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S&D Mixtape! November 2008

November 10th, 2008

click here to listen to the S&D Mixtape, updated monthly with what S&D is listening to!

here’s the tracklist for this month’s tape:
Dark Dark Dark - The Benefit Of The Doubt
David Bowie - Always Crashing In The Same Car
I’m From Barcelona - Music Killed Me (Tom Inhaler Remix)
M.I.A - 20 Dollar
Buck 65 - Out Of Focus
Between The Pine - Enjoy Yourself
Why? - Fatalist Palmistry
These United States - First Sight (live from Daytrotter)
David Byrne - The Great Intoxication
Many Mansions - The Light Inside

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Dark Dark Dark’s “The Snow Magic” available now!

October 27th, 2008



“The Snow Magic” is available now from Supply And Demand Music! Click here to buy the CD version, and click here to purchase a 320kbps MP3 download of the album. A list of online and physical retailers where you can also purchase “The Snow Magic” will be made available very soon. Thank you for all your support, and check back soon for an announcement of US tour dates, the music video for “Colors”, remixes, and much more!

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Between The Pine’s 2nd Album Out December 16th!

October 21st, 2008
Between The Pine - Friends, Foes, Kith And Kin

Between The Pine - Friends, Foes, Kith And Kin

“Friends, Foes, Kith and Kin” is the second album from Rhode Island’s Between The Pine, and the second album to be released on Supply And Demand Music! You can read the artist bio here, listen to a few new songs on the music player on the top of the page, and download the first single, Coca-Cola by clicking the link below!

Between The Pine - Coca-Cola

Tracklist:

1) Clarinets
2) People We Were Before
3) Coca-Cola
4) Friends, Foes, Kith and Kin
5) Cut The Crap
6) I Know You Can Hear Us
7) My Voice Is A Splinter
8) Enjoy Yourself
9) We Should Not Be Allowed
10) The Wall & The Moon

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Providence Phoenix previews the Why?/Dark Dark Dark Show!

September 21st, 2008

from http://thephoenix.com/Providence/Picks/

INDIE RAP, INDIE FOLK
“Even though I haven’t seen you in years/yours is a funeral I’d fly to from anywhere,” sings WHY? on the new Alopecia (Anticon). The Cincinnati MC and his crew fly left of rap a la Buck 65, and make the keenly visual rhymes-songs resound with a short story writer’s poetic sense of narrative: “I feel like a loop of the last eight frames of film/before a slow-motion Lee Harvey Oswald gets shot in the gut and killed.” I’d previously only glossed by their stuff, but the new disc stops you dead in your tracks every once in a while — call it a mix of Soul Coughing and Flobots. They’ll do it live at Club Hell, 73 Richmond Street, Providence. Sharing the bill is DARK, DARK, DARK, a Minneapolis indie outfit that manages to conflate the Balkans and Americana (thanks accordion! thanks banjo!) to concoct a roughhouse version of pomo-folk that has a certain swagger. Nona Marie Invie was hopping trains and Marshall LaCount was floating down the Mississippi right before they connected. En route to New Orleans, they got serious about making songs together. The result is The Snow Magic (Blood Onion/SAD Music). It’s worth a spin or two.

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Dark Dark Dark video from Hooves On The Turf

September 18th, 2008

HUGE thanks to Sarahana at Hooves On The Turf for shooting this video of Dark Dark Dark last week!

Trouble No More:

Dark Dark Dark / Secret Garden #1 from hoovesontheturf on Vimeo.

A Spell For Letting Go:

Dark Dark Dark / Secret Garden #2 from hoovesontheturf on Vimeo.

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Fantastic video from “Switchback Sea” opening!

September 9th, 2008

Thanks to the folks at Gammablog for this amazing video, shot at the opening of Swoon’s “Swimming Cities Of Switchback Sea” at Deitch Projects in Long Island City. The video features Dark Dark Dark and Providence’s What Cheer Brigade, as well as footage shot of the various art that Swoon created for the show.


Swoon - Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea from GammaBlog on Vimeo.

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“New York Song” MP3 Download

September 4th, 2008

http://www.sad-music.net/darkdarkdark_newyorksong.mp3

enjoy! please share this link with your friends. Dark Dark Dark’s “The Snow Magic” is in stores October 28th.

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Dark Dark Dark sets sail!

August 19th, 2008

The Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project set sail from Troy, NY, last Friday! 7 rafts will sail down the Hudson River, ending up in New York City. The New York Times did a nice profile which you can read here. For now, here’s a small clip from the article.

“It is because of Swoon that this collection of artists, carpenters, musicians, filmmakers, seafarers and hangers-on was here. For the past year she has been preparing for this project, a floating trip that will take the group down the Hudson, from Troy through the harbor of New York to Long Island City, Queens, where the fleet will dock at the Deitch Studios and remain stationed as part of an exhibition beginning Sept. 7.

The project, “Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea,” Swoon’s latest large-scale work, is part floating artwork, part performance, part mobile utopia and seemingly part summer camp for grown-up artsy kids. For the work Swoon, 30, collaborated with musicians from the Minneapolis band Dark Dark Dark; the writer Lisa D’Amour, who contributed a play to be performed at stops along the way; the musician Sxip Shirey; and a host of others.

In the summers of 2006 and ’07 Swoon, known primarily as a street artist, did a similar project, “Miss Rockaway Armada,” in which she and a group of artists boated down the Mississippi on a large flotilla. It was essentially an experiment in communal life, and while many who took part are involved in “Swimming Cities,” the new work is more focused on the aesthetic aspect of the vessels.

Swoon said she began thinking about this voyage while working on the Mississippi trip. “From the first piece of plywood that we collected for the Rockaway, I knew that I would do this,” she said a week before the launching, sitting on the dock near the Deitch outpost in Long Island City. Her red hair was pulled back from her face, and she was wearing a tank top, with black paint splattered across her shoulders, sea gulls squawking in the background. “The ‘Rockaway’ was this kind of experiment in all kinds of ideals,” she said. “And working collectively has its own beauties and nightmares, and so does working by yourself. I just thought I wanted a chance to take some of the same kinds of language of the ‘Rockaway’ and make it more of a guided artistic experience rather then a collective living experiment. I wanted to make something which really had the freedom of artistic expression, sculptural and aesthetic and all that stuff.”

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SAD Video Logo

July 29th, 2008


Video created by twigg.

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Supply and Demand Music

July 21st, 2008

Supply and Demand Music is a new record label based in Providence, RI, started by Tom Inhaler.

Why call it Supply and Demand? Well, I don’t know if it’s okay to call yourself tongue-in-cheek, but suddenly it’s harder than ever to differentiate between “mainstream” and “independent” music - indie label artists are soundtracking sneaker and fast food commercials, bands on indie labels are snatched up quickly by majors, and a majority of indie labels are distributed by companies with ties to the majors. I make no judgments on these examples, but I do think it’s important to question ourselves and our intent constantly, both in the music we create and the business decisions we make. Calling my label Supply and Demand is my send up and rejection of a music-by-spreadsheet mentality. Let’s not be afraid to sell a lot of records, for sure. Let’s also not be afraid to maintain what it is that excited us all about independent music in the first place: new, challenging sounds that are removed from (and occasionally influence) the popular culture that surrounds us. Let’s not let “indie” become the new status quo.

The first two artists I’ve signed are Minneapolis’s Dark Dark Dark, and Providence, RI’s Between the Pine. Dark Dark Dark have a beautiful, haunting sound, heavily influenced by Eastern European music, and instantly caught my attention when they first performed in Providence back in 2007. Between the Pine is a local artist, a fantastic songwriter with ear-catching arrangements, and I’m happy to be one of the first to share his music with the world.

Dark Dark Dark’s “The Snow Magic” will be the first full length release from Supply and Demand Music, debuting on October 28th, 2008. It will be followed by Between the Pine’s “Friends, Foe, Kith and Kin” in December 2008. There are a few other releases in the works, and the details of which will be announced soon. Until then, you can check out Between the Pine’s self-released debut album, which was criminally slept on when it was released in 2005.

More to come soon.. Check out the site, and check back often for news on new releases, tour dates, MP3’s and videos!

-Tom Inhaler
July 21st, 2008

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