On Track With SEAT.

Oh man, Oh man, Oh man.

so dicovered this little youtube channel today it's called "ClubSEATUK"
The videos on the channel consist of great bands recording their very own live ep straight to vinyl.

It's magnificent! Here is my favourites.

















I hope you liked them, i certainly did.

TIM.

Top 20 Albums of 2010

So it's the end of the year already and my oh my, there has been some ridicuously good albums that have come out this year.

I tried compiling a list of of my top 10, but that was way too hard, so i had to make into my:

Top 20 Albums of 2010

20. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night




19. Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez




18. Jonsi - Go




17. MGMT - Congratulations




16. Vampire Weekend - Contra




15. The National - High Violet




14. Perfume Genius - Learning




13. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs




12. O. Children - O. Children




11. Motorama - Alps




10. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor




9. Beach House - Teen Dream




8. Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws




7. Tokyo Police Club - Champ




6. Best Coast - Crazy For You




5. Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You?




4. Wild Nothing - Gemini




3. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening




2. Foals - Total Life Forever




1. The Drums - The Drums




Well that wraps up the year in great albums. It was so much fun. i can't wait till next years list.

I hope this is similar to your own top albums of 2010. If you think i missed any amazing albums from 2010, feel free to let me know. :)

Keep tuned in for more "Top" lists like this one. I'm currently preparing my all time favourite albums list. so keep your ear to the ground and keep checking back here to see new posts.

TIM.

Some n00b-ees

so here's some bands you may not have heard of yet.
get amongst it.















now If you liked Motorama (which i am currently in love with) here's a little surprise: http://www.wearemotorama.com/blog/?m=blog&alt=1 (copy and paste into your URL for a full album download) your welcome.

TIM.

Moshcam Playlist

Why Yes. i have put together a special Underground Sound Playlist on Moshcam. I hope you like.

Watch Underground Sound and other great gigs on Moshcam.

that's just one of the songs from it. for more click link above ^^^^^^^
Thank-you

TIM.

Metro-Gnome-O-My!

I have now missed these guys twice when they toured Australia. because i was under age. i will witness you one day METRONOMY....but until then, here's moshcam from their 2009 tour.

Watch Metronomy and other great gigs on Moshcam.

Enjoy.
TIM.

Fanfarlo live set

I Witnessed these amazing people at splendour, one of my highlights. Here is a little ditty from Fanfarlo.

Watch Fanfarlo and other great gigs on Moshcam.

TIM.

The Troubles of the Brain

YES! If you have not heard yet. The Veils do have a new Ep. It will launch on January 24th 2011. I've pre-ordered my copy. you should too. www.theveils.com.





Here's a little something something to keep you pr-occupied until the Ep drops.

The Veils - The Troubles of The Brain EP (Sampler) by drownedinsound


I can die a happy man.......

TIM.

Merry Christmas....again.

Give it up for The Killers. one of the best bands of the decade.

Merry Christmas.

here's a little something something to get you in the christmas mood.



* If you liked that and like the band Summer Camp. you can score a FREE DOWNLOAD of Summer Camps' cover of that song. right here.

http://stereogum.com/591481/summer-camp-cover-christmas-wrapping/mp3s/

(just copy and paste that link into your URL, as my piece of ass blog won't link it for me)

Hoe! Hoe! Hoe!
TIM.

Frankie & the Heartstrings

Discovered these heavily accented lads last night. pretty amazing. very 80's Smiths-ish sounding, but genuingly good. they're getting quite big over in the UK, so i thought i might bring them to Australia. feast you ears.





TIM.

Buzz Band. - The Vaccines

here's a new buzz band for you to froth on...





lap it up and share it.
TIM.

Band of the Week - Lovers

hey y'all, here is my new favourite band...at least for this week anyway.
i hope you enjoy them as much as i do. They will be big very soon, so keep an eye out for them. one to watch for 2011.





TIM.

http://songza.com/listen/underground-sound-timheinrich

SO i discovered this website today called Songza.com, it's pretty amazing. you can automatically create playlists that people can listen to. so on that note, i've created my own playlist consisting of some of my favourite songs that i've heard so far in my life.

enjoy.

http://songza.com/listen/underground-sound-timheinrich

TIM.

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

The brand new video from The Drums. It's entitled Me and the Moon.What a very sad and emotionless music video it is, as the band try to struggle with their recent departure of their guitarist, Adam Kessler (Bastard).please enjoy.

There's No Fooling Warpaint

the band is called Warpaint.
the album is called The Fool.
Possibly the hottest girl band within the last decade.
enjoy.



TIM.

3 Bands for 2011

These 3 Bands are my pick to be very successful in 2011. enjoy.

1. O. Children




2. The Neat





3. The Heartbreaks





TIM.

My Playlist for October 2010

Reminiscing on some old and discovering some new.

1. Surf City - Jan and Dean
2. Zorbing - Stornaway
3. Australia - The Bicycles
4. Becoming A Jackal - Villagers
5. Dead Disco Dancer - O. Children
6. Promises - The Morning Benders
7. Boy - Ra Ra Riot
8. Baby - Devendra Banhart
9. Levi Johnston's Blues - Ben Folds and Nick Hornby
10. Heirplanes - Japanese Cartoon
11. BOTE - Menomena
12. Yakuza Park - Surf City
13. Golden Phone - Michachu and the Shapes
14. Echoes - The Rapture
15. Anywhere You Looked - Au Revoir Simone
16. Coronado - Deerhunter
17. Under Control - Good Shoes
18. Arrows of Eros - Golden Silvers
19. The Ugly Organ - Cursive
20. Lately (Deuxie¦Çme) - Memoryhouse

please enjoy.

TIM.

My Playlist for this Month - Sept. 2010

My Playlist for the Month of September 2010
some old, some new.

01 - Alphabutt - Kimya Dawson
02 - Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem
03 - Boyfriend - Best Coast
04 - Live In Dreams - Wild Nothing
05 - Whirring -The Joy Formidable
06 - Barnacle Goose - Born Ruffians
07 - Daniel - The Rumble Strips
08 - Schizophrenia - Jukebox the Ghost
09 - Daisy - Fang Island
10- All In Your Rows - The Maccabees
11 - Night and Day - Chief
12 - Up All Night - The Young Knives
13 - Love Comes Close - Cold Cave
14 - Mr. Peterson - Perfume Genius
15 - Girl In Love - Smith Westerns
16 - The Wild Hunt - The Tallest Man On Earth
17 - Ivy and Gold - Bombay Bicycle Club
18 - Patent Pending - Heavens
19 - Bambi - Tokyo Police Club
20 - Lust For Life - Girls
21 - Dear God, I Hate Myself - Xui Xui
22 - Hey Boy - Magic Kids
23 - How'm I Doin' - Mountain Man
24 - Clap Hands (Tom Waits Cover) - The Veils
25 - What My Life Could Have Been - A Classic Education

Splendour in the Grass 2010 Day 1.

Ok so for everyone overseas and around the world Splendour in the Grass is like the Glastonbury or Coachella, or i might even go as far as saying the WOODSTOCK of Australia. This year i was ABLE to attend my first SITG. My golly gosh, WOAH!

Honestly the best experience i have ever had in my life, the music, the people, the atmosphere. I'm getting withdrawl symptoms just writing about it. for all those who missed out, here is my thoughts about each band i saw....i hope it makes you cry from jealousy.

Friday - 30 July.

Tim and Jean: I do not know how, people actually distinguish this Australian band, from the USA band Passion Pit. They honestly sound the exact same, the same synth sounds, the same high 'no balls' vocal range, even the same persona on stage. Yet people seemed to fall for their charm and flocked to see them perform. from my point of view, i did not enjoy them at all, so i stood at the back of the tent with friends and ripped them for sounding too much like Passion Pit. NOT a highlight.

The Joy Formidable: It was the bands first performance ever in Australia, and i was there at the front barrier to witness their truly great quality of indie/shoegaze/pop songs they had on offer. It seems these little english darlings are the underdog's of this years festival, as the crowd was not nearly enough as it should have been....at the start of their set, but as the set went on more and more people started showing up and was at full capacity by the end of their set. They played a marvellous set with catchy songs and energetic moves that left the crowd wanting more. Plus the chick in it, is a total babe. HIGHLIGHT.

School of Seven Bells: These little New Yorkians, are great... in theory. The music is catchy and atmospheric, they look excruciably attractive and they have a lot of hype. Pity none of that is portrayed on stage. They were off to a great start, the first couple of songs were excellent little ditties that you could bop along to, but as the set went on so did the yawns. Sure they play under the genre of shoegaze/dream pop but i didn't think that was literal, as the band made the audience gaze off into the abyss of their own little day dreams. There was zero personality during the performance, just a sense of shyness and blandness, then leaving the stage with a disinterested and a disappointing performance to an otherwise great band.

FOALS: All i can say is WOW! Foals know how to put on a show. This five-piece math rock band from Oxford, England are just the pick me up i needed from what i just witnessed from the gloomy and depressing School of Seven Bells. I just needed a good dance, along with the few thousand other people crammed into the Mix Up tent. Foals just blew the audience away from start to finish, playing some old stuff as well as some new songs from their new album. 'Cassius', 'Spanish Sahara' and 'Blue Blood' were among the favourites as they belted out a beautiful and energetic performance that left the crowd breathless from dancing too hard and wanting more. Highlight.

Midlake: With three electric, one bass, and one acoustic guitar along with drums and a keys/flute player. Midlake's normal five piece outfit turns into a seven piece when it hits the stage for the live performances. These seven bearded men love to make a racket, it's a case of everybody solo at once when it comes to these guys perform. Which in this case leads to a brilliant visual excursion for my eyes, but my ears are lagging behind trying to catch up with the many sounds reminiscing throughout the air. These amazingly talented musicians are here to impress, but unfortunately fail to, as there is too much distraction from their actual songs that people know and love. Needless to say they still put on a stunning performance.

LCD Soundsystem: James Murphy, what a man! the lead singer and founding member of LCDSS, seizes to amaze throughout the whole set. His voice, his energy, his existence...WOW. He's honestly a genius. This is what electronic pop music is supposed to be. With his live band of six multi-talented musicians on stage to back him up, the crowd are ready to dance the night away. They perform most of the crowd favourites including 'Daft Punk is playing at my house', 'All my friends' and 'Drunk girls'. Even the stage set-up was impressive, they had the old and the new in technology as they had at least 15 different synthesizers spanning from the 1980's until now, out on stage for display. so amazingly splendid. HIGHLIGHT.

Grizzly Bear: "ohwa, ohwa, ohwaaaaaa..." Is what the crowd was yelling at the top of their lungs as Grizzly Bear played their most popular song to date, 'Two weeks.' The tent was packed from front to back as i tried to squeeze my way through the crowd, trying to get to the front, but unfortunately was stopped halfway by a mass clump of people that wouldn't budge. Now Grizzly Bear is far from one of my favourite bands, especially after listening to Veckatimest (2009). The songs off their latest long player just didn't seem to impress, instead were a little boring and beginning to sound the same.... and boy was i right. Maybe it was just all the other fantastic bands that i had witnessed earlier in the day or the tiredness that consumed my body after a long day, but for some reason i just wasn't feeling the atmosphere that most of the other people I talked to had felt. From what i could see and here, they were playing well and were quite tight, but just simply failed to impress me. I'm sorry to all the girls/boys out there who would beg to differ, but that is just how i felt personally. Don't hate me for it. On a lighter note, 'Foreground' is by far their best song...

Day one over. slept so well.

*Stay tuned for my review of the other two days worth of bands from Splendour in the Grass 2010.

TIM.

Raindance Records

Ok so i have decided to start my own record label.
i've had this name in my head for a couple years now and have always had the dream of one day making it a record label with it. Today is the day people. In years to come this is the day where people shall look back on and go WOW that's the day Tim Heinrich made that record label, look how succesful it is. i hope people say that anyway. so without further adu i present to you......

Raindance Records. (c) TM

i don't really know how this record label thing works but i'm sure with a little help from google and wikihow, i shall have a syccessful record label in no time at all. :)

TIM.

Bruce Peninsula

one of my favourite bands at the moment.

Bruce Peninsula.



http://www.myspace.com/brucepeninsula

Check them, soo very catchy.

lovely folk harmonies.

in my mind they are the new Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

not the best looking band ever, but still very nice to listen to.

TIM.

two local favourites from the sunshine coast.

Look, listen, absorb and fade into the abyss as these two indie/shoegaze bands make your ears happier than ever before...

Archdukes: myspace.com/archdukesau
video: http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwuoi0LdQt0
free download: http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=33312

Bird of Prey: myspace.com/birdsofpreyband

free download: http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=34959

both bands hale from the Sunshine Coast and have some of the best tunes you will hear all year...
go and download a few free tracks and tell me what you think. i know you won't be dissapointed.

TIM.

Hello and Welcome

Hello, Salut, Guten Tag, Good day, Namaste, G'day, Aloha, Konnichi Wa, Moshi Moshi and so on.... Welcome to Underground Sound. This is the Place where you will get your weekly fix of the latest and coolest bands emerging from the Underground (hence the name). My name is Tim and i'm your host of this page. I'm currently 17 years old and blogging from the Sunshine Coast in Australia. I shall be putting up regular updates and links to all the newest bands, so keep an eye out. I hope you enjoy my page and be sure to keep coming back, also don't be afraid to send me a bit of feedback or thoughts about it, i don't mind of a little constructive criticism now and again. Thanks and keep coming back for more.

Tim.