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Here are a few recent events and features of note from our artists:

Whatever Blog - Raleigh, NC Post-punk weirdos Whatever Brains recently started a Tumblr with some new material, some cool free downloads (including an out-of-print cassette, CD-r, and a live set), and some really great photos…I’ll let you check those out for yourself. The Brains recently released a split Cassette on DiggUp Tapes with Birds of Avalon, which you can purchase alone for $2, or with it’s accompanying box set for $12. All singles from DiggUp are available for free stream at their BandCamp page. Head on over to DiggUp’s official site for more information.

In tape related news, Check out NPR’s wonderful music blog The Record and its take on Cassette culture posted yesterday. This post, and really everything else from this column is quite informative and interesting. props NPR!

Live - Sam Jones, Singer and Guitarist from The Young Sinclairs will be playing a very special solo set with Eternal Summers, a fellow Magic Twig Community band that shares two overlapping members from the Sinclairs, Tonight (02/25/2011) at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar in Charlottesville, VA. Make sure you show up on time, Charlottesville; this is an early show, beginning at 8pm, and ending in time for the Corsair EP release at Dust later on in the evening. 

Spring Mix Tape - Speaking of new releases, both Borrowed Beams of Light and Invisible Hand were featured on a mix tape by the up and coming “Authentic Cassette Label” Crash Symbols (A collaborative effort from Get Off The Coast and Royal Rhino). The comp, entitled “Dope Valley F-ck,” is available for free stream and/or download at the label’s bandcamp page. The Beams song is the first track available from the Beams’ new LP, which is just about half way to its goal on Kickstarter. Go donate now for a pre-order CD or LP.

My Mind - In case you missed it a couple weekends back, My Mind’s second “official” release, a 45 speed 12” rock opera on Harvest Recordings came and went from our store in a matter of hours! Harvest still has a few left, and I stress a few. This clear vinyl, hand screened, limited to 100 12”  won’t last too much longer, so pick one up online or in their actual store at their Grand Re-Opening March 4th in Asheville, NC (Congrats guys!).

Have a good weekend, everyone!

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Adam Brock Borrowed Beams Of Light Mix Tape

ARTIST MIX TAPE: Adam Brock

This Wednesday marks the first installment of our Artist Mix Tape series that’ll last throughout the next few months. Get pumped! On that note, if you’re in a band that’s featured in one of our artist’s mixes, and you’d like your song removed, please email us and we’d be happy to take your track down (I’m lookin at you Sparks, I have a feeling a bunch of these fools are gonna post the shit outta your tracks). 

Please welcome Adam Brock and his eclectic itunes library from which he draws inspiration for his catchy power pop anthem brainchild Borrowed Beams of Light. The Beams recently launched a Kickstarter Video to raise money and take pre-orders for their upcoming yet-to-be-titled CD/LP. Hear a track from the Beams’ split 7” with Invisible Hand here, buy released material from The Beams here, and read more about upcoming shows, projects, and the kickstarter at The Beams’ Website or Band Page.

DOWNLOAD THE MIX HERE. (We Transfer).

1.  Madonna of the Wasps - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians

Rich Ivey, from F/NF affiliated bands Whatever Brains and Order, posted a Robin Hitchcock song on my Facebook page not long ago, and told me it’d be my new jam.  It was once of his real sparse, solo tunes with just piano and guitar and these weird Syd Baretty vocals, but the hook was undeniable.  Since then, I’ve been into some of his more lush, full band stuff—even the late 80’s kinda cheesy ones like this.

2.  Ball and Chain - XTC

At first it sounds like the riff from “Getting Better” from Sgt. Peppers…but then it becomes it own thing…and by the end its almost as good as “Getting Better” from Sgt. Peppers.

3.  Ex-Con - Smog

Some of my favorite lyrics by Bill Callahan here in this gem from Red Apple Falls.  I feel the same way when I put on a tie.

4.  The Morning Sunshine - Idle Race

Those of you who know me probably know my recent obsession with this band.  Its ELO’s Jeff Lynne’s baroque-psych band from the late 60’s and it’s the shit.  This is one of their more subtle numbers.  Those drums are all Native American and that synthy guy is straight Dr. Dre and then there’s Mr. Hawaiian riff thrown in for good measure.  Killin’ it.

5.  Savage Night at the Opera - Destroyer

I was listening to Destroyer while y’all was a glint in the mailman’s eye.  The new record is as good as it gets.  “Set the loop and then go wild!”

6.  The Way I Feel Inside - The Zombies

I think this is from that Zombie Heaven compilation, though I can’t recall for sure.  Holy crap.  You could spread that voice on your toast.

7.  Five Day Morning - The Clientele

Someone put this on a mix for me a while back and I thought it was some band from the 60’s that I somehow missed when I spent two years scouring the epoch for this sound.  I’ve since been a fan of the band’s whole catalogue, but it doesn’t get any better than this jam, the first of their’s I heard.

8. Come On Sister - Belle and Sebastian

It’s the new joint.  That keyboard is the jam.  Who is that fella?  Mr. Farfisa?  Madame Juno.  Casio??? Anybody know? 

9.  Tinkertoy Tomorrow - Milk ‘n’ Cookies

My buddy Thomas (Order, Invisible Hand) got this jam from some power pop blog…and boy, that’s what it is alright—POWERPOP!!!!   It’s so Quick it’s probably produced by one of those dudes.  Or the dude from Sparks who produced the Quick.  Actually I think somebody told me it was.

10.  Shut Out  - The Walker Brothers

Man this shit is wild.  I’ve actually been really digging the cheesier, avant-garde lounge stylings of earlier Scott Walker (which comes at the end of this mix actually…)  But I’m drawn to that BIZARRE vocal harmony like that dude Yanosh, Sigourney Weaver’s boss in Ghostbusters 2, is drawn to that evil painting of Vlad the Baby Killer or whoever the fuck that was.

11.  The Best of It - Thorinshield

This one of those rare finds my buddy Jason came across when he bought a Lot of records for like 50 bucks…It was 99% trash and then we found this one.  It’s become a favorite late 60’s, Zombies-esque psych R&B jam of mine.  And I’ve only ever seen one other copy of the record in my life.  $50 on the wall of fame at Academy Records in Brooklyn.

12.  As I Recall It - Donovan

Yeah, it’s Donovan.  Deal with it.  And I think this version might be kinda shitty like a bad conversion or something…But that’s cool, cuz chances are your vinyl copy of Hurdy Gurdy man is real beat to shit like everybody elses.  #dollarbin

13.  Academy Fight Song -  Mission Of Burma

This is only on here to win you back after that Walker Bros, Thorinshield, Donovan tangent.  Welcome back.  Oh yeah, here’s some more weird cheesy shit.

14.  Funeral Tango - Scott Walker

Thanks for bearing with me.  Regardless of how you feel about this song, do yourself a favor and watch 30th Century Man…the Scott Walker documentary that came out recently.  It’s on Netflix Instant Watch.  It’s fabulous.  Thanks for listening.

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borrowed beams of light kickstarter charlottesville va lp cd

Adam Brock and Nate Walsh’s Borrowed Beams of Light have posted a kickstarter video asking for your assistance in the release of their upcoming CD/LP. What’s in it for you? Glad you asked, because there’s a ton of stuff in it for you. For a $10 pledge, you can get a CD, for $15, you get the LP, for $20 you get an LP and a 7”. The list goes on and on, and one donation option even includes an original portrait by artist Thomas Dean. Go chip in to make a really wonderful LP come into fruition.

From the Kickstarter description: Indie pop band Borrowed Beams of Light, from Charlottesville, VA are more than halfway finished recording their new, full length LP.
A follow up to last year’s well regarded self-titled EP, this new, as yet untitled, LP will be a further exploration of the nostalgic tones of late 60’s baroque psychedelia, blended with hints of folk rock and glam.
This time around, the songs have found a thematic anchor, of sorts, in a bit of intriguing, almost conspiratorial folklore. Much of the thematic content of this batch of songs is loosely based on a 500 year old, vellum manuscript known as The Voynich Manuscript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript).
The manuscript contains more than 200 pages of handwritten text, and ink drawings, which have been studied, categorized, sensationalized and conspiratorialized for the past half-millennium—and to this day, its code remains elusive; its meaning—a mystery.
The theories as to the authorship and purpose of this puzzling document run the gamut—Franciscan monks’ medical journals, a elaborate swindle in the court of Elizabeth I, the ravings of a mad nobleman, a grand hoax.
The interest of the manuscript in regards to the Borrowed Beams however, is not one of conspiracy, or even academics. It is, at its core, an exploration of its aesthetics; the Beams have strived to give it our own narrative and re-imagine its history—with subtlety, we hope. This is not a rock opera! It’s a pop album.
We, the Beams, are asking for your support in regards to the expensive “finishing touches” pertaining to this project. We have recorded most of the album ourselves. But we would like to have it mixed and mastered elsewhere ($$$$$$$$). And we’d like to pay our wonderful artist, Thomas Dean (www.myspace.com/lostwoodsprint) what he deserves for doing the album art($$$$$$). And we need it to be pressed ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$). Thank you in advance for your support.

Adam Brock, Nathan Walsh, and all the Beams”

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