Girls – “Lust For Life” Hardcore XXX Edit
I saw this a long time ago, but it wasn’t cleared for posting yet– looks like it is now. From Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell (& edited by Bruce Ashley), it’s the definitely-NSFW version of the Girls “Lust For Life” video. I reiterate: DEFINITELY NSFW. You will actually see Hunx‘ junx if you click the play button.
It’s the only band in the world that both raps over The Knife‘s “Heartbeats” AND offers an album on 2GB Uzi-shaped USB memory stick: ladies and gentlemen, it’s the Get Busy Committee.
Devendra Banhart – What Will Be
Bell Orchestre – Who Designs Nature’s How
Broadcast & the Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Glass Ghost – Idol Omen
MP3: Glass Ghost – “The Same”
Herman Dune – Don’t Lie To Me (Digital)
MP3: Herman Dune – “Don’t Lie About Me”
Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights
Merzbow – 13 Japanese Birds, Vol. 10
Morrissey – HMV/Parlophone Singles ’88-’95
Vinyl/Vinyl Reissues
Chet – Chelsea Silver Please Come Home
Midlake – The Courage of Others
Out 2/1/2010 on Bella Union
Erlend Oye of Kings of Convenience talks to PopMatters about the band's new album, Declaration of Dependence.
Drowned in Sound reviews two recently reissued and expanded Bauhaus albums, In the Flat Field and Mask.
The Guardian profiles British indie music label Hyperdub on its fifth anniversary.
The thing DJ, producer, writer and academic Steve Goodman wants you to know about his record label is that it's not really a record label: it's a virus. "That's the way I understand music culture. There's a history of music, particularly dub and reggae, being described as a virus – Hyperdub is a mutation of British electronic music, infected by Jamaican soundsystem culture: from dub and reggae, through jungle, right up to grime, dubstep and funky. It's a way of thinking about how musical change and evolution takes place."
The complete U2 Rose Bowl concert is now on YouTube.
NPR Music shares a streaming Halloween mix.
The California Literary Review profiles singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins.
Antville lists the 101 best videos of the decade (2000-2009).
NPR reviews my favorite music reissue of the year, the remastered edition of Betty Davis's Nasty Gal.
Wired's Epicenter blog lists the best ways to share a mixtape online.
Frank YangWhite Rabbits have got it covered in the name-dropping department. Via TBD Records, they’re labelmates with a little British outfit called Radiohead and their critically-hailed second album It’s Frightening was produced by Britt Daniel, who sometimes moonlights in a band popular in some circles called Spoon. Yeah, the Brooklyn sextet have got plenty of ammo for cocktail parties, but it doesn’t necessarily tell you much about their actual music, does it.
Well the Britt Daniel part does, somewhat. It’s Frightening certainly borrows from Spoon’s dry, lean and punchy aesthetic and frontman Stephen Patterson’s voice does have a familiarly hoarse, wound-up quality, but dismiss them as Spoon-alikes at your peril. Not, like, “mortal danger” peril but “you’re missing out on a pretty great record” peril. Frightening kicks off with “Percussion Gun”, an intense bit of truth in advertising powered by the thundering tribal attack of the band’s dual drummers – one on a conventional kit, the other tasked with exponentially increasing the impact via big-ass toms. Add in Patterson’s aggressive piano (piano can indeed be aggressive) and howling vox and you’ve got not only one of the best opening tracks on any album this year, but maybe one of the best singles and videos. Translation, it’s impossible to not want to hear more of the record after that first salvo. And while It’s Frightening never quite reaches those heights again, it takes those same elements that make “Percussion Gun” such a blast and turns it into an undeniably solid record that crackles with energy that you just know would translate fantastically on stage. I finally got a chance to find out if that was true on Saturday night when the band made their Toronto debut...
Read more at Chromewaves →Photos: White Rabbits, Suckers, The Balconies @ The Horsesehoe – October 24, 2009
MP3: White Rabbits – “Percussion Gun”
Thanks go out to The Indie Files and Hero Hill for bringing to my attention Worauf wartest du?, a collaboration between Albertan folk singer Rae Spoon and German electronic artist Alexandre Decoupigny which is available to download – presumably with artists approval – over here.
MP3: Rae Spoon – “Come On Forest Fire Burn The Disco Down”
More dispatches in song form from Woodpigeon, currently in the middle of their residency at the Banff Centre. Die Stadt Muzikanten is due out January 12.
MP3: Woodpigeon – “Under, Behind & Between”
MP3: Woodpigeon – “Whole Body Shakes”
MP3: Woodpigeon – “Summer Side Of Life” (Gordon Lightfoot cover)
Gentleman Reg is putting out a new EP this Fall entitled Heavy Head. The six songs will be released digitally, two at a a time grouped by theme (covers, b-sides, remixes), starting on November 10 and be available as a complete package as of December 1. The Ontarion has an interview with Reg.
NPR, Cleveland Scene and The San Francisco Chronicle talk to Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard about their Kerouac project One Fast Move or I’m Gone, which is streaming at NPR.
Stream: Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard / One Fast Move or I’m Gone
Billboard talks to Gibbard’s Death Cab For Cutie bandmate Chris Walla about their contribution to the New Moon soundtrack.
