Belong - Same Places (Slow Version) (excerpt) Belong is one of the greatest bands ever. Not only do they craft some of the most beautiful music but they also love their fans. Same Place (Slow Version) , part of the Table Of The Elements Guitar Series, isn't due out until August 5th, and even then there will only be a limited number of copies. But the fine men of Belong decided to release the album digitally, for free. You can [...]
Sway - Blackberries Just like most other types of music I listen to, I'm pretty picky when it comes to country (or alt country or no depression or whatever else you wanna call it). In fact, I don't like much country at all and if I do, it usually has an old-timey feeling to it or is influenced by folk as well. Occasionally, though, a band comes along and changes the way you think about a particular genre. Sway [...]
I miss all of the cool videos. Pitchfork posted a shit ton and there's a bunch more from various sources. Instead of embedding all of them into this post and overwhelming everyone's browser, I thought I'd just link them instead. Good? Good. Zach Hill - Dark Art The video for Zach's (from Hella) new solo single, Dark Art, is him running through a suburban neighborhood in corpse paint. Fun stuff. Hella - Try Dis Typical Hella strangeness with a superhero [...]
Poochlatz - Thanks For Giving In Creeeepy. Scary noise, hissing feedback, and distorted growls are what you'll find on Poochlatz's Thanks For Giving In . Hailing from Israel, Poochlatz recorded this live in Tel Aviv in 2006, and it's a 20 minute, mostly electronic noise fest. There are 5 people credited as playing guitar, bass, vocals, sampler, noises and visuals, with no percussion to speak of. Remember how I said that Gnaw Their Tongues record [...]
I'm pretty pissed right now. After my car died, it became nearly impossible to go to shows in Boston on my own. So now I really have to pick and choose which shows are going to be worth the 80-100 bucks I'll be spending on getting there and back. The two shows I decided would be completely and utterly worth that amount of money were the Hair Police, Heathen Shame, Red Horse, and Puritan Agenda show put on by Intransitive Recordings at The Middle East Upstairs on August 5th and the Xiu Xiu/Prurient show at The Paradise on [...]
Yuki Chikudate of Asobi Seksu at The Middle East Downstairs I love Asobi Seksu. Citrus is an amazing album and they're working on a follow-up right now. Not a lot of info about it, but you can check out this cool interview with Yuki Chikudate (lead singer of Asobi Seksu) that The Walrus did. A few years ago, CMJ announced that they were going to be playing the marathon, but it ended up not happening. I was pretty bummed because I had just fallen in [...]
Here it is folks. The final volume. Volume 3 goes from 2003 to the present and was easily the most difficult of the 3 installments (see 1 and 2 here and here ). I discovered that 2003 was the first year I started working at my radio station and (probably not by coincidence) was also the most difficult year for me to pick a single record. Just to re-iterate from Volume 1's post, I allowed myself to pick up to three records for a particular year, as long as they were all from a different [...]
Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh The new Parts & Labor song, "Nowheres Nigh" premiered over at Pitchfork today. The track will be found on their forthcoming record, Receivers , due out on October 21 from Jagjaguwar . The song has P&L going in a different direction. Not surprising as they changed drummers (from Christopher Weingarten to Joe Wong) and added full time guitarist Sarah Lipstate. Fear not, however, because it's still undeniably [...]
Dr. Leisure & Tim Fite - I Smoke, You Cough I know Fair Ain't Fair just came out a couple months ago, so you'd be OK to not be expecting anything new from Tim Fite for a while. Well, on his current tour with The Watson Twins, he's selling what looks like a self released CD (not CD-R, strangely enough). It's called Just For You and is a collaboration with Dr. Leisure who is actually [...]
Both Matthew Robert Cooper and Belong have new releases coming out very soon. Like, 3 weeks soon. Belong has their Same Places (Slow Version) one sided 12" for the Table Of The Elements Guitar Series (check out the Pitchfork article for more info). The opposite side of the record will have a laser-etched image from UK artist Savage Pencil . Right now, CD Universe is taking pre-orders for those who live in the US. So if you want one (and why wouldn't you) you should do so [...]
About a week ago, I made a post about a cool list that I saw on Gorilla Vs. Bear and how I wanted to do it. Basically, the idea is to pick your favorite album from every year since you've been alive. It sounds pretty easy, but it is not . I assure you. It took me many hours to finish and I had to make some of my own rules to get through it (see the first post for the rundown). Anwyay, last week was Volume 1 (due to the quantity restrictions [...]
Dirty On Purpose - No Radio Indie-rock-ercise? The Dirty Projectors - D. Henley's Dream The part with the eagle reminds me of going to the next level in Super Mario Brothers 2.
Front and back of DVD case Have A Nice Life - Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000 So here's a band that is 1: from Middletown, Connecticut which is right next to my home town (yeah!) and 2: really tough to describe. Tough because no one else is doing what they're doing (at least not nearly as well) and also because some of their songs sound so different from others. That makes for difficult review writing, in [...]
Santogold, Julian Casablancas, & Pharrell - My Drive Thru Only a halfway decent song (commissioned by Converse) but a seriously cool video. 2D paper cut outs of everyone dancing all over the place. Nice. Fleet Floxes - White Winter Hymnal Fun claymation. See if you can spot the bunny! At least I think it's a bunny... Matthew Cooper - Miniature 3 From his forthcoming (still solo) album being released under his own name (instead of Eluvium). The reason [...]
I have wonderful news to all of my faithful readers who miss my fantastic movie reviews. They're coming back! However, you will not find them on Anti-Gravity Bunny. Instead, I'll be writing for my movie theater's movie blog, Closet One . It's not going to be just me writing, it will be at least a few others as well, but it will be primarily about movies. We just started it, so there's only a couple of posts up now. There is a review of Wall-E that my boss wrote and I just finished one about Persepolis [...]
Thanks to Under 21 In Boston , I found this fantastic collective on MySpace. It's called 617Noise (part of the Area Code Noise Collective, which has it's own Wikipedia article here and MySpace page here ) and they/he gather dates of noise shows in the Boston area. That's pretty much it. Right now, there's a bunch of dates in their Upcoming Shows section, some of which include people I actually know! Such as Eli Keszler playing at Mobius on July 10th and Ouest at The Piano Guild on the 13th. This [...]
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