Relative unknowns, Toronto-based Menew (hint the name is reversible) recently played the David Letterman show on the strength of their self-produced album alone. Apparently Paul Schaeffer brought them up to his office after the show to discuss their future plans. The three brothers (Shade – Vocals and Guitar, Key – Piano and Synthesizers, Nathan Samuel Phillip – drums/backing vocals) from the town of Cambridge, Ontario outside Toronto proper are playing a pair of small dates in Los Angeles this week including a Cinespace Tuesday night and a 7:30 showcase open to the public at The Viper Room tonight, Wednesday, March 25th, 2009. Check ’em out and you can say you knew them when. […]
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Goddamn do I hate the cliché of the snarky blogster. And now, thanks to The Morning After Girls, I’ve become one. See, there’s good news and bad news: The good news is that all indications from new music on TMAG’s myspace page are that after six years, they might have finally realized their 60s pop-meets-shoegaze mission statement. After […] […] |
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Artist Profile: Vapor Mache is ready to glitch your brain.
I could almost boast that I saw the evolution of glitch in front of my very eyes. Despite my own history making ambient music influenced by FSOL, Can and Pete Namlook, I claim absolutely no contribution to this movement, but I can say I was there. I think it had something to do with people who had the tools, the pedigree and the fact that they were making jingles, and so had hundreds if not thousands of bits of audio that they reassembled into micro-edited music-concrete. But the difference here, that made it something beyond experimental noise for the “advanced music appreciationist” was that it SLAMMED. This stuff was groovy, sexy and could stand up by anything the Neptunes could throw at you. […]