MP3: Jets to Brazil - Cat Heaven Nothing new, simply a product of a good find while listening to music on shuffle. "Cat Heaven" is one of those perfect songs from a damn fine band. You may have this Jets to Brazil jam and you can easily get it online, but I figured it was a good way to a) celebrate a goodie and b) be lazy. Enjoy! { buy jets to brazil [...]
MP3: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Not Worth Fighting First and foremost, bravo to Polyvinyl . This 7 inch is on beautiful clear green vinyl and comes with a code to download the songs. I've seen this with 12 inches but 7? Amazing. The other bravo is thrown to Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin , for writing such fantastic pop rock songs. This is their first new [...]
MP3: Acid House Kings - This Heart Is A Stone It's best that I make this post and not Matt . He'll just tell you about the time that he "almost hooked up with the chick from the Acid House Kings ". Me? Spring has sprung, smiles are blooming and hearts are bursting and these guys are the perfect soundtrack. "This Heart Is A Stone" has always been the highlight for me from their superb "Do What You Wanna Do" ep and a really good jumping on point. [...]
MP3: Jana Hunter - Babies MP3: Jana Hunter - Valkyries MP3: Jana Hunter - Vultures Believe me, I've been trying to make this post since the Friday before "There's No Home" came out, but the words were impossible to find. This is not the case for Jana Hunter . She has lots of words, "stories" if you will, that weave themselves about the lp ( save for the instrumental and thankfully not entirely pointless "(Guitar)" tracks ) [...]
MP3: A Weather - The Feather Test MP3: A Weather - One More One Night Stand A Weather is a Portland band that I discovered like a minute AFTER I moved. Rats! They just released a 7 inch inch for the song "The Feather Test" on Team Love and if you ever needed proof that vinyl sounds better, get this. The songs certainly are special and beautiful on their own, but on wax they just get beyond warm. It's touching. [...]
Happy 50th! In honour of our 50th fucking post, I'm introducing one of three new regular features here on the blog. I can't say how often they'll be posted, but when they appear they'll leave a mark. So here it is, the very first post of many... FUCK YEAH! MP3: The Fucking Champs - Fozzy Goes to Africa Drag City has a big release week coming [...]
MP3: The New Amsterdams - Full Thunder Moon (old) MP3: The New Amsterdams - Full Thunder Moon (new) I can say I enjoyed "Killed Or Cured", The New Amsterdams ' internet only/scraped album in favour of the uneven "Story Like A Scar". It was a depressing look at the evolution of leaving one band and creating another all in the same record. This Tuesday, Curb Appeal gives us the original KOC, as well as a new version with the full time band behind songwriter [...]
MP3: Laura Gibson - Hands In Pockets MP3: Laura Gibson - Country, Country As we say goodbye to cold weather, I suggest taking a listen to Laura Gibson . Her debut "If You Come to Greet Me" came out on Hush earlier this year and is very winterish album. While it can survive in warm weather, it is complimented by the briskness of the air around you. Put it on at night, while it's still chilly in your room and fall asleep to [...]
MP3: The Radio Dept. - The Worst Taste In Music NOTE: Today's blog comes from the legendary Matt Giordano. Fuck yeah. There are always bands who's name I am familiar with but who's music it just took a while to get around to, and usually this is a result of someone recommending them to me, as was the case with The Radio Dept. for me. My friend Arnulf mailed me a couple of mp3 cds about two months ago with a lot [...]
MP3: Laakso - Norrköping NOTE: Today's blog comes from our long lost friend Matt Giordano. Fuck yeah. Also, this record comes highly recommended from myself as well and is the probable album of the year. About a month or so ago I got a copy of the upcoming Laakso album in the mail, as I had been anticipating it since hearing it was finished in January from the band themselves. Laakso had been a band I held in high regard since stumbling upon them [...]
MP3: Dark Meat - Angel Of Meth "Universal Indians" has fucking blown my mind. I don't even remember how this band came to my attention, but their album would stare at me at work constantly to the point where I couldn't take it anymore. I put it on and fell in love hard. But Dark Meat doesn't want a relationship. They just want to screw around... a lot. It's okay, really: I'm fine with that. I don't know if I'd want them to meet my parents anyway, but I'm always [...]
MP3: Dntel - Breakfast In Bed ( featuring Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes ) Dntel 's new record "Dumb Luck" hits later this month, chock full of hype and guests. It's not very good but I dig the track with Conor of Bright Eyes . It's not exciting by any means and I'm not really the biggest fan of either project, but it reminds me of Oberst's 2005 album "Digital Ash In A Digital Urn", an lp that I felt was a step forward ( he's since taken that [...]
MP3: Maritime - Down to the River MP3: Maritime - Birds Of Ireland MP3: Maritime - In Your Arms MP3: Maritime - Future Is Wired MP3: Maritime - I Used to Be A Singer MP3: Maritime - Before You Were Born MP3: Maritime - Call Me Home Happy Easter! Here's a shit ton of Maritime [...]
MP3: Elk City - Little Brother Elk City will be releasing "New Believers" later this month on Brooklyn's Friendly Fire ( home of the United States David & the Citizens releases ). This is their 3rd release, and while they feature a guitarist from seminal "dream-pop" ( I guess ) outfit Luna , the album is all rock. Some have been saying it's nostalgic, calling to mind everything from Love, Patti Smith, David Bowie, 60's girl groups and Mazzy Star. Judge for [...]
{Sorry for the absence of posts. I seriously did not want to leave off with an "Animal and the Muppets" post. Things should be good and consistent all this week and maybe forever. Things to look forward to? Tons of mp3s, new guest posts and a monthly feature. Fuck yeah!} MP3: Stormy - The Devastator MP3: Annette Poindexter & the Pieces Of Peace - Mama The Numero Group 's Eccentric Soul series managed to stay under my [...]
MP3: Animal and the Muppets - Mahna Mahna NOTE: Today's blog comes from the usually killer Matt Giordano. Fuck yeah. For this mp3 post, I've chosen a track that hits close to home for me. Perhaps it's because I had originally named a band Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem for a fondness for all things playful, although there was hardly much mayhem going on there. Except one, and his name was Animal . Not only was he a fantastic drummer, but he [...]
MP3: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - She's Leaving You MP3: Grinderman - No Pussy Blues NOTE: Today's blog comes from the always killer Matt Giordano. Fuck yeah. My contribution to the team this is week is a double-shot of Mr. Nick Cave in celebration of his new Grinderman album being released in North America at the beginning of April. The first track is a more recent Bad Seeds B-Side ( specifically from the "Nature [...]
MP3: Cassette - Ladybug MP3: Cassette - Shaved Miami's Cassette came to my attention recently through the form of electronic mail. It's very loose music, laid back complimented with soft vocals. "Ladybug" is full of upbeat percussion while backed by delicate words and an acoustic guitar, making it an odd mix. The track "Shaved" isn't what you'd think a song would be that starts off with the lyrics "Today I shaved my balls". "Beautiful California", in all 35 tracks, is out now [...]
MP3: The Higher Burning Fire - In Your Backyard This band has gone on to do a lot of great things. Members can currently be found in White Whale and The New Amsterdams . I found T he Higher Burning Fire on Second Nature 's website, and when I saw them I knew I recognized the name. "In Your Backyard" is a song that was recorded for and placed in a children's film. I was told there is some 2nd album that never got released. [...]
MP3: Rio en Medio - Everyone Is Someone's MP3: Rio en Medio - Tiger's Ear Danielle Stech-Homsy plays under the moniker Rio en Medio . She rolls in Brooklyn and plays delicate, experimental folk. It's sparse, but in the end it's more together then you think. There is something special and beautiful here for sure. Her debut, with a really badass title, "The Bride of Dynamite" is out now on Gnomonsong . { buy rio en medio recordings from revolver }
Fuck yeah! Go team!
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
Mr Fogg - Eleven
