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TIME TAKE IT´S TOLL ON SOME AND OTHERS TAKE TIME AND CRAM IT, TWIST IT, USE IT FOR LOVELY PRODUCTION. WE ARE THOSE WHO WILL NOT STAND DOWN. STILL UNSURE, BUT SURE OF OUR UNSURITY WE REVEAL OUR HEARTS TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE. SO… YE WHO READS, LIFT YOUR EARS TO THE NEWSEST INCARNATION OF A SOUL BODY BELONGING TOGETHER. YEARS IN THE CHALLENGED MAKING, WE FRIENDS/FAMILY ARE SEPARATE IN OUR TOGETHERNESS AND WE DOUBLE SPEAK AS THAT´S THE ONLY WAY TO SPEAK. SO ENOUGH… THIS WHAT GIRA HAS TO SAY… ¨I'm damned pleased to be able to offer here a special YGR website-only 5 song EP by the fantastic group of singers/players called Fire On Fire. They used to be the art-punk-prog-chaos collective Cerberus Shoal, but they ditched their electric instruments, went into hiding for a while, and now play all acoustic… upright bass, banjo, harmonium, accordion, acoustic guitar etc etc, and they all sing and harmonize on the songs. Live, they do it ¨old school¨ and just use two mics placed in front of them on the stage, like a bluegrass band. They all live in the same house up in Maine, across from rusting green oil tanks, apparently. To me they sound like a backwoods, fierce, psychedelic ¨Mamas And The Papas¨ or a crazed and vengeful gospel string band. They´re great people and I love their music. It´s all acoustic, but it´s not in the least folky. More old-timey incantations - American music with excellent words and performed with the honed violence of intent that truly great music requires. They're a total blast live. They just recently played my back porch actually and it was one of the best live music experiences I´ve had in years¨.
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America’s 50* Best New Bands The Boston Phoenix presents its annual state-by-state search for the coolest music in the United States of Awesome
BOSTON, MASS — For the second year in a row, to celebrate July 4th, the Boston Phoenix (thePhoenix.com) has named the best new band in each of the 50 states.
Bands on this year’s list range from the blisteringly fast punk of Arizona’s Shark Pants to the precision pop of Illinois’s Maps and Atlases, from the bizarre drunkcore of Alaska’s Stubby’s Crack Co. to the achingly gorgeous Americana of Rhode Island’s Low Anthem.
“If we’ve learned anything from this project, it’s that there are scores of pulsing, vibrant scenes outside of New York, Los Angeles, and Chapel Hill,” says Phoenix editor Lance Gould. “It’s proof positive that creative, arresting, and just plain weird music is thriving from Bangor to Boise.”
“We New England types tend to live in fear of the rest of the country,” says Michael Brodeur, Phoenix music editor. “This list provides comforting proof that there are good bands just about everywhere. Although — full disclosure — we didn’t have the budget to check out Guam.”
To be clear, by “new,” we really mean “emerging” (just try fitting that clumsy word into a headline). Thus, “new” band actually means a band that, whether they just formed or have been slogging in the clubs for a few years, is poised to breakout for indie success.
W drew from as many genres as possible — we’ve got metal, rap, electronic, indie-pop, art-punk, Americana and whatever the hell New York’s Capillary Action counts as. We’ve also got a couple of solo artists masquerading as bands (IN, VT) and just plain soloists (FL, MD, TN, SC, MS). (* We even threw in a 51st band for Washington, DC.)
To the band: I love your music. Because its not even music. Its a dream. It doesn't just make you feel like you're in a certain place, but it actually takes you there. And that is what it is all about, being in a different world... Hangman is something like I've never heard before. That is what I need. This is what everyone needs. Please come to Phoenix. I want to give you a hug. The drawings on your profile are beautiful. I can already tell that you know a lot about art.
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