![[stream] Floating Action — "Please Reveal"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3205024_lg.jpg)
Floating Action - Please Reveal - Park The Van Records by Low Life Inc North Carolina's Floating Action skids between lofi, gospel and folk, on "Please Reveal" there's a distant 60s flow to it, the voice of Seth Kauffman steady, steady as it goes and a very REAL presence to make the whole thing pop. Good song, I bet live it surely comes alive. The new Floating Action is Desert Etiquette and it comes out next week from the always-great Park The Van . [...]
mp3: Kyle Andrews - "Sushi (Slow Dancing At The Prom)" Wasn't goin to say one word about V-DAY but then Nashville's Kyle Andrews swoops in & gives us a Prom Dance Simulation to his "Sushi (Slow Dancing At The Prom)." Pick your partner & gaze in their eyes including Kyle himself. The song is a year or two old, but clever vid promotion & a clever catchy song, fuzzed vocals over trippy dance loops, it's both memorable & nostalgia inducing, only you'll become sick at its sweet, sweet sweetness. [...]
![[review] listenlisten — Dog](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3199777_lg.jpg)
mp3: listenlisten - "I Rise" Review by Brian Tucker There's a feeling of carefulness throughout Dog . It's not specifically in any one area, its lyrics or its general low-key state of playing, but just in the album's tone as a whole. Dog is a church-like affair with varied guitar playing, from traditional to fuzzed out. It is somber and bombastic in the best of ways, beginning and ending like a seminal one-time radio transmission on an old Wilco. [...]
![[hype] DAILY SWARM MUST MERGE B/C THAT'S WHAT'S NEXT](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3196844_lg.jpg)
NOT CHILLIN IN THE BLOGOSPHERE MUCH AND FEEL 'CONFUSED' ABOUT WHAT IS THIS ' DAILY SWARM ?' YOU THINK IT HAS SOMETHIN TO DO W/ MUZZLE OF BEES? ALL THAT IS WRONG. 'DAILY SWARM' IS THE 'HUFFPO' OF ROCKNROLL JUST LINKIN & CHILLIN & HITTIN UP LADY GAGA POSTS FOR MAD HITZ. PRETTY SURE THE DAILY SWARM IS GONNA MERGE. PRETTY SURE THE DAILY SWARM JUST DOES WHAT HUFFPO DOES. HUFFPO MERGED WITH DIAL-UP GIANT AOL LAST WK. CAN YOU 'DIAL-UP' WITH A CELL PHONE? DO AOL 'DIAL-UPPERS' KNOW WHAT A HUFFPO IS? [...]
![[mp3] Hammer No More The Fingers — "Steam"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3192494_lg.jpg)
mp3: Hammer No More The Fingers - "Steam" Me oh my. It's always nice to get blindsided by the inbox with exceptionally good news. Hammer No More The Fingers , one of Durham, NC's (many fine) kingpin bands, has announced a new record in April on the local Churchkey Records to be called Black Shark. Even this is bliss in itself, but with that announcement was the inclusion of the hottt new single, "Steam." It is the HNMTF that you know and love, ecstatic energy and original [...]
![[mp3] Generationals — "Greenleaf"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3187909_lg.jpg)
mp3: Generationals - "Greenleaf" New track from New Orleans' Generationals . Seems more wide open, that melody line like a pivot for which the rest of the world spins and dances and frolics and relishes in the laid-back not-dance pop. New album, Actor Caster comes out on Park The Van in March. Hold yr breath for a good one until then, we are ready ready.
![[mp3] Jensen Sportag — "Everything Good"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3186556_lg.jpg)
mp3: Jensen Sportag - "Everything Good" Of course leave it to the boyz at Impose Magazine to break the Nashville news (or did I miss it? Or no one cares?). Hate it when they get the scoopz. New song from Nashville's electro slow jam and backpack group, Jensen Sportag . Album Pure Wet will be out next week on Cascine Records . UPDATE: Ok, ok man over at Culture Bully had the vid last wk and I didn't know. Shoot.
![[album] DiggUp Tapes Cassingles Vol. 1 w/ Lonnie Walker, Birds of Avalon & more](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3183513_lg.jpg)
stream: Birds of Avalon - "Guffaws" stream: Gross Ghost - "You Tell Me" Hottt new tape release from Raleigh's DiggUp Tapes , Brian Corum (Lonnie Walker) and Nathan Price adding to the already thick scene. I don't usually do comps, but new trackz from Lonnie Walker, Embarrassing Fruits, Gross Ghost, Birds of Avalon and Snails made up of 2/3 of Future Islands plus many more. Here's the whole lineup , yes. Release drops on Feb. 15, [...]
![[review] Tristen — Charlatans at the Garden Gate](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3179948_lg.jpg)
mp3: Tristen - "Eager for Your Love" Tristen is from Nashville, but the twang isn't too present nor too many steel guitar bends, what we have instead is quality full-bodied folk-pop, with a spectre of coldheartedness. Smooth and smooth, with some unfinished edges, like a whiskey with a long finish. Title track, "Eager For Your Love" seems sweet and sweet, but the solemn words of advice - "tame that nasty shrew" and "you gotta keep her thin and hungry so she's eager for your love" - only Tristen knows if she's ironic or [...]
![[stream] The Pains of Being Pure At Heart — "Belong"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3170873_lg.jpg)
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart "Belong" by Slumberland Records The output of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart keeps getting better and better, and more and more shoegaze. From hater to respect to almost lover. Here's the single "Belong" from the upcoming 73 on Slumberland. Tour dates after the jump, including Carrboro, Athens, Atlanta, Birmingham & New Orleans. Read more on The Pains of Being Pure At Heart on Deckfight . [...]
Small Brown Bike is putting out another album. Braid is getting back together for an album. The Get Up Kids just put out a new one, albeit with a different sound. Wow, and Samiam might record this year. Now, Thursday is replaying Full Collapse but is still going strong. So is Jimmy Eat World, but in a different world than we ever knew them. Ditto to Death Cab. That's good and all for old-school emo, but you know the kids, we want more & more & more, our thirst is never to be quenched. So give [...]
Wowza, here's the new PUJOL vid for an outstanding song, that's now also on a 73 on Third Man Records . So many 73's I get really confused. The quotation marks also get me confused. Totally forgot he's playing tonite in NASHVILLE w/ Monotonix at The End. I'll be in the neighborhood, may/may not drop in, depending on the cash flow. PUJOL will be back around again soon, Monotonix maybe never. The rest of those dates w/ PUJOL, Monotonix & Hawkfish or something is below. Then Turbo Fruits picks up the [...]
![[mp3] Vivian Girls — "I Heard You Say"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3160667_lg.jpg)
mp3: Vivian Girls - "I Heard You Say" New drummer, let's go. VivGrls make a return on Polyvinyl . The new one is called Share The Joy and will be out April 12. Yep.
![[review] The Get Up Kids — There Are Rules](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3158024_lg.jpg)
mp3: The Get Up Kids - "Pararelevant" Haven't read any reviews of the new Get Up Kids' album, it's more fun to guess. "This is so different," someone will say. "Not like they used to be," will go another. "Sounds like minivan-crossover rock," and the list will go on. But tell me this: What are they supposed to do? Quit? That way we can preserve the perfect memories of The Get Up Kids, not believing they are real, living artists/musicians...they have feelings too, yes. This medicine is hard to take on [...]
![[mp3] Lubec — "Your Magic Wand"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3151304_lg.jpg)
mp3: Lubec - "Your Magic Wand" Hissy 60s garage pop, with some faux sneers to boot, come on embrace the noise. EP is Nothing is Enough! with a spring album to follow. Hot outta Richmond, VA, give Lubec a listen.
![[news] Supercomputer by Jordan Castro on Deckfight Press.](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3150025_lg.jpg)
You probably know. You've heard all the rumors. But today is the day. Deckfight Press has a release out. It's called Supercomputer . It's by Jordan Castro. It's free, as a PDF and ePub. Keywords include: Young Money, Lil Wayne, stray cats, pettibone, trap house. It has pictures. It's also taking donations. For every 7th donor, Jordan will whip up a special 'super saying / super image' that will be exclusive to you. Nice. Get it, find it .
![[mp3] Yellowcard — "For You and Your Denial"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3147621_lg.jpg)
mp3: Yellowcard - "For You, and Your Denial" Classic Yellowcard . This song is not old, or washed-up, or even vintage, but part of that sound that captured America by storm a few years ago. Forget the past, the ups, the downs, the music still stands. And it's good. And an early frontrunner for 'best violin in a punk song' in 2011. New album, When You're Done Thinking, Say Yes out in March from Hopeless Records.
![[review] Wye Oak — Civilian](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3140392_lg.jpg)
mp3: Wye Oak - "Civilian" Review by Brian Tucker As a male/female duo from Maryland, Wye Oak (named for a state tree) have the audacity to make music that is tribal, lunar, mystical and earthy, all the while bathed in a blanket of torrential emotion, triumph and despair. Wye Oak does this with ease. On Civilian , Wye Oak's newest from Merge Records, the music moves from gentle playing to downpours of grave, wailing guitar walls of sound [...]
Frosted over in the South, an inch of snow on the ground, freeze warnings on the way - checked beforehand and Exit / In said this : the rock show is still going on, no doubt, no problem, but need pizza in this weather. Suggest/pull back/return to it & decide to spend the money. Slushy at the fast food pizza place, like everything is slush, nothing solid, nothing liquid. I think "Water is amazing." We eat pizza. Fences / Deckfight [...]
![[review] Modern Skirts — Gramahawk](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3125752_lg.jpg)
mp3: Modern Skirts - "Bumper Car" 1. This album came out yesterday. 2. I've been listening to it for a couple of weeks. 3. That is apropos of nothing, except this album has been kicking me hard in the gut for all of 2011. 4. I like it. 5. I came to that conclusion the first time I played it. 6. Now I'm trying to figure out why. 7. There are some drum machines, I think. Do people actually have 'drum machines' anymore? [...]
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