White Hinterland auteur Casey Dienel will follow up her beautiful, wintry Phylactery Factory LP with an adventurous exploration of '60s French avant-pop on her essential new Luniculaire EP. The 5-song EP consists of three extremely ambitious and inspired covers of genre classics, and two outstanding new originals from Ms. Dienel (both in French, of course). While it's probably impossible for an...
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Excuse the barrage of TVOTR -related posts today, but I'm still in a state of awe after seeing them play this weekend at Red Rocks , and now Cornerstone has gone and hooked us up with a copy of their new LP, Dear Science, to give away to one of you. The winner also gets that sweet Tunde-designed poster pictured above (click here for larger image). Leave your name/email in the comments, an...
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Although the stunning venue and perfect weather might've played a small part, the 2008 Monolith Festival was one of the most enjoyable festival-going experiences I've had in a long time. Not sure if it topped day one , but here are some highlights from day two: All 4'11" of Sharon Jones absolutely killed James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World ," Band of Horses played a couple of great ne...
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Although the stunning venue and perfect weather might've played a small part, the 2008 Monolith Festival was one of the most enjoyable festival-going experiences I've had in a long time. Not sure if it topped day one, but here are some highlights from day two: All 4'11" of Sharon Jones absolutely killed James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," Band of Horses played a couple of great new ...
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Yeezy took a break from posting about robot lawn mowers and contact lens jewelry to re-record his new single, "Love Lockdown." Don't get too excited, though, because autotune is still in full effect. Listen to the new and slightly improved version here.*****************************************
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Despite breaking down in Salt Lake City on their way to Red Rocks, and eventually arriving barely 10 minutes before their set time in a couple of rented Expeditions, TV On The Radio played the most inspired set of the entire Monolith Festival. Photos and recap coming later, but for now, here's the brand new video for "Golden Age," the Kyp-fronted first single from Dear Science. (via Spinner)***...
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old king cole younger Currently en route back to TX, and I happened upon this "freestyle outtake from the new Black Lips album ." I read recently that Diplo is doing some work with these guys, so it makes sense that this was posted up on the Mad Decent blog . Recommended only for Black Lips completists and anyone who's dying to hear what Cole would sound like as a dirty south gangster: mp...
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Our weekly GvsB Sirius radio show airs today at noon midnight EST on Left of Center. Brand new stuff this week from Empire of the Sun, Gang Gang Dance, Salem, Get Back Guinozzi, Chairlift, Memory Cassette, the Ruby Suns Esau Mwamwaya, and more. You can listen right here, for free. Full playlist for this week some mp3s after the jump...********************************************gorilla v...
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the muslims :: live at red rocks (photo / click for larger image) Day one of the Monolith Festival was a rousing success, thanks in large part to the unreal weather and spectacular views at the impossibly picturesque venue . There were bands, too: highlights from yesterday included Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Holy Fuck, JV, Blitzen Trapper, Cut Copy , and White Denim (not necessarily in th...
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From Paavoharju to Lau Nau, some of the most beautiful, enchantingly bizarre pop music I've posted about this year has come from an unlikely source: the Nordic nation of Finland, and more specifically, the wonderful Fonal label. This admittedly has something to do with my fascination with the Finnish language; it's not exactly graceful, and at times it can even be a little jarring, but it has a...
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Those with even a casual/passing interest in dubstep are going to want to check this recent 27-minute BBC Radio 1 session, featuring Hyperdub's resident MC the Spaceape flowing over an insane live set from dubstep luminary Kode9. By the way, this was mentioned in the latest edition of Pitchfork's essential "The Month in Grime/Dubstep" column, in which Martin Clark says of the session:"Released ...
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rye rye // m.i.a. I'm not complaining, but for someone that's supposed to be retired, M.I.A. sure is popping up a lot lately. Mad Decent has a new joint called "Tic Toc ," on which Fashion Maya * provides an inspired verse. Still, Rye Rye owns this one. Listen . *Seriously though, I need to cop that watermelon hoodie .
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Thanks to all-around good guy YANP for the tip on this one. I've probably mentioned eight times by now that the Ruby Suns are collaborating with Esau Mwamwaya on his upcoming LP. What I didn't know is that Esau also joined the band on their gloriously uplifting afro-beat cover of "Birthday," confirming that everything the man touches indeed turns immediately to gold. It's the circle of life, b...
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Thanks to all-around good guy YANP for the tip on this one. I've probably mentioned eight times by now that the Ruby Suns are collaborating with Esau Mwamwaya on his upcoming LP. What I didn't know is that Esau also joined the band on their gloriously uplifting afro-beat cover of "Birthday," confirming that everything the man touches indeed turns immediately to gold. It's the circle of life, b...
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vivian girls live on wfmuVivian Girls stopped by the WMFU studios recently for a live session, during which they mixed in a few new reverb-laden girl group jams among tracks from their self-titled debut. Still can't get enough of those harmonies. Here are a couple songs from the session; the station's Beware of the Blog has all nine tracks for download here.mp3:vivian girls :: wild eyes (live o...
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Here's the new video for Salem's "Dirt," taken from the band's unclassifiable Yes I Smoke Crack EP (out now on Acephale). The unsettling clip -- which the band directed themselves -- is dark, disorienting, and more than a little terrifying. Oh, and definitely NSFW or anywhere else. The song kicks in just after the one minute mark, and totally justifies my favorite description of these guys (fro...
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Here's the brand new video from our dude Pablo Díaz-Reixa, aka El Guincho. The colorful cut paper collage, which features the Guincho getting down with a giraffe, a toucan, and a rhinoceros, is a pitch-perfect visual accompaniment for Alegranza!'s sunny tropical jams:(via p4k.tv)mp3:el guincho :: palmitos park************************************************
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I've briefly mentioned how much I like Brooklyn's Chairlift, and their new album Does You Inspire You continues to get quite a bit of play around here ("Planet Health" is still amazing). Apparently the dudes at Apple are fans too, as the band's bittersweet love song "Bruises" is featured in the soon-to-be-everywhere new "nano-chromatic" ad. Congrats to the band, this song deserves to be a hit. ...
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Saint Dymphna is the adventurous, genre-spanning new LP from Gang Gang Dance. "Princes," featuring East London's illest MC, Tinchy Stryder, is perhaps the most arresting, out of left field, interstellar-dancefloor-ready track on an album full of kaleidoscopic jams. Tinchy's "trying to get mainstream money," which would explain the urgency with which he attacks this insane Gang Gang beat. GGD's ...
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