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Five For Friday: Passion Pit, The Gaslight Anthem, Slightly Stoopid, Firefly, Guest Blogging

Check it out. I’m trying something new at DoYouHearTheMusic.com with a Five For Friday post. The Triple F is five nuggets of musical goodness to get you through the weekend. In other words, the soundtrack to your weekend begins right here!

Passion Pit – yes some “mental health” issues of Michael Angelakos have forced the band to cancel some July dates but next week their new album Gossamer drops and boy oh boy should you be excited. If you haven’t yet given a listen, hop on over to NPR to stream the album.
The Gaslight Anthem – the Jersey Boys are back with another rocking album, Handwritten, which will also be released next Tuesday. Their fourth album may very well prove to be their best as the fellas once again bring that Springsteenesque rock and roll but with a more refined conviction. This album can also be streamed via NPR, HERE.
Slightly Stoopid – Miles and Kyle are back with “Top of the World,” the title track off their seventh studio album which drops August 14, 2012. Give a listen HERE.
Firefly Music Festival in Delaware began today and you better believe if I still lived on the east coast, I would be there right now. Fantastic line-up which includes headliners The Killers and The Black Keys as well as some of my favorites, Michael Franti, Allen Stone, Lupe Fiasco, GROUPLOVE, Walk The Moon, CULTS, The Head and The Heart.
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to guest blog for my friend Dayna Roselli. Check out the post HERE.

Tags: Allen Stone, Cults, Dayna Roselli, Festival, Firefly, Gossamer, Grouplove, Handwritten, Lupe Fiasco, Michael Franti, Passion Pit, Slightly Stoopid, The Black Keys, The Gaslight Anthem, The Head and the Heart, The Killers, Top of the World, Walk The Moon

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Where Did This Come From?! Firefly Music Festival – July 20-22 Dover, Delaware

1 Apr

WOW. Ok when I think of Delaware I usually think of Capriotti’s, Blue Hens and the first state to ratify the US constitution but certainly not music (but did you know Bob Marley once lived there?!) until now courtesy of the Firefly Music Festival. JUST ANNOUNCED and set to rock July 20-22 at the Woodlands of Dover International Speedway, this music festival is coming in hot with plenty of fire power. Headliners include The Killers, The Black Keys and Jack White! WHOA! Also slated to perform are The Flaming Lips, Passion Pit, Lupe Fiasco, Michael Franti, GROUPLOVE, Allen Stone, Girl Talk, Trampled By Turtles, Walk The Moon, Bombay Bicycle Club, Charles Bradley, The Head and The Heart, Matt Costa, Penguin Prison, Imagine Dragons and more.

Firefly Festival Full Lineup

The Killers,The Black Keys, Jack White, Death Cab for Cutie, John Legend, The Flaming Lips, Passion Pit, Cake, Lupe Fiasco, Girl Talk, Young the Giant, OK Go, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Cold War Kids, Tinie Tempah, The Wallflowers, Chiddy Bang, AWOLNATION, The Head and the Heart, Grouplove, Trampled By Turtles, Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, Bombay Bicycle Club, Mayer Hawthorne & The County, Cults, Graffiti6, Allen Stone, Walk the Moon, Blind Pilot, The Felice Brothers, Heartless Bastards, Mariachi El Bronx, Matt Costa, J Roddy Walston and the Business, Ra Ra Riot, Imagine Dragons, Kids These Days and Penguin Prison.

Tags: Allen Stone, AWOLNATION, Blind Pilot, Bombay Bicycle Club, Cake, Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, Chiddy Bang, Cold War Kids, Cults, Death Cab for Cutie, Delaware, Dover, Festival, Firefly, Girl Talk, Graffiti6, Grouplove, Heartless Bastards, Imagine Dragons, J Roddy Walston and the Business, Jack White, John Legend, Kids These Days, Lupe Fiasco, Mariachi El Bronx, Matt Costa, Mayer Hawthorne & The County, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Music, OK Go, Passion Pit, Penguin Prison, Ra Ra Riot, The Black Keys, The Felice Brothers, The Flaming Lips, The Head and the Heart, The Killers, The Wallflowers, Tinie Tempah, Trampled by Turtles, Walk The Moon, Young The Giant

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New Music: Reptar – “Orifice Origami”

30 Mar

Fans of Reptar head to their Facebook page for a free download of “Orifice Origami” off their upcoming LP, Body Faucet, which was produced by Ben Allen and is due out May 1.

If you haven’t yet listened to the Athens, Georgia group you are sorely missing out. Last summer/fall they toured with Foster The People and Cults gaining plenty of notoriety and just recently crushed SXSW. I highly suggest you get your hands on their EP from last year, Oblangle Fizz Y’all.

Even more exciting news, they are hitting the road with GROUPLOVE in May!

Tags: Ben Allen, Body Faucet, Cults, Foster the People, Grouplove, Oblangle Fizz Y’all, Orifice Origami, Reptar, SXSW

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Cults on Yo Gabba Gabba! (Video)

16 Dec

Love this! Thanks to Pitchfork.com for the heads up on Cults appearing on the Yo Gabba Gabba! “A Very Awesome Christmas” which airs December 18. The duo perform a song called “Hot Chocolate” which you can watch below.

The Cults on Yo Gabba Gabba! from stereogum on Vimeo.

Can never get enough Cults, hands down one of the highlights of my 2011 in music.

Tags: Christmas, Cults, Hot Chocolate, video, Yo Gabba Gabba!

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Austin City Limits This Weekend (Live Stream)

16 Sep

If you’re like me and not in Austin for ACL, you’re probably not a happy camper right now. However ACL is streaming live via YouTube and you can click HERE to check in on the festival.

Also here are some of my picks for shows if I was down in Tejas.

Stevie Wonder – really, no chance I’d miss seeing him perform

Arcade Fire – I don’t care what anyone says, these guys effen rock the festival crowds

My Morning Jacket – they won me back over this summer at Lollapalooza

Nas & Damian – nuff said

Empire of the Sun – can never get enough EofS

Cut Copy – been a fan since randomly seeing these Aussies perform six years ago

Ryan Bingham – one of my favorite performances of the summer and if you know him from “The Weary Kind” oh you have so much more to discover

Randy Newman – seriously just to hear THIS

Fitz & The Tantrums – should be one of the more fun shows of the festival

Delta Spirit – huge fan and only seen them live once

Foster The People& Young The Giant – their rises to stardom this summer, wowsa and both put on hell of performances

Smith Westerns – trust me; go see these kids from Chicago

The Belle Brigade – brother and sister duo that will blow your mind

Aloe Blacc – one of the best voices I have ever heard and quite a showman as well

Mariachi El Bronx – go have some fun with Mexican Independence Day this weekend

James Blake – see what this UK wonder is all about, legit!

Gary Clark Jr. – dude’s got mad talent, up and comer for sure

The Head and The Heart – if you are part of the folk rock movement, check em

North Mississippi Allstars – need no explanation

City and Colour – definitely worth your time

Cults – yeah, they could very well be the next big thing

Alexander – take a seat in the park and enjoy this performance

little hurricane – gritty blues that you’ll dig and Tone & CC are two of the nicest people in the world

Graffiti6 – chances are you’ve never heard of them but after seeing their set, you’ll be craving more and more

Electric Touch – I’ve been dying to see them perform, please someone go for me

Bobby Long – amazingly talented musician

Seth Walker – great singer, songwriter

Chancellor Warhol – one of my favorite performances at Bonnaroo, go check out this Tennessee kid

MilkDrive – just getting into these guys

The Lee Boys – if you want to get down with your bad self, check this show

Tags: ACL, Alexander, Aloe Blacc, Arcade Fire, Austin, Bobby Long, Bonnaroo, Chancellor Warhol, City, City and Colour, Concert, Cults, Cut Copy, Delta Spirit, Do You Hear The Music, Electric Touch, Empire of the Sun, Festival, Fitz & The Tantrums, Foster the People, Gary Clark Jr., Graffiti6, James Blake, Limits, Little Hurricane, Live, Lollapalooza, Mariachi El Bronx, MilkDrive The Lee Boys, My Morning Jacket, Nas & Damian, North Mississippi Allstars, Performance, Randy Newman, Ryan Bingham, Seth Walker, Show, Smith Westerns, streaming, Tejas. Stevie Wonder, The Belle Brigade, The Head and the Heart, video, Young The Giant, YouTube

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New Music: NewVillager

29 Aug

I’m enamored with NewVillager’s self titled album that dropped earlier this month. And to be completely honest, I have no idea why but I seriously cannot stop listening to it. Perhaps it is the vocals in general that are pushed so gracefully or maybe it is the playful harmonies that will easily bring a smile to your face. Courtesy of multi-instrumentalists Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini, NewVillager’s debut album has it all, from quirky guitars and power synths to flat out rhythm that will get that beat going inside of you.

As for my favorite track so far, “Upholder.”

If you are a fan of Empire of the Sun, MGMT and CULTS, you will definitely dig NewVillager.

Tags: Album, Ben Bromley, Cults, Do You Hear The Music, Empire of the Sun, MGMT, NewVillager, Ross Simonini, Shot Big Horixon, Upholder

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It’s here! Your Summer Playlist

1 Jul

First day of July and heading into a festive holiday weekend, what a perfect time to unveil the DoYouHearTheMusic.com Summer Playlist. If you are a frequent visitor to the blog you should be familiar with a lot of the selections and quite candidly, these are the songs you should be listening to this summer. Without further adieu, the Summer Playlist:

The Dirty Guv’nahs – “Baby We Were Young”

GROUPLOVE – “Don’t Say Oh Well”

GIVERS – “Up Up Up”

Walk The Moon – “Anna Sun”

Young The Giant – “My Body”

The Apache Relay – “Lost Kid”

Mazes – “Summer Hits”

Friendly Fires – “Hawaiian Air”

Foster The People – “Warrant”

The Belle Brigade – “Where Not To Look For Freedom”

CULTS – “Go Outside”

O.A.R. – “Heaven”

Mat Nathanson – “Faster”

The Civil Wars – “Barton Hollow”

Fleet Foxes – “Grown Ocean”

little hurricane – “Get By”

DAWES – “Time Spent In Los Angeles”

Brett Dennen – “Can’t Stop Thinking”

Pepper – “Wake Up”

Sublime with Rome ft. Wiz Khalifa – “Can You Feel It”

Tags: Anna Sun, Baby We Were Young, Barton Hollow, Brett Dennen, Can You Feel It, Can’t Stop Thinking, Cults, Dawes, Do You Hear The Music, Don’t Say Oh Well, Drive, Faster, Fleet Foxes, Foster the People, Friendly Fires, Get By, GIVERS, Go Outside, Grouplove, Grown Ocean, Hawaiian Air, Heaven, List, Little Hurricane, Lost Kid, Matt Nathanson, Mazes, Music, My Body, O.A.R., Pepper, Play, Playlist, Road Trip, Rome, Sublime, Summer, Summer Hits, The Apache Relay, The Belle Brigade, The Civil Wars, The Dirty Guv’nahs, Time Spent In Los Angeles, Up Up Up, Wake Up!, Walk The Moon, Warrant, Where Not To Look For Freedom, Wiz Khalifa, Young The Giant

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New Music: Cults

27 Jun

The last few weeks I have been giving Cults‘ self titled album a bunch of spins and it keeps growing on me more and more. The Brooklyn duo have a retro indie-pop sound that is very soothing and perfect chill disc for the summer. Want another reason to listen, they are going on tour with Foster The People this fall.

Tags: Album, Brooklyn, Chill, Cults, Do You Hear The Music, Foster the People, Go Outside, Indie-Pop, New Music, retro, Song, Summer

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Just Released: Lollapalooza 2011 Line-up

26 Apr

Lollapalooza released the 20^th anniversary line-up today and while there are definitely a handful of artists making the summer festival rounds, I think they did a great job when you look at the line-up from top to bottom. Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay and Muse as your headliners are definitely four big ones you can’t argue. Now personally as I contemplate making the trip, I’m excited about so many of these bands and quite frankly too many to list but (and trying to take out the artists I’m planning to see at Bonnaroo) Ween, Crystal Castles, Local Natives, The Kills, White Lies, Two Door Cinema Club, Delta Spirit, Sleigh Bells and Chicago’s own Smith Westerns. Plus Fitz & The Tantrums, Noah & The Whale, Tinie Tempah, The Vaccines, Foster The People, The Naked and Famous, Friendly Fires, Young The Giant, The Joy Formidable, Afrojack, Collie Buddz, Pretty Lights and a whole lot more. August 5-7 in one of the greatest cities in the world should be quite the music scene. At $215.00 for three days of an insane amount of music, seems like a heck of a deal to me.

Full line-up below.

Tags: A Perfect Circle, Afrojack, An Horse, Artic Monkeys, Atmosphere, Beats Antique, Beirut, Best Coast, Big Audio Dynamite, Black Cards, Black Lips, Boy & Bear, Bright Eyes, Cage the Elephant, Cee Lo, Chicago, Chico Trujillo, Christina Perri, City and Colour, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Collie Buddz, Crystal Castles, Cults, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Deadmau5, Death From Above 1979, Deftones, Delta Spirit, Disappears, DJ Mel, Dom, Electric Tooth, Ellie Goulding, Eminem, Explosions in the Sky, Fences, Fitz & The Tantrums, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Foster the People, Friendly Fires, Gold Motel, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Grant Park, Grouplove, Illinois, Imelba May, Iration, J. Roddy, Julia Easterlin, Kerli, Kids These Days, Lia Ices, Lissie, Local Natives, Lollapalooza, Lord Huron, Los Bunkers, Lykke Li, Manchester Orchestra, Maps & Atlasas, Mayer Hawthorne, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Nas & Damian Marley, Noah & The Whale, OK Go, Patrick Stump, Phantogram, Portugal. The Man, Pretty Lights, Ratatat, Reptar, Rival Schools, Ruby Jane, Ryan Bingham, Ryan Leslie, Sam Adams, Skylar Grey, Sleigh Bells, Smith Westerns, Tab The Band, Tennis, The Cars, The Chain Gang of 1974, The Drums, The Joy Formidable, The Kills, The Kingston Springs, The Mountain Goats, The Naked and Famous, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pretty Reckless, The Vaccines, Tinie Tempah, Titus Andronicus, Two Door Cinema Club, Typhoon, Walk The Moon, Ween, White Lies, Wye Oak, Ximena Sarinana, Young Man, Young The Giant

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OMG Coachella 2011 Line-up

18 Jan

Ok so now the planning can officially begin getting underway as the 2011 Coachella line-up has been announced. I am so stoked about this line-up and definitely finding my way to Indio this spring.

At first glance, Day One is top priority. As much as a fan I am of Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Lauren Hill, Cut Copy, Brandon Flowers and all the other top billing acts, I’m more jacked about Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Here We Go Magic, Klaxons, !!!, The Drums, Afrojack, Ozomatli, The Morning Benders and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti to name a few.

Day Two is going to be a dance party bonanza with Steve Angello, Empire of the Sun, Paul van Dyk, Fedde Le Grand, Laidback Luke, Joachim Garraud, Chuckie and more plus, Raphael Saadiq, Two Door Cinema Club, Foals, the Kills, Mariachi El Bronx plus Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons and so much more!

Day Three has a ton more great artists but I am not as high on it as Days 1 & 2. The return of the Strokes, The National, Duran Duran, Duck Sauce, Eliza Doolittle, Tinie Tempah, and Ben Harper’s Fistful of Mercy should all be insane performances.

All I can say is WOW and while some may start chiming in saying this isn’t the best Coachella line-up in the 12 years I would argue that when we recap the festival later this spring it will go down in the record books as featuring one of the finest collections of music we have ever seen over the course of three days.

Coachella 2011

Three-day weekend passes, along with camping passes for Coachella go on sale Friday, Jan. 21 at 10:00 AM (PT) through Ticketmaster.com, by phone at (800) 745-3000 and at http://www.coachella.com. Three-day weekend passes are $269.00, plus surcharges, and camping passes are $75.00. More details on layaway, camping options and up-to-the minute information, can be found at http://www.coachella.com.

Tags: 2011, A-Trak, Afrojack, Alf Alpha, Andy C, Angus and Julia Stone, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Axwell Beardyman, Best Coast, Big Audio Dynamite, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, Bomba Estereo, Boys Noize, Brandon Flowers, Brandt Brauer Frick, Breakage, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene Cage the Elephant, Caifanes, Caspa, Cee Lo Green, Chromeo, Chuckie, City and Colour, Clare Maguire, Coachella, Cold Cave, Cold War Kids, Crystal Castles, CSS, Cults, Cut Copy Daedelus, Death From Above 1979, Delorean, Delta Sprirt, DJ Hype, DJ Kentaro, DJ Marky, DJ Zinc, Duck Sauce, Duran Duran EE, Elbow, Electric Touch, Eliza Doolittle, Ellie Goulding, Emicida, Empire of the Sun, Erick Morillo, Erykah Badu, Excision Fat Freddy's Drop, Fedde Le Grand, Fistful of Mercy, Flogging Molly, Foals, Foster the People, Francis and the Lights, Freelance Whales, fun. G.Q., Gayngs, Glasser, Gogol Bordello, Good Old War, Gord Downie, Goth Trad, Green Velvet, Gypsy and the Cat HEALTH, Here We Go Magic, High Contrast, Hurts Interpol Jack Beats, Jack's Mannequin, Jakes, Jenny and Johnny, Jimmy Eat World, Joachim Garraud, Joy Orbison Kanye West, Kele, Kings of Leon, Klaxons, Kode9, Kyle Hall Laidback Luke, Leftfield, Lightning Bolt, Lil' B, Lorn, Los Bunkers Magnetic Man, Mariachi El Bronx, Marina and the Diamonds, Mary Anne Hobbs, MEN, Menomena, Monarchy, Mount Kimbie, Moving Units, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Mumford & Sons Nas & Damian Marley, Neon Trees, New Pants, Nosaj Thing OFF!, OFWGKTA, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, One Day as a Lion, Ozomatli Paul van Dyk, Phantogram, Phosphorescent, PJ Harvey, Plan B, Ramadanman, Raphael Saadiq, Ras G, Ratatat, Riva Starr, Robyn, Roska, Rye Rye Sander Kleinenberg, Sasha, SBTRKT, Scala & Kolacny Bros., Scissor Sisters, She Wants Revenge, Shpongle, Skrillex, Sleigh Bells, Steve Angello, Sven Vath Take, Tame Impala, Terror Danjah, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, The Aquabats, The Black Keys, The Chemical Brothers, The Drums, The Felice Brothers, The Henry Clay People, The Joy Formidable, The Kills, The London Suede, The Love Language, The Morning Benders, the National, The New Pornographers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Presets, The Radio Dept., The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Strokes, The Swell Season, The Tallest Man on Earth, The Twelves, Thunderball, Tinie Tempah, Titus Andronicus, Tokimonsta, Trampled by Turtles, Trentemoller, Twin Shadow, Two Door Cinema Club Warpaint, Wire, Wiz Khalifa Yacht, Yelle Zed Bias.

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