What it lacks in being on time it makes up for in awesome songs. The best of the best Bound Stems - Happens To Us All Otherwise Wire - One of Us Bell - Echinacea Happy Anarchy - Is That Right? Jaguar Love - Bats Over The Pacific Ocean Robert Pollard (of GBV fame) - Gratification to Concrete The Ms - Don't Be Late Computer vs. Banjo - Give Up On Ghosts [...]
The Good: Bum Kon - "Drunken Sex Sucks"; I totally don't agree with the sentiments in this song. I happen to think drunken sex is a great old time, but I'm not gonna argue with the furious punk sounds on the track. Fast paced, blistering music, and almost impossible to understand lyrics make this song feel like and old school punk anthem. I like that idea and I like this song. Grade: B Ted Leo

For review this week we have ... Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley ( mp3 ) Dapunksportif - I Can't Move ( mp3 ) Earlimart - Song For ( mp3 ) Ed Harcourt - Revolution In The Heart ( mp3 ) Elika - The Whip ( mp3 ) Fingertips - Picture Of My Own ( mp3 ) Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal ( mp3 ) Foxboro Hot Tubs - Mother Mary ( mp3 ) Ida Maria - Keep Me Warm ( mp3 ) Jaguar Love - Bats Over [...]

Kick-starting this first week of June, we have what is possibly the best week of album releases so far this year. I almost didn't bother to post this week's Graboid, since I just haven't felt like writing anything lately. But, it's times like these that just makes you excited about music, and it was just the thing I needed to hopefully get things back into motion here on the blog. Since I was actually listening to Shearwater's Rook as I was compiling this post, I figure it would be best to mention [...]

Matador Records ' newest playthings, Jaguar Love , consist of Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato formerly of Blood Brothers , and J Clark of Pretty Girls Make Graves . It's the Northwest version of Crosby, Stills & Nash! Except that instead of acoustic ballads about free love, they play frenzied shrieking indie rock songs about hurt feelings and trouble. There were things I liked about both Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves, as well as a few things I didn't like about either band. Fortunately, it seems those elements didn't make [...]
If you haven't noticed, the 2008 Summer Membership Drive is going on right now at KEXP. After you pledge your support to independent radio , be sure to also support independent artists and record stores. Among the artists releasing new albums this week (check Largehearted Boy's list for the full run-down) are true DIY-ers Robert Pollard & The Futureheads, who are both putting out their latest on their own labels. Also worth picking up are the new ones from The Ting Tings, Ladytron, Fleet Foxes, The Cool Kids, The Pinker Tones, The Virgins, and Baskervilles [...]

Music: The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing Listen to : Great Dj ( mp3 ) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Remote Control Frequencies - Tempus Jaguar Love - Jaguar Love Ep Listen to: Bats Over the Pacific Ocean ( mp3 ) Stars Like Fleas - The Ken Burns Effect Listen to: I Was Only Dancing ( mp3 ) Kaskade - Strobelight Seduction Listen to: Move For Me [...]

Jaguar Love , containing members of recently defunct northwest bands, The Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves, have posted a track from their debut full length Take Me To The Sea . The track, "Bats over the Pacific Ocean," was posted in the beginning of April, but I just found it buried on my desktop yesterday and gave it a spin. This song is fucking fantastic! It's super catchy and Johnny Whitney's unique vocals sound great. Even if you were not a fan of his work in The Blood Brothers, I recommend you check this song [...]

From the ashes of the Seattle group Blood Brothers rises Jaguar Love . They'll be capping off a west coast tour at Neumos next Wednesday June 4 by headlining an all Seattle bill, with Nazca Lines and Das Llamas warming up the crowd. In their short existence they've impressed enough to have already landed an opening spot for Queens of the Stone Age at the Paramount and are now headlining Neumos, all of which I'd say is pretty freakin' rad for a band less than a year old. For the last [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Avett Brothers : "Murder in the City" [mp3] from The Second Gleam EP (out ) other Avett Brothers music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Benji Hughes : "So Well" [mp3] from A Little Extreme EP (out June 17th) Benji Hughes : "You Stood Me Up" [mp3] from A Little Extreme EP [...]
Their self-titled debut short player is due on 6/3. An as-yet-untitled full length will see daylight in August. Learn all about Jaguar Love on MySpace. MP3: Jaguar Love - Bats Over The Pacific Ocean
Welcome to this week's edition of the Radio Exile mp3 Mixtape . Just the other day, I was discussing my love for our annual summer pilgrimage to Coney Island for the Siren Music Festival [ link ] so I find it fairly appropriate that we bring to you a specially themed mixtape this week. For those that haven't been to this Village Voice sponsored slice of Heaven, shame on you. Seriously, it's a free concert for crying out loud and with a chance to listen to some indie music's biggest names [...]
Jaguar Love "Bats Over The Pacific Ocean" - From the sound of it, Jaguar Love seems to be the Make -Up to the Blood Brothers' Nation of Ulysses. Johnny Whitney's distinct voice remains at the core of both bands, but in the context of Jaguar Love's less aggro, more groovy (though no less urgent) music, he's free to stretch himself beyond the confines of perpetual hysteria. Since Whitney's voice is such a bold, overpowering thing, it's not immediately apparent that "Bats Over The Pacific Ocean" is actually a duet, but his performance is shadowed by another, [...]
והשבוע, בעונג שבת: הסטוג'ס אונסים את מדונה, סנופ דוג מספר סיפורים, המייקרופונז מקבלים כבוד מאוחר, אקו"ם והבצפר מביכים נורא, מחוות וידאו לניוטרל מילק הוטל, רג'ינה ספקטור מלמדת מהי דמוקרטיה, ושיטלואוד דברים חדשים ונפלאים של ליידיטרון, רוברט פלנט ואליסון קראוס, דאוס, וילקו, מיי מורנינג ג'אקט, ג'גואר לאב, איימי מאן, הברידרז, ביורק, שולי רנד ועוד. מצד שני, יש פה גם את הקלטת הקול האנושי הקדומה ביותר בהיסטוריה.

For the first time, Matador Records is making their annual Intended Play sampler available digitally. Click on the link below to get a zipped file of all 12 tracks plus front and back artwork: Intended Play 2008 (zip file) Tracklisting : 1. Jay Reatard - "Always Wanting More" (from 73 3, due out June 17) 2. Times New Viking - "DROP-OUT" (from Rip It Off , released January 22) 3. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Cold Son" (from Real Emotional Trash , released [...]

Q: Have you checked out Matador's Intended Play: Spring 2008 yet? I'll tell you, I have been intending to play Jaguar Love for a while now, and I'm glad I don't have to wait for this summer to post these cats. In case you haven't heard they are 1/3 pretty girl 2/3 blood brother . They look like this: This here is the Intended Play track I was excited about. [...]

Born in the summer of 2007 in Portland, Jaguar Love is a new side project consisting of Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato from The Blood Brothers and Jason Clark from Pretty Girls Make Graves . Johnny's shrill vocals are distinct as always but the instrumentation on this project differs from previous endeavors. MP3: Jaguar Love - Highways Of Gold (Recommended) MP3: Jaguar Love - Welcome To The Birdskull Palace This [...]