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It's great when bands pick out just the right, pivotal phrase from a song's lyrics to use as the title, in this case "Cover Your Tracks." This tight jam is similar to the Toto-like song by Wild Beasts from a few months back, with more steel drum action. Also check out Come and See*.
Montreal's Young Galaxy have no plans to play L.A. just yet.
Young galaxy cover your tracks mp3 was here.
Here's a gorgeous track by San Francisco dream popsters Silver Swans that sounds as if it could've been part of a lost John Hughes movie soundtrack. The duo gets their name from the Wonder Woman stories. (via)
Silver swans secrets was here
Equally fantastic is this remix of the song by Letting Up Despite Great Faults that pumps up the original, making Ann Yu sound clearer and lonelier. I think I prefer the ending in the remix, as well, it's a little less abrupt.:
Via Floating, this phunked up song by Chicagoans Loyal Divide does the same thing that Allo Darlin's did the other day, which is to skate off the song's main riff and sail into some serene air. The screech throughout is a nice touch, too. Good Good. Loyal Divide vision vision mp3 was here.
From the inbox: Chris Otepka and The Heligoats are back with some new material, and an appearance on NPR's Tiny Desk concert series. (In John McLaughlin voice: False advertising! I see no Tiny Desk! Liars!)
The song below is off of a new EP titled Let Loose.. a jangly jam that is mellow yet urgent. Heligoats A Word from our sponsor mp3 was here.
From the box: Gerry Rafferty might be gone but Brooklyn's Louis Schefano aka Lou-is picks up where he left off in this catchy, somber locomotive of a song. Would make a nice companion piece to Caught Wheeeeeeel.:
Lou-is Can't remember that mp3 was here.
Ooh, I just love the velvety pipes on Nottingham's Liam Bailey. Recommended.:
Liam Bailey i belong mp3 was here.
I'm not sure if he's the same guy who is on Chase and Status' song Blind Faith . Sounds like his voice. Some pretty intense comments on the "Uncensored" video, and it's meaning right here.
chase and status blind faith was here.
This is exactly the kind of the song you'd expect from a band call The Booze, innit?
booze hit me where it hurts mp3 was here.
The Booze play Redwood Bar March 24th at 9pm. Sidebar updated!
++I really need to go see Blue Valentine and see what all the fuss is about.
++Wanted to see what Isaac Brock was up to and was briefly excited to see something about Brock TV and a Brock Army, neither of which are related to him but both *would* be fantastic ideas for him.*
From the inbox:
++The Minutemen's Mike Watt (he "jams Econo") has teamed with Tera Melos for Manar the Magic, below. Tera Melos opens for Ms. Marnie Stern on her upcoming tour and their EP Zoo Weather hits on Feb. 22nd.
There isn't any new news about We Are Scientists, I was just looking for an excuse to post this cover they did of Nickleback's Rock Star.
Nickleback's not really my thing, so unlike 30,000,000 other people I hadn't ever seen the original Rock Star video.
Only watched the video to see who did the Trapaholick's-like narrator voice (Baz Hendrix, that's such a perfect voiceover name..) the We Are Scientists guys were copying, and it turns out to be one of the guys from ZZ Top.
(via) We Are scientists the great escape mp3 was here
Louisville Kentucky's The Pass will perform at The Satellite on Feb. 1st.
It all starts off innocently in this video where the band plays Four Square until things get unruly and the men go all "Kitchen Makeover Tobey Maguire" on each other. I think any of us who've ever played tetherball (and have chain shaped scars to prove it) will scoff at this video and agree that Four Square ain't nothing.
Thanks to We Are Pajamas for the song, off of last year's LP Burst.
The pass walk away mp3 was here
Too bad this song by Voxhaul Broadcast didn't come out in time for Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist because it has the feel and energy of a night out. The lyrics are great, even if the guy uses the old Eagle Eye Cherry line about 'not knowing what will happen tomorrow.' Guys have been using that line on girls foreevvvver. (thanks KEXP!)
Voxhaul Broadcast l3aving on the 5th mp3
Voxhaul Broadcast be at the Echoplex Video Music Fest on January 23rd.
This song by Casey Spooner takes a while to get going. Once it does there are some wonderful textures (sorry, had to dip into the blogger word bag) in the midst of all the electro-noodling. Like Gruff Rhys and Herbert, these songs aren't pop friendly and more extended grooves on an idea. Still, props for the experimentation.
Spooner enlisted the help of Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears on his latest LP and here's a slightly NSFW vid that looks like it came out last week (?) and sounds different from the version below. Spooner was also half of Fischerspooner. casey spooner spanish teenager mp3
++The Paleyfest takes place in Beverly Hills on March 4-17th. The casts of Parks & Recreation, Eastbound & Down and the Jimmy Fallon show will answer questions..there will even be a Freak & Geeks reunion.
++Other requirements: Must be proficient in the language of "douchebaggia."
++Here's a video for the lovely and mellow song Two of the Lucky Ones. Depending on who you talks to, it's either done by The Thorns, a band made up of Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge and Shawn Mullins or "The Droge and Summers Blend."
Basia Bulat! She got past me again last year. Her songs never make a huge impression at first, and have a way of quietly getting past only to spring up later with a powerful poetic force. A sneak attack of sorts, like that little girl with the textbooks in Men In Black.
In this video she could be Michelle Williams' doppleganger from afar and has the strength to carry a small tune in a biggole cold, scary lobby all by her lonesome...:
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Alrighty then, here's something that finally that floats mee boat. I like the way Elizabeth Morris from Allo Darlin' says the word "layips" instead of lips, (regional dialect!) and the disembodied laughter and then how the second half of the song with it's soft "oohs" turns into something sublime. And then the drums come in again and...perfect.
This song was made for karaoke or at least the simulated kind of karaoke that rom-com writers imagine (thanks, LHNA!). Allo darlin kiss your lips mp3 was here
Hmm, been trying to find my musical fix this morning without much luck. Will keep searching, in the meantime, here's news from Consequence of Sound that Holy Ghost's new album will feature Penguin Prison's Chris Glover and the one and only Michael McDonald. Sup!
Hard to believe that this is Holy Ghosts first actual album. Get the song below, right here.
Slothboogie navigated me toward the work of Madrid producer Pional and this reworking of Matthew Herbert's Kerstin Basler. It's a loud, rowdy unconventional song to begin with, probably not the kind of thing you'd listen to while chilling next to a placid lakeside (unless you have a fear of ducks, I guess). But I like it precisely for that unconventionality.
What's most interesting about it is the quiet Audi commercial-like creeping, pulsing synth in the background, playing against the people's spirited chants and screams.
(via) Matthew herbert kersin basler mp3
++Yes, the end of 'lists' season is coming to a close, which can only mean the beginning of festival season! Festivals, how we love you (Right DDeV?) and the hazy memories you bring of night skies, warm breezes, carnival games, followed by rainy nights. Oops, nope now I'm confusing some memories with Adventureland.
Anyway! I've been reading this Twitter for the End of the Road festival with its bio: "An intimate musical festival at the Larmer Tree Gardens" and it sounds d'lightful. Gruff Rhys will be there along with the spooky Timber Timbre and Joan As Policewoman, who were all promoted on these pages.
Aww whut, Beirut, Midlake and Bob Log? And Wild Beasts! Doy squared.
++A little closer to home, there are all kinds of things happening in Santa Barbara in the coming months. Ms. Janet Jackson will play Santa Barbara Bowl and Gibson in the month of April. Mad Men's Matthew Weiner will speak at the Granada on February 13th, and Tony Bourdain and Eric Ripert swing through town on May 1st.
From the inbox: Feelin' this workout from Crazy Eli Escobar that's all beats, noises and wires hanging out. Someone call Camille Grammer, this is Club MTV all over again. Get this and other remixes by DJ Mehdi and DFA's Runaway, right here. Eli Escobar love thing part 1 mp3 was here
++Boy band Coldplayahs are prepping for an end of the year album release. A new one from the Arctic Monkeys is due late spring.
++Avodart director James Cameron, whose flatscreen will always be bigger than yours, is up in arms over Hollywood turning board games into movies. Really though, people are looking for any excuse to see more Rihanna and Skarsgard.
From the inbox:
++The Radio Dept.'s Passive Aggressive Singles 2002-2010 comes out on January 25th.
++Regina Spektor and Adam Green are sending people on over to You Tube to watch this video by Only Son, whose album Searchlight is due Jan. 18th. The video stars Aleska Palladino from Boardwalk Empire and kinda has a Murs/Vertical Horizon ending, but I ain't gonna spoil it. It would make for a great dystopic parenting playlist along with XTC's Plans for Nigel.
Only son magic mp3
