September 2, 2010 - by BBG Wormrot have been forced to delay the start of their tour due to visa issues. That means they won't be appearing at Santos Party House tonight (9/2), though all the other bands on the bill still will. To make up for it, Wormrot have rescheduled their NYC show to this SUNDAY (9/5) at Bowery Electric at 11PM. From there they move to Clevela...
September 2, 2010 - DOWNLOAD: Cinema Red & Blue - "Same Mistakes" (MP3) Ripley Johnson of Wooden Shjips/Moon Duo (more by Abby Braden) Wooden Shjips will be at ATP NY this weekend (hand-picked by Jim Jarmusch). That's followed by a show at MHOW on 9/6 (tickets) and then more dates north and west as far as Chicago, but then Ripley Johnson of the psychedelic left co...
September 2, 2010 - As a founding member and producer of Portishead, Geoff Barrow has been saddled with the unfortunate “trip-hop” tag ever since the Bristol, U.K., outfit scooped the Mercury Music prize with debut LP “Dummy” in 1995. If the band's musically expansive 2008 album “Third” wasn't quite enough of a departure, then Barrow seems determined to sh...
September 2, 2010 - Vancouver’s Black Mountain dropped in for a one-off show at the Knitting Factory on Monday, pre-empting a tour for their new record, Wilderness Heart, due later this month. Brooklyn’s been full of laptop bands lately, so it was refreshing to catch a real-deal rock show, complete with laser keyboards, harrowing female/male vocals, and pl...
September 2, 2010 - The Morning Benders – “All Day Day Light” from Jack Ferry on Vimeo. One of the Morning Benders' rawkier rockers gets the sweet depth-of-field treatment from director Jack Ferry. Their new album, Big Echo, still rules, and you'll remember they were totally better live than Broken Bells. Tweet...
September 2, 2010 - Reuters: * Labels eager for Google-Apple battle * Google mulling download store, song locker service * Google’s talks with labels led by Android founder Rubin * Labels see cloud-based music services from Apple, Google * Google, Apple shares up in afternoon trading (Adds Google spokesman, stock prices) Google Inc (GOOG.O) is in talks wi...
September 2, 2010 - On the eve of being named to our 40 Best New Artists Of 2010 list, UK producer Gold Panda headlined Glasslands Gallery on Kent St. in Williamsburg, live-mixing the beat snatches and effects pedal switches of his often dazzling singles and EPs, along with a presumably good dose of the material from his anticipated forthcoming full-length debut Lucky...
September 2, 2010 - John Lennon (pictured) reissue campaign to include unreleased songs Guns N’ Roses bottled offstage in Dublin Snoop Dogg to release Doggystyle 2 Bob Dylan shows new paintings in Denmark Touch and Go to reissue first Negative Approach EP...
September 2, 2010 - Slate: When Kristin Hersh was 18 years old, her indie rock band Throwing Muses recorded its first album, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and she became a mother for the first time. In Hersh’s new memoir, Rat Girl, based on her diary, she chronicles an extraordinary year. I’m willing to bet that there are very few budding teen...
September 2, 2010 - Sad news: Oberhofer will be Big Ugly Yellow Couch's last session for a while. Their place in Brooklyn, where each session was shot, burned down this summer. They're in a new apartment, and they were able to save both the couch and their digital archive of previous couch sessions. But it'll probably take a little time before they're up and running a...
September 2, 2010 - by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: The Intelligence - Like Like Like Like Like Like Like (MP3) The Intelligence @ Market Hotel in 2009 (more by Tim Griffin) One of Seattle's finest, The Intelligence, have a new record and are gearing up for a big fall tour, including an October 30 stop at Cake Shop and will also play the Todd P Halloween Show somewhere i...
September 2, 2010 - Somewhere on the intersection of Royksopp, Air and Yacht, you will find the gorgeous, synth-laden sounds of Mackintosh Braun. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, this formidable pop duo is the teaming Ian Mackintosh and bassist/keyboardist/producer Ben Braun who bring sharp, emotive songwriting, delicate soundscapes and danceable elements to the synth p...
September 2, 2010 - When it comes to the British electronica/IDM universe, Tom “Squarepusher“ Jenkinson is the man who put the bass in drum-and-bass, bringing his Jaco Pastorius-buys-a-laptop, jazz-fusion-inspired bass work to all manner of electronic soundscapes. Last time around, his Solo Electric Bass 1 album took his four-string skills to the extreme.
September 2, 2010 - Here comes a brand new video from Gyft & Skewby. This is NEXT. Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)...
September 2, 2010 - Earlier this week we posted about Vampire Weekend covering Bruce Springsteen's “I'm Going' Down” at Malkin Bowl in Vancouver. The guys just sat down for Seattle's 107.7 The End's 200th “Endsession” and did a clearer, stripped-down acoustic take. (Still no sax solo.) Read More...
September 2, 2010 - photos by Erez Avissar DOWNLOAD: Arp - White Light (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Arp - Summer Girl (MP3) Oneohtrix Point Never @ Coco66 There were several peculiar sights at the Oneohtrix Point Never performance on Friday night, but none more so than the handful of fans clustered near the front of the stage, nodding their heads rhythmically. To what, exactl...
September 2, 2010 - MTV: Van Buuren also seized the opportunity to officially announce he might play a new song that’s not on his forthcoming album. “I can tell you something special,” he revealed. “I’m working on a track with Paul van Dyk and Paul Oakenfold for the victims of the Love Parade.” On July 24 at the 2010 Love Parade...
September 2, 2010 - Evil Nine are back with their second release on their own label For Lovers. This time they team up with EL-P for the EP “Stay Up”. The EP is out now on Beatport. They also made a new mix to go with it. Tracklist after the jump: 116 bpm – jive rhythm tracks people hold on ( instrumental ) – earl flint say my name – holy ghost be the fi...
September 2, 2010 - photos by Vincent Cornelli "You ready for some Grateful Dead action after this?" asked singer Julian Casablancas early in the Stokes set, referring to Furthur, the band led by the Dead's Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, already in progress at the eastern edge of the polo field. The uncertain response suggested fans were staying put - just as others were fo...
September 2, 2010 - Sean Howe and Aquarium Drunkard are back with L.A. Burnout 2: Still Burnt. Continuing in the vein of last year’s L.A. Burnout, the 25 tracks compiled within exemplify the not-quite-there nature of the city, particularly what was being laid down in the 70s. Play this mix around dusk while driving through Topanga with the windows [...]...
September 2, 2010 - To raise funds for its students’ scholarships, Terra Nova High School Community Farm organized a benefit concert with Langhorne Slim and The Avett Brothers. Only five-hundred tickets were sold, so the event was a rare opportunity to see the two indie-roots superstars play in a relatively intimate environment. Terra Nova Community Farm is a stu...
September 2, 2010 - In perhaps the coolest geek-rock achievement of the century thus far, Apples In Stereo frontman Robert Schneider has mated musical techniques with toy technology to create an electronic instrument that can be controlled by…wait for it…human brainwaves. You may or may not be familiar — we admittedly weren’t — with Matte...
September 2, 2010 - photos by Vincent Cornelli "...if you were to take a poll of what was the No. 1 fan-favorite set of the 2010 Outside Lands festival, my guess is that the Reverend Al Green would come out on top - by a large margin. The 64-year-old gospel/soul/R&B star was in legendary vocal form as he led his band, featuring a dynamite horn section, through such i...
September 2, 2010 - Axl Rose just can't catch a break. The outspoken, egocentric rock singer had a horrible experience at his latest concert in Dublin. According to AP, Rose did the unthinkable when he showed up to the venue almost an hour late. And guess what? The Irish didn't take his disrespect and carelessness lying down. Apparently, the singer has been showing u...
September 2, 2010 - ECSTASY: MTV: Details are beginning to emerge about the Los Angeles traffic stop that resulted in rapper T.I. and wife Tameka “Tiny” Cottle’s arrests on charges of felony possession of a controlled substance Wednesday night. According to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Tip (born Clifford Ha...
September 2, 2010 - As you may or may not know I am rather proud of being clean off of cocaine for, at this point, almost 2 decades. I had a good run and can't say there weren't a lot of amazing times involved but when it came time to kick I kicked and haven't looked back. That may seem like a strange way to start a review but honestly that's what this album brings to...
September 2, 2010 - You can tell by the number of benefit shows in Columbus this year that it's been a rough 2010 for a lot of people in the music community. It's time again to rally around a local who could use some help. Nile Carpenter, faithful show-goer and cellist for Afortiori, recently was in a car accident and broke bones in both arms, including a full elbow r...
September 2, 2010 - Who — or what — is Zoogz Rift? I had no idea when I started pulling out record upon record by this mysterious character from the shelves at KEXP, and I'm still not really clear. Suffice it to say he's a man, born Robert Pawlikowski in New Jersey in the 1950s, who made many very strange albums, influenced musically by Frank Zappa and Captain B...
September 2, 2010 - Hearing this first single from the Chapin Sisters' sophomore album “Two,” I'm not the least bit bothered by the fact that, despite the rhyme, palm trees don't have leaves. I'm rather … er, frond of it. The music made by sisters Abigail and Lily Chapin (and, previously, half-sister Jessica Craven, who is currently on hiatus to spend time with...
September 2, 2010 - MP3: Digging For Something It's good to see Superchunk kicking around again. The band is releasing their first full length album of new material in a long ass time next Tuesday which you can pre-order here. The band is on tour: 09.16.10 Durham, NC The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 09.17.10 Washington, DC 9:30 Club w/ Tommy Keene, Let'...
September 2, 2010 - Land Of Talk's “Quarry Hymns” video is beautifully shot, in black and white, with a single dancer moving in slow motion. There are a few ominous moments that cut through the gracefulness of the video. Because it's new, and the trailer is new, it made me think of Darren Arononfsky’s upcoming film Black Swan, though “Quarry Hymns” is a much...
September 2, 2010 - photos by Vincent Cornelli "Though he was handed a somewhat awkward time slot (between 4 and 5 p.m.), the first day of Outside Lands did not start until Lorin Ashton of Bassnectar said so. A San Franciscan by birth, Ashton's all-encompassing formula of serrated dubstep has won the hearts and minds of local natives since he began experimenting with...
September 2, 2010 - In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Andrew Ervin works literary magic in his novel Extraordinary Renditions. Vividly exploring Budapest's past and present in three linked novellas, Ervin's true mastery of the language becomes apparent as the stories conver...
September 2, 2010 - The bursts of noisy guitar in the Morning Benders' song “All Day Day Light” [that's the new, Jack Ferry-directed video, above] is the perfect accompaniment to today's news that the SoCal-born quartet, now splitting their time between San Francisco, New York and the road, has grown into a headliner act. The Benders, riding high on the strength o...
September 2, 2010 - The release of Rah Digga’s new album, Classic, is less than two weeks away (for the record, it’s September 14th). After blessing her fans with the Nottz-produced non-album track “Do Your Numbers,” Ms. Digga just unleashed a remix of the first joint from the album, “This Ain’t No Little Kid Rap,” featuring a...
September 2, 2010 - I spent some time at the Atlantic Records headquarters in New York City last week. Good to see all of their great talent prominently featured everywhere around the office, including my faves Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae who were hanging proudly together. Makes me hope that a collaboration will happen one day soon.
September 2, 2010 - [Happy birthday today to sometimes-rocker Keanu Reeves. ... What's up tonight? You tell me ...] ☛ Even before you get to the music, Graham Forest's album sounds like serious stuff. It's called “Song of Trauma & Revelation” [download free tracks from his Bandcamp site]. He's at Spaceland tonight with George Ellias, among others. ☛ Nite Jewel...
September 2, 2010 - So enamored have I been with the Vinho Verde we’ve been drinking this summer that when we hit the wine section of the Healthy Living Market in Burlington, VT, at the start of our camping trip, I picked up a bottle of rosé Vinho Verde more or less on instinct. Yes, it was a rosé: [...]...
September 2, 2010 - Rachel Fannan TONIGHT (9/2) * Birds Fled From Me (Rachel Fannan of Sleepy Sun) @ Knitting Factory * Text of Light (Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht & Uli Krieger) @ Le Poisson Rouge FRIDAY (9/3) * BEAK> @ Bowery Ballroom * The Greenhornes @ Mercury Lounge SATURDAY (9/4) * Mudhoney @ Bowery Ballroom * The Greenhornes @ Maxwell's MONDAY (9/6) * Apse @...
September 2, 2010 - Here it is, the latest installment from Girl Crisis, an all-female concept troupe operating on a specifically detailed concept. The idea behind it was to a) name themselves as a joke on Boy Crisis and b) exist only in web-video form featuring c) an essentially revolving cast of indie Brooklyn sirens that d) have nothing for sale and will not play l...
September 2, 2010 - TMZ: Take a close look at the photo of T.I. getting arrested… and focus on the styrofoam cups in the front and back cupholders… although cops aren’t saying which controlled substance they found in the car, there seems to be evidence of Sizzurp… aka purple drank… aka codeine syrup. Detroit Free Press: Police say...
September 2, 2010 - Thursday – September 2, 2010 Charlie Slick, Hushmoney, Not Blood, Paint (NYC), The Art Department @ Belmont Kevin Seconds (of 7 Seconds), The Night Market Revival, Shouting Street ($8) @ Lager House Burning, Mogwai (Dvd Screening)($5) @ Crofoot Ballroom Friday – September 3, 2010 A Wilhelm Scream, La Dispute, No Control @ Metal Frat First Stop...
September 2, 2010 - A fairly intense (but pleasant) discussion has broken out in the comments section of Steve Almond's essay about editors, ambition, and dependence. Related Posts: No related posts…...
September 2, 2010 - Eileen Myles has a new book coming out, Inferno. The only place to order it online is directly from her publisher. Fifteen percent discount if you order before September 6. If you're not familiar with Myles check out Chelsea Girls. (this is the only time we're going to link to Amazon) . Related Posts: No related posts…...
September 2, 2010 - MP3: Single #25 – Bricks and Wires (live in Little Rock) MP3: Single #26 – No Audience Branden: “Bricks and Wires” was written while on tour down south and is the performance at a show in Little Rock the day i wrote it.” 52 Singles in 52 Weeks...
September 2, 2010 - Rapper T.I. and his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, were busted and booked last night in Los Angeles and hit with a mysterious felony drug charge (‘mysterious’ because police won’t name the drug involved). While initial reports state that cops originally approached the couple after smelling marijuana wafting from their car, celebrity gossip...
September 2, 2010 - Here is a phenomenal video of Konrad performing, Shoulda Known Better, off his new album Feed The Family:...
September 2, 2010 - The Danish National Museum: Bob Dylan ( b. 1941) has recorded his impressions and thoughts while travelling in Brazil, capturing people, events, and places in a plethora of sketches. Back in the US, some of these many scraps of paper served as the basis of The Brazil Series. Experience a whole new aspect of the work of one of the 20th century k...
September 2, 2010 - On this week's Dirty Laundry TV, Dead Meadow sit down to discuss their new film and soundtrack and several bad acid trips. Seriously? I just had one bad one. That was enough to learn my lesson. Their new album, Old Growth, is out now on Matador Records. Check out a track and this week's episode “after the jump” [mp3] Dead Meadow – “Wh...
September 2, 2010 - This video for The Valusia EP's “Sea Talk” was directed by Jacqueline Castel, who also did the video for “Night.” Like last time, Nika Rosa Danilova, aka Zola Jesus, aka one of Sterogum's 40 Best New Bands Of 2010, stars. Castel noted the “Night” video's apocalyptic tone was partially “the product 1980s futurism via nightmares, Coctea...
September 2, 2010 - The Note Books series features musicians discussing their literary side. Previous contributors have included John Darnielle, John Vanderslice, Mark Olson, Mac McCaughan, and others. Dean Wells records under the moniker Capstan Shafts. His songs are short, powerful, and lyrically interesting lo-fi indie pop gems. The Capstan Shafts' latest album,...
September 2, 2010 - Creative Loafing: Jay Day takes over Lenny’s Sat., Sept. 4, with a tribute to the late Memphis punk icon Jay Reatard. Several bands, including Customers, Sarin McHugh and the Everymen and Hip to Death are playing a handful of Jay Reatard covers along with some original numbers as well. There’s also a pre-Jay Day happening show at Crim...
September 2, 2010 - The Best Show on WFMU host Tom Scharpling has been up to some pretty major off-mic action. If you've been hiding under a rock for the past week or so, you may have missed Ted Leo's new video for the song "Bottled in Cork" (below), which has just reached Immortal status on the Funny or Die website (with over 100,000 hits!). Spoofing the Gree...
September 2, 2010 - Bob Dylan Bumbershoot will be upon us in a matter of days now, and the lineup is looking better than ever. Even if the weather doesn't cooperate, the bill of amazing artists that will be at the Seattle Center on Saturday alone will be cause to gleefully prance around in the rain from stage to stage…or something like that. Here's a rundown: STAR...
September 2, 2010 - Granta has published their sex issue as an app for the iPhone. We'd be interested in a short review about reading a literary journal on your phone. (via Maud) Related Posts: No related posts…...
September 2, 2010 - Head Heritage: Hey Drudion, While my lovely missus has this month been re-engaging us all with bizarre tales of past heroes & heroines, tyrants, revolutionaries, even final solutionaries through her On This Deity (www.onthisdeity.com) website, fellow Black Sheep David Wrench and I have on record been pursuing a highly political Shelleyan metapho...
September 2, 2010 - Last night, rapper and actor T.I. (real name Clifford Harris) and his wife Tameka Cottle were arrested for possession of marijuana. The hip-hop star was pulled over for a traffic violation, and when police officers thought they smelled cannabis odors emanating from the vehicle, a narcotics investigation ensued. T.I. was still on probation for feder...
September 2, 2010 - No respect. From either side. Guns N' Roses opted to cut last night's set at O2 in Dublin to 20 minutes after being pelted by plastic bottles. This came after GN'R took forever to materialize (and on the heels of having their earlier Reading and Leeds sets cut short). As you'll see in this video, the fans are pretty pissed, the O2 spokespeople nerv...
September 2, 2010 - DOWNLOAD: People of the North - Tunnels (MP3) Oneida's Ocropolis @ ATP NY 2009 (more by Ryan Muir) Started by Kid Millions and Bobby Matador of Oneida, People of the North is an ongoing but sporadic outgrowth of that restlessly experimental Brooklyn assemblage. Since the first tour in early 2003, POTn has served as another language emanating from...
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September 2, 2010 - A co-headlining performance by David Gray & Ray Lamontagne was one for the ages... Ray LaMontagne - David Gray - Concert - Music - Religion and Spirituality...
September 2, 2010 - of Montreal featuring Solange “Sex Karma” Kevin Barnes is typically bipolar on his albums, shifting back and forth between declarations of love and lust and bitter, cruel condemnations. He's very good at expressing both extremes, but on the whole, I prefer the songs that convey genuine sweetness and desire if just because those are more scarce...
September 2, 2010 - A group of Radiohead fans used cheap Flip cameras to record the band's Aug 23, 2009 show in Prague. Radiohead approved of the DIY concert film, and even provided the filmmakers with the soundboard recordings of the set. Now the concert film, simply called Prague DVD, is available for free download (though the site keeps going down from the overload...
September 2, 2010 - Funstix (Jessi Darlin & Linwood Regensburg) 1/2 of Those Darlins have a side-project they call Funstix and Funstix make up 1/2 of the songs on the new Those Darlins 7", "Nightjogger" ("First new song from Those Darlins since their debut that previews their forthcoming sophomore release."). Order it now. It's in stores on 9/14... which is two days...
September 2, 2010 - Direct from the Excellent News Dept., The Flaming Lips are going to perform their quite awesome, 1999 album The Soft Bulletin in its entirety for the first time as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties ‘Don't Look Back' season. The Lips will perform the album on July 1, 2011 at London’s Alexandra Palace. They will be joined by Dinosaur Jr., set to...
September 2, 2010 - Merge Records is streaming the new Extra Lens album, Undercard (by John Darnielle and Franklin Bruno, out October 19th)). Neal Stephenson talks to the New York Times about his new digital book, the serialized The Mongoliad. Underwire shares a "A Syllabus and Book List for Novice Students of Science Fiction Literature." Exclaim interviews J...
September 2, 2010 - It’s hard to believe, but college football kicks off this weekend. Over the years, the worlds of country music and sports have paralleled each other several times. Here are six songs that will make you chant for the home team a little bit louder! “The Blind Man In The Bleachers” – Kenny Starr (1977) This still stands as one of the b...
September 2, 2010 - Shot by Mario Testino, Lady Gaga and Marc Jacobs grace the cover of the new issue of V Magazine, which is the "New York Issue." Also featured are Jake Shears, Mark Ronson and Debbie Harry. Click here to see more photos from the issue. Lady Gaga poses as the Statue of Liberty alongside designer Marc Jacobs for this cover, in which artist Dan Colen i...
September 2, 2010 - The Chicago Tribune is working on a new Sunday paper called Five Star full of long, thoughtful essays and articles, along with a literary section and no advertising. You have to pay extra to get it. Critics are saying what's in the new paper is what's supposed to be in the newspaper. Story here. Related Posts: No related posts…...
September 2, 2010 - Gilles Peterson has been a champion of new music for the past 10 years thanks to his BBC Radio 1 program, Worldwide, as well as being the head of several influential record labels, the latest being Brownswood Recordings. But the music isn’t just new, like…it’s not the new Justin Bieber or Katy Perry record. The music is hot nonetheless. ...
September 2, 2010 - When I posted Say God's “Hoofprints On The Ceiling Of My Mind” I reiterated my respect for Daniel Higgs, talked about the influence he had on me as a youngster (via Lungfish), and his excellent solo material (that crusty combo of long-neck banjo, jew’s harp, noise, organ drone, bird songs, art, alchemy, his personal Gospel/life philosophy), e...
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September 2, 2010 - I want to apologize to Brooklyn fuzzmakers Telenovelas for my earlier review of “One and Only” – the product of blog fatigue and a faulty sense of humor. We'll make this one more straightforward. The band's latest MP3, “Bloody Mary,” sounds like drinking a dozen of them: massively woozy shoegaze guitars stumble face-first into practice sp...
September 2, 2010 - Download: DDoff – The Labor Daze Mix Labor Day is around the corner, and while everybody on the East Coast seems to be bracing for this hurricane, my West Coast homie Ddoff is chillin' with this quick mixtape that ended up in my inbox. It's a dope, quick mix of tracks from Lauryn Hill, Q-Tip, Mike Posner, Big Boi, and more. Check it and follow @D...
September 2, 2010 - John Lee Hooker Jr. blasts out high-powered, recession-era blues. Blues - John Lee Hooker - Music - Art - Arts and Entertainment...
September 2, 2010 - by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Field Music - Measure (MP3) Field Music @ The Bell House in February (more by Benjamin Lozovsky) Sunderland, UK's Field Music are bringing their pastoral prog back to the States for a short Fall tour, including a September 23 stop at Littlefield. They were last here in February, just before the release of their third a...
September 2, 2010 - Wooha: Fo-real Pharrell is really doing his art thing lately. From the team that brought us Pharrell’s “The Ear” short video (see here), comes their next collaboration simply titled “The Greatness.” For this exhibit, Pharrell’s face was re-created onto a vase inspired by surrealist masks and Greek-style using 3D modeling software. The...
September 2, 2010 - NY Post: A woman who takes credit for helping launch Sean Combs’ career now wants to sue Diddy. Francesca Spero yesterday filed a $12 million Manhattan federal-court suit against the rap mogul, claiming she was illegally canned in March from her job as a senior vice president of his Bad Boy Entertainment. Spero, 51, accuses Combs of age dis...
September 2, 2010 - DOWNLOAD: Make It Better (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Knocks - Make It Better" (Stylus Dust Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Knocks - Make It Better (Monsieur Adi Remix) (MP3) The Knocks "I DJed a show with DJ B-Roc of The Knocks a few months back. Dude was on point and I was blown away. Unsurprisingly, the highlight of the set came when B-Roc dropped his group...
September 2, 2010 - photo by James Bailey “It's in the initials. We SPs need to stick together” — so says Sub Pop cofounder Jonathan Poneman on a newly announced and somewhat surprising signing. The Seattle label, whose roster is best known for early grunge acts and current indie-rock leaning bands, is joining up with Seattle hip-hop collaborative Shabazz Palac...
September 2, 2010 - All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967): volume 5: L'appareil respiratoire. Le systeme locomoteur. La peau. previously: vol. 1 Voyage Fantastique (with an explanation) vol. 2 (Embryos in Space) vol. 3 (The Minimum Lethal Dose) vol. 4 (Autopsy of a Pinball Wizard) Role du calcium, illus. Kallhenn L...
September 2, 2010 - Six-piece Family Of The Year have played around California for a bit, but they're about to release their European debut, the Summer Girl EP. The band does include real family members, brothers Joe and Sebastian Keefe, but the band do all live together. “Let's Be Honest” reflects their L.A. locale and their close quarters. It's fully of warm, br...
September 2, 2010 - Guns n Roses-less stage in Dublin - 9/1/2010 (mlennox) "The crowd are not amused as the band do not appear on stage until approx 10:25pm. No interaction or apology by Axl to the crowd who are booing etc.. Bottles are thrown on stage during the start of Welcome To The Jungle. Axl tells the crowd to stop throwing bottles at him or they'll leave. The...
September 2, 2010 - [Photo by: Jeff O'Kelley] Saturday night, the wife and I braved the torrential downpour and ventured out to the State Theatre to see Hank III and his traveling band. Due to some issues with openers in the past few months, Hank is currently (and for the unforeseeable future) touring without any opening acts, which would normally make me pretty ha...
September 2, 2010 - We know some of y'all are Futurebirds fans out there. The band has given fans a free EP, released their debut LP, and then graced us with a live session. In all the hubbub, this little gem was lost in the fray. Futurebirds' Thomas Johnson has a side project called The Interns and they have an album available for free download here. Sample the track...
September 2, 2010 - The Five One has been a band on the rise for a hot minute now, and they been on the move since playing SXSW this past March. If you don't know, the band combines pop rock, hip-hop, and everything in between into an intriguing, forward thinking blend of music. The track, titled “Mandatory,” has been played since their trip in Texas (where I ran...
September 2, 2010 - Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Blue Water White Death (Jonathan Meiburg & Jamie Stewart)\: "Song for the Greater Jihad" [mp3] from Blue Water White Death (out October 12th) other Blue Water White Death posts at Largehe...
September 2, 2010 - The homies at US Royalty have been in the studio (with another homie Alex Goose) prepping their new album, which is dropping soon. The dudes have been connected with clothing line GANT for a a while now, and they have become the face of their Fall Campaign. The Fall/Winter lookbook, titled Dear Hunter and The Preppiest Catch features lead singer Jo...
September 2, 2010 - One of last year's most underrated albums was The Duke & The King's Nothing Gold Can Stay. The band's second album, Long Live The Duke & The King, arrives later this month. You can watch/listen to the first single “Shaky” above. The band is giving away a download of the track here for the price of your e-mail address.
September 2, 2010 - It's time to get your weekend started early with Alex Metric's floor-banging remix of Maximum Balloon's jammin' "Groove Me" that features rhymes from stylish rap wordsmith Theophilius London. Maximum Balloon is a project of TV On The Radio's David Andrew Sitek who has been moonlighting as a producer over the years, and took the opportunity to p...
September 2, 2010 - Guardian: Radiohead have thrown their support behind a fan-made live DVD, providing the hi-fi soundtrack to Czech film-makers’ amateur shots. The British band provided audio masters to the makers of Prague DVD, a DIY concert film shot on 23 August 2009. While the project website has been overwhelmed by traffic, samples of the Prague film h...
September 2, 2010 - Tony Coulter once more every-here, with further LPs to present you: some for the sounds, and some for the covers. All but one of the sound-sampled discs were found recently here in Portland, OR; those present in cover only have mostly been around much longer, and -- excepting two -- found their way onto FMU's airwaves at some point. (Use...
September 2, 2010 - Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s featured selection, featured on The Afternoon Show with Kevin Cole, is “Quie...
September 2, 2010 - For The Benefit Of Evil mp3 Red Hot Rebellion Uh yeah, what the hell was yesterday about? It wasn't until around 10 p.m. that I realized it was only WEDNESDAY! But once I got my ears on this classic-sounding track I began to unwind a bit. See, sometimes it just takes a good guitar solo and some sass to get that WTF out of your system. Red Hot Rebe...
September 2, 2010 - How can you not dig that sticky, sweet organ riff? Black Mountain brought some heavy riffing to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, performing “Old Fangs” in anticipation of Wilderness Heart‘s release in a couple weeks. Apparently, there's review copies out there to be had be I haven't had the pleasure of hearing the whole disc yet....
September 2, 2010 - 1. Sometimes, at the top of this site, it says “you don't co-op pop culture, pop culture co-ops you. A good musician friend of mine named Adam Balbo likes to say that Michael Jackson lyrics and Heman toys are the shared cultural mythology we have to draw from. I'm not here to pick sides. 2. Back in April I was in London visiting an ex-sort-of...
September 2, 2010 - CBCHere we are – another September 2, another blogiversary and another year in the books of doing… whatever this is. I have to tell you, there's a great temptation on my end to use this occasion to get into some existential angst about where this site has been, where it might go and what on earth I'm going to do when it all inevitably ends (I'...
September 2, 2010 - Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 30 August 2010 [Martin Donnelly of The Savings And Loan reviews one of the flagship events from this year's Edge Festival] “Listen,” she says, “have you gone to any concerts lately?” “No,” I say, wishing she hadn't brought this, of all topics, up. “I don't like live music.” “Live music?” she asks, intr...
September 2, 2010 - Fact Magazine: Chicago house legends Virgo, whose self-titled album (Radical Records, 1989; reissued via Rush Hour this year) is considered by many to be the greatest house record ever made, will play a select three live dates this year. Sandwiched between dates in Glasgow (Oct 1) and Berlin’s Berghain (Oct 3) is a headline performance on the...
September 2, 2010 - Drowned in Sound: As you know, Guns N Roses played a show in Dublin last night. Only they didn’t. They were meant to, anyway. Watch what happens below when they eventually do get on stage….The description on YouTube does shed a little light. As has been the way for a long time and possibly forever, the band took an eternity to materia...
