SXSW 2010 Daily blog
March 16, 2010 by Sam
Filed under DirtyBoots LIVE, Featured, New Music
So just landed and getting set for what most definitely will be the best SXSW so far for DirtyBoots, We are back at the Wave bar but this time we have 3 special parties planned with fantastic acts lined up and some great surprises in store. Over the next week or so I will be [...]
Who is ‘Iamamiwhoami’?
Who is ‘Iamamiwhoami’? Since this was posted on the net late last week it has been the topic of much internet debating, going by the high production we are pretty sure it will be someone we all know, popular guesses so far range from the most likely ‘Goldfrapp’, through to Christina Aguilera (not so sure) [...]
Band of the Day – Psychologist
Band of the Day – Psychologist Once again we are in the situation of not knowing a huge amount about this band at the moment but from what we can tell it is Iain Woods who is the creative force behind the fantastically dark and brooding sounds of Psychologist. Iain describes his music as ‘Pop’s [...]
Free new Pontiak track – World Wide Prince
This morning The Line of Best Fit premiered the Pontiak track World Wide Prince, which is taken from their upcoming record Sea Voids. Click HERE for the track Oh yes, a bit of an exclusive for Dirty Boots today as we give you a little gift from Pontiak’s latest long-player. The track is the immense wall [...]
Band of the Day – Free Energy
Free Energy With chunky Stones’ riffs, Van Halan guitar lines, a love of Tom Petty, Marc Bolan and even Thin Lizzy! Philadelphians Free Energy certainly know their music and with Killer tracks like Free Energy and Dream City you can totally see why James Murphy has signed them to DFA as his first big guitar [...]
Band of the Day – The Bicycle Thieves
Band of the Day The Bicycle Thieves Liverpool’s music scene is thriving at the moment and one of the bands that people are rightly buzzing about are the Bicycle Thieves. A fantastic 5 piece who, for me, are the next progression from the bands like White lies last year …They pull in from a lot of [...]
WHITE HILLS – FREE track from new album!
It’s freezing out but space rock behemoths White Hills have given us all a little something for the weekend. They will be releasing their brand new self-titled full-length on 1st February 2010 but have kindly let us give all of ye a free track. How kind. Click Here Now. Having developed their sound from earlier [...]
DUM DUM GIRLS are coming to the UK!
We wanted to let you know that on February 15th Dum Dum Girls will release ‘Jail La La’. This is the first, and rather fine, blissed-out pop 7” single taken from the Dum Dum Girls debut album, I Will Be. The single will be backed with ‘Play With Fire’ a track which is exclusive to this [...]
Must Have Albums for January 2010
New year, new website and now time to introduce a new monthly feature where we list our album picks for the forthcoming month. January 2010 is packed with some killer releases, some that we have already been lucky enough to hear and some that we are looking forward to with fevered anticipation. Midlake ‘The Courage [...]
Free Download of ‘The Eternal Return’ by Jason Urick
So here you have it. A gift from us here at Dirty Boots! Here’s a FREE DOWNLOAD of the track The Eternal Return, by Baltimore mover and shaker, Jason Urick. This track is taken from Jason’s new LP, Husbands, which comes out in late October and will surely appeal to fans of ambient sound-sculptors like [...]