Bear in Heaven Pitchfork Special

Three Blind Wolves

So last night i was on my usual travels and caught Three Blind Wolves at Oporto. The band had traveled down from Glasgow, almost not making the gig when their van blew up just out of their hometown. Really impressed me, if you're into stuff like Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleet Foxes, Neil Young, Ryan Adams, Frightened Rabbit (well a mix of a lot of stuff) they might well be your thing.

Anyway the band are in Leeds at Live at Leeds on May 1st to check out again and their are a some limited copies of their new album on the DTTR shop for a fiver, bargain!

FREE DOWNLOAD MP3 - Three Blind Wolves - Emily Rose
VISIT MYSPACE - http://www.myspace.com/threeblindwolves
PURCHASE - Three Blind Wolves - The Sound Of The Storm

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DTTR RADIO - Local Natives Special

Here is the latest of the Dance To The Radio LSRFM shows featuring an interview with Local Natives.

Dance To The Radio On Lsrfm - Show 5 by Dance To The Radio on Mixcloud

Still Occupied, Though You Forget. Different Colours, Diffrent Shades.

2010 is the year Dance To The Radio, the Leeds independent label turns 5 years old. To celebrate this fact the label is reuniting some of the class of 2005 who appeared on the first Dance To The Radio release, Dance To The Radio : Leeds (DTTR002), with a new school of Dance To The Radio bands.

Dance To The Radio : Still Occupied Though You Forget features new material from The Sunshine Underground, Honour Before Glory (Whiskas / ¡Forward, Russia!) plus an exclusive preview of new material from I Like Trains. Joining the old guard will be a mix of the current Dance To The Radio roster and a selection of our favourite bands from around the world with Paul Thomas Saunders, Rose Elinor Dougall, Bear In Heaven, Club Smith, Three Trapped Tigers, Oberhofer, Bear Hands and (The) Tony Castles joining the party

Released on a glorious 12” picture disc the label will be joining the worldwide celebrations for Record Store Day. Dance To The Radio has also promised £2 of every 12” record sold through the DTTR store will go to the UNICEF, helping out with the current world disasters.

Dance To The Radio : Still Occupied Though You Forget is released on very limited 12” (with a code to download the tracks) on Saturday April 17th 2010.

FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD - Three Trapped Tigers - 11

PRE-ORDER (LIMITED) - DANCE TO THE RADIO : Still Occupied Though You Forget

SIDE A
1. Oberhofer - AWY FRM U
2. Bear In Heaven - Ultimate Satisfaction
3. Club Smith - Lament
4. Three Trapped Tigers - 11 (Edit)
5. I Like Trains - When We Were Kings
6. Bear Hands - High Society

SIDE B
1. (The) Tony Castles - Adequate Sheen
2. Just Handshakes (We’re British) - Hold Your Breath
3. Honour Before Glory - Lions
4. Paul Thomas Saunders - The Death Of A Sports Personality
5. Rose Elinor Dougall - Third Attempt (Version)
6. Blood Oranges - This Is Not About Kat (Convincing Everyone)
7. The Sunshine Underground - We’ve Always Been Your Friends (Alt. Version)

Drink Up Buttercup Sign to Dance To The Radio for UK

Drink Up Buttercup // Born and Thrown on a Hook EPK from Drink Up Buttercup on Vimeo.

Drink Up Buttercup may hail from Philadelphia but the geography of their debut album “Born & Thrown On A Hook” is less easily located on a physical map. It’s an occasionally surreal mythology filled with tales of hopelessly flawed characters, star-crossed lovers, drunks, fairy tales & bad trips. It exists in a world touched upon previously by Tom Waits, Hans Christian Anderson and Lloyd Kaufman while musically it follows a direct lineage of classic song writing: Bowie, The Beatles & The Beach Boys late 60s lysergia, early Roxy Music, Sabbath’s bass heavy pulse & the crescendos of Arcade Fire.

Recorded meticulously throughout 2009 by Bill Moriarty (Dr Dog / Man Man) and mixed by Rusty Santos (Animal Collective / Owen Pallett) it perfectly balances consistently catchy melodies with the raw energy of their trashcan pounding live show.

Pre-Order 'Born And Thrown On A Hook' for £8
FREE DOWNLOAD MP3 - 'Mr Pie Eyes'

1. SEASICKNESS PILLS
2. ANIMATE THE HANGTIME
3. YOUNG LADIES
4. DOGGY HEAD
5. EVEN THINK
6. GODS AND GENTLEMEN
7. LOVERS PLAY DEAD
8. WHO SPILLED THE BEAKER
9. HEAVY HAND
10. PINK SUNSHINE
11. VIETNAM WALTZ
12. SOSEY AND DOSEY
13. MR. PIE EYES
14. MAESTRO MONSIGNOR

“every song is a highlight” - The Deli Magazine

"Psychedelic without being cheesy, this band sounds like a sinister carnival." - NPR All Songs Considered

“a rollicking disc of smart-pop: a collection of energetically neurotic psychedelic/glam/art rock packed with stuttering circus-y keyboards” Blogcritics

“They have a spinning circus vibe and shout out loud tendency a la Arcade Fire (but in a very different, less emotionally heavy way)” Stereogum

Rose Elinor Dougall

So i've been so slack at using this thing, sorry. Anyway for those out the loop on Dance To The Radio we are now working with a fantastic artist called 'Rose Elinor Dougall.' Rose used to be in The Pipettes some time ago but left to start work on solo material. Her debut album Without Why is coming out later in the year but here are a few videos from her at SXSW festival in Austin this year.

Rose's new single 'Find Me Out' is released on May 3rd and you can pre-order it here - http://dancetotheradio.bigcartel.com/

FREE MP3 - 'Static Saturday' (from Singles 1,2,3 Mini Album)

Watch out for a exclusive track from Rose Elinor Dougall on the Dance To The Radio 5th Birthday compilation 'Still Occupied Though You Forget'





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Dance To The Radio on LSRFM Streaming

So we can now stream you the shows and the tracklistings. Here you go...

Dance To The Radio On Lsrfm - Show 5 by Dance To The Radio on Mixcloud

Dance To The Radio On Lsrfm - Show 4 by Dance To The Radio on Mixcloud

Dance To The Radio On Lsrfm - Show 3 by Dance To The Radio on Mixcloud

Dance To The Radio On Lsrfm - Show 2 by Dance To The Radio on Mixcloud

Dance To The Radio On Lsrfm - Show 1 by Dance To The Radio on Mixcloud

DTTR RADIO SHOWS

So Dance To The Radio launched a radio show this month on Leeds Student Radio. The show has so far included exclusive interviews with Esben and the Witch, Honour Before Glory (Whiskas / ¡Forward, Russia!), Drink Up Buttercup, The Sunshine Underground & The Tony Castles

Please feel free to download the previous 2 episodes of the show and listen in to all future episodes which go out live from 21:00 - 22:00 GMT on Leeds Student Radio. If you miss a show worry not you'll be able to catch up on here.

EPISODE ONE (Originally Broadcast 4th February 2010)

New Band Of The Week - Drink Up Buttercup

Interview - Honour Before Glory

1. Chickenhawk – I Hate This, Do You Like It?
2. The Sunshine Underground – We’ve Always Been Your Friends
3. Oberhofer – Away FRM U
4. Bear In Heaven – Ultimate Satisfaction
5. Honour Before Glory – Lions
6. Three Trapped Tigers – 11
7. Drink Up Buttercup – Even Think
8. Yeasayer – Ambling Amp (from Crash Records 'Album Of The Week' Odd Blood)
9. Esben and the Witch – Skeleton Swoon

DOWNLOAD LINK

EPISODE TWO (Originally Broadcast 11th February 2010)

New Band Of The Week - The Tony Castles

Interview - Esben And The Witch

1. Keepaway - Yellow Wings
2. Wild Beasts - We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues
3. Paul Thomas Saunders - Getting Loose With The Obtuse
4. The Tony Castles - Adiquate Sheen
5. The Middle East - Blood
Esben and the Witch Interview pt 1
6. Esben and the Witch - Lucia, At The Precipice
Esben and the Witch Interview pt 2
7. These Monsters - Call Me Dragon
8. Sky Larkin - Smarts
9. Sam Airey - Row Upon Row
10. Snowden - Black Eyes (Le Castle Vania Remix)

DOWNLOAD LINK

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Dance To The Radio Presents... BEAR IN HEAVEN

After the AMAZING Esben and The Witch gig, Dance To The Radio is teaming up with The Brudenell Social Club to start the celebrations for Dance To The Radio's 5th birthday and put on one of our favourite bands from Brooklyn, New York.

BEAR IN HEAVEN
http://www.myspace.com/bearinheaven



Out of the bed of bands that gave you Grizzly Bear and Yeasayer, Bear In Heaven are a Brooklyn-based rock band formed by Jon Philpot. The sound of the band incorporates influences from psychedelic music, electronic music and krautrock. The band are set to release their current album 'Beast Rest Forth Mouth' in the UK this spring. The album came out to rapturous aplause in the US, through Hometapes, last autumn with Pitchfork giving the album the 'best new music award'.

"Bear in Heaven's greatest trick is creating music that evokes the sort of physicality and scope that could soundtrack a Hollywood film, but also works equally well at stirring up intimate bodily passion"

Rough Trade have also just recently given Bear In Heaven their 'Album Of The Week'

Bear In Heaven will tour the US this Spring alongside Cymbals Eat Guitars, including a stop at SXSW, before heading to Europe for the very first time. We absolutely love this band, have a listen to the album below at either Last.FM or Spotifty and get a free download of Wholehearted Mess.

LISTEN TO BEAR IN HEAVEN - BEAST REST FORTH MOUTH ON SPOTIFY

LISTEN TO BEAR IN HEAVEN - BEAST REST FORTH MOUTH ON LAST.FM

FREE DOWNLOAD - BEAR IN HEAVEN - WHOLEHEARTED MESS

Joining Bear In Heaven on this gig will be....

JUFFAGE
http://www.myspace.com/juffage

Juffage is Jeff T. Smith, a solo sound artist and multi-instrumentalist from Chicago. He is often seen in bars, art galleries, or basements with a band’s worth of instruments.

A recording enthusiast at heart, he has spent time in some of Chicago’s finest studios including Engine (Brian Deck) and Electrical Audio (Steve Albini). Live shows see him coming up with inventive new ways of bringing his multi-layered recordings to the stage. Through the use of cassettes, drums, guitars, and assorted other loop-pedals and gadgets, Juffage creates complex, yet surprising catchy pop songs.

Juffage performances have been compared to a synthesis of Lightning Bolt’s rhythmic ferocity, Radiohead’s lush pop sensibility, King Tubby’s manipulative production, and Andrew Bird’s ability to make a good loop. The result is loud, frantic, and often beautiful.

In 2008, Juffage somehow fit all his music gear into a station wagon and played over 100 shows across the US, before setting off for the UK and Europe. In late July 2009 yet another self-booked U.S. tour of the east-coast and midwest. In September 2009, he moved to Leeds, England.

LISTEN TO JUFFAGE ON LAST.FM

Keep your ears open as more supports will be announced.

At Brudenell Social Club.

Sunday 25th April 2010

Tickets £4 adv from Lunatickets, Jumbo & Crash

TICKET LINK

Dance To The Radio Podcast 1 by dancetotheradio

Dance To The Radio Podcast 1  by  dancetotheradio

DTTR Radio on LSRFM

So this is good news, Dance To The Radio is launching it's own radio show. Every Thursday evening from 9-10pm on LSRFM.com starting THIS THURSDAY (4th Feb).

Tune in at LSRFM.com from Thursday 4th Febraury and from 25th February the show will be going out on 87.7FM in the Leeds Area. For those who miss the show you can download the podcast from the Dance To The Radio website from the Friday where you’ll also be able to see the tunes that we’ve played.

The show will feature tunes, interviews and sessions from some of our favourite bands from around the world plus exclusive competitions.

Too close to the truth....

New Dance To The Radio 4 x 12"

Concluding the current series of the 4 x 12” vinyl compilation series, Dance To The Radio release the final vinyl on February 8th 2010.

4 x 12” Volume 4 features Philadelphians Drink Up Buttercup, Leeds artists Milk White White Teeth and Paul Thomas Saunders plus eclectic Irish outfit Super Extra Bonus Party.

The compilation is available to pre-order as usual from the Dance To The Radio online store but for the first time you can also purchase the digital compilation by itself from Dance To The Radio’s bandcamp page, which is also available now.

4 x 12” Volume 4 follows on from the success of Volume 3 which featured Chickenhawk, Esben and the Witch, Olfar and Airship.

To celebrate the release of the new 12” Dance To The Radio is hosting Esben and the Witch’s first Leeds gig at the Brudenell Social Club on February 9th. Paul Thomas Saunders and Honour Before Glory (Whiskas / ¡Forward, Russia!) will also be playing. Dance To The Radio will also have a stall at the gig with the new 4 x 12” amongst other DTTR goodies.

PURCHASE CD / VINYL / MP3 PACKAGE FROM DANCE TO THE RADIO’S ONLINE STORE (£4.49 + p&p) - http://dancetotheradio.bigcartel.com/product/dance-to-the-radio-4-x-12-volume-4-vinyl-cd-feat-drink-up-buttercup-milk-white-white-teeth-super-ext

PURCHASE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD (MP3 or higher quality) FROM DANCE TO THE RADIO BANDCAMP STORE (£2.99 or 75 pence per track) - http://dancetotheradio.bandcamp.com/

FREE DOWNLOAD There is also a bonus download available for free now. Andrew W.K. (yes the real Andrew W.K.) has remixed Drink Up Buttercup’s track and is available to download for free here - http://www.mediafire.com/?qwmzmua1wen

Tracklisting

Side A
1. Drink Up Buttercup – Even Think ( http://www.myspace.com/drinkupbuttercupband )
2. Milk White White Teeth – The Calendar Will Crawl ( http://www.myspace.com/milkwhitewhiteteeth )

Side B
1. Super Extra Bonus Party (feat. R.S.A.G.) - Who Are You And What Do You Want? ( http://www.myspace.com/superextrabonusparty )
2. Paul Thomas Saunders – Getting Loose With The Obtuse ( http://www.myspace.com/paulthomassaunders )

Drink Up Buttercup:
Originating from Philadelphia, Drink Up Buttercup sound like the bastard sons of Frank Zappa, The Beach Boys and The Beatles with their chaotic psychedelic pop. Their amazing debut album ‘Born and Thrown on a Hook’ is set to drop at the start of 2010

Milk White White Teeth:
Leeds based 8 (yes 8 piece) piece collective Milk White White Teeth formed in December 2008, played Leeds / Reading festival and in general are rather good.

Super Extra Bonus Party:
Eclectic Irish outfit teamed up with R.S.A.G to give us an exclusive remix of a song from the acclaimed album Night Horses, which draws from a wide palette of hip hop, rock, folk, electronica and pop.

Paul Thomas Saunders:
Leeds based songsmith Paul Thomas Saunders has just come of the back of a UK tour with fellow DTTR friend Blue Roses. Comparisons have been given to Nick Drake & Leonard Cohen.