Capsula is a band from Buenos Aires that currently resides in Bilbao, Spain. Capsula, Spanish for Capsule, is named after a lyric from the David Bowie classic ‘Space Oddity.’ The group has been around since 1997, and have toured the world extensively. They recently played SXSW, where they caught the eye of Rolling Stone magazine critic David Fricke. He became an instant fan and selected them as one of his Fricke’s Picks.

I’m digging their new album, Rising Mountains. Highlights include ‘Magnetic Brain’, ‘Wild C’, ‘Original Is Dead’, ‘Found & Lost’ and ‘The Sea Cave.’

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MP3: Capsula – Girl! Whip Up the Sound
MP3: Capsula – Run Run Run (Velvet Underground)

Download:
Capsula – Rising Mountains (iTunes)

Rollo & Grady are proud to work with The Yellow Bird Project on a t-shirt giveaway for their organization.

The Yellow Bird Project is a Montreal-based, non-profit initiative that commissions some of the bigger names in the indie music world to design t-shirts for them. YBP then sells the t-shirts on their site, with all proceeds going to a charity that each individual artist chooses. They have an impressive list of artists including Broken Social Scene, The National, Rilo Kiley, Devendra Banhart, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Bon Iver, to name a few.

Yellow Bird Project has three fundamental aims:
1) Make money for charities through t-shirt sales
2) Increase awareness for charity organizations through artists’ endorsements
3) Raise the profiles of their favorite artists

In order to participate in the contest, please submit your email address to YBP and you’ll be entered for a chance to win one of the two shirts. Also, check out their catalog and support the individual causes by purchasing a t-shirt or two. ***Contest is over – 4/20/2009

MP3: Bon Iver – Re: Stacks
MP3: Devendra Banhart – Seahorse
MP3: Hayden – Where and When
MP3: Broken Social Scene – Death Cock
MP3: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Over and Over
MP3: Au Revoir Simone – Don’t See the Sorrow
MP3: The National – Start A War
MP3: Laura Veirs – Bedroom Eyes
MP3: The Magic Numbers – Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand)
MP3: Elvis Perkins – Without Love

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MP3: Cat Power – Baby Doll (Live In Brussels 2/23/2003)
MP3: Feist – The Build-Up (Live In Chicago 2006)
MP3: Marissa Nadler – Silvia (Live @ KEXP)

Download:
Marissa Nadler – Little Hells (itunes)
Feist – The Reminder(itunes)
Cat Power – The Covers Record (itunes)

John McCauley III of Deer Tick

Providence-based band Deer Tick is set to release their highly anticipated second full-length album, Born On Flag Day. The follow up to 2007’s debut War Elephant has three new members participating on the LP. The record is set for a June 23rd release date via Partisan Records.

Tracklisting
Easy
Little White Lies
Smith Hill
Song About A Man
Houston, TX
Straight Into A Storm
Friday XIII
The Ghost
Hell On Earth
Stung

There weren’t a ton of new releases that knocked me off of my feet. Metric’s album Fantasies is decent; Bill Callahan, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Easy Star All-Stars and Grand Duchy (Franck Black) albums were average.

I’m a sucker for Zeppelin and Hendrix throwback rock ‘n’ roll. Austin-based band Radio Moscow does a fine job replicating the sound. Their album Brain Cycles isn’t breaking new ground, but it rocks. The group reminds me a little bit of White Denim without the experimentation.

Jason Quever is the man behind Papercuts. You may recognize Quever’s name as he is a guest member of Vetiver and Beach House. He’s also produced for Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Cass McCombs and Donkeys.

New Releases – Tuesday, April 14th:
Beck – One Foot in the Grave (Remastered) (Buy)
Papercuts – You Can Have (Buy)
Radio Moscow – Brain Cycles (Buy)
Silversun Pickups – Swoon (Buy)

MP3: Radio Moscow – Brian Cycles
MP3: Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
MP3: Beck – Asshole

Justice served in Los Angeles.

From Solomon Moore and Randal C. Archibold of New York Times
Phil Spector, the rock music impresario behind such hits such as “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling” and “Be My Baby,” was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of an actress at his mansion in 2003, after a night of drinking.
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Mr. Spector, 69, faces a possible 18 years to life in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for May 29.The jury reached its decision after deliberating whether one of the recording industry’s best-known producers shot the woman in a fit of anger or, as his lawyers argued, merely witnessed the woman’s suicide. Continue Reading at NYTimes.com (Click Here)

2009 Lineup

I’m not sure what to make of this year’s Outside Lands Festival lineup versus 2008’s lineup. I know times are tough, but are the Black Eyed Peas, Jason Mraz and Incubus worthy of being headliners? How about Tom Jones?????? I’m going to reserve comment on DMB, Pearl Jam and Beastie Boys, they all had a place in my heart once – a long time ago. Ultimately festivals are about people having fun and enjoying the music they love, but if you ask me this event went in the wrong direction with their choice of headliners. On a positive note the following bands are playing – Deerhunter, Atmosphere, Band Horses, Blind Pilot, Q-Tip, Calexico, Dead Weather, Heartless Bastards, Silversun Pickups, Akron/Family, The Duke Spirit, Thievery Corporation and The Morning Benders.

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