This new track from Wild Nothing is taken off of an upcoming EP of the same name, due out hopefully sometime this year on Captured Tracks , the dudes who released their stellar debut album "Gemini" earlier this year. Even though this track made the rounds about 6 weeks ago , "Golden Haze" wasn't available as a download back then, but now it is. According to Dodge over at My Old Kentucky Blog , the EP will be released on different formats (123, CD, digitally) and each one will have a different tracklisting, but [...]
There's a fair chance you've never listened to Blink-1822s live album The Mark, Tom & Travis Show, released back in 2000. As live albums go, it's definitely the one I play the most. It energises the studio versions of the band's best songs (at that time) and allows you to appreciate some fiendishly catchy punk-pop without the fluff that clogged up their early records. So imagine how cheated I felt when I actually saw Blink-182 with my own eyes in 2004 at the Braehead Arena. The [...]
Yeah yeah I'm late to the party, I get it OK? I'm regularly late to the party, I'm cool with that. But being late is better than never showing up at all and here I am, beer in hand and everyone else is passed the fuck out apart from one dude playing "Stan" by Eminem over and over again. So Gobble Gobble is a dude from Canada who goes by the name of Cecil Frena which is about as rockstar-name-ish as you can get. I'd heard of him a while back, and then again on a [...]
I was going through my blog archives the other day and wanted to see the official date that I started my blog. Sure enough it was July 30th, 2008, which means we are now officially 2 years young. Woah, where the hell did the last two years go? It seems like it was only yesterday that I got the sudden urge to really start my own blog after some outside motivation from various people. It was partly a way for me to put all of my musical obsessions out there for my friends to see, but deep down [...]
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The last time I featured Wild Nothing the world was a completely different place. A lot's changed in seven days . Actually things are pretty much the same, except for the fact that we've got a new song by Wild Nothing, this time the sound of it more than the Jack's voice reminds me of The Smiths, his voice sounding more like Alec Ounsworth from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. The song is part of an EP called "Evertide" on new label Warmest Chord who instead of releasing music on 17 different formats [...]
PARLOVR We want to touch on why we listen to music on this post today, because upon discovering Parlovr (pronounced Parlour) we were distinctly reminded of this consideration. We guess that everyone has varying reasons for listening to music and all of them are valid, as the experience is always for the ear of the beholder, but we believe there's some underlying commonalities. Ever since Neanderthal Man first hit a beat with a dinosaur bone onto the taut hind of a Sabertooth Tiger we've enjoyed rhythm and melody. There's always something tribal involved, isn't there? Something [...]
What is it about clapping? Both a way of showing appreciation, and a way to join in with the music we appreciate. Our hands are like our own personal drum kits that we take with us everywhere we go. Is it any surprise that the simple act of clapping has been the focus of many [...]
Click image to download full album Song: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth Download audio file (Clap-Your-Hands-Say-Yeah-The- Skin-of-My-Yellow-Country-Teet h.mp3) What others say: It's the sheer drive of this song that raises it far, FAR above Alec Ounsworth's affected hiccups and yelps. You can hear it best in the twin crash-and-snare hits at the end of the song, and the manic guitar line lifts me every time. It's no wonder that [...]
It is rare indeed that I will be enticed on to a dance floor. Yet anyone who has seen me at the monthly London club night Uptight will know that it only takes a few bars of Jonathan Richman's Roadrunner or an early REM track to get me under the disco ball. The music you hear at Uptight is so great that when Jo and I thought about who would DJ at our wedding there was no question who we'd ask. This Saturday (24 April) the last ever Uptight takes place at the [...]
by kevin diamond Oberhofer is on everyone's lips these days. They were recently named as one of L Magazine 's 8 bands to watch 2010. Its not hard to see why. These songs are as infectious as Bird Flu. Artist: Oberhofer [...]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over And Over Again The Mud Hut
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of my Yellow Country Teeth
(There have been several readers experiencing problems due to server overload. At the end of this post you'll find a link to download the whole set via mediafire as well as a link to hypem to stream the songs. Please help us save some bandwith.) I Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Can't Hear My Eyes Can't Hear My Eyes 7″ (Mexican Summer, 2009) Dungen - Fredag 4 (Kemado, 2008) [...]
Quick before the month is over, let's stop and look back and reflect on on what we were listening to one year ago. I must say it feels weird posting a live WOXY track the day after they stopped live broadcasting. There must be something we can do to bring back live broadcasts to WOXY . Let's get on that, ok? Oh, this is the March 2009 Mix. Listen. Downloadables: Power+Light (mp3) by 50 Foot Wave La [...]
Quick before the month is over, let's stop and look back and reflect on on what we were listening to one year ago. I must say it feels weird posting a live WOXY track the day after they stopped live broadcasting. There must be something we can do to bring back live broadcasts to WOXY . Let's get on that, ok? Oh, this is the March 2009 Mix. Listen. Downloadables: Power+Light (mp3) by 50 Foot Wave La [...]
Quick before the month is over, let's stop and look back and reflect on on what we were listening to one year ago. I must say it feels weird posting a live WOXY track the day after they stopped live broadcasting. There must be something we can do to bring back live broadcasts to WOXY . Let's get on that, ok? Oh, this is the March 2009 Mix. Listen. Downloadables: Power+Light (mp3) by 50 Foot Wave La [...]
Enjoy last week's fab take on 'When You've No Eyes' in the feature below. MP3: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
Hold Your Horses is a "French-American" indie pop septet that sounds like a healthy blend of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Belle and Sebastian and the criminally underrated Wax Fang. That nerdy reference probably won't set your pants on fire but maybe their video for "70 Million" will. Produced by l'Ogre , it's a jog through approx. 30 very famous paintings culled from several periods, all of which were lovingly reconstructed and re-enacted using various band members. Leave your observations in the comments section and brace yourself for the moment the Manet rolls around. Still super racist! [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Thursday night at Schubas in Chicago, a mustachioed, suit-wearing Alec Ounsworth -- of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah fame -- ended his first solo tour on an apparent high note. "This might be our best show of the tour," he said during one of the few times he addressed the crowd. "It's nice to be in Chicago," he continued. "It's like Philadelphia -- we're underdogs." After audience members objected to the Second City being labeled second tier, he explained, "No, it's [...]
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