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Visit ECHOREV on their Website, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Enjoy and if you can, let me know what you think! Turrtle@EnterTheShell.com

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• ETS TV- Kitty Clementine Webisode
• Free Song Download – ECHOREV Offers “Sparks”
  
• The Digg – Episode 19
• PLaylist – White Jacket Playlist
• ETS Show-Madison Violet {live}

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Tiger High is a tight-knit group of musicians all born and raised in the music mecca of Memphis, Tennessee. The group is composed of songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Jake Vest (Jack Oblivian, The Trashed Romeos), drummer Greg Roberson (Reigning Sound, Arthur Lee’s Love, The Trashed Romeos, Jack Oblivian, Compulsive Gamblers) and two of Vest’s longtime musical partners, brother Toby Vest and Greg Faison. Together, Tiger High co-writes and records their material at High/Low Recording, a studio owned and operated by band member Toby Vest. The studio serves as the band’s home base of operation as well as the home of their wrecking crew style production team.

Visit Tiger High on their Label Page, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter!

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Here are some other ETS you might be into:

• ETS TV –Walking With Twin Atlantic
• The Digg –Episode 14
• Free Song Download –The Danks Offers “Automocar”
• The PLaylist –The Hudson Branch Playlist
• ETS Show-Walter Rose {Live}

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In this edition of the Playlist we are looking back at the Beastie Boys after the passing of Adam Yauch.

Beastie Adam ‘Ad Roc’ Horovitz recently posted a message of thanks to the band’s tumblr, along with the above pic, saying:

“as you can imagine, shit is just fkd up right now. but i wanna say thank you to all our
friends and family (which are kinda one in the same) for all the love and support.
i’m glad to know that all the love that Yauch has put out into the world is coming right back at him.
thank you.

Adam Yauch was a Buddhist and a loving, positive human being. He is someone we can learn from, and are continuously inspired by.

We miss you, MCA! Your memory lives on…

Originally, I had chosen this band for the mere reason that these guys rocked my socks off more than any other lesser-known band ever has. So when I began researching for this week’s post, I came to the grim discovery that the band decided to take an “extended hiatus” (according to its Facebook account) in September, and played its final show this past December. This week’s AotW is one that will pay tribute to the untimely passing of one of the greatest band no one had ever heard of (unless you are avid Enter The Shell readers!).

Julius C comprised of four guys from New York but it started with two. According to the band’s bio, they went through so many changes and sounds that only four years after they formed, the band was already in trouble.

But as is the case in many artists’ stories, heartbreak brought out the best of the band. With an EP under their belts, the two founding members decided to finalize the band and hole themselves up in a worn down house in New Jersey. What resulted was their pop-rock super-fun-time debut, Ok, Ok.

Though this reviewer wrote raves when the album appeared on the ETS blogosphere in the summer of 2010, Ok,Ok had not been officially released as the band was trying to self-release. They began a Kickstarter page and met their goal, releasing the album officially later in the year.

This young-at-heart group even took it a step further and shared its joy outside the CD player and iPod. In the summer of 2010, Julius C embarked on a 30-day tour sponsored by Silly Bandz (“You can use them to put your face back together after it gets rocked off, OK?”) that had some proceeds go to benefit programs helping homeless pregnant/parenting teenagers. Stolar even started Rock Star Camp which brought more art activities to summer camps. Julius C traveled to different summer camps and taught the kids songs and played shows at night, spreading their joy throughout the Northeast. Finally, the band even embarked on a mini tour of sorts again when it began recording a series of YouTube videos where they would play songs for unsuspecting bystanders (the elderly, a baby, etc.).

Julius C’s fun attitude came through in its album and in how the band interacted with its fans and in the end, that’s what making music is all about. Unfortunately, the band’s departure leaves a hole in my heart but here’s to hoping they find the success they are looking for in other ventures … Or back in Julius C.

Check out Julius C’s YouTube Page

Here are some other posts you might enjoy on EnterTheShell.com:

• Album Review – Ok, Ok by Julius C
• The Enter the Shell Show – “The Terrible Two’s Show!” featuring an interview with Julius C
• Album Review – Stuck on Nothing by Free Energy

Photo/Video Credit: Sara Medina

Visit Cerebro on their Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Myspace and YouTube.

Help Cerebro become a part of the LA Skacore Invasion! Become a fan of LA Skacore Invasion and then please request Cerebro to play!

Enjoy and if you can, let me know what you think! Turrtle@EnterTheShell.com

Thanks Again to Noho2 Studio for providing the space! Click Here to see the pictures from the show!

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• ETS TV-Red Robot & Larry Thomas “The Soup Nazi” Webisode
• Free Song Download –AO (Ay-Oh) Offers “Ay-Oh! (Out Alive)”
• The Digg –Episode 17
• PLaylist –The Call In Playlist
• ETS Show- Omar Torrez Live

Adam Lambert-Trespassing
Beach House-Bloom
Best Coast-The Only Place
Cherri Bomb-This Is The End of Control
Cookie Duster-When Flying Was Easy
Fixers-We’ll Be The Moon
Garbage-Not Your Kind of People
HEALTH-Max Payne 3 [Soundtrack]
Hot Water Music-Exister
Killer Mike-R.A.P. Music
Lisa Marie Presley-Storm and Grace
mewithoutYou-Ten Stories
MV & EE-Space Homestead
Niki & the Dove-Instinct
PHILM-Harmonic [Slayer's Dave Lombardo, War's Pancho Tomaselli and Gerry Nestler of Civil Defiance]
Saint Etienne-Words and Music by Saint Etienne
Santana-Shape Shifter
Shadows Fall-Fire From The Sky
Simian Mobile Disco Unpatterns
Squarepusher-Ufabulum
Stephane Wrembel-Origins
Sugarman 3-What the World Needs Now
Tenacious D-Rize of the Fenix
The Cribs-In the Belly Of The Brazen Bull
The Nighthawks-Damn Good Time!
Violens-True
Willie Nelson-Heroes

The anti-workaday quartet has engaged in national tours with Hey Rosetta! and Two Hours Traffic, caused widespread wowing of festival patrons at both Pop Montreal and North by Northeast, and have graced Tokyo Police Club and Ted Leo with their blistering onstage presence. With cowboy capitalists sitting high on the Canadian bacon and the Buzzcocks approaching senior citizenry, the Danks propose an alternative economy, one that deals strictly in the currency of cool

Visit The Danks on their Website, Facebook and Twitter!

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Here are some other ETS you might be into:

• ETS TV – Turrtle Interviews The John Steel Singers!
• The Digg – Episode 19
• Free Song Download – RAH RAH Offers “Little Poems”
• The PLaylist – White Jacket Playlist
• ETS Show- Rhett Frazier Inc {live}

Photo Credit: Denim Dan

In This edition of The Playlist we’re opening up the phone lines again to see who will call! All topics are fair game in this second edition of the Call-in PLaylist!

Thanks to all who called in!

Abes, Joser, Bull & Sara!

To read Joser’s blog about life on the road visit: http://thejoser.livejournal.com/

Visit Enter The Shell on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and write us a review on Itunes.

Here’s The Playlist:

1. Cub Scouts- “Do You Hear”

2. The Toxic Avenger- “Never Stop”

3. Dan London- “A Little Bit about Me”

4. Everest- “Rapture”

5. Mozella- “Another You”

6. YACHT- “Le Goudron”

Let me know your thoughts, email me Turrtle@EnterTheShell.com

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• ETS TV– Midnight Show With MAL Webisode
• Album Review – The Heaven Switch
• Free Song Download –Lowlakes Offers “Song For Motion”
• The PLaylist – The Call In Playlist
  
• ETS Show-Rhett Frazier Inc {live}

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Robyn got her first taste of success not singing but with voice acting, voicing a character of 1989’s Swedish/Norwegian film, “The Journey to Melonia,” as well as the Swedish version of “All Dogs Go To Heaven” as a 10-year-old.

Two years later, she was discovered and upon finishing middle school was signed to Ricochet Records Sweden, a subsidiary of BMG. At 16, she signed with RCA Records and released her debut single, “You’ve Got Somethin’” in Sweden in 1994. The song wasn’t exactly a success, but her next single “Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect)” was her breakthrough in Sweden and gave her some momentum for Robyn is Here, her 1996 debut album.

In typical American fashion, we were late to the party but we still caught the bus. Her U.S. breakthrough was “Show Me Love,” a song released in 1997 in the same vein as those Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore songs that were in constant rotation. The song peaked at No. 7 in America and is her last song to reach the Top 10 since. But don’t think that that means she has been unsuccessful.

After a move to Jive Records and a couple subsequent albums, Robyn grew tired of the wholesome teeny-bopper pop scene and recorded “Who’s That Girl” in 2004. Jive was not happy with this new Euro/electro pop sound but Robyn fought the good fight and ultimately decided not to let suits dictate her passion. Thus, Konichiwa Records and the REAL Robyn were born!

Robyn started Konichiwa Records in order to give her the freedom to do whatever she damn well pleased and it worked. Robyn was released in 2005 and she burst back onto the Swedish music scene in a big way. Using huge electro poppy beats yet mixing it up by implementing rap and reggae sounds as well, the album is a perfect way to introduce the new Robyn to the world. The opening track, “Curriculum Vitae,” sets the tone with an eerie, pump-up intro, touting Robyn as the end-all be-all bad ass and the rest of the album follows suit. The U.S. version of the album wasn’t released until 2008 and three of the songs were Top 10 club hits, one of which (“With Every Heartbeat”) getting some radio play.

In 2010, Robyn embarked on an ambitious challenge: releasing three albums in one year. She succeeded. Kind of. Body Talk, Pt. 1 was released in June and featured eight songs, including the Top 10 hit, “Dancing on My Own.” In September, Body Talk, Pt. 2 was released, which also included eight songs and the single, “Hang With Me.” Here is where Robyn only kind of succeeded. Instead of releasing a third album with all new material, the final installment, simply entitled Body Talk, is an amped up version of many of the songs off the previous two albums, plus a few new tracks and the single, “Call Your Girlfriend.” Though some may argue that she kind of cheated, it doesn’t change the fact that all three albums are full of dance hits while every once in awhile still paying tribute to the type of music that made her successful in the first place.

Robyn’s fiery spirit appears in great form with songs like “Konichiwa Bitches,” “Who’s That Girl?” and “U Should Know Better” She’s a bad ass, she knows it and she knows how to work it. But while she touts her strength, she also shows some weaknesses and human struggle in songs like “Dancing on My Own,” “Crash and Burn Girl” and “Be Mine!”

Though she has never won a Grammy (she’s been nominated four times), Robyn has definitely made her mark on a global scale. She’s performed at Nobel Prize ceremonies, become an ambassador for UNICEF, had top hits all over Europe and has won several Swedish Grammys. She’s also made her mark with other artists and in pop culture. She’s worked with the likes of The Knife, Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys, Royksopp, The Teddybears, Katy Perry, Deadmau5 and others. She was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live in 2011 and most recently, her hit song “Dancing on My Own” was featured at the end of the April 29 episode of the HBO show Girls entitled, “All Adventurous Women Do,” further proof that she is one ferocious female.

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Facebook

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Check out these other posts on EnterTheShell.com:

• Sara’s Best Albums of 2010
• Album Review – “Body Talk” by Robyn
• Free Download – “Tonight” by Nikita
• The Enter The Shell Show – Aloha Radio

Photo Credit: Sara Medina

Visit Aloha Radio on their Website, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube.

Enjoy and if you can, let me know what you think! Turrtle@EnterTheShell.com

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• ETS TV-Red Robot & Larry Thomas “The Soup Nazi” Webisode
• Free Song Download –Bethpage Black Offers “Losing My Nerve”
• The Digg – Episode 19
• Programing – April
• ETS Show-UltraMunx {live}

Alex Clare-Lateness Of The Hour
ALO-Sounds Like This
Count Your Lucky Stars-Old Wounds: Warmth in the Winter of 1914-1915
Damon Albarn-Dr. Dee
Dana Buoy-Summer Bodies
Daytrader-Twelve Years
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury-DROKK: Music Inspired by Mega-City One
Glenn Frey-After Hours [of The Eagles]
Heavy Blanket-Heavy Blanket [Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis project]
Heavy Cream-Super Treatment
Here We Go Magic-A Different Ship
Keane-Strangeland
Kindness-World, You Need A Change of Mind
Led Er Est-The Diver
Off!-Off!
PS I Love You-Death Dreams
Rita Wilson-AM/FM
Sara Watkins-Sun Midnight Sun
Silversun Pickups-Neck Of The Woods
Video Love-Mon Ange

The song re-visits the quintessentially Rah Rah combination of trade-off lead vocals from Marshall Burns and Erin Passmore and dwells in the heavy complexity of relationships and being “poor, drunk and scared of being alone,” told through a poetically skewed lens of life on the road, playing in a band.

Visit RAH RAH on their Facebook and Twitter!

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Get a glimpse of what its like to Enter The Shell, by checking out the performances on the ETS Show by Clicking Here!

Here are some other ETS you might be into:

• ETS TV –The Two Man Gentlemen Band Perform “Cheese & Crackers”
• Programming –March
• Free Song Download – RAH RAH’s Erin Passmore Offers “Downtown”
• The PLaylist –The Hudson Branch Playlist
• ETS Show-Madison Violet {live}

Visit Whitejacket on their Website, Facebook and Twitter.

Here’s The Playlist:

1. Twin Trip- “Heavy Load”

2. Beast Make Bombs- “Coney Island”

3. Whitejacket- “Medinah”

4. Whitejacket- “Inside Out”

5. Whitejacket- “Sangfroid”

6. Whitejacket- ”The Modern”

Let me know your thoughts, email me Turrtle@EnterTheShell.com

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Get a glimpse of what its like to Enter The Shell, by checking out the performances on the ETS Show by Clicking Here!

• ETS TV–Red Robot & Larry Thomas “The Soup Nazi” Webisode
• Album Review –Band of Skulls-Sweet Sour
• Free Song Download – Whitejacket Offers “Medinah”
  
• The PLaylist – The Hudson Branch Playlist
• ETS Show- Midnight Show with MAL {live}

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