Flower Flower - Go Mordecai

Recently I downloaded the 7-song "Go Mordecai!" by Flower Flower, an indie folk sounding band from Miami, Florida.

Half indie rock half feel-good melodic pop. At times breaking out into a more aggressive distorted approach, and other times laid back, acoustic, and folky.

Flower Flower - *Wither Winter
Flower Flower - Indigo


I saw one of their shows in Miami awhile back, they played with Totally Nebular. "Go Mordecai" is a good representation of their live performance--vocals, drums, electric guitar, keyboard, and occasionally some bells or tambourine or hand claps. Their performance was great and easily stood up to the recordings.
















myspace/flowerflower
download/gomordecai

Surfer Blood on Causecast

Surfer Blood speak about Haiti, "Armchair Activism", consumer consciousness, and more.

Taken from the Causecast website:

"Causecast, dubbed 'a one stop philanthropy shop' by TechCrunch, is a platform where media, philanthropy, social networking, entertainment and education converge to serve a greater purpose.

People want to do good, want to be inspired, and want to inspire others to join them in giving back. Causecast makes this easy by providing users with means to CONNECT with people, leaders, charities, nonprofit organizations, and brands that inspire them"

Swimming Field

Ralph Guinta put Memory Tape's "Swimming Field" to some 16 mm footage projected and filmed.

Maybe if I put this out there in words it will come to be quicker. Ralph Guinta and his brother ae moving to Orlando to start a band with our friend Eamon Ford and some other friends. They've been playing together for a long time and it really needs to come together; they make some of the best jams I've heard.

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myspace/ralphguinta

The Dewars

Finally the Dewars have some music online. They've been playing shows for a few years now with different configurations of friends and family and are now getting things together to share with people. I've watched "Pedophile Pete" evolve over the years and it's really cool to hear the completed song.

The Dewars - Pedophile Pete

From what I know Anthony And Zachary are to release an album called "Songs from the Neverglades"; they've given a several disc collection of demos to a small group of people and will hopefully have the final thing for the rest of us very soon.


myspace/thedewars

Dark Sea Of Awareness

Last Monday and a Friday or two ago we played with Dark Sea of Awareness; it's the name of Steve Head from Winter Park, he just toured with Attached Hands, Emily Reo, Rabbit Punch, and Michael Parallax, and he's coming to West Palm Beach today to play at Propaganda with Sumsun, Hear Hums, and the rest of the bands listed above.

The two sets I saw seemed to give me a very different feeling but strangely enough with pretty much the same melodies and equipment. I'm really not sure if Dark Sea's sets are improved but the performance each time has been an interesting experience that I can really fall into.

Dark Sea Of Awareness' self titled album is similar to the live experience but definitely more detailed, sometimes falling more toward guitar-based, but usually electronic and ambient. It's really clear and defined, yet spacey and atmospheric. You decide the images it makes for you.


Dark Sea Of Awareness - Sidpa Bardo
Dark Sea Of Awareness - Untitled Sampling


myspace/darkseaofawareness
download/darkseaofawareness

Deaf Country

Somewhere out there between spacey bedroom mixes and electropop music there is Deaf Country. It is the project of this dude Grant from Boston---Electro bit sounds and water delays, the vocals and drums and synths all blend together in a really nice way----He has a really cool remix of Broken Social Scene's "Anthems for a 17 Year-Old Girl on his myspace page definitely worth checking out. If you liked Oh Fortuna or Magic Man this may be for you.


Deaf Country - The Sound Is The Sound

Grant describes Deaf Country with...


".. if autotune takes the soul out of a song, then that's what i want. i'm grant, aka deaf country. the name came to me in a dream, i think. i'm really good at grilling food. my interests include frost, echoey stairwells, and gold. i make all this music to have fun in my room. thank you all all all "

Deaf Country's video for "To Have and Have Not"





myspace/deafcountry
download/deafcountry

Farms

Farms is the project of two guys named Ben and Andy from Wisconsin. We met them at Total Bummer, really awesome guys. On their myspace they are described in this way:

One member of FARMS has a fully functional synthesizer in his head and holds his mouth a little open like a third ear. One member of FARMS is a fucking 'showboat' who works drums like a middle schooler trying to show an older girl his 'passion' or how good he is at making out. One is a pleasant, video game psychic and one applies corporeal metaphors to like everything, and then smiles. FARMS is a Wisconsin band, because sometimes there is nothing else to do here/there than take drugs and go into woods or drive on interstates. They play in a basement with a coal chute and a bat. They are part of Δ collective.


They've just released a video for their song "We Gotta Box Of White Tape Snakes" and they are in the process of booking a month long east coast tour in June.




myspace/farms