Top Hat Studios in Austin, since the band was already set up there to rehearse and it was close to the refrigerator.
It is whispered that the lost brothers are currently hiding in sheffield, recording a number of songs under watchful eyes and a new album will be upon us soon.
The Delta Mirror is a cocktail of all your past loves, the ones you wish had stuck around, and check up on from time to time even though you've moved on.
Ditto the musical diet he was raised on, a strange bedfellow mix of his dad's 70's records and his sister's taking him to 80's metal concerts.
America wont be neglected, with the band heading to SXSW in Texas and touring extensively later in the year.
The Dodos No Color (Frenchkiss) The drums hit you in the chest first, spraying your speakers like swift gunshots.
These United States surrender themselves to unbridled rock and roll exuberance: ringing guitars, thundering drums, desperate yearning bordering on hope.
Most of the record was recorded in a room with us spilling all the guts we could muster into the mics.
The growlers are a rock and pop group formed in long beach California in 2006 who are yet to became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.
While their growing social awareness saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions.
Alongside bands like The Big Pink and The Fuck Buttons, The Delta Mirror see's the things that made our past relationships work and brings them together creating the ideal love.
Sorority Row, and Grandma's Boy, and have even been enshrined in the video game world with a cult following through The Sims.
Craig Gordon and David Bolt started out as a hip hop two piece in the late 90's and have been writing music in some form ever since.
From small towns to big cities, they explode on stage with spirit, spontaneity, and a style all their own.
It brings back a lot of good feelings about growing up and listening to great people who can really play their instruments.
Although they consider themselves an indie rock band, they don't really seem like much of an indie rock band at all, since their opportunities have been nothing short of extraordinary.
The album is a heartfelt odyssey that also rocks with an explosive touch at times, as the band continues to push the boundaries of what they've done before.
Influenced by legendary artists like Bo Diddley, The Clash, The Beach Boys, The Ramones and Black Flag, they add an unruly charm to the Austin music scene.
During the release of their first album and their ongoing singles releases, they have experimented with recording techniques that have the ability to bend sound in ways only drugs can.
The Growlers sound is best exemplified through Nielsen's cryptic lyrics and the relationship it has with Matt Taylor.
Other stand out collaborations comes in the form of those who lent their time and talents to the making of The Bear.
With the addition of Karrie K on bass, their sound has progressed to an ambient mix of shoegazy guitar and gothic vocals, but their production has held onto the same boom bap button pushing they started with.
We know that the lost brothers released these songs on their debut album (trails of the lonely) to a heap of praise from the likes of NME, Word magazine, Hot Press, and their fans (losties).
Though they complete each other, they compel and challenge one another in ways only the frequent growler fan can truly understand.
Although their initial musical style was rooted in 1960s rock and roll and skiffle, the group works with different musical genres, ranging from ice flossing hip hop to psychedelic rock.
The band formed in 2009 when Jon Dee and Freedy got together to write a couple of songs about their early days in music, when they washed dished for a living.
It is also said that the lost brothers wrote a book of songs that autumn, and in the dead of winter they recorded the songs in an attic in Portland, Oregon.
Minutes, including the instrumental break of 'Don't Stop' and the sneak attack solo that weaves its way around the steely rhythms of 'Don't Try and Hide It.
The main focus of No Color was to bottle the frenzied folk approach that's been there since the beginning.
The Jungle Rockers are the result of five friends soaking up a hot and sticky drunken summer in Austin.
And These United States play it the way folk was meant to be played: hard, fast, big, slow, long, loud, loose, at last unburdened.
They are the result of a combination of skilled modern engineering techniques and the very finest outdated recording and amplified equipment.
Van Dyke Parks to Phil Spector, Daniel Johnston, and beyond, although the band are as influenced by their immediate geography (the sticks just outside Glasgow), as they are any particular musical reference points.
The band quickly get back into action after recording, when they head out on a UK tour with friends and fellow Scots Mogwai.
This forward motion feeling has driven the duo since 2005, but several key changes lift their fourth LP (No Color) to another level.
Later this year Lefse will release a collection of remixes from Machines that Listen put together from an all star cast of bands and producers.
With several releases under their belt and the summer of 2011 touring the country, they are back again to perform at SXSW!
Through the following year, the lost brothers have been spotted in person, performing at Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, Texas (SXSW), New York, Portland, Toronto, Paris, and a hop, skip and jump across the land of the UK and the their beloved Ireland.
