And now another installment of Stuck In My Head , where I post some mp3s that are um, stuck in my head. Downloadables: Where Was my Brain? (Demo) (mp3) by Ted Leo + The Pharmacists (Buy TL/Rx stuff from Ted's store ) Fresh Air Traverse by Black Taj (Buy some Black Taj @ Amish Records ) Strychnine by The Sonics (Buy Full Force! @ Amazon [...]
I can say this without any equivocation at all... "May 2008 was AWE-Some." Take a listen and remember. 1. Cappo (mp3) by No Age 2. Cooker (mp3) by Made Out Of Babies 3. Mirando (beggars mp3) by Ratatat 4. Tidal Wave (mp3) by Soiled Mattress & The Springs 5. ok/no Way (matador mp3) by Mission Of Burma 6. Hit The Wall (mp3) by [...]
The Black Angels MP3: Black Lipstick - B.O.B. F.O.S.S.E. MP3: Black Taj - L.A. Shift MP3: Black Angels - Better Off Alone MP3: Black Moth Super Rainbow & The Octopus Project - Elq Milq MP3: Blackball False, Truth! - Knives Chau Luvs LCD Bookmark It [...]
TV On The Radio I'm jumping on the poseur bandwagon and I'm not afraid to admit it. TV On The Radio's new album Dear Science out 9/23 (pre-order) could possibly save this shitty year in music. TVOTR has always puzzled me. I could hear their greatness, but I could never completely get into them. I've heard 6 of the new songs and I'm blown away. Each song has its own unique sound. There are elements of Afro-Funk, Sonic Disco, Electronica, infused with hardcore bass, tribal drums and pop melodies. I [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Black Taj : "Fresh Air Traverse" [mp3] from Beyonder Black Taj : "Cold Comfort" [mp3] from Beyonder other Black Taj posts at Largehearted Boy The Builders and the Butchers : "When It Rains" [mp3] from The Builders and the [...]
When you reach the apex of the blogosphere, record labels and PR firms from around the world want to be your friend. They'll send you countless albums in the hopes that you will write positive reviews and help launch careers. Or, at the very least, you'll be too embarrassed to have your name affiliated with a certain soul-crushingly pedestrian bands and you'll get $3 in store credit from your local second-hand record store when you sell the promo just to get it out of your study or home office or wherever it is you choose to blog. This [...]
Athens, Ga.'s We Versus The Shark have a new album of crunchy posthardcore out this summer, Dirty Versions . They also have another album. It is a album of covers entitled Murmurmur . The tracks on Murmurmur are being released piecemeal on donation-based Quote - Unquote Records . It is scheduled to be finished in late 2008. One can't help but wonder based solely on the album title and location of the band... will they cover R.E.M.?? Here are two tracks: "See No Evil (Television Cover)" (mp3) [...]
Maybe someone, somewhere in the mid-90s, had a feverish dream about the perfect musical concoction, and when they woke up all they could remember was the phrase, "you got your classic rock in my math rock!" And then maybe they carried that mantra with them through the years, like a glass slipper for all the bands in the world to try on, but nothing ever quite fit. The dream would have to wait a year, you said—and then another year passed, and another, until finally you'd just about given up. If you are that person with the undreamable dream, don't [...]
Black Taj: " Clover " (from Black Taj 2005. Buy it here .) This isn't a new song (though it's not too old, either), but I just came across it recently and found it really appealing. Black Taj brings together the shards of a number of storied local groups, including half of Polvo (guitarist Dave Brylawski and bass player Steve Popson) and 2/3 of Idyll Swords (Brylawski again and guitarist Grant Tennille). I've written about Polvo's fractured genius [...]
GIMME TINNITUS
Rollo & Grady
largehearted boy
Swan Fungus
angels twenty
The Oak Room
Afrojack Goes Big For His ‘Jacked’ Summer Tour
Friday Remixes
Summer Camp – Always
Princeton – Grand Rapids (RAC Remix)
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
