What's this i hear about a new Akron/Family?

Crazy Brooklynites (and in this intrepid news reporter’s opinion, one of the best bands making music right now) Akron/Family have set September 25 as the release date for their new “album”, Meek Warrior. Why the brackets? Well according to reports, it’s a little longer than an EP, but not quite as long as a normal album, so we’re not quite sure how to categorize it. Maybe SLEP for Slightly Longer Extended Play. Maybe not…

Anyhow, we could sit here and give you all the details concerning the recording process, what to expect, etc. etc. Instead, we’re going to give you an account from Akron/Family’s own Seth Olinsky:

“These songs were written about a year ago by individual band members and then hashed out as a band together on the road in hotels and in the van the few weeks prior to the studio time in Chicago, while we were all freezing in the winter hinterlands of Canada, wheezing with bronchitis…The recording in Chicago was nuts. We played in Iowa City Monday night. Then drove all that night, slept 2 hours on the corner of 23rd and Michigan in Chicago outside the studio in the van. Then started setting up to record at 10:00 am and recorded until 8:00 pm. Then we headed straight to Urbana Illinois to play that same night. Then drove back to Chicago that same night after the show, started recording that next morning at 10:00 am, recorded all day again, and then left again at 8:00 pm to play that same night in Milwaukee. It was extremely crazy, and I can't remember if we have ever been more disoriented and tired before…We recorded at Shape Shoppe in Chicago and it was engineered by Griffin Rodriguez…Griffin also plays upright bass on track 4, no Space in this realm…The big emphasis on doing this recording was the chance to record two days in Chicago with our favorite free jazz master drummer Hamid Drake. He has played on hundreds of records with jazz luminaries Peter Brotzmann, Don Cherry, Pharaoh Sanders, William Parker, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark - the list goes on … We did an additional day of recording with the Do Make Say Think/ Broken Social Scene guys in Toronto, two days with Jason La Farge at Seizure’s Palace in Brooklyn, and countless mind droning moments in my (Seth's) apartment. Mixed and mastered with Doug Henderson. Production was Akron/Family and Michael Gira. We recorded ourselves in Chicago and then a day in Toronto, and then we went back to NY and did two more studio days and mixing with Michael.”

Kudos if you got through that paragraph. Your reward? Tour dates:

09-23 New York, NY – Tonic (2 shows)
10-04 Buffalo, NY – Nietzsche’s
10-05 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
10-06 Ottawa , ON – First Baptist Church
10-07 Montreal, QC – Le National

Don’t worry, this is just a preliminary list. There are many more dates set to be announced soon.

Finally, just to show you how forward-thinking the band is, even though Meek Warrior isn’t due out for another couple of months, Akron/Family is already planning to work on another album. The band is shooting to start recording this coming January, and hopes to release the album by next May.

Can someone post The Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops

thanks

Hi everyone, here's the new Sparklehorse " Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain", yes i know it's only a 160 kps rip but damn that's all that the little blue bird gave me.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HZQ267TO

I love when people come to the very obviously clearly titled Leak Thread and ask for things or upload things that have been out for a while

Bless you.


Not a problem with the bitrate - we all buy the music we really like anyway, right?

new hold steady. just. leak.

holy. shit.

LOLLBOMBS @






because it implies you don't care about the album and that you thought my grammar was foolish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!haIII!!!!

note: I was telling the album to leak, which, it hasn't yet

sorry bout that. it's just, i'm covered in bug bites and i really would like to hear this album. makes me combative.

Where did the new Hold Steady leak to?

If anyone says "the internet", I'll...do something mean spirited.

Mmm. I see.

I hear that it's copy-protected.

6 song Pete Yorn tour EP - Westerns has leaked, would anyone be interested in that? The songs all have a countryish vibe to them, as well as a nice little cover of Never My Love. His new album is out sometime this month, but after hearing the single, and being a bit meh for his last album, hopes are not that high. musicforthemorningafter owns though.

I would definitely be interested!

But yeah, the last album just left me frustrated. I still have hope though...

Yeah, the last one was more of the same, but sounded less. Except for a couple songs, it was rather lacklustre. I like "Burrito" though. Just the way he said the word. How many songs do you hear now with a burrito as a focus?

I would definitely be interested!

But yeah, the last album just left me frustrated. I still have hope though...

This one is filched from another board (it's sendspace, so that's fair enough, right?) and apparently it's missing the last track and a half which seems weird. Haven't heard it yet...

Blood Brothers - Young Machetes

This one is filched from another board (it's sendspace, so that's fair enough, right?) and apparently it's missing the last track and a half which seems weird. Haven't heard it yet...

Blood Brothers - Young Machetes

OK boys and girls, here it is, let me know what you think:
Pete Yorn - Westerns EP

Holy crap, Deadsy is still together? That seems impossible.

This one is filched from another board (it's sendspace, so that's fair enough, right?) and apparently it's missing the last track and a half which seems weird. Haven't heard it yet...

Blood Brothers - Young Machetes

Would someone be so kind as to put up the Girl Talk - Night Ripper CD again? I was advised on another thread that I need to have it.

Thanks bunches.

i know


sorry about that yousendit crap,
here you go:
http://rapidshare.de/files/27818581/Deadsy...magore.rar.html