New Burning Hearts EP

New Burning Hearts EP - comes out June 21st on Shelflife Records.

Pre-order here.

NYC Popfest 2011 Mix

To familiarize you with the bands playing this year’s festival, I’ve put together a mix which showcases the bands playing NYC Popfest 2011! You can download it for free here:

http://www.nycpopfest.org/mp3s/2011/POPFESTMIX2011.zip

Tracklist:

01. Betty & The Werewolves – Paper Thin

02. CAUCUS – Wandering Ones

03. Sea Lions – Good Feelings

04. Pet Milk – Cherry Outlines

05. Soda Shop – Farewell

06. The Sunny Street – College

07. Days – Downhill

08. Persian Rugs – Always All

09. Panda Riot – 16 Seconds

10. Amida – Virtue Was Your Downfall

11. Summer Fiction – Chandeliers

12. Chalk & Numbers – He Knew

13. Dream Diary – Something Tell Her

14. The Felt Tips – Boyfriend Devoted

15. Go Sailor – Together Forever In Love

16. Gold-Bears – Something To Think About

17. CUFFS – Albert Kroft (Demo)

18. The Hairs – Duh x 12

19. Procedure Club – Feel Sorry For Me

20. Shrag – Rabbit Kids

21. The Specific Heats – End of an Error

22. Silver Swans – Secrets

23. Tiny Fireflies – Snow

24. The Motifs – Backwards

1 hr 8min | mix by Dr Maz

Songs of 2010

Better late than never.. Here are just some of my favorite songs of last year! I just have enough to fit on a CD-r -- though I'm not sure anyone still uses CDs. Enjoy!



Dr Maz presents Songs of 2010


Tracklist

01 Wild Nothing - Chinatown
02 Shrag - Rabbit Kids
03 Girls - Heartbreaker
04 Tennis - Marathon
05 The Electric Pop Group - The Way It Used To Be
06 Seapony - Dreaming
07 Reading Rainbow - Wasting Time
08 Veronica Falls - Beachy Head
09 Gold-Bears - Tally
10 Hunx and His Punx - You Don't Like Rock and Roll
11 Harlem - Someday Soon
12 La Sera - Never Come Around
13 The Radio Dept. - Heaven's On Fire
14 CEO - Illuminata
15 Belle & Sebastian - I Want The World To Stop
16 Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
17 Best Coast - Crazy For You
18 Northern Portrait - When Goodness Falls
19 The School - Can't Understand
20 Aias - Aias
21 Catwalk - (Please) Don't Break Me
22 Allo Darlin - My Heart is a Drummer
23 Still Corners - Endless Summer


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Enjoy!
xo

CMJ 2010

print designed by nate duval


The CMJ Music Festival is nearly here! With so many exciting bands this year, I've put together a mix to get you acquianted with some of the bands playing next week.

Tracklist

01. Wild Nothing - Live in Dreams
02. Kisses - Kisses
03. Oberhofer - Don'tneedya
04. Beach Fossils - Face It
05. Allo Darlin' - If Loneliness Was Art
06. Darren Hanlon - All These Things
07. Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr - Simple Girl
08. Dream Diary - Is He Really Mine?
09. Crayon Fields - How Loved You Are
10. Magic Bullets - Sigh The Day Away
11. Shrag - Rabbit Kids
12. Eternal Summers - Pogo
13. La Sera - Never Come Around
14. Dead Leaf Echo - Half-Truth

{ download mix }

Still Corners

Do you love Broadcast, Blonde Redhead, Camera Obscura? Then you will absolutely fall for London's Still Corners. Dreamy, hazy, and beautiful.


Endless Summer { mp3 }

History of Love { mp3 }

{ myspace }

etc.

Cats On Fire (the best band to come out of Finland) have just released a 20-track compilation of some of their earlier recordings. The compilation starts off with a cover of one of my all-time favorite songs, White Town's "Your Woman". Get the album on Matinee records.

{ mp3 } Cats On Fire - Your Woman (White Town Cover)


The Divine Comedy release a new single from their tenth (!!) album "Bang Goes The Knighthood" on May 23rd. The single is titled "At The Indie Disco" -- which is where I was in Glasgow on Sunday night!




{ mp3 } The Divine Comedy - At The Indie Disco


As I recently returned from Glasgow (my current favorite city), I should mention one Scottish band to check out.....

Zoey van Goey are that band! They will soon to release their second album. I was fortunate to catch them play a matinee show at Captains Rest on Sunday and thought they were terrific. Their debut album was released in the US earlier this year. Highly recommended!

{ mp3 } Zoey van Goey - We Don't Have That Kind of Bread




Also, if you're in NYC this Friday, i'll probably play these songs and many more at MONDO! So come dance with me!

Annemarie

Indonesian pop band Annemarie are currently working hard recording their second album. Their debut album "ABC on TV" was one my favorite albums of 2007. Their charming and tuneful indiepop is perfect for summer afternoons. The new album will feature latin and jazz elements, while still holding onto their signature jangly guitar sound.

Annemarie - Blue Sky on Holiday

{ myspace }

Also, check out this video from their first album.

NYC Popfest 2010 Lineup!

NYC Popfest 2010 lineup has been announced! Mark your calendar for May 20-23 and pack your bags for New York City!

Thursday May 20th
Venue – Cake Shop

Sweater Girls (CA)
Elephant Parade (NYC)
Dream Diary (NYC)
Leaving Mornington Crescent (Sweden)
Horowitz (UK)
Veronica Falls (UK)

* * * * *

Friday May 21st
Venue – Don Hill’s

Cotton Candy (MA)
The Smittens (VT)
Allo Darlin (UK)
Pants Yell! (MA)
Tender Trap (UK)

* * * * *

Saturday May 22nd
Venue – Spike Hill (free matinee show!)

Hearts!Attack (UK)
Corita (NYC)
Gold-Bears (GA)
Moustache of Insanity (UK)
One Happy Island (MA)

* * * * *

Saturday May 22nd
Venue – The Bell House

Very Truly Yours (IL)
World Atlas (NYC)
Bears (OH)
My Teenage Stride (NYC)
BOAT (WA)
The Wake (UK)

* * * * *

Sunday May 23rd
Venue – Littlefield

Santa Monica Swim & Dive Club (MI)
For Ex-Lovers Only (FL)
The Young Friends (AZ)
Apple Orchard (CA)
Brown Recluse (PA)
Bunnygrunt (MO)
Sea Lions (CA)
Neverever (CA)
The Secret History (NYC)
The Embassy (Sweden)

Ticket info, DJs, and more details will follow soon!

xo

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NYC Popfest 2010

........ we're back!

NYC Popfest returns MAY 20-23, 2010!

Stay tuned for lineup and details. You can follow us on facebook and twitter.



xo
maz

new Burning Hearts!

yay! here's the new single from BURNING HEARTS. it comes with a remix of "a peasant's dream". order the 7" from shelflife here.

{ mp3 } burning hearts - night animal

The Best Songs of 2009

Dr Maz presents The Best Songs of 2009 { zip file }

1 hour 27 minutes

Tracklist

01 The Pastels / Tenniscoats - Vivid Youth
02 Crayon Fields - All The Pleasures of the World
03 Toy Fight - High Noon
04 Allo Darlin' - Henry Rollins Don't Dance
05 The Cave Weddings - Bring Your Love
06 Bricolage - Footsteps
07 The Drums - I Felt Stupid
08 Memory Tapes - Bicycle
09 Air France - Gothenburg Belongs To Me
10 jj - Ecastasy
11 Veronica Falls - Found Love in a Graveyard
12 Sea Lions - Beautiful Day
13 Summer Cats - Lonely Planet
14 Crystal Stilts - Love is a Wave
15 Girls - Lust for Life
16 Liechtenstein - All At Once
17 Afternoon Naps - The Day We Started
18 Best Coats - The Sun Was High (So Was I)
19 Standard Fare - Philadelphia
20 The Cavalcade - Meet You in the Rain
21 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
22 The Ballet - House on Fire
23 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - 1999
24 Neverever - Temporary Tattoo
25 Camera Obscura - French Navy
26 Cats on Fire - Fabric
27 Atlas Sound - Quick Canal (feat. Laetitia Sadler)


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Enjoy!
xo

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

We hope you're having a wonderful holiday season!

Here's a new Christmas song from The Magnetic Fields. it's from their new album "Realism", which you can pre-order here.

The Magnetic Fields - Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree

xoxo
dr maz

Matinée Records

It's going to be a very good winter, musically speaking. Matinée Records will finally be releasing two long-awaited albums.

Northern Portrait - Criminal Art Lovers (December 2009)

The Electric Pop Group - Seconds (January 2010)

You can stream some songs on the myspace page and pre-order them here, along with a new compilation "The Matinée Grand Prix".

The Tender Trap

The Tender Trap have released their new single, Fireworks, on the Fortuna Pop! label.

Free download is here.

{ myspace }

The Ballet

Hooray! The Ballet are releasing their long-awaited second album, entitled BEAR LIFE, on November 21st.

Tracklist
01 Chinatown
02 Dangerous
03 The House on Fire
04 Teenage Medusa
05 Kitty
06 I'm Going Through a Personal Transformation
07 Rough Trade
08 You Call Me
09 Girlfriends
10 Never Go Home
11 Murder at the Discotheque
12 Expectations

Album art and packaging design by Daniel Barrow, featuring do-it-yourself animation.

The band will have a record release show at Union Hall in Brooklyn on November 21st.

{ myspace }

Elm City Popfest

A Sunny Day In Glasgow to headline first Elm City PopFest — New Haven, Conn., Nov. 14





Our friends at Tweefort have teamed up with ArtSpace New Haven and the Connecticut indie music blog CT Indie to present the first Elm City PopFest — a full day of music to benefit the arts in New Haven. Two shows will be presented on Saturday, Nov. 14 with 7 bands, headlined by Philadelphia dream-pop outfit A Sunny Day In Glasgow.

The music will start at 3 p.m. at the ArtSpace gallery at 50 Orange St., downtown New Haven. Headlining the afternoon show will be New York indiepop band The Metric Mile. Also playing will be Fay Rey (New Haven/New York) followed by One Happy Island (Boston), The Sugarplums (Baltimore) and The Cavemen Go (New Haven/Boston). Members of the band Boy Genius (New York) will DJ.

The music will continue at 8 p.m. with the ArtSpace Underground @ Elm City PopFest. There will be a DJ and performance art, as well as music from The Tyler Trudeau Attempt (New Haven) and the festival headliner, A Sunny Day In Glasgow. Drinks will be provided at the evening event by New Haven's 116 Crown.

Each show will be $5, or $8 for both shows. All proceeds will go to benefit ArtSpace New Haven, which has undergone more than $90,000 in budget cuts this year.

For more information, check out http://tweefort.com/

bits and pieces

Boy Genius have released the first song from their second album "Staggering", to be released January 2010.

{ mp3 } old new england
{ myspace }


Pants Yell! have a new album coming out! 'RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION' will be available November 10th on Slumberland Records.

Listen to their new song "Cold Hands" on the myspace page.


Free Loan Investments have released their final EP on Magic Marker records! The 7" + digital download is available here for only $4.


Katsen - "the sexy electronic pop band from Brighton" - have just released their debut album "It Hertz!" on Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation in the UK. Free mp3s below.

{ mp3 } let's build a city
{ mp3 } cactus
{ myspace }


and here's a katzen video:

Buba and the Shop Assistants

Rare 1984 debut single!

upcoming shows

of note ------

09/05/2009 Cinema Red & Blue (Comet Gain side project), The Ladybug Transistor @ Cake Shop

09/07/2009 My Teenage Stride, Boy Genius @ Cameo Gallery

09/09/2009 Circulatory System @ Le Poisson Rouge

09/10/2009 Kings of Convenience @ The Bowery Ballroom

09/11/2009 Super Furry Animals @ Highline Ballroom

09/12/2009 Super Furry Animals @ Maxwell's

09/18/2009 The Secret History @ Mondo at Don Hill's

09/21/2009 Fanfarlo @ The Bowery Ballroom

09/22/2009 The Drums @ Mercury Lounge

09/22/2009 Fanfarlo @ The Bell House

10/03/2009 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Webster Hall

10/16/2009 The Raincoats @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

10/20/2009 Broadcast @ Le Poisson Rouge

10/24/2009 Mum @ Le Poisson Rouge

11/04/2009 The Hidden Cameras @ Le Poisson Rouge

11/06/2009 The Hidden Cameras @ Union Hall

11/22/2009 Camera Obscura @ Music Hall of Williamsburg



see you there!
maz

DeLuxe - 4 Year Anniversary @ The Bell House!

Tonight is the return of my indiepop club night, Deluxe! It's been nearly 2 months since the farewell party at Lolita. The new home is in the Front(ier) Room of the beautiful Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn. To celebrate, i've invited DJ Scott B from Australian indiepop band Summer Cats to guest DJ! Should be a really great night of music.. hope to see you there!

The Bell House - Lounge
149 7th Street (between 2nd and 3rd avenue)
Brooklyn, NY

10PM - 4AM
FREE!

Directions:

F or R TRAIN
9th Street & 4th Avenue stop. Walk down one block down to 3rd Avenue and turn right. Walk 2 blocks to 7th Street and turn left. We are down the block on the right side.

G or F TRAIN
9th Street & Smith Street stop. Turn left on 9th Street. Walk across the canal and turn left on 2nd Avenue. Walk two blocks to 7th Street and turn right. We are on the left side.