ELEPHANT STONE

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Elephant Stone is a psychedelic band from Montréal, lead by sitarist/bassist Rishi Dhir (formerly associated with The High Dials). In addition to the High Dials, he’s also toured and recorded with Black Angels, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Horrors, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, etc.

Elephant Stone is self-titled, but it is their second album. The title is coming out on vinyl tomorrow, February 12, 2013, via Reverberation Appreciation Society. I believe if you wanted just the digital copies, that was released last week (Feb 5th). Fans who purchased the album is already calling it “dreamy, shoegazey sound, with the indigenous instruments there to serve mostly as tripped-out background atmospherics.”

Elephant Stone will be doing some dates in the USA:

03/13/13 Dallas, TX The Kessler Theater

03/17/13 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s

04/08/13 New York, NY Webster Hall

04/19/13 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre

Trivia: Whenever I hear ‘elephant stone’, I just think of the Stone Roses: “Send me home like an elephant stone to smash my dream of love.”

ELEPHANT

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Elephant is a new duo (Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck) from London. Shortly after the two met at a house party in 2010, they collaborated on a pair of 7″ (Ants and Allured), which the Guardian immediately declaring them as The White Stripes if they were “breathy Brill Building pop and haunting atmospherics”.

The duo has a new single (7″ and digital download) called “Skyscraper” with B-Side “Spies”, coming out March 26th, 2013, via Memphis Industries. You can preview the song on Soundcloud.

They sure seem to love France:

27 Feb 13 La Boule Noire Paris, France

08 Mar 13 Le Poche Béthune, France

16 Apr 13 La Péniche Lille, France

15 May 13 Theatre Saint Louis Pau, France

12 Jun 13 La Dynamo Toulouse, France

14 Jun 13 Le Poste à Galène Marseilles, France

ELECTRIC ELEPHANT

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Electric Elephant is an annual music festival in Croatia. Full weekend tickets will set you back £110.00. What’s cool is that this festival also features a boat party, which is docked by the bay on site.

This year it takes place July 11th to July 15th and features the festival’s biggest lineup yet:

Frankie Knuckles,
Mr Scruff – Keep It Unreal,
Andrew Weatherall & Sean Johnston: A Love From Outer Space,
Michael Mayer & Tobias Thomas (Kompakt FM/Total Confusion),
Heidi (Jackathon Jams),
Horse Meat Disco,
Miguel Campbell (Hot Creations/Outcross Records),
Doc Martin,
Prosumer (OstGut Ton, Playhouse/UK),
Optimo,
Justin Robertson,
DJ Nature (Golf Channel),
Ivan Smagghe,
Ewan Pearson,
Pete Herbert,
Boston Bun (Ed Banger),
Unabombers,
Late Nite Tuff Guy,
DJ Rocca (Ajello/Erodiscotique),
Chris Duckenfield,
Lowlife,
Kelvin Andrews & Balearic Mike: Down To The Sea & Back,
Rob Mello,
Krysko (WHP),
Craig Bratley,
Ben Pistor (Disco Bloodbath),
Will TRAMP! (HomoElectric),
Content DJs,
Joe’s Bakery : Craig Christon & Joe Gill,
The Idiots Are Winning : Louis Finch & Jake Manders,
High Soul Society,
Chinny (Cowbell Radio),
Pablo Contraband,
GranTurismo,
Balera FM & Futuro Tropicale,
Billy Scurry (Fever),
Pablo (Night Flight),
That Amazing Thing! : Francis Wooff,
DJ Kozmonaut,
Darren Greene,
Funky Navigation

AS ELEPHANTS ARE

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As Elephants Are is a band from Buckinghamshire. Let’s just face it, if you live outside of the UK, we’ll just call it London.

The band will be releasing “Youth Blood” on March 8th, via Once Upon a Time Records. As a special promotion, you can grab the B-Side, “Lucifer”, as a free download at Soundcloud.com.

BLAUDZUN

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Holland-based artist Blaudzun (real name: Johannes Sigmond) just released his album Heavy Flowers in the US on January 29th via Krian Music Group. The record got 3voor12’s “Best Album of 2012”.

You can check out his lead song, “Elephant”, on NPR.

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