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Detroit artist Joe Hertler and his band The Rainbow Seekers put out a five song EP in April that is a great summation of the group’s live sound, recorded in the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit. After recording Joe Herler wrote, “Let me just say that it’s very rare that I feel content with a […]

Tear into that BBQ leg son, multitask with your favorite 12 oz, and get ready for some quality blues rock. The compilation ‘Alive at the Deep Blues Fest’ is arriving this November 27th via Alive NaturalSound Recordings and features 13 incendiary performances from the festival which occurred from June 29th to July 1st, 2012 in […]

Kali Giaritta and Matt Harmon, about half of the Portland group The Ascetic Junkies will be on a ambitious Summer tour over the next month or two, starting off June 8th in California, then heading to Idaho, and Washington before heading back to some shows in Portland with the full band. While on their West Coast Tour they are open to the idea of house concerts, playing at other venues, crashing at your pad, and of course accepting support to help fill their Corolla’s gas tank.

Today’s feature just released on their YouTube channel, and we’ve provided an embedded link to the video here. Its the Acoustic Duo Basement version of Windows Sell the House which you can find the studio version of on their 2008 release, One Shoe Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

In other news, the group is currently working on their fourth album, which will follow This Cage Has No Bottom. Also, in March they were one of many featured artists on the free digital compilation sampler Ides of March. Make sure to grab a copy, and enjoy…

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Our musical crosshairs set themselves on Columbus, Ohio this psychedelic weekend, with an explosive set of blues flavored rock from trio Mount Carmel. The group has released a new album on Siltbreeze called Real Women, a great soundtrack as you spin donuts, jump bridges, and dodge explosions in your ’76 Trans Am.

In 2010, a few months after their appearance at SXSW, and on the way out of Philly during their first East Coast tour, the band dropped by the studios of WFMU and played a twenty minute set on Brian Turner’s Show, 6/15/10. Check out and download all five track listings at the link below. They are really something else.

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Live at WFMU on Brian Turner’s Show, 6/15/10 by Mount Carmel is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Today we are featuring a new stripped down interpretation of a slightly older track from Los Angeles singer-songwriter Nico Stai, a favorite musician of mine here on our network, who has had repeat visits in the past few years.

Every now and then you when you visit a live show, the bar chatter slightly drowns out a musician, not letting up as the music plays on. Often, when visiting one of Nico’s solo shows the room tends to be tamed as soon as he starts pouring his soul through the stage speakers, while his guitar-work is perfectly punctuated with his haunting yet very relatable lyrics.

Here’s another one of those songs from Nico Stai, an acoustic live track called ‘Skies Over Your Head’, released a few

short weeks back on October 10th.

Stayed tuned for a new full length, coming in the very near future.

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Today we take a look at a new acoustic release by Kilsyth, Scotland’s ‘The Twilight Sad’.

The band actually got their start playing a few gigs in Glasgow, creating half hour pieces of music that incorporated loads of varied instruments, tape loops from old films and folk songs, effects, toy keyboards and other quirky angles like theremin. This was all in an attempt to find their own sound that they could call their own and continue forward with.

With the latest Twilight Sad record nearing completion the band have a great 8 track acoustic EP to giveaway. Recorded at Glasgow’s Chem 19 studio in 2009, the acoustic EP features songs from their last full-length, Forget The Night Ahead, as well as last fall’s The Wrong Car 12-inch.

In the same vein of their experimental and sampled beginnings, we mixed some Scottish newsclips we found over at archive.org on the ‘SAD’ intro of this piece. Now whether that stands for Scotland Against Drugs or Seasonal Affective Disorder is for your determination ultimately. We hope you enjoy the track and make sure you head over to the website and check out the three videos that they included there from the acoustic recording session.

Yes, you read correctly! 8 FREE ACOUSTIC TRACKS from THE TWILIGHT SAD are now available at their website below as well as this track without the intro banter.

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