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Song of the Day: Temples – The Golden Throne

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Ricky in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

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One of the bigger buzz bands emerging from SXSW, Temples have been making steady ground in the music world this year on the grounds of their debut album Sun Structures. The album is basically a field trip back to the 70’s, if the 70’s were reinvented by kids these days. Sure, you can literally list off all the band’s influences as you go through the tracks but the album has a buffet of good tunes. The track The Golden Throne is the catchiest of them all. Featuring massive hooks and a nostalgic kick, it is easily going to one of the tracks I will be putting on all summer.

Song Of The Day: The Quiet Men – River Valley

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Celeste in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

Toe-tapping is a word that needs to be reclaimed in the US. I usually google phrases that I’m planning on putting into my posts on Panic to make sure ‘that word means what I think it means.’ When I googled it, I came to realize that toe-tapping is now inextricably linked to the Larry Craig scandal.

No no no.

Toe-tapping encompasses all the greatness of music. In those two little alliterative words it brings to mind the spontaneous, wiggle-inducing, couldn’t-stop-yourself-even-if-you-tried, physical joyfulness that we get from music. Nothing else in the world can figuratively and literally move people like music.

The Irish folk collective The Quiet Men is a perfect example. The band hails from San Francisco and they bring to mind nothing more than a sunshine drenched field, a bubbling beautiful blue body of water and a toe-tapping good time. Check out their song River Valley below:

Song of the Day: St. Paul & the Broken Bones – Sugar Dyed

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Ricky in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

Three weeks from SXSW and I’m already full of regret for the bands that I missed. One of these bands is the Alabama based St. Paul & The Broken Bones, a soul/gospelly/roots kind of band whose music just screeeeeeeeeeeams awesome live show. Apparently the lead singer Paul Janeway was on his way to be a preacher, which I can easily see. It’s easy to say that they can be on the same trajectory as bands such as Alabama Shakes, Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley, only white. Don’t hold that against them though, that would be quite racist. Check them out and pretend that you are in some random church.

Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso – Coffee

Posted on March 28, 2014 by halley in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

Everything about this video pulses. The opening strain, the overlay, the voice, the video shots… it will put a beat in your head that won’t soon be shaken. Sylvan Esso has paired its latest single with a cinematic work that is just as intriguing as the group’s mesmerizing sound. Couples dance in slow motion, we see snapshots of house parties, trickling fountains – a disconnected but compelling narrative is created of life as it would be if everything just… slowed… down.

Listen to the track, watch the video. Go see these guys live. They put together a compelling act in all manners of artistic form.

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5/26 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory Concert House
5/27 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
5/28 Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre
5/30 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
6/3 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
6/5 Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre
6/7 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
6/13 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
6/15 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
6/16 Boston, MA – Royale Boston
6/18 Montreal, QC – La Tulipe
6/22 New York, NY – Webster Hall
6/23 New York, NY – Webster Hall

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