Oct

30

Introducing: Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside

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If you caught Avett Brothers on their 2009 tour or went to Pickathon this summer or live in the NW and haven’t been under a rock, you’ve already heard of Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside.

For the rest of you, you’re in for a treat! Especially if you live anywhere near Pullman, WA, because Williamette Weekly’s 2010 Best New Band will be coming to the BellTower on Thursday, November 4th.

Hear and see for yourself:

Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside – Not An Animal

Click the yellow button to buy your tickets!


Oct

28

Horse Feathers in the Green Room (and, returning to Pullman!)

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Portland, Oregon’s Horse Feathers have been out to Moscow a few times, most recently for last March’s Birds on a Wire Folk Festival. The second night of the Festival, they played a show at the BellTower that occasional Stereopathic contributor Josh Stevenson said pretty much justified to him the existence of live music. The BellTower, a former church, is a peerless venue for the detailed, introspective music that Horse Feathers plays. Its stone walls were made to amplify human voices and acoustic instruments; Justin Ringle and company found in the sanctuary a space that so perfectly served his songs it was almost like a fifth instrument.

You can get a sense of how well this band does at the Bell Tower from this Green Room Session, caught last March after their BOAW set. Horse Feathers performs Thistled Spring, the beautiful title track from their most recent record.

Horse Feathers – Thistled Spring from Stereopathic on Vimeo.

As you may have heard, Horse Feathers returns to the Bell Tower on December 7th.

Needless to say, we’re beyond pleased to have them back in Pullman. The band has three records’ worth of material to draw from, to say nothing of their various singles and minor releases—such as their new 7-inch cover of Nirvana’s “Drain You” backed with a new song called “Bonnet of Briars”. One Lesley Graves caught them performing the song at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge; that’s it, right below.

Horse Feathers / Drain You cover from Lesley Graves on Vimeo.

Oct

26

Trippy New Stuff: Broken Bells, Avey Tare, & Octopus Project

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Hexadecagon by Octopus Project

Hexadecagon was released today by Peek-a-Boo Records. I’m about three songs into this one and loving it so far. Here’s an example:
The Octopus Project – Fugefat

Stream the album here.

Hallucinists from Wiley Wiggins on Vimeo.

Watch more cool Hexadecagon videos like the one above here.

The Ghost Inside by Broken Bells

Tomorrow Broken Bells will release a “digital 45″ (AKA: single) for The Ghost Inside. It’ll include Meyrin Fields.

Broken Bells – Meyrin Fields

(via Some Kind Of Awesome)

Broken Bells – The Ghost Inside

Down There by Avey Tare


Founding Animal Collective member, Avey Tare, released Down There this month on Paw Tracks. Enjoy an MP3 and video for Luck 1.
Avey Tare – Lucky 1

Lucky 1 from Abby Portner on Vimeo.

For more new stuff, check out a few of our sources: KEXP and Largehearted Boy or stay tuned for New Stuff part two: Folksy New Stuff.

Oct

25

New Girls song – “Heartbreaker”

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True Panther’s releasing 6 new songs from Girls on November 22nd. The EP’s called Broken Dreams Club and you can preorder it here.

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Girls – Heartbreaker (Studio Version)

Oct

25

An Introduction to Elliott Smith

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Introduction to Elliott Smith is coming to a store near you November 2nd via Kill Rock Stars. It’ll have songs from all seven studio albums & pre-orders get a free poster.

Here’s a few samples from the album:
Elliott Smith – Between Bars
Elliott Smith – Twilight
Elliott Smith – Last Call

Oct

23

Super XX Man on OPB’s Artbeat

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Another one of our very dear friends, Super XX Man, is in the news this week. OPB’s Artbeat did a piece on Scott Garred the music therapist at the Oregon State Hospital and Scott Garred the recording artist, Super XX Man.

We’d also like to take this opportunity to share a few tracks off of Super XX Man‘s beautiful new album, White Bed:

Super XX Man – White Bed
Super XX Man – About You About Me

Listen to the whole thing (and other SXXM albums) for free here.

Check it out HERE


Oct

22

Congrats Finn Riggins!

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Our very good friends & heroes, Finn Riggins, just made it on Daytrotter!

We’re super proud and pumped for them. Listen to one of the tunes below and download the whole session at Daytrotter.

Finn Riggins – Box Elder (Daytrotter Session)

Here’s our Green Room Session with them (recorded at BellTower):

Finn Riggins – Wake from Stereopathic on Vimeo.

BTW – if you don’t own Vs. Wilderness yet, buy it!

Oct

22

Jónsi: live in concert video

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I’m not a big Jonsi
or Sigur Ros fan (although 3 tracks from Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust get pretty regular play on my iPod), but I guess Bob Boilen does, and that means something to me. NPR‘s sharing the live video of their Oct. 17th performance in LA (watch it here). Stereopathic’s sharing a couple of those Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust tracks, and a Jonsi track, for good measure.

Enjoy.

Sigur Rós – Gobbledigook
Sigur Rós – Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur
Jónsi – Go Do


Oct

19

Discovered on a Roadtrip: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. & Foster The People

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So, periodically my job requires that I travel and rent a car. On those occasions, I like to check out what’s playing on XM radio – particularly Sirius XMU. It usually ends up being a good opportunity for me to check out some hot indie bands that I haven’t heard of yet, but I’m usually pretty tired of XMU by the time the trip is over. Unfortunately, like most of the radio we grew up with, XMU has a bad habit of repeating the same 10 songs over and over and over again until you end up never wanting to hear those songs again.

Anyways – here are some songs that I wouldn’t mind hearing again, in spite of XMU’s best efforts to ruin them for me:

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Simple Girl
I thought this song was totally rad and when I started looking for more music online, I was pleasantly surprised to find more good tunes. Here are a few other choice samples, all from their new Horse Power EP:

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Vocal Chords
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – God Only Knows (Beach Boys cover)

I guess they perform in race car driver get-ups too:

Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
This one’s got the makings of a killer summer single (not sure if it came out this summer?). Either way, I’m sure it’ll end up on more than one summer mix-tape. I was bummed not to find any other music from them on the internets. From their website I gathered that Pumped Up Kicks
is the only song they’ve ever made or ever will make and they had a few shows in late September and early October with Fool’s Gold and School of Seven Bells.

Bonus Song & Video: Cloud Nothings – Hey Cool Kids

This song was interesting, but definitely not enough to merit the 30 times XMU repeated it in the few days of driving I did. However, the video for the song is worthwhile as a primer on overweight pop-and-locking. Enjoy:

Cloud Nothings – Hey Cool Kid from Allen Cordell on Vimeo.

Oct

15

Downloadable: Deerhoof, Brian Eno, Sufjan Stevens…

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In no particular order, some cool stuff to check out:

Deerhoof‘s giving away this track off of the new album, Deerhoof vs. Evil. Download it here

I’m giving this one a rating of: Pretty Darn Cool on the Stereopathic Rating Scale.

Deerhoof – The Merry Barracks by All Tomorrows Parties

While we’re listening to funky electronic music, check out some initial offerings from Brian Eno‘s forthcoming album, Small Craft on a Milk Sea.

Brian Eno – Horse (taken from Small Craft On A Milk Sea) by Warp Records

Brian Eno – 2 Forms Of Anger (taken from Small Craft On A Milk Sea) by Warp Records

Listen to Don’t Threaten Me With Your Threats off of Nels Cline‘s newest, Dirty Baby.

This one get’s a rating of: Dope!
Nels Cline – Don’t Threaten Me With Your Threats

Download Asmathic Kitty‘s newest 12-song sampler, including tunes by Sufjan Stevens, Half-Handed Cloud, and many more here.

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