Whenever the moon is just right, the Vague Panther picks his favorite MP3s from the web to bring you the "In the Know" series. If you've got a tip that might pique his interest email him at vaguepanther(at)strangerdance. com. Jonsi and Alex - "Boy 19043 Sigur Ros frontman , Jonsi Birgisson , and his boyfriend, Alex Somers , are set to release Riceboy Sleeps on July 21st. The [...]
Whenever the moon is just right, the Vague Panther picks his favorite MP3s from the web to bring you the "In the Know" series. If you've got a tip that might pique his interest email him at vaguepanther(at)strangerdance. com. Jonsi and Alex - "Boy 19043 Sigur Rós frontman , Jonsi Birgisson , and his boyfriend, Alex Somers , are set to release Riceboy Sleeps on July [...]
Whenever the moon is just right, the Vague Panther picks his favorite MP3s from the web to bring you the "In the Know" series. If you've got a tip that might pique his interest email him at vaguepanther(at)strangerdance. com. Yo La Tengo - "Periodically Double or Triple" Yo La Tengo recently set the release date of their 12th LP Popular Songs (Matador) for September [...]
Pearl Jam treated the Tonight Show audience Monday night with the debut of "Got Some", a song off their new record, Backspacer . If the tune is any indication, the new record (due out this summer) should pick up right about where 2006's Avocado album left off. The Outside Lands co-headliners have also been in the news as of late regarding a controversial distribution deal with the retail giant Target. Billboard.com confirmed Tuesday that Pearl Jam has indeed inked some kind of deal with [...]
Pearl Jam treated the Tonight Show audience Monday night with the debut of "Got Some", a song off their new record, Backspacer . If the tune is any indication, the new record (due out this summer) should pick up right about where 2006's Avocado album left off. The Outside Lands co-headliners have also been in the news as of late regarding a controversial distribution deal with the retail giant Target. Billboard.com confirmed Tuesday that Pearl Jam has indeed inked some kind of deal with [...]
Whenever the moon is just right, the Vague Panther picks his favorite mp3s from the web to bring you the "In the Know" series. If you've got a tip that might pique his interest email him at vaguepanther(at)strangerdance. com. Crystal Stilts is described as "Suicide-ish 50s buzz twang and a dash of 80s jangle," which really just means they're Brooklyn poppers with a weird vibe I'm jealous of. Their Alight of Night LP from last year [...]
Whenever the moon is just right, the Vague Panther picks his favorite mp3s from the web to bring you the "In the Know" series. If you've got a tip that might pique his interest email him at vaguepanther(at)strangerdance. com. With Woods , Wavves and many others, some of you may be getting a little bit sick of the whole lo-fi thing. Well, tough. You can add the Intelligence [...]
Sonic Youth's new LP, The Eternal , is due out June 9 on Matador Records. Thankfully, the band has given us a sneak peak at "Sacred Trickster" to hold us over. Sonic Youth - "Sacred Trickster" The Junior Boys just released Begone Dull Car e, and to be honest I wasn't expecting it to be this good. Friends who saw them at Coachella and at San Francisco's Bimbo's tell me their live [...]
Whenever the moon is just right, the Vague Panther picks his favorite mp3s from the web to bring you the "In the Know" series. If you've got a tip that might pique his interest email him at vaguepanther(at)strangerdance. com. Sonic Youth 's new LP, The Eternal , is due out June 9 on Matador Records. Thankfully, the band has given us a sneak peak at "Sacred Trickster" to hold us over. Sonic Youth - [...]
Woods - The Dark I recently discovered Woods through Gorilla vs. Bear and "The Dark" has been stuck in my head ever since. While this track is available now on a 73 via Captured Tracks , their full-length LP, Songs of Shame is set for an April 14th release on Woodsist . Did you write that down? Good. Passion Pit - The Reeling I've been steadily "blogging up" Passion Pit to get you ready [...]
Woods - "The Dark" I recently discovered Woods through Gorilla vs. Bear and "The Dark" has been stuck in my head ever since. While this track is available now on a 73 via Captured Tracks , their full-length LP, Songs of Shame is set for an April 14th release on Woodsist . Did you write that down? Good. Passion Pit - "The Reeling" I've been steadily "blogging up" Passion Pit to get you ready [...]
So what happens when the lead guitarist of Deerhunter decides to make a solo album under the pseudonym Lotus Plaza? Hypnosis. By all accounts so far, Lockett Pundt's debut, The Floodlight Collective , is for those of us who love the mesmerizing picking and cloudy effects on Microcastle/Weird Era . Sounds like a definite Vague Panther candidate for this week's Release Watch. Pick it up in stores tomorrow, March 23. MP3: Lotus Plaza - Red Oak Way
What happens when the lead guitarist of Deerhunter decides to make a solo album under the pseudonym Lotus Plaza ? Hypnosis. By all accounts so far, Lockett Pundt 's debut, The Floodlight Collective , is for those of us who love the mesmerizing picking and cloudy effects on Microcastle/Weird Era . Sounds like a definite Vague Panther candidate for this week's Release Watch. Pick it up in stores tomorrow, March 23. MP3: Lotus Plaza - "Red Oak Way"
Bosque Brown - "Went Walking" "Went Walking" is a stunning, eeriely beautiful track off of Bosque Brown 's first full-length release, Baby which hit stores on March 3rd. If you like whiskey, cigarettes or early Cat Power , I highly recommend adding it to your record collection. Young Coyotes - "Momentary Drowning" [Daytrotter Session] Maybe woo hoo ooh hoo oooohohohooo just sounds better live, but this Daytrotter version of the Young Coyotes song "Momentary Drowning" resonated [...]
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone Neko Case's follow up to The Fox Confessor Brings the Flood was released this past Tuesday, March 3rd. So far I like what I hear, even if it is a little bit "more of the same" - check out the title track, "Middle Cyclone." Wavves - So Bored Really, really, really hot mics are the theme for Nathan Williams' studio project, Wavves . The irony is his tunes are probably better listened to lying on the couch, [...]
Richard Swift - Lady Luck Aquarium Drunkard reports that Richard Swift has finally set a release date for his fourth LP (April 7th, 2009). If the name sounds familiar, you're probably a Wilco fan like myself - Swift not only opened up for Wilco on the Sky Blue Sky tour, but he also began recording his eagerly awaited full-length album at their Chicago loft. "Lady Luck" is off his 2008 EP entitled Ground Trouble Jaw . Girls - Hellhole Ratrace [...]
Richard Swift - "Lady Luck" Aquarium Drunkard reports that Richard Swift has finally set a release date for his fourth LP (April 7th, 2009). If the name sounds familiar, you're probably a Wilco fan like myself - Swift not only opened up for Wilco on the Sky Blue Sky tour, but he also began recording his eagerly awaited full-length album at their Chicago loft. "Lady Luck" is off his 2008 EP entitled Ground Trouble Jaw . Girls - "Hellhole Ratrace" [...]
Abe Vigoda - Don't Lie Abe Vigoda's 2008 release, Skeleton , wasn't something we talked about here at Stranger Dance. Our fault completely. Even though "Don't Lie" is on this year's Reviver EP (due out 2/19), its driving, metallic guitars have just enough reverb on them to force me into some 2008 regret. Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision And Brooklyn won't stop. It is getting annoying, but if that's where the music is, that's where it is. Here We [...]
Due to some really, really dumb luck I had the fortune of running into Fugazi legend Ian MacKaye over the holidays. The brief meeting inspired me to check out some recent releases from Dischord Records , the D.C. label he started in 1980. And I’m glad I did because Faraquet ’s anthology (1997–98) is just what I needed to take a trip down memory lane. I remember trying to play this on my guitar during ninth grade Jazz class… Faraquet - "Sea Song" [...]
[Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Aug. 25, 2008, as we were just getting Stranger Dance off the ground. Seeing as how posting over the holidays gets slow, but people's thirst for music doesn't, we've decided to re-post some of our favorite posts from the past year that folks may not have seen. Plus, a soundboard recording of the Outside Lands Radiohead show?! Fuck, yeah!] For this week's episode of Panther Picks I decided to post Radiohead's performance at Outside Lands. Why? Because I'm obsessed and it [...]
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