[MP3] Amy Millan - I Will Follow You Into The DarkI'm pretty stoked about Amy Millan's next solo release Masters of the Burial which will feature Feist for enough female vocal power to make any indie man-fan more than weak at the knees. Not only does Millan enjoy contrasting her sweet vocals with bereaved album titles, she also puts her pipes to use covering Death Cab's grimly aff...
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[MP3] Amy Millan - I Will Follow You Into The DarkI'm pretty stoked about Amy Millan's next solo release Masters of the Burial which will feature Feist for enough female vocal power to make any indie man-fan more than weak at the knees. Not only does Millan enjoy contrasting her sweet vocals with bereaved album titles, she also puts her pipes to use covering Death Cab's grimly aff...
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[MP3] Candy Claws - Don't Turn AroundIf there is one band that has the promise to turn into a great act, the young trio Candy Claws of Ft. Collins, Colorado definitely have said potential. After listening to a collection of demos and poking around their MySpace, I'm interested to see if they can take the right steps toward a hypeworthy billing. One of the songs Candy Claws have s...
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Thursday afternoon was the most tired I had been in a very long time. My eyelids felt like sheets of lead and if I stood still for too long I'd do that awkward jolt; you know, where you nod off only to have your neck snap you awake and leave a look on your face screaming, "Hey, what happened?" Yep, I was that guy. Not for long, though, because I was quick to find out Janelle Monáe was Bonnaro..
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It's Friday, which means there's officially one less work week in between now and the May 26th release date of Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest. I thought I'd celebrate by throwing up a few underappreciated YouTube videos including a weird 'Chuck' clip show and a few live cuts from their BAM and SXSW shows."Two Weeks" set to NBC's Chuck:This is actually more interesting than it sounds, especially by...
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Thanks to Silence in Architecture for giving us the heads up on this new (unofficial) alternate music video for Animal Collective's "My Girls." You'll get the idea pretty quickly and probably think "duh, why didn't I think of that?" With the hyper-repetition and stranger than life sounds, director Rob Chesnutt fashioned a music video from a grab bag full of weird and hyper-real videos: norther...
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Weird Tapes is back after a little hiatus with a killer remix of Datarock's "Give It Up" from their upcoming album Red (out May 9th). And it's this reviewer's opinion that the Weird Tapes dude bests the shit out of the original:[MP3] Datarock - Give It Up (Weird Tapes Version)Yesterday Datarock unveiled the Michael Jackson-esque music video for "Give It Up" -- Check it out here.<-- Datarock --...
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While I'm getting back into the swing of things, you should check out this video of Bell performing a new track at our SXSW day party. Our friends at twosyllable records let us know the name of this unreleased/unrecorded track is "Suerte Loca". I never took an actual Spanish course but I'm pretty sure that translates to "Crazy Luck".. or Mr. Google is a liar. Either way, I found this song re...
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The other day we suggested that a song called "Fox Hunting" would be on White Rabbits' upcoming LP It's Frighening. Apparently that assumption was incorrect, but luckily today we've got a real brand new song called "Percussion Gun."[MP3] White Rabbits - Percussion GunOn first listen I'm not quite floored by this track. While the percussion is interesting in a train-about-to-derail kind of way...
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Today I'm spinning the new album from John Vanderslice, Romanian Names, his first release for Dead Oceans. Stereogum's Progress Report got me a little more excited when John, notorious for creating gorgeous melodies without appearing to be trying to do so, said: "On a superficial level, my goal was to write a bunch of shorter, faster songs that were all about melody lines. It was just about vo...
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Alright, it's not really a new track from Studio. Technically it's a remix they did for label mates Fontän's "Early Morning" but as with other remixes the Swedish duo has released this one sounds very little like the original and much more like the balearic beat of Studio's Yearbook 1 (or maybe more like Yearbook 2, their remix album). Either way it's an excuse to blog another 7+ minute trip-o..
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Without undermining the musical and pop culture knowledge of some of our older readers (if we have any?), or that of our younger readers who are "in" this particular "know," if you haven't heard of this band, Small Faces, or this song: pay close attention. "Itchycoo Park" provides an interesting alternate history of 1967 (although not too alternate), where Small Faces (not The Beatles) were th...
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Ben Tousley (a.k.a. Wilkerton), a well-known graphic designer and artist who designed the artwork for Grizzly Bear's last three releases (including the sexy cubist Veckatimest cover), just uploaded via Twitter the first (unofficial) pictures of Grizzly Bear's upcoming Live on KCRW 7" that they're exclusively releasing for Record Store Day 2009.I'm not technically an economist, but I'd bet a lot...
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I was a latecomer to electronic music. Instead of Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin, I jumped onto Ratatat, E*Vax, Clue To Kalo and electro-jazz stuff from St. Germain and Soel. With the relatively new "blog house" movement dominating what gets pimped and promoted across the music world, I have to say I find this Synthesizer Shaikh shit really refreshing.Sameed Shaikh spent two years while in c...
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I was hitchhiking on the information highway yesterday and came across what Paste Magazine referred to as their Top 10 Buzziest Acts of SXSW 2009. Of their favorite acts, I was most excited to see that Fanfarlo cracked the list in a continuing effort to build more and more hypeworthy momentum - we'll have more coverage from the British six-piece's SXSW set at our party very soon! Until then, ...
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(click to enlarge)After missing their show at the Mohawk on Wednesday because I flubbed the set time, I was glad to catch Here We Go Magic at Side Bar on Friday afternoon. They were one of just a handful of bands that I had made a point to go see (see also: Harlem Shakes, Wavves, Grizzly Bear), and Side Bar provided the perfect atmosphere for the band's weirdo psych folk.The place was packed w...
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Between my video camera malfunctioning and my camera deleting 1/3 of the photos I snapped, I've settled back into post-SXSW life wondering if Austin is some sort of technological bermuda triangle or if I just had bizarre luck. Regardless, I'm sorting through what I've got whilst juggling a research paper. Good things, however, come in pairs and Connor has photos plus some fantastic video to s...
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Sitting on a jet airliner lofted 20,000 feet above the patchwork farmland of some midwestern state, you can merely look around the cabin to get an idea of where this plane is heading. Every other row is littered with those flocking to Austin for a week of musical mayhem; folks donning Chuck Taylors, flannel shirts, slim jeans, gaudy sunglasses, grizzly beards, and earbuds matching each eardrum...
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Thanks to the always excellent They Shoot Music Don't They, who've once again acted as an incredible tool of illumination for music lovers who want to see our favorite (or not so favorite) musicians at their core.Here is the much hyped, loved and hated Wavves giving us a new song without the fuzz, distortion, and studio trickery.In two days I'll be checking out Wavves in Austin (as many times a...
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While anyone and everyone is gearing up for the SXSW shenanigans, there isn't a better time to delve into the new tunes put forth by Local Natives. Aside from playing eight SXSW shows in the span of four days, these California natives rely on heavy, layered vocal melodies to create the rich sounds found on their upcoming debut LP Gorilla Manor. I've only recently started spinning their mater...
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