Biography:
Minneapolis electronic crusaders, The New Monarchs, have been hibernating almost since their birth in 2005. Starting out as a guitar, bass, and drums quartet, the band soon split for college. However, remaining members Sean Hogan (Vocals, Guitar, Programming, Electronics) and Taylor Nelson (Backing Vocals, Lead Guitar, Programming, Electronics, Piano) continued to write and exchange ideas via email while at their respective schools, then jointly applied the varnish to the tunes between semesters, with a more electronically based outlook.
When Hogan graduated from University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire in the spring of 2008, the band began recording their debut LP, Blueprints, in the box office of their former high school’s theater department. With over two months of late nights and continuing to work their day jobs, The New Monarchs found their final product ranging from energetic dance tunes with irrefutable hooks to droning experimental pieces with grave undertones.
With influences stemming from the likes of Kraftwerk, The Postal Service, Radiohead, and Nine Inch Nails, Blueprints unloads a conjured up, ten track recipe of soft, sullen lyrics, and an array of mind-bending beats backed by raw, brutal guitars. The New Monarchs are surrounded by electronic music innovators amongst the Minneapolis scene, and having recently signed to local label, Soup Bowl Records, they have big plans for the road during the upcoming year.
Blueprints will take you on a journey of new aural experiences and musical vision. This duo will make your late night drives to nowhere a party, a meditation, a rebirth, and will hypnotize you into an ethereal soundscape that you’ll never want to part ways with.
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Sparksfest is coming! For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the world to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul to showcase their work to the public.
Nobot will be performing at one of the "Nightlife" concerts along with Caly MacMorrow, Rossum Electric Company, and Hay/Honda/Berardi (from Los Angeles) on Wednesday February 18th at 10:30pm at the Bedlam Theater. Its going to be a mindblowing earjerkoff-fest.
Fela Kuti - Let's Start // Danger - 9H20 // Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (The Knocks Remix) // Friendly Fires - Paris (ft. Au Revoir Simone)(Aeroplane Remix) // Stu Phillips - Knight Rider Theme // The Rapture - Sister Saviour (DFA Dub) // The Golden Filter - Solid Gold // Acos CoolKAs - Discotheque // Matthew Dear - Pom Pom (The Juan Maclean Backup Vox Mix) // Estate - Write to Make (Gigamesh Remix) // Groove Armada - Drop That Thing // Cut Copy - Far Away (Damn Arms Remix) // Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You // Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream (Treasure Fingers Remix) // Mount Sims - How We Do // Roy Davis Jr. - I Have a Vision (ft. Erin Martin) // Hidden Cat - The Superfuture // Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (Gigamesh Remix)
