Events
cars & trains | March 1, 2010
Lo-Fi Performance Gallery | Seattle, WA
9pm / $5 /
w/ Dark Time Sunshine and Big Spider's Back
cars & trains | March 11, 2010
Dunes | Portland, OR
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w/ Big Spider's Back and Unrecognizable Now
Updates
cars & trains CMJ, Crawdaddy magazine reviews!
CMJ had great things to say about cars & trains' new record The Roots, The Leaves. CMJ calls The Roots, The Leaves "...a beautifully convoluted sound forged from the combination of the natural and the unnatural." You can read the full review here.
Crawdaddy magazine also posted a glowing review/lyrical tour of the record, that you can find over here.
"The Roots, The Leaves" by cars & trains now available + free remix album!
We're happy to announce cars & trains' new record "The Roots, The Leaves" (Fake Four release) is out today and available on the market page.
In addition, you can download the free remix album "The Roots, The Remix", featuring folks like Melodium, Blue Sky Black Death, Lullatone, Polyphonic, and more. Share it with friends!
new cars & trains video for "intimidated by silence"
cars & trains shares with us a new video for the song "intimidated by silence", off of the new record "the roots, the leaves" out next week (1/26, tuesday) on fake four and available here. check out the video here.
cars & trains/helios/big spider's back in seattle, videos, free cover song!
both helios and cars & trains got nice mentions in the stranger's up & coming section for their recent seattle shows. read the mentions over here at the stranger.
cars & trains did a cover of hymie's basement (a collaboration between WHY and fog) recently. the cover is the song "21st century pop song" and you can both listen and download for free right here.
we've also got a video for you of the new song "the sun never sets" live at mississippi studios from the show with helios and lymbyc systym last friday.
ill mondo reviews and cars & trains videos!
Ill mondo continues to get some great press for their self titled record with Neal Rames in the new year. Check out some of these great reviews, at Urbnet and HiphopDX!
cars & trains also has two new videos to share in anticipation for his new record "The Roots, The Leaves" from Fake Four Inc. due out in just a couple of weeks (January 26th!). The first is a music video for the title song "The Leaves", adapted from an original film by High Frequency Media. The second video is an awkwardly endearing acoustic version of his song "Intimidated by Silence".
Happy Holidays from Circle Into Square
Hey folks, we here at Circle Into Square hope you have a safe and happy holiday. In celebration of the season, here's a list of some albums and EPs we have on the site that are available as a free download, if you potentially missed all these great free goodies:
cars & trains - consumer confidence vol 2
cars & trains - consumer confidence vol 1
Great piece on Big Spider's Back on Obscure Sound Blog
Obscure Sound blog did a piece on Big Spider's Back's EP Warped. Here's an excerpt: "phenomenal effort that applies excellent sample-based percussion with the twinkling, spaced-out bliss of The Flaming Lips’ more subdued material." Read more here.
Ill Mondo on Best New Music of 2009 at Impose Magazine
Ill Mondo listed in at #26 on Impose Magazine's Top 50 best new music list of 2009.
"There’s always one album each year that completely catches you off-guard and make heads take notice based solely on the verbal spit and production grit, and the Neal Rames/Ill Mondo self-titled joint on Circle Into Square was that indie hip-hop surprise debut of the year, for "Gold Rush" and "Natalie Moore" alone."
remix of cars & trains song "intimidated by silence", by blue sky black death
Listen to an epic remix of the cars & trains' song "Intimidated By Silence" by Blue Sky Black Death over at the cars & trains site, or on the cars & trains artist page on Circle Into Square.
new cars & trains video
Check out this video for the cars & trains song "i know someone who can't recognize", off of his new album "the roots, the leaves", out on Fake Four Inc January 26th.
Features
cars & trains Top..stuff of 2009
Tom of cars & trains shares some of his favorites from the past year. | READ ARTICLE
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Not Quite 20 Questions with Kliph Scurlock
Kliph Scurlock, drummer for The Flaming Lips, answers some questions about the band's new album Embryonic and what it's like to go from fan to drummer for the band. | READ ARTICLE
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Helios' Best of 2009
Keith Kenniff, aka Helios, shares some of his favorites of 2009. | READ ARTICLE
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Food/Songs from 2009 from Hiram of The Harvey Girls
2009 food and music loves. | READ ARTICLE
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Johnny from Ill Mondo's favorite videos of 2009
Johnny from Ill Mondo shares his top videos of 2009. | READ ARTICLE
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Big Spider's Back's Top Albums/Miscellany of 2009
Yair of Big Spider's Back shares a couple of his favorites for 2009. | READ ARTICLE
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New Stuff
