SUCKERS: BLACK SHEEP
Brooklyn based synth and percussion quartet, Suckers sound like a mix between Yeasayer and Modest Mouse. Think experimental pop with lots of background harmonies, primal beats and hand claps. Their self-titled EP was actually produced by Yeasayer’s Anand Wilder, and they have a new video out for their single “Black Sheep” that you can check out below. Last week, the band played a sold out show with MGMT at Prospect Park, and you catch them all month long at their Pianos residency on the lower east side.
Suckers Summer Tour Dates:
Jul 9 – Piano’s [RESIDENCY] Manhattan, New York
Jul 16 – Piano’s [RESIDENCY] Manhattan, New York
Jul 23 – Piano’s [RESIDENCY] Manhattan, New York
Jul 30 – Piano’s [RESIDENCY] Manhattan, New York
CRYSTAL CASTLES: CELESTICA
Discosalt Video of the week 7/4/10: Crystal Castles get gothy in their latest video for the single “Celestica”. The self-titled sophomore effort, directed by Crystal Castle’s Ethan Kath and Rob Hawkins, combines a haunting melody with Alice Glass wandering around like a sexy indie goth queen while kids from thee London College of music play instruments in London’s Abney Park Cemetary. Meanwhile, Ethan Kath gets dirty.
FREE MP3: JUKEBOX THE GHOST: EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN
Sophomore releases. They used to be a daunting obstacle for a band to overcome. Living up to the first impressions you left on your listeners ears and catching up with all the music that came out during the time that you “took off.” That is unless you are Philadelphia’s Jukebox the Ghost. Armed with their new record Everything Under the Sun produced by Peter Katis (Interpol, The National, Fanfarlo) and set for release on September 7th via Yep Roc the band combines their adept skills as individual musicians, tirelessly energetic live sets and pulsating catchy lyrics. The record’s debut track, “Empire” is best described by vocalist/keyboardist Ben Thornwell as: “ …an extended metaphor of the heart as a castle, A keep is defined as ‘The Stronghold of a Castle’ thus, ‘My heart, is my keep and you are threatening me.’ And the truth is that an empire, as is love, is hard to keep peaceful.“
Since their 2008 debut, Let Live and Let Ghosts, which SPIN called, “a refreshing reminder that the lighthearted electricity of a fantastic pop song is still filled with live wires,” the band has kept themselves busy. After playing over 300 shows with the likes of Ben Folds, Adam Green and Ra Ra Riot the band, which is made up of vocalist/pianist Ben Thornewill, vocalist/guitarist Tommy Siegel and drummer Jesse Kristin spent countless hours constructing and arranging songs until they reached their full potential. Whether they were touring, rehearsing in basements, houses, hotel rooms or hanging out in the studio the creative process never stopped, making Everything Under the Sun a record that not only showcases this band’s songwriting prowess but also their infectious energy.
Jukebox the Ghost: Empire MP3 HERE
July 11–Forecastle Festival–Louisville, KY
July 13–92nd Y Tribeca–New York, NY
July 24—FLO Fest–Leesburg, VA
August 6–Lollapalooza–Chicago, IL
THE STATIC JACKS: DEFEND ROSIE
Fresh off a string of dates with The Futureheads and We Were Promised Jetpacks, New Jersey’s The Static Jacks return home for a show at Piano’s this Wednesday, June 30th! If you haven’t already seen these guys performing for free in Union Square, you can watch a preview of the band’s trailer for “Defend Rosie” below. The band “blends Interpol’s tense guitar work and driven drum beats with a more “alt-rock” approach mostly traceable in their preference for epic, open melodies.” (The Deli) The Static Jacks are a rare and refreshing act of twenty-somethings with a solid reputation for writing entrancing songs that disregard the latest trends and defy simple labeling. Featuring stomp-clap beats, mesmerizing layers of guitar rhythm and deep sandpaper vocals, The Static Jacks cast off the computer-based trends of modern music makers. Their stripped-down sound resonates influences ranging from 1980s punk to current indie pop music.
RED WIRE BLACK WIRE: ROBOTS AND ROSES
Few bands let you go behind the scenes and see glimpses of their personal lives, especially their lives before the age of at least 17 or so…The beginning images of this intimate and unique video, the latest from Brooklyn-based Red Wire Black Wire features images from the childhood of lead singer Doug Walters and his brother and bandmate Greg. The video for “Roses and Robots” is composed of footage spliced with pieces of the band playing live. Doug explains the inspiration for “Roses and Robots” lyrics for us, “It’s a song describing a dream – so the found footage, old family footage, and current footage of the band evokes the surreal nostalgia of dreaming.“
Come see Red Wire Black Wire this Sunday! This weekend Northside Festival takes over the streets of Brooklyn with music pouring out of each bar, venue and taco stand you can find. Make sure to make time to go see Red Wire Black Wire on Sunday night at the Charleston at 10:30 PM Sharp.
Red Wire Black Wire Tour Dates
July 6–Mercury Lounge–New York, NY
August 1–Union Pool–Brooklyn, New York
COVER THE APPLES IN STEREO AND WIN AN ORB AUDIO SPEAKER SYSTEM, LIMITED EDITION VINYL
What? You love The Apples in stereo and you’d like a chance to win a home theater speaker system from Orb Audio? You’re in luck…Head over to the band’s Facebook page for details. Basically, it goes like this…
1) post your video cover of any song on The Apples in stereo’s new album Travellers in Space and Time on The Apples’ Facebook wall
2) get your friends to “Like” it so much that you win this:
ou can send a typed-out note or an audio/video file…and you’re automatically entered to win a limited edition vinyl copy of Future Vintage: Covers of The Apples in stereo featuring Ted Leo, Bad Veins Throw Me the Statue & more. Just click HERE or follow the countdown ticker below (ahem…you can also embed that baby on your site if you want to help spread the word.)
Hint: to send your Umail for free, use the code word “travellers”
Which Song should you choose?
Well you can start by downloading the trip-poppy, cowbell-licious track
or the retro-futuristic “Dance Floor” HERE.
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP: SOUNDTRACK
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Exit Through the Gift Shop: Various Artists
Label: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Release Date: Unknown
Exit Through the Gift Shop, “the World’s first street art disaster movie” from Banksy and Mr. Brainwash, has a pretty awesome soundtrack worth checking out. The original score was written by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow with additional music penned by Roni Size. While it’s not available for purchase yet, Discosalt compiled a list of all the music featured in the film for you below: And just in case, you haven’t seen the film yet, watch it right HERE for free.
“Tonight The Streets Are Ours” – Richard Hawley
“Kronkite”- The Creators
“Staying In” – DISKJOKKE
DANGERMOUSE, SPARKLEHORSE AND DAVID LYNCH: DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
Dark Night of the Soul, the treatise written by Spanish poet and Roman Catholic Mystic Saint John of the Cross has become an expression used to describe a phase in a person’s spiritual life, a metaphor for a certain loneliness and desolation. The other “Dark Night of the Soul”, the mysterious multi-media project/album involving Danger Mouse , Mark Linkous , and David Lynch has proven just as cryptic. While the unreleased album featuring Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, the Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop, Frank Black, Julian Casablancas, Jason Lytle, and James Mercer of the Shins, remains on “indefinite hiatus” after a dispute with the record label EMI, the book is available for sale on new interactive website for Dark Night of the Soul along with a blank CD. Its a shame because it’s a great album that everyone should hear. Luckily, it has made its way onto the webs, youtube and some select record shops in New York if you can find it. Check out some videos from tracks on the album below and stream the entire album HERE.
Revenge (feat. Wayne Coyne)
Just War (feat. Gruff Rhys)
THE FLAMING LIPS: THE SPARROW LOOKS UP AT THE MACHINE
The Flaming lips continue to make bizarre videos that stick with you long after you click pause. if its not Lips front man Wayne Coyne baring his balls while traversing inside a man-sized plastic bubble over throngs of naked nymph-like cyclists into a giant furry vagina, then it’s a taped-up, blindfolded women in her skivies using her blood to create finger (and toe) paint art while the monkey watches. And just when things get weird enough to make you feel increasingly uncomfortable watching this clip at work, the giant furry vagina ball shows up for a cameo to buy some art. Don’t ask us, we have no idea. Maybe a commentary on the oil industry?
The Lips are certainly a tough act to categorize, they have always pushed the boundaries on weirdness with bizarre song and album titles like “Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles” and “Yeah, I Know It’s a Drag… But Wastin’ Pigs Is Still Radical” and are known for their eccentric live shows which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, giant heads, Coyne in his plastic bubble and yes, the giant stage vagina… so their latest album Embryonic, and this new video seems a snug fit.
FREE MP3: TAME IMPALA: WHY DON’T YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND
Discosalt Video of the Week 20/6/10: Aussie buzz band Tame Impala have released a new stoner friendly video for “Why don’t you make up your mind” off Innerspeaker, out this month. Taking a slightly different visual cue from the cinematic “Solitude is Bliss” video, which featured a post-apocalyptic anti-dog world, the trio perform their warm psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock in a field of grass, which clearly the band is familiar with.
Tame Impala: Runway, Houses, City, Clouds MP3
Yourstru.ly Presents: Tame Impala (2 of 2) from Yours Truly on Vimeo.
Tour dates:
DISCOSALT’S FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEOS WITH BICYCLES
[photo credit: Lorenzo Fariello]
With The Bicycle Film Festival celebrating its 10th year on June 16th-June 20th, Discosalt is celebrating the Bicycle all week long. Kicking things off here with a tribute to some of our favorite music videos with bicycles. Check them out below and enjoy! More to come….
The Go Team: For My Funeral
Feel good Bike dancing in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nada Surf: Whose Authority
Michael C. Maronna, (aka. the elder Pete from The Adventures Of Pete and Pete) sticks it to the man as a NYC bicycle messenger.
Doomtree: Drumsticks
P.O.S., Dessa and their Minneapolis indie hip hop crew ride bikes through town.
The Smiths: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
Classic 1987 clip. Moz and pals biking around Manchester. The Smiths’ last video and single. It bombed! and by the time the video was released, the band had already split up. Fantastically shot and edited and the end of a chapter in Indie.
Flaming Lips: Watching the Planets
Wayne Coyne inside a man-sized plastic bubble traversing over throngs of naked nymph like cyclists being framed in perpetuity, oh and a giant furry vagina. Boobs, butts, balls and bikes… and it wasnt filmed in Greenpoint? By the end of the video, Coyne bares Heavy D and the boys just like everyone else in the video.
Bat for Lashes: What’s a girl to do
This might be one of the best music videos in the past 10 years and one for the Furries. Natasha Khan, flanked by a bike gang of animal headed bmx tricksters bike alone on a dark country road…or are they?
MGMT: IT’S WORKING
MGMT introduce “It’s Working,” the latest video from their sophomore album Congratulations. Check Discosalt’s album review HERE. The video was directed by French artist So Me. Renowned for his distinctive designs for Ed Banger Records, So Me has directed music videos for Kanye West and Kid Cudi (as well as co-directing “A Cross the Universe,” a documentary chronicling the 2008 US tour of French act Justice). So Me recently partnered with Nike on their True Colors series to design exclusive sportswear celebrating the World Cup. “It’s Working” is yet another visual foray into the world of intriguing imagery distinctive to MGMT.
MGMT recently kicked off their U.S. Summer tour, which included stops at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Bamboozle Music Festival as well as Sasquatch Festival. And the band recently played their largest headlining show anywhere in the world with a sold-out, 9,500 capacity gig at Morrison, Colorado’s famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre (see below for full tour dates). They can also be seen performing songs from Congratulations live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (June 24-two songs) and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on (July 23).
MGMT is on tour now:
06/15/10 COLUMBUS, OH-LC PAVILION
06/16/10 DETROIT, MI -THE FILLMORE
06/18/10 CHICAGO, IL -RIVIERA THEATER SOLD OUT
06/19/10 MINNEAPOLIS, MN -WALKER ARTS CENTER SOLD OUT
06/20/10 MILWAUKEE, WI -RIVERSIDE THEATER
06/27/10 PILTON, UK –GLASTONBURY
07/15/10 SAN DIEGO, CA – SDSU OPEN AIR THEATRE
07/16/10 LOS ANGELES, CA -GREEK THEATRE-LA
07/18/10 POMONA, CA -FOX THEATRE
07/21/10 OAKLAND, CA – FOX THEATRE
07/24/10 VANCOUVER -COMMODORE BALLROOM SOLD OUT
08/04/10 MONTREAL –METROPOLIS SOLD OUT
08/05/10 TORONTO -KOOL HAUS SOLD OUT
08/08/10 CHICAGO, IL –LOLLAPALOOZA
08/10/10 BOSTON, MA-BANK OF AMERICA PAVILION
08/11/10 HOLYOKE, MA- MOUNTAIN PARK
08/12/10 BURLINGTON, VT – LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME FESTIVAL
08/14/10 COLUMBIA, MD- MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILLION
08/15/10 PHILADELPHIA, PA-MANN CENTER
08/17/10 NEW YORK, NY -RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
08/18/10 NEW YORK, NY -RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
08/21/10 ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – BORGATA
FREE MP3: THE BLACK KEYS: TIGHTEN UP, NEXT GIRL AND FRANK!
Discosalt Video of the Week 13/6/10: This weeks video of the week is a 2fer. Two official videos from blues/rock duo the Black Keys for “Tighten Up” and “Next Girl” of their new sixth album, Brothers. The first single “Tighten Up“, debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 with 73,000 copies sold in the first week, making the band’s highest charting album to date. The Brothers CD features some pretty ingenious packaging; a thin thermal film on the surface which changes colors depending on the heat of it’s surrounding. And the temperature should certainly rise a few degrees after watching the new video for “Next Girl”: raunchy blues, women in bikinis and Frank is back !
watch the video’s below or download a free track from the new album:
FREE MP3: TOKYO POLICE CLUB: BREAKNECK SPEED
Tokyo Police Club’s video for Breakneck Speed from their new album Champ , edited by Mike Juneau. According to singer/bassist Dave Monks, the album will have “… eleven songs, a Disney character, fuzzy bits, Canadian spelling, hockey sound effects, me singing the lowest note in my range, one (1) saxophone note.” Amidst these eleven songs and assorted oddities, is this somewhat misleading song ““Breakneck Speed”; a slow yearning track about the recklessness of youth…or is it? Download the track or watch the video below:
Tokyo Police Club : Breakneck SpeedHEALTH: USA BOYS
“USA Boys” was one of the first tracks to be leaked from Health’s Disco 2 remix project, and the band has now gone all-out and shot this NSFW video for the song. This is actually the only song on the record that isn’t a remix, and it fits neatly with Health’s gradual evolution of machine-based noise over its first two records. A group of kids smash stuff up in an abandoned building and two of them splinter off to get it on amid piles of trash in this clip—hey, who said romance was dead? The visuals provide a perfect counterpoint to the song, which is likely to be the major draw to anyone thinking of investing cash in Disco 2.
[via Pitchfork]
NEON INDIAN: SLEEP PARALYSIST
Discosalt Video of the Week 6/6/10: Neon Indian has a new dreamlike video for the aptly titled “Sleep Paralysist” which they shot entirely at The Miller House in Lexington, Kentucky. According to director Ben Chappell, Alan Palomo becomes “a tourist in this big hallucinatory land, so he passes through all these different crazy scenarios.” Its one big trip. While the highlight of Palomo’s trip to KY may have been the Hot Brown, filming the video seems like it was just as curious and ultimately rewarding an endeavor. You can check out the video below or watch a behind the scenes documentary on the making of the video right here:
BROKEN BELLS: THE GHOST INSIDE
Broken Bells (James Mercer, from The Shins and Brian Burton a/k/a Danger Mouse ) have released a new video for “The Ghost Inside” starring Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks as a super curvy android.
Entertainment Weekly, who broke the story about the surprise cameo, explains that, “Both members of alt-pop superduo Broken Bells are big Mad Men fans. So when it was time to cast the beautiful robot in their video for ”The Ghost Inside,” they immediately thought of the show’s Christina Hendricks. ”We assumed we would ask and that’d be it,” Mercer says. ”She’s got to be so busy, and who the hell are we? But she said yes! Turns out she’s a fan of our record.””
THE NATIONAL: BLOODBUZZ OHIO
Discosalt video of the week 5/30/10: The National’s newish video for “Bloodbuzz Ohio” off their new album High Violet features charismatic National front man, Matt Berninger, cleaned up, beard trimmed and donning a handsome suit in black and white doing sort of a lazy mans electric slide.
MEW: BEACH
Director Martin de Thura re-unites with Danish indie rockers, Mew to direct their new video for ” Beach”. Another installment in a series of ambitiously shot, mysterious, strange, eerie videos to promote their just as ambitious, mysterious, strange titled album “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”…and breathe! There is a camp of dirty pale kids, a peering mountain, a spinning dreammachine headed dancer and some creepy animation to the soundtrack of one toe tapping catchy tune. Check it out.
FREE MP3: COWBOY JUNKIES: RENMIN PARK
Somewhere in the recesses of your early nineties record memory, you probably remember the Cowboy Junkies cover version of The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane” on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. Well, the band is still together, and one of the few bands that has lasted so long with their original line-up intact. Fewer, still, have created as consistently satisfying a body of work, since 1985 with some milestone albums in the nineties that chronicle the bands creative path which has remained impervious to trends in popular music.
For the first time, the band is now completely free of any recording contracts and obligation and they have recorded a new album Renmin Park. Inspired by a three-month stay that Michael Timmins of the band spent in China—which he describes as “an other-worldly experience”— Renmin Park is the first of four releases planned over the next 18 months, collectively titled “The Nomad Series.” Renmin Park (translated means,”People’s Park”) is a celebration of the sights, sounds, and characters of Jingjiang, a small town situated on the Yangtze River. Several of the tracks were actually built on loops made from “field recordings” that Michael made in China where he recorded a myriad of sounds from music and conversations—from badminton games to students chanting their lessons. The album also includes covers of songs by two of the country’s most important rock artists.
This album will soon be followed by Demons, on which Cowboy Junkies will cover the songs of their late friend Vic Chesnutt, who passed away in December 2009. “His catalogue is so deep and, for the most part, so overlooked,” says Michael. “It will be a labor of love.” The final two volumes of the Nomad Series will be titled Sing in My Meadow the contents of which are still being discussed and The Wilderness, a full album of new songs. The band’s recently revamped website will play an important role in the Nomad Series by taking fans inside the creative process. Timmins adds that the band will be blogging about the series from the inception to conclusion of each album and will be posting demos, works in progress, rough mixes and the occasional aborted effort. After all four volumes are released, plans call for a book that will delve into the character, nature, and inspiration behind each of the albums. It will be published by Whale and Star, the publishing house of the band’s friend Enrique Martinez Celaya, a Cuban-American artist whose “Nomad” paintings helped inspire the series. Michael sums up the band’s motivation for taking on such a massive project quite simply. “The main reason for wanting to do it,” he says, “is that, as we steam through our twenty-fifth year, we feel that we have the energy and inspiration to pull it off.“
Check out a free MP3 Download from the band below:
MP3: COWBOY JUNKIES-“CASCADIAS”
Just in case you cant find that mix-tape your girlfriend/boyfriend made for you in junior high, here’s one for old time sake:
"you have punk rock, you have rock, you have blues, you have soul, it’s all disco.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUOsztgBE-I
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