Join us next Saturday at Pianos for a fantastic night of music!
Spanish Prisoners - Know No ViolenceSoftSpot - Disciple Fix
Lockets - Camera Shy
Motion Studies - Hearts Will Beat
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SoftSpot - Disciple Fix
Lockets - Camera Shy
Motion Studies - Hearts Will Beat
Buy Tickets
Tonight Spanish Prisoners will be opening for Conveyor at Mercury Lounge during their album release show for their self-title debut which you can stream exclusively right here.
In lieu of all that excitement they have also managed to drop the two sided PRIOR ART mixtape which they describe as a mix “stitched together in between soundchecks, on empty highway stretches, and on spare couches covered with cat hair and dust. It follows a slower path than Gold Fools but reaches similar depths of dubby, hiss-laden pop. Exploring the boundaries of vibe and feel, it was inspired by the microphasing of minimalist composer William Basinski, the warped, playful beats of Actress and Bibio, and the various guises of mastermind Brian Eno. Printed on limited edition cassette tape, Prior Art contains reworkings of songs by Clams Casino and Twin Sister, as well as remixes by shape shifters Sun Glitters and Rimar, mixed with gooey ambient stretches and swirling electronic interludes.”
We have a hunch that you’ll like what you hear below so here’s the free download.
PRIOR ART/SIDE APRIOR ART/SIDE B
Help Make Spanish Prisoners Kickstater “Vantasy” come true and then win tickets to see them play our show at Pianos this Thursday with Snowmine, Field Mouse and Ben Lear!
How to enter:
All you need to do to enter to win a pair of tickets to the show this Thursday is the following:
Follow @exfm and @Snowmine on Twitter. Then Tweet “Hey @exfm I want to see @Snowmine and @Span_Prisoners perform this Thursday @PianosNYC http://tinyurl.com/89mq2av”
Contest will run until 3:00 pm est today Tuesday, January 31st. Winners will be announced that evening around 7:00 pm est Good luck!
Please join us for a very special celebratory Groundhog Day night of music with two of our favorite Album of the Week picks, Snowmine and Spanish Prisoners.
Brooklyn local Field Mouse and Academy Award nominated artist Ben Lear will be performing, too, making this is one helluva lineup you won’t want to miss.
@Pianos
158 Ludlow St | New York, NY
Doors at 8:00 pm | Thursday February 2, 2012
Tickets $8 (all proceeds to artists) | 21+
Snowmine: The Brooklyn five-piece embraces an indie pop sound rich with echo pedals, tribal beats, electro-acoustic soundscapes and classical orchestrations. The band is fronted by new-classical composer Grayson Sanders, whose vocals have been compared to Robin Pecknold and Jim Jones. They’ll be heading in to the studio to begin work on their next full length LP, but for now keep an eye out for their upcoming duel remixes with Twin Sister.
Spanish Prisoners: Lead singer, songwriter and guitarist Leo Maymind and his bandmates – keyboardist/vocalist Amberly Hungerford, drummer/songwriter Mike DiSanto, and multi-instrumentalist James Higgs slowly molded fragments of home recordings into layered, fluid, headphone symphonies that emphasized the raw randomness in electronic sound. Their most recent release Gold Fools was recently recognized as one of the top five Bandcamp albums of 2011 by NPR.
Buy tickets here and rsvp. We can’t wait to see you and cheers to the little groundhog not seeing his shadow!
Team Tuneage Thu, Nov 17, 2011
After a short hiatus Team Tunage is back! For those of you that don’t know this is the time of week when everyone on the exfm team shares their favorite songs from this week with you, our lovely community. Let us know what your favorites from this past week were. Do you see any of them here?
The Pica Beats
source: tumblr.absono.us
superhumanoids
source: surfingonsteam.net
The Mary Onettes
source: labrador.se
Spanish Prisoners
source: spanishprisoners.bandcamp.com
Tennis
source: yvynyl.tumblr.com
Thieving Irons
source: stereogum.com
Moon Duo
source: soundcloud.com
Crystal Stilts
source: soundcloud.com
Childhood
source: 1forthepeople.com
Awolnation
Andrew Bird
via soundcloud.com
NO
via headunderwater.com
Jessica:
Snowmine
source: weathervanemusic.org
Waterstrider
source: earsofthebeholder.com
Brick+Mortar
source: knoxroad.com
Magnetic Fields
source: fuckyeahthemagneticfields.tumblr.com
D’Angelo
source: furthermucker.tumblr.com
Rick Danko & Donald Fagen
source: stoutthoughts.tumblr.com
If you were first introduced to Spanish Prisoners through the majestically-layered flurry of strong percussion, synth, reverb and masterful songwriting that is Know No Violence then like us, you must have fallen in love at first listen.
To our pleasure Spanish Prisoners were able to follow up that beautiful single with an equally magnificent and artful full-length self-release. Gold Fools showcases lead singer Leo Maymind knack for songwriting. It leaves you wondering which paths he went down that stuck so vividly in his memory leading him to intertwine their bits and pieces into his meticulously crafted songs.
Gold Fools is driven by the flexible melodic changes of Maymind along with keyboardist Amberly Hungerford catching you off guard, dragging you around one corner, floating you ten feet of the ground and then snapping you back down to earth before dousing you in layers of intricate reverb. This album is truly an audiophiles dream come true. Each track is an adventure just waiting for you to press play. We guarantee that with each additional press of that little play triangle you’ll discover new treasures that may have gone unnoticed at first listen.
If you’re dying to see these guys live and you’re in the NYC area then you’re in luck. You can catch them live this Friday, November 18th at Pianos. Their album is also available as a free download on bandcamp. Grab it now because we have a feeling it won’t stay that way for long.
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