Mango Nebula 2011 Quilt :: Most Listened to Records of the Year Collage

See also the Mango Nebula 2010 Quilt

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Quilt :: Debut LP

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November 8th 2011

Mexican Summer

quiltmusic.bandcamp.com

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The Boston (/Brooklyn) Trio make their debut on Mexican Summer. Stream some tracks below:

More Quilt goodness:
Burger Records Cassette
EP - Agents of Play
Deubt Cassette
Live Review 2010
Video Interview

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Quilt :: Burger Records Tape

Quilt ::
Cowboys in the Void Cassette Tape
March 1st 2011
Burger Records
quiltmusic.bandcamp.com

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A new release from Quilt in the form of a cassette tape came out on Burger Records in California. Although it's a 'cassingle,' it's long enough to be considered an EP. The group just posted the whole thing for download on their bandcamp, which now includes "The Silver Stairs of Ketchikan" and "Children of the Light." The vocals are more in the forefront than any other release and it gives their vivid drone psychedelics a 60's infusion. There's a bunch of bands that last line could put into your head, but their triple harmonies even come to conjure Simon & Garfunkel. A good quote from Jenn Pelly at pellytwins.blogspot.com: "At a moment when so much underground psych is focused on synthesizers and electronic vibes, Quilt’s organic, vocal-heavy psych-rock is uplifting."

The cassingle was recorded with Jesse Gallagher in Cambridge in 2010 and pressed in a run of 300. I checked out Burger Record's website, because it seemed odd for an east coast based band to release something on the other side of the country. The label's got a lot of other great artists that are worth checking out.

For the past couple of years Quilt have been playing lots of shows, touring, and releasing things pretty frequently. Read about Liz Pelly's odyssey with the band on the road to sxsw via the Boston Phoenix. There are tons of live videos and surprises::
Intro
Day 1 - Philly
Day 2 - Fredericksburg
Day 3 - Asheville
Days 4 & 5 - Memphis and Denton

Let's hope that their first full length will be out soon. Rumor has it that Mexican Summer might release something soon, but no official word yet.

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Do It Together Boston :: 2010 Review, Part II

On a snowless day in January, I moved to Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Since the previous summer I had been working to promote and prepare releases with an art collective called The Whitehaus Family Record. Through the group and other associated collectives, I saw most of my favorite shows of 2010 and the Whitehaus even had a hand in one of my favorite records of 2010.

My new apartment was just down the street from their four story house that is best explained as a living and breathing art project. Junk, toys and broken instruments dangle from every corner and every chandelier as an ongoing dumpster diving piece. The place houses anywhere from ten to fifteen people, stacked high on homemade bunk beds or sometimes even living behind a curtain under the stairs. They are any manner of artist including poets, musicians, and visual artists. On any given day, one could walk into the house and find them performing a number of rarities: from remixing the audio from children’s VHSs on a floor littered with pedals to eating extremely salty oysters and preparing a living beverage called Kombucha.

What makes the Whitehaus and also the other musicians in Boston all the more interesting is that they tend to share a collective ethic both musically and spiritually. At the Whitehaus they call it The Yes Wave, and it also serves as their genre to subvert categorization. Sure, it’s based around openness , inclusion, and anti-elitistism, but it’s really about addressing and accepting everything that comes your way. To welcome whoever or whatever comes to your door and wants to play in your living room, to be open to whatever someone is trying to show you.

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New Monthly Concert Series @ Great Scott :: Quilt, Total Slacker, Windowspeak, No Way Jose ~ 1/23

This month marks the beginning of a monthy concert series at the Great Scott put on by the Pelly Twins. It kicks off with two favorites, Quilt and Total Slacker, on January 23rd. I don't know Windowspeak or No Way Jose, but if it's more of the same it should be amazing. 

More info at:: pellytwins.blogspot.com


Total Slacker :: "Crystal Necklace"






Quilt ~ quiltmusic.bandcamp.com
Total Slacker ~ myspace.com/totalslackerband
Windowspeak ~ windowspeakband.tumblr.com
No Way Jose ~ Vimeo

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Quilt Video :: Live on Bandwidth TV

Here's Quilt on the teletube as they were meant to be seen, with a rainbow background.

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Quilt :: Agents of Play

Quilt :: Pick N' Save

"Questing underground into lulling trances"

You’re wandering deep into some catacombs, ossuaries lined with brightly painted skulls, following some faint noise. You don’t know how you got there, but you just have to know what those sounds are and what or who is making them. The deeper you go, the darker it gets, but the louder and more entrancing the chanting and noises become. Just when you think you’re hopelessly lost and the music is the only thing that could possibly be left in the universe and it’s all you will ever really need if you could just find it, a light cracks in from some corner revealing the source: tacos.

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Preview :: Wormroot, Breakfast of Champs Comp #2

Download "Psychadelic Family - Country Jammer"

Breakfast of Champs has released their second comp with a lot of new artists and some old friends that I'm happy to see on BOC. Exciting things are happening.

You can download it for free or hold it for cheap: here.

1. Rene - Dummy Up (feat. Cop Magnet)

2. Emily Reo - Witch Mtn Pt. 2

3. Shai - The Feral Chatter Of Dreams

4. Arvid Noe - Holy Hail

5. Total Slacker - Stuck In '93

6. Milochondria - PBTH

7. The Shining Sea - Iron Song

8. Many Mansions - Frontier Gnosis

9. Bug Eyes - Float Some

10. Cop Magnet - Thinking Highly Of You

11. Dog Dog Bark Dog - Shlazing

12. Quilt - Agents Of Play

13. Lord Jeff - To Be

14. The Needy Visions - At Risk Youth

15. phillip seymour hoffman - Tu Y Yo

16. Psychedelic Family - Country Jammer

breakfastofchampsrecords.com

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Preview :: Quilt - Agents of Play

Download "Quilt - Pick n' Save"

Jamaica Plainers, Quilt, just released a 7" called Agents of Play on Breakfast of Champs Records. This is the first vinyl release for the band and its a tripped out, hypnotic popgasm. I couldn't even find a band to compare Quilt to if I wanted to. You just have to hear them, its an experience.

Next time you can catch them is June 8th at T.T. The Bear's Place with Pocahaunted.

Hold this at the Breakfast of Champs store.

myspace.com/quilt

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Breakfast of Champs Records

Syrup slides down the fretboard of a guitar and fills in the crannies of the waffle resting in the acoustic's sound hole. Pancakes are impaled on a high hat, hash browns bounce on a snare drum, and bacon and sausage are lined up along the keys of his synthesizer. Or, at least that's one way of imagining how Breakfast of Champs began.

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Preview :: Quilt

Download "Quilt - Disco Music For Trees"
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I just found out that Anna Rochinski, of fame for her Whitehaus act: Anna Fox Rochinski, is a part of the recently minted Quilt. They've got a self-titled cassette out now!!!

She's one part of the trance pop three piece. Bluesy electric riffs and psychedelic guitar that are sometimes complimented by banjo, ricochets in deep caverns and from the end of long tunnels. Swirling, enchanting vocals are distilled from each member, building a hypnotic ethereality.

Pick up the cassette from Breakfast of Champs Records or on their myspace!!!

myspace.com/quilt

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Quilt, Girlfriends, Hands & Knees, and Thick Shakes @ P.A.'s Lounge on 2.20.10

For a night basted with noise, the stage was sweetly dressed with floral arrangements. Sagging from the drapes, outlining the drum kit and climbing the mic stands, all to compliment to giant brass tuba hanging on the wall of what Girlfriends band members joked was ‘father’s’ or ‘pa’s’ Lounge. Thick Shakes set up the event for their EP release and gathered three of the areas most impressive new garage punk experiments. For a mostly male dominated genre, femininity was well represented (and not just with the flowers). Each band had at least one female member.

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