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“Suicide Party” By Ja Prawn [LIVE]

May 9th, 2010

Push Forward

May 4th, 2010

Pushforward is a new app for the iPhone. It is centered around the creative community, bringing together daily news and content from a variety of creative professionals from the world of film, music, poetry, design, fine art, fashion, and more. This new app community is all about pushing great talent forward and connecting with like minded friends using the Facebook and Twitter features from within Pushforward.

vosotros was asked to curate the music section! There is a music player inside the app – and we will be frequently rotating the tracks. Users can also browse our full discography, and all vosotros blog posts will appear in the Social House news feed. Available now on iTunes for only $0.99 !!!

Download Pushforward from the iTunes App Store

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LMM 3.1 – Left Right

May 3rd, 2010

Learning Music Monthy is back. LMM 3.1 – Left Right is the inaugural release of season three. It features the current Learning Music live band: Corey Fogel (drums), Davin Givhan (guitar), Lewis Keller (bass), and Lisa Tremain (backing vocals). Listen to the first track “No Hero” below – and then head over to LearningMusicMonthly.com to download the full album for free.

This album is centered around the “live” band. All the songs were written over the last year to be played by this band at small concerts in Los Angeles. For a while now, I’ve been very interested in the difference between recorded and live musics, seeking to realize their separate potentials. Learning Music began as an exercise in recording music in a studio setting, with little concern for how the sounds might be translated into a live performance. Likewise, when we formed the first Learning Music band, I wanted it to play music that was practically unrecordable, utilizing mostly large-group improvisation. This album appears to be somewhat of a compromise between those two approaches.

In writing these songs, I wanted to in some way align the band — the closest the LM lineup has come to resembling a traditional rock band — with socially/politically radical punk music of the late 1970s. Lyrically, this album is most concerned with deconstructing the assumed roles of music in society, addressing the stereotypes it promotes and lives within, and questioning whether music can even address its social simulacra without reinforcing them.

:: John Wood

www.LearningMusicMonthly.com

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Learning Music @ Echo Curio

April 29th, 2010

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It Was You (feat. Shoulda)

April 21st, 2010

About a year ago I became obsessed with a group from Camden, NJ…they’re called Tye Tribbett and G.A. I dunno how to describe them…prog-gos? Like prog rock but gospel music?!? They bring a Christian message but the box it comes in is what really intrigued me. Powerful, rhythmically driven with crazy harmonies and choir vocals. So naturally I really wanted to have my own prog gospel band!

Introducing Shoulda.

Here’s the bio I began last year:

It’s not too good to be true- it’s true!
Out of a good feeling comes a brighter sun and taller corn!

That’s as far as I got.

Hope you enjoy “it was you”

Gabe

(released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license)

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Alex Lilly- vocals
Beck Bennett- preacher
Aaron Arntz- organ, trumpet, vocals
Charles Altura- guitar
Gabe Noel- bass, programming, vocals
Lewis Keller- robot controlled percussion
Zach Harmon- electronic percussion
Jody Giachello- drums

Music written by Aaron Arntz and Gabe Noel
Lyrics by Gabe Noel
Recorded by Nate Wood and Gabe Noel
Mixed by Franny Graham and Gabe Noel
Mastered by John Wood
Produced by Gabe Noel

artwork courtesy of Allison Grant.

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This is the fifth in a series of five songs – released weekly – culminating in an upcoming EP entitled vosotros presents: Rhoda.

(week four) (week three) (week two) (week one)

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Learning Music :: It May Also Be This

April 20th, 2010

#1. New Compilation
vosotros is releasing a new compilation from the Learning Music album-a-month series. It May Also Be This includes eighteen of our favorites from the second half of season two (and serves as a companion piece to the band’s previous compilation called This May Also Be It). Includes remixes of Mooey Moobau, Willoughby, and The Sweet Hurt. Not to mention some Jonny Pride rockers, hypnotic synth ballads, songs inspired by Jeopardy, a few Bach-esque inventions, and some TendaLoin produced r&b synth jams. This is a digital only release —>>> Amazon | iTunes | FINA | Waxpoetics

#2. KCRW – Today’s Top Tune
Learning Music is KCRW’s “Today’s Top Tune”! Today! ”Ovulation” was originally released on LMM 2.12 – The Biologic Imperative - is included as the last track on their new compilation – and is available for free download today from KCRW.com. Tune in to Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11am pacific to hear the song (89.9 FM in Los Angeles – and streaming worldwide at kcrw.com).

#3. Live Performance on KSCR
Learning Music is performing this Friday live on KSCR, the campus radio station at USC. Tune into “The Live Show” on Friday from 1-2pm (1560 AM in Los Angeles – and streaming worldwide at kscr.org).

#4. Echo Curio Residency
Learning Music begins a sixth month residency at Echo Curio on April 29th. The band will be curating the last Thursday of every month through September. Joining the band on April 29th will be Superhumanoids, Nymph, and story teller Eli Rarey.

#5. Season Three Begins May 1st!
After a brief hibernation, Learning Music will resume their album-a-month schedule on May 1st! Purchase a physical subscription today at LearningMusicMonthly.com to receive the new album on May 1st (limited edition, handmade in recycled packaging – delivered to your mailbox).

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