Bands
New Music Video: Zoot Woman “Memory”
Isaac Lekach :: Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 2:21 pm
When Stuart Price isn’t producing records for Madonna, New Order and the Killers, he keeps busy with his own band, Zoot Woman. Things Are What They Used To Be is the name of their new album. If you liked his old band Les Rhythmes Digitales, you’d most likely enjoy his latest endeavor. Check out the video after the jump and decide for yourself!
Bands
New Music Video: Dodos “Fables”
Isaac Lekach :: Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 2:12 pm
Click here to watch the Dodos’ new music video for “Fables” directed by Matt Amato. Time To Die, the Dodos’ latest album, was released on August 4th. The band will pretty much be on tour for the rest of the year. Click here for details.
Bands
New Final Fantasty Record, Coming Soon
Isaac Lekach :: Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 2:03 pm
Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy, has a new record underway. Heartland will be released on January 12th courtesy of Domino Records. Pallett, who has worked with Grizzly Bear, Arcade Fire, Holy Fuck, Pet Shop Boys (the list really does go on), made his new album in four different countries. He spent time in Reykjavik, Prague, Toronto and New York, crafting a concept album whose narrative concerns “a farmer named Lewis and the fictional world of Spectrum.” Yup. Pallett has also announced the dates of his tour with the Mountain Goats. Track listing and tour dates after the jump!
Bands
Bear In Heaven Prep New LP With Tour
Isaac Lekach :: Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 4:15 pm
Brooklyn’s Bear In Heaven head out on an east coast tour next week. Beast Rest Forth Mouth, their second album, will be released via Home Tapes on October 20th. Click here for tour dates and more info …and here to watch their performance for Lablogotheque. It’s an oldie but a goody.
Bands
Best CD We Got In The Mail: Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport
DJ Pangburn :: Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 1:10 pm
Fuck Buttons open Tarot Sport in brilliant fashion with “Surf Solar,” simultaneously taking us into the future and back into retro territory. Bubbling synths coated in layers upon shimmering layers of reverb give way to buried shoegaze noise and razor-like arpeggios, reminiscent of those spun so effortlessly by Underworld in their electronic epics of yore. Imagine, if you will, “Juanite/Kiteless/To Dream of Love” run through an array of equalizers, then recorded onto cassette tape and blasted out of Skywalker Labs’ most heinous digital soundsystem. This is the sonic equivalent of visible light breaking the laws of eletromagnetism and optics, refusing to be bent into its constituent colors, and scattering itself across oblivion. (Read the rest after the jump!)
Bands
Daniel Johnston Preps Album, Releases iPhone App
Isaac Lekach :: Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 1:02 pm
Next Tuesday, Daniel Johnston will release his new album Is And Always Was. It was produced by AIR and Beck collaborator Jason Falkner. But today, Johnston fans, you can buy a new Daniel Johnston game on the iTunes App Store for 99 cents. We haven’t played it yet, but based on the photo that has surfaced we can tell you it involves the bizarre frog creature we’ve become fond of and familiar with ever since Kurt Cobain was famously photographed wearing it on a shirt. Click here to hop around Johnston’s psychedelic world.
Bands
Devendra Banhart Remixes Phoenix
Isaac Lekach :: Monday, September 28th, 2009 5:26 pm
On October 27th Devendra Banhard will release What Will We Be-his first album for Warner Bros. Records. Today, however, his remix of Phoenix’s “Rome” found its way to our ears. There’s been a slew of Phoenix remixes making their way around the web. This one is probably our favorite. Gorilla Vs. Bear has it on their blog. Click here to check it out.
Live Reviews
Why? At Le Poisson Rouge 9/26
Alex Moore :: Monday, September 28th, 2009 2:36 pm
Yoni Wolf and the WHY? gang recently emerged from their Cincinnati homebase to tour in support of the new Anticon release Eskimo Snow. They destroyed on Saturday night at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge, going in for the double encore, a move I haven’t seen pulled off so well since Bruce Springsteen at Shea Stadium.
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Bands
Park The Van Records Release Sampler, Announce Tour
Isaac Lekach :: Monday, September 28th, 2009 2:10 pm
Park The Van Records are giving away a sampler featuring The Spinto Band, Dr. Dog, Pepi Ginsberg and a bunch more. Download it here. They also put together a fall tour, which starts on October 21st in Philadelphia. The Spinto Band, Generationals and Pepi Ginsberg will be on it. Dates and details are available after the jump!
Bands
Music Video: Au Revoir Simone “Shadows”
Isaac Lekach :: Monday, September 28th, 2009 1:24 pm
Au Revoir Simone have a new music video. It’s for the song “Shadows” off Still Night, Still Light. Check it out after the jump! The band is currently touring over seas. They’ll play the Bell House in Brooklyn on October 24th. Click here to buy tickets.
Film
Shins singer James Mercer’s Film Debut
Isaac Lekach :: Thursday, September 24th, 2009 5:27 pm
James Mercer of the Shins is making his acting debut in a movie called Some Days Are Better Than Others with former Sleater-Kinney singer Carrie Brownstein. It’s hard to tell what the film is about, but we do know it has dogs and slowly-delivered dialogue. Check out the trailer after the jump. The film’s release date has not yet been announced. Click here for more information.
Bands
Cryptacize Announce Tour
Isaac Lekach :: Thursday, September 24th, 2009 5:05 pm
Asthmatic Kitty’s Cryptacize begin their tour with Sufjan Stevens today in Cleveland …and it’s completely sold out! Maybe you have tickets already? Maybe you want to go and scalp? If you don’t have tickets-fret not, the band will head back out in November with Dent May and The Fiery Furnaces. The complete tour dates are after the jump. The band also has a blog, which they update regularly. Click here to check it out and stay in the loop.
Bands
Fool’s Gold Announce Tour, Release Video
Isaac Lekach :: Thursday, September 24th, 2009 2:10 pm
Fool’s Gold’s self-titled album will be released next Tuesday. Their video for “Surprise Hotel” has been popping up everywhere. You can peep it after the jump along with their tour details. They’ll be heading out first with Metronomy and then Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Go find them! Oh yeah. No animals were harmed in the making of tthe video.
Bands
School Of Seven Bells To Rerelease Debut Album
Isaac Lekach :: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 11:48 am
School Of Seven Bells will release a deluxe edition of their debut Alpinisms on October 13th. It will only be made available digitally and will include nine extra tracks (demos, alternate takes, new mixes, etc.). Track listing and fall tour dates are after the jump!
Bands
Free Download: Music Go Music “Warm In The Shadows”
Isaac Lekach :: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 11:41 am
Click here to download Music Go Music’s “Warm In The Shadows.” The band, which features Meredith and David Metcalf of Bodies Of Water, will release their debut album Expressions on October 6th through the Secretly Canadian label. If you’d like s’more click here to watch their video for “Light Of Love.”
