Blog: DREAMS OF HORSES

Well we jumped the Bloggership, and jumped onto the WordPress Wagon. While doing so we also changed names! Kind've just to start something new you know? So update your bookmarks to: http://tribulationstrials.word press.com/ Thanks!!

Here's another band you ought to know about: Loch Lomond . They are ex-Decemberists tourmates and on the Dec's old label, Hush Records . As you can tell there are many of them. Seven, I guess. But they just released an EP on Hush called Trumpets for Paper Children . Their sound is pretty downbeat, and sounds as if they were singing old Scottish folk songs. They have a CD out, Paper the Walls that I want to check out too. But anyway you can download the EP for free/small donation at Hush's website [...]

Remember that band Soldout I posted on the other day ? Well digging a little deeper I know a little bit more about them. Their newest CD Cuts is actually their second LP (there's another disc of remixes and stuff too). The video above comes from their first CD. Apparently the track has been remixed several times. But the video above is um amusing? And disturbing. You can find out more about Soldout at their label Anorak Supersport's website . And while you're surfing around check out this video of [...]

Here's the newest video from N.A.S.A. , "Hip Hop." Cool animations with an awesome song. And here's another track off the album, The Spirit of Apollo , out February 17th on Anti-. A Volta (feat. Sizzla, Amanda Blank, & Lovefoxxx)

Have y'all seen this video? It's just about the greatest thing. Since...some other amazing/clever video...anyway, I love any excuse to post on Metronomy (duh) so here's one: this new remix by Blackout. Metronomy-A Thing for Me (Blackout remix)

Telepathe-So Fine

I know pretty much everyone has already seen/heard this but it's just too gorgeous to pass up. Justin Vernon 's voice is perfect for cold weather. I've been listening to his CDs on repeat on my walks to school and it clicks very well. And now he goes and covers Feist. How awesome would it be if someday in the future they recorded something together? Bon Iver-The Park (Feist cover) Vernon and Feist both appear not once but twice on the Dark Was the Night compilation everyone's buzzing about. Pre-order it [...]

I don't really understand what this is. Some Hazmat suit-wearing cell phone-loving YACHT-seeing event . If you're in NY...go or whatever tonight. Weirdos. The Blow-Hock It (YACHT Remix) <--Bang it

Friendly Fires-Photobooth (Mock & Toof Remix) This video reminds me of this one...

Okay so I know pretty much all of you have heard this song already but it's for a good cause! I just found this out. Neko Case has released a new single, "People Got A Lotta Nerve," that is available as a free download at the Anti- Records website. The record label plans to make a donation to the Best Friends Animal Society for every blogger that posts the song and every iLike user who [...]

Ok so I just had to share this. Most of you have already heard Franz Ferdinand 's new album Tonight (if you haven't, you can stream the whole thing at Myspace ) but as you may have heard, there's a deluxe edition of the album featuring another disc entitled Blood: Tonight which features dub versions of several songs off Tonight . If you didn't think Tonight was dancey enough, check out the dub disc. It's mind-blowing. For sampling, check out the AMAZING track below. Oh, and turn up the bass. [...]

Photo by Sarah Meadows I am definitely loving White Lies ' album To Lose My Life and am super anxious to see these guys live at SXSW . In the mean time they've been getting the remix treatment to which I have no argument. To Lose My Life (Filthy Dukes Remix) Farewell to the Fairground (Yuksek Remix) Previously on Dreams of Horses...

So, new cool band alert! They're from Belgium (home to Soulwax , waffles , and the Dardenne Brothers ) so they've gotta be awesome right? They're called Soldout and really I don't know a whole lot about them. I received their album Cuts and am loving it's electro gooey-ness. Female vox. Great beats. Rad. Definitely check them out! They will (hopefully) be huge. One Word and the Next Mysteries PS the software to turn any picture into a Polaroid [...]

You guys have all heard Franz 's newest single "Ulysses" and the 10,032,348 remixes people made for it, and now it's time for the b-sides! Enjoy! And if you haven't seen the video, definitely worth a viewing. New Kind of Thrill Anyone in Love

Here at DOH, we definitely lurv us some Shara Worden aka My Brightest Diamond . We mentioned back in November that Shara had released an EP of remixes from her sophomore release A Thousand Shark's Teeth . It was the first of several EPs where one musician remixed different tracks from the record. Well Asthmatic Kitty announced today that the second ep, Shark Remixes - Vol 2: Son Lux of the series, this time the remixer is Son Lux , was available starting today. [...]

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What could only be good news really is. Deep Red is the side project of Andrew Raposo, Morgan Wiley & Nomi Ruiz, all members of 2008 breakout act Hercules & Love Affair . Formed while on the road, the band will be playing their very first show in New York this week on the 22nd. If you're desperate to hear new Hercules & Love Affair, you can use these two tracks to try and soothe your jazz-disco needs. Deep Red's sound is very similar to H&LA so, enjoy! And go see them if at all [...]

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Also hailing from the beautiful Monterrey is Selma Oxor . The band features, as you can see, two girls and a guy. Their rough-edged songs sound like something like a girl band who's Influences section on their MySpace could be could read: Peaches, CSS, YYYs,. They've got the canned drum beats and then some weird organ moans on tracks like "Tienes Algo," with singer Violeta chanting something alongside. The production quality isn't amazing but the potential definitely is there. I'm going to be very excited to see these guys flesh it out live. Tienes Algo [...]

I am very excited because this year, FINALLY, I will be going to Sundance . Well, a screening that's part of Sundance. The movie's not in competition but hey, I wanna see it. The movie stars Mexico's biggest actor-exports Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. You might have seen them both in Y tu mamá también and in other roles in other movies (Bernal: The Science of Sleep, Babel; Luna: Criminal , Milk ). This is the first time since Y tu mamá they'll be reunited onscreen. And it's even [...]

Speaking of Mexico, check out Empire of the Sun's new video for the song "We Are the People," which was shot in Mexico. Who knows where. Gotta be somewhere towards the south with all the ruins...anyway it's a great video, weird. But good. Plus an awesome remix below the video. We Are The People We Are the People (Ted & Francis Remix)