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White Denim - Fits - Buy It
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The genre hopping alone can make Fits difficult to digest, but give it a few spins and your patience will be rewarded. White Denim isn’t breaking any new ground here, but their peculiar brand of psychedelic garage rock is rambling, catchy, and loaded with enough nuance to command repeat listens. Reminds us of: MC5 | Dirty Pretty Things | ClinicWhite Denim: (Band | MySpace)White Denim Fits
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First song off new Beach House record: “Norway”
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This is the first song that we’ve seen out there off of Teen Dream, the new Beach House record that’ll be out on Jan 26. It’s called “Norway” and it sounds as if someone drank too much cough syrup and might just be tucked in by the haze. That means it’s great for the night, getting lost or zoning out. And with all the external stimulation that bombards us in our lives, that is probably
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Passion Pit’s new “Little Secrets” video
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Now I know the background vocals of “Little Secrets” are trying to take me “higher and higher and higher,” but I didn’t know that they wanted me to be thinking space instead of possibility. In the video for this Passion Pit foot-stomper, a spaceman takes a voyage in his metallic (straight out of an Atari game looking) ship, past the last gas station for 30,000 miles, into a worm hole of
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Devils of Belgrade - “Tracks of the Cloven Hoof” - Buy It
Devils of Belgrade are a kick in the pants, providing almost instant energy with driving guitar mixed with drums that push the beat. Every song has a path that picks you up, lets you breathe, then rocks you till the end, just to repeat it all on the next track.Reminds Us Of: Atreyu | Judas Priest | Black Sabbath at x2 with Ozzie mutedThe Devils of Belgrade: MyspaceDevils of Belgrade Tracks of t...
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Laura Gibson + Musee Mecanique + Rauelsson - Mississippi Studios (Portland, OR; Nov. 7 2009)
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The cheery lady selling tickets at Mississippi Studios refused to check my ID for the guest list under the assumption that “friends of Laura Gibson aren’t liars.” It gave me a warm feeling to be trusted by a perfect stranger, a feeling that aligned well with the resulting mood of a night brought to life by fragile sounds from honest people.With violins and whispery vocals, Rauelsson lulled t
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Lambchop brings the house down (vid)
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Lambchop - Give It from Merge Records on Vimeo.This video for Lambchop’s “Give It” begins with quotes from Pitchfork and Aquarium Drunkard gushing about how amazing their performance was at the Merge XX show. It’s an intense clip that starts softly and raises up the energy one notch at a time until you find yourself wondering how the room didn’t explode. I stumbled on this today and I’
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Britt Daniel and White Rabbits cover “Instant Karma” (vid)
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Here’s a clip from San Francisco of Britt Daniel (Spoon) and the White Rabbits covering the John Lennon classic, “Instant Karma.” Vocal duties are traded off between Britt and the band members and it looks like a good time was had by all.Via You Ain’t No Picasso
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Want to hear some Arctic Monkeys b-sides?
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Like a lot of British bands, Arctic Monkeys release singles (maybe because people actually buy records over there). Also like a lot of British bands, they don’t skimp on the b-sides. Their new single/EP for “Cornerstone” plays to this bit of Brit logic and includes three b-sides from Humbug entitled “Catapult” (which was written with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age), “Sketchead,
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[VIDEO] Kyp Malone wants to “Give Blood”
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Here’s Rain Machine’s “Give Blood” video. In it Kyp Malone discovers that his band is what is hiding under his hotel room bed and employs this year’s biggest indie rock video trend, claymation. I wonder if the people one room down were pissed at him for cranking his music.
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Medeski Martin and Wood - House Of Blues (Boston, MA; Nov. 14, 2009 )
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Adrian Tramontano - “Vessel” - Buy It
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A solo album where the artist actually plays every instrument - it’s nuts. So is Vessel. The huge range of sonic playing fields - from house beats to prog rock - challenges the listener’s aural dexterity. “Escher’s Etchings” could be the lost track off of Pink Floyd’s Animals. My face is totally owned. Reminds Us Of: Amon Tobin | Pink Floyd | Joe Satriani Adrian Tramontano: (MySpa
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Rufus Wainwright + Joan as Police Woman – Benaroya Hall (Seattle, WA; November 8th, 2009)
Sometimes it’s the little things.As a recent student of the speech and hearing sciences department, I’m constantly reminded about hearing damage and thus the important need for hearing protection. I’m pleased to report Benaroya Hall is an exception to your average concert experience: no ear plugs required. The massive grand piano, of stage-filling proportions in a smaller venue like Chop Sue
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