By Jennifer Marston on May 20, 2010
London-based label Something in Construction just made everyone’s day with its Better Pop Music sampler, available as of this morning. The 19-song compilation is a grip of tracks from the likes of Air France, Freelance Whales, Caribou, Phoenix, and some up-and-comers, like Elizabeth Harper’s new project, Class Actress, and Bristol-based outfit Fitness Club Fiasco. Forests and tigers are apparently the theme for Summer 2010, and Memory Tapes (or his alter-ego, Memory Cassette) wins the award for most cameo appearances here.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams | Tagged Acrylics, Air France, Caribou, Ceremony, Class Actress, Fear of Tigers, Fitness Club Fiasco, Freelance Whales, Jessica Lee Mayfield, Memory Cassette, Memory Tapes, Miniature Tigers, New Moods, Phoenix, Rest, The Forest & The Trees, The Silent League, There Will Be Fireworks, Washed Out
By Jennifer Marston on December 10, 2009
We’ll soon wave farewell to ’09 and welcome a new year, a new decade, and, as always, new music. On the live front, a ton of bands and artists—some with new albums, some just riding the success wave of records that dropped in 2009—are ready to hit the road in early 2010. Here’s a quick look at where some of our favorites are headed in the coming months.
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Posted in News, Tours | Tagged Ben Gibbard, Final Fantasy, Girl Talk, Great Lake Swimmers, Jay Farrar, Memory Tapes, Spoon, The Antlers, Tours, Wilco
By Jennifer Marston on November 12, 2009
Dayve Hawk, a.k.a. Memory Tapes, gave us two new freebies earlier this week, and today, the Philly based production upstart returns with a remix of the teaser track off Yeasayer’s forthcoming Odd Blood release.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams | Tagged Memory Tapes, Weird Tapes, Yeasayer
By Jennifer Marston on November 10, 2009
There’s no seeming end to new music from Memory Tapes’ Dayve Hawk. There was this year’s most excellent Seek Magic EP, released in late-September, then a delightfully creepy homage to horror films that surfaced just before Halloween. Now come a couple other new tunes, and they’re free to boot.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams | Tagged Memory Cassette, Memory Tapes, Weird Tapes
By admin on October 20, 2009
When asked to contribute to ARAWA‘s second annual Halloween celebration, Memory Tapes went all out, crafting a spooky, 17-minute-long Italo number that’s a love letter to the art of scoring a horror film. Synthesizers have never sounded creepier.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams | Tagged Memory Tapes
