Ladies and Gentlemen and all Wolf Parade fanatics (you know who you are) ... I am proud to give you the newest in Wolf Parade. Titled Call It A Ritual, it's the first single off of their upcoming album.
Eyes of Light comes across like a condensed version of the Doors' The End, updated for the times, and coming together magnificently in the end for an absolutely head-smashing and triumphant close.
Looking to move beyond the sounds of Deerhunter, Cox decided that he needed an additional outlet to let the vibe flow, and thus started in on Atlas Sound.
Matador Records is offering their Intended Play sampler as a download this time around, with 12 tracks old and new from Matador artists like Times New Viking, Cat Power, Dead Meadow, Matmos, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks and more.
Head Like A Kite are like a laid-back road trip soundtrack to everywhere.
The sounds are lush, the songwriting is tight but relaxed and never hurried. Props for the professionalism.
The cold weather shakedown that's wrapped around America right now makes this the perfect time to listen to the Botticellis and their sun-soaked 70's-influenced California pop.
The writing skills of Elliott and Strackany are put to good use in These United States's poetic, sing-speak lyrics. "Calculating the logistics of lust, of when unspoken things could happen between us," Elliott sings in "First Sight".
I don't know how Helvetia (hel-vet-zi-a) do it every time, but they're back with a new album in March called The Acrobats. Old New Bicycle is from that album.
Invoking comparisons to Robert Fripp, the Byrds, and Thin Lizzy, Citay sounds like all of those guys tranmorphed through a Xanadu-haze and brought into the modern world.
In an apocalyptic future, all music will be atonal, noisy, minimialistic, with tribal rythyms pounded out on empty oil drums. These are Powers are in that future right now.
The song is a bit of 80's dark new wave in a minimalistic pop format. It's echoey but crisp, driving but not boring. There's definitely something offputting and dark about this song, even though it's cleverly disguised a bright pop song. Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
Times New Viking is unashamedly lo-fi and raw in their sound, a three piece that packs a lot of sonic audacity in their music. They sound like craziness on overdrive in the best way. Courtesy of Matador Records
the new Black Mountain offering of psychedelic vs. folk vs. big bombastic sound. Droney prog keyboards meet big beats in a way where you can't overstate the word opus enough. Tornadoes seem small and harmless by comparison. Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
Okkervil River are giving away a collection of cover songs that they've been recording from around the world over the past year and a half. Also ... check out the new video for A Girl In Port.
Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
The latest installment in redefining the notion of a recording label is RCRD LBL ... they've kicked things off with a bunch of free tracks from Justice feat. Mos Def and Spank Rock, Jacques Renault, Meanest Man Contest, Bad Veins, Kings and Queens, Grizzly Bear, and Junip.
Courtesy of RCRD LBL
Called a "bedroom art-pop project" by Cardboard Records, the album is a mixture of electronics, drone, noise, and singed circuits.
Courtesy of Asthmatic Kitty Records