("Golden Seal" & "Days of Last" w/Andrew W.K.)Since releasing The Chemistry of Common Life last year, Fucked Up have been one of the most consistently played bands on my iPod. Their music gets to me and turns me into something of a maniac as soon as the first gut wrenching wail rips through my ears. It has led me to see the band a couple of times already and each time I walk away from their sho...
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Live Review: Fucked Up @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple, 11/5
Live Review: Titus Andronicus @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple, 11/5
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("My Time Outside the Womb")So apparently Titus Andronicus have changed a lot since the last time I saw them. Before they were a five piece band that had a shit ton of energy to unleash on their fans. The sound was at times flawed, but it was also full with three guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer unleashing the fury of their songs on our heads. This time out they had scaled back to a four pi...
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Live Review: The Girls at Dawn @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple, 11/5
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(sorry not the best video ever!)Let's go ahead and get the obvious out of the way, the ladies of The Girls at Dawn bear a striking resemblance to the ladies of Vivian Girls. Their tunes are similar in that they both tend towards the lo-fi end of things, with a heavy garage influence, and lovely girl group harmonies. Now let's move on and try to not compare them to Vivian Girls more than that.Ri...
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Live Review: Katie Stelmanis @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple, 11/5
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Before heading out to Brooklyn last night I was bit torn about what time to show up to the venue. Doors were slated for 7pm, but I knew Titus Andronicus wasn't going on till 10pm with Fucked Up to follow. Luckily thanks to the magic of Twitter I learned that there were two other bands opening up for Fucked Up and thankfully they were both well worth getting there early to see!The first of these...
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New Tunes: Spoon
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Get excited Spoon fans! There is a new album coming January 26th! The 7th studio album from the Austin band will be called Transference, will be released on Merge, and will most likely follow in the footsteps of all their past great records and wind up being one of our favorites of 2010! We're excited for it and now that the first taste of the record has found its way online we're even more exc...
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Top 10: Music Videos by Spike Jonze
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Now that the World Series is over and the Yankees have won their 27th World Championship life around these parts can get back to normal. No more scheduling things around game time, waiting till the last out to go out, and missing everything I hope to see! That means this weekend I will finally have a chance to see Where the Wild Things Are my second most anticipated movie of the year (The Road ...
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New Video: White Rabbits "Percussion Gun" on Jimmy Kimmel Live
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White Rabbits perform "Percussion Gun" on Jimmy Kimmel Live with the help of Spoon's Britt Daniel, who produced their latest album. It sounds as good as any late night performance I have ever heard! Not perfect but damn good!
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New Video: The Antlers "Kettering"
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A dedicated fan made this wonderful video for The Antlers' "Kettering". Composed entirely of still photographs, the video somehow manages to translate those stills into the exact emotion and pace of the song from The Antlers. The photographs are of course beautiful representations of the various emotions pouring from The Antlers in the song, making for a truly wonderful visual and aural experie...
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New Tunes: El Perro Del Mar
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The sultry voice of El Perro Del Mar is usually enough to make us swoon, but when you add in the fact that she's covering Lou Reed's "Heavenly Arms" in the video above we have gone well beyond melted to a new state of absolute devotion to this songstress. She explained why she chose to cover Reed and this is what she had to say..."For some coincidental reason Lou Reed worked as some kind of mus...
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New Video: Kurt Vile "Freak Train"
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Enjoy the new clip from Matador's Kurt Vile!
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EP of the Week: Dirty Projectors' "Temecula Sunrise"
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It has been a huge year for Dirty Projectors! With the release of Bitte Orca the band went from being an interesting little indie band to being a band that could appear on all the late night talk shows and tour the world to packed houses. It was a pretty big leap but based on the tremendous pop sounds coming off Bitte Orca it's one that is totally merited. Ask just about any music critic about ...
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Tuesday's Recommended Release
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It must have been great for young rockers growing up in the early days of the genre. Imagine hearing all this great guitar music and knowing that every inch of it was brand spanking new, inventive, something mind altering, it would have been such a phenomenal time to be young. Of course we are not in that time, we are in a time where any new song that is recorded can be likened to something bef...
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This Week's Live Picks
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Monday: Fuck Buttons, Growing, + These Are Powers @ Bowery Ballroom 7:30pm $15 [tix]Most acts that set up in front of a table are never able to truly capture an audiences attention in the live setting. They stand there, pressing buttons and twisting knobs, letting the music do the work for them and a lot of times it winds up as a boring performance. Fuck Buttons are not one of those bands. Yeah...
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Live Review: Future of the Left @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
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After spending a week at the CMJ Music Marathon I was a bit worried about what music has been presenting us with lately. Most of the bands of that week seemed to be trying to cash in on trends, sounding eerily similar to each other, and blending into a huge blur that was really difficult to differentiate between. Luckily there are bands out there that can remind you of the power of rock music i...
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New Tunes: The Antlers on Daytrotter!
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Way back in March I e-mailed the guys at Daytrotter and tried to set up this session while I knew the band and Daytrotter would both be down at SXSW. I never heard back and my days of attempting to manage The Antlers pretty much came to a close (though I did line up their awesome WOXY Lounge Act the week after!). I've spent the last few months continuing to adore the band's music and watching a...
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New Tunes: Yeasayer
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Yeasayer have not been my favorite of the recent glut of indie bands rising to the top of the heap. I enjoyed "2080" but there was something off-putting about the rest of their raved about debut All Hour Cymbals. Maybe it was all the hippie vibes it gives off, whatever that is not what this is about. Today the band offered the first single off their new album, Odd Blood (out February 19th), for...
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New Tunes: The Soft Pack
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For whatever reason the act of changing a band's name has always annoyed me. You start to get to know a band as one thing and then all of a sudden they're something totally different. It sucks and it really fucks up your iTunes cataloging! In the case of the band formerly known as The Muslims I think I can make an exception to the rule. Let's face reality and realize that naming yourself after ...
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Buzzworthy!!! Or Not???
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Who: WarpaintLocation: Los Angeles, CAelbo.ws Ranking: #48Thoughts: One of the major flaws of the CMJ Music Marathon is the inability to see everything you want to see. Of course with 1,300 bands playing dozens of venues over the course of five days it would be impossible to do and with all time schedules that get skewed there is no way you can be everywhere you want to be. As such I managed to...
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New Tunes: Xiu Xiu
Since we were shut out of the exclusive Jamie Stewart subscription service we have kind of been jonesing for some new Xiu Xiu since last year's solid Women As Lovers. Luckily most of our problems will be alleviated by the anticipated 2010 release of the band's new record Dear God, I Hate Myself. Before we get to that though the band has contributed two tunes to upcoming projects outside of the ...
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Top 10: Essential Greatest Hits Collections Ever
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In the next few weeks there will be some ridiculous Greatest Hits collections going on sale. I have no problem with the Foo Fighters getting one, they've been doing their thing for a while now and have had some very solid singles over the year, and their collection of hits could easily replace their records on my shelves. But a band like Fall Out Boy??? Give me a break and get serious for a min...
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