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There have been at least two bands named 'The Avalanches': 1. An Australia /electronic music collective 2. A defunct American surf rock group 1. The Avalanches are an electronic music collective from Melbourne, Australia. They are well known for their use of eclectic sampling, creating their debut album, 2000's "Since I Left You", entirely out of over 3,500 samples of obscure records, movies, and television shows. This is famously demonstrated on their hit single "Frontier Psychiatrist". |
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Beastie Boys' Yauch dies aged 47
Date: May 04, 2012
Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch has died at the age of 47, after a three-year battle with cancer.
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Portishead's Geoff Barrow Announces New Beak LP
Date: May 02, 2012
Beak>: "Yatton" Geoff Barrow's been a busy man this year. He's already released an album with Quakers , his indie rap project, and a Judge Dredd-inspired album called Drokk , plus Portishead has a handful of dates this summer. Now, he's announced that his other band, Beak> , will release their follow-up to 2009's self-titled debut , which is called >> . (Yes, the album's title is >>.) It's out ...
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Music Monday: New Albums, Videos, and Music News
Date: Apr 30, 2012
Advance Base A Shut-In's Prayer The Animals The Very Best of the Animals Geoff Barrow / Ben Salisbury Drokk LISTEN (Bandcamp) New collaboration between Portishead's Geoff Barrow and soundtrack composer Ben Salisbury, inspired by the comic Judge Dredd Blinker the Star We Draw Lines Blockhead Interludes After Midnight B.o.B.
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The Smiths Reforming This Fall?
Date: Apr 26, 2012
Cue a tirade of "what, by hologram?" jokes: British website Music-News.com reports that the Smiths are in talks to reform for a major fall tour, based on "a source" reporting that the band have been discussing the notion with a "well known promoter." There's little to make the story seem anything but spurious at this stage, particularly given the assertion that the move was inspired by the Stone ...
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The Avalanches 2 nd album is like the
Date: Apr 26, 2012
Chinese Democracy of plunderphonics, except none of the band have hit the dreadlock phase that can come with albums that take over a decade to release.
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Is This a New Mixtape From the Avalanches?
Date: Apr 26, 2012
Is this new music from the Avalanches ? Over the weekend, the mysterious Australian crew posted a cryptic link on their Twitter to a mix called "Sleepy Bedtime Mix for Young Ones", saying that it "may or may not be mixtape by ♥ ∆v∆L∆NCH∑≤ ♥." It's being hosted on a new mixtape site called Pinchy & Friends, allegedly created by Tom Kuntz , the director of the Avalanches' video for "Frontier ...
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Preview the Give Up the Ghost Reunion Doc
Date: Apr 25, 2012
Last December, the Boston hardcore band Give Up the Ghost reunited for two reunion shows in Boston and L.A. These were the first Give Up the Ghost shows since their 2004 breakup. Formerly known as American Nightmare, the band featured Cold Cave 's Wes Eisold as a founding member.
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The Avalanches Return, Sort Of, With a Lullaby Mixtape
Date: Apr 23, 2012
It's been 12 years since the Avalanches released their debut album, Since I Left You , a masterpiece of sample-based psychedelia, among other things, and a direct ancestor of chillwave; since then, rumors of a follow-up have swirled, but details have remained as hazy as the group's own music...
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