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Although we have no official bio for Pete Wentz’ new band Black Cards, we do have a free song to offer you! “Club Called Heaven” is one of Black Cards’ new releases. Call **BLAST (**25278) from your mobile phone today to get a free download of “Club Called Heaven.” No extra fees, no spam– just good, free music!
Beach Fossils’ song “Vacation” is today’s free song of the day when you call **BLAST (**25278) from your mobile phone.
About Beach Fossils:
The story of Beach Fossils starts with frontman Dustin Payseur writing and recording songs for their debut self-titled LP out of his tiny Brooklyn apartment in the U.S. autumn of 2009. His recent move from North Carolina that year had left him with a sense of longing to reconnect with his past and the lush open landscape he left behind. During that year Dustin experimented with innovative methods of self-recording (using a Tascam four-track and Logic Pro) and composing. He drew his inspiration from improvisational jazz, classical and shoegaze artists, such as Anthony Braxton, pre-Stereolab project McCarthy and Giuseppe Tartini. Playing all his own instruments (keyboard, drums, bass, guitar), he soon emerged with a shimmering array of sun drenched pop songs.
Dustin eventually linked creative forces with John Pena (bass), Sennott Burke (guitar) and Cole Smith (drums) who joined the band and helped collaborate on the songs Wide Awake and Gathering. The full bandʼs immediate chemistry and unforgettable stage presence radiate with a wild, youthful-sincerity.
Beach Fossils offers warm and inviting melodies that evoke the haunted sounds of another era: straightforward guitar riffs, a kaleidoscope of psychedelic rhythms, and distant, faded vocals all come together to make the perfect soundtrack to an endless summer afternoon.
In late 2009 the band were signed to Captured Tracks (home of Dum Dum Girls, Wild Nothing, Thee Oh Sees amongst others). Not long after they joined the Popfrenzy family. Over the last year, Beach Fossils have played CMJ, SXSW, toured the U.S. and are planning a European summer tour. They’re currently on a month long tour with Here We Go Magic and Small Black.
Named one of three “Undiscovered Bands You Need to Hear Now” by SPIN Magazine, Geographer offers their song “Kites” for everyone to download for free when calling **BLAST (**25278) today from your mobile phone.
About Geographer:
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In the summer of 2005, after a series of deaths in the family, Michael Deni left his hometown in New Jersey for San Francisco. He spent the next several months with his guitar and a synthesizer, turning that tragedy into the songs that would soon become the foundation for Geographer.
With the additions of cellist Nathan Blaz and drummer Brian Ostreicher, Geographer spent the next year cutting their teeth in the Bay Area, winning over crowds with the heart-pounding epics that make up their debut record, Innocent Ghosts.
After being selected one of three ‘Undiscovered Bands You Need To Hear Now’ by SPIN Magazine and garnering considerable word-of-mouth praise from their energetic live shows, the band signed to San Francisco-based label Tricycle Records, releasing a 7” single for the song ‘Kites’ in October 2009.
Animal Shapes follows up ‘Kites’, building on the synth-driven aesthetic of the single, while flirting with darker, more esoteric underpinnings. The record merges Geographer’s aptitude for crafting beautiful, haunting melodies with textural sounds and polyrhythmic energy, marking an evolution of their distinct style.
With the overwhelming response to the release of ‘Kites’ and Animal Shapes, punctuated by a dynamic and engaging live set, the band has already begun to make an indelible mark on the ears of music fans worldwide.
The Dodos’ song “Black Night” from their fourth LP No Color is today’s free song of the day when you call **BLAST from your mobile phone.
About The Dodos:
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This forward motion feeling has driven the duo since 2005, but several key changes lift their fourth LP No Color to another level. For one thing, the band reunited with Portland producer John Askew, the man behind the boards of the Dodos’ first two full-lengths, Beware of the Maniacs and Visiter. Having an old friend around was like adding an honorary third member; a voice of reason who isn’t afraid to veto ill-fated ideas. Ideas like glossy layers of vibraphone that lost their luster halfway through.
The main focus of No Color was to bottle the frenzied folk approach that’s been there since the beginning. And it works damn well, from the dagger-drawing dynamics and brain-burrowing choruses of “Black Night” to the hairpin turns and splashy percussion of “Good.” And then there are the songs that’ll make you want to dub old episodes of 120 Minutes, including the instrumental break of “Don’t Stop” and the sneak attack solo that weaves its way around the steely rhythms of “Don’t Try and Hide It.”
“I have a love for ‘90s riffs that I haven’t gotten to showcase in this band,” says Long. “The most fun I had with this record was when I got to strap on the electric guitar and come up with Billy Corgan riffs while the tape was rolling.”
It’s as if Long’s finally got to live the flannel-era fantasies that started when he was a teenager, tearing guitar tabs out of magazines at a local pharmacy. The catch? There’s less room for error than there’s ever been.
“We’re more naked this way,” explains Long. “You can hide a lot of your mistakes on an acoustic, but with an electric, every single note is much louder and more piercing. So I have to be way more on top of my playing now.”
Album Tracks: Black Night / Going Under / Good / Sleep / Don’t Try and Hide It / When Will You Go / Hunting Season / Companions / Don’t Stop
Today’s song of the day for our **BLAST Campaign is Coma Summer from the latest album Sports from Weekend.
Remember to call “**BLAST” (**25278) from your mobile phone for a free song every day.
About Weekend:
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Within a grainy film-still between a summer sunset and the end of times lies the post-punk squall of Weekend. Weekend filter the aggression, tempo and sneer of punk through a wall of reverb, haunting melody, feedback and primitive garage guitar. Formed in San Francisco in late 2009, the band have quickly developed a totally distinctive take on the history of noise rock. Combining noisy guitars, pounding rhythms and dark post-punk vibes in fresh ways isn’t easy, but Weekend somehow make it look like it is.
Their new album Sports is one of the most assured debuts in recent memory, full of rumbling rhythms, layers of LOUD guitars and most of all great songs that pay special attention to texture and atmosphere, and leaven even the most riotous moments with unexpected shards of melody. “Coma Summer” kicks things off in stunning fashion, an epic slice of noise/gaze that stands tall with No Age’s best power-drone. “Monday Morning” is a dreamy noisescape, a perfect lead-in to the driving, punky “Monongah, WV,” which is blessed with a chorus melody a lot of straight pop bands would kill for.
As the album continues, it takes in such touchstones as the the chaotic psychedelic noise of groups like Skullflower and Terminal Cheesecake, and the scything racket of post-No Wave noise bands DUSTdevils and Sonic Youth. “Age Class” storms along like classic Killing Joke, and “Veil” is an echoey tune that builds and builds to a smashing coda, trailing off into spectral trails of feedback and incidental static. “End Times” is power-pop as interpreted by “Feed Me With Your Kiss”-era MBV, an amazing mix of melody and racket that perfecting encapsulates what Sports and Weekend are about.
Today is the launch day of our **BLAST (StarStar Blast) Campaign in celebration of SXSW! One free, new song will be available every day for you to download when you call **BLAST from your cell phone. We handpicked each song to give you a wide variety from some of the best and brightest bands! Today’s featured band is Wavves.
ABOUT WAVVES
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Today’s song of the day, King of the Beach, is the first song on the latest album from San Diego band Wavves. In 2009 Nathan Williams recorded two albums worth of naïve punk rock behind his parents’ house in San Diego. Since then, Wavves has become a sensation in the world of Indie music. In the beginning of 2010, Williams made King of the Beach the new Wavves album. King of the Beach is an adventurous and ambitious record. It highlights the ’60s sunshine soul that Wavves is known for while experimentally mixing the signature sounds with elements of primitive electronics.
“There was a conscious effort going into this that I didn’t want to make the same record again,” says Williams. “It wasn’t overbearing, but I didn’t want to recreate something I’d done. I wanted to make something bigger, something stronger.”
Williams toiled over for three months at Sweet Tea Recording, a world-renown studio in Oxford, Mississippi. Sweet Tea is also the home of Dennis Herring, producer of the last two Modest Mouse albums and the man who dismantled and re-assembled the sound on this record.
Williams wrote and recorded two songs with bassist Stephen Pope and drummer Billy Hayes, the duo who became his touring band at the end of 2009. Pope and Hayes formerly backed recently departed garage rock force of nature Jay Reatard.
The album title King of the Beach isn’t meant to be ironic or a self-deprecating joke. It’s a declaration. “Without sounding cheesy, we all wanted to make something inspiring,” says Williams. “It’s the type of thing where you have this much, but you could have more, so go get it.”
Album Tracks: King of the Beach / Super Soaker / Idiot / When Will You Come? / Post Acid / Take on the World / Baseball Cards / Convertible Balloon / Green Eyes / Mickey Mouse / Linus
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