Though I spent the better part of Tuesday’s Kurt Vile show at Modified lamenting my habitual inability to remember earplugs, I couldn’t help but be pulled in by the lo-fi psych-rock of Vile & the Violators.The songs, mostly from his 2009 LP Childish Prodigy, went from loud to louder – riding a crescendo of feedback [...]
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I came across this excellent bootleg last week, which finds power-poppers Weezer at a pivotal time in their musical evolution: Following the extended hiatus that befell the band after the commercial failure of Pinkerton, this show features the band blasting out old favorites and debuting songs from the soon-to-be-released Green Album, live in 2001 to a [...]
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The fine folks at Solesides.com never let me down. This time – via Twitter – they introduce us to a vocal/rough version of Artifact, a track off DJ Shadow’s 2006 LP The Outsider, an album that was unfortunately met lukewarm praise at best.Zack de la Rocha’s highly charged political screeds were meant for this punk-rock-sounding [...]
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When nobody was looking, Editors went ahead and released a new album. In This Light and On This Evening is available digitally with a physical U.S. release due out on Jan. 19.After a few spins, I’m not sure what to make of this new, synth-heavy direction the band has taken. The dark/industrial undertones are ripe [...]
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When we went to San Diego Street Scene last year, The Whigs were stuck in one of those somewhat sweaty/sparsely attended afternoon time slots, when festivalgoers are still shaking off the exhaustion from the previous day. But we made a point to catch the Athens, Ga., trio and it was just the jolt I needed [...]
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We are heading to the Clubhouse tonight to check the sorta-odd twin bill of Mayer Hawthorne and Ghostface.And wouldn’t you know it: Stones Throw released a new video today for the Mayer’s Green Eyed Love, the closer on his excellent debut A Strange Arrangement. The video coincides with the release of a six-track 12-inch EP [...]
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It’s always a thrill to get a package from our man Hunter at Gold Robot Records, a boutique vinyl label that deals mostly in limited-run 7-inch gems.The latest is Designed Entropy I, a four-song compilation that features cuts from Bomarr, Copy, Meanest Man Contest and Roman Ruins.The 7-inch – produced on brown/orange-colored vinyl – was [...]
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A few weeks ago, I downloaded the digital single for the new jam from People Under the Stairs – Trippin’ At the Disco - and completely forgot to post about it until Weiss offered up the video for the track today.PUTS continues to be one of the most prolific but overlooked acts in hip-hop. Their [...]
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(Jason continues to breathe air into this blog while a rather busy time for work keeps me from doing much other than eating and sleeping.)I’ve been really delighted with Asthmatic Kitty’s Library Catalog Music series, a set of instrumental albums designed by the label “for possible use in films and television, background sounds for home [...]
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Just a couple weeks after the proper release of his once-shelved album Kamaal the Abstract, Q-Tip is back with a new video for Life is Better from The Renaissance, his critically acclaimed return that was one of my favorites of 2008.Much like the revered Midnight Marauders album cover(s), this is Q-Tip’s ode to hip-hop – [...]
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I think that if it were the 70s, I’d probably be one of those “Disco Sucks” guys, probably jamming out to Boston on headphones while getting stoned in my parents’ basement, or maybe, if I was really cool, shaving my head and going punk. After all, I despise my generation’s club music, be it obnoxious [...]
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We saw Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison do an acoustic take on Swim Until You Can’t See Land from a park bench, and now we have a full-band studio version that’s available for streaming at Fat Cat. Another song, Fun Stuff, can also be heard.According to the label, the Swim single will be released in [...]
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Do you think Southern Lord just wouldn’t let a band put out a record called “God Is Good?”Whatever the reason, doom-metal mystics OM’s new record is released by the fine folks at Chicago’s Drag City. The Steve Albini-produced set is the first album to feature the band’s new lineup, with drummer Emil Amos (Grails) joining [...]
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My anticipation for next Friday’s Sunny Day Real Estate show at Marquee Theatre continues to build, and the band’s performance on Jimmy Fallon’s show only contributes to my excitement. Likewise, NPR has made the band’s show from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., available to stream or download. In the Fallon performance, William Goldsmith – [...]
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We’ll be seeing Phoenix’s own Miniature Tigers open for The Dodos on Wendesday night at Modified, a venue that’s stirred quite the buzz around town the past couple of days. Anyway, the Mini T’s have been riding high and touring the country on the strength of the debut LP Tell it to the Volcano, [...]
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Since seeing them in Tucson last week, I have been devouring all things by The Twilight Sad, whose stunning new album, Forget the Night Ahead, possesses all the emotion and feeling sorely lacking in a mostly underwhelming year marked by dull synth-pop and a hyped-up lo-fi scrap heap. I was distressed that it took until [...]
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We trekked down to Tucson on Tuesday to catch the Scottish extravaganza: Frightened Rabbit with The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks. Though I came away mostly stunned by The Twilight Sad in my first time seeing the group, young upstarts WWPJ delivered a raw and energetic set with the sort of abandon you’d [...]
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One of the year’s catchiest songs, Hi-Fi Goon by Throw Me the Statue, gets a video accompaniment in which the guys go on some sort of urban safari, tracking down escaped animals from a zoo while getting martial arts lessons along the way. Works for me.Throw Me the Statue | Hi-Fi Goon
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I haven’t listened to the new Swoon, the new Silversun Pickups album, as much as I would like so far. But what better inspiration to spend some time with it than a video featuring pretty girls playing a catty game of musical chairs? Oh, the song is pretty good, too.And here’s a behind-the-scenes look at [...]
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