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Manheim Steamroller meets Tom Tom Club in this song that's about to be played a million times by 8th grade boys and girls who just can't find the right words to say:
NASA I wanna be your lover mp3 was here.
Big Bang is the name of the new NASA remix album. It'll be released digitally on DashGo.
++Someone could put together an illustrated anatomy textbook based on all the descriptions of specific female body parts in rock songs, i.e., Cherry Lips, Fat Bottomed Girls, Sun-eyed girl, etc., etc. Those would be some strange lookin' women.
Remixes of Archie Bronson Outfit's Hoola came out earlier this month and their newest LP Coconut is out now.
Archie Bronson Cherry Lips and Hoola mp3s were here.
++A review of Nina Nastasia's album The Outlaster. Give a listen to her song Our Day Trip about some best laid plans ending on a sad note, as they usually do. And here's a switch, a woman describing all the features of her man's ugly face with its "sharp turns" and his "careless mouth."
Nina Nastasia Ugly Face mp3 was here
++Here's Serge Pizzorno of Kasabian unplugged on Thick As Thieves. Would love to hear him do even more of this spare, stripped down music.
++The Avalanches' latest LP has been delayed because much like their last album they use a ton of samples (3,500 last time!), and oh those samples, they take time to clear.
++Ann Arbor's Nomo are described by some as Congotronic-esque trancefunk and by others as Afrobeat purists.
++Nellie McKay (prounounced Muh Kai) took part in NPR's Song Project and was given three days to write a song based on an antique, Library of Congress picture of men doing the Charleston. See what transpired and how she was inspired here.
I'm only now discovering Aloha, who have been around for some time now and who put out a new album called Home Acres in March that was promoted by Men's Health magazine.
I usually note where a band is from but Wikipedia makes it sound like the band's members are scattered all over the Eastern Seaboard, like so many Hardee's locations.
Polyvinyl is giving away a 6 album package deal by the band, above. Ain't they purdy?
Whatever they are paying this drummer is surely not enough (listen til the end of the song):
Aloha Blackout mp3 was here.
I get a kick out of how Pony Pony Run Run are their own best salespeople. Everything is so hopeful and enthusiastic, like being in a bustling Apple store, when the rest of the mall is deserted. Also, I want to live inside this world (in this older video of theirs) for a few weeks.*
Pony Pony Run Run: Hey You mp3 was here.*So chic. These people look they can party without setting their cars on fire. Or get mad without setting their cars on fire. Nothing is being set on fire.
Via KEXP: A great song for the drive home from Vegas through the desert after-you've-lost-it-all-playlist. "It's a poison snake, coiled in a birthday cake." Nightmarish imagery, unless you're Duff, I guess.
Unbunny: Winning Streak mp3 was here.
I was looking to post a song by Blood Orange, the side project of the very busy Dev Hynes aka Lightspeed Champion (above) specifically this song, Sutphin Boulevard...
...that's so effortlessly funky.
Blood Orange will play Glasslands in NY with Nite Jewel (from the Samps Camp) on August 14th.
++Do you wanna be in the business?
++The best part of being in a British band would be getting to have a name like Faris or Rhys.
++I wonder if the creators of the web service Posterous ever stopped to consider how much their name sounds like the word 'posthumous.' The platform has caught on after having been pushed by Steve Rubel, who, contrary to my initial suspicion is not the undead Steve Rubell. PHEW!
++Here's video of Atlas Sound/Bradford Cox and his ever-present wool cap in a church performing Walkabout and Please Come Home. I don't remember the song having a digeridoo in the background, or whatever instrument that is...the extra grit in his voice in this version is great, though.
Interesting. I didn't know that Walkabout samples this song by The Dovers. There's a bit of a dust-up over the sampling on You Tube but I think that Walkabout, (especially in the cemetery version) effectively turns the sonic scrap into something new.
The Dovers What Am I going To Do mp3 was here.
From the inbox: The best part of this song by Sweden's Dear Martin is when he says the line "L.A. palm trees, giant wide screens... Well I can't seem to be bothered I forget one after the other...Sundrenched Season..."
And this line:
"Well there's your reason." When the iciness of his voice briefly cracks and a little Alison Moyet-ish passion seeps in...just for a few seconds.
Dear Martin Sundrenched Season mp3 was here.
Oren Lavie is probably best known for the creative video for his song Her Morning Elegance, that's gotten an astonishing 12 million hits. He doesn't make the kind of music that I typically enjoy...however the song below has a kind of theatricality that can't be denied. Oren Lavie The Man Who Isn't There mp3 was here.
++ Whenever I listen to the JBs I think they're so smooth and zen that it would be great to listen to them while surfing. Now it's possible, thanks to Sony's Waterproof Walkman and needlessly gratuitous ad campaign!!
Junior Boys Hazel mp3 was here.
++Chickity China: Anna Fleischer sure does use a lot of words and syllables in her music. Well, maybe not in all her Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn songs.
++The good people at KEXP have sent over Matt Pond PA's recent live session for the listening. Very pretty:
When a couple of your favorite bloggers line up to praise an album, you've got no choice but to investigate the matter further.
As someone who takes interest in where bands get their names, I wish that Seattle's Mike Hadreas aka Perfume Genius would name the name of the terrible movie that prompted his friend Caralee to say: "This guy thinks he's some kind of f--king perfume genius. Look at this f--king perfume genius what is he going to do next?"
My guess is that it was this one.
Heads up New York, the F--king Perfume Genius will play 92y on July 20.
Perfume Genius Mr. Petersen mp3 was here. Recommended.
Don't no one change or polish up this song. It sounds so good all muffled. Am tempted to record it right off my speakers. Their Hairspray look and their name is Jail Weddings? Fuggedaboutit! I've already got a Christmas album in the works for them and I'm not even their producer.
The L.A. band's EP Inconvenient Dreams is out now. (Scratch that, the polished version is pretty cool.)
Jail Weddings I'm My Own Doctor mp3 was here.
++Not to keep referencing The Onion, but the detailed, overly elaborate sentence under the Wu-Tang Clan heading in this Rock The Bells lineup announcement, ("w/Boy Jones, ODB's First Born Son") reminded me of this.
++Wow, so I guess Most Serene Republic made their way through L.A. last month. They'll soon be hitting the East Coast with The Annuals. And not to keep referencing serial killers but I wonder if those serial killers that you read about, the ones who are fixated on collecting certain specific body parts, look at this MSR video for decorating ideas. Most serene republic heavens to purgatory mp3 was here.
++Some analog snobs say, "It's no MiniMoog." Haterz! XLR8R is streaming Solvent's latest.
++ I keep reading articles in which artists or producers have worked with Patrick Wolf. Wolf's name comes up almost everyday. Producer Patrick Pulsinger has just completed work on Hercules & Love Affair's still untitled sophomore album after having collaborated with, yup, Patrick Wolf.
++Woo Hoo! Women have a new album coming out on Sept. 28th called Public Strain, a title that seems to be open to all KINDS of misreading. But, whatever, yay, new Women album!
++ Here's some footage of Double Dagger tearing it up at Permanent Records in Chicago. Poor innocent bystander at 1:14. Probably just went in to pick up some vinyl and ended up giving birth to a lead singer.
Two *extremely* divergent songs from the inbox today!
++Parisian Bibi Tanga, above, has partnered with Nat Geo Music. (Who knew!) This is a good fit for Tanga whose sound is the definition of global, with roots in the arty banks of the Seine where he was raised and in his Central African Republic immigrant upbringing.
++The Modern Skirts new Happy 81 will be released on July 6th. The veteran band's latest work is a intentional departure from their earlier more polished pop records. The songs, like the one below, were recorded on the go and in the rough, for fun, in the off hours while the band was touring. I would wonder aloud if the namesake of this song was this woman, but I've already written about pigs too much this week.
Their bio is funny. Modern Skirts Rebecca st. claire mp3 was here.
I've been geeking out over the Matthew Herbert song (Something Isn't Right) that I posted here the other day. That song rox my bobby sox.
Turns out I might have been listening to the noise of "70 condoms being dragged across the floor of the British Museum." Tricky! Herbert is not only anti-Auto Tune he's an advocate of recording sounds in their natural state, and in everyday life. And(From the same article....):
You could say he's the Martha Stewart of sound production.
For his part, Herbert(a meat eater), says that the record has helped him feel more uncomfortable about eating meat.
In this interview, Alabaman Dan Sartain talks about finding good music before the Internet, how he's a poor man's Chris Isaak, "the guy in the back of the room" and the importance of beer art. His album Lives is out now; here's an older scorcher below. It's less Chris Isaak than Libertines and "Date rape" era Sublime. Not that there's anything wrong with Chris Isaak.
Time to tango with the inbox!
++ Here's a version of the classic The Way We Were by Steve Poltz. This is one of those songs that might could go sour in the wrong hands, but if you like Ariel Pink or Devendra Banhart, there's a certain similar bead curtain hippie feel to this interpretation that makes the song unique and interesting*. The Nova Scotian's album Dream House arrives on 7/6.
Steve Poltz the way were were mp3 was here
++ CFCF, profiled here the other day, will sink his remix teeth into the Junior Boys in an upcoming 6 track EP titled Drifts. Nacho Lovers and Memoryhouse will also get the remix treatment on the new project. Love those CFCF album covers.
"You can't spit on the ground from high up in your tree."
++ Australia's Andy Kelly aka Andy Clockwise knows how to generate drama; his weighty voice seems to suggest a barhopping world weariness.
This song hearkens back to the golden years of 2005-2006 when dudes would really pour their hearts into their music.
Andy Clockwise's album Are You Well? comes out on 7/13 and he'll play Hotel Cafe on June 18 and 25, and the Troub on July 13th. Andy Clockwise stealing cars mp3 was here
++This beat is Fantanas, F-A-N-(T)-A-N-A-S....
++The Strokes reunited for a show at a London club and played to a crowd that included Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. The article says nothing about Martin's reaction, but it tickles me to imagine him looking like this.
++I don't know if it's such a good idea to cage CC's fans, Jools Holland. Won't be long before we start to hear disparaging remarks about Jools' hair.
++Not related to music, but, if I wasn't so busy with customer service duties at the Good Intentions Paving Company today, I would totally be here. Sally Hansen's my girl.
++The covering up of the tattoo is more official than the finalizing of divorce documents in the celeb/music world. Nas did it by putting a lion's head on top of what was Kelis' body. It's fun when they get creative in correcting their mistakes.
