Imperial Topaz
Grooms tell us their Top 10 LPs of 2014, playing Brooklyn Night Bazaar this weekend, opening for APTBS at MHOW
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Grooms @ Death by Audio’s final show (more by PSquared)
Grooms‘ last live show, the final night of Death by Audio, was a little hard to get into…
Courtship Ritual releasing debut album on GODMODE, playing shows (dates, streams)
Monica Salazar and Jared Olmsted are both from California but they met and formed Courtship Ritual here in Brooklyn. They describe themselves thusly:
Courtship Ritual are not a chillwave group, they are not a witch house group, they don’t play EDM music and they don’t play dubstep…
What's going on Wednesday? (Pains, Mac DeMarco, London Grammar, Laura Mvula, James Vincent McMorrow & more)
TPOBPAH at BV-SXSW 2014 (more by Tim Griffin)
Mac DeMarco at M for Montreal 2013 (more by Ellie Pritts)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…
Imperial Topaz streaming debut album, playing release show
We profiled Brooklyn ambient pop duo Imperial Topaz back in 2013, just ahead of their live debut at The Stone. At the time, they only had an EP and a few singles, but the band finally released their first full length album, Full of Grace, this past February via Tranquility Tapes…
Mark McGuire (ex-Emeralds) streaming new album, touring, playing Baby's after Broken Bells, before Eagulls (dates)
Ambient guitarist Mark McGuire, formerly of the now-defunct trio Emeralds, is set to release his new solo album (and first for Dead Oceans), Along The Way, on February 4, but it’s streaming ahead of its release via The FADER…
NYC Cassette Fair happening at Silent Barn on Saturday (Cassette Store Day) with bands and more
As mentioned, this Saturday (9/7) is Cassette Store Day, a celebration of the first portable, recordable format. There are a number of exclusive releases for CSD, including cassette editions of The Flaming Lips‘ The Terror, Deerhunter‘s Monomania, Volcano Choir‘s Repave, a reissue of Fucked Up‘s Hidden World, plus other cassette-only items…
Still Corners on tour w/ CHVRCHES; Mercury Lounge show rescheduled
Still Corners released their second album, Strange Pleasures, last month via Sub Pop and if you haven’t heard it yet, it’s a terrific record…
Imperial Topaz made their live debut, playing with Small Black and Heavenly Beat (stream a new track)
Brooklyn ambient pop duo Imperial Topaz made their live debut in NYC at The Stone over the weekend (2/3). If you went, how was that? If you missed it, or want to see them again, you can catch them in Brooklyn at 285 Kent on March 8 with Small Black, ex-Beach Fossils project Heavenly Beat, and Beach Fossils DJs…
Tranquility Tapes curating two weeks at The Stone in February, Motion Sickness of Time Travel released a new EP (streams)
The always-prolific Motion Sickness of Time Travel (aka Rachel Evans) had a few releases last year, and she’s already got one out in 2013, The Perennials EP, which dropped on New Year’s Day…
check out Brooklyn duo Imperial Topaz, who are making their live NYC debut in February (streams, MP3s)
DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz – “Periphery” (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz – “Moonlit Mind” (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz – “Evil Genius” (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz – “Waterbed” (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz – “Luxury Liner” (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz – “In The Waves” (MP3)
Brooklyn ambient art pop duo Imperial Topaz (aka Caroline Teagle and Zachary Zierden) surfaced at the beginning of 2012 with the “Angel of the Overpass” single and followed that with the Imperial EP and the “Moonlit Mind” single, both of which you can download for free at the top of this post, or stream…
