New music from The Boy Least Likely To! It's a mellow, acoustic holiday single, The First Snowflake, and they're slated to release a full length album this March. Yay! The video is just kind of awkward, but the song is nice!! The First Snowflake from The Boy Least Likely To on Vimeo .
Musician Calvin Locklear sent us a couple of really nice tracks from his EP Watch Them Dance the other day. Check out a few of them below; they're pretty smooth, nice indie rock gems, with some snazzy hand-clapping and percussion. He fits snugly into the male indie-rocker conglomerate. Watch Them Dance- Calvin Locklear You're Fired- Calvin Locklear
Well, we're still at it. Check out a feel good playlist from Linus below, and feel good! Make You Crazy (ft. Femi Kuti)- Brett Dennen Miss Magnolia- Matt Costa Lord, I've Been On Fire- BC Camplight We're The Trees- The A-Sides 27 Jennifers- Mike Doughty Be Gentle With Me- The Boy Least Likely To She Don't [...]
Coldplay is releasing a new EP, "Prospekt's March" on November 24th, next Monday. You can peep the track list below; the EP features 8 songs, 5 of them previously unreleased. There are also a handful of songs that appear in some form or another on "Viva La Vida": the guys add some vocals to Life In Technicolor on Life In Technicolor ii ; Jay-Z guest stars on Lost+; and they beef up the instrumental on Lovers in Japan and extend the vocals . It's especially nice, though, to hear some new and [...]
The Postmarks, from whom we haven't heard new music since their fantastic self-titled debut (bestowing on us one of our 2007 favorites, Goodbye , posted below) are back with a cover album "By The Numbers", released last week. Each of the album's 12 tracks correspond to the numbers 1-12 that appear in the track names of covered songs (eg, track three is a sublime cover of Bob Marley's Three Little Birds ; track 7 is a cover of The Ramones' 7-11 ). The quiet, gentle indie-pop/twee that The Postmarks bring to this effort is very, very welcome [...]
Wanna feel good? Check out Brett Dennen, a folk rocker from Cali, part Jack Johnson, part Tracy Chapman, part Ben Kweller. With an almost childlike voice, somehow frog-like, Dennen croons out bluesy, acoustic, mostly mid-tempo numbers that rival Jack Johnson's breezy beach tunes. Check out his third studio album, "Hope for the Hopeless," which dropped a few weeks ago, and check out a few tracks from the album below. Make You Crazy (ft. Femi Kuti)- Brett Dennen San Fransisco- Brett Dennen
Check out this really nice new track from Her Space Holiday, Sleepy Tigers . It's a happy, folksy track with lots of tambourine and hand clapping, reminding us a lot of one our favorite groups (unfortunately no longer with us!) Kite Flying Society. The track is taken from his new album "XOXO, Panda and the New Kid Revival"; the album marks a bit of a departure for Her Space Holiday, who's known in the past for using lots of computer effects and electronic production. We haven't given the album a real chance yet, but from the [...]
Our beloved Andrew Bird is set to release a new album "Noble Beast" on January 27th and we honestly can not wait. We absolutely love Andrew Bird... "The Mysterious Production of Eggs" is one of our favorite albums of all time, and he's one of our favorite artists. You can check out the first track of the album below, Oh No , and thankfully it's the charming Andrew Bird we've always known and loved: the track features lots of strings, whimsical lyrics, and of course, some A-grade whistling. PS. Might we add that Mr. Bird looks absolutely [...]
The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, The maddest noise that grows, - The birds, they make it in the spring, At night's delicious close, Between the March and April line - That magical frontier Beyond which summer hesitates, Almost too heavenly near. It makes us think of all the dead That sauntered with us here, By separation's sorcery Made cruelly more dear. It makes us think of what we had, And what [...]
We're a huge fan of Ben Folds; "Rockin' the Suburbs" and "Songs for Silverman"are two of our favorite albums of all time. But we'll be honest, although we've only been listening to this new album for a week or so, we're really not loving it like we've loved Folds' in the past. He brings his signature smart, power piano driven pop rock to "Way to Normal", but for some reason, this time around, the whole thing just doesn't feel as endearing to us. It's almost as though he's too angry on most of these tracks; he'd want you to believe [...]
Check out two new tracks from two pretty big names. Vampire Weekend recorded Ottoman for "Nora's Infinite Playlist", a new movie starring Michael Cera's: it's no departure from anything on their stellar self-titled debut, employing flirty string arrangements, flourishing medieval harpsichord, and sleigh bells. Human is The Killers new single, from their upcoming album "Day and Age"; it's as synthy as anything from their breakthrough album "Hot Fuss" and it's a great little number...we already like it more than anything from "Sam's Town". Ottoman- Vampire Weekend [...]
This week ten years ago, on August 25, 1998, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" was released. It sold eight million copies and earned Hill five Grammys, including Album of the Year and Best New Artist. The album is, without a doubt, one of our favorite albums of all time, and a modern classic. Both track by track, and in its entirety, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" is brilliant: the album is both hard and soft, showcasing Hill's rare ability to seamlessly swing from rapping to singing; the album sounds wonderfully retro, with barbershop crooning on [...]
We're not entirely sure if this video is new to the web, but it's new to us, and Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa is the fourth and latest single from Vampire Weekend, so we decided to share. The video is hilarious: it has this distinctly 80's-movie feel to it that just makes us giggly, and it has this great little werewolf scene where Ezra Koeing's brown Rockports transform into black leather boots. It's just great.
Somehow all of the shenanigans surrounding Ben Folds new album "Way to Normal" due out September 30th escaped us. Essentially, to avoid the inevitable album leak, Ben Folds and his band spent eight hours in a Dublin studio recording fake versions of a handful of the songs from the album, and then leaked them as the new album. It's an interesting tactic, an ingenius way to punish the thoughtless, music stealing sluts (i.e. us), but we didn't come across the fake leak and we still can't find full versions of the fake songs online. There's a nice [...]
Here's a neat cover of Duffy's international hit Mercy by OneRepublic of Apologize fame. The covers pretty cool; OneRepublic gives the song an acoustic spin, and the track has an almost folk feel. Now, One Republic, er, OneRepublic's cover of Mercy should not be confused with their own track Mercy which contains the phrase "angel of mercy" and is nothing like the Duffy track at all. Mercy (Duffy cover)- OneRepublic
This is brilliant. Completely Linus meets Lucy. Get Me Bodied- Beyonce + Autumn Sweater- Yo La Tengo = Get Me Sweatered- Beyonce vs. Yo La Tengo
This is so exciting, we love Ben Kweller. Hopefully we can make it to a show, and we can't wait for "Changing Horses" scheduled for a January release! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BEN KWELLER ANNOUNCES FALL TOUR DATES NEW RECORD SCHEDULED FOR 2009 RELEASE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ATO Records is proud to announce that Ben Kweller has just confirmed tour dates throughout the fall with Whitley. This special tour will kick off in Dallas, TX, on September 25th, and come to a close on November 2nd in Austin, TX. Kweller will be previewing new [...]
The song below is amazing. It's a short, perfect, summer song: it's about the sun sun sun, the zoo, and love. Lyrically, it's a bit like Barry Louis Polisar's All I Want Is You from the Juno soundtrack, vocally a bit like a more blissful Magnetic Fields (with a semi-monotonic drawl), and musically like a Belle and Sebastian song. Noah and the Whale, from London, will release their debut album "Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down"in August. We're excited to hear more from them! 5 [...]
Here's a newly leaked song from the "Viva La Vida" era that didn't make it onto the record. It a pretty raw, piano-driven track; nothing fantastic but it's nice. As a bonus we've included two B-sides we posted a while ago which we've been really really feeling. Death Will Never Conquer- Coldplay See You Soon- Coldplay Careful Where You Stand- Coldplay
The past week has been hectic leaving little time for the Devil to even turn the PC on let alone post any paeons of purple prose. Well don't fret the Devil's back, for a couple of days at least, and you can expect a bumper crop of bands, reviews and news starting with... The New Royal Family Genre: Pop /Punk [...]
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