Panda Bear - You Can Count On Me (The Get Remix)

Edwin Jantunen makes electronic music and remixes under the name The Get. Last year he made a remix to our song Asipop. He assisted in starting Lush Haus (a free door experimental dance night at Propaganda in Lake Worth, Florida) with best bud Judson Rodgers who you may know as Sumsun. Edwin now performs live with Sumsun as well. Make sure to catch one of Sumsun and Oh Fortuna shows on their tour together this May. With Panda Bear's new album Tomboy streaming on NPR, and a new interview with Pitchfork, the timing for this remix couldn't be better; The Get's remix of "You Can Count On Me" was uploaded only several hours ago to SoundCloud. The keyboard texture and melody reminds me a lot of Sumsun's collaboration with Spirit Tramp "Tarantula" with some of The Get's signature beats on top. Panda Bear - You Can Count On Me (The Get Remix)

For more remixes and jams, check out The Get's Soundcloud, and check out an interview with The Get from the series Glimpses of the South Florida Scene done by Monica Uszerowicz for New Times. soundcloud/get facebook/get interview/get

Wingsuit

Wingsuit is an indie band headed by Josh Saul based out of Tallahassee, Florida. The band captures that blissfully melodic guitar and vocal aspect of the Dirty Projectors' most recent works, but with a digestable tameness that keeps one at peace. The songs actively progress with multiple sections per song composed of interchangable elements of electric and acoustic guitar, male and female vocals, bass and percussive instruments. Juice #6 is the only instrumental from the debut EP A Few Thousand Days, where the band explores a more tropical setting. The six-song release comes to resolution with the last half of Green, a very mellow lull like a scattered mind made dormant by the state of eternal sleep.

Wingsuit - Tower Above The Sea

Wingsuit - Juice #6

Below is an early performance of the song "Mother Love" filmed at a house show where Wingsuit performed as a smaller band. Their latest perfomance at Total Bummer 2011 in Tallahassee featured upwards of five members.

Wingsuit shares members of Werepossum, Moonlasso, and Aircraft which all approach melodic indie music in different ways. It's awesome to see these guys in different configurations, producing a lot of quality music. This is a talented group of Tallahassee artists to be paying attention to in 2011. Download Wingsuit's A Few Thousand Days EP for free on bandcamp.

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Mutual Benefit

From Austin, currently based in Boston, Mutual Benefit is a projected headed by Jordan Lee.

On bandcamp, I Saw The Sea is described as:

"A lot of songs have been written about the ocean and now my landlocked brain finally understands why. In those waves I saw beauty, chaos, nothing, infinity. It was overwhelming. We set off to make a nautical funeral of sorts or perhaps a celebration of all things eventually turning to sand. A wabi-sabi beach album for the infinite ocean."

Some of the best textured sounds I've heard. I love the magical world these sounds put you in. At times there is an instant familiarity of structure with a main melody to follow and vocals on top, and at other times there are is a blanket of cosmic glitter in a sonic collage of euphoria.

Mutual Benefit - Animal Desk Mask

Mutual Benefit - Dust

Jordan also runs Kasette Klub, a digital/cassette label. Stream some of Kassette Klub's releases on bandcamp. Also from Kassette Klub, check out Holy Spirits.

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Levek Interview From Late 2010

David and Trayer from Levek get interviewed by a UF student. The video is 10 minutes long and gives interesting insight into the band.

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Jane Jane Pollock New Self-Title Release

Tallahasee's Jane Jane Pollock has just released a new self-titled album. They played these songs at the Farside this weekend during Total Bummer. With so many bands playing a day, and Jane Jane Pollock being the closing act, they didn't perform until 4:30 am. Their performance was worth the wait. The newly expanded configuration as a five-piece delievered haunting yet upbeat compositions which I found to be characterized by a level of uniqueness that isn't achieved by trying to completely denounce conventional structure, instead holding a relatable form that exists in it's own world.

On bandcamp you can stream four songs from the new album. For more info on Jane Jane Pollock and two songs from their album Tar, check out a previous post on the band.

Angela Jones recently interviewed Jane Jane Pollock on Lighthouse Music's bus after a show during Art Walk. The band discusses their formation, the origin of the band name, their words on their own sound, their overall process, goals and more.

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Arches

Arches is an indie rock band from Philadelphia creating laid back beach melodies where guitar drums and vocals swim together in reverb.

Arches - Headlights

Below is the video to Arches' "Wide Awake". Landscapes and cosmos, it looks like a video camera filming a TV playing old VHS tapes, really gluing the whole video together and making it flow as one consistent piece as opposed to a collection of unrelated clips. It is very soothing to watch especially set to Arches' tunes.
Arches has launched a Kickstarter fundraiser to help fund the release of "Wide Awake" to be released on vinyl.
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Total Bummer 2.0 This Weekend

Total Bummer is coming up this weekend; this year it will be in Tallahassee, Florida. Over 70 bands are playing this year at three different venues. I've listed the current schedule for times, but you'll have to check out this linked document for the most up-to-date schedule (which also shows which venue each band is playing at).

Pre-sale Weekend Pass----- $20
Weekend Pass------------$25
Day Pass----------------$15
Show Pass---------------$7 or $10 (price depends on the show/how many bands are playing)

FRIDAY at WAREHOUSE, FARSIDE, BOOKMINE

SPIRIT TRAMP

5:00-5:20

YOU’RE SO COOL

5:30-5:50


TRANSMUTEO

6:10-6:30

MANNATEAS

6:40-7:00

LANGTRY

7:10-7:35

IRONING

7:45-8:05

OFF BALANCE ATLAS

8:00-8:20

MC(2)

8:30-8:50

GREAT BEER

9:05-9:30
LINUS

9:00-9:20

ORCHAL & VIR

9:40-10:05
DICKKICKER

9:35-9:55

BIRDFEEDER

10:15-10:45
PLASTIC PLASTIC

10:05-10:25

MICHAEL PARALLAX

11:00-11:30
LITTLE LEAGUE

10:40-11:00

RICH AUCOIN

11:50-12:20
JACQUELIN SUSKIN

11:05-11:25

Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt

12:30-1:00
ROAMER

11:35-11:55

FEVER

12:05-12:25

GRANDCHILDREN

12:35-12:55

DIET COKEHEADS

1:05-1:35

BRAINSTORM

1:45-2:05



SATURDAY at FARSIDE, BOOKMINE (& Downstairs)

THRESHING

3:00-3:25

HOWLING OWLS

3:35-3:55

HERMIT THRUSHES

4:05-4:25

MAXIMINO

5:00-5:20
THIS OLD MACHINE

4:35-5:00

Phillip Seymour Hoffman

5:30-5:50
JUMMMBBLES

5:10-5:30

LEVEK JR

6:00-6:20
ORCHARD THIEF

5:40-6:05

EMILY REO

6:30-6:50
WOODTHRUSHES

6:15-6:40

AIRCRAFT

7:00-7:20

WEREPOSSOM

7:30-7:50

WOWSER BOWSER

8:05-8:25
KA PLAA

8:00-8:20

PRAYTHING

8:35-8:55
BLACK CLOUD

8:30-8:50

BIRTHDAYS

9:05-9:30
THE BEAUVILLES

9:05-9:25

WEEKENDS

9:40-10:05
THE DEWARS

9:35-10:00


WOSET

10:10-10:45

PRIMITIVE BOYS

11:00-11:20
GUY HARVEY

11:00-11:30

HOLIDAY SHORES

11:30-11:50

WEIRD WIVES

12:00-12:20

BUBBLY MOMMY GUN

12:25-12:45

QUIET HOOVES

1:00-1:25

JANE JANE POLLOCK

1:35-2:00



SUNDAY at WAREHOUSE, FARSIDE , BOOKMINE

GENTEL

4:30-4:50

ALIEN HOUSE

5:00-5:20


MEMEMORMEE

5:30-5:55

P. REX & the Sweet LP’s

5:00-5:20
YATAGARASU

6:05-6:25

JAMES BONDAGE

5:30-5:50
BUBBLEGUM OCTOPUS

6:35-6:55

CONTINUER

6:05-6:25
TECHNOBOX

7:05-7:25

WINGSUIT

6:40-7:00
ATTACHEDHANDS

8:15-8:35

MOONLASSO

7:15-7:35

AFTER THE BOMB BABY

7:30-7:50
Le BLORR

7:40-8:00


KODAK TO GRAPH

8:05-8:25
HEAR HUMS

8:10-8:30


JAZZ PRISON

8:45-9:00
GHOST FIELDS

8:40-9:00

REAL CHEESE

9:00-9:20
LOUD VALLEY

9:15-9:35

DARK SEA of AWARENESS

9:35-9:55
TELETHON

9:50-10:10

SUMSUN

10:10-10:30
ANR

10:20-10:50

LIGHTHOUSE MUSIC

10:45-11:10

REPTAR

11:25-11:50

OH FORTUNA

12:05-12:30

GOBBLE GOBBLE

12:45-1:10

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