The new Fleet Foxes album is very good. Been a long (almost) three years since the debut.
I am looking forward to the new Okkervil River and Antlers albums coming out next week!
Might even check out the new Architecture in Helsinki album.
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Toronto singer/songwriter Katie Stelmanis' dark, synthy Austra project will release their debut LP, Feel It Break, May 17 via Domino. There's a video for the album's latest single, "Lose It", and it's...pretty weird! The M Blash-directed clip features the band as they stand around a sparsely designed house, staring out the window at frozen missiles while images of playing cards, monkeys, and digitzed island landscapes randomly pop into the frame. At one point, Stelmanis looks in a mirror and sees a monkey instead, which I would probably lose my ####ing #### over if that happened to me. Check it out below. [pitchfork]
Releaed today :
Wild Beasts : Smother
Streaming PMA (below link)
Really like Albatross http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUJYqhKZrwA got me a bit interested in hearing more....Not sure about an entire album with this sound so maybe one/two songs is enough?
Toronto singer/songwriter Katie Stelmanis' dark, synthy Austra project will release their debut LP, Feel It Break, May 17 via Domino. There's a video for the album's latest single, "Lose It", and it's...pretty weird! The M Blash-directed clip features the band as they stand around a sparsely designed house, staring out the window at frozen missiles while images of playing cards, monkeys, and digitzed island landscapes randomly pop into the frame. At one point, Stelmanis looks in a mirror and sees a monkey instead, which I would probably lose my ####ing #### over if that happened to me. Check it out below. [pitchfork]
Not sure if mentioned but Cults debut album out soon (June 7) and they are currently touring : http://www.pitchfork.com/news/38751-cults-hit-the-road/ A couple of Canadian shows earlier this year. Album will include go outside and omg.
Not to be confused with Ian Astburys Cult.....
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Last year, we reported that Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus had hit the studio with his band the Jicks and one Beck Hansen. But because Malkmus was busy with the Pavement reunion tour all last year, that collaboration had to go on the back burner. Now that Pavement is once again in the rearview mirror, Malkmus is back on his solo grind. The Matablog announces that Matador will release the Beck-produced Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks album Mirror Traffic on August 23.
The Matablog also reports that Mirror Traffic will be the final Jicks album to feature former Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss, who's keeping herself busy with Wild Flag, her new band with Mary Timony and ex-Sleater-Kinney bandmate Carrie Brownstein. At future Jicks shows, Joggers drummer Jake Morris will take over for her. [pitchfork]
Wild Flag will be at Sled Island June 24th and 25th:
Nonesuch Records releases What's It All About—a solo acoustic album from guitarist and composer Pat Metheny—on June 14, 2011. After nearly 40 recordings under his name, this marks the first time there is not a single Metheny composition represented.
Album of the year....Album of the year......at least Summer Album of the year. Take out the album version of Pumped up Kicks and replace it with http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Foster_Th..._4-Track_Remix to freshen it up a bit. Not a weak song on the debut and they are wowing every festival they play at. This is pop music. Talk about pop music!
"David Comes To Life" by F---ed Up came out today. You wouldn't expect an epic concept album from a hardcore band, but they've pulled it off with amazing results.
On August 30, Anti- will release Tassili, the new album from the badass Malian Touareg desert blues band Tinariwen. Though the band has gained international acclaim for its tranced-out electric guitar sound, they switch things up on the new one, recording on only acoustic guitars and unamplified percussion. The band recorded the album in the Algerian desert, where TV on the Radio co-leaders Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone joined them to play on the album. Later, Wilco's Nels Cline and the horn section of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band also contributed.
Below, we've got the gorgeously shot video for the Adebimpe/Malone collaboration "Tenere Taqqim Tossam", which looks like a scene from some sort of epic action movie.
Reed wrote the songs for the album, with Metallica making what Fricke calls "significant arrangement contributions." Metallica drummer Lars Urich claims that the record is "90% finished" and that they have no plans for release at the moment, especially since neither Reed nor Metallica have record deals right now.
Apparently, Metallica and Reed had originally planned to record an album of covers of lesser-known Reed songs. But Reed brought a different idea to them: An album of songs that he wrote for the play Lulu, an adaptation of stories from the German author Frank Wedekind that's currently running in Berlin.
