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NEWS: Brian Eno, Big Thief, Coldplay, Dry Cleaning + others drop unreleased tracks for Earth Day

Posted on 04/23/202205/09/2022 by Max Hammer

We all got a huge Earth Day gift from musician Brian Eno‘s EarthPercent Foundation.

To help raise money for climate organizations, Eno and his staff gathered 100 musicians and bands to contribute a previously-unreleased track for the special EarthPercent x Earth Day initiative.

It’s an impressive list of artists that includes Eno, Big Thief, Michael Stipe, Peter Gabriel, Coldplay Death Cab, The Weather Station, Jarvis Cocker, Hot Chip (a track that also features Brian Eno and former Savages drummer Fay Milton), Dry Cleaning, Metronomy and many more.

See the full tracklist below.

“This is what unleashing the power of music in service of the planet looks like,” said Eno in a statement. “Historically music has often been at the front of social change – think of ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ and Rock Against Racism. Now we’re facing climate change, the biggest challenge in human history. It’s time for us to get out there again.”

<a href="https://bigthief.bandcamp.com/track/dragon-new-warm-mountain-i-believe-in-you-demo">Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (Demo) by Big Thief</a>

You can buy songs via Bandcamp for $2.50 USD.

Unfortunately, the tracks are not available to stream without buying.

Nonetheless, EarthPercent has shared Big Thief’s demo of “Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You,” as a one-off and representative of the album.

EarthPercent x Earth Day Contributing Artists

Adonis – Al Khafif (The Light Version)
Alfie Templeman – Living In A Universe
Amirali – Nemesis
Anna B Savage – Corncrakes (demo)
Anna Calvi – Peaky Blinders: Season 5 (Original Soundtrack)
Anrimeal – Source and Time
AVAWAVES – Nocturnal
Balmorhea – June (Demo)
Beatie Wolfe – “Oh My Heart” (live at the Nobel Prize Summit)
Biako – What’s It Like To Be Him
Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain, I Believe In You (Demo)
Billie Flynn – Red Right Hand
Billy Lockett – Together At Home (Live)
Brand New Moon – The Garden Knows
Brian Eno (featuring Leo Abrahams) – Did The World Begin Today
Broadside Hacks – Barbry Allen (Matthew Shaw remix)
Brooke Annibale – What If You (demo)
Charlie Hickey – Things I Believe (demo)
Coldplay – Humankind (Live in Mexico City)
Cosmo Sheldrake – Dance Off (Cosmo Sheldrake Remix)
Courtney Marie Andrews – It Must Be Someone Else’s Fault (Demo)
Damefrisør – Beautiful Soul (Katy J Pearson cover)
Damien Dempsey – What A Day
Daniel Brandt – Soon To Be
Deantoni Parks – The Plague of Plastic
deathcrash – Wrestle With Jimmy – Live From The Hush House
Death Cab For Cutie – Your Bruise – Live at The Showbox
Debit – The Age of Equitable Nature
Declan McKenna – Elephant [demo] Dry Cleaning – Her Hippo – Live
Elder Island – Purely Educational (Live)
Emel – Does Anybody Sleep
English Teacher – A55 (demo)
False Window – Sea++ [Ver 1.01] Fito Paez – Cisne
Flower Face – The Garden
Fovea Hex – All Those Signs (EarthPercent Mix)
Franc Moody – Water (Instrumental)
Frank Wiedemann – A New Start
Future Utopia – Crystalline
Fred again.. & Mr Eazi – Light Up
Galya Bisengalieva – Kantubek Live
Gesloten Cirkel – Landing
Gigi Masin – MADAME DU VENT
Hania Rani – Leaving (Niklas Paschburg rework)
Hannah Peel featuring Ulster Orchestra – Act Now (Greenpeace UK)
Hinako Omori – 春の海 ✷ haru no umi
Holy Fuck – Luxe ft. Alexis Taylor (Live at Fox Theater)
Honeyglaze – Burglar (live)
Hot Chip x Brian Eno x Fay Milton – Line In The Sand
ISYLA – Where We Dare (Live at Cube)
Isobel Waller-Bridge – Elizabeth
James – Beautiful Beaches – Conservatory Version
JARV IS… – DEPRESSIVE DISCO
Joep Beving – We will want to remember (EarthPercent demo)
Joy Anonymous X Toya Delazy – JOY(JEQE)
JoyCut – The Plastic Whale
Kaerhardt – Heart of Stone
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Tides IV – Music for Meditation and Yoga
Kate Davis – Alright
Laura Misch – Lagoon (Variation for Saxophone and Voice)
Laurence Guy – What Exactly Are You Asking Me?
Lily Moore – Last Goodbye
Lola Kirke – What It Was (Demo)
Love Ssega – Ssanyu
Lutalo – Georgia (Instrumental/Demo)
Mandy, Indiana – The Call Is Coming From Inside the House
Manu Delago – Zeitgeber (Live)
Mara Simpson – Nowhere (LAYERS)
Martyn – When We Are Innocent
ME REX – Swingset (live)
Metronomy – Walking in the Dark (Folly Group Remix)
Michael Begg – Arctic Moonlight: A Zooplankton Nocturne (EarthPercent Mix)
Michael Stipe – Future, If Future
Miho Hatori – Mobula Phantasmagoria
Modern Woman – Offerings (Stripped Back Version)
Müller & Makaroff – Todo Puede Suceder ft. Kevin Johansen
Múm – Goodbye In The Future
Murkage Dave – Hackney Dalston Canonbury Highbury [DEMO] Nick Mulvey – A Prayer Of My Own (LaJoya Remix) Ft. Liz Wathuti
Nicki Wells – Ocean – Strings
Nile Rodgers & Philippe Saisse – Sugar Rush Monk
Nuno & Maria Bettencourt – Sideways (Citizen Cope cover)
Olivia Reid – Water Damage (Stripped)
Oracle Sisters – Good All The Time (Demo)
Orlando Weeks – Distance Mover
Patch and the Giant – Fire & The Flood
Paul McDonald – Forgiveness (Sanctuary Demo)
Peter Gabriel – Shock the Monkey: Earth Day version – for EarthPercent
Pictish Trail – EARTH DAY: Nuclear Sunflower Swamp (Acoustic)
Pixx – Alien
Prima Queen – Chew My Cheeks (demo)
Poppy Ackroyd – Pause – Live Session
Rasha Nahas – Al Madini (Live at Thalia Theater)
Reka and /Beyond/ – We Owe You All
Richard Coleman – Changes (Live)
Rodrigo Y Gabriela – Peter Punk
Rutger Hoedemaekers – Sing The Songs Of The Glory Of None
S Carey – Paralyzed (At Home Version)
Sam Lee – The Tan Yard Side – Singing With Nightingales
Sebastian Mullaert – Asked Quietly Of The Night
Seb Wildblood – Bad Space Habits (dub)
Sonia Stein – Sweet Spot
SØS Gunver Ryberg – Doing our best is no longer good enough
Soundwalk Collective – Butterfly Kiss (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg)
Squirrel Flower – your love is a disaster (NNAMDÏ remix)
Talk Show x D.U.D.S. – Leather Rework
The Album Leaf – Rotations
The Big Moon – BIG
The Black Chapel Collective – The Secret ft Daniel Rhodes
The Weather Station – This Way
Tom VR – Don’t Stop Us Floating Away
Treeboy & Arc – Austere
tummyache – growing pains
United Freedom Collective – Manifest Bliss
Violet Skies – Settle (Live Session)
.VRIL – Andromeda Nightmare
Wará – Yahannaman
Warmduscher – Hey Guys
Waves Rush In – Travellers Dream (Live)
Wayne Snow – Pale Blue Dot
Weval – Keep It Up

Ray Davies of The Kinks, Zach Condon, DCFC, The Cure and Angels and Airwaves Coming to SF

Posted on 03/07/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Following a successful Noise Pop Festival in which dozens and dozens of indie musicians and groups descended on San Francisco, there are still many great shows coming up in the next few weeks, including Ray Davies (pictured above) of The Kinks, Death Cab For Cutie, Beirut, Linkin Park, The Cure, Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance and The Bravery.

San Francisco’s iconic radio station Live 105 F.M. has updated its concert calendar to include the latest, upcoming concerts (this is just a snapshot of many shows coming up in the SF Bay Area; stay tuned for more concert announcements):

3/8 – Serj Tankian @ The Warfield

3/10 – Popscene presents SxSF w/ Persephone’s Bees & more @ Rickshaw Stop

3/10 – Angels & Airwaves @ The Warfield

3/10 – Linkin Park w/ Coheed & Cambria @ The Arco Arena, Sacramento

3/13 – The Bravery @ The Fillmore

3/28 – Ray Davies @ The Warfield – The legendary singer/songwriter of the best rock band ever, The Kinks, returns to San Francisco with a new solo album – Working Man’s Cafe – that Rolling Stone magazine called a “masterpiece”.

MP3: Vietnam Cowboys – Ray Davies from Working Man’s Cafe

4/3-4 – My Chemical Romance @ The Warfield

4/8 – Jimmy Eat World & Paramore @ San Jose State Events Center

4/10-11 – The Honda Civic Tour w/ Panic At The Disco, Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound, Phantom Planet @ The Warfield

4/12 – Taste Of Chaos w/ Avenged Sevenfold & more @ San Jose State Events Center

4/23 – Ben Gibbard and Death Cab For Cutie @ Fillmore

5/27-8 – Zach Condon (photo, right) and Beirut @ The Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center

MP3: Beirut – Postcards From Italy

5/28 – The Cure @ The HP Pavilion (video below)

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Best Indie and Alternative Rock Christmas Songs, Mix II: Bright Eyes, The Eels, DCFC, Fuel, The Raveonettes, MXPX, Snow Patrol

Posted on 12/13/200701/09/2020 by Max Hammer

Have you heard enough of the old Christmas songs that make you want to pull your hair out yet? Well, hopefully the playlist below will help alleviate the stress. We hope to alleviate some of that by offering you the best and largest collection (in more than a dozen Christmas playlists) of indie and alternative rock Christmas tunes available anywhere on the Internet.

Blue Christmas – Bright Eyes

Christmas is Going to The Dogs – The Eels

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Death Cab For Cutie

We Three Kings – Fuel

Christmas Night of Zombies – MXPX

This Time of Year – Mighty Mighty Bosstones

When I Get Home For Christmas – Snow Patrol

Put the Lights On the Tree – Sufjan Stevens

Santa Claus is Coming to Town – Sugarcult

The Christmas Song – The Raveonettes

Stream and download all of the alternative Christmas song mixes.

Death Cab For Cutie Ben Gibbard’s iPod Playlist

Posted on 08/23/200701/09/2020 by Max Hammer

The indie pop quartet out of Bellingham, Washington with the unusual name, “Death Cab For Cutie”, has taken the rock world by storm in the past two years with heart-filled indie rock songs, thoughtful lyrics and creative musicianship. (photo, left: Photo by Autumn De Wilde)

DCFC (as they are known to many fans, or else just “Death Cab”)consists of singer, songwriter and guitarist Ben Gibbard, guitarist Chris Walla, bassist Nick Harmer and drummer Michael Schorr.

The guys of Death Cab have been together for a decade, but their popularity reached international proportions only recently and rather quickly.

Prior to 2005, Death Cab released a number of CDs, LPs and EPs with moderate success, but it wasn’t until their 2005 Atlantic Records release “Plans” that the band’s name became recognizable to millions worldwide.

Even more recognition has come the band’s way via Ben Gibbard’s “side project” The Postal Service, which pumped out a big hit with “Such Great Heights” – a popular radio and online dance hit that was later covered by alt country rock outfit Iron & Wine, whose acoustic version of “Such Great Heights” brought them enormous attention and name recognition.

Let’s face it, “Such Great Heights,” both versions, is arguably one of the classic rock songs of the 21st century.

Curious to this indie rock fan and perhaps others is what happens when Ben Gibbard fans go to a Death Cab For Cutie concert and he doesn’t play “Such Great Heights”.

Gibbard is probably not stupid enough to fall for that every time; it can kill a singer/songwriter to be “type cast” in the music industry by one song or one sound.

For example, such a dilemma is threatening to “do in” Blue October with their worldwide hit “Hate Me”.

At this point, Blue October pretty much has to play “Hate Me” (trying not to) at every f**king concert or there will be a full-scale riot by hundreds, if not thousands, of screaming girls from pre-teens up to “full grown” adults.

There was a time when Pearl Jam couldn’t have a concert without playing “Even Flow”. In fact, it’s still like that. Most recent example: Lollapalooza 2007 (Aug. 3-5, Chicago). Eddie, you don’t “have to” do anything, remember?

In Gibbard’s case, his talent speaks for itself and it is unlikely that he, of all the songwriters out there, is to be pigeon-hold into one sound or song. So, with that in mind, what would you think Ben Gibbard has on his iPod?

Well, let Ben tell you what music he listens to; for starters, his tastes in music are surprisingly eclectic – from post modern minimalism (Brian Eno) and electronica pop (Letting Up Despite Great Faults) to country (Joe Tex) and R&B (Doris Duke).

Get DCFC and Postal Service MP3s and music videos at IndieRockSongs.com.