Available in iTunes: Issue #3 Discosalt Magazine
The Black Key’s first new single “Lonely Boy” off the forthcoming album El Camino is out today. The album co-produced by the Black Keys and Danger Mouse, officially hits stores Dec. 6th but on November 25th, as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday series, it will be released on 12″ viny. As a bonus, if you pre-order the album today to get an instant download of Lonely Boy. Preview the track through the band’s new viral video . Pretty sure this guy stole my dance.
Since Tyondai Braxton left the experimental rock outfit Battles to work on his solo projects, the remaining trio of Ian Williams, Dave Konopka, and drummer John Stanier, are back with a new poppy summertime video for “Ice Cream” off their upcoming album Gloss Drop, dropping June 7 via Warp. The video directed and produced by CANADA is heavy on nude bathing women eating ice cream, women licking roller skates, pinecones, door handles and a schmorgesborg of beach karate.
Moon Duo, the soulfully noisy psychedelic space-rock side-project from Wooden Shjips guitarist Erik Johnson and keyboardist Sanae Yamad, have a new single and a new video for “Mazes”. Like so many other great artists from Bowie to Liars, the duo transplaned their recording process to Berlin for this album. But, while you might expect a more darker sound, “Mazes” surprisingly moves the band towards a more accessible pop-driven sound, which works in their favor. Watch the video for “Mazes” directed by band-mate Sanae Yamada right here:
One of our favorite new bands, Yuck has a new video for the crunchy distorted “Get Away”, directed by “Michael”. With obvious nods to Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Pavement and My Bloody Valentine, Yuck takes different elements of shoegaze, noise pop, punk and dream pop to form their garage rock aesthetic and undeniably one of the best albums to be released this year. Follow the band on the road, as they pick up a nymph-like naked female hitchhiker with some serious fat in the can…crisco that is, or maybe olive oil ( hopefully). Things get weird, and greasy.
Director Patrick Daughters (Feist‘s “1234″) has a new video for LA noise-punk duo No Age for their single “Fever Dreaming” off last year’s Everything In Between. As the band chills out in a warehouse, the room begins to close in on them.
We are excited to share the first official music video from Small Black’s new album New Chain. While filming the above video for “Photojournalist,” Small Black and director Yoonha Park, played with the idea of photo vs. memory. The band and director spent a full day shooting with one actress and followed up a few weeks later with a different actress, attempting to recreate the exact same shoot from memory without referring to the older footage. The band is on tour with Sun Airways, Cults, Toro Y and hitting South by Southwest this year. Check out the video and tour dates below:
TOUR DATES:
02/08 Morgantown, WV- 123 Pleasant Street
02/25 Brooklyn, NY- Knitting Factory w/ Sun Airway, Arches
02/26 Haverford, PA- Haverford College- Lunt Basement w/ Liam the Younger
03/10 Chapel Hill, NC- Local 506 w/ Cults, Sun Airway
03/11 Atlanta, GA- Drunken Unicorn w/ Cults, Sun Airway
03/12 Birmingham, AL- Bottletree w/ Cults, Sun Airway
03/13 New Orleans, LA- The Saturn Bar w/ Cults, Toro Y Moi, Sun Airway, Cloud Nothings
03/14 Baton Rouge, LA- Spanish Moon w/ Cults, Sun Airway
03/15 Houston, TX- Fitzgerald’s w/ Cults, Sun Airway
03/16 Austin, TX- South By Southwest
03/17 Austin, TX- South By Southwest
03/18 Austin, TX- South By Southwest
03/19 Austin, TX- South By Southwest
Last year,the Brooklyn electro crash pop outfit Sleigh Bell’s topped some of our top 2010 albums of the year with Treats. Now the buzz-worthy band has a stylish new noirish road trip video for “Rill Rill” from director John Watts. Watch as Alexis Krauss tosses bandmate Derek Miller from a moving car, then heads back to highschool to pose for some strange yearbook photos. Grab some freebies, then check out the hype after the jump.
MP3 Download: Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill (mp3)
MP3 Download: Sleigh Bells – “Ring Ring” (Demo)
Aussie psych-rockers Tame Impala rock out in the new Clemens Habicht’s video for ”Expectation”. The track is off this year’s Innerspeaker, which is easily one of the best albums of 2010. After their last video for “Lucid”, the band not only continues to explore their psychedelic sound, but some tricked out camera devices, using a fish-eye panoramic effect that keeps the camera spinning around the band for the duration of the video. Check it out below:
Discosalt Video of the Week 10/25/10: Remember Sammy Jankis. Don’t let A Classic Education’s video for ”I Lost Time” pass you by. The song about growing up, being alone and feeling like you have lost time was inspired by the life of Clive Wearing; a British musicologist who suffered from “Memento Syndrome”. A condition of both acute and long-lasting amnesia which rendered Wearing unable to make new memories, spending every day ‘waking up’ every 20 seconds. In the video, director Enrico Boccioletti, plays with the idea of losing time, hashing together a collage of old images and bleeding effects that play out like a faded memory. Now… where was I? hmm, I don’t feel drunk.
Discosalt Video of The Week 10/17/10: Director Ricardo Rivera of KLIP Collective brings us a new video treatment for Sun Airway’s single “Put the Days Away” from the forthcoming album, Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier. Night has fallen upon Philadelphia, and our heroine is making her way through the streets on her bicycle. Something is wrong, and the sight of happy couples are certainly not helping. She arrives home, soaked from the rain and begins to put the day away. Her unconscious mind becomes animated for us, a gorgeous combination of visual projections previously seen for Sun Airway’s “Oh, Naoko,” “Infinity,” and “Waiting On You.”
The Windish Agency Showcase
Rookwood Music Hall
Apache Beat
Sun Airway – 9PM
Crayon Fields
First Aid Kit
Lower Dens
Yours Truly | Pillow Talk/Pillow Fight Party
Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn NY
James Vincent McMorrow
Grillade
Guards
Oberhofer
Young Man
Candy Claws
Laurel Halo
Kisses
Cults
Sun Airway – 1AM
Saturday, October 23rd
Twosyllable presents: family and friends
Cameo Gallery (behind The Lovin Cup)
93 N. 6th – Brooklyn
PS I Love You
Sun Airway – 2PM
Candy Claws
Pepper Rabbit
Oberhofer
David Vandervelde
Keepaway
Discosalt Video Of The Week 10/10/10: “Hey Cool Kid” , the debut single from Wichita Recordings newest snot nosed lo-fi pop signings Cloud Nothings, is out 18th October on 7″ and download. The video premise is simple: Nerd creates basketball monster capable of insane zone defense. Monster drops a leg. Scoreboard Melts. Fire. Confetti. It’s a nerd rewrite of Highschool where the nerd gets the attention of the cool kids, defeats the jock and throws his own ticker tape party to celebrate. Check out the video below:
