Things are still a-stir in the world of Soundgarden. Now that all involved have entered a healthful middle age, they’ve cast their one good eye towards the past, and played a number of reunion shows, including what looks like an excellent set at grimly indie-fied festibule Lollapalooza. (Moderately tuneful but utterly bland British glumsters Mumford & Sons played there this year, to give you an example of how far from its freak-show-encompassing, bile-drinking-contest roots the…
ODDSAC, a visual album by Animal Collective and director Danny Perez, is out on DVD today, which you can order directly from the film’s website. As a small treat, below you can stream two absolutely brand new AC songs featured on the movie’s soundtrack, the soothing “Screens” and the majestic “Mr. Fingers”. ACSAC by user482219 [via Pretty Much Amazing!]
As previously reported, the new Black Mountain album , “Wilderness Heart“, will be out on September 14 via Jagjaguwar, and if their first single “Old Fangs” just got you started, here’s yet another new song off the new record, titled “The Hair Song,” which suit your hard riff needs until the release date. [MP3] Black Mountain – The Hair Song
Built around the a cappella of the Love Committee’s “Cheaters Never Win”, Teengirl Fantasy’s completely revamped version, called “Cheaters”, turned the track upside down, filling the dramatic vocals with liquid synths, an uplifting bass line, against a wall of splattered neutral tones of sound that lift you up, only to bring you back on your feet emotionally the next second, then back up. It’s quite the emotional roller coaster, but if I have to give the Ohio duo credit for just…
A pesky leak forced the eccentric NYC quintet to move their latest album’s digital release date from mid-September to August 3rd, which for you couch potatoes is today. As a small sample of what’s to be expected from “Root for Ruin”, Les Savy Fav’s fifth full length if you wanna count them, I present you with “Let’s Get Out of Here”, a densely guitar packed, full stomp anthem. Yeah, typical Les Savy material, which is…
Who’s your favourite band ever? Wrong: it’s Sleater-Kinney, those dearly-departed purveyors of punk, who ceased to be actively awesome almost four years ago. And now? Now there is more of it. Courtesy of those skinny-jeaned scamps over at Pitchfork, this is “Riley” “Doubt”, our first glimpse into 1,000 Years the excitingly upcoming solo album from Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker. Present and correct are the following elements: powerful punk guitars; an organ-and-handclaps-based breakdown; some searing solos; and…
Oh, okay, one more. This time, a snippet of something I’m probably going to review sometime this weekend: Kim Taylor’s “Lost and Found”, from her Little Miracle album. It’s a rather pretty thing – dramatic in its own chamber piano pop way, but somber enough to put one in mind of a sort of less sultry Hope Sandoval. Whatever your opinion of it, you can’t argue with the price: the free empeethree can be downloaded…
Sticking with the theme of popular rock bands’ guitarists doin’ their own “string” (thing), I notice that My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel has emerged from under his floppy fringe, politely brandishing a brand new album, All Birds Say, which is due out at the (wag)tail end of August. Strangely, his website seems to wilfully ignore the existence of Broemel’s previous album, Lose What’s Left, presumably because it was made pre-indie-fame, as opposed to ignoring it…
I know I’m a bit late on the bandwagon with this one, but better late than never. I’ve been meaning to post Cut Copy’s latest new song off the Aussies’ upcoming new album for a week now, since it got released as a free digital download at the band’s website, alas forgetfulness bested me. For those of you who’ve yet to listen to this enchanting song, point your eager clicks to the download link below…
Off the band’s upcoming highly anticipated new album, “Halcyon Digest”, Deerhunter’s new 7″ single “Revival” is available as of today for free download on the album’s mini-site – enter password tapereel. A few weeks ago fans were instructed to print and paste up posters with the new album in the home towns, and in return they’d be rewarded with access to the new single, but apparently anyone can do it. Besides the the single title…
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