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Link: Bodies of Water on Daytrotter 2008-07-16 08:09:03 I remember back during SXSW this past year, rumors were everywhere of Daytrotter recording this act or that act; one of those groups was Bodies of Water, and as of today it's no rumor. The band's new album A Certain Feeling (which we'll have a review of soon) is out July 22nd on Secretly Canadian. By the way, it's really good. Check out their Daytrotter session, which features a couple of tracks f
Video?: Feist - “1,2,3,4″ 2008-07-14 17:12:31 Since when does Sesame Street have crane cams? Or Leslie Feist
? Read more about this here.
Clifford Brown - “Swingin’” 2008-07-13 23:44:25 Monday's are for jazz. Nothing says driving to work on Monday morning like rolling the dial down past the alt-rock band and rocking a little jazz radio. Unfortunately, my car stereo quit displaying anything 6 years ago, so without being able to tell what radio station I'm on, I have to burn all my left-of-the-dial jazz. Probably not how CliffordBrown
would have imagined it, but then, they didn't
Link: Paleo - Song Diary 2008-07-13 23:06:16 My friend Tamara has a post up today about an artist named Paleo, (aka David Andrew Strackany), who kept a "song journal" for a year. These lo-fi jems number 365 in all, one for each day of the year. He's hosting it all on his website, which means you can get them all for free here. Read more:Diary
Dr. Dog - “The Old Days” 2008-07-11 09:55:02 I hope everyone in Austin is going to Brazos tonight at Progress Coffee, should be a great show. Stop by and say Hello if you're there.
Today I'm driving back to Austin, so we'll keep it simple. Dr. Dog needs no introduction, but here's a little one: they make their living semi-impersonating Beatles tunes, but adding enough original edge to make us all feel comfortable listening to it as not a to
Show Preview: Brazos, The Weird Weeds, Nat Baldwin - Friday, July 11, Progress Coffee 2008-07-09 23:41:09 Brazos, the fantastic local band who has me on the edge of my seat with any news of new material, will be at Progress Coffee
every Friday
this month, starting the 11th and ending on August 1st. This Friday, they'll be joined by The WeirdWeeds
and Nat Baldwin
(formerly of Dirty Projectors).
Brazos haven't been out much lately, and their debut EP A City Just As Tall is still in regular rotation on Read more:Preview
Sunset: The Glowing City 2008-07-09 11:11:03 I have an interview up today over at Austin Sound with Bill Baird that you should check out. It was conducted via Google Chat, which means it's a little confusing and 100% ridiculous, but who wants to do interviews at Spider House anyway. I'm still working on a Flash version that will depict more accurately the timing of the entire thing. More to come.
In other news, the new Sunset
album The Glow Read more:Glowing
Show Preview: Ringo Deathstarr, The Watermarks - July 9, 2008 at The Beauty Bar 2008-07-08 21:01:14 It's midweek, and if your Fourth of July was anything like mine wasn't (ie full of fireworks and America), you're hurting for some excitement come midweek. Obviously, that's where Ringo
Deathstarr and The Watermarks
come in. They'll both be playing tonight at the Beauty
Bar over on E 7th, and I highly recommend checking it out.
We interviewed Ringo Deathstarr over on Austin Sound a while ago. Her Read more:Preview
Ghostkeeper: “Three More Springs” 2008-07-07 23:26:24 My brother is touring the North East right now, and I'm unbelievably jealous. Not only is he seeing one of the most beautiful parts of the country without me, but the car rental company ran out of the type of cheap budget car he ordered and reluctantly upgraded him to a convertible instead. What a jackass.
Now, I'm not touring New England. And I don't have a convertible. But if I were and I did, Read more:Springs
, Three
Black Moth Super Rainbow - New EP + Free Unreleased Songs 2008-07-30 10:36:29 Our friends over at Covert Curiosity are reporting on the new EP from Black
Moth SuperRainbow
titled Drippers, due out in September. According to the band, it's 9 tracks of recent work from the past year that won't make it on to the new album. You can pre-order it from their website.
The band are also giving away another collection of 9 "older unreleased and hard-to-find songs" called Bonus Drip Read more:Unreleased
The Walkmen - “In The New Year” + $5 Download 2008-07-29 18:50:34 If you haven't been following all the hype about the Walkmen's new album You & Me, here's the recap: it's really good.
You & Me drops officially on August 19th, but for the next three weeks, you can get the album for only $5 right here. That's not even the good part. As part of Amie Street's "Download
to Make a Difference" program, all proceeds go directly to the Memorial Sloan-Ketterin
FemBots - “Good Days” 2008-07-29 11:48:09 Toronto group FemBots are set to release their fourth album, Calling Out, this September. Now, when I first cued up the album (or rather, unzipped it and imported it into my iTunes), I stopped the song about 10 seconds into it thinking something else on my computer was making noise, or surely the garbage truck was taking the trash, but no, all those odd noises were coming from the track itself.
A
Bodies of Water - A Certain Feeling 2008-07-28 17:14:33 Fighting off an illness this past week, I didn't get a chance to hop in my blogger's chair and post as frequently as I would have liked. More specifically, I missed out on joining the welcoming rally for A Certain Feeling
, the new album by Bodies of Water, which came out last Tuesday. As I previously mentioned, the band still had me hooked from SXSW when they practically brought the Mohawk down un
Damien Jurado - “Gillian Was A Horse” 2008-07-23 10:30:08 Some years ago, I heard a track by DamienJurado
called "Paperwings," off his 2002 Sub-Pop album I Break Chairs (which I included below). I was stunned with how closely it resembled Uncle Tupelo, but when I went to check him out further, I was apparently disappointed solely by the fact that he wasn't just a moniker to the secret reunion of Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy that I've been longing for sinc Read more:Gillian
, Horse
The Mood - “Masquerade” 2008-07-17 15:10:35 That picture sums up almost perfectly the sound of New York power-rockers The Mood's new EP Synaesthesia. The six short songs blow by like a night of heavy partying, with streamers, memories and synthesizers strewn about, fleeting in and out of view. But for all the messy, reckless vibe that drives the songs, The Mood manage to tie it down into neatly wrapped pop songs just screaming to be remixed Read more:Masquerade
Oneida: Preteen Weaponry (Jagjaguwar) 2008-08-15 14:54:07 Through a veil of snare fills and murky feedback, Preteen Weaponry stammers into existence. This umpteenth album from Oneida is meant to be listened to as one song, divided nicely into three distinct parts (or "movements" if you prefer), all recorded in the same day. It's slow and persistent, a challenging album at best, but one of the most intelligent and primitively enjoyable releases of the yea
Bark Hide and Horn - “Treasure of the Everglades” 2008-08-11 14:25:19 Bark Hide and Horn sound like the bottom of a bottle of whiskey slowly running out while the night's not quite done. Solemn trumpet solos and the occasional bell part punctuate the sparse arrangement of drums and guitars, the reserved croon of lead singer Andy Furgeson proudly standing in the forefront. Recovering from the feeling of despair that haunts a first listen (despite the marginally joyfu Read more:Treasure
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