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Plaided - Hold on Tight
I’m not a big fan of water and water sports so I was always of the opinion that the only reason surfing seems so cool is because of all the awesome surf music that is around. Plaided fit right into that tradition with that song.
Bonus: Baywatch style life guard.
(c) Fettkakao
Once again, we bring to you the most interesting new and free tracks from around the world, curated by international music bloggers and publications with an eye on their local scenes, this month with Austria’s PLAIDED.
Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 34-track compilation through Ge.tt here.
AUSTRIA: Walzerkönig
Plaided – Freaks And Geeks (MP3)
“Would you run run run run run run run to my place and watch Freaks and Geeks all night long?” We totally would! Plaided is an acronym that was inspired by a Girls Rock Camp participant’s band and thus matches the feminist background of Veronika Eberhart and Julia Mitterbauer. The duo will go on a US tour with Grass Widow in September and also record a 7” record there. Freaks And Geeks is taken from their debut album Playdate, recorded by Wolfgang Möstl (of previous MAP act Mile Me Deaf).
September 6: NY, New York, TBA
September 7: PA, Philadelphia, House Party
September 10: WA, Olympia, TBA w/ Grass Widow
September 12: WA, Seattle, Chop Suey w/ Grass Widow
September 18: OR, Portland, Valentines
October 3: AT, Wien, Arena
October 13: AT, Wien, Brut
November 11: AT, Wien, Chelsea w/ Praha Depart
November 23: AT, Wels, Youki w/ Just Friends and Lovers
November 24: AT, Linz, Kapu w/ Just Friends and Lovers
November 26: DE, Berlin, Schokoladen w/ Just Friends and Lovers
This month, we recommend the German Kraut of Camera, Denmark’s Alcoholic Faith Mission, a more danceable version of Kings Of Leon called Fair Weather Friends (Poland), Orquesta’s Beach Boys cover version (Ireland), singer/songwriter folk by Biggles (Switzerland), and bluesy americana by Houndmouth (USA). A warm welcome to We Listen For You as the new representative for the USA and the first Polish MAP participant Lukasz Kusmierz Weblog! Find all 34 tracks below:
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Plaided: Buried In A Stupid Thought
From Playdate, out June 15 via Fettkakao. And FYI, on that album, there is a song called Freaks and Geeks, in which Plaided sing about, yes, watching Freaks and Geeks and it’s almost like that Moldy Peaches song that got famous when it was in Juno, only much better because it is about Freaks and Geeks and not just cartoons and bikes.
Music Alliance Pact 05/2012: MILE ME DEAF
Very late in the day, but still on the 15th of the month, we bring to you the most interesting new and free tracks from around the world, curated by international music bloggers and publications with an eye on their local scenes, this month with Austria’s MILE ME DEAF.
AUSTRIA: Walzerkönig
Mile Me Deaf – Wild At Heart
Mile Me Deaf is one of the other bands Killed By 9V Batteries’ Wolfgang Möstl plays in. And although side-projects - such an unfair name for a 500+ songs oeuvre - are usually a space for weird shit your band mates didn’t agree to, their first album Eat Skull, and especially the first single Wild At Heart, is surprisingly free of noise and distortion. Instead, it creates the last-day-of-summer-holidays feeling you know from Girls and Beach House.
June 1: AT, Wien, Gartenbau Kino (Record Release Show)
August 4: AT, Salzburg, Rockhouse (STUCK! Festival)
Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 34-track compilation through Ge.tt here.
Find all MAP tracks below:
Once again, we bring to you the most interesting new and free tracks from around the world, curated by international music bloggers and publications with an eye on their local scene. This month, we are featuring A Thousand Fuegos: The Treachery of Things (Seayou/Fettkakao) was released two days ago and can be streamed in full length on Bandcamp.
Right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 35-track compilation through Ge.tt here.
AUSTRIA: Walzerkönig
A Thousand Fuegos – No Up No Down
“Don’t you know that everything we build up once will fall apart someday?” Time and religious metaphors are recurring themes on The Treachery Of Things, from which No Up No Down is taken. The album circles around the notion that we can never grasp the true identity of the things around us; they remain passive while we assign attributes to them. A Thousand Fuegos started out as a lo-fi project and these days focuses on beats, loops and spacey synths that create a mystical atmosphere.
April 17: AT, Wien, Rhiz (Album Release Show)
April 18: BE, Brussels, AB (w/ Soap&Skin)
May 16: AT, Dornbirn, Soundnoise Festival
This month, we welcome Puerto Rico Indie to the MAP. Our favourites from April’s compilation include the Dutch Aafke Romeijn, all-over-the-Feuilleton Alabama Shakes (USA), and the award for best band name goes to Walter Benjamin (Portugal). Find all 35 tracks below:
>> READ MORE >>A Thousand Fuegos: The Boundless Building. From The Treachery Of Things (out April 13 on Seayou/Fettkakao), which is on heavy rotation in the Walzerkönig offices.
A Thousand Fuegos: The Path
Remember that Interpol video for The Heinrich Maneuver that was just this one scene slowed down to last three and a half minutes? The one that probably had some deep meaning but turned out to be just horribly boring? A Thousand Fuegos learned from Interpols mistake and mixed this incredibly-slow-business up with some egg cracking and animals.
