Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” gets a lush piano and cello cover by Los Angelino, HOLMES.

Also: video for sober breakup tune “Not With You” debuts; featured plant succumbs to special effects. Listen, Watch & Re-Post!

“Let’s Dance”: [MP3] http://tinyurl.com/holmes-letsdance

“Not With You”: [VIDEO] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juDHlzppdE4&fmt=22

“…humor, wistfulness and universality that would compare well with some of the best of Ben Folds or Beck.” - Los Angeles Times

If you go to the movies or watch TV, you've heard the music of Roy Shakked, who answers to the nickname of HOLMES. Heavily influenced by the standards (and that means The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Prince, ELO, Queen, and, OK, Harry Nilsson), it's not surprising that Hollywood has picked up on Roy’s tunes, placing them in programs and features such as CSI Miami, Sex and The City, The OC, Nip/Tuck, and The Devil Wears Prada.

Before all of that, Shakked graduated as a piano performance major from Berklee College of Music in Boston and later delved into heavy sequencing using synths and plug-ins, becoming an accomplished electronica producer and remixing classic tracks by Sarah Vaughan, Jimmy McGriff, McCoy Tyner and Carmen McRae. Shakked later made the move back to piano and band arrangements to write the HOLMES records.

The latest self-titled HOLMES album contains one of Shakked’s signature lush arrangements – this time for his cover of the David Bowie classic, “Let’s Dance” (MP3). Additionally, Shakked has completed the latest video from the album, for the sober breakup song, “Not With You” (VIDEO). The video documents a couple moving in together, breaking up and moving out – all in under three minutes. Half way through the clip, all of the couple’s actions up to that point reverse, leaving Shakked all alone in his house at the clip’s close. Shakked extends apologies to the plant that was killed over three days of still camera time-lapse capture.

Artist: Holmes
Title: Holmes
Label: Groove Gravy Records

“Let’s Dance” (David Bowie): mp3
“Not With You”: mp3 video

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Ghana comes to Los Angeles – PJ Harvey and Peter Gabriel influence duo Divisible’s tribal afro-punk.

Grab new single “Everybody” now; Remix and Radiohead cover also available; L.A. release show soon!

“…smart, complex and catchy...” - LA Record
“…doesn’t have a bad song on it… fantastic.” - Berkeley Place

Listen & Repost

“Everybody”: http://tinyurl.com/divisible-everybody

“Everybody (Public Remix)”: http://tinyurl.com/divisible-everybody-remix

Los Angeles-based band Divisible, consisting of singer Shola Akinshemoyin Vaughn and drummer Albert Sadia, is pleased to present its debut album Less Than Lion, a collection of songs (including a reinterpretation of Radiohead’s “Exit Music [For A Film]") (MP3),” that explores Shola’s journey from the halls of Harvard to a West African reconciliation with her father (who lives in Ghana) via a propulsive mixture of rock, electronica, and world music sounds.

See Divisible live when they celebrate the release of Less Than Lion with a performance in Los Angeles at Spaceland on September 14th.

Less Than Lion was produced by Tommy Walter (Eels) and mixed by Ryan Freeland (Aimee Mann, Loudon Wainwright III). Less Than Lion, is a blend of Peter Gabriel, PJ Harvey, and TV On The Radio-style sounds. It’s worldly, primal music that speaks to the band’s African ancestry.

Divisible – “Love Is The Cost”

“Love Is The Cost” (MP3): http://tinyurl.com/divisible-loveisthecost

“Love Is The Cost” (Video): http://tinyurl.com/divisible-loveisthecost-video

Artist: Divisible
Title: Less Than Lion
Label: Self-Released
Release: Out Now!

“Everybody” mp3 remix
“Love Is The Cost”: mp3 video
“Exit Music (For A Film)” [Radiohead Cover]: mp3

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San Francisco-based LGBT label, Queer Control Records, set to release new Pariah Piranha album this week.

Band’s People People produced by Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, They Might Be Giants, The Shondes); Features “thank you’s” for cover art.
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[MP3] “Green Rooms”: http://tinyurl.com/pariahpiranha-greenrooms

“...a sound you can’t put your finger on and can’t stop listening to.” - Curve Magazine

York, Pennsylvania-based band, Pariah Piranha is a product of the 90’s and will remain forever nostalgic. “When we were in high school, people called some music ‘alternative.’ It was a genre. It actually meant something. I think Pariah Piranha sounds like that,” says vocalist Tara Gordon. The chemistry between the three members of Pariah Piranha is obvious, and the dancing and hand claps will happen, whether you like it or not.

Pariah Piranha’s latest album People People, produced by Pere Ubu and They Might Be Giants bassist Tony Maimone, is set for release this week on September 1st, 2009. The record is the band’s latest for the San Francisco-based label Queer Control Records. Emerging from the Riot Grrl movement, the Queercore music scene, and DIY culture in general, Queer Control Records exists to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning musicians and artists.

As an additional show of solidarity among the Queer Control and Pariah Piranha families, the band has dedicated the cover art of People People to dedication itself, with the names of the band’s supporters covering the front and back of the album. Gordon explains, “Basically we are so grateful to our family and friends and everyone involved who made this/us possible that we decided to put our ‘thank you’s’ on the cover.”

Pariah Piranha Live:
09/12 Harrisburg, PA @ Lower Paxton Youth Center

09/26 Harrisburg, PA @ Appalachian Brewing Company

10/03 Lexington, KY @ Al’s Bar

10/10 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery

Artist: Pariah Piranha
Title: People People
Label: Queer Control Records
Release: September 1st, 2009

“Green Rooms”: mp3

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