This Week On BandSoup (7/30-8/5)
We have had a great week of uploads here on BandSoup! Here are a few of the bands that you must hear in case you missed them. Remember, you can always save songs that you like to your favorites by clicking the star next to each song.
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Kalispell (Alt-Folk): Kalispell's Westbound feels like a long-awaited exhale. Rooted in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Kalispell is the project of Shane Leonard, accompanied live and on recording by Ben Lester (AA Bondy, S. Carey), Kevin Rowe (The Barley Jacks), and others. Westbound, the first full-length album, has been six years in the making. In that time, Shane has traveled as a musician and a teacher, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, partnered and single, rarely static, and so the songs too have changed and deepened with the retelling.
The result is a unique mix of clawhammer banjo and pedal steel guitar, of old-timey Appalachian traditions as in "Methodist Lift" and the ethereal, ambient music of songs like "Sepia Ghost." And in each is the poet’s exhale, Shane giving himself away.
Tropical Punk (Indie Rock): Nashville's Tropical Punk blends garage sensibilities with punk, psych, and alternative rock influences.
Sinitus Tempo (Jazz/Hip Hop Instrumentals): Sinitus Tempo is a producer from Mount Rainier, Maryland that garnered a lot of internet acclaim around the world for his Anime tribute music. Journey is a beautiful 19-track album that illuminates ST's flair for mellow jazz samples and moody compositions. This sexy audio nightcap is still available as a free download, so lay back and press play.
Shadowdance (Metal): Dark, Atmospheric Power Metal with Progressive Elements from Philadelphia, PA. New album "Future Negative Fantasy" available now.
Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band (Funk): Nu-Funk from Asheville, North Carolina. Their latest album, Doin' It Hard, is available as a free download.
Bright Lines (Alt-Country/Bluegrass): Bright Lines is like a weird but pleasing acid trip down into the clammy heart of the earth. They play original roots and rockabilly music and sing about apocalyptic love and more.
Nicolas Repac (Electronic Blues): Nicolas Repac is recognized as guitarist (the inseparable friend of Arthur H), as manipulator of machines of all kinds, and composer who already has his name on three albums. ‘Black Box’ is a beautiful musical journey dedicated to all the different shades of the blues.
The Lone Crows (Rock): The Lone Crows are a stunning mix of Blues, Jam, Garage and even heavy Stoner rock styles that culminate in a variety of songs ranging from punishing 14 minute jams to simple soulful ballads.
Young Moon (Indie Rock): Trevor Montgomery is a craftsman. By day he's a skilled tile setter, a job taxing to both the mind and body. By night he's an equally meticulous and hard working musician, coaxing just the right tones out of his vintage drum machines and synths to carry his tales of love and redemption. As a tile setter and as a musician, his job is the same: assembling things of beauty to fill empty spaces.
The Machine (Stoner Rock): The Machine, hailing from Rotterdam, Holland, pair molten stoner rock riffs with a fair dose of retro psych for good measure. The band also excels at incorporating acid-blues jamming that lifts their whole performance into outer space.
7evenThirty (Hip Hop): “GetUp!!!” finds this microphone extra-terrestrial standing out amongst the regular degular everyday life. Ruthless rhymes mixed with “time-travel and zappin’ n****s” is a particularly curious formula that requires a particularly eccentric mind to pull off right.
Glocca Morra (Punk Rock): Punk rock group that sing mostly about being bummed out, failed relationships with all people, alcohol and drugs.
Sam Hart (Acoustic/Singer-Songwriter): Straight forward acoustic folk from a San Francisco based singer-songwriter.
The Laurels (Indie Rock): THE LAURELS are a four-piece from Sydney who create luscious, complex and dangerous psychedelic shoegaze bliss.
We Are Oceans (Post-Rock/Instrumental): Music that will make you want to drive through white mountains.
Versis (Hip Hop): Throwback, golden era-esque jazzy hip hop from bi-coastal connection Versis (Cali MC) and Bagir-Ba (Brooklyn producer).
Vanisher (Metal): Vanisher is a five piece melodic metal band from North Carolina. Infusing elements of swedish metal with thrash and rock, Vanisher goes back to it's roots to put a modern spin on a classic style of metal.
Dark Time Sunshine (Hip Hop): Dark Time Sunshine is comprised of Onry Ozzborn of Grayskul and producer Zavala.
POKE (Alternative Rock): Quirky, odd, cool-- Poke is an alternative rock band from Kentucky that knows how to tell a story and keep you interested all the way through.
Stray Theories (Ambient): Stray Theories is the ambient electronica project of New Zealand based, Australian musician/composer, Micah Templeton-Wolfe.