Happy New Year to all of our friends! To help celebrate we've put together a special Spotify playlist of some of our favorite artists and tunes of 2014. Hope you dig!
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
2014: Our Favorite Records of the Year...
2014 was an amazing year in commercial music - two new Brian Eno records, a slew of amazing reissues and box sets (Spiderland vinyl box and Complete Basement Tapes anyone???), not to mention some amazing performances (Father John Misty on Letterman and St. Vincent on SNL!) and 2015 is looking pretty promising already (new records from Sleater-Kinney, Belle and Sebastian, Father John Misty, and Bjork?? Yeah!) ...but back to 2014! There were seriously like a hundred or more simply sublime releases this past year - we hemmed and hawed through em and whittled it down to the below... Here are the High Bias crew's favoritest albums of the past year. Drum roll please...
DAVID ABPLANALP-ESTIMÉ
"2014 was definitely a rich year for music, and certainly brought comfort among a lot of grim news in the world. A few labels and artists had a stellar production: Innovative Leisure comes to mind in my case, releasing brilliant albums from very different acts while keeping great coherence in their roster. A top 30 would have been easily filled with Lewis or Sylvie Simmons - both thanks to Light In The Attic - having their place in the reissue section, or among the Frenchies Para One who keeps expanding his musical boundaries with his great OST to Girlhood, a beautiful follow-up to Music To And From Naissance des Pieuvres a few years back. Excited to hear what’s coming up in 2015!"
Devonté Hynes "Palo Alto OST" (Domino)
Moodoid "Le Monde Moo" (Entreprise)
The Budos Band "Burnt Offering" (Daptone)
Nick Waterhouse "Holly" (Innovative Leisure)
Laetitia Sadier "Something Shines" (Drag City)
De Lux "Voyage" (Innovative Leisure)
Badbadnotgood "III" (Innovative Leisure)
Todd Terje "It's Album Time" (Olsen Records)
Avi Buffalo "At Best Cuckold" (Sub Pop)
Timber Timbre "Hot Dreams" (Arts & Crafts)
Young Fathers "Dead" (Anticon)
Vince Staples "Hell Can Wait" (Def Jam/Artium)
D'Angelo and the Vanguard "Black Messiah" (RCA)
TODDRICK SPALDING
"This was a hard year - war, violence and disease seemed to dominate every headline and a lot of too young people passed. But despite it all, as it always does, music provided the light in otherwise dark days. I was extremely moved by a lot of songs this year - getting teary eyed listening to Eno + Hyde's 'Return' for the first time comes to mind immediately - and there were so so so many great records - these were the ones I kept coming back to again and again..."
Eno + Hyde “High Life EP” (Warp)
Mirah “Changing Light” (K Records)
Mimicking Birds “Eons” (Glacial Pace)
The War On Drugs “Lost In A Dream" (Merge)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy “Singer’s Grave A Sea of Tongues” (Drag City)
Nothing “Guilty of Everything” (Relapse)
Together PANGEA “Badillac” (Harvest)
Angel Olsen “Burn Your Fire For No Witness” (Jagjaguwar)
Run The Jewels “Run The Jewels 2" (Mass Appeal)
Sharon Van Etten “Are We There” (Jagjaguwar)
Protomartyr “Under Color of Official Right” (Hardly Art)
DAVID ABPLANALP-ESTIMÉ
"2014 was definitely a rich year for music, and certainly brought comfort among a lot of grim news in the world. A few labels and artists had a stellar production: Innovative Leisure comes to mind in my case, releasing brilliant albums from very different acts while keeping great coherence in their roster. A top 30 would have been easily filled with Lewis or Sylvie Simmons - both thanks to Light In The Attic - having their place in the reissue section, or among the Frenchies Para One who keeps expanding his musical boundaries with his great OST to Girlhood, a beautiful follow-up to Music To And From Naissance des Pieuvres a few years back. Excited to hear what’s coming up in 2015!"
Devonté Hynes "Palo Alto OST" (Domino)
Moodoid "Le Monde Moo" (Entreprise)
The Budos Band "Burnt Offering" (Daptone)
Nick Waterhouse "Holly" (Innovative Leisure)
Laetitia Sadier "Something Shines" (Drag City)
De Lux "Voyage" (Innovative Leisure)
Badbadnotgood "III" (Innovative Leisure)
Todd Terje "It's Album Time" (Olsen Records)
Avi Buffalo "At Best Cuckold" (Sub Pop)
Timber Timbre "Hot Dreams" (Arts & Crafts)
DANNY EXUM
"2014 was filled with amazing music, from the bombastic Run the Jewels 2 to the mellow Morning Phase. It seemed that around every corner, somebody was passing me a new record that I 'had to listen to'... I ended up drowning in great music. That’s such a good problem to have. Here’s to more great and challenging music in 2015!"
Run The Jewels "Run The Jewels 2" (Mass Appeal)
Badbadnotgood "III" (Innovative Leisure)
Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band "Khun Narin" (Innovative Leisure)
De Lux "Voyage" (Innovative Leisure)
TV On The Radio "Seeds" (Harvest)
St. Vincent "St. Vincent" (Seven Four/Republic)
Beck "Morning Phase" (Capitol)Young Fathers "Dead" (Anticon)
Vince Staples "Hell Can Wait" (Def Jam/Artium)
D'Angelo and the Vanguard "Black Messiah" (RCA)
TODDRICK SPALDING
"This was a hard year - war, violence and disease seemed to dominate every headline and a lot of too young people passed. But despite it all, as it always does, music provided the light in otherwise dark days. I was extremely moved by a lot of songs this year - getting teary eyed listening to Eno + Hyde's 'Return' for the first time comes to mind immediately - and there were so so so many great records - these were the ones I kept coming back to again and again..."
Eno + Hyde “High Life EP” (Warp)
Mirah “Changing Light” (K Records)
Mimicking Birds “Eons” (Glacial Pace)
The War On Drugs “Lost In A Dream" (Merge)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy “Singer’s Grave A Sea of Tongues” (Drag City)
Nothing “Guilty of Everything” (Relapse)
Together PANGEA “Badillac” (Harvest)
Angel Olsen “Burn Your Fire For No Witness” (Jagjaguwar)
Run The Jewels “Run The Jewels 2" (Mass Appeal)
Sharon Van Etten “Are We There” (Jagjaguwar)
Protomartyr “Under Color of Official Right” (Hardly Art)
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Friday, October 31, 2014
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Monday, October 20, 2014
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Friday, September 26, 2014
Little Hurricane rocked HB last night...
We got rocked last night by San Diego indie/blues/roots/rock combo Little Hurricane last night. It was a truly special performance. Don't sleep on these guys! Danny and I fought it out in our "Electric Blues DJ Battle" but it ended in a tie and we concluded that Elmore James is the shit. See you all at the next shindig!
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
Lynch.
I love David Lynch. Seriously, LOVE. I'm currently rewatching Twin Peaks (got the blu-ray set for my birthday!) and it's got me excited to rewatch all of the films too... and then I turn on the computer today and come across this neat little nugget: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/filmmaker-retrospective-the-illustrative-cinema-of-david-lynch/ -- Sympatico.
Aces.
Aces.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Monday, June 9, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
DJ Bonebrake's Essential Punk Albums...
This is pretty cool! (Though we would've included DJ's band X and their debut Los Angeles in the list!) http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/xs-dj-bonebrake-picks-10-essential-punk-records-600641/1
Friday, May 30, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Monday, May 26, 2014
Happy Birthday Miles Davis!
Happy Birthday Miles!
To help ring in your own personal Miles Davis Day celebration - watch this:
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Lake Los Angeles Premiere!
Get tickets now for the Lake Los Angeles world premiere Saturday June 14th at the Los Angeles Film Festival here. We can't wait to see it on the big screen... it will sell out so be sure to jump on it!
Monday, May 19, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
La Femme on Tour!
LA FEMME - one of our favorite bands from France - is bringing their infectious psychedelic indie pop Stateside. We couldn't be more excited! Check 'em out at one of the below dates!
3.28 Brooklyn @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
3.29 New York @ Bowery Ballroom
3.31 Toronto @ Lee's Palace
4.1 Chicago @ The Empty Bottle
4.7 Portland @ Doug Fir Lounge
4.11 San Francisco @ DNA Lounge
4.19 Los Angeles @ The Roxy
Friday, March 21, 2014
SXSW flashbacks...
As I'm finally starting to feel human again post-SXSW 2014, I've found my self returning to some of the songs I heard at the fest over and over again. Here are four tunes I can't stop listening to since my adventures in Texas last week:
PROTOMARTYR "COME AND SEE" (Hardly Art)
MIMICKING BIRDS "BLOODLINES" (Glacial Pace)
YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN "WHALESONG" (Paperbag)
RAW GERONIMO "MAGNETIC LOVE" (Neurotic Yell)
PROTOMARTYR "COME AND SEE" (Hardly Art)
MIMICKING BIRDS "BLOODLINES" (Glacial Pace)
YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN "WHALESONG" (Paperbag)
RAW GERONIMO "MAGNETIC LOVE" (Neurotic Yell)
Monday, February 10, 2014
Duck confit + a soul classic = MAGIC.
Here's a peak at an ad playing all over France right now - music supervised by your friendly neighborhood High Bias crew! An amazing soul track and duck confit... delicious. But the best part is dessert: Esther Phillip's 1966 recording of "Try Me" has made a run at the top of iTunes France R&B charts! Keep supporting amazing music, world!
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Monday, January 6, 2014
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