Blog: Groove Radio PT

Given what we now know about Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore's breakup, we shouldn't hold our collective breath for a Sonic Youth reunion anytime soon. Instead, we should probably settle in with Moore's new band Chelsea Light Moving, who have a new video for their skronky hardcore anthem "Lip." The clip chops up band-performance footage and images of protesters clashing with riot cops. It's credited to "Eva at Ecstatic Peace Library," and that probably means Eva Prinz, whose name has been in internet circulation a bunch lately. Watch the video below. Read More... [...]

Books Of Love is a duo comprised of Vivian Girls/La Sera's Katy Goodman and Greta Morgan of the Hush Sound. The union was conceived when the two were walking by Griffith Conservatory in Los Angeles and wanted to write a song about finding love in another dimension. Check out their song "Space Time" and its delightful video, featuring Goodman and Morgan searching for a green man to love, below. Read More... [...]

Laura Marling's Once I Was An Eagle is out later this month and she's released its third single "Once." While all of our Marling's output gurgles with sweetness, this one particularly smacks with it because of it's stripped down instrumentation gives all the more legroom to her voice. Check it out below. Read More... [...]

One of the best tracks on Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories is "Giorgio By Moroder," which has a long spoken reminisce from the Italo-disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder and which pays tribute to the endlessly tick-tocking dance beats that he created in the '70s. And now Moroder himself has returned in a fittingly strange way: He's done the soundtrack for a new Google Chrome game called Racer . Moroder's new track "Racer" exists at a halfway mark between the hypnotic tracks of his past and the pounding Euro-house of our shared present. [...]

Saban Bajramovic (pictured above) was the king of Balkan Gypsy song, arguably the greatest Roma vocalist of all time (and a serious pigeon-fancier as well). This week I'll present two songs as evidence, one from 1969 and the other from one of his last recordings in 2006. No pigeons were harmed in the production of this radio show. Also this week: new music from Vieux Farka Toure (a cover of his father, in fact); some nice long songs from the Congo and Kenya; Dubmatix mashes up reggae, electronica and bass music; and [...]

Because they are kind and generous people who want nothing but nice things for us, Liars are giving away two brand-new tracks, "I Saw You From The Lifeboat" and "Perfume Tear." Both songs are harsh, buzzing synthetic things, keeping many of the textures from the band's 2012 album WIXIW but bringing a more merciless, sinister edge than most of that album had. Right now, you can download both songs by heading to this site and entering an email address. Meanwhile, watch a video for "I Saw You From The Lifeboat," which pairs the track with random [...]

Weekend - the fuzzed-out noisemakers responsible for 2010’s excellent Sports - will return this July with Jinx (a ballsy name for a sophomore album if there ever was one). The record reflects a series of big changes for the band. In addition to relocating from San Francisco to Brooklyn just after the recording of the album, the record also finds the former trio adding a fourth member (bassist Nick Ray) to the mix. Those worried that that these changes might temper the band’s sound need not fret. The songs on Jinx - as evidenced [...]

Savannah, Georgia sludge-metal warriors Kylesa started out as a slobbering two-drummer beast of a band, and they're still that. But on their last two albums, they've been injecting their ferocious roar with more and more gloriously anthemic '90s alt-rock melody. Ultraviolet , their latest, is a triumph in every way imaginable, and it's one of the year's best rock LPs thus far. We've posted the early songs " Unspoken ," " Quicksand ," " Vulture's Landing ," and " We're Taking This ," and now you can (and should) stream the entire monstrous thing at Pitchfork . [...]

Erik Wunder is probably best known as the instrumental genius behind Colorado-born black-metal duo Cobalt, whose now-decade-old career has produced three increasingly brilliant LPs that redefined the parameters and raised the stakes of the genre: 20052s War Metal , 20072s Eater Of Birds , and 20092s Gin . ( Gin placed at No. 2 on Stereogum's list of 20092s best metal albums , and I had it at No. 3 on my Pazz & Jop ballot that year.) Yet the Cobalt story frequently centers on vocalist/lyricist Phil McSorley, whose military service and tours [...]

Recently, Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, played at New York's Bowery Ballroom in celebration of the release of his latest album Muchacho , which is by no means his first, but definitely his biggest. I'm more of a Pride guy myself. Pride came out in 2007. It's a small album. Houck owes a lot to Will Oldham, his voice cracks under the weight of age, and even when he's writing relatable songs, the ones on Pride mostly seemed a little bit off, in [...]

Arborea � Liam Curran Na próxima segunda-feira, dia 20 de Maio, a Cave do número 211 da Avenida da Liberdade, em Lisboa, volta a acolher uma série de concertos. O Festival Avenida apresenta, numa única noite, actuações de Arborea, Helena Espvall, o duo Manuel Mota & Margarida Garcia e um quarteto que reúne Filipe Felizardo, Riccardo Dillon Wanke e David Maranha. Os concertos arrancam a partir das 22h. Original Website: Bodyspace

The-Dream made a video for his absolutely bananas track "IV Play" - one of the best songs of the year, for my money - and it could not be any more boring. You have Director X as craftsman here! He got Onyx and 50 Cent rapping in a hockey rink! Drake to reenact his bar mitzvah! Essentially wrote the Ciara-Future fan fiction we've all been adorably writing in our minds! I understand this is not the song to go literal on, but with that director credit, I expected a little bit more than scenes [...]

"If I Had A Tail" follows " I Appear Missing ," " Kalopsia ," and " Keep Your Eyes Peeled " as the fourth hyperviolent animated video for an incomplete song from the new Queens Of The Stone Age album ...Like Clockwork . In this one, our latest cartoonworld sociopath is the driver of a blood-spattered Thunderbird deathmobile with skulls hanging from its rearview mirror, one who gets kicks by tossing molotov cocktails at nearby biker crews. Four videos in, and apparently there are still people in this animated deathscape left to kill. The song, meanwhile, is surprisingly smooth, [...]

I watch a lot of television - like A LOT of television - and I've never seen a single episode of CSI . I know this sounds snobbish (and maybe it is in fact snobbish), but I'm saying it to make a point: I'm a fan of Black Sabbath, a passionate consumer of music, an employee at a well-read music blog, and I watch a lot of television. At some point in the last few months, some integrated marketing dude must have looked at a Venn diagram or analytics breakdown or something that included demographics overlapping with mine and [...]

O Homem é um viajante insaciável. Mas a crise, como um Adamastor dos tempos modernos, limita cada vez mais os nossos planos de viagem ao estrangeiro. A rede Swap My City Pad permite que qualquer um fique alojado a custo zero em qualquer parte do mundo, desde que troque a sua casa por uma que fique no destino desejado. Ler o artigo completo [...]

A instituição actua primeiro em Lisboa (Santiago Alquimista, o local escolhido após o "cancelamento" no Ritz) a 23 de Maio e no Porto no dia seguinte (Hard Club). Justin Broadrick e G.C. Green regressam assim com o projecto que mais visibilidade lhes deu, dois anos após terem actuado no Amplifest; e, surpresa das surpresas, preparam igualmente novo disco - se bem que Streetcleaner seja, hoje e sempre, aquela base . Bilhetes a 20€ com RA e Sektor 304 a fazerem as primeiras partes na capital e na invicta respectivamente. Original Website: Bodyspace

O ex-líder dos Strange Boys actua no espaço lisboeta pela mão da Filho Único. O concerto será grátis - como de costume - e tê-lo-à a apresentar as canções da banda que recentemente formou, os Living Grateful, que editarão em breve o seu disco de estreia pela In The Red. Em baixo podem vê-lo a tocar algo da agora extinta banda norte-americana - um pequeno teaser daquilo a esperar. Original Website: Bodyspace

The Bristol duo Fuck Buttons have been taking their time crafting their latest tsunami of chaotic skree and psychedelic gloop. The staggering Tarot Sport , their last album, is now four years old, and Fuck Buttons are only now getting around to announcing the follow-up Slow Focus . The new album, which arrives later in the summer, is just seven tracks long, and it's the first that Fuck Buttons have ever produced themselves. Check the tracklist below. Read More... [...]

Right now, Titus Andronicus and the So So Glos are on the so-called "Bring Back The Dudes" tour, bringing sweaty and messy punk-rock singalongs to bars across this great nation. And both bands came together onstage to end a recent set at the New Orleans venue Siberia. The So So Glos guys drunkenly paid homage to their home borough (and Titus's adopted home) by covering the Beastie Boys' deathless " No Sleep Till Brooklyn ," tweaking lyrics while appropriate, while Titus frontman Patrick Stickles wandered around smoking and shaking a tambourine. This show looks fun as fuck, and the So [...]

Last year, Beck released Song Reader , an album that was only available as sheet music; it's still the closest thing to a proper album he's dropped since 20082s Modern Guilt . Beck has resisted any and all requests to play songs from the album live, so we've only heard those songs in our imagination's version of Beck's voice, not in Beck's actual voice. That's about to change. Read More... [...]