I thought this was very well done and captured who Sierra and Bianca really are as people and musicians so I’m sharing it with you. Their music may be otherworldly and a bit eery at times but it truly is artistic and original and worth checking out. Yeah, they are weird but they are also witty, talented, beautiful and pushing the limits. Chalk it up to their strange childhood and life experiences. We should all be so willing to explore outside the box.
CocoRosie
Karen Elson and Jack White talk about her new album
June 25, 2010
Robin Pecknold, singer and songwriter for Seattle’s Fleet Foxes, will head out on the road beginning July 29 in San Diego, reprising his recent role as solo support for Joanna Newsom, who’s currently touring behind her latest release, Have One on Me (Drag City). The pairing follows up a recent run of Midwest dates that the two played together this past spring. Before and between tours, the FF frontman has been holed up in the studio with the band, making much progress on their second full length.
July 29 2010 San Diego CA @ San Diego Women’s Club
July 30 2010 Santa Barbara CA @ Lobero Theatre
July 31 2010 Los Angeles CA @ Orpheum Theatre
Aug 02 2010 Oakland CA @ Fox Theatre
Aug 04 2010 Seattle WA @ Moore Theatre
Aug 05 2010 Vancouver BC @ Vogue Theatre
Aug 06 2010 Portland OR @ Aladdin Theatre
Aug 07 2010 Portland OR @ Aladdin Theatre
Carissa’s Weird FREE MP3 “Die”
June 16, 2010
CARISSA’S WEIRD Die
From their new album They’ll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003
The Vaselines will release their second record, Sex With An X (CD/LP), on September 14th, 2010. This is the band’s first album in 20 years and will coincide with a 10-stop tour through the UK ending in their hometown of Glasgow, Scotland.
For your listening pleasure, the band is offering a free download of “I Hate The 80’s”, the debut single off the new record athttp://www.thevaselines.co.uk. Now you can find out for yourself why this band has long been celebrated by musicians and music enthusiasts across genres and across the globe, including super-fan Kurt Cobain.
New Remix of Spanish Sahara by Deadboy
Today, June 15th, marks the CD/LP release from UK quintet, Foals. For all of you vinyl enthusiasts Total Life Forever is a double gatefold LP, pressed on colored vinyl, (one white and one blue) which is exclusive to the US pressing of this release. That’s right; Sub Pop USA is the only territory to release this on double vinyl.
Foals are confirmed to play Austin City Limits Festival on Oct 10.
Check out this video on the making of Foals latest album Total Life Forever
Johnathan Tyler and the Northern Lights at Bonnaroo
June 13, 2010
From the awesome photo album of Carrie. Check out her Tumblr for a complete review of Bonnaroo and more awesome pics.
Guitar Go Get Her
Blitzen Trapper: New album release.
June 1, 2010
Blitzen Trapper: New album release and a visit to The Trocadero.
Listen to the Full Album Here!
Music Monday: The Drums
May 31, 2010
Eddie Vedder and Band of Horses: Live Performance
May 25, 2010
Check out Footage from SPIN of Ben Bridwell and Eddie Vedder
Moondoggies Free Download
May 24, 2010
The band is heading out on a national tour with scattershot retro-rockers Blitzen Trapper in June . What you may or may not know is that they will have in tow a tour EP consisting of five brand new tunes. You’ll Find No Answers Here, and it is the first new Moondoggies material recorded and released since their 2008 debut Don’t be a Stranger. The EP will also be available in June via the Hardly Art website (preorder is up here), iTunes, and in select stores. The tracklist is as follows, and closer “Fly Mama Fly” is now available as a free download here: (http://www.hardlyart.com/mp3/MD_FlyMamaFly.mp3).
New Music: CocoRosie
May 23, 2010
CocoRosie Grey Oceans
This dynamic psych-tastic sister duo are in the midst of wrapping up their month long European tour, and will be kicking off their 17 date US stint on June 8th, in Washington, DC. Be sure to keep an eye out for CocoRosie’s full length video to appear online in late May. You won’t be disappointed.
“Lemonade is a five-minute song that starts with a twinkly piano opening and adds strings, woodwinds, electronic percussion and interlocking vocals.”- Pitchfork (Download “Lemonade” )
“…this collection of hauntingly somber songs feels more fully realized than CocoRosies’ previous lo-fi offerings.” – Nylon
“…blend of scratchy gospel melodies overlaid with yelps and whirrs.” – Elle
Male Bonding
May 19, 2010
Male Bonding Nothing Hurts
Emerging from the fertile D.I.Y. rock scene in Dalston, a gentrification-proof London neighborhood with ample “lo-fi” bands and Turkish restaurants, noise-pop trio Male Bonding plays fast. Nothing Hurts, the band’s first full-length, gets it done in half an hour, and most songs clock in at around two minutes. But, there’s much more to Male Bonding than high-speed, high-impact punk. If you will know their velocity, you will remember their melodies. Every song on Nothing Hurts, whether a clipped, snarling rock anthem (“All Things This Way,” “Crooked Scene,” “Pumpkin”) or something more foggy and contemplative (“Franklin,” “Worse to Come”), carries a hook that’s immediate and permanent. Nothing Hurts was recorded in the fall of 2009 in New York and mixed and mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound.
After a triumphant return home to the UK, from their US tour with the Vivian Girls & The Soft Pack the band are gearing up to begin a pretty lengthy UK tour.
Interview with Dirty Laundry TV.
Band of the Week on Spinner.com
Free MP3 of Franklin, via Stereogum
Free MP3 of Years Not Long via Pitchfork
“Webb’s upper-register vocals have yearning nailed down, and the feeling is cemented by lyrics…”-Pitchfork
“…people of the world will finally know of Male Bonding’s gritty awesomeness.” – Fader
“…Male Bonding, gets friendly with choppy, high-velocity noise pop.” –Village Voice
Foals: New album release, Total Life Forever
May 12, 2010
Foals Total Life Forever
Following the release of their 2008 debut, Antidotes, comes a brand new record from Oxford, UK quintet. Written primarily in the basement of their Oxford HQ (“The House of Supreme Mathematics”) and recorded in Gothenburg with former Clor man Luke Smith, Total Life Forever finds Foals singing rather than shouting, emotional as well as functional.
Keep an ear out! Beginning soon, you can hear the bands new song, “Spanish Sahara” in the promo campaign for Season 8 of Entourage.
Here are some useful links to various videos, photos and social networking sites for the band.
Official video for This Orient
The Making of This Orient
Foals You Tube Channel
Foals official website
Foals on Facebook
Foals on MySpace
Foals on Twitter
The making of “Total Life Forever”
NME cover featuring Yannis
The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards
May 6, 2010
Listen to the entire album here.
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Free Interpol Download
May 6, 2010
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Mustang Meets Band of Skulls
May 4, 2010
What do you think?
Music Monday: The National
May 3, 2010
Straight out of Brooklyn, The National rocks.
Check out their Playlist here
And look for their new album High Violet out May 11.
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