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Check out Jesse Harris’ super-rad new instrumental tribute to legendary Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki, premiering today at Bleeding Cool.

Jesse Harris, the writer of Norah Jones’ song Don’t Know Why, winning a Grammy for the effort, has a new album out in February, No Wrong No Right from Jesse Harris With Star Rover.

Included in the album is an instrumental based on the work of Japanese manga and anime creator and director Hayao Miyazaki.

“I got the flu really bad earlier this year, and I was pretty much laid up at home in this fevered state,” Jesse says. “Every night I watched a different Miyazaki film. One night, I was on the couch in this delirious state with my guitar, and I was playing this riff over and over again for an hour, and I turned it into an instrumental. In honor of my flu and all of his movies that I’d been watching, I named it ‘Miyazaki.’” LISTEN HERE…

by Baby Robot Media

Earbuddy calls Voli’s new single, “Burn Everything” feat. Misun “an ecstatic, turbo-charged track that scorches the ground it travels on.”

Voli isn’t exactly what you’d call a conventional hip hop artist. His new single, “Burn Everything”, pulled from his forthcoming LP The Wall features the much loved band Misun and together they turn up the heat for an ecstatic, turbo-charged track that scorches the ground it travels on. Get a listen to “Burn Everything” below.

While classic art-and-prog-rock elements appear on his new record The Wall, and he namechecks the legendary band Pink Floyd in his song “DNA”, the album’s title wasn’t inspired by the band. “It’s actually from a Will Smith interview I saw with Charlie Rose,” Voli explains. “As children, Will and his brother were tasked with building a wall for their father’s shop. At first, they were overwhelmed, but they continued to lay the bricks each day for almost two years. They finished it through dedication—one brick at a time.”

The Wall holds many shades of meaning for the Jersey-born (and now L.A.-based) Voli. In part, it’s about his journey as an artist, about growing slowly, carefully, and taking the time to build something that lasts. “I am creating a foundation for myself—musically, professionally, personally,” Voli says. “Each piece of ourselves is one brick in that wall. And it’s not always the easiest thing to hold it together, to find that mortar, to find that glue.” LISTEN HERE…

by Baby Robot Media

Punknews.org premieres Lowbanks new song “The Dogs”

Punknews is pleased to debut the new song by Lowbanks. The tune is called “The Dogs” and it’s off the band’s upcoming EP of the same name. Guitarist John Graffo spoke to Punknews about the tune.

“‘The Dogs’ was our attempt at making some good old-fashioned rock & roll??”of course, like most things we do it didn’t quite work out the way we envisioned, but it happened to be better than we’d hoped. With the intro, we’d been listening to a bunch of stuff like Metz and Death From Above 1979, and we wanted to do something really noisy and abrasive but have it fade into a sexy groove. I love noise in music??”our drummer Grey and our bassist Selfish regularly shout at me to chill when I’m taking ‘too long’ to find the perfect sputtery, fuzzy, weird feedback. Of course if they didn’t shout at me, we’d probably never write any actual songs.

“I wrote the lyrics to ‘The Dogs’ when I was reading The Stranger by Albert Camus. It’s about a dream I had where I was being chased by a pack of these basically demon-dog hybrid beasts. I love dogs??”I’ve never found them frightening, but that made me realize how terrifying the seemingly innocuous things we surround ourselves with can be. We ended up naming the new EP after this song??”I think that idea of the “evil that hides just beneath the surface” is a relatively prevalent theme throughout the record, just like in life and relationships in general. In pretty much everything we do as humans. Or maybe I’m drunk. It’s a toss up really.”

The release is out tomorrow and you’ll be able to get it here. LISTEN HERE…

by Baby Robot Media

SPIN premieres Voli’s latest single, “Burn Everything”

New Jersey-born, Los Angeles-based artist Voli has dropped his latest single, “Burn Everything,” a genre-blending preview of his forthcoming album, The Wall. The new track swirls together fat-bottom grooves, anthemic pop hooks, and party-life swagger (“Flashback: pre-game beer pong and flip-cup / Power hour, every Snoop song we drink up”) — a high degree-of-difficulty recipe that Voli’s charisma saves from sounding overcooked. Stream “Burn Everything” below, and run like hell to get The Wall, which arrives February 24. LISTEN HERE…

by Baby Robot Media

Grand Vapids back at Stereogum with “Aubade”

We heard “Kiln,” the first single from Grand Vapids forthcoming record Guarantees back in November, and yesterday the Athens-based band released a follow-up track. “Aubade” picks up where “Kiln” left off — it’s instrumentally lush, understated indie rock reminiscent of a more celestial take on Deerhunter’s “Desire Lines.” LISTEN HERE…

by Baby Robot Media

Consequence of Sound premieres “Aubade,” the latest from Grand Vapids

This year has been one for the books for Atlanta indie rock outfit Grand Vapids. OK, so technically it’s their first full year together, but the quintet has been nonetheless busy throughout 2014. In addition to touring the country alongside the likes of Pure Bathing Culture and White Violet, the group spent time in the studio with producer Drew Vandenberg (Deerhunter, Of Montreal). Those sessions led to their debut full-length, Guarantees, which will be released on January 20th, 2015 via Mumblecore.

The record’s latest single, “Aubade”, sounds like the whimsical result of a young band experimenting in the studio setting. The pulsing drums and echoing vocal effects create a sense of constant movement in the track; nothing is ever hurried, and each moving part feels defined and purposeful. LISTEN HERE…