So after 4 years of running Pop Headwound here on blogspot, I've decided to up and move over to Wordpress. It's something I've wanted to do for ages but only recently found the time and courage to put together. I've been posting on both sites for a few weeks now, and think the new site is just worlds prettier to look at. Hope you do too. It's still a work in progress, some kinks to get out, etc., but I'm much happier with it than I've been here in a [...]
So after 4 years of running Pop Headwound here on blogspot, I've decided to up and move over to Wordpress. It's something I've wanted to do for ages but only recently found the time and courage to put together. I've been posting on both sites for a few weeks now, and think the new site is just worlds prettier to look at. Hope you do too. It's still a work in progress, some kinks to get out, etc., but I'm much happier with it than I've been here in a [...]
![[mp3] Dirty Beaches - "Lord Knows Best"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3097948_lg.jpg)
"Lord Knows Best" is distant, decaying soul music by way of Montreal's Dirty Beaches , the recording project of Alex Zhang Hungtai. The song made its way around the blogs earlier this week, but tonight I'm finally falling under its haunting spell as it just repeats in my headphones over and over (and over and over). It comes from Badlands , a mini-LP to be released by Zoo Music in [...]
Pandit - Pack Your Bags from Tyler T Williams on Vimeo . Here's a new video, which made its debut today over at Stereogum, for Pandit's heartbroken "Pack Your Bags". The track leads off their upcoming full length debut, Eternity Spin , and this appropriately somber string of visuals was directed by Tyler T. [...]
![[mp3] Kurt Vile - "Jesus Fever"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3095015_lg.jpg)
After we got the breezy, West Coast indie-folk flavored "In My Time" last year, Matador has released another teaser mp3 from Kurt Vile's upcoming Smoke Ring For My Halo . After the sharp sonic contrasts that marked Vile's last full length, 2009's excellent Childish Prodigy , I thought the next new Vile track to surface would either find him rocking out behind a wall of guitar noise [...]
![[mp3] Tape Deck Mountain - "It Goes Down"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3092249_lg.jpg)
Lefse Records has had a handful of interesting releases over the past few months - from Love Remains , the spellbinding debut from How to Dress Well, to RIP JDS , the addictive dance/pop EP from Bikini . Add a new EP from San Diego's Tape Deck Mountain to the list. [...]
![[mp3] Beach Fossils - "Calyer"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3086494_lg.jpg)
Happy New Year everyone. Beach Fossils will release a new EP on January 11 through Captured Tracks with the full length follow up to last year's excellent self-titled debut coming this spring. Hear "Calyer", the jangly, reverb-laden lead single from the EP, below. MP3 :: Calyer (from the What A Pleasure [...]
MP3 :: On the Inside / Britches MP3 :: Girlfriend / Ty Segall MP3 :: Decisions (ft. Yuksel Arslan) MP3 :: [...]
Here's the official video for the supernatural, star-studded My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy jam. ------------------------------ ------
![[Catching Up w/ 2010] Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb: A Triumph](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3078440_lg.jpg)
As 2010 draws to a close, I'm still playing catch up with some of the records that I missed or slept on over the past 12 months. The fact that I'm only now getting into Frog Eyes ' Paul's Tomb: A Triumph is one that I have no excuse for. I posted both of the songs Dead Oceans made available as free downloads back in February and March, and [...]
Hailing from St. Louis, Britches is a 3-piece act ( with mad photoshopping skills ) who play a screechingly loud, cacophonous brand of hard rock that I don't usually associate with the Midwest these days. ( Though that's probably more my being under-informed than any reflection on the current Midwest scene ). The songs on Demo , their new free EP available on bandcamp, draw as much, if not more, from noise/experimental bands like Liars or even This [...]
![[Catching up w/ 2010] Ty Segall - Melted](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3076708_lg.jpg)
Ty Segall's Melted is one of the 2010 releases that I missed out on completely when it dropped back in the summer. I've only caught up with it recently after seeing it on various year end lists over the past few weeks. Melted has some of the most primal, ferocious rock & roll you've heard all year over its 30 blistering minutes. It's almost as ugly as the cover art would suggest. Yet Segall never lets the noise [...]
![[Catching Up w/ 2010] How To Dress Well - Love Remains](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3073125_lg.jpg)
I've spent the past two weeks catching up with some of the records that I either slept on this year or missed entirely. How to Dress Well's debut Love Remains falls into the former group – it's one I've had for a few months but have only recently devoted some time to. HtDW is the solo project of Tom Krell, a guy with a sick falsetto (clearly reminiscent of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon) who writes lithe R&B [...]
Here's a list of my favorite songs of 2010, with no artist appearing more than once. Otherwise Titus Andronicus would have 3 songs in the top ten. Hope you like the same music as me in the exact same order: 1. Titus Andronicus [...]
Continuing the theme of the day, here's another atypical Christmas song. This one is courtesy of The Sweetbriars and is one that I've posted before, but now it's got a new, perhaps Cee-Lo Green inspired video. So I hope you're not illiterate. "Virginia, This Christmas" may sound like a direct descendent of a handful of your favorite clean cut holiday classics, but lyrically, it takes some left turns. Pick it up over at [...]
![[mp3] Atlas Sound - "Artificial Snow"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3066228_lg.jpg)
Since it's been so long since we've heard anything new from Bradford Cox, the prolific Deerhunter/Atlas Sound front man decided the time was right to drop 5 different versions of an original holiday themed song on his blog. "Artificial Snow" mines some pretty bleak childhood memories though, not your typical carefree Christmas jingle. Here's one of the versions, check the others out here . MP3 :: [...]
PJ Harvey's Let England Shake drops February 15 through Vagrant . ------------------------------ -------------
Girls - "Heartbreaker" from The Tearist on Vimeo . It's doubtful that this one is an "official" video (seems a bit too "SFW" for Girls!), but it sure does the trick. It comes via Weekly Tape Deck and features scenes from "Chelsea Girls" by Paul Morissey and Andy Warhol. The achingly wistful "Heartbreaker" is from Girls' new Broken Dreams Club EP, one of my favorite [...]
Saddle Creek released "Shell Games", a cut from Bright Eye's upcoming The People's Key , today, as well as giving us a look at the fiery artwork. The new album drops 2/15/11. ------------------------------ -------------------------
![[guest post] 2010 in Review, Vol. 9 - Great Elk](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3061111_lg.jpg)
(Paul, right. Photo cred ) Paul Basile is one half of the creative team behind Brooklyn (by way of Alaska, by way of Long Island) indie/folk/rock band Great Elk . I've been friends with Paul since he was about 16, collectively obsessing over most of the same bands ever since. But that's neither here nor there. If Paul was a complete stranger I'd still blast Great Elk's incredible [...]
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