Procedure Club – “Vermont” From the band’s first proper full-length, Doomed Forever, released just last month by the venerable Slumberland. You can download two other tracks, “Feel Sorry For Me” and “Rather,” here.
YACHT – “Nausea” (X Cover) YACHT recently recorded this cover by the legendary X for the BBC. Of the track, they say, “ We wear “Nausea” like a cloak, a little ill-fitting perhaps, but draped with reverence. ” Sounds good to me. The band kicks off a string of Scandinavian dates next month, just after playing a free show at South Street Seaport on 8/6.
These New Puritans – “Hologram (SALEM Remix)”These New Puritans‘ third single from their LP Hidden gets witched-up in this new remix by SALEM (whose debut KING NIGHT is due out in September).
At Exclaim!, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Edgar Wright and Kevin Drew talk about the music of the Scott Pilgrim movie.
Sleigh Bells' Derek Miller talks to Weekly Dig about cheerleading's influence on the band's music.
At 3:AM, Steve Almond lists 10 bands "shamelessly overexposed by the 'alternative' press."
MySpace lists the best albums of 2010 so far.
A Concordance to the Poems, Prose and Songs of Leonard Cohen
BBC News profiles the 2010 Mercury Prize nominees.
Bradley's Almanac shares a song (and demo) from Kristin Hersh's new album, Crooked.
Delorean – “Real Love” The band’s new single, released this week as a limited-edition (500) hand-numbered white label 12″. It features 6 remixes, from the likes of The Field, Deadboy, ARP and others, and you can pick up a copy right here from True Panther.
Soft Metals – “Love Or Music” From their forthcoming The Cold World Melts 12″, out 8/10 on Captured Tracks.
As I mentioned about a month ago, Arcade Fire‘s forthcoming album The Suburbs (out 8/3 on Merge) is going to come in 8 cover variations. If you want to see large-size versions of all 8 covers, just click thru (I didn’t want to post a nearly 1MB image on the front-page):
