June 26, 2009
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tUnE-yArDs: "Fiya" (Live in Brooklyn)
This is one of my favorite two or three songs of the year (Mark R. writing here), "Fiya", from tUnE-yArDs' BiRd-BrAiNs. This excellent live version was recorded a couple of weeks back at Brooklyn's Northside Festival. The intimate camera work also pans to reveal some familiar faces in the crowd.
(via Chocolate Bobka)
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Beck: "Waiting for the Man" (Velvet Underground cover)
The second entry in Beck's Record Club project is another track from The Velvet Underground & Nico. On "Waiting for the Man", Beck replaces the narcotized pounding of the original with some shambolic percussion and wilder psychedelic elements.
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Dinosaur Jr.: "Pieces" (Live on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon")
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Fleet Foxes: "Blue Spotted Tail" (Live on BBC 6 Music)
No heavenly harmonies on this solo Robin Pecknold recording, but we do get to hear a nascent version of a new Fleet Foxes song, the tender, finger-picked "Blue Spotted Tail", from a recent BBC 6 Music session.
MP3:> Fleet Foxes: "Blue Spotted Tail" (Live on BBC 6 Music)
(via BBC 6 Music)
Email LinkJune 25, 2009
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Cymbals Eat Guitars: "Wind Phoenix" (Live on KEXP)
Cymbals Eat Guitars dropped by the KEXP studios and performed single "Wind Phoenix" from the album Why There Are Mountains.
(via KEXP)
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Mew: "Repeaterbeater"
Mew are giving away a second track from their upcoming LP, the concisely titled No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away, which is out on August 25 via Columbia. Spinner's got the mp3.
MP3:> Mew: "Repeaterbeater"
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Bat For Lashes: "Daniel" (Live on "Jimmy Kimmel Live")
Indie heaven on late-night TV yesterday: Wilco, St. Vincent, the Roots, and Bat For Lashes all made appearances-- Natasha Khan apparently found the one studio in which she hasn't performed stellar Two Suns single "Daniel" yet, giving Jimmy Kimmel a nice live rendition that's pretty faithful to the album cut.
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The Roots: "How I Got Over" (Live on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon")
Last night was a good one for late-night talk show musical guests. Wilco on Conan, St. Vincent on Letterman, and an hour later, Jimmy Fallon's house band the Roots debuted a new song, a soulful, socially conscious number called "How I Got Over".
(via Nah Right)
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Björk: Voltaic
We've told you about Björk's Voltaic box set-- a 2xCD/2xDVD package filled with Volta-related live footage, recordings, videos, and remixes-- which is out this week on Nonesuch. Now you can stream the full Voltaic album, containing selections from Medulla, Homogenic, Post, and Vespertine, at NPR Music.
Stream:> Björk: Voltaic
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St. Vincent: "Marrow" (Live on "Late Show With David Letterman")
Annie Clark treated David Letterman to a performance of Actor's "Marrow" last night-- saxes, oboes, and Clark's fierce shredding combining for a weird, funky, uncategorizable song.
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Wilco: "You Never Know" (Live on "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien")
Wilco (the band) stopped by Conan (the late-night show host)'s desk last night to perform a track from the upcoming Wilco (The Album): the rootsy, Summerteeth-y "You Never Know".
(via Prefix)
June 24, 2009
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Graham Coxon: "In the Morning"
Director Chris Hopewell provides an impressionistic clip of nature scenery for Graham Coxon's Beatles-y "In the Morning", which comes from his new album, The Spinning Top. Meanwhile you can catch Coxon with his old band Blur, as their brief reunion tour wraps up next month.
(via Stereogum)
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Love Is All: Various Songs (Daytrotter session)
Swedish popsters Love Is All came to Daytrotter recently to play a new song ("Early Warnings"), a cover (Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran", which they've recorded before), and a couple from their last album, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night.
MP3/Stream:> Love Is All: Various Songs (Daytrotter session)
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Spiral Stairs: "Maltese Terrier"
Ex-Pavement dude Scott Kannberg has moved on from teasing us about a possible reunion of his legendary band, and is finally releasing his first album as Spiral Stairs. We've got the first track, "Maltese Terrier" from the upcoming LP, which is going to be called The Real Feel, and drops October 20 via Matador.
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Sally Shapiro: "Miracle (Bogdan Irkük Remix)"
Sally Shapiro is back in action, prepping her sophomore LP, My Guilty Pleasure, for release later this year. We've already heard first single "Miracle", and now the track has a remix from Bogdan Irkük that lifts Johan Agebjörn's Italo snyths and Moroder bassline up above Sally's chilling vocals.
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jj: "From Africa to Málaga"
Here's a new track from cryptic Sincerely Yours signees jj, the guys behind "My Life, My Swag" and "My Swag, My Life". "From Africa to Málaga" is yet another light Balearic summery jam, and would make a nice soundtrack to chilling by a cold swimming pool. Boy, doesn't that sound nice on a day like this.
June 23, 2009
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Antony and the Johnsons: Various Songs (Live at Holland Festival)
Antony and the Johnsons performed with Amsterdam's Metropolitan Orchestra at the Holland Festival recently, imbuing his new material from The Crying Light with a heavy, romantic backdrop of symphonic arrangements. He also premiered a new song, a collaboration with Nico Muhly. To hear the hour-long set, follow the link below and, next to Antony's face, click the button that says "bekijk uitzending" (Dutch for "get ready to cry").
Video:> Antony and the Johnsons: Various Songs (Live at Holland Festival)
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Zomby : "Mercury's Rainbow"
The new video for Zomby's "Mercury's Rainbow", from last year's Where Were U in '92?, features a familiar clip: Dave's journey beyond the infinite from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Somehow, Zomby's beeps, blips, and butchered beats form an even creepier soundtrack than Ligeti's for the trippy slit-scan photo effects.
(via The Fader)
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Sonic Youth: "No Way" (Live on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon")
Sonic Youth continue their late-night TV appearances in support of new Matador LP The Eternal, this time performing album cut "No Way" for Jimmy Fallon.
June 22, 2009
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Basement Jaxx: "Raindrops" (Various remixes)
Basement Jaxx have posted some new remixes of "Raindrops", which is on sale as a single right now. Check out their nifty remix widget below, with versions by Robbie Riviera, Joker and Jens, AN21 and Philip Jensen, and Under New Management, as well as the radio edit of the original track.
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His Clancyness: "So Bored" (Wavves cover)
Don't have much info on this artist calling himself His Clancyness, but he's contributing a track to the inaugural release of the We Were Never Being Boring label, and it's a cover of Wavves' summer jam "So Bored". This chilled-out version dunks the surf-punk original underwater, emerging with a more Surfer Rosa-tinted shoegazer.
June 19, 2009
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Franz Ferdinand: "No You Girls"
A song we've heard a lot of this year gets a second music video. There's a lot of goofing around and video screens multiplying like nesting dolls.
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Bat For Lashes: "Sleep Alone" (Live on KCRW)
Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes, donned her Veronica Lodge dress in the KCRW studios for a performance of Two Suns' haunting "Sleep Alone". Click on the video to play.
(via Prefix/Culture Bully)
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La Roux: "Bulletproof (Lagos Boys Choir Remix)"
Here's a new remix of La Roux's terrific new single, "Bulletproof", wherein Lagos Boys Choir unpack the original's blippy production and unfurl it into a sprawling, garagey dancefloor banger. The "Bulletproof" single is out now via Polydor/Kitsuné, but this remix you won't be able to find anywhere else.
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God Help the Girl: God Help the Girl
Surely you've heard about God Help the Girl? We've already spoken to Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch about his new musical theatre/sountrack project, heard three different tracks, seen two videos, and checked out the GHTG subscription series. Well, now true fans will have to wait no longer to hear the complete project, as Matador is offering a stream of the full album a week ahead of its release.
Stream:> God Help the Girl: God Help the Girl
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Air France: "GBG Belongs to Us"
Air France just tipped us off to a new song they've recorded, a tribute to their hometown Gothenburg, called "GBG Belongs to Us" (likely a reference to Saint Etienne's "London Belongs to Me", a track from today's Best New Music'ed Foxbase Alpha). They've even recorded a little "teaser" video for the tune, which can be found at the "Part III" link below. Follow "Part II" for a .zip file with the track. ("Part I" seems to be a very detailed travel guide, in case you were thinking about visiting Sweden!)
MP3/Video:> Air France: "GBG Belongs to Us"
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Modest Mouse: "Whale Song"
Modest Mouse are releasing their second 7" single in as many months, following up the post-Record Store Day offering "Satellite Skin"/"Guilty Cocker Spaniels" with a long-awaited recording of live staple "Whale Song" b/w "Autumn Beds". The B-side was reviewed today, but now Tripwire has a stream of "Whale Song", and boy, is it as massive and epic as the titular sea mammal.
Stream:> Modest Mouse: "Whale Song"
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Phoenix: "1901" (Live on "Late Show With David Letterman")
French rockers Phoenix stopped by the Ed Sullivan Studios last night, zipping through one of this year's best singles, "1901" from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
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The Dead Weather: "Hang You From the Heavens" (Live on "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien)
The Dead Weather, Jack White's new band with Kills singer Alison Mosshart, stopped by "The Tonight Show" last night to perform "Hang You From the Heavens", the heavy-hitting single from the forthcoming Horehound. Mosshart delivers a strong vocal, but it's still just a little weird seeing Jack hiding behind the kits back there.
(via Prefix)
June 18, 2009
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Dinosaur Jr.: Farm
As you may have heard, Dinosaur Jr. have a new album coming out next week. We've chatted with the artist behind the trippy album artwork, interviewed the director of their recent video for "Over It", and now, a week ahead of its release, you can stream the full album over at the band's MySpace.
Stream:> Dinosaur Jr.: Farm
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Japandroids: "Crazy/Forever" and "Heart Sweats" (Live on KEXP)
British Columbia's Japandroids stopped by the KEXP studios recently to perform a few tracks from this year's outstanding Post-Nothing, including "Crazy/Forever" and "Heart Sweats".
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Jay-Z, Wallpaper.: "D.O.A./ 99 Problems (Wallpaper. Remix)"
This Wallpaper. dude knows a good internet meme when he sees one. The producer who took "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Hell" to heights unimagined earlier this year has turned his attention to Jay-Z's recent screed "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)", pitch-shifting Jigga's vocals in a way in which he would not approve (actually he probably would, since he's got a good sense of humor, but it's more fun to imagine him getting pissed). He also mashes it up with "99 Problems", except in this case it's "pitch" that ain't one. Don't you wish you'd thought of that? Stream below, you can nab the mp3 here.
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Broken Social Scene, Feist: Various Songs (Live in Toronto)
Leslie Feist made a little cameo yesterday at a surprise gig Broken Social Scene played in their hometown, Toronto. Feist joined the crew for "New Country" and then this ripping new instrumental was captured.
"New Country"
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St. Vincent: Various Songs (acoustic; live on Lake Fever Sessions)
"I don't even think I own an acoustic guitar," begins St. Vincent's Annie Clark as she introduces the first of these clips, in which she performs a few songs from this year's excellent Actor, on, well, an acoustic guitar. The video was shot for the Nashville-based web show Lake Fever Sessions, in which a local recording studio invites "some of our favorite artists into the studio for the better part of an afternoon and have them perform a few numbers." "The Strangers" and "Oh My God" round out the set.
"Actor Out of Work"
"The Strangers"
"Oh My God"
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Fever Ray: "Triangle Walks"
Yesterday we heard a decent remix of "Triangle Walks" by Rex the Dog, and now the track has its own video, directed by Mikel Cee Karlsson, frequent Knife collaborator Andreas Nilsson a characteristically dark affair with only the light of a few flickering, possessed lamps to illuminate Karin's painted face. "Triangle Walks" single is out next week via Mute.
Triangle Walks from Fever Ray on Vimeo.
(via Stereogum)
June 17, 2009
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Real Estate: "Green River"
Real Estate, the atmospheric guitar-pop outfit featured on the recent Underwater Peoples comp and the guys behind this year's "Black Lake", have a new 7" coming out July 20, and here's the B, "Green River" (not a CCR cover but worth a listen).
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Black Moth Super Rainbow: "Twin of Myself (The Go! Team Remix)"
The Go! Team work their remix magic on Black Moth Super Rainbow's "Twin of Myself", from this year's Eating Us, reconfiguring the track's shimmering chimes and Dave Fridmann distorto-drums, and pairing them with their trademark bells and whistles.
MP3:> Black Moth Super Rainbow: "Twin of Myself (The Go! Team Remix)"
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David Lynch, Fox Bat Strategy: "Shoot the Works"
David Lynch, along with the photographs and vocals he recently contributed to the Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul project, has another new music-related endeavor on the way. Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi is a seven-track album featuring lyrics by Lynch due out June 30 via Rykodisc and David Lynch Music Company. Take a listen to the sparse, eerie ballad "Shoot the Works" at EW's website.
Stream:> David Lynch: "Shoot the Works"
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Fever Ray: "Triangle Walks (Rex the Dog Radio Edit)"
Rex the Dog's remix of Fever Ray's "Triangle Walks", a standout track from this year's self-titled LP, is pretty faithful to the original, supplementing the track's rhythm for some heavier beats and a few knob-twisting turns, but preserving the stuttering production and, of course, Karin's dark vocals.
MP3:> Fever Ray: "Triangle Walks (Rex the Dog Radio Edit)"
(via PopJustice)
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Radical Sons: "I'm So Sick of the 21st Century"
St. Louis' Radical Sons, recently signed to Secretly Canadian imprint St. Ives, will be releasing the Throwing Knives EP next week July 7. Take a listen to the rootsy swagger of first single "I'm So Sick of the 21st Century".
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Lusine: "Two Dots"
Seattle producer Jeff McIlwain, aka Lusine, put out a sample-heavy new single called "Two Dots" this week, which they're selling over at Ghostly with a couple of remixes. Later this year he's got a full-length on the way from Ghostly called A Certain Distance.
MP3:> Lusine: "Two Dots"
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The Skygreen Leopards: "Dixie Cups in the Dead Grass"
Jagjaguwar will be releasing the newest Skygreen Leopards LP, Gorgeous Johnny, on July 21. The follow-up to 2006's Disciples of California finds the duo again aiming for sun-drenched pop, as you can hear in this first track, "Dixie Cups in the Dead Grass".
June 16, 2009
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Camera Obscura: "French Navy" (Live on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson")
This week on "The Late Late Show", Camera Obscura played the fetching single "French Navy", a song from their recent LP, My Maudlin Career.
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Mark Pritchard, Om'mas Keith: "Wind It Up"
Here's a new release on Kode9's Hyperdub label, from Mark Pritchard and Om'mas Keith, the latter of whom produced Erykah Badu's New Amerykah, helmed Rick Ross' Rise to Power, and is currently at work on P Diddy's latest LP. "Wind It Up" from the group's Hyperdub debut 12", which is out July 20.
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Little Joy: Various Songs (Daytrotter session)
Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, along with pals Rodrigo Amarante and Binki Shapiro, brought a Little Joy to the Daytrotter studios, performing "No One's Better Sake" and "Keep Me in Mind", both from last year's breezy self-titled debut.
MP3/Stream:> Little Joy: Various Songs (Daytrotter session)
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Blur: "Popscene" / "Song 2" (Live in London)
The recently reunited Blur played a surprise show yesterday at London's Rough Trade East and played more classics to go with all of those YouTubes we posted yesterday.
(via The Fader)
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Modest Mouse: "Autumn Beds"
Modest Mouse are following their recent post-Record Store Day single "Satellite Skin"/"Guilty Cocker Spaniels" with yet another, a 7" featuring "Whale Song" and "Autumn Beds", the latter of which you can hear below at Spinner.
Stream:> Modest Mouse: "Autumn Beds"
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Kanye West, Beyoncé: "Ego"
Here's yet another collaborative video with Kanye and an R&B diva, this one a black-and-white clip with some in-your-face Kanye spitting before Beyoncé shows off some of her "Single Ladies" moves.
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Sonic Youth: "Sacred Trickster"
Being a girl in a band is approximately like paintball-bombing a snooty rooftop soirée (?), according to Sonic Youth's latest video, for The Eternal's "Sacred Trickster".
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Jenny Lewis: "Black Sand"
Kaleidoscopic visuals and weather maps abound in the newest Jenny Lewis video, for "Black Sand" from last year's Acid Tongue.
- Modest Mouse: "Whale Song"
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- Mew: "Repeaterbeater"
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