08/14/2008
New Music From The Spinto Band: "Summer Grof"
In 2006, Delaware's The Spinto Band had a modest hit (which should've been a huge hit) with "Oh, Mandy" from their well-received album Nice and Nicely Done. The charming and offbeat track with its references to the WB and the Midwest was an infe ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 08/14/2008 10:09 PM EST in Indie-Pop, Video, Local Music | Permalink
08/13/2008
Awesome Video Alert: Ida Maria - "Better When You’re Naked”
We featured Norwegian singer/songwriter and pizza burner Ida Maria on the blog way back, but now she's gotten super sexy and gone and done it...and by "it" I mean having a kick ass video for her new single "Better When You’re Naked.” The ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 08/13/2008 12:42 PM EST in Indie-Rock, Video | Permalink
Go To This: Free Dr. Dog Show Tonight in Philly's Rittenhouse Park
Since the weather is SO nice in Philly today, why not venture over to Rittenhouse Sq. Park for a free concert featuring local heroes and Walrus favs Dr. Dog? Show starts at 7pm. Meet me by the fountain... The band's newest album, Fate, is a ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 08/13/2008 9:55 AM EST in Indie-Rock, Local Music, Events | Permalink
08/12/2008
New Music From Members of Radiohead and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Woodpecker Soundtrack
Composer, and Philly native, James Lavino has teamed up with Radiohead's Colin Greenwood and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah brothers Lee and Tyler Sargent to score a quirky film about bird watching called Woodpecker (based on the synopsis, it sounds l ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 08/12/2008 2:43 PM EST in Experimental, Folk, Movie Music | Permalink
08/11/2008
On the Rise: The War On Drugs
Philly's The War on Drugs are starting to make a name for themselves outside of the local scene with their awesome debut full-length Wagonwheel Blues. Co-founder Kurt Vile and gang are perpetuating the grand tradition of noisy Americana. "Ta ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 08/11/2008 9:59 PM EST in Country, Indie-Rock, New Music Spotlight, Local Music | Permalink
Fact: Boards of Canada Were Awesome in 1989
In 1989 I was 10 years old, way into playing street hockey and listening to Bell Biv Devoe. Little did I know that Scottish duo Boards of Canada who were rockin b-boy stances, far away from a 'beautiful place out in the country'and embarking on ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 08/11/2008 8:43 AM EST in Electronic, Hip-Hop | Permalink
08/08/2008
Remix of The Week: Sebastian Tellier - "Divine" (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)
Oh Midnight Juggernauts you've gone and done it now! You've taken Sebastian's perfectly poppy electronic song and turned it into a drugged-out, ambient epic. Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space? Yea, indeed. Nice one, gents! You can ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 08/08/2008 2:49 PM EST in Electronic, Remix | Permalink
08/07/2008
Best Contest Ever: Win a Theremin Prize Pack!!!
This is awesome! Our friends at Unusual Times, purveyors of all things unusual and the some mighty tasty gin, are giving one lucky winner a full Moog™ Etherwave® Theremin exploration kit just for signing up! The prize pack includes: (1) St ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 08/07/2008 9:51 PM EST in Electronic, Experimental, Contest | Permalink
Stream The New High Places Album In Its Entirety
We at the Walrus are big fans of Brooklyn's lucid, electronic duo The High Places and we couldn't be more excited about their debut album, due out in September. So, naturally it came as a delightful surprise to us when we stumbled upon the new ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 08/07/2008 9:48 PM EST in Indie-Pop, Electronic, Experimental | Permalink
08/06/2008
"Lost" Brian Wilson Production From 1969 To Finally See Release
In 1969 Brian Wilson, pop genius and purveyor of all things California, recorded an album called A World of Peace Must Come with song-writer/poet Stephen John Kalinich, but the tapes, to this day, have remained lost. Described as an album of ...
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