I’m a music fan just like you, with a bit of OCD I think, also just like you.
I’m writing to you about one of my favorite bands. They’re called The Lightning Bug Situation.
The main guy in the group is also Jolie Holland’s guitar player and is all over her last three albums. He’s the real deal. Now I know you don’t like MySpace but this page actually has no music on it yet:
Yes, I swear there is a correlation just like frickin Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz and I think once the new album comes out AND you listen to it while watching the 1972 Solaris with the sound off you will be blown away. Much like I was. And maybe by the time the album comes out the band will admit to there actually being a correlation–I mean, c’mon–there totally is!
Thanks for reading, you’ve got a superb blog.
Brent
Comment By: The Wiz
February 20th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Ek -
There is this guy I know who just cut an EP. I work with him. Really ought to check him out. He’s a 1 man musical band. He’s cut the whole EP solo. The name he goes by is Astrobotica Supra’ De Nova. Google it. It’s just simply music. No lyrics, but still something incredible about it.
don’t know how else to say this… but i’ve been listening to can
since 14 (24 now) and i finally made something i think is good enough.
and i figured you might dig it.
I am a novice to WordPress. I am setting one up for an 11th grade English class. 2 questions have arisen from the teacher that I cannot anwser. How do I load pictures to the site, is there any way to comment on a comment to get a thread going between say 2 or 3 students. Where is a good place to go to find out this info for someone who is WP challenged.
The New Lou Reeds have been making some waves with “Bury Me with My Bong”. This is NOT a drug glorification song – one look at the band and the message is clear “kids, stay away from drugs!”
Julian Cope says:
I gots to say the English summer got off to an appalling start what with the downpours throughout the Solstice and the iron gauntlet with which the fuzz chose to police Glastonbury and Avebury. Even for we locals, Avebury was impenetrable as hoards of boys in blue did everything in their power (and more) to keep ye heathens at bay. Instead of hanging at the stones with the revellers, I chose to stay in and get para-munted with The New Lou Reeds’ amazing ‘Bury Me With My Bong’ playing on endless rotation.
I stumbled across your blog this morning. I love it. I like how you write. I like that you like covers, I love covers. I like that you love boobs. Good for you. Have a great weekend and I added you to my RSS feed so I can get a daily dose of lots of stuff I like.
I’ve been looking for good BLOG sites lately and came across yours today, through a link on Doctor Mooneys 115th Dream. Just wanted to say how much I like it and thanks for the great tunes. You’ve got a lot of people I’m into on here, keep up the good work,
Rog
i downloaded the J Dilla/Q-Tip mix from your front page and was wondering what application would play it? it’s an .rar? file? i’m sure i’m just ignorant. can you help me out?
joe.
MF Doom should do mad shit with supernatural both your styles are so amazing i would love nothing more than to see you two colab on an epic album thats never heard before. i think it would be idalized for years to come! i love your styles, dank MC’s!!!
quite a nice little site with quite a few bands i haven’t heard of. that is a good thing. i have
the hardest time listening to any type of mainstream music. I see there are bands that i do like myself, Modest Mouse , The Pixies, and The EEL’s. favorite EEL’s song used to be
I Like Birds. I guess that must be the perv in me., but after watching The Great White i must say that I Want to Protect You is pretty good too.
keep up the good work
Comment By: konky splee
February 9th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Hey, just wanted to let you know about this band from DC/NY, Deleted Scenes. It’s pop-awesome:
Dude, I’ve been getting lots of e-mails from you, too. I don’t do myspace and I only review albums. I’ve sent you my submission criteria, and that’s the best way to get to me. I get sent dozens of albums a week, so I can’t review everything.
Comment By: nightowl
March 17th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
hall and oates would be jealous
take me away + + (sendspace.com/file/hgr24d)
myspace.com/smalldefenses
you seriously gotta check these guys out… this band is outta control:
A Life of Science
myspace.com/alifeofscience
Comment By: Phil Rohrer
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I would love to hear your thoughts on The Historic’s new album, “Addressing a Mighty Wind”. I was wondering if you could send me your submission criteria or just check out tracks from the album at http://www.sonicbids.com/thehistoric or on myspace if you’d prefer? I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!
Would the music of Hannah Speirs kind of interest you at all ?
Her sound is kind of like Sufjan Stevens,Feist and Sarah McLaughlin combined..she is only 18 btw..
Her EP The View was officially launched quietly in mid August this year 2009
I am seriously looking for any kind of feedback and an honest review of her music would be cool.
If you’re gonna try to submit to my blog, at least figure out where you are.
Comment By: Mike
November 5th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Ekko,
My name is Mike Corbett, and I am the lead singer of Midnight Spin. We are a Williamsburg, Brooklyn rock band who have been touring around the country these past few months in support of our debut EP, Through the Mojo Wire. The album was produced by our friend Nic Hard (The Bravery), and we are currently working on our first-ever music video for our debut single, In the Air (Revival). We have upcoming shows at the Mercury Lounge this Sunday and at Santos Party House on December 11. I am writing in the hopes that you would give our music a listen and a possible review, as we are looking for as many reviews as possible in our run-up to our SXSW application. Keep up the good work, you can find links to our EPK and MySpace below:
I’ll keep it short and sweet! I HATE YOU because you’re SO MUCH DOPER THAN ME!!
YOUR BLOG IS DOPE! (mine sucks), Your super hero game is on point (i’m a Gambit fan myself), Not to mention you rep NY…..I LOVE THAT PLACE (i’m from Pittsburgh, PA…don’t hate)!
Hey,
We are Our Husband. We have just released our first single, titled “Villages”.
It marks the first release from our yet to be named album. We hope to
have it finished by the end of the year.
Here’s a little about us -
After moving from cold, cold Melbourne Nathaniel (Fire! Santa Rosa,
Fire! formed Our Husband with Freya, (Bing goes to Monaco) an
established musician within the Adelaide “Tweed Pop” scene. With
intentions to stray from the currently popular “Doe eyed” genre of
folk, Our Husband write decisively more abrasive pop songs with
country and soft rock influence.
My name is Thomas DeWitt, and I am writing this email in order to bring attention to a brand new webcomic, that I have been reading as of late that I think is really great. The name of the webcomic is Wayward Sons , and it is written By Benny Powell with art by Weilin Yang.
The story is described as follows:
Every fairy tale, every legend, every myth we’ve ever believed was wrong. There are no ancient all-powerful gods. Gilgamesh, Hercules, Thor, Osiris and even King Arthur, however, were all too real.
Today, they walk among us. Rudderless, they each have their own agendas. All save a few that have seen the future – a future that would receive its salvation, not through the works of the risen warriors; but their wayward children.
The wayward sons are a group of young adults who discover that their parents are immortal aliens, once worshiped as the gods of the ancient world. Now they must defeat them to save humanity.
The Wayward Sons story is also in development by Red Giant Media/Intrinsic Value films as a motion picture please stop by and give this page a look
I made this infographic that shows which superpowers are the most (and least) popular among the heroes of the Marvel and DC universes. If you like it, feel free to use it on your site: http://ow.ly/21phS
Hi! My name is Gerald Edward and I’m an independent artist from NJ and I just released my full length debut this year. It’s wide mix of styles- rock, folk, pop. I’d like to see if you are interested in reviewing it.
You can check it out at my bandcamp page: geraldedward.bandcamp.com
If you’d like, I can send you the free download code for the album. Hope to hear from you soon!
I was wondering if you’d be willing to review my comic made exclusively for the iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch. I can either send you promocodes to download the first 2 issues for free, or I can email you PDF’s of the first 2 issues as they would appear on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
So far I’ve approached 4 small review sites, and got 4 wicked reviews, so I’m trying my luck with bigger fish (you).
Our Comic is called WMDs, as in Weapons of Mass Destruction. Its about a super-powered former assassin seeking redemption (Linda Fuentes) who joins the US government’s OSHC (Office of Super Human Control) to try to stop the proliferation of superhuman WMDs.
I listen to all submissions of entire albums. However, with rare exceptions I will not review material protected by the RIAA--I will do so only when the band is small, top notch, and provides legal links to mp3s. So Sony, BMG, etc., don't start sending me crap. I'm not interested.
I will review only submissions that I can recommend. I'm not here to do negative reviews.
Click here to tell me to remove something. I'll take it down within 24 hours.
WHAT IS INDIE MUSIC?
An independent record label (or indie record label) is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels.
"Berkeley Place" has been my blog since 2000, at various sites.
Berkeley Place is also 6 blocks of Brooklyn real estate, emerging from Sackett St. and ending at Banana Hill, a small park that grows a foot each year from dog poop and dead rats. Though its denizens have gotten wealthier over the decades, Berkeley Place still houses folks of all backgrounds with interests in, well, everything.
https://sites.google.com/a/mogmusicnetwork.com/mmn-quantcast-tag/
Comment By: brent murphy
February 20th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Hello
I’m a music fan just like you, with a bit of OCD I think, also just like you.
I’m writing to you about one of my favorite bands. They’re called The Lightning Bug Situation.
The main guy in the group is also Jolie Holland’s guitar player and is all over her last three albums. He’s the real deal. Now I know you don’t like MySpace but this page actually has no music on it yet:
http://www.myspace.com/thesolarisbugsituation
Yes, I swear there is a correlation just like frickin Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz and I think once the new album comes out AND you listen to it while watching the 1972 Solaris with the sound off you will be blown away. Much like I was. And maybe by the time the album comes out the band will admit to there actually being a correlation–I mean, c’mon–there totally is!
Thanks for reading, you’ve got a superb blog.
Brent
Comment By: The Wiz
February 20th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Ek -
There is this guy I know who just cut an EP. I work with him. Really ought to check him out. He’s a 1 man musical band. He’s cut the whole EP solo. The name he goes by is Astrobotica Supra’ De Nova. Google it. It’s just simply music. No lyrics, but still something incredible about it.
Signed,
The Wiz
Comment By: Tago-Mago
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
don’t know how else to say this… but i’ve been listening to can
since 14 (24 now) and i finally made something i think is good enough.
and i figured you might dig it.
it’s here: http://tago-mago.net/music.htm
remixes of the streets, marvin gaye, mos def, b-52′s, cocteau twins, more
hope you like it
Comment By: chip perkins
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I am a novice to WordPress. I am setting one up for an 11th grade English class. 2 questions have arisen from the teacher that I cannot anwser. How do I load pictures to the site, is there any way to comment on a comment to get a thread going between say 2 or 3 students. Where is a good place to go to find out this info for someone who is WP challenged.
Comment By: ekko
June 12th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Chip-
I didn’t answer your questions before, did I?
There’s a button to upload pictures on the page when you are posting.
As for comments, you just commented and now I’m commenting. Not sure exactly what you mean.
Comment By: Paul Murphy
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
My name is Paul and I and a couple of other guys run Exit Stencil Recordings in Cleveland. Our website is http://www.exitstencil.org
We are particularly excited about a couple of our bands -
Blake Miller who is young but incredibly prolific. His music gets better every day it seems.
http://www.myspace.com/burntape try “long hair” this will be on his next release.
The New Lou Reeds have been making some waves with “Bury Me with My Bong”. This is NOT a drug glorification song – one look at the band and the message is clear “kids, stay away from drugs!”
http://www.myspace.com/thenewloureeds
Julian Cope says:
I gots to say the English summer got off to an appalling start what with the downpours throughout the Solstice and the iron gauntlet with which the fuzz chose to police Glastonbury and Avebury. Even for we locals, Avebury was impenetrable as hoards of boys in blue did everything in their power (and more) to keep ye heathens at bay. Instead of hanging at the stones with the revellers, I chose to stay in and get para-munted with The New Lou Reeds’ amazing ‘Bury Me With My Bong’ playing on endless rotation.
Paul Murphy
Comment By: Christine
July 27th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I stumbled across your blog this morning. I love it. I like how you write. I like that you like covers, I love covers. I like that you love boobs. Good for you. Have a great weekend and I added you to my RSS feed so I can get a daily dose of lots of stuff I like.
XOXO Christine
Comment By: Rog
September 1st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I’ve been looking for good BLOG sites lately and came across yours today, through a link on Doctor Mooneys 115th Dream. Just wanted to say how much I like it and thanks for the great tunes. You’ve got a lot of people I’m into on here, keep up the good work,
Rog
Comment By: Joe
September 12th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
i downloaded the J Dilla/Q-Tip mix from your front page and was wondering what application would play it? it’s an .rar? file? i’m sure i’m just ignorant. can you help me out?
joe.
Comment By: ekko
September 13th, 2007 at 9:09 am
You need to open the folder with winrar. Google it, you should find it.
Comment By: ER
November 20th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Hey EK,
You gotta listen to this newly formed unsigned band from LA. They are pretty awesome. Let me know what you think.
http://www.myspace.com/crashcutiecrash
Cheers,
-ER
Comment By: sam cole
December 6th, 2007 at 2:39 am
MF Doom should do mad shit with supernatural both your styles are so amazing i would love nothing more than to see you two colab on an epic album thats never heard before. i think it would be idalized for years to come! i love your styles, dank MC’s!!!
Comment By: kevlor
January 17th, 2008 at 6:03 am
quite a nice little site with quite a few bands i haven’t heard of. that is a good thing. i have
the hardest time listening to any type of mainstream music. I see there are bands that i do like myself, Modest Mouse , The Pixies, and The EEL’s. favorite EEL’s song used to be
I Like Birds. I guess that must be the perv in me., but after watching The Great White i must say that I Want to Protect You is pretty good too.
keep up the good work
Comment By: konky splee
February 9th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Hey, just wanted to let you know about this band from DC/NY, Deleted Scenes. It’s pop-awesome:
http://www.myspace.com/deletedscenes
http://www.deletedscenesmusic.com
Comment By: ekko
February 9th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Dude, I’ve been getting lots of e-mails from you, too. I don’t do myspace and I only review albums. I’ve sent you my submission criteria, and that’s the best way to get to me. I get sent dozens of albums a week, so I can’t review everything.
Comment By: nightowl
March 17th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
hall and oates would be jealous
take me away + + (sendspace.com/file/hgr24d)
myspace.com/smalldefenses
Comment By: Cale Tolbert
April 1st, 2009 at 2:36 pm
you seriously gotta check these guys out… this band is outta control:
A Life of Science
myspace.com/alifeofscience
Comment By: Phil Rohrer
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I would love to hear your thoughts on The Historic’s new album, “Addressing a Mighty Wind”. I was wondering if you could send me your submission criteria or just check out tracks from the album at http://www.sonicbids.com/thehistoric or on myspace if you’d prefer? I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!
Comment By: J. Mueller
June 6th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
LOVE the disturbing baby pics.
Comment By: Micah Muzio
June 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
I would love to submit my music for review. You can listen to streaming tracks of all my new songs by clicking the link below. Or just contact me and I will send you whatever you need.
http://www.last.fm/music/Roll+on+Red/Zeros+and+Ones%2C+My+Love
Comment By: iain speirs
September 14th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Dear Friend at The Captains Dead,
Would the music of Hannah Speirs kind of interest you at all ?
Her sound is kind of like Sufjan Stevens,Feist and Sarah McLaughlin combined..she is only 18 btw..
Her EP The View was officially launched quietly in mid August this year 2009
I am seriously looking for any kind of feedback and an honest review of her music would be cool.
Her EP can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/hannahspeirs
Cheers,
Iain Speirs
Comment By: ekko
September 14th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
If you’re gonna try to submit to my blog, at least figure out where you are.
Comment By: Mike
November 5th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Ekko,
My name is Mike Corbett, and I am the lead singer of Midnight Spin. We are a Williamsburg, Brooklyn rock band who have been touring around the country these past few months in support of our debut EP, Through the Mojo Wire. The album was produced by our friend Nic Hard (The Bravery), and we are currently working on our first-ever music video for our debut single, In the Air (Revival). We have upcoming shows at the Mercury Lounge this Sunday and at Santos Party House on December 11. I am writing in the hopes that you would give our music a listen and a possible review, as we are looking for as many reviews as possible in our run-up to our SXSW application. Keep up the good work, you can find links to our EPK and MySpace below:
http://drop.io/midnightspin
http://www.myspace.com/midnightspin
http://www.facebook.com/midnightspin
Comment By: fulhamhads
December 20th, 2009 at 7:28 am
love the site – perfect blend of comics and good music.
Comment By: ekko
December 20th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Thanks.
Comment By: bre
December 30th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
hey great blog! XOXO-bre-_iknowu think i rockonly cause i do
Comment By: NOVA
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:32 am
I’ll keep it short and sweet! I HATE YOU because you’re SO MUCH DOPER THAN ME!!
YOUR BLOG IS DOPE! (mine sucks), Your super hero game is on point (i’m a Gambit fan myself), Not to mention you rep NY…..I LOVE THAT PLACE (i’m from Pittsburgh, PA…don’t hate)!
Can a brotha get a feature??? The name’s: NOVA! Full Album at http://www.novatribe.com
If not….I still hate you. (kidding.) Thanks for reading Ekko!
IT’S CULTURE CRAZY,
NOVA
Comment By: Abe Beame
April 19th, 2010 at 8:43 am
Thanks for the comment. The funny thing is I live on 7th and Flatbush. I just added you to the roll.
Comment By: reddcatt
June 14th, 2010 at 1:39 am
Hey,
We are Our Husband. We have just released our first single, titled “Villages”.
It marks the first release from our yet to be named album. We hope to
have it finished by the end of the year.
Here’s a little about us -
After moving from cold, cold Melbourne Nathaniel (Fire! Santa Rosa,
Fire! formed Our Husband with Freya, (Bing goes to Monaco) an
established musician within the Adelaide “Tweed Pop” scene. With
intentions to stray from the currently popular “Doe eyed” genre of
folk, Our Husband write decisively more abrasive pop songs with
country and soft rock influence.
Love
Nathaniel & Freya.
http://www.myspace.com/weareourhusband
Comment By: Thomas DeWitt
June 17th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
My name is Thomas DeWitt, and I am writing this email in order to bring attention to a brand new webcomic, that I have been reading as of late that I think is really great. The name of the webcomic is Wayward Sons , and it is written By Benny Powell with art by Weilin Yang.
The story is described as follows:
Every fairy tale, every legend, every myth we’ve ever believed was wrong. There are no ancient all-powerful gods. Gilgamesh, Hercules, Thor, Osiris and even King Arthur, however, were all too real.
Today, they walk among us. Rudderless, they each have their own agendas. All save a few that have seen the future – a future that would receive its salvation, not through the works of the risen warriors; but their wayward children.
The wayward sons are a group of young adults who discover that their parents are immortal aliens, once worshiped as the gods of the ancient world. Now they must defeat them to save humanity.
The Wayward Sons story is also in development by Red Giant Media/Intrinsic Value films as a motion picture please stop by and give this page a look
Comment By: Marcus V
June 21st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
I made this infographic that shows which superpowers are the most (and least) popular among the heroes of the Marvel and DC universes. If you like it, feel free to use it on your site: http://ow.ly/21phS
Comment By: Gerald Edward
August 5th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Hi! My name is Gerald Edward and I’m an independent artist from NJ and I just released my full length debut this year. It’s wide mix of styles- rock, folk, pop. I’d like to see if you are interested in reviewing it.
You can check it out at my bandcamp page: geraldedward.bandcamp.com
If you’d like, I can send you the free download code for the album. Hope to hear from you soon!
Comment By: ekko
August 6th, 2010 at 5:46 am
Sure. Send it along.
Comment By: Manoj Rao
August 26th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Hi!
I was wondering if you’d be willing to review my comic made exclusively for the iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch. I can either send you promocodes to download the first 2 issues for free, or I can email you PDF’s of the first 2 issues as they would appear on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
So far I’ve approached 4 small review sites, and got 4 wicked reviews, so I’m trying my luck with bigger fish (you).
Our Comic is called WMDs, as in Weapons of Mass Destruction. Its about a super-powered former assassin seeking redemption (Linda Fuentes) who joins the US government’s OSHC (Office of Super Human Control) to try to stop the proliferation of superhuman WMDs.
You can checkout our video trailers on website is http://www.wmdsthecomic.com
We’re also on twitter, facebook and YouTube.
Thanks for checking it out. Let me know
Manoj