Of Montreal Paralytic Stalks Polyvinyl Records [2012] Fire Note Says: Of Montreal offers up tons of ideas but misses connecting all of the dots. Album Review: The eclectic musings of Of Montreal continues on the new long player Paralytic Stalks which once again tries to capture the current thoughts and psyche of founder/creator Kevin Barnes. This of course can be a wild ride and over [...]
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Tweet Listen to Deerhoof 's new song (feat. David Bazan ) "No One Asked Bazan to Dance" below. A couple of weeks ago Polyvinyl announced that they'd be releasing a new 73 single of a collaboration between Deerhoof and David Bazan called "No One Asked Bazan to Dance" . Yesterday the label released the track to listen to, a Spanish-influenced jam that [...]
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Lucky us! Of Montreal's new album , Paralytic Stalks (due February 7 on Polyvinyl ) is now streaming on Spin . Be sure to take a listen and tell us what you think. Remember that Popeye & Wilco comic strip that surfaced the other day? Well it turns out that was just a precursor for the first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in more than thirty years. Crazy, huh? [...]
Music videos are seldomly as ambitious as Errors' Pleasure Palaces . Errors really have something here and I know it's ridiculously early to predict my picks for best video of the year, but it's pretty hard to imagine that there will be anyone who can surpass this. Have Some Faith In Magic will be released on the 31st of this month and if Pleasure Palaces and its video are any indicator, looks to be quite good. Well, let's just let it speak for itself... [...]
Jamie Stewart y su intenso alter-ego conocido como Xiu Xiu, tiene un nuevo álbum titulado "Always", que incluye canciones como "I Luv Abortion," "Smear The Queen," y la canción supuestamente autobiográfica "Born To Suffer". El disco será editado en LP vía Polyvinyl Records en una serie exclusiva de 500 copias, en el que además podrás encontrar un póster collage con los tatuajes del artista. Acála lista de canciones completa: 01 "Hi" 02 "Joey's Song" 03 "Beauty Towne" 04 "Honeysuckle" 05 "I Luv Abortion" 06 "The Oldness" [...]
Of Montreal's new album Paralytic Stalks will be available February 7th, via Polyvinyl Records. We earlier heard 'Wintered Debts' and now we get to hear the second offering from the album titled 'Dour Percentage'. Check out the funky dance pop jam below.
Tweet vaso link I've been a fan of of Montreal since hearing the Icons Abstract Thee EP that came out following their amazing, pace-setting album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? They also hold the honor of putting on, by far, the best live shows I have ever been lucky enough to witness. They change directions pretty wildly with each new album and I have stuck with them through it all. Nothing can quite compare to what I think of as their [...]
Tweet Use the Retweet or Share buttons above to enter to win our entire Top 31 Albums of 2011! Artist : Starfucker Hometown : Portland, Oregon, USA. Members : Joshua Hodges, Shawn Glassford, Keil Corcoran Formed : 2007 [...]
SSLYBY are by far one of my favourite Polyvinyl artists. Resonating from Springfield Missouri, the group started when Philip Dickey and John Robert Cardwell met in 2002 during their freshman year of college. After releasing their own split EP in 2004, they signed to Polyvinyl Records some time later in June 2006. You won't want to miss these guys @ The Biltmore Monday, December 5th ... we know Winnie won't. Enjoy their track, Yellow Missing Sings , from their recent album "Tape Club". Somebody Still [...]
Owen - Ghost Town MMMM From his work with Cap'n Jazz to American Football, Mike Kinsella has always displayed a knack for being able to translate emotional weight through dizzying guitar riffs just as well as any singer ever could. As Owen, Kinsella has proven to be a master at arranging and layering, creating something soothing and accessible that still manages to be relatively complex and deep without losing a sense of purpose. Owen's sixth full-length album, Ghost [...]
Owen Ghost Town Polyvinyl Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Owen returns with a little bit of rock that works well on his sixth album Ghost Town . Album Review: Mike Kinsella is probably still best known for his early work in critically lauded bands American Football, Joan Of Arc and Cap'n Jazz but many fans have stayed with him and followed the emo troubadour on his [...]
Mates of State have launched their video for "Sway." It was directed by XXXX and features a girl who falls down a rabbit hole to discover another world in Lewis Carroll fashion. It also showcases the band performing in a high school gym auditorium.
Florian Rainer Chicago's musical wizard Mike Kinsella is back with a new full-length record, continuing his solo endeavors as Owen. Ghost Town, out today on Polyvinyl, is the singer-songwriter's sixth studio album. It expands on the new territory and expanded sound introduced in 2009's New Leaves. Owen looks to an upbeat and pop-centric direction, and it definitely feels more polished this time
About a month ago, I was at the Polyvinyl Records 15th Anniversary show in downtown Champaign, IL and I had a blast. It was the first time that Pygmalion Festival has done an outdoor stage and it turned out fantastic (I'm hoping they'll bring it back next year). I wanted to do individual reviews for each band but other things kept coming up that got in the way (computer crashing, this site being pharma hacked), and now too much time has lapsed since the event for there to be any hope I'd be able to recap all the greatness that [...]
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Tape Club Polyvinyl Records [2011] Fire Note Says: The 26 b-sides found on Tape Club highlight why you should be checking out Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Album Review: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is one of those bands that I have always expected to break out but never seem to achieve a larger success with their [...]
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Tape Club MMM 1/2 Creative works are perceived and judged by a version that has been toiled over, constructed and deconstructed multiple times; final drafts of creative works only expose one side of the original idea. The mark of a great artist is the progress the person, or persons, made in reaching the final product, for the true testament to skill is not just what a person produced in the end but how [...]
Loney Dear Hall Music Polyvinyl Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Loney Dear expands their sound on sixth release Hall Music . Album Review: Emil Svanängen has been tweaking his sound since we last heard him on 2009's Dear John , as he returned to his home country of Sweden and was playing shows with a chamber orchestra. This clearly impacted his sixth album, Hall [...]
A new video from Deerhoof for the track "Secret Mobilization," which I remember reminded me of Steppenwolf a lot when I reviewed the band's latest album , Deerhoof vs. Evil . I vividly remember Deerhoof winning that battle, too! Moral of the story: Never put an alien you think is dead in your car.
With the undisputed best name in musical history, SSLYBY are back with a new release of a 10 year career-spanning album. Whether you've heard of them before now or not (you'd probably remember if you had) this is the album for you. It's a great introduction to a great band and means that after one listen you'll be able to trick your friends into thinking you've been championing the Missouri band from the very start. Read more..
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