Jukebox the Ghost - "Somebody"

On the heels of their Letterman performance in late 2010 and subsequent worldwide touring, Jukebox the Ghost returned to the studio is about to release their third full length album.  We were connected with JTG early last year via Milly Beau and Hey Lady, two reliable sources, and of course instantly became fans.

Safe Travels is the name of the album and the first release is "Somebody".  We posed a question to Tommy (vocals & guitar) a few days ago for you current and future fans, why buy this album?  Here's what he had to say:

"Safe Travels is a big milestone for us and a record we're very proud of -- We're trying a lot of things we've never tried, and we had a lot of time to work on it (a luxury we hadn't been afforded in the past). If someone was going to buy one Jukebox the Ghost album, I think all of us in the band would agree that this one represents us the best. We're stoked!"

The album already has that game-changing feel that could take JTG next level.  Safe Travels is due out 6.12.12, pre-order it here and support the dudes that played all five burroughs in one day two years ago.

Alberta Cross - "Magnolia"

It's been three years since Alberta Cross' debut album Broken Side of Time.  What followed was writing, recording, and touring around the globe, playing festivals alongside big names like Neil Young and Mumford.  A few days ago they released the below track, an encouraging preview from what will be a mid-July Songs of Patience full length release.

NYTimes described the band most aptly, "...a British take on Southern rock…the seismic guitars and high vocals look to My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon and Crazy Horse…but Alberta Cross sets aside those American bands’ redemptive undercurrents of blues and gospel; instead it plunges into the very English despair of bands like Pink Floyd." 

Alberta Cross - "Magnolia"

Alberta is still a fairly unknown band, we have a hunch that'll be changing in a few months.

Paradis

The electronic pop duo Paradis released this single as a taste test for the 12" due out on May 22.

After their debut 12" (and the label's debut release) in the fall of 2011, Paradis offers "Hémisphère" and "Je m'ennuie", another pair of sophisticatedly crafted, noir-pop songs from the young Parisian duo.

On the two tracks of their second 12", Paradis self-reflect to find an escape hatch away from themselves. The A-Side, "Hémisphère", a macabre story of a lonely guest of life determined to leave everything behind, defies the narrative's convention and captivates with pop melodies and up beats abound.

 And from Paradis' earlier work - "Parfait Tirage"

Emma Louise - "Boy"

Meet Brisbane via Cairns singer-songwriter Emma Louise.  Her somber indie-pop 2011 hit Jungle has drawn comparisons to The Jezabels and Sarah Blasko and garnered well-deserved attention. 

This brand new track "Boy" is a "swaying, mid-paced song shows that there’s a real solid foundation to her songwriting, plenty of depth and broader talent than some may expect. It’s an alluring first taste that will make you very excited for the album’s ensuing release."

She’s recently toured with Boy & Bear and Josh Pyke, and her debut EP Full Hearts & Empty Rooms was one of the best-received Aussie releases of the year.  Having just returned from a US tour and SXSW appearances, she's set to make 2012 the year the rest of the world starts noticing.

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RAC - "Hollywood" (feat. Penguin Prison)

RAC - "Hollywood"

And here it is, the remix genius presents his first original single entitled "Hollywood" feat. Penguin Prison. 

From humble beginnings in a dorm room at Southern Illinois' Greenville College, RAC (aka André Allen Anjos) has steadily grown a dedicated dance music fan base with methodical and catchy remixes that stay true to the original songs. In "Hollywood (featuring Penguin Prison)", fans have the opportunity to hear the very first track that RAC created from scratch. With a chorus that you can't forget and strong vocals from Penguin Prison's Chris Glover, the track is the perfect debut from Anjos. For more watch this intro video.

Field Music - Plumb

Field Music are a band from Sunderland, England who formed in 2004. The band's core consists of brothers David and Peter Brewis (who at one time played drums for fellow Sunderland band The Futureheads), with Andrew Moore.

Field Music - "Guillotine"

Field Music - "Who'll Pay The Bills?"

Field Music have been celebrated as one of the few bands to transcend and outlast the short-lived NME-generated "post-punk revival" of the mid-noughties. Describing the band as "a truly artful proposition in the pseud-filled landscape of contemporary Brit art-rock", music blog The Fantastic Hope puts this down in part to their "un-self-conscious anti-fashion stance", arguing that Field Music's "wayward pop from the fringes of academia is one of the most worthwhile ways in which rock//indie/guitar music/white pop/whatever might evolve."

Pond - Beard, Wives, Denim

Think TV On The Radio meets Tame Impala.  Australia's Pond is a musical collective featuring an ever-changing line-up actually including three members of said Tame.  Last month they delivered a brand new album entitled Beard, Wives, Denim.  It's "an audio diary of ten friends' strange, terrible and blissful time in the country trying in vain to be a wholesome family band. It sounds just like it, distorted and woozy and fractured and ultimately nostalgic and loving."

Pond - "Moth Wings"

In 2010, at a friend's farmhouse in Eagle Bay, Western Australia, Pond piled in with all their instruments, amplifiers, friends, recording equipment and Sam Ford to record Beard, Wives, Denim.  After two weeks of Lord of the Flies-esque bonding with frisbee and guitars and absolutely no religion or wood chopping or wives or beards, the album was finished.

Monday Facelift - 4/23/12

Angus Stone - "Bird On The Buffalo"

Stone's latest single off the upcoming Broken Brights release in July.

Milly Beau

After two years of New York City shows and long nights in the studio Milly Beau is back with twelve new sultry tracks.

Fronted by the soulful voice of MaryBeth Doran, they're inspired as much by Erikah Badu as they are by Wilco. Their songs sound "like a Friday night hustle meets Sunday morning reprieve."  Their debut release Party Glitter received critical acclaim from the likes of Glamour ("best new makeout music"), Blackbook Magazine, and Vogue Italia. 

Put simply, this new album is really good.  With today's distracting overload of electronic dance and synth-based songs penetrating the mainstream, Milly Beau's soaring vocals and smooth instrumentation are a refreshing reminder of how pure and melodic new music can still be.

And don't forget about the previously released "Taylor."

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St. Lucia

St. Lucia is what happens when the long and bleak winters of New York recede and summer emerges; giving birth to memories of childhood holidays, faded photos of exotic places and the dream of recapturing this. Inspired by his homeland of South Africa, his journey through the UK and relocation to Brooklyn, St Lucia could reference the sonics of Temper Trap, or the infectiousness of Empire of the Sun, but ultimately it is a wall of atmospherics crafted with an inordinate amount of time-consuming precision.

Debut EP available digitally: http://smarturl.it/stluciaep

Best music video of 2011: Lovett - "The Fear"

Lovett was already featured in the Top 50 of 2011 and is one of the top emerging talents right now.  "The Fear" video hits so many of today's aspects of life - protest, struggle, tragedy, love, youth, dance, religion, as it conflates amongst disparate genders and ethnicities.  At the end, Lovett and his pulsating drum conclude by uniting the most important element of it all - the kids.

We are not alone

Spacebats - "Alright"

The Spacebats are a London and Sydney duo born from warehouse parties, minimal dancefloors and wigged out electronic guitars. 

Spacebats - "Alright"

U.S. Royalty - "Sleepy Eyes"

If Oasis and Tracy Chapman drummed up a song, sitting around a campfire with a synth machine and bongos, it would sound like U.S. Royalty's "Sleepy Eyes." 

Troysnoise first unearthed this D.C. band in July last year, covering their debut EP Mirrors. 

U.S. Royalty - "Sleepy Eyes"

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Monday Facelift - 3/19/12

Hopefully you survived the past month+ without a Monday Facelift...our entire one person staff here at Tnoise is sincerely apologetic.  This lil sumthin for er'body playlist should erase any of that bitterness, it might even help you forgot that you're sitting in a cubical. 

Bear In Heaven - "The Reflection of You"