I discovered Real Estate on the Paste mPlayer in late 2011, and have been enjoying their latest album, Atlas, for the last few weeks. If you're a fan, you'll have plenty of chances to see them on tour this summer, and for my friends in Chicago, they are playing The Metro on Thursday, March 27th!
Check out their website ...
Official Website of Real Estate
This album comes out in mid April, but iTunes is currently making three tracks available for your enjoyment. I'm not a huge fan of country music, so when you see a country tune on newgazzi, you have to know that I love it.
Check out their website for tour dates, and where you can pre-order the record ...
Official Website of The Secret Sisters
Click here to hear a sampling of "Iuka".
This is a pretty cool name for a band, and it's what got my attention to check out their music. Lesson #1 for all you up and coming bands out there : have a memorable band name. It worked for these guys, as they are now featured as track #3 on newgazzi Vol 14.
The Soft White Sixties will be all over the map touring, check out their website to find out when and where ...
Official Website of The Soft White Sixties
This was the the first band I chose for newgazzi Vol 14. I found their music on NoiseTrade, as they made their previous album, Home, available for free download. They will also be playing in Chicago on Thursday, March 27th, at Beat Kitchen.
Check out their NoiseTrade page here ...
Mike Mains & The Branches on NoiseTrade
I don't know much about this band, I found them while browsing on iTunes one evening, and as soon as I heard this song, I knew it would be featured this month. Fun track, can't wait to see what they do next ...
Check out their website to learn more ...
Official Website of Ex Hex
Last summer, Andrew Osenga successfully funded a KickStarter campaign with intentions of releasing four unique EPs, "Heart", "Soul", "Flesh" and "Bones". The Heart EP was recently made available to all of his backers, and it will be available on iTunes very soon. The Heart EP features six songs in the singer/songwriter genre, and I've really been enjoying it for the last week. I can't wait to hear the next three.
Here's Andrew's website, for more information ...
Official Website of Andrew Osenga
Check iTunes on Tuesday, April 1st for your chance to hear and purchase the Heart EP, featuring "No Heart Beats Alone"
These guys have been around for 17 years, but I am hearing them for the first time. This is one of my favorite songs that I've chosen this month, and I will have to check out more of their past discography.
Check out their website for more information ...
Official Website of Elbow
This is another artist I am not too familiar with, but I've learned recently that Sam Brookes has a lot to offer musically and lyrically. There were a number of songs from this record I could have chosen, but I connected with this one the most.
Official Website of Sam Brookes
Every month, I get to the point in searching for songs to feature on newgazzi where I need one more "heavy hitter", and this was final song I chose for newgazzi Vol 14. This is from their third album, which was just released last week.
Official Website of The War on Drugs
Beck is one of the few musicians on earth that I am blindly loyal to. Even if I've been disappointed with a recent album, whenever I hear that he's done something new, I'm first in line. His latest release is very similar to Sea Changes, but in no way is it a duplicate. While the songs may have a similar feel, there is definitely growth in content and musicianship.
I'm sure you are all familiar with Beck, but if not, here's his website ...
Official Website of Beck
Loyal readers of newgazzi are probably perplexed as to why I am including the #1 song in the country on newgazzi. Isn't this supposed to be for artists who need the exposure ? Yes, the spirit of newgazzi is to put lesser known artists in the spotlight, but I also wish to celebrate great new music, no matter how many twitter followers they may have. As it turns out, this song was played at the Sweetheart Dance that I took my daughter to recently, and she said, "This has to be on newgazzi, daddy!". If I didn't love the song, I'd come up with a clever reason why I couldn't include it, but the fact is, it's one hell of a fun song ...
This is another artist I found on NoiseTrade this month, and another one of my favorites from this month. My daughter loves the album art, too!
Click here to see them on NoiseTrade
This may be the most unique track I've ever featured on newgazzi. When I saw that a song on this record was called "Tommy Boy", I wasn't expecting to hear actual lines that Chris Farley used in the movie, reimagined in spoken word over fuzzy guitar riffs. This is brilliant, and I can't wait to hear the entire record.
Read Pitchfork's review of the record here
Click here to hear a sampling of "Tommy Boy", then check this out ...
I found a review for this on Pitchfork, just like the previous album, and was intrigued that Frankie Cosmos is actually Greta Simone Kline, the 19 year old daughter of Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates. Apparently, she's written over 40 albums worth of material (did I mention that's she's 19 ?) This album clocks in at just over 17 minutes, so try not to blink, but it's definitely worth listening to.
Here's that Pitchfork review.
Click here to hear "Owen" ...
My daughter and the lady who makes the Kool-Aid both thought this was Elvis Costello, and I can definitely hear the vocal influence. This is a great song to end the playlist with, and another band and album that I look forward to becoming more familiar with.
Check out their website ...
Official Website of The Jellybricks
Thank you for checking out newgazzi Vol 14 ! Keep coming back every day for more of Fugazzi Grand III : My Top 500 Albums, and we'll hopefully see you again for newgazzi Vol 15, which will be unveiled on Thursday night, April 24th !
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