Nuggets 93 – Morning Voices

“..and don’t send me any of that wimpy stuff.” So I didn’t.

I get lost on Bandcamp and here is what I found…

Cover and tunes on the way.

 

First up Motopony from Seattle, a one man band that recently got bigger and now make hard-soul/glitch-folk indie-rock. Great video and love the song. No so sure about the rabbit (?) fur jacket.

Motopony

 

Little Scout practice dreampop from Melbourne.

 Little Scout

 

Buy Yung Life from his bandcamp page, or download it for free. His bedroom experimental music comes to you from Knoxville, Tennessee.

Youth's Hours

 

Acid Flashback have no existence apart from the playlist on their Myspace page.

I Love Your Magic

 

Neat Beats can be found on Bandcamp where they peddle their wonky trip-hop. They hail from San Diego. Buy their music in bits and bytes or in vinyl.

Neat Beats

 

Korea in the Space, yeah, naff name and very unhelpful team photo. From Pittsburgh. This track and others free on bandcamp if you like their twitchy lofi.

Korea in Space

 

Klaus Von Barrel, aka Die Jungen – hails from Southampton. This does little to explain the name, or the photo below… Wistful. Free from bandcamp.

Die Jungen

Shimmering Stars make spare yet beaty musak. From Vancouver. Music here on bandcamp.

Shimmering Stars - Violent Hearts

 

Teen Suicide, not sure where they are from, probably not the London band of the same name. This track from their album, Bad Vibes For Ever – glum.. Free on bandcamp.

bad vibes forever

 

Deamdate – Anna Hillburg (bass, vocals) and Yea-Ming Chen (guitar, vocals) from Oakland, California. Less wistful, tuneful.

Dreamdate

 

The Handsome Family – serious about their music, or even just serious.

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Through the Trees

 

Steffalo – from LA, has recorded with Blackbird blackbird. Buy her tunes here.

Meet Me in Montauk

 

J. Irvín Dally – Californian artist. Too talented for his own good. Visit bandcamp for more.

j. irvín dally

jordanirvindally

 

Youth Lagoon – ditto.

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Gigs, Gigs, Gigs – Dum Dum Girls and Bamby’s swansong

Bamby from the Dum Dum Girls

I have been enjoying the 60’s retro sound of the Dum Dum Girls. On the latest album the lead singer, Dee-dee, has moved into more languid territory with the lovely ‘Coming Down’. Last night they played the Kings Arms. I took along my shiny new camera – good practice for SXSW.

Kristen Gundred aka Dee-dee, Jules (guitar, vocals), Sandy (drums, vocals) and Bambi (bass, vocals) wore black and were very focussed and felt distant. Bamby (playing her last gig with the band) particularly so. They relaxed a bit towards the end, particularly by the last song of the set (The Smiths, There is  a Light…- see below) which was to be Bambi’s last with the band.

De-de from the Dum Dum girls

They played loud and jangly, swinging their guitars in Shadows fashion.

Afterwards I had a chance to chat to the the group as they relaxed out in the garden. They even posed for a group picture. We talked about the weather in Austin and SXSW. They aren’t performing but will be in town. Unfortunately it is such a bad shot I don’t think I will post it….

dum dum girls

I had mixed feeling about being the ‘camera guy’. The good first; you do need to be up front and you get to focus on the musicians, hopefully after the gig is finished you have something worthwhile i.e. photos and videos to look back on.  The bad things are that you can’t relax and sink into the music, you worry about things like focus and exposure and keeping your camera above the crowd pointing towards the stage.  Hmmmm

Camera went OK but the photos and videos are pretty ropey, I need to practice.