I had a major WTF moment after I opened an email from Karl that was simply titled, "Dude." In it he asked if I had heard of a band from Milwaukee called Buffalo Gospel that were relatively unknown but reeeaaaalllllly good. I hadn't and since I/we always dig hearing/promoting what we think is the best that Milwaukee has to offer, I clicked the link and landed upon some of the sweetest sounds I had heard in a while. While I've only listened to their Acoustic Demos Ep (?), I find that it's minimalist and masterful, sounds like a [...]
September 20th on vinyl via Listening Party Records and cassette via Cakes & Tapes mp3 - Blessed Feathers - By Song Through The Americas mp3 - Blessed Feathers - Stinging Nettle, Honeysuckle Blessed Feathers hit the road this next week and are looking for help with the costs of the travels . Renting a van, gas prices, lodging, bags of pizza flavored combos - all cost money. In this the era of the kickstarter your contributions will be returned with a new BF album, [...]
Jeff looking very serial mp3 - Jeff Tweedy - I've got a feeling (Black Eyed Peas Cover) Jeff Tweedy reaches into the Black Eyed Peas catalog as part of the "The F***ing Epic Quest of @MayorEmanuel" book release party at the Hideout. sort of related : The new Wilco abum The Whole Love leaked. Happy searching mediafire / .zip to you and yours. It's really good. mp3 - Wilco - I Might
Megafaun have become a band that I look forward to. They're a constant. Whether it's a new record, a show within driving distance or mp3s of one of their gigs, they're always on my radar. They magically shift shapes musically (say that three times fast) and have an uncanny ability to create delicate and beautiful harmonies. There's a tidal wave of buzz building behind their self titled record ( out on Hometapes 9/20 ) and I've read a lot of chatter about it channeling the Grateful Dead. That shouldn't be anything new to Megafaun fans, but if [...]
Today's mail has been better than average. I might even say that it's been amazing. This comes as a big surprise, with the news reporting that the USPS is so broke that actual mail may go away for good, and we're not actually sure why we're being so aurally blessed on this first day of school. Anyhow, just in is the debut single off of Carter Tanton's forthcoming record, Freeclouds . Tanton, formerly known as Tulsa and the newest member of SC faves Lower Dens, with the help of Marissa Nadler's vocals, brings "Horrorscope" to life as [...]
Four brothers and a fella that might as well be a brother make up the northern California outfit, Brown Shoe. They've gotten some press recently and the audio for their new single, "Late Nights," just landed in our daily mail. The sound doesn't move mountains but it's got a wondrously broken in feel. Give it a spin and let us know what you think. Oh, and if you dig it, peep Brown Shoe's bandcamp and look for their new record out in October! MP3: Brown Shoe - Late Nights
(The Baron's Straight, his girl's a faggot!) Over the past week The Baron and his rag-tag team of cronies have round-tabled the shit out of Tha Carter IV . With each evening came a variation of debaters as well as distinct opinions and atmospheres. Weezy's latest Carter installment has inspired everything from celebratory affairs that involved excessive spirits and the smoking of Oxycontin, all the way to fiery debates that ended in a fashion not dissimilar to Wrestle-Mania 14 (The Baron admits to not having ever watched wrestling, although he and Rakishi did once Emcee [...]
While I've always been a big fan of Steve Winwood's early work with Spencer Davis, Blind Faith, and Traffic, there's a very small part of my being that appreciates his 80s output. When I was a kid I used to set up a piece of plywood in my garage and do nothing but fakies and kick turns on my skateboard while listening to the Shadoe Stevens top 40 countdown on Sundays. If it wasn't UB40 or Debbie Gibson ruling the top of the pops, it was Winwood's "Roll With It" or "Higher Love" that were dominating forces. While these songs [...]
Unless you're one of the few people that live on Earth that are into Ryan Adams' heavy metal moments, I know what you're thinking. I was thinking the exact same thing when Stereogum tweeted that David Ryan Adams covered Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years." After releasing the pretty and return to form "Lucky Now," one has to wonder why this has to exist. But, after a five minute debate on whether or not to click the play button, I was shocked by just how good and 'return to form' this cover sounded. Set aside your devil horns (or [...]
mp3 - Male Bonding - Tame The Sun mp3 - Male Bonding - Bones On their sophomore release, Endless Now , London's Male Bonding succeed, once again, at making listenable, hard-edged pop-punk, but can't quite stretch the formula far enough to make a 12-track album interesting from top to bottom. Male Bonding's sound, debuted on last year's scrappy Nothing Hurt s, lies somewhere between No Age's experimentation and the pounding drums and angst-riddled hooks of Blink 182. However, gone is the haphazard, jagged weirdness of songs [...]
This morning I got a nice surprise email update from my family friend the Reverend John DeLore in New York. As it turns out, Hurricane Irene didn't affect him too badly and he actually used her as a muse to create something pretty rad. He had this to say: Hunkering down in my apartment on Saturday, waiting for Hurricane Irene to arrive in the Big Apple, I took a notion to re-write the verses to the classic Leadbelly song, "Good Night, Irene." Around 4pm, I sent a simple solo-acoustic mp3 of my version out [...]
On the short walk from Club Garibaldi to my car Saturday I overheard this conversation between two kids talking about the set The War on Drugs had just played. “That was the best show I’ve seen this year. Shit, that was the best show I’ve seen in a while.” “I know. That shit was unexplainably good. Mind blowing, even.” After hearing this I beamed a little. Now some could argue that the unshakable smile on my face was related to the cheap cost of whisky at country clubs or the fact that [...]
mp3 - CANT - Answer mp3 - CANT - Believe CANT, despite being fundamentally ungoogleable, is a fascinating collaboration. CANT is comprised of bassist/vocalist/multi-instrum entalist/producer Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and fellow Brooklynite Twin Shadow. This is not the first time the two have collaborated; Taylor produced Twin Shadow’s 2010 release “Forget” on his label Terrible Records. 2011 has been chock full of fascinating collaborations (see ” Fall Creek Boys Choir ” and something about watching a throne ) and it comes as no surprise that [...]
mp3 - SeizureChicken Podcast Vol III intro / War On Drugs "Your Love Is Calling My Name" / Babes - "Autumn Addict" / Jay-Z + Kanye West "Why I Love You" / Ganglians "Faster" / Curren$y "Crack BC ft Young Roddy" / James Blake + Bon Iver "Fall Creek Boys Choir" / Haz Solo "Thank You, Come Again"
mp3 - Greatest Lakes - Nothing Left mp3 - Greatest Lakes - Sun Song Here are some promising demos from Milwaukee folk band Greatest Lakes . A fellow bearded man had been telling me about the band here and there and after listening I have to say there is some pretty promising stuff within the demos. The slow-churning fragile fidelity of "Sun Song" and "My House" along with the distant reverb soaked choral vocals are reminiscent of Tennessee Fire era My Morning Jacket - which, to [...]
If you haven't heard the buzzing or been paying attention to the internet for the last couple of days, Cotton Jones (Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw) went to Rock Island and recorded an unbelievable Daytrotter session. It's a biggie, too. If you play your cards right, this session should propel your Friday right past your first coffee break and lead right into your mid morning nap. We're big fans of the Marylanders and think that you should be too. Trust us on this one. Get Cotton Jones Daytrotter session free here and peep the [...]
Photo Courtesy of CJ Foeckler Wednesday night’s packed house at Turner Hall for The Hold Steady's return to Milwaukee felt like a homecoming. And that’s not only because one of the band members is from Wisconsin, or because a slew of the band’s family were in attendance, and it wasn’t because someone was crowned the King and the Queen of the night, either. It seemed like a homecoming because the band that had spent the entire week warming up for the tour in that very same room, played like they [...]
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New mixtape from the prolific, Curren$y. Download the tape free over at DatPiff. mp3 - Curren$y - Crack BC ft Young Roddy mp3 - Curren$y - Pinifarina mp3 - Curren$y - High Tunes previously : “A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss,… I’m Stoned”- Curren$y Curren$y & Freddie Gibbs| Scottie Pippen Curren$y Drops New Track Off Weekend At Burnies [...]
mp3 - Bon Iver & James Blake - Fall Creek Boy's Choir This just landed in my inbox. James Blake/Bon Iver collab that premiered on BBC today . pitchfork says : According to a press release, "Over the past year James has cited Justin as a key influence and it was via a chance meeting at this years SXSW festival in Austin, Texas that the seed was sown for a future collaboration." The track was "formed in the spring over email." It features Justin Vernon on vocals [...]
mp3 - Ryan Adams - Lucky Now New song from Ryan Adams, "Lucky Now". This is the first single we've heard from Ashes & Fire , which the AVClub calls "elegant country-rock". So, rest assured, it's not another death metal project . Anywho, Ashes & Fire drops October 11th.
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