Best Coast Visits Daytrotter

YAY! The day has finally come for Best Coast to stop by the Daytrotter studios to give us a long session! You can hear the reverb has been dropped in half when Beth sings live, it's still there...but you can really hear her quite good singing voice shine through. This is a fun little session to listen to. They will be playing at BOMB Fest this year, so be sure to grab a ticket and get to that festival, its gonna be a lot of fun! You can download the daytrotter sesh for free of course, just sign up at their site! You won't regret it.

http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/best-coast-concert/20031236-3738209.html

Gotta Have Daytrotters

Daytrotter is killin it of late. Just recently they had Toro Y Moi and Tennis in studio to give the Daytrotter spin to their tunes. Both of these artists make enjoyable, relaxing summer music. They simplify their songs to the bare necessities for these sessions. Purely delectable. You can download them for free once you register for Daytrotter, which should have been done months ago.

http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/tennis-concert/20031378-51552.html - Download Tennis


http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/toro-y-moi-concert/20031389-51558.html - Download Toro Y Moi

Must Have Daytrotter Sessions

The last few days of August were ended on a good note thanks to http://www.daytrotter.com/. They put up sessions with Surfer Blood and The Beets. I was lucky enough to see both of them in concert this year, and both are really strong live. Daytrotter is the best and if you haven't been on their site before, download their app, sign up for their music, follow them on twitter...get involved with what they do because you get free music and its all amazing. You can download these two sessions if you click the bands names above. All of their sessions have free mp3 downloads with links for lossless. Check out their list of sessions.

Vivian Girls Play Daytrotter

The Vivian Girls brought their summer pop musica to Daytrotter during SXSW this year. Check out their really really really good session below. Beautiful job ladies!

Free Download and Stream of The Vivan Girls Daytrotter Session----> HERE

Freelance Whales - Daytrotter

I was going to write a little review for the Freelance Whales Daytrotter session and give you a little info on how it all went down but, the story is just too good to be retold. Read it here Daytrotter's home base is located in Rock Island, Illinois. They were on the road for SXSW, they wanted to record some of the artists playing the festival down in Austin. This would be the first time that a Daytrotter session would be recorded infront of a live audience. But it would not go down without some hicups. Make sure to download all of the songs...they are free of course. Gotta love Daytortter

FREE downloads of the Freelance Whales Daytrotter session ------>HERE

Record Store Day

So today was the day. The one and only Record Store Day. I made it down to Wallingford for noon to get to Red Scroll Records...apparently people showed up at 845. I was able to grab a bunch of great limited edition Record Store Day vinyl, as well as a few other must haves. I also visited Phoenix Records in Litchfield. Both great shops, make sure you support your local music shops and artists! Check out what I got yo!!!!!

Record Store Day Item: Plants and Animals released their second full album, 'La La' a few days early on vinyl. They are a post classic rock group from the popular music area of Montreal, Canada. They mix jumpy pianos, steely brass, and classic rock guitar riffs to give you a very easy enjoyable listening experience.

Record Store Day Item: One of my favorite records of the decade Modest Mouse 'Moons and Antarcitca' is being reissued on vinyl for Record Store Day. It has been remastered using the band's preferred 2004 master, but it contains the original tracklisting, without the extras found on the expanded edition. It also features the original artwork and contains the locked groove found at the end of the first side.

 Record Store Day Item: LCD Soundsystem - Pow Pow 12'' Single - The new single from LCD's album 'This Is Happening'...it leaked on the internet the other day, no doubt it will be one of my dance albums for the summer to come...a great album!

 Record Store Day Item: A Surfer Blood/Holiday Shores split 7''. Surfer Blood's live version of "Take It Easy" features Marnie Stern. Both tracks are ferocious fuzzy indie rock songs

 Record Store Day Item: Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds 7'' Live @ Las Vegas. Two of the better tracks off of DMB's latest release 'Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King'. 'Lying in the Hands of God' is a beautiful diddy that really showcases the way Tim can layer with the acoustic guitar.

 Record Store Day Item: A split 7" of Daytrotter Session performances from The Antlers and White Rabbits. The Antlers released my favorite album of 2009 and the song 'Shiva' was one of my favorite tracks off that album. Daytrotter is also one of the best websites for finding striped down versions of my favorite groups

Record Store Day Item: Fucked Up Daytrotter 7'' - The single includes three songs from Fucked Up's Daytrotter Session "Magic Word" "David Comes to Life" as well as "Crooked Head" were the songs chosen. But the real selling point here is the cover art. Fucked Up picked 10 different record stores to honor, those record stores sent the band pictures, and now those pictures are 10 of the 11 single covers. There's also a generic cover.

Ducktails is the one-man psychedelic pop project of Matthew Mondanile, guitarest for Real Estate. The album cover and title are perfect. This album is tropical lo-fi, a soundtrack to growing up in the late 80's. Most of the tracks are instrumental that feature misty synths and drum machines. Not a record store day item, but a must have.

 The Morning Benders 'Big Echo' I shouldn't have to explain why I bought this. What a great album. It really feels like the first album by this band that works together as an entire album vs. a bunch of tracks just thrown together. 'Excuses' is one of my favorite tracks for 2010. 

Daytrotter - Beach House

Daytrotter(recently named Itunes App Of The Week) is a great music website that brings in amazing artists, and records them in a very small studio setting.

'What Daytrotter is attempting to do is to not kid around with you and tell you that we found something that you never knew existed. We are going to contribute to the musical landscape, not just toss it around like a used book or a stolen pick-up line. We’re going to give you something that you truly have never heard. We are not giving you songs from someone you love’s record album, thereby stealing from someone you love. We’re giving you exclusive, re-worked, alternate versions of old songs and unreleased tracks by some of your favorite bands and by a lot of your next favorite bands.'

Beach House was today's featured artist. I knew it was only going to be a matter of time before they got in there. They did not disappoint. Victoria Legrand's vocals are so beautiful. This is a must have session! If you have an Iphone or Itouch, get the free Daytrotter app.

Listen to Beach House on Daytrotter----->HERE