OK, this YouTube is a few years old. But it’s NEW TO ME (thanks Videogum). Obviously we couldn’t let you go for the day without sharing details on a gnarly two compact disc (or two cassette!) compilation that’ll change your life. After hearing deep cuts from Huey Lewis, Culture Club, and A Flock Of Seagulls, [...]
Ben Chasny will release a new Six Organs Of Admittance record this summer, and that lineup will feature several of his Comets On Fire bandmembers. It’s the follow-up to 2011′s Asleep On The Floodplain. Today, Chasny dropped the leadoff track from the new record, the chaotic scorcher “Waswasa.” Download it below. Six Organs Of Admittance [...]
As Parakeet, Yuck bassist Mariko Doi has already dropped her solo track “Tomorrow.” Today, we get to hear that track’s single, a bit of fuzzed-out dreampop called “Paper, Scissors, Stone.” It plays alongside some abstract nature footage in the video below. The self-released “Tomorrow” b/w “Paper, Scissors, Stone” 7″ is out now; order it here.
ABC reports that Chuck Brown, the musician who basically invented the Washington, D.C. percussive funk subgenre go-go, died today in Washington, where he’d recently been hospitalized for pneumonia. He was 75. Brown got his start playing with local D.C. jazz and soul bands in the ’60s, finally scoring a massive funk hit with “Bustin’ Loose” [...]
Two years ago, we made the Savannah sunburst-pop duo Sunglasses a Band To Watch. And now, an internet eternity later, they finally have a record coming out. Lefse will release their Namesake/Swim cassette EP later this summer. And below, we’ve got a download of their seven-minute track “Swim.” Sunglasses – “Swim” Namesake/Swim is out 7/3 [...]
This really happened, earlier today, “in the middle of Ohio,” according to @HereWeGoMagic: Iconic eccentric filmmaker John Waters hopped in the Here We Go Magic band van after sticking his thumb out on an interstate highway. Here’s the tweetstream: Just picked up John Waters hitchhiking in the middle of Ohio.. No joke.Waters in the van. [...]
Canuck electroclashers Doldrums will put out a new 12” this summer, and recently they dropped the lead single from that release. It’s called “Jump Up,” and it’s a ravey romp that rides an irregular, off-kilter pulse. Download it below. Doldrums – “Jump Up” The Egypt 12” is out 6/4 on Souterrain Transmissions. Just in case [...]
This week, British dance duo Simian Mobile Disco return with their new album Unpatterns. Years removed from the blog-house zeitgeist that birthed them, SMD are now all-in on near-minimal instrumental electro blips and bleeps. We’ve already posted videos for “Seraphim” and “Put Your Hands Together,” and now we’ve got a stream of the entire album [...]
Today, the brand new Brooklyn-based label Young One announced its formation, and it’s already got a small but seriously impressive roster: Bay Area cloud-rap pioneers Main Attrakionz, wide-eyed Queens trio Children Of The Night, and buzzy young Houston MC Fat Tony. Next month, Tony will link with the rapper/producer Tom Cruz to release a new [...]
