Members of Arcade Fire, YYYs, Balkan Beat Box Unite as Sway Machinery | Spin Magazine Online

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Members of Arcade Fire, YYYs, Balkan Beat Box Unite as Sway Machinery | Spin Magazine Online
USATODAY.com - Listen Up found this 8/27/2008 on www.spin.com [flag]
New supergroup development! Brian Chase, drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Colin Stetson, touring saxophonist for the Arcade Fire, and Stuart Bogie and Jordan McLean, Antibalas' tenor saxophone and trumpet player, respectively, have joined Balkan Beat Box guitarist Jeremiah Lockwood for the Sway ... [link]

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Published 8/27/2008 by Korina Lopez at USATODAY.com - Listen Up
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The Sway Machinery: P'sach Lanu Sha'ar (Audio)
Published 8/29/2008 at Prefix
... a supergroup involving these bands would require either Karen O. or Win Butler, and nothing less. But as for the music, Sway Machinery's "P'sach Lanu Sha'ar"'s an interesting mix of Jewish cantorals, Afro-Pop, and old-time blues. It's less sparse than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more experimental than the Arcade Fire, even if it lacks the universal appeal of those bands. But it does certainly sound like a good use of YYY and Arcade Fire's names to promote something pretty interesting. [ Stream The Sway Machine's P'sach Lanu Sha'ar here ]