You Gotta Hear This is a monthly podcast from WYEP, Pittsburgh featuring highlights from a new CD that you may have missed. Produced by Cindy Howes, WYEP's Morning Mix host, "You Gotta Hear This" serves up commentary, music excerpts, and background information on the featured artist. You Gotta Hear This can also be heard during "The Music Lab", each Sunday at 5pm on 91.3FM WYEP and wyep.org.
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You Gotta Hear This is a monthly podcast from WYEP, Pittsburgh featuring highlights from a new CD that you may have missed. Produced by Cindy Howes, WYEP's Morning Mix host, "You Gotta Hear This" serves up commentary, music excerpts, and background information on the featured artist. You Gotta Hear This can also be heard during "The Music Lab", each Sunday at 5pm on 91.3FM WYEP and wyep.org.
School of Seven Bells is comprised of veteran space rocker Benjamin Curtis (formerly of Secret Machines) and twin sisters Alejandra & Claudia Deheza (formerly of On! Air! Library!). The trios perfect combination of intense electronic music and the twins nearly perfect, ethereal harmonies makes for some seriously spooky dance music. The fast paced debut picks up where bands like The Cocteau Twins, Azure Ray and Mazzy Star left off.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy is basically singer songwriter Will Oldham. He's been recording under Bonnie "Prince" Billy since 1999 and before that was involved in a few projects like The Palace Brothers and Palace Music. This new release is an excellent collection of minimalist indie-folk songs that are made nice and dark by Oldham's unique voice, but stay positive with his inspirational, yet intense, lyrics.
Listen. Lissie is a bad@$$. She's got a ferocious cover of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and history of spitting in people's faces. Those two facts are not related, but they're reasons to turn your head/raise your eyebrow when you get to know Lissie- a midwestern girl who's been living in the LA area for a few years. Soulful, rootsy, and a bad@$$.
Beach House in on their third release, but are starting to get some big attention from a lot of folks. This highly anticipated release does not disappoint. You can hear clips, information and comments on this month's YGHT.
The XX are one of those buzz bands that you maybe ignore for months and then end up falling in love with. Their a young UK group who's modern R&B indie pop sound makes you think you can sing if you just slur and mumble your words. You can hear clips, information and comments on this month's YGHT.
You might have overlooked this indie-rock sensation before, but not this time! Flaming Lips, David Bowie and Oscar Wilde have all had an influence on this unique band who's new release is backed by the power of science.
Besides having one of the best names in indie rock, Hallelujah The Hills does not try to win your affection with their experimental noisy sound, but they will find their way into your heart come hell or high water.
Bostonish-based trio, Sometymes Why are made up of 3 super-talented ladies who have already made tracks in their main bands: Uncle Earle, Crooked Still and The Mammals
Music blog are already calling "Merriweather Post Pavilion" the best album of 2009. Listen in for yourself as Cindy Howes gives you a scope of the new record from Animal Collective
The Low Anthem are a young trio of recent Brown graduates that take heavy influence on Neil Young, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. Amazing harmonies and brilliant song-writing make this group stand out among their peers. The new album, "Oh My God, Charlie Darwin" does not disappoint.
TV On The Radio have put out their third album "Dear Science" and it's full of their funky fuzzy indie rock. We'll take a listen to a few samples on this much anticipated release.
You Gotta Hear This is a monthly podcast from WYEP, Pittsburgh featuring highlights from a new CD that you may have missed. Produced by Cindy Howes, WYEP's Morning Mix host, "You Gotta Hear This" serves up commentary, music excerpts, and background information on the featured artist. You Gotta Hear This can also be heard during "The Music Lab", each Sunday at 5pm on 91.3FM WYEP and wyep.org.