Millionyoung is joining the ranks of progressive chillwavers, and bringing us something fuller, more mature, and just as ground breaking, the second time around with his new full length Replicants. It’s due out February 15th on Rix/Old Flame. But you can also expect a 7” of this single Perfect Eyes in January.
Super excited to go see Millionyoung along with Teen Daze next Wednesday at Spaceland! Oh and don’t forget about the first annual CEREAL PARTY 2010 brought to you by Teen Daze and Smoke DON’T Smoke!
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Premiere :: Lord Huron – Into The Sun (Teen Daze Remix)
Lord Huron – Into The Sun (Teen Daze Remix)
An awesome remix of a current obsession of mine: Lord Huron. And by none other than friend and fellow cereal lover Teen Daze. Premiered over at awesome LA blog Rollo & Grady, that I regretfully haven’t even met yet. Make sure to check out the awesome pics he got of LH at Hotel Cafe, which was by far the best show I’ve been to there. Excited to see more of Lord Huron.
Here’s what Rollo & Grady had to say:
Ben Schneider (Lord Huron) just emailed me this fantastic remix of his single, “Into The Sun”. Teen Daze did the remix of the track in anticipation of Lord Huron’s 7″ release next Tuesday, November 16.
Download:
Lord Huron – The Mighty EP (Buy)
Lord Huron – Into The Sun EP (Buy)
Lord Huron – Into The Sun 7″ (Pre-order)Related Posts:
Rollo & Grady Presents Lord Huron @ Hotel Cafe – Photos (click here)
Rollo & Grady Interview with Lord Huron (click here)
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PREMIERE
Teen Daze has bestowed upon us another lofty dream of a song, that much like the Brocken spectre (click image) can cast a giant shadow when seen from high enough.
And now an excerpt from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave for more insight about shadows:
[Socrates:] And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: —Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.
[Glaucon:] I see.
And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent.
You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.
Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?
True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows?
Yes, he said.
And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?
Very true.
And suppose further that the prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passers-by spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadow?
No question, he replied.
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
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And check out Teen Daze’s CMJ schedule ::October 21, 2010:
IGIF Presents Floating Fest (w/Baths, Pepper Rabbit, Oberhofer, Beach Fossils, Young Man, Foxes In Fiction, Violens, Blackbird Blackbird, Class Actress, Viernes, MillionYoung, COOLRUNNINGS, and Young The Giant)
October 22, 2010:
October 23, 2010:
I must let the man himself speak for this one :: press play below and read:
“The Holy Forest is a record that I wrote and recorded in under 24 hours. I knew I wanted to make something that was along the same lines as the Valerie EP, but with a bit more song based. Where I wanted to keep Valerie more of an instrumental affair, this record features a lot more vocals and percussion.
The idea behind the record was to tell the story of a piece of land that was quite dear to my heart. Behind my parent’s house was a mountainside forest that was full of wonder and inspiration. One afternoon some friends and I were wandering around it when we came upon a huge clearing, almost 200 feet wide. The trees gave way to huge stalks of uncut grass, and a hidden cove, complete with a looming rock face. People had definitely discovered it before we had, what with the discarded car batteries and rusted out bed frames. Some people saw it as a dump; we saw an oasis. For that summer, this place became my escape. I’d go to the meadow to think, to take in the sun, and to go be imaginative. It instantly became a muse, inspiring me to write countless songs and other works.
Once the summer ended, and I left home to go back to school, my parents told me that the forest was being cut down to make way for a housing development. A total Fern Gully experience. I was saddened to think that a place of such mystery and wonder would be replaced with sheer efficiency and logic. People need places to live right? Perhaps, but at what cost.
So over the span of four months, I saw glimpses of what was once a beautiful place, turn into a pile of dirt. The album cover is a collage of a picture of the once full forest, and one of my friend Adam standing over the wasteland it became.
This record is the story of this forest, as told by the trees themselves.
I hope you enjoy this record, and I hope it inspires you to find a place of wonder.”
-Teen Daze
**click photo to go purchase the beautiful EP :: The Holy Forest
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TEEN DAZE PRE-ORDERS ARE UP!
After a handful of unfortunate delays you can finally pre-order Teen Daze’s wonderful debut release Four More Years for $5 over at the Wonder Beard online store. Tapes are being duplicated as we speak and will ship at the end of the month. Thanks for your patience and if you could help spread the word that’d be amazingly kind of you. I refuse to go the PR route, since that shit is awful.
The release is an edition of 100 white casettes with some killer orange artwork on the shells. There will be only one pressing, so get them while you can.
You can pre-order your copy HERE.
Also be on the look out for a brand new Teen Daze track dropping tomorrow on WGWB & Friends Vol. 3 (cassette pre-order also available tomorrow).
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Blackbird Blackbird Pre-Orders are up!
You can now pre-order Blackbird Blackbird’s debut full length Summer Heart via Wonder Beard’s online store. 5$ plus shipping, tapes go in the mail at the end of the month. This is the first fully DIY release for Wonder Beard, and is limited to 100 copies.
If you want to pick up a copy of Hooray!, Teen Daze, or the Compilations while you are at it, combined orders include shipping discounts.
