Blog: Pop Tarts Suck Toasted

Flashback: The Decemberists

May 18, 2010, 2:20pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
The Decemberists - The mariner's revenge song (Live)
Over the past few months my live show going has really fizzled. There was a time when I would hit two or three shows a week without fail, but these days it seems like an achievement to make it to a few a month. With other obligations and a waning desire to stand in crowds only to be disappointed by a mediocre band on stage I have faded into the twilight of my show going days. Hopefully the free summer season will recharge my batteries, though it would certainly help if there were some more engaging bands out there that [...]
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This Week's New Releases

May 18, 2010, 12:00pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
This Week's New Releases Who : Band of Horses Title : Infinite Arms Label : Columbia Records Thoughts : Would it be cruel to call Band of Horses the Stone Temple Pilots of indie rock? We don't think so. Like STP did more than a decade ago, Band of Horses ride in on the coattails of a burgeoning musical movement. They do so with the right mix of that aesthetic, mixed [...]
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Artist:Band Of Horses
Title:Laredo
Link Text:Band of Horses - Laredo
File Name:03 Laredo.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Harvey Milk
Title:I alone got up and left
Link Text:Harvey Milk - I Alone Got Up And Left
File Name:05 I alone got up and left.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Jamie Lidell
Title:Compass
Link Text:Jamie Lidell - Compass
File Name:10 Compass.mp3
Year:2010
Artist:Nas & Damian Marley
Title:As We Enter
Link Text:Nas and Damian Marley - As We Enter
File Name:As We Enter.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Pearly Gate Music
Title:Big Escape
Link Text:Pearly Gate Music - Big Escape
File Name:Big Escape.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:The Black Keys
Title:Tighten Up
Link Text:The Black Keys - Tighten Up
File Name:01 Tighten Up.mp3
Year:2010
Artist:The Depreciation Guild
Title:Dream About Me
Link Text:The Depreciation Guild - Dream About Me
File Name:04 Dream About Me.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2010

Contest: Win Tix to See Brahms!!!

May 18, 2010, 10:22am Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Contest: Win Tix to See Brahms!!! Tonight at Pianos in NYC, Cale Parks' new band Brahms will hit the stage for the first week of their three week Pianos residency. Over the course of the next three Tuesdays, Brahms will attempt to wow and woo you as bands like Passion Pit and others have during their own residencies at Pianos. They've also loaded these three nights with supporting talent worthy of their own headlining slots! You can check out all of those details below, but before we get [...]
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Artist:BRAHMS
Title:Brought It Out
Link Text:Brahms - Brought It Out
File Name:BRAHMS - Brought It Out.mp3
Year:2010

Recommended Release (Pt. 1): LCD Soundsystem

May 18, 2010, 9:00am Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Recommended Release (Pt. 1): LCD Soundsystem I was there… Well I was probably a few months off, and I definitely didn't dance. But when I first heard "Losing My Edge" I was really there. I was young but early exposure to the Velvet Underground catalog made it so hard to listen to anything with fresh ears. But here he was, the voice of the obsolete aesthete of low culture and punk. The cultivator of micro-genres. He had it all and he used it. Here we are the better part of a decade later and the pissing contest might have new rules but [...]
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Artist:LCD Soundsystem
Title:Drunk Girls
Link Text:LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
File Name:02 Drunk Girls.mp3
Bitrate:254 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:LCD Soundsystem
Title:You Wanted A Hit
Link Text:LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit
File Name:06 You Wanted A Hit.mp3
Bitrate:209 kbps
Year:2010

Monday's Leaky Faucet

May 17, 2010, 12:00pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Monday's Leaky Faucet Who : Wolf Parade Title : Expo 86 Release Date : June 29th Label : Sub Pop Thoughts : Five years ago when we began this whole music blogging endeavor we were thrilled and wowed by the state of indie rock. Slowly but surely a genre that had been dominated by nerds and geeks had started to transcend its left of [...]
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Artist:Tame Impala
Title:Alter Ego
Link Text:Tame Impala - Alter Ego
File Name:03 Alter Ego.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Tame Impala
Title:Solitude Is Bliss
Link Text:Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss
File Name:06 Solitude Is Bliss.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:We Are Scientists
Title:Nice Guys
Link Text:We Are Scientists - Nice Guys
File Name:03 Nice Guys.mp3
Bitrate:260 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:We Are Scientists
Title:Rules Don't Stop
Link Text:We Are Scientists - The Rules Dont Stop
File Name:01 Rules Don't Stop.mp3
Bitrate:254 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Wolf Parade
Title:Ghost Pressure
Link Text:Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure
File Name:06 Ghost Pressure 1.mp3
Year:2010
Artist:Wolf Parade
Title:What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had To Go This Way)
Link Text:Wolf Parade - What Did My Love Say? (It Always Had to Go This Way)
File Name:03 What Did My Lover Say_ (It Always 1.mp3
Year:2010

This Week's Live Picks

May 17, 2010, 8:52am Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Monday: Mumford & Sons + The Middle East @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 8pm $20 [ tix ] Looking over the show listings for this week it seems like this may just be the calm before the storm. We are a week away from the unofficial start to summer and the swarm of free, exciting shows it brings to New York, and all this week seems to suffer for it with a lighter array of bands than normal. Tonight we have two bands I have yet to take any [...]
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Artist:BOAT
Title:Prince of Tacoma
Link Text:BOAT - Prince of Tacoma
File Name:LP - Prince of Tacoma.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Brown Recluse
Title:Night Train
Link Text:Brown Recluse - Night Train
File Name:LP - Night Train.mp3
Bitrate:224 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Dom
Title:Living in America
Link Text:DOM - Living in America
File Name:LP - Living In America.mp3
Year:2010
Artist:Drink Up Buttercup
Title:Doggy Head
Link Text:Drink Up Buttercup - Doggy Head
File Name:LP - Doggy Head.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Fuck Buttons
Title:Sweet Love For Planet Earth
Link Text:Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth
File Name:LP - Sweet Love for Planet Earth.mp3
Year:2008
Artist:Happy Birthday
Title:Girls FM
Link Text:Happy Birthday - Girl FM
File Name:LP - Girls FM.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Holy Ghost!
Title:2 say my name
Link Text:Holy Ghost - Say My Name
File Name:LP - Say My Name.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Artist:Janelle Monae
Title:Tightrope
Link Text:Janelle Monae (feat. Big Boi) - Tightrope
File Name:LP - Tightrope.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:LCD Soundsystem
Title:You Wanted A Hit
Link Text:LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit
File Name:LP - You Wanted A Hit.mp3
Bitrate:221 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Mountain Man
Title:Soft Skin
Link Text:Mountain Man - Soft Skin
File Name:LP - Soft Skin.mp3
Bitrate:216 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Mumford & Sons
Title:Little Lion Man
Link Text:Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
File Name:LP - Little Lion Man.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:The Embassy
Title:It Pays To Belong
Link Text:The Embassy - It Pays To Belong
File Name:LP - It Pays To Belong.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2005
Artist:The Middle East
Title:Blood
Link Text:The Middle East - Blood
File Name:LP - Blood.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:The Middle East
Title:Lonely
Link Text:The Middle East - Lonely
File Name:LP - Lonely.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:The Secret History
Title:Johnny Anorak
Link Text:The Secret History - Johnny Anorak
File Name:LP - Johnny Anorak.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2010

New Tunes: Nika & Rory

May 14, 2010, 12:56pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Nika + Rory - I'm Not Going Anywhere
Nika & Rory is the latest outlet for Nika Roza Danilova – better known under the moniker Zola Jesus – and her musical partner Rory Kane to spread their gothly welcoming joy to anyone willing to listen. The duo dropped this brand new single entitled "I'm Not Going Anywhere," a powerful number that takes a poppier spin than most of the material that can be found on Zola Jesus' Stridulum EP from earlier this year. Danilova's strong vocal presence can easily be described as intoxicating; matched with [...]
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Artist:Nika & Rory
Title:Nika + Rory - I'm Not Going Anywhere
Link Text:Nika & Rory - Im Not Going Anywhere
File Name:Nika and Rory - I'm Not Going Anywhere.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Rory Kane
Title:LA SUXXX
Link Text:Nika & Rory - La Suxxx (The Choice)
File Name:Nika & Rory - La Suxxx(The Choice).mp3
Bitrate:275 kbps

Cover Corner: Peter Gabriel

May 13, 2010, 2:56pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Cover Corner: Peter Gabriel Is this supposed to be irony? Why is it all of a sudden cool/popular to cover Peter Gabriel ? Whatever the reason we have recently been inundated with Peter Gabriel meets the indie world news and we're a bit confused by it all. It started with Gabriel's own album of covers, Scratch My Back , which included melancholy covers of tunes by Bon Iver , Arcade Fire , Radiohead , and The Magnetic Fields [...]
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Artist:Bon Iver
Title:Come Talk To Me (Peter Gabriel cover)
Link Text:Bon Iver - Come Talk To Me (Peter Gabriel cover)
File Name:02 Come Talk To Me (Peter Gabriel co.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Peter Gabriel
Title:My Body Is A Cage
Link Text:Peter Gabriel - My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire cover)
File Name:07 My Body Is A Cage.mp3
Bitrate:221 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Stephin Merritt
Title:Not One of Us
Link Text:Stephen Merritt - Not One Of Us (Peter Gabriel cover)
File Name:02 Not One of Us.mp3
Year:2010

PTST Showacse: May 28th @ Matchless

May 13, 2010, 1:30pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
PTST Showacse: May 28th @ Matchless I realize I have been a bit flaky in the past whenever I have "promised" a monthly series of shows. Laziness is an innate aspect of my personality, but I am pleased to announce today a Pop Tarts Suck Toasted showcase for the second month in a row! That's a start and we're hoping to keep things going for at least a few months in a row (we already have a June date!). After last month's truly fun times at Glasslands we are moving to a slightly more intimate space this month (and next month) in Greenpoint's [...]
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Artist:Blair
Title:Paris France
Link Text:Blair - Paris, France
File Name:06 Paris France.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Les Vinyl
Title:Ghosts
Link Text:Les Vinyl - Ghosts
File Name:02 Ghosts.mp3
Artist:Slothbear
Title:Don't Taunt a Tiger
Link Text:Slothbear - Dont Taunt A Tiger
File Name:05 Don't Taunt a Tiger.mp3
Bitrate:243 kbps
Year:2010

Total Run Time: Janelle Monae

May 13, 2010, 12:00pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Total Run Time: Janelle Monae Since wowing us at SXSW 2009, we have patiently waited for Janelle Monae's talents to truly translate to a record. 2007's Metropolis Suite I of IV was a good start, but the short playing nature of the EP kind of held back a talent that is impossible to deny. Next week she drops The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV) and the record is already blazing a trail wherever it lands after its early arrival to the web last week. Here's what we have to say about each tune on the record... 1. "Suite [...]
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Artist:Janelle Monáe
Title:Cold War
Link Text:Cold War
File Name:06-janelle_monae-cold_war.mp3
Bitrate:201 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Janelle Monáe
Title:Make The Bus (Feat. Of Montreal)
Link Text:Make The Bus (feat. Of Montreal)
File Name:14 Make The Bus (Feat. Of Montreal).mp3
Bitrate:186 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Janelle Monáe
Title:Tightrope (Feat. Big Boi)
Link Text:Tightrope (feat. Big Boi)
File Name:07-janelle_monae-tightrope_(fe at._big_boi).mp3
Bitrate:185 kbps
Year:2010

Contest: Win Tix to April Smith and the Great Picture Show!

May 13, 2010, 10:25am Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Contest: Win Tix to April Smith and the Great Picture Show! All this weekend the Deli Magazine will be celebrating their 5th anniversary with shows throughout Brooklyn. On Friday night the big show is April Smith and the Great Picture Show headlining at Brooklyn Bowl , and today we are pleased to be giving away a pair of tickets to that show. April Smith has been building up a lot of steam lately thanks to their terrific release Songs from a Sinking Ship . If you've yet to check it out it's pretty [...]
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Artist:April Smith and the Great Picture Show
Title:Movie Loves A Screen
Link Text:April Smith and the Great Picture Show - Movie Loves A Screen
File Name:Movie_Loves_A_Screen.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

Band of the Week: Sunglasses

May 13, 2010, 9:00am Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Band of the Week: Sunglasses In a week dominated by the deafening noise of Sleigh Bells your ears may need a little break from the deafening volume of the buzz band of the moment. To that end we present Sunglasses , a sweet Savannah based band recently relocated to Brooklyn. This dream-pop duo has the makings of yet another buzz band dujour, similar to the trippy sounds of another Brooklyn dream-pop duo gone huge MGMT. Now to liken a band to a mega successful act like MGMT may seem a bit daunting, but these guys aren't just coping [...]
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Artist:Sunglasses
Title:Stand Fast
Link Text:Sunglasses - Stand Fast
File Name:05 Stand Fast.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Sunglasses
Title:Whiplash
Link Text:Sunglasses - Whiplash
File Name:01 Whiplash.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2010

EP of the Week: Hombres Nombres

May 12, 2010, 1:00pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
EP of the Week: Hombres Nombres If you've been following the site lately you should already be very aware of Shark? and my affinity for what I feel is one of New York's best new bands. These dudes swing and sway in ways that I have made abundantly clear over the past year or so, but now the Kevin Diamond of Shark? has branched out to create a side project called Hombres Nombres . In March the band released their first EP, Ugly Fetus Mistook For A Bear [...]
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Artist:hombres nombres
Title:What Is The Matter?
Link Text:Hombres Nombres - What is the Matter?
File Name:02 What Is The Matter_.mp3
Artist:hombres nombres
Title:Wounded Knee
Link Text:Hombres Nombres - Wounded Knee
File Name:01 Wounded Knee.mp3

New Tunes: Ganglians

May 12, 2010, 11:00am Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
New Tunes: Ganglians With a debut album and a few 7" releases via Woodsist and Captured Tracks under their belts, Ganglians has been able to establish themselves as a pack of fresh-faced, lo-fi leaning aggressors. Hailing from Sacramento, Ganglians are a scene of their own. We were first introduced to this new single entitled "My House" in late February apart of their Daytrotter session, but below, you can find a recently released demo version of the track recorded back [...]
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Artist:Ganglians
Title:My House
Link Text:Ganglians - My House
File Name:02 My House.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Blast from the Past: Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"

May 12, 2010, 9:00am Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Blast from the Past: Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" Inspiration is a sly mistress. No one knows just where it comes from, yet suddenly you are besieged by the feeling and cannot overcome it without acting on every impulse it demands of you. Perhaps no band has fully understood the full extent inspiration demands more so than Pink Floyd. Their muses were so thoroughly demanding that it drove one member to madness and the two most high profile ones (Roger Waters and David Gilmour) to part company permanently when they didn't see eye-to-eye on what their muses wanted. While Roger Waters has spent the past [...]
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Artist:Pink Floyd
Title:Eclipse
Link Text:Pink Floyd - Eclipse
File Name:09 Eclipse.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1973
Artist:Pink Floyd
Title:Speak To Me/Breathe
Link Text:Pink Floyd - Speak To Me/Breathe
File Name:01 Speak To Me_Breathe.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1973
Artist:Pink Floyd
Title:The Great Gig In The Sky
Link Text:Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky
File Name:04 The Great Gig In The Sky.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1973

Recommended Release (Pt. 3): The National

May 11, 2010, 5:30pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Recommended Release (Pt. 3): The National Vanilla as a flavor (and as a euphemism for a certain taste of art or personality) is underrated. There is something about a clean, solid, reliable, and singular taste that often is far more satisfying than all the bells, whistles, hyphens and sprinkles you can add to a sound or a sundae. Many people have found the National with their steady tempos and low melodic range to be too vanilla (or in the case of our editor often outright boring). I however have always marveled at their particular flavor of indie rock. This is plain guy rock that [...]
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Artist:The National
Title:Bloodbuzz Ohio
Link Text:The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
File Name:06 Bloodbuzz Ohio.mp3
Year:2010
Artist:The National
Title:Sorrow
Link Text:The National - Sorrow
File Name:02 Sorrow.mp3
Year:2010

Recommended Release (Pt. 2): Sleigh Bells

May 11, 2010, 3:00pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Recommended Release (Pt. 2): Sleigh Bells Late last night the indie music world got to share a collective moment for the first time since Radiohead's In Rainbows was released to the world at the same time. Somewhere around midnight here on the east coast Sleigh Bells dropped their highly anticipated debut album Treats on iTunes and moments later Twitter and other social networking sites were aflutter with mentions of the album and its face melting capabilities! Indeed, after a late night listen I was jacked and wound up not able to sleep till I had rocked through the album three times. Part [...]
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Artist:Sleigh Bells
Title:Crown On the Ground
Link Text:Sleigh Bells - Crown On The Ground
File Name:08 Crown On the Ground.mp3
Year:2010
Artist:Sleigh Bells
Title:Tell 'Em
Link Text:Sleigh Bells - Tell Em
File Name:01 Tell 'Em.mp3
Year:2010

Flashback: The Go! Team

May 11, 2010, 1:30pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Ms. Pacman Music Video - The Go! Team
Amazingly, I was flipping through channels the other night and came across this music video on mtvU . Who knew any of MTV's channels were still showing music videos? Well they are apparently and because of seeing this I have spent a good part of the last few days renewing my love of The Go! Team . It feels like ages since we last heard from these dudes, three years no new tunes, no new news, and I suppose nothing forthcoming any time soon. Which is a shame because their [...]
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This Week's New Releases

May 11, 2010, 12:00pm Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
This Week's New Releases Who : The Dead Weather Title : Sea of Cowards Label : Third Man Records Thoughts : While we all patiently wait for Meg White to get back to playing the drums we are left to fill our need for blues tinged rock with Jack White's other projects - The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. While they aren't quite what we look for in The White [...]
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Artist:CocoRosie
Title:Lemonade
Link Text:CocoRosie - Lemonade
File Name:9. Lemonade.mp3
Year:2010
Artist:Gayngs
Title:Faded High
Link Text:Gayngs - Faded High
File Name:Faded High.mp3
Year:2010
Artist:Holy Fuck
Title:Latin America
Link Text:Holy Fuck - Latin America
File Name:03 Latin America.mp3
Bitrate:241 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Japandroids
Title:Darkness on the Edge of Gastown
Link Text:Japandroids - Darkness on the Edge of Gastown
File Name:Darkness on the Edge of Gastown.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Artist:Phosphorescent
Title:It's Hard to Be Humble (When You're From Alabama)
Link Text:Phosphorescent - Its Hard to Be Humble (When Youre From Alabama) 
File Name:It's Hard to Be Humble (When You're From Alabama).mp3
Year:2010
Artist:The Dead Weather
Title:Die By the Drop
Link Text:The Dead Weather - Die By The Drop
File Name:05 - Die By the Drop - The Dead Weather.mp3
Bitrate:262 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Thee Oh Sees
Title:Castiatic Tackle
Link Text:Thee Oh Sees - Castiatic Tackle
File Name:Thee Oh Sees - Castiatic Tackle.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

Contest: Win One Step Beyond Tix!

May 11, 2010, 10:30am Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Contest: Win One Step Beyond Tix! One of the best monthly parties in the cities, Fader's One Step Beyond series, returns to the Museum of Natural History this month with special DJ sets from Passion Pit and the Activaire DJ's. Always a party, this month's installment is sure to get your feet moving and your body sweaty! We're excited to be able to give away a pair of tix to this month's event, which normally would set you back $25. [...]
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