Tweet vaso link Despite the mixed reviews in response to their new album, Paralytic Stalks , of Montreal took to the Jimmy Fallon stage and cranked out a nice version of the most accessible track from the album, "Dour Percentage." I'm still not sold on all of the band's output, but I do like this track. And Kevin Barnes looks about as normal as I've ever seen him. Paralytic Stalks is out now through the folks at [...]
![[mp3] Wild Nothing // Nowhere](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4051965_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link Wild Nothing has a lot to live up to in 2012. At least for me, personally. Jack Tatum's debut full-length Gemini was my Album of the Year in 2010, and 20112s Golden Haze EP added another dimension to a blossoming career. We're two months into the new year and we've already received a tease of what Tatum has up his sleeve. The Nowhere 7" is slated for a February 21 drop date and contains two solid numbers that [...]
Tweet vaso link Full disclosure: before watching this video, I never ever listened to this song. This is particularly strange because I'd identify myself as the most likely to listen to hip hop out of the writers of the blog (except for Will), but I never got Watch the Throne . The first thing I heard from that album was "Otis," and that soured me to the rest of the experience. (Redding's music, if you didn't know, is kind of sacred territory for me.) [...]
![[mp3] Mac DeMarco // I'm A Man](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4051538_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link We talked about Mac DeMarco's previous single, "Baby's Wearin' Blue Jeans" last month sometime, noting that DeMarco's previous work had been with the band Makeout Videotape. Honestly, between that track and this one, his new single called "I'm A Man," it doesn't even sound like the same singer. "I'm A Man" is from the forthcoming Rock and Roll Night Club , which is due out on March 20 th through the folks at [...]
Tweet vaso link The video doesn't have a whole lot to do with the song, but it's a mildly interesting visual representation. Guitarist Brian Oblivion fails to jump through a ring of fire, and Madeleine Follin laments the outcome of his ill-fated stunt.
![[review] Guided By Voices // Let's Go Eat the Factory](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4049170_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link Tympanogram Grade: C+ Let's Go Eat the Factory is the new release by Dayton, OH's recently reunited Guided by Voices, and we all know what that means. GBV and Robert Pollard release massive quantities of music. Small songs and snippets dominate an uneven album. The material is sketchy. There are some great moments, but too many songs bog the album down with tired mediocrity. GBV made some great albums: [...]
Tweet vaso link Always a lightning rod, not always a great musician, this song at least gives glimmers of hope for upcoming material. Hopefully she'll let the music do the talking for her.
![[mp3] White Fence // Swagger Vets and Double Moon](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4048757_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link 2012 is shaping up to be an exciting year for Tim Presley and his basement 602s-rock revival outfit, White Fence. First, he and Ty Segall collaborated on an album titled Hair , which is due out on April 28. Second, Presley's own double LP, Family Perfume is due out on Woodsist Records this year, with Volume 1 set for release on April 3. And third, both albums are going to fucking awesome. Want proof? Grab "Swagger Vets [...]
Tweet vaso link Here is an analog celebration of a new track from The Shins. Entitled "September," the track is the b-side to the Simple Song 73 due out on Hallmark Card Day.
![[album review] Dr. Dog / Be The Void](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4046311_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link Tympanogram Grade: B- Some bands opt to redefine their music on each release. There's the acoustic and sparse album followed by the electric and grandiose album. Or the "prog album" followed by the "folk album." Not Dr. Dog. The Philly rockers have been content to evolve their sound slowly and subtly, each consecutive album adding a bit of extra scenery to the musical view. Similarly, their fan base has grown slowly [...]
Tweet vaso link For as much as I enjoyed The Maccabees' first album, 20072s Colour It In , I never found time to listen to their follow up, and I haven't done any better with their newest release, Given To The Wild , which was put out less than a month ago. This video is for their track "Feel To Follow," which is on that third album. And because I haven't been paying attention to what the band's been up to, this seems like [...]
![[mp3] Manna (ft. Mark Lanegan) // Wishing Well](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4045792_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link I'll admit, it's been a slow start to 2012 for me. Not a great deal in January really got me excited. Maybe it's the prospect of a new Meat Loaf album in February that's set my expectation bar pretty high for the year, but none of the year's early releases really got me going. So when I started listening to the new single "Wishing Well" by Finnish songstress Manna, it was with a slightly hopeless [...]
Tweet vaso link Miike Snow's new album, Happy To You , isn't due out for another six weeks or so, but that hasn't stopped them from releasing a trio of tracks from it already. They put together this completely nonsensical video for "Paddling Out," in which a guy is having a hell of a hangover hallucination and imagines himself dancing, being blasted by extraterrestrial ray guns, flying in outer space, etc. If that's what Banana Juice does to a person, consider me not interested. [...]
![[mp3] COOLRUNNINGS // Spirit of the High](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4043437_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link I don't know what it is that I've recently been experiencing, but I'm mired in some sort of musical lull. I have found myself nearly unmoved by any and all music lately, and I'm fairly discouraged by it - especially seeing as, you know, I have a music blog. I've taken steps to dislodge this malaise, or whatever it might be, by searching out things I may have missed or not given proper due. SiriusXM is doing a free two-week trial, [...]
Tweet vaso link Bon Iver brought their wares to the Saturday Night Live stage this past weekend, performing "Holocene" and "Beth/Rest" for the program. (I'm posting only "Holocene," however, because I like that song better.) The performances themselves are pretty great, but I'm a biased observer because Bon Iver was my favorite album of last year. How many times do you think Channing Tatum had to practice saying "Bon Iver" to get it right? Connect with Bon Iver // Facebook | Twitter | [...]
![[stream] Milano Sun // Already Gone](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4043022_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link The ways in which bands form is as diverse as the genres of music they play. The members of Milano Sun all hail from Gothenburg, Sweden, but they met on a trip around Europe in 2010. The band managed to record an album this past year, and the single below is their debut, a lightweight, synth-heavy track titled "Already Gone." There's a section right in the middle of "Already Gone" where it sounds like the [...]
Tweet vaso link M. Ward isn't seen much these days without the She to his Him, Zooey Deschanel. But he's apparently carved out some time to record a new album, entitled A Wasteland Compilation , which is due out on April 10. This is the second animated video we've had on the blog today, and it's for the first single from that release, entitled "The First Time I Ran Away." It goes the literal route, and I'm totally OK with that. Connect with [...]
![[mp3] THEESatisfaction // QueenS](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4040975_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link The powers that be at Sub Pop are apparently ready to branch out from their traditional indie rock wares. After putting out the fantastic Shabazz Palaces album last year, the Seattle stalwart is venturing into the realm of female-fronted funk with the new album from THEESatistfaction titled awE naturalE . The first track from the capitalization challenged duo is the burning groove of "QueenS." It's funk, but it's stripped down to it's naked core, and then rocketed [...]
Tweet vaso link Taken from his excellent 2011 album, Era Extraña , this is the video for Neon Indian's "Fallout," which has less to do with the nuclear type of fallout than one might expect. The video itself is a tribute to the cartoons from the 1980s, as well as to the visceral power large breasts have over men. Connect with Neon Indian // Facebook | Twitter | web
![[mp3] Bishop Morocco // Old Boys](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4040581_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link The opening to Bishop Morocco's "Old Boys" sounds like it's been left outside to warp in the sun and then played back; then things kick in and it makes perfect sense, not at all misshaped. And the track is a brief, soft-spoken slice of indie pop. It's got the slight, slow slap of drums and a buoyant guitar line supporting it. It's space-y and floating and a great introduction to a band I was previously unaware of. [...]
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