Pensatos: The Unheard Notes

Welcome to your only source for new music on the net. Pensatos was created to spread some of the best unheard music on the planet beyond the radio waves and store shelves.

The goal and promise of Pensatos is to bring you new music, interviews, and more on today's best unheard indie and urban acts.

Unveiling Notes: The Honey Claws Interview

The Honey Claws are four friends you’d want in your late night corner. Their hardcore hip hop dubstep makes Junior Boys look like a child and Duppy nothing more than Katie Couric’s playlist. Beatbox and microphones be damned, these basement music addicts have the ability to keep you going all night long with their brand of electronic sampling bliss. Using tools like the Junkbox to make their brand of mash ups (a tool to mold 5 tracks together simultaneously, smoothly, and in key) The Honey claws have made a name for themselves by brining what use to only be a studio perfected art to the live floor. We sat down with them to discuss bootlegs, finding their sound, and turning as many tables in as short a time as possible. ‹read more›

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

- Do I Do
- by A Block of Yellow
- label: Around Sounds [2008]
The Secret History – Desolation Town
Poptastic – Teen Pop Noise Virus
Killola - I Am the Messer
Trentemøller - Live in Concert EP
My Dear Disco - Dancethink LP
Matmos - The West
Surf City - Surf City EP

Get Yr Shit Together
Friendly Foes

We Are The Hunters
The D'Ubervilles

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

EP
Blk Jks

Tight Knit
Vetiver

This week, we speak with Nate Willet of Cold War Kids on his music style and talk about their new album Robbers & Cowards.

Luke Jackson | ...And Then Some

Luke Jackson has invented a stalwart style all his own. Canada’s next biggest and brightest star has generated an album that feeds off of Beatles-esque poppiness, unpredictable and catchy key changes, and a big, sentimental sound that drives an exceptional, distinctive style. Inimitable guitar riffs bring Gin Blossoms to mind - but only in style. Is Luke Jackson the next big thing? Don’t expect any pretensions; you’ll have to take a listen to his debut album, …And Then Some, and decide for yourself.

Sometimes employing lonely classical string-enriched acoustic guitars, sometimes bluesy pianos a la Hold Steady, Luke Jackson is never boring, even at his dullest. …And Then Some’s only weakness is its stubborn refusal to quit acting pop-rock, which turns out to be a very small limitation in the end. Jackson’s voice calls to mind the vocal stylings of Joe Strummer at moments, sometimes sounding strangely foreign but always audibly emotional and ambitious. The participation of Malmö’s Opera Orchestra facilitates a beauty that complements Wilson’s near-perfect audio power.

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