Future Islands had a great show at Metro Gallery last night where they unveiled about 8(?) new songs, mostly without titles, amongst a few classics. This is coming off of another show they did recently where they unveiled 5 other new songs. I like that they are doing these shows to try out some songs that seem in the works, much like a comedian would try new material. The consensus seemed to be that all the new material sounds great. The bass lines really stuck out to me last night, William Cashion is had some engrossing, dancey bass [...]
Wellllll shit, as if their first single "Wings" wasn't good enough , now they've gotta go back-to-back with the soaringly-wonderful new track "All The Days". No word on a full album from the Brooklyn band yet, but these two tracks will be on repeat enough to keep things going.
I realize Charlie XCX is probably hint #1 of the second coming of the "Britney Spears-circa-20023 music era, but damn if i can't stop listening to this album. Fun. As. Shit. Here's to late nights, early mornings, and hazy memorial days:
ERMAHGERDDDDD! go to daft punk's itunes page and listen away. so good.
We've been having a bit of an internal discussion on Chemical Brothers albums (what's the best, etc) and the album We Are The Night came up, which was pretty universally panned when it first came out (p4k gave it a 3.8 amongst others). However, it is an overlooked album, that is a bit strange, that has seemed to just get better over time.
My night was spent in awe of the hilarious (and badass) throwback "reskin" of Far Cry 3. It's full of purposefully cheesy cut scenes and one liners along with some amazing gameplay that involves robots, great weapons and dragons that shoot laser beams out of their eyes. However, one of the most impressive things is the soundtrack which you can listen to in full below as well as purchase on itunes. The soundtrack is composed by Powerglove (a power-metal band that covers video game soundtracks). Some gameplay footage:
My night was spent in awe of the hilarious (and badass) throwback "reskin" of Far Cry 3. It's full of purposefully cheesy cut scenes and one liners along with some amazing gameplay that involves robots, great weapons and dragons that shoot laser beams out of their eyes. However, one of the most impressive things is the soundtrack which you can listen to in full below as well as purchase on itunes. The soundtrack is composed by Powerglove (a power-metal band that covers video game soundtracks). Some gameplay footage:
One of my favorite albums to come out of last year (that I still play at least 3 times a week in full) is Wild Nothing's Nocturne . Now that have a song and video out from their upcoming EP Empty Estate due out tomorrow (05/14).
Speaking of DFA, here's a track from Cali duo Classixx featuring vocals from LCD's own Nancy Wang. This nostalgic 802s dance/disco gem is the perfect music to throw on when you're jamming out to tunes as you get ready for the night. The when entire album, Hanging Gardens , can be streamed over at NPR . (out 5/14)
Interesting little 14 minutes documentary on DFA (home to The Rapture, LCD Soundsystem, et. al.)
MS MR , one of our bands to watch recently gave the remix treatment to Danish singer MØ's "Pilgrim" Personally i like this even more than the original . Recommended if you like a MUCH better version of Lana Del Ray.
Attended the great TransModern festival this past weekend and was fortunate to be able to catch The Snails (amongst other great performances), made up of members of Future Islands, Nuclear Power Pants, Small Sur, Drew Swinburne, Wing Dam, and The Dave Fell Band. Wearing multi-patterned snail hats and telling one-liner snail Jokes, the band put on a great ska'ish set and I am really looking forward to hearing a full album of theirs. Call On Me [single] by The Snails
Back in 2011 when Scott Hansen, the man behind the design/graphical design blog ISO50 , came out with an album under the name Tycho we were skeptical but his smooth and accessible sem-ambient/chill tunes won us over , and then i somehow forgot about it...until now, where he gives us the video for "Ascension", which looks like the beautiful video version of the cover art. I will certainly be revisiting this album all week now. Seems he is currently in the studio recording the follow up. great news. Stream the [...]
We've been talking about the new baltimore side-project from Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak) and Jon Ehrens (White Life) and so far we've liked the couple songs they've released online. Now you can stream the entire self-titled album over at pitchfork advanced. The official release isn't until next week, so go check it out. Good Stuff. Stream Dungeonesse - Dungeonesse
Cayucas' singles have been leaking out of the internets for the past couple months, all catchy as hell and pretty much the definition of summer/cali. Now stereogum is streaming the entire thing a week before it officially comes out. Recommended if you like a less pretentious version of Vampire Weekend. Stream it here.
Head over to Pitchfork Advance to listen to the new Lilacs & Champagne (members of Grails) album Danish & Blue . It is an excellent album and I keep muttering to myself "damn!" as I listen to it over and over again.
British band Savages have been tearing it up on their latest tour/SXSW and from everything I hear they are one of the few bands to live up to the hype, especially live. Check out a taste from their latest video "Shut Up", off of their upcoming full-length debut Silence Yourself (out 5/6)
SRKFKR (also known as Starfucker) have a fun spring record out in 2013 with Miracle Mile . The album has consistently good songs throughout with some interesting twists and turns.
Something to tie you over until the new Daft Punk album, a really great little EP by polychrome. header over to HBF for the full EP link.
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