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NEW VIDEO FROM DAS RACIST: WHO’S THAT? BROOOWN!

joe — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:52:57 +0000

Bro-fi rap duo Das Racist have a new video/nyc social commentary directed by Thomas De Napoli in the form of an 8-bit nintendo style animation for their sinlge “Who’s That? Brooown!”. Typical day for the guys is just like yours, only more so. Dodge golf balls and beer bottles in Murray Hill, Kill Hipsters, Buy “Jamerican” Apparel clothes, avoid getting married, frogger the east river, shoplift irony beer at Brooklyn Bodega and make it to the show. Only thing missing is the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Check out the bands official website for the Das Racist game too and get rewarded.
Play the game at http://dasracist.net/whosthatbrown.html

Top 10 scorers will be rewarded

RADIOHEAD FAN’S DIY PRAGUE CONCERT FILM: FREE DOWNLOAD

joe — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:18:10 +0000

Radiohead fans have put together a real DIY concert film of the band performing in Prague on August 23, 2009 using only camera phones. The band approved the film and even provided the filmmakers with the soundboard recordings of the set. Now you can check out the Prague DVD for free in it’s entirety here.

Watch some segments of the set below:

BAND OF HORSES: LIVE IN LONDON

joe — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:45:10 +0000

(photo courtesy: http://www.thelineofbestfit.com )

Band of Horses performing live at Bush Hall in London, England on August 26, 2010.

THE BOOKS EXPAND NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

joe — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:31:40 +0000

Following the summer success of The Way Out (on Temporary Residence), The Books expand their upcoming fall North American tour to include stops along the Midwest and East Coast. In addition to the excellent reception of their new record, The Books have also developed a reputation for their engaging live shows, which mix audio and visual components to appropriately reveal each song’s complete environment.

Joining the Books on this tour will be the legendary, The Black Heart Procession who tour in support of their upcoming Blood Bunny/ Black Rabbit EP, as well as their long awaited sixth album Six, released just last year. Known for their highly personal and emotive live shows, The Black Heart Procession will undoubtedly provide ample footing for The Books’ all encompassing sets.

“Arguably one of the most original contemporary musical groups,” – FILTER MAGAZINE

THE BOOKS FALL TOUR

9/4       Monticello, NY      ATP Festival (Kutsher’s Country Club)
9/23 Durham, NH        University of New Hamsphire
9/29     Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero
9/30     Washington, DC 9:30 Club
10/1     Durham, NC        Shaefer Theater (early)
10/1 Durham, NC         Shaefer Theater
10/2     Charlotte, NC      Visulite Theater
10/3     Atlanta, GA           Variety Playhouse
10/4     Knoxville, TN        Square Room
10/5     Charlotesville, VA Jefferson Theatre
10/6     Baltimore, MD     Rams Head Live
10/21 Somerville, MA      Somerville Theatre
10/22 Northampton MA Pearl Street Nightclub
10/23 Montreal, PQ         Cabaret Mile End
10/24 Ottawa, ON           Capital Music Hall
10/25 Toronto, ON           The Mod Club
10/26   Pontiac, MI        The Crofoot Ballroom
10/27   Grand Rapids, MI   Ladies Literary Club
10/29   Chicago, Il              Vic Theatre
10/30   Minneapolis, MN    Cedar Culture Center
10/31   Grinnell, IA            Herrick Chapel
11/02   St Louis, MO         The Old Rock House
11/03   Newport, KY          Southgate House
11/13   New York, NY         Zankel at Carnegie Hall
11/29   Los Angeles, CA     Music Box at The Henry Fonda Theater
11/30   San Francisco, CA Palace of Fine Arts
12/3     Portland, OR          Aladdin Theater
12/5     Vancouver, BC       Vogue Theater

Tickets for all shows available at:

www.thebooksmusic.com/news/

BLACK MOUNTAIN: LIVE ON LATE NIGHT

joe — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:15:00 +0000

Last night our Canadian heroes, Black Mountain, shook the stage of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, playing the first single off of their upcoming album, Wilderness Heart. Wilderness Heart will be released by Jagjaguwar on September 14th in North America (13th in UK). Pre-orders will still receive a poster of the Wilderness Heart artwork as well as a digital instant gratification download of the entire album. Click here to pre-order!

Download “The Hair Song” at Jagjaguwar
Download “Old Fangs” at Jagjaguwar

Black Mountain is headed to Europe and will then join The Black Angels

on “The Dropout Boogie” tour this fall:

09/03/10 Stradbally, County Laois, Ireland – The Electric Picnic Festival (electric arena)

09/04/10 Oxford, UK – Academy 2 w/ Wolf People
09/05/10 Birmingham, UK – Hare and Hounds w/ Wolf People
09/08/10 Brighton, UK – Concorde 2 w/ Wolf People
09/09/10 Tourcoing, France – RADAR at Le Grand Mix
09/10/10 Isle of Wight, UK – Bestival
09/11/10 Dorset, UK – End of the Road Festival
09/12/10 Leeds, UK – TJs Woodhouse Club w/ Wolf People
09/14/10 Glasgow, UK – Oran Mor w/ Wolf People
09/15/10 Manchester, UK – Academy 3 w/ Wolf People
09/16/10 Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms w/ Wolf People
09/17/10 Tilburg, Netherlands – Incubate Festival
09/18/10 Groningen, Netherlands – Take Root
09/20/10 Koln, Germany – Gebaeude 9 w/ An Emerald City
09/21/10 Hamburg, Germany – Grünspan w/ An Emerald City
09/22/10 Denmark, Copenhagen – Loppen w/ An Emerald City
09/23/10 Gotenburg, SE – Pustervik w/ Citay
09/24/10 Oslo, Norway – John Dee w/ Morudes
09/27/10 Berlin, Germany – Festsaal Kreuzberg w/ The Morlocks
09/28/10 Munich, Germany – 59:1 w/ The Morlocks
09/29/10 Milan, Italy – Salumeria della Musica w/ The Night Terrors
09/30/10 Ravenna, Italy – Bronson w/ The Night Terrors
10/01/10 Rome, Italy – Circolo degli Artisti w/ The Night Terrors
10/03/10 Lausanne, Switzerland – Le Romandie w/ Tweak Bird
10/04/10 France, Paris – La Maroquinerie w/ Tweak Bird
10/05/10 Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique w/ Tweak Bird
10/06/10 Amsterdam, Holland – Paradiso w/ Tweak Bird
10/07/10 London, UK – Shepherds Bush Empire w/ The Black Angels

10/28/10 Chicago, IL – Metro w/ The Black Angels
10/30/10 Buffalo, NY – Tralf Music Hall w/ The Black Angels
10/31/10 Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre w/ The Black Angels
11/01/10 Montreal, QC – La Tulipe w/ The Black Angels
11/02/10 Boston, MA – Paradise w/ The Black Angels
11/03/10 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom w/ The Black Angels
11/06/10 Philadelpia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts w/ The Black Angels
11/07/10 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club w/ The Black Angels
11/09/10 Louisville, KY – Headliners w/ The Black Angels
11/10/10 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle w/ The Black Angels
11/11/10 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge w/ The Black Angels
11/12/10 Atlanta, GA – The Earl w/ The Black Angels
11/13/10 Orlando, FL – The Social w/ The Black Angels
11/15/10 Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree w/ The Black Angels
11/16/10 New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s w/ The Black Angels
11/17/10 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live w/ The Black Angels
11/19/10 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa w/ The Black Angels
11/20/10 Dallas, TX – Kessler Theatre w/ The Black Angels
11/24/10 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre w/ The Black Angels
11/26/10 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore w/ The Black Angels
11/28/10 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom w/ The Black Angels
11/29/10 Seattle, WA – The Showbox w/ The Black Angels
11/30/10 Vancouver, BC – The Commodore Ballroom w/ The Black Angels

FREE MP3: THE WAR ON DRUGS: COMIN’ THROUGH

joe — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:14:02 +0000

The War On Drugs debut release Wagonwheel Blues landed in our laps like a shimmering plate of all that is good in the world of American rock ‘n’ roll. We weren’t the only ones either as the album provoked words like “stunning,” “inspiring,” and “sublime” from Rolling Stone, Fader, Spin and more. Looking again at that space between the horizons, The War On Drugs makes another forecast, October 26 they bring you Future Weather. This album finds The War On Drugs once again at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then — with each song — they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what’s absolutely necessary and dig into what sounds like the best kind of fucked up. As on their debut, Wagonwheel Blues, they take small moments occurring over multiple tapes and multiple song versions, and put every last drop of trust in their own instinct of momentum.

Future Weather is a provocative — sometimes playful, sometimes weighty — glimpse into The War On Drugs’ song-sculpting process, a process that remains a big mystery even to those on the inside. While some bands are content to merely pace the abyss, The War On Drugs coast through it. And along the way, Future Weather sidesteps most every connotation associated with the EP format. There’s a true coalescence and symmetry here, one of wash and drone, of momentum and tone, but also of theme. Friendship, loyalty and keeping a group of spiritual brothers together are all themes that songwriter Adam Granduciel focuses in on for Future Weather. “Wondering where my friends are going / Wondering why they didn’t take me / Looking out the window of my room / Looking out where something once ran wild,” he sings on “Brothers” with a sense of soured peace, leaving out all the right things, leaving room in there for the shared experiences of your own friends. There are cues taken from our best American songwriters, yet The War On Drugs are wise enough to also implode or send themselves into outer space when the moment calls for it. The driving organ riff that pushes “Baby Missiles” may be inspired by a fever dream of Springsteen or Dire Straits more than any particular jam. And the endless layers of guitar melody and atmospherics of “Comin’ Through,” rather than add weight to the vessel, only work to fill its sails with warmer and warmer winds. Future Weather will be available in stores October 26 (TBD in the UK). In the meantime, check out the first single “Comin’ Through” below. You can also catch The War On Drugs on tour this fall at select dates in the Eastern U.S. including an appearance at Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina September 9.

Download a track below:

MP3: The War On Drugs “Comin’ Through”

TOUR DATES:

08/30/10 Brooklyn, NY- The Knitting Factory w/ Black Mountain

08/31/10 Brooklyn, NY- The Rock Shop w/ Light Pollution and Xylos

09/07/10 Charlottesville, VA- Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar

09/08/10 Charlotte, VA- The Milestone

09/09/10 Raleigh, NC- Hopscotch Festival w/ Public Enemy, Panda Bear, Bowerbirds

09/14/10 Asheville, NC- Grey Eagle

FREE MP3: COMMON GRACKLE: THE GREAT DEPRESSION

joe — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:07:56 +0000

Welcome to the world of Common Grackle, the collaboration of two Canadian musical wiz kids – indie pop songwriter and mad-cap illustrator, Gregory Pepper and Saskatoon psych hip hop producer Factor. The Great Depression is what happens when Factor’s recognizable banging drums get enveloped in Gregory Pepper’s lush harmonies, hilariously cynical lyrics, and gorgeous instrumentation. The Great Depression blurs all sorts of lines and tears down all sorts of genre definitions and definitely requires your time. Think the somber confessionals of Elliott Smith, re-worked by Dangermouse!!

Check out the first single off The Great Depression, “The Great Depression” ft. Ceschi Ramos right here. Just click below, right click and save as to download:

LISTEN

And for the hip-hop heads out there, check out this banger ft. the Spankmaster, Kool Keith “Thank God It’s Monday” ft. Kool Keith below:

LISTEN

THE MIGHTY BOOSH, MOPEDS, ROADTRIPS AND WAYNE COYNE: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM ELIZABETH WEINBERG

joe — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:24:48 +0000

This post comes from our friends on the West Coast at Sick Of The Radio:

“Elizabeth Weinberg lives in Brooklyn, New York, with two cats, a bicycle, and a moped. Her work spans many themes including portraits, and fashion and documentary photography. Elizabeth has also done commercial work for Nylon+Casio, and Sony. She is also working on 3 different projects entitled Abigail, Of Recklessness and Water, and Rattland, check out her website here for more info.”

Check out some more of our favorites below:

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NEW VIDEO FROM DEAD MANS BONES: PA PA POWER

joe — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:12:14 +0000

Is there anything more frustrating than when an actor turns out to be a good musician too? Dead Man’s Bones is just one more reason to hate or secretly become facebook fans of Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson, The Notebook). Formed between “the Gos” and his buddy Zach Shields, Dead Man Bones released an unexpectedly solid debut album last year, A Never Let a Lack of Talent Get You Down on their own label, Werewolf Heart. The band collaborated with the Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir in an elderly residents home to create their new, touching, self-made and not so surprisingly very cinematic video for ” Pa Pa Power”. This is like a really solid short film filled with melancholy sweetness touching on darker elements that all gets reconciled into an upbeat dance party and new gospel choir version of “Pa Pa Power”. Watch the full 13 minute video below:

NEW VIDEO FROM KISSES: PEOPLE CAN DO THE MOST AMAZING THINGS

joe — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:28:57 +0000

Discosalt Video of The Week 30/8/10: Nothing is sweeter than rising late night Cali duo, Kisses. Watch as the band and a geriatric health nut collide in their new video for ” People can do the most amazing things” directed by Julia Bembenek.