Japandroids is coming to town at the end of the month. The Vancouver-based duo are playing Spaceland on July 31st. Their debut album Post-Nothing is one of the best records of 2009. For national tour dates click here.
MP3: Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
Download:
Japandroids – Post-Nothing (iTunes)
MP3: Lee Fields & The Sugarman 3 – Stand Up
MP3: RJD2 – Since ’76
MP3: Phoenix – 1901 (Fortune Remix)
Mind blowing – 1:16 & 3:00 into “Grounds For Divorce.” Alison Mosshart is stunning. Dead Weather wished they could be half as good as The Kills.
MP3: The Kills – Last Day Of Magic (Black Session 6/10/2008)
MP3: Elbow – Grounds for Divorce (Live Electric)
MP3: Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is the Move (Live)
MP3: Dirty Projectors – Useful Chamber (Live)
MP3: Dirty Projectors with David Byrne – Ambulance Man (Live)
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Emusic)
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox announced that he’s recently completed recording a new album with his side project, Atlas Sound. It’s called Logos, you may be familiar with the title, because Bradford caused a stir last year when accidentally released the demos from his blog. Cox’s is very generous about offering up free tracks from his blog, but he didn’t intend for Logos demos to hit the blogosphere. Apparently the finished tracks are completely different than the leaked tracks. Look for contribution’s from Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier on the album. Logos is due out October 20 via Kranky.
From: Anthony Volodkin – Hype Machine Founder
We’ve been frustrated by a few things about music charts recently. One is the issue of chart integrity, the lines between manipulation & engagement and how to keep such a system honest while rewarding the right people. Another is the terrible quality of most music services powered by Twitter.
Most of them have serious problems. Some don’t reveal the methods or sources in which they’ve gathered their data, just publishing the chart and hoping people would buy it. That prevents the web at large from auditing and finding errors in their methods and work.
Others don’t tell us anything new and don’t account for the social and interactive nature of Twitter, lumping it all together as ‘activity’. So we end up with U2 as the top artist (or Michael Jackson, for the foreseeable future). Finally, the remaining set of tools just implements a file sharing layer on top of Twitter, then allowing others to search for uploaded media. Lame.
Given all this, we did what we usually do when there is music/web stuff out there that sucks: we built our own!
Kieran “Four Tet” Hebden
MP3: Beck – Pink Moon (Nick Drake)
MP3: Beck – Do You Realize (Flaming Lips)
MP3: Four Tet – Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
Brooklyn’s finest may be a stretch, but Himalaya is an extremely talented band. The self-titled debut by this New York six-piece excels in hazy psychedelic guitar rock. The band formed in 2005 and it’s fronted by singer/guitarists Brian McNamara and Jamie Scythes. You can order their CD by clicking here.
For fans of Vietnam, Darker My Love, My Bloody Valentine, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Pink Mountaintops.
MP3: Himalaya – Melt Away
MP3: Vietnam – Summer In The City
