album…”

A Pennsylvannian by birth, Keith Kenniff is an honors graduate of Boston’s esteemed Berklee College of Music, best known as the brains behind dulcet ambient/electronic practitioners Helios and the fingers on the ivories of post-classical piano minimalists Goldmund (the latter’s music once described by no less an authority than Ryuichi Sakamoto as “…so, so, so beautiful…”). A succession of albums under those aliases has made Kenniff the darling of discerning critics and his music has also been widely used in film, television and advertising, not least on the soundtrack to the 2012 documentary Bones Brigade, as well as composing for clients such as Apple, Facebook and Google.

Originally from Ohio, singer Hollie Kenniff maintains dual US/Canadian citizenship, having spent part of her life in Ontario. Aside from Mint Julep, she has collaborated on several additional musical endeavors in tandem with husband Keith, including a children’s music project, Meadows (inspired by the couple’s young son), whose debut longplayer was recently released, and an ambient diversion under their own names. An album of the latter, A Deep and Dreamless Sleep, is slated for release in 2013.

Mint Julep - No Letting Go

Future Unlimited - Someone Like Me

https://brambles.bandcamp.com/album/half-gramme-holiday

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Brambles - Half-Gramme Holiday

While writing our forthcoming album, "Broken Devotion", Hollie and I took a bit of a detour to write this song for fun and welcome in the summer. 

Mint Julep on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mintjulepmusic / http://www.unseen-music.com

Forget how we got here
Wake to the melody
And wait with me until it's time to go

In the setting sun we feel it
You know it's not too late
So I think you should stay here with me

From the city to the beach house
With the sky like the sea
And the sea like the sky that lies above me

The salt from the water clings to our lips
And stays with us like last night's kiss
We stand at the edge, draw me into you
Retrace our steps as they wash away

From the city to the beach house
With the sky like the sea
And the sea like the sky that lies above me

Mint Julep - Soon the Sea

Talisco – Your Wish - original edit version
Debut album : May, 19  :  http://smarturl.it/talisco_run
Download on itunes (France only) : http://smarturl.it/talisco_run
EP My Home : http://smarturl.it/tqcl1a
June, 10 @La Cigale (Paris) http://bit.ly/1gAXPdQ

DOWNLOAD FOR FREE Unrealised Bonus MP3 on http://www.taliscomusic.com
Official Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX46jIhkoQo

DISCOVER 2 NEW SONGS  IN THE SHORT FILM "RUN" ON TALISCOMUSIC.COM
http://www.taliscomusic.com


Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/taliscomusic
Twitter : https://twitter.com/taliscomusic





Your Wish (original edit version)

Hard Left is a political punk band inspired by liberatory leftist movements of the past and present. Our music is a soundtrack for direct action, an invitation to critical thought and a challenge to complacency. We privilege the "we" over the "I" and argue for the centrality of class struggle in our collective battle against neoliberalism, authoritarianism and imperialism. Hard Left believes in the power of art to enlighten as well as entertain, and we strive to do both.

Hard Left - Imagination

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