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http://katarokkar.cribble.net/ - Kata Rokkar - A blog about music, life and stuff by Shawn Robbins.
If you find your music being produced by Zac Rae (Fiona Apple, Annie Lennox, My Brightest Diamond) and mixed by Darrell Thorp (Radiohead, Beck), you’ll probably find your music strong yet vulnerable without giving too much away. That is the case with Sara Lov , a traveling ray of ...
Indie Music
Headphones & Cellphones , the album by Sam Billen is not like his previous band, The Billions . A soulful and basic encounter that is a welcome departure from the indie-pop flow of his last band. This seems for comfortable for him.
buy it here .
Retranslating seems to be his forte ...
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Headphones
The Republic Tigers
photo by steven robbins
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet
Be safe.
Indie Music
What could be cooler than your own stylish Passion Pit t-shirt designed by Topman CTRL?
Just leave a comment of 5 words or less telling why you like Passion Pit and you’ll be entered in to win the t-shirt. I will pick one winner on the 15th of December, just in time for the holidays. ...
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Diplo
While they may not have left the state of NY just yet, The Library might just make it past state lines to your ears soon enough. With plenty of buzz in the Brooklyn area and overwhelming sales of their recent album, The Life and Times of Rosa Lee , The Library make sure their brand of ...
Indie Music
The Falcon
Judgement Day
Judgement Day
Judgement Day
La Fin Du Monde
Grayceon
ALL PHOTOS HERE
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Judgement Day – Barrage (Acoustic ) from Opus 3: Acoustic (2005)
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Grayceon – It Begins, ...
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Annie
Tonight, Saturday November 21st
Metalocalypse: Dethklok and Mastodon with High on Fire and Converge
San Jose State University @ 6:30 pm
the PRINCE vs MICHAEL experience
Madrone Lounge @ 7:00 pm
Girls, Tamaryn, Dominant Legs
Bottom of the Hill @ 10:00 pm
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Michael Bay
Warren G
This was a nice find on my inbox. Submitted to The Flip Skateboards Extremely Sorry soundtrack, Baron’s Extremely Sorry with desert rock outfit Black Mountain has this familiar sound of early UNKLE . Dark, heavy, and fitting for a soundtrack focused on skateboarding.
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We at Kata Rokkar would like to congratulate Alice Kao for winning two tickets to tonight’s 5th Anniversary Show for Judgement Day’s debut album, Dark Opus . Below is out top 4 submissions along with our 1st place winner’s epic description.
#1 – brutal searing ...
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Swedish indie pop sensation El Perro Del Mar’s new album Love Is Not Pop , which was released in the US by The Control Group on October 20th, has gotten a pretty positive response from the music critic community (Redefine gave it A-). And for good reason, Love Is Not Pop proved she can ...
Indie Music
Peter Bjorn and John
Great White
After researching them due to their involvement in opening for acts like The Album Leaf, dredg , and Busdriver ; El Paso, Texas’ Zechs Marquise has colored me impressed with their progressive indie-rock instrumentals and spastic live performances. Featuring multi-instrumentalist Marcel ...
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The Mars Volta
Nightmare
The Blow
Will Haven
The Album Leaf
The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo played a true-to-record, low-gloss, blur-rock that sometimes sounded like the Sundays and sometimes like Loaded-era Velvet Underground the other night at San Francisco’s Bimbo’s 365. Strapped with jazzmasters and vintage ...
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The Raveonettes
Sune Rose Wagner
The Last Dance
Break
Portugal. The Man’s newest album features more than just eleven fiercely transcendent vignettes. The Satanic Satanist is a single machine as well as a long suite of compositions, segued together into one seamless presentation. Born from the band’s ravenous creative appetite, ...
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Saul Williams
Saul Williams with his album, The Inevitable Rise & Liberation of Niggy Tardust , Saul showed that he truly is a genuine and unique ‘hip-hop’ artist. Featuring a cover of U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday , the album produced by Trent Reznor/ NIN is a clash of industrial ...
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Saul Williams
U2
To celebrate 20 years of Doolittle , the album that influenced a generation of bands, and the start of the Pixies USA Doolittle Tour, The Pixies are giving away four live tracks from a recent show in Paris.
You might be able to catch them this weekend at the Fox Theater in Oakland from the ...
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Pixies
I’ve been really digging Vetiver ever since their new album and their stellar performance at the T reasure Island Music Festival . The band returns this winter with the new single More of This – a lovely slice of chill out folk pop. More of This will be released on limited edition ...
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The Bats
Attention – Everything Takes Forever (2009)
A few years back a band called Gratitude featuring Far’s Jonah Matranga burst onto the rock scene with minimal success. Jonah left (as he usually does) and did his own thing while the rest of the members went on to start Attention . ...
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Birdmonster
Atlas Sound
Chicago’s My Gold Mask left a pretty good impression on the crowd that gathered for their CMJ performance last week at Europa in Brooklyn. Both Gretta Rochelle and Jack Armondo are now riding the wave of support with their upcoming EP, out late November. To tide you over is their ...
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graphic by Imerr
Five years ago in November, string metal juggernauts Judgement Day released their first full-length record entitled Dark Opus . While many other acts have covered traditional metal songs with strings, Judgement Day went out on their own and created a paralyzingly ...
