When I found out the Young & Lost Club girls, namely Nadia Dahlawi and Sara Jade, were a little younger than myself it really put how much they have done and how influential they are in the London music scene into some perspective for me. And now, celebrating their 50th single and 5 years as a label, they are releasing a double-disc compilation of 35 of their favourites.
Their story is one of musical fairytale of sneaking out of boarding school to catch gigs around London, before starting a beautifully budget fanzine called Pyrrha,’ after the girl in the epic poem by Horace – then moving into club nights and finally transforming themselves into a singles label. The singles they have released over the years reads as a who’s who of bands on that were on the brink – some of which have become successful, others who have fallen by the wayside. Some people may not have heard of the label, but everyone will have heard of a good few of the bands they have discovered.
The first track on the compilation, Blue Boy by Vincent Vincent & The Villains was their first release, in which the swooning sounds as good now as they did in 2004 – and there’s another two tracks by them on the record. Other standouts for me on the first disc are the tight indie-pop of Small Town Girl by Good Shoes, the still stomping Animator by Pull Tiger Tail, the rough-edged folk of Tickle Me Pink by Johnny Flynn, and the crooning The End of Loneliness by Friends of the Bride (actually the first band that brought Y&L to my attention back in the day).
You also couldn’t write this up without noting Noah and the Whale‘s cheery and sun-kissed Five Years Time that closes the first disc and 2 Bodies 1 Heart which opens the second – probably the most famous of the bands discovered by the Y&L girls.
We’ve featured a good few of the releases on the second disc here on TBW, but they haven’t lost any of their charm over the last couple of years. The 80s-esque Arrows of Eros by Golden Silvers, the driving rock and roll of One Week of Danger by The Virgins, the soothing What More by Planet Earth, the phenomenal Black Magic by Magic Wands (this is still in regular rotation here at Walrus Towers), and the catchy and danceable Dance The Way I Feel by Ou Est Le Swimming Pool. Noah and the Whale then close off the compilation with Blue Skies – a beautiful and uplifting song that leaves you knowing how much more you still want from Nadia and Sara.
All in all there are a shedload of hits on this compilation, and yes a few misses here and there – but this collection demonstrates just how influential their releases have been on the UK indie music scene over the last few years. Lets hope the next fifty will live up to what they have done so far.
Full Tracklisting:
1. Vincent Vincent and the Villains – Blue Boy
2. Vincent Vincent and the Villains – The Boy Who Killed Time
3. Good Shoes – Small Town Girl
4. Larrikin Love – Six Queens
5. Action Plan – Stendahl
6. New Moscow – Go Rebel Go
7. Vincent Vincent and the Villains – I’m Alive
8. Cazals – Confortable Silence
9. Fear Of Flying – Routemaster
10. Pull Tiger Tail – Animator
11. Stylofone – Nightime
12. Johnny Flynn – Tickle Me Pink
13. Friends Of The Bride – The End of Loneliness
14. Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong – Lucio Starts Fires
15. Noah And The Whale – Five Years Time
16. Noah And The Whale – 2 Bodies 1 Heart
17. Naked and the Boys – If You Find Love
18. Semifinalists – Odd Situation
19. Pull Tiger Tail – Mary Jane
20. Golden Silvers – Arrows of Eros
21. Bombay Bicycle Club – Evening/Morning
22. Lord Auch – Mareado
23. The Virgins – One Week of Danger
24. Loverman – Shoot The Pig
25. Planet Earth – What More
26. Arthur Delaney – Darling
27. Ex Lovers – Photobooth
28. Oh Minnows – Might
29. Magic Wands – Black Magic
30. Alan Pownall – The Others
31. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance The Way I Feel
32. Everything Everything – MY KYZ UR BF
33. Lunar Youth – Misfits
34. Othello Woolf – Stand
35. Noah And The Whale – Blue Skies
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I
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Can’t Hear My Eyes
Can’t Hear My Eyes 7″ (Mexican Summer, 2009)
Dungen - Fredag
4 (Kemado, 2008)
Of Montreal - Lysergic Bliss
Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl, 2004)
Super Furry Animals - Juxtaposed With U
Rings Around the World (Epic, 2001)
II
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah - Over and Over Again
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah (Self Released, 2005)
Guillemots - Made Up Love Song #43
Through the Windowpane (2006)
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
Microcastle (Kranky, 2008)
Xiu Xiu - I Luv the Valley Oh!
Fabulous Muscles (Tomlab, 2004)
III
The Kills - Black Balloon
Midnight Boom (Domino, 2008)
Magic Wands - Black Magic
Black Magic (Ark, 2008)
Spoon - Everything Hits at Once
Girls Can Tell (Merge, 2001)
Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected
Vampire Weekend (XL, 2008)
IV
Hauschka - Sweet Spring Come
Room to Expand (FatCat, 2007)
Plastik - I Am Systematically in Love With You
I Am Systematically in Love With You 7″ (Static Caravan, 2001)
Nobukazu Takemura - Fallslake
10th (Thrill Jockey, 2003)
Hot Chip - Crap Kraft Dinner
Coming On Strong (Moshi moshi, 2004)
V
Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee
Alcachofa (Playhouse, 2003)
Adult. - Hand to Phone
Hand to Phone (Clone, 2001)
Legowelt - Disco Rout
Disco Rout (Coccoon, 2002)
Bot.ox - Blue Steel
Blue Steel (I’m a Cliché, 2009)
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This one ended up all over the place as I started running out of space in the list. Some weird style contrast for sure; opens with warm-bellied psychedelic pop and closes with robotic new-wave. Of course I couldn’t find a way to make them work together. It’s barely works if you really take each section as separate playlists.
Seems to me it took forever to compile and publish this list so I’m feeling a great relief now that it’s finally over. Back to the sweet and tidy motel routine at last. It’s been a really fun exercise, tho. Hope you’ve enjoyed the series as much as I did compiling them.
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The People To Get Excited About If You're Going To SXSW But Would Like Anyway Even If You Weren't Going MixPart 1 of 2You're probably wondering what the hell all those letters mean. Kicking off South By Southwest coverage this year is a massive mix for a massive fest. There's been quite a bit of material I could have covered before the fest officially goes down, and the operative phrase there is "could have." Undoubtedly, it's a gargantuan amount, and the time I've had lately has been miniscule...and I've been lazy (I haven't even made my schedule yet!). When situations like this arise, a blogger's best friend, mix, comes into play, and so I present this. Returning from last year is the People To Get Excited About If You're Going To SXSW But Would Like Anyway Even If You Weren't Going Mix - the product of me quickly skimming through that list of artists and jotting down names that had me getting all giddy. SXSW Music officially began when the clock struck midnight earlier this morning! For those of you going, I tip my hat and remind you to prepare for a crazy, crazy, crazy time...The PTGEAIYGTSBWLAEIYWG Mix Pt. 1 (artist name leads to site and all songs are right click - save as):Allo Darlin' - EmilyAlphabeat - Public ImageBen Kweller - FightBlack Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - GunpowderBorn Ruffians - Little GarconThe Bright Light Social Hour - Back and ForthCasiokids - Fot I HoseChoir of Young Believers - Action/ReactionDan Black - U + Me =Efterklang - Modern DriftFanfarlo - LunaFirst Aid Kit - Heavy StormFrightened Rabbit - Keep Yourself WarmGet Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. - D.A.N.C.E. [Justice Cover]Heypenny - DooleyJenny Owen Youngs - Fuck Was ILawrence Arabia - Apple Pie BedLes Savy Fav - Patty LeeThe Lovely Feathers - FranticMagic Wands - Black MagicLearn more about South By Southwest at the official festival site.---------------------------------------------------------------No Otherwheres For This One Guys
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Yeah this is the week where we just recycle all the shit we wrote last week, deal with it champ. So in case you didn’t see what we had to say about The Magic Wands on our Best Records Of 2009 List, here’s what we spit out…
“The Magic Wands – “Magic And Dreams”
This debut is technically only an EP but it’s so damn good (plus we heard so few people talking about this band) that we’re putting this fucker on here anyways. Sue us. Instantly like-able and totally sugar sweet dreamy danceable pop songs sprinkled with dirty guitars. Think The Jesus And Mary Chain “Honey’s Dead” era guitar tones. This transient couple/band who cite both Los Angeles, CA and Nashville, TN as their home, are currently holed up in a San Franciscan studio banging out their first full length that should have you dancing your ass off sometime in 2010. We can’t fuckin’ wait!”
The Magic Wands – “Black Magic”
And now here’s their new video for “Kiss Me Dead” which was directed by Brandon Robert/MW, it’s pretty epic. Where the fuck do we get massive stuffed tiger-heads? We want a few of those!
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So can we all agree that this was about the worst decade ever and that 2009 was the cherry on top of the diarrhea sundae that was the last 10 years? Everyone was broke, the best rock n’ roll band in the world- Oasis- broke up, jobs were hard to come by, the rock press got tricked into thinking “lo-fi” automatically equaled “good”, Michael Jackson’s overdose transformed him from “Jacko The Tabloid Joke” to “MJ – Demi-God” in the eyes of millions of mindless idiot consumers, Crabcore swept through the Bible-belt like a brushfire, Sky Saxon of The Seeds died and gas prices shot up higher than anything NASA has ever put their name on. However, hard times are usually fodder for great art and 2009 churned out more bueno records than any year in recent memory. In fact, the quantity of rad music we were turned onto this year was so large that we were forced to expand Buddyhead’s “sometimes-annual” Best & Worst Records Of The Year to 30 records. We also felt slightly guilty for that three year vacation (*cough*bender*cough*) we took from all of this. Hey man, we got our priorities mixed up! What did you expect from Buddyhead? Get Real!
But fear not, because Buddyhead is back and “For The Children” now more than ever. Now that ODB is dead and gone, we’ll be picking up his slack. We don’t walk, we get carried. And you’ve got our word that we’ll not be taking any breaks (that are too long) from now on. Hell who knows, maybe we’ll even back-track and play ketchup with 2006, 2007 and 2008 Best/Worst lists. Hey, maybe Axl Rose will grow his hair back too. Either way, we’re not going anywhere. So, unless some creepy-psycho rolls up with a copy of Catcher In The Rye and pulls a Mark David Chapman on us, we plan on sticking with this whole Buddyhead thing. We love doing this and, let’s be honest, at this point, it’s really all we know how to do, unless you wanna count pumping gas…but that doesn’t really make our lady-friends wanna play “Hide The Pickle” with us. Shit, doubt we’d even get a game of “Just the Tip” going if it wasn’t for this. Plus, from our point of view it seems safe to declare that we have entered Buddyhead’s most productive year ever with our weekly (or at worst monthly) Gossip updates and ever expanding staff in 2009, so the chances of this ego-masteurbation-rant coming true are actually pretty good.
This year’s list was compiled by the following music journalists: Travis Keller, Kevin Hilliard, Meathead and Joel Jett.
You’ll probably notice that this collection of albums is pretty different than every other year-end out there, which might as well all be a single list considering how many of the same bands appear. Excellent use of the “Copy and Paste” functions American Music Press, you guys really provide a valuable service! Can’t believe you actually get paid to write about music, it’s a crime we tell ya! Please note: we here at Buddyhead stick with what we know, so you won’t find us inserting our white-cracker feet in our mouths over who’s the best rapper or giving a flying fuck about DJ culture like who’s the best re-mixer like Spin, Rolling Stone and “The Blogs” are trying to these days. We’d rather review potato chips folks. That said, you’ll find that the rock bands on this list have little in common with each other, stylistically or otherwise. Also, we’re not ranking any of these records, because let’s be honest, that’s fucking retarded! This isn’t college basketball, this is rock n’ roll. Like we’ve said before, how could you possibly decide between Shat and Radiohead, and which of them contributed the greatest album of the year? That’s apples and oranges my good friends, the universe needs both opposing energies to keep balance and remain in perfect harmony. It’s science, look that shit up!
As usual, we’ve also included a “Worst Of” list for you. Now don’t start talking all that shit about how the dudes at Buddyhead are negative, like to bum people out and are all around downer people! Not so! We’re just doing like Nardwuar The Human Serviette, we’re here to serve the youth. Go ahead and use this list of terrible albums as what we’d like to call a “compass of evil”. Think of it as a guide for today’s children to point them in the right direction and steer them clear from audio molestation. Just like it’s important to study all of the world’s wars so that we don’t make the same mistakes, these albums and artists should be studied so that their musical atrocities will never be committed again.
The “Rules”:
No re-issues, “best of” albums, live albums, or previously unreleased material collections. Also no Buddyhead releases, or bands with Buddyhead people in them… though by now you should know that if we’re involved with it, owning that shit is totally mandatory. So is hitting the Buddyhead Online Merch Store HARD, if you’re reading this shit then you owe it to us to go buy a shirt RIGHT NOW!
Drum roll please…. So once again ladies and germs of the internet, in a very immature attempt to shock and wow people with bad words and even badder grammar, not to mention a pretty damn good excuse to showcase our latest euphemisms for penis, vagina, and wussy, and most importantly for the benefit of the children, here they are… Buddyhead’s Best & Worst Records Of 2009, in no particular order!
BEST RECORDS OF 2009:
(in no particular order)
AA Bondy – “When The Devil’s Loose”
This dude is better at the whole “just me and a guitar” thing than anybody else right now, HANDS DOWN! AA Bondy runs circles around pretty much everyone in the song writing department plus the dude has a black belt in fingerpicking and playing harmonica. In fact, he sounds best when it’s just him, his guitar + a harmonica. That’s why it was kind of a bummer he recorded this second album with a full band. It’s still a great record full of great songs though – duh we put it on the Best Records Of The Year list – but we can’t help but think they would have sounded better if they were recorded in the same vein as his sparse and stripped down debut, “American Hearts”. At least he hasn’t gotten into world music yet.
Bonus trivia: This dude doesn’t like how much waste hotels create so he sleeps in his car on tour. How fucking weird and rad is that?
AA Bondy – “Mightiest of Guns”
Reigning Sound – “Love and Curses”
We love us some Greg Cartwright around here, we’re OG Cartwright. Believe it. In fact we’ve been down with this dude since back in 1995 when Joel floated Travis promo copies of “Soul Food” from The Oblivians that he got from the record store he worked at in Northern Idaho. Old school. Here with “Love And Curses” the old dogs once again show all the young pups how it’s done. Although this sure as hell isn’t as good as it’s predecessors, “Time Bomb High School” or “Too Much Guitar”, this new batch of Greg Cartwright songs is only further proof that his songwriting is unfuckwithable! Hey Greg, we heard you’re a trust fund kid who loves to drop cheddar on music and all things rock n’ roll!? Well hey there Kemosabi, ain’t nothing more rock n’ roll than Buddyhead… can we call you daddy?
Reigning Sound – “Call Me”
The Strange Boys – “And Girls Club”
Aside from the singer sounding a little too much like “Blonde On Blonde” era Bobby Dylan (then again we can’t really think of a better dude’s style to bite), The Strange Boys are what we’d call guitar rock at it’s finest. In these days of bloated rock bands and boring “reunions” that have lost the plot, these dudes shine like a beacon of light due to how much they totally get it. They’re a bare bones garage-rock band who take the best from old blues and county music, then shove their take on it through a modern psychedelic fuzz. The word on the street is that these dudes have already recorded their second album “Be Brave” in Costa Mesa with their sometime member “when he has time”, Tim Presely from Darker My Love. Our favorite song on THIS LP is “Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up”. Check it out.
The Strange Boys – “Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up”
King Khan & BBQ – Invisible Girl / The Almighty Defenders – “The Almighty Defenders”
We couldn’t pick between these two records featuring King Khan plus you know how fuckin’ lazy we are! So here are two records with our favorite James Brown impersonator, King Khan, the first being “Invisible Girl”. It’s the third album from this “Shrine-less” King Khan & BBQ duo and it looks like they’ve finally perfected their songwriting formula, either that or third time is a charm, cuz this record is SOLID! “Animal Party” is the best, not to mention cheapest, babysitter in the world, FACT! Put that song on repeat and watch any child discover his new favorite song. The King Khan & BBQ Show + Cole Alexander, Jared Swiley, Ian Saint Pé, and Joe Bradley from The Black Lips = The Almighty Defenders. An ‘evil gospel’ supergroup album recorded during an off-week between tours in Berlin for both bands. Squeezed out in a drunken week, this collection of party tunes is almost better than either bands’ real studio records cuz it captures the feeling of seeing these hillbillies live. “What do you mean there’s a party going on tonight?”
The Almighty Defender -”The Ghost With The Most”
King Khan and BBQ – “Animal Party”
The Magic Wands – “Magic And Dreams”
This debut is technically only an EP but it’s so damn good (plus we heard so few people talking about this band) that we’re putting this fucker on here anyways. Sue us. Instantly like-able and totally sugar sweet dreamy danceable pop songs sprinkled with dirty guitars. Think The Jesus And Mary Chain “Honey’s Dead” era guitar tones. This transient couple/band who cite both Los Angeles, CA and Nashville, TN as their home, are currently holed up in a San Franciscan studio banging out their first full length that should have you dancing your ass off sometime in 2010. We can’t fuckin’ wait!
The Magic Wands – “Black Magic”
Jacuzzi Boys – “No Seasons” (+ “Island Avenue EP”)
Florida totally fucking sucks. Sorry if you live there (really, we are), but it’s neck-n-neck with TexASS as the worst state in the union. And musically, not a whole lot of good shit has come out of the state where midwestern fuckheads go to die and bake in the sun. In fact, most of their musical contributions can be counted on one hand. Let’s see… home to crocodiles, hurricanes that wipe out thousands of houses and swamps full of snakes… sounds like a party but I think we’ll stay over here in the sunshine state of California. But we’ve gotta acknowledge that Florida HAS given us Tom Petty, 2 Live Crew and now on a third finger…. straight outta Miami… we’ve got three youngster weirdos known as The Jacuzzi Boys who are takin-names, kickin-ass and makin-hits! This pupil-dilatingly Nugget-influenced trio cut their teeth with a string of badass seven-inch releases full of fuzz (“I Fought a Crocodile”, split with Woven Bones, “Ghost Ghost” and our favorite “Island Ave” EP), bad acid, and animal references. We’re pretty sure that almost every song is about an animal. And now, with “No Seasons”, they have outdone themselves (and their contemporaries, The Black Lips) with this epic party-starter full length. To quote fellow Miami resident, godfather of punkrock and Jacuzzi Boys fan, Mr. James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (AKA Iggy Pop): “There’s a band here in Miami called the Jacuzzi Boys. It’s a stupid name but they’ve got a good spirit. Shout out to the Jacuzzi Boys!” Good work fellas, a firm slap on the ass to you.
Jacuzzi Boys – “Island Ave” (7 inch version)
Jacuzzi Boys -”Dock”
Death – “…For The Whole World To See”
Technically a reissue seeing as how it was recorded in 1974 but didn’t come out til 2009. And technically this record is just too bad ass to follow any rules anyways so it makes this list despite what we said in the intro. Death is the three Hackney brothers who were the inspiration to Bad Brains. They were fueled by their Detroit brothers in The Stooges and MC5. These dudes were ahead of their time. 35 years ahead of their time to be exact.
Death – “Politicians In My Eyes”
Ty Segall – “Lemons”
Ty Segall’s self-titled debut that was released at the end of 2008 on Castle Face Records is fuckin’ great. But his sophomore record, Lemons, that showed up via Goner Records (which is run by a dude in the Oblivians’ who isn’t Greg Cartwright, Eric Friedl) a few months later is even better! San Fran’s one-man-band comes out hard, heavy and poppy at the same time. This record sounds like it was recorded entirely in a bathroom plus it’s got a Captain Beefheart cover off “Safe As Milk” on it, bonus points!
Ty Segall – “It #1″
Kasabian – “West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum”
For a place that’s mostly known for it’s lack of good food, plethora of bad teeth, lack of showers and negative sunny days, England sure knows how to rock. These lads that wear their Mancunian influences on their sleeve proudly are a prime example of modern rock n’ roll done right. Sure these dudes sound a lot like The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Oasis and the rest of The Creation Records catalog all rolled into one but that’s pretty fookin’ cool if you ask us. Plus with this Dan The Automator- produced third full length not only have these dudes hit their stride but they’ve proved they know how to write some fookin’ catchy songs and still retain a raw and danceable sound that’s all their own. In the UK “West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum” was number #1 on the charts for several weeks, only to be knocked off by the sharp increase in sales of Michael Jackson albums following his overdose. Speaking of, let’s party Michael Jackson style! Who’s got the propofol, lorazepam and midazolam?
Kasabian – “Where Did All The Love Go?”
Atlas Sound – “Logos”
Speaking of weird, this dude is the king. The beautiful album that almost wasn’t by the dude that’s so weird he doesn’t even need drugs. After an accidental leak halfway through recording, Deerhunter frontman Brad Cox almost stopped recording the awesome mindfuck that is Logos. We’re glad he pulled it together, grew a pair and finished this thing cuz it rules the school.
Atlas Sound – “Shella”
White Denim – “Fits”
Judging by the sound of this album, these dudes have listened to some good records and done some good drugs in their lives. This record sounds like what happens when 3 dudes are prescribed LSD for their A.D.D. We wouldn’t say something called “songwriting” was in the front of these dudes’ minds when they got together to write “Fits”, but a strong sense of how to keep things musically interesting and have a good time while doing it was definitely present…plus the singer of this band just so happens to be the son of former Major League Baseball catcher Geno Petralli who caught Nolan Ryan’s 300th career win in 1990! Yeah, we just knew that off the top of our heads.
White Denim – “I Start To Run”
Future of the Left – “Travels with Myself and Another”
I guess if you never brush your teeth, you really can get a lot more done, cause here’s another Brit band on our best of! When the red coats in Future of the Left put out “Curses” in ‘07, they simultaneously reminded us of all the reasons that McLusky was a great band and showed us they had some new tricks up their sleeves. With “Travels with Myself and Another”, Andy Falkous and co. prove that this project might just be superior to McLusky. Armed with the 12 killer tunes that just might be the most perfect embodiment of snotty British (or in this case, Welsh) melodic punk rock since Wire’s late 70’s heyday, FOTL makes a relatively old tradition sound fresh and vital. Able to shift from aggressively in your face to anthemic on a dime, these teachuggers find a balance on this record that will ensure its classic status for years to come. There are very few bands out there that are writing songs this well-constructed and instantly memorable and there are NO bands out there that sound this fucking punk while doing it. Take notes kids, this band has being rad down to a science.
The Future Of The Left – “The Hope That House Built”
Tortoise – “Beacons of Ancestorship”
When you get to be an old dude, it’s easy to lose things. For example, the dirty old men in Chicago’s Tortoise lost their balls for a while a few years ago when they put out “It’s All Around You”, which was like audio-anesthesia. Fortunately, they rediscovered them, squirted a litttle fixadent on there and shoved’em back in their pants cause “Beacons of Ancestorship” flirts with levels of rocking-ness these dudes have rarely, if ever approached in the past. Listen to “Prepare Your Coffin” and tell us you don’t get a little amped. Don’t get too jazzed, cause “Millions Now Living Will Never Die” this record ain’t, but the amazing songwriting and talent for development is still there and Tortoise still dwarfs pretty much every other instrumental band we’ve ever heard. However, this record still doesn’t make us want to visit Chicago.
Tortoise – “Prepare Your Coffin”
Kitty, Daisy, & Lewis – “S/T”
Out of London (yep another one) a trio of siblings brings us an album that is so much fun it doesn’t matter that most of it is covers. These multi-instrumentalist kids are so damn good that we’re pretty sure their parents have been beating them since a young age to turn them into the stage puppets they are. Plus you can’t deny that this record has some fuckin’ amazingly authentic sounding production that you can only achieve through vintage recording equipment and a small guy named Liam Watson from the infamous Milkshakes twisting the knobs. Child abuse or not, these kids bring us the best in rock, blues, swing, country, and everything in between and do it with a passion and energy that makes it anything but a tired shtick.
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – “Goin’ Up The Country”
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – “Communion”
This two-disc, twenty-four song collection is the fifth studio album from T.S.O.O.L. These Nordic weirdos have been cranking out killer records that don’t sound like ABBA and aren’t death metal for close to a decade now from their little Scandinavian country of Sweden. In case you didn’t know, that’s where Ikea is from. Chances are your apartment looks exactly like these dudes’ apartments.
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – “Thrill Me”
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – “ST”
This LP originally came out in 2007 in the rest of the world, but didn’t see the light of day here in The States till this year. Technically it’s not a new release but let’s face facts, until a record comes out in America it’s not really out. You can thank the fine folks at Goner records for making sure that we were able to hear the debut from these Aussie badasses. This LP will smash you over the head with Stooges-like-swagger mixed with some kind of arty twist while leaving all the pretentious bullshit behind them. Grab your cup of coffee and blast “Get Up Morning” to get your day started right! Also make sure to pick up “Primary Colors” and whatever their other records are called.
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – “Get Up Morning”
Box Elders – “Alice and Friends”
With these dudes making noise like this there may actually be some kind of reason to go to Nebraska other than having to pass through it on the way to somewhere else. Oh wait, that’s why bands go on tour! Three dudes including an off the hook drummer that kind of resembles a goblin who plays both keyboards and drums at the same time in the vein of Animal from The Muppets. Sounds goofy but Box Elders have seriously made one of the best pop records of the year.
Box Elders – “Jackie Wood”
Digital Leather – “Warm Brother”
We here at Buddyhead have been fans of Digital Leather since the very beginning, when it was mainly a punk synth fling from the lone Shawn Foree. On this new LP they’ve really stepped up their game. It’s hands down the best offering thus far in their career. This time around that little studio project has become a full on band, includes way more guitar and they get bonus points cuz the title is a reference to a Nazi gay joke! There also seems to be a bit more focus on the writing cuz songs are all top notch and the lyrics are solid. In another time and place Tony Wilson would have been begging these fuckers to sign up on Factory Records. “Kisses” gets my vote for song of the year!
Digital Leather – “Kisses”
The Mean Jeans – “Are You Serious”
These three champions breathe new life into the Ramones core brand of punk rock. They rock the fuck out and party like animals. None of em have that stupid Ramones haircut either! So grab a six- pack of “Werewolf Killers” (Silver Bullets AKA Coors Lite), put this platter on, dance around in your undies and get ready to watch the sun come up.
The Mean Jeans – “Case Race”
Vic Chesnutt – “At The Cut”
You might remember the recently deceased (he overdosed on muscle relaxers on December 25th 2009) Georgian singer-songwriter, Vic Chesnutt, from the 90’s tribute album of mainstream artists covering his songs called “Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation”. Or you might be familiar with some of the seventeen albums he’s released during his career, including two produced by Michael Stipe. Either way this dude was in a wheelchair and he was running circles around almost everyone in the songwriting department. This latest offering was recorded in Montreal, is a collaboration with Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto and members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt. Zion and could quite possibly be his best slab of plastic ever! We’ll miss ya Vic.
Vic Chesnutt – “Flirted With You All My Life”
Obits – “I Blame You”
When we first heard that The Hot Snakes broke up we were bummed that one of our favorite bands was no more. But looking back on the way things developed it now looks as though us Hot Snake fans totally won! Instead of one rad band, we ended up with San Diego’s The Nightmarchers (fronted by singer/comedian John Reis along with Hot Snake Gar (original Hot Snakes drummer), the pigtailed Jason Kourkounis, and some 15 year- old bass player named Tommy) as well as New York’s Obits (fronted by Rick Froberg along with three other dudes we don’t know)! Now the radness is bi-costal BITCHES!
Obits – “Pine On”
Githead –“Landing”
What was once merely a Wire side-project, Githead has now landed with its third full length as an equally exciting project featuring Mr. Colin Newman. Which if you know how much we loved the “Read & Burn” EPs, “Send” as well as the early Wire shit then you know we’re not just talkin’ shit about these jams!
Githead – “Landing”
Francis Harold & The Holograms “Who Said These Were Happy Times”
This is the hate-filled soundtrack you’ve been waiting for… primal noise punk and sleaze-infested ooze that steals a page from Flipper’s book. The only complaint we have is we’d like the fucking vocals up in the mix a bit more cuz part of the fun of Flipper is killer poetic lyrics. Did we mention these guys might have put out the year’s best album cover too?
Francis Harold & The Holograms – “Christian Rat Attack”
Meat Puppets – “Sewn Together”
Off heroin and ready to rock again, these cow-punkers put out their twelve full length in 2009. Still weirder than most bands, The Meat Puppets handed us their most cohesive collection to date. Hide your mom when these dudes plow through town!
Meat Puppets – “Rotten Shame”
Extra Golden – “Thank You Very Quickly“
Extra Golden is two dudes from Golden (which featured bad-ass John Theodore on drums), Ian Eagleson, and a dude from Weird War, plus a dude from Kenya going nuts! Kenyan Benga music with American Rock and some African guitar sprinkled in for flavor. This kind of thing usually is chock- full of lameness (see Vampire Weekend below), but these dudes are so undeniably weird and wonderfully epic that this album can’t be stopped.
Extra Golden – “Gimakiny Akia”
Jarvis Cocker – “Further Complications”
Not our favorite Jarvis moment by any means (in fact Travis gave it a bad review), but this Steve Albini -produced sophomore solo effort has grown on us. This ain’t no Pulp record for sure, but Jarvis comes off randier-than-ever with Angela and other tales of shagging. Jarvis is so well dressed that he somehow makes even his mediocre records seem stylishly great.
Jarvis Cocker – “Angela”
The Bugs – “Barbaric, Mystical, Bored”
One of Portland Oregon’s best- kept secrets! The Bugs fucking own and this record is proof. Two piece garage punk that blends everything from the art punk of the Urinals to full on ballads that would fit in on some lost 60’s Nugget single. Trying to pin down this band’s sound is a bit unfair since they can pretty much do whatever they want at any time and make it work. You just have to get the record and hear it for yourself.
The Bugs – “This Ain’t Rocket Science”
Shannon and the Clams – “I Wanna Go Home”
Brilliant band out of San Francisco that put this LP out just before the year’s end. Shannon has some pipes on her and her soulful vocals over these girl group doo wop sounds makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I always wondered why in the hell people flipped out over the Detroit Cobras who are a glorified cover band with no stage presence? Why not give Shannon & The Clams some of that love. They write their own shit and perform it with way more pizazz.
Shannon – “You Can Come Over”
Tyvek – “S/T”
First full length from these cats that caught them quite a bit of flack from a bunch of crybaby garage rock trend-hopping door knobs. I say it rules! Twisted catchy art punk in the vein of Wire meets Mission Of Burma played so loose it feels like bubblegum is the only thing holding the songs together. Add some lo-fi production and there you have it.
Tyvek – “Frustration Rock”
Bob Dylan – “Together Through Life” / “Christmas in the Heart”
Once again Zimmerman steps up to the plate and facials every young-hip band with another grandslam of an album that just so happened to debut at number one in both the US (making him the oldest artist to ever debut at number one in the Billboard 200 chart) and UK. And for those that are keeping score, this one just happens to be his 33rd album at sixty eight years of age. Beat that. With the help of his regular touring band plus David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Mike Campbell who he stole from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for this record, Dylan put out his best album in years. Let’s not forget about the epicly violent video for “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”, that was a pretty cool move, especially for a cat his age. Also released this year was Zim-Dawg’s 34th record, “Christmas in the Heart”. Which is, if you aren’t a poser and know your Dylanology, pretty fuckin’ funny.
Bob Dylan – “Beyond Here Lies Nothin”
WORST RECORDS OF 2009:
(in no particular order)
Brokencyde “I’m Not A Fan But the Kids Like It” / Millionaires “Just Got Paid, Let’s Get Laid”
Like we said, we’re not ranking these records. However, if you held a gun to our heads and asked us to tell you what the worst record of 2009 is, we’d probably tell you it was Brokencyde’s album “I’m Not a Fan but the Kids Like It”. That’s a pretty bold statement considering we also had Attack Attack!, Marilyn Manson, Puddle of Mudd, and Insane Clown Posse records come out in ‘09 and even a Creed reunion record to contend with this year. Seriously though people, this shit crosses every musical line that we’re aware of, draws another line, crosses that and then molests a puppy on the other side. This band’s terrorism-justifying sound is an amalgam of every terrible thing that’s happened in music since the late 90’s: Misspelled band name a la Nu-Metal? Check. Emo singing paired up with some subhuman screaming in the background in the vein of shitty emocore? Double check. Auto-tuned vocals that would be right at home on a T. Pain song? Yep. Geometry haircuts with retarded colors and graffiti- themed clothing that every metalcore band on the cover of Alternative Press seems to be sporting these days? Done and done. Add a dash of the lamest hip-hop/crunk beats imaginable and a pinch of pro date-rape lyrics and you’ve got what might be the worst record of the year and possibly even the worst record we’ve ever heard.
Oh, yeah almost forgot about Millionaires. They’re just Brokencyde with vaginas. Fuck them too. We hope these mutants all give each other gonorrhea.
Reel Big Fish – “Fame, Fortune, & Fornication”
Satan finally got what he wanted for Christmas in 2009: a ska band covering Poison and more! You really scored big this year champ cuz those rude boys in Reel Big Fish figured since they tricked 7th graders into liking ska in the 90’s by covering A-Ha! they could pull the same shit with a full covers record in 2009. BAD BET dudes. Call up the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and see if they can set you up with an interview at whichever spaghetti factory they’re waiting tables at now. Bring your flair, you’re gonna need it!
Dashboard Confessional – “Alter The Ending”
It’s been a while since this tattooed fairy released a record and we heard about it. Guess we’ve been lucky he hasn’t been on our radar. This pussy reinvented sucking in 2001 and is just as bad in 2009, FACT! FYI – if you bust out your Webster’s Dictionary and look up the word “pussy”, you’ll find the following:
Pus-sy / poosee/ n. (pl. ies)
1. a cat. (also pussycat) 2. the vulva. (coarse slang, usually considered a taboo use)
3. the singer of dashboard confessional.
Creed – “Full Circle”
PRAISE THE LORD! That’s what we were thinking as news came that we were rid of these goons when Scott Stapp and the other Jesus-freaks from Creed “broke up” back in 2004! BUT, just like that creepy little girl Carol-Anne from Poltergeist II said… “They’re baaaaaaack!” Yep, that break-up turned out to only be a four-year breather from their Christian Rock fueled P-Jam tribute band before they realized they needed to resurrect Creed so that they could steal back some of the inbred country vag they’d lost to Three Doors Down. Newsflash: EVEN JESUS HATES CREED! This is a total bummer cause a new Creed record coming out in 2009 is the musical equivalent of your alcoholic dad showing up again after a four-year long bender: it stinks, it talks a lot about submitting to a higher power, and its presence drastically increases the likelihood of domestic violence.
Guns N’ Roses – “Chinese Democracy”
Before you guys start whining in the comments about how this record came out two years ago and shouldn’t technically qualify for our Worst Records of 2009 list, let us remind you that it took Axl Rose and a laundry list of retards 13 years to record and release this mind- blowingly embarrassing legacy annihilator of an album. Plus, if you thought that a guy with a giant yellow bee-foot guitar and a dude with a KFC chicken bucket on his head being in Guns N’ Roses was fucking mortifying, then check out the newest and by far the douchiest “NOT-SLASH” toolbox that’s on Axl’s payroll in the video below. Why is it that older rockers always think dudes who look like they are cast-members of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” are actually hip young dudes that are perfect for their rock band? Ten bucks says that this douchebag, DJ Ashba, ends up on HCwDB.com in the near future.
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Weezer – “Raditude”
Weezer has never been particularly good at coming up with album titles. Hell, half the time they don’t even bother, (their 2008 release was their third self-titled). That’s some George Foreman shit. But you know they really threw in the towel once they started drawing inspiration from Rainn Wilson, from whose grotesquely large and misshapen head the name of their latest affront to common decency, Raditude, was spawned. He’s probably the genius who also thought up the idea of the Weezer Snuggie, long past the point when it might have actually been slightly funny, or at least timely. Instead, it was just a stupefyingly weak attempt to latch onto the ass end of a joke that no one has actually laughed at for at least a year, proving once and for all that Weezer is where irony goes to die (see also: everything else they’ve ever done). In case that’s not enough to convince you, may we present Exhibit B: “Can’t Stop Partying (feat. Lil Wayne).” We rest our case.
Kiss – “Sonic Boom”
No one likes it when old people wear costumes.
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“Kiss live stage banter”
Pearl Jam – “Backspacer”
We’ve tried to back this traveling retirement home in the past because, unlike most of the spunk-chuggers on this list, these dudes actually put out some good albums at one point in their career. Then Spready Cheddar and co. released this record, which is about as awesome as the drum gloves Matt Cameron straps on every night. This record sounds like a sampler of the 11 worst bar bands over 40 in America. Time to put down the instruments and pick up the Bingo cards dudes. While you’re at it, have Matt call up the boys from Soundgarden and tell them the reunion idea is a NON-STARTER.
Monsters of Folk – “Monsters of Folk”
Monsters of Suck is more like it. If you’ve ever read Buddyhead, you know we’re somewhat less than pro-Conor Oberst, so that douche nozzle’s involvement + the ego trip of a band name is two strikes against this record before we even put it in the stereo. However, we’ve backed Jim James’ main gig “My Morning Jacket” before so there was some hope that this album might contain a song or two on it we could get psyched about. That bet turned out to be about as solid as a Taco Bell dinner on the way out. Spend your money on that AA Bondy record instead of this collection of songs that are white as bird shit.
Juliette Lewis – “Terra Incognita”
Scientologist/actress Juliette Lewis has dumped her band of hired-guns known as “The Licks” and is back with her third attempt at being taken seriously as a musician that she hired Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta (see below) to produce. STRIKE THREE! YERRRRRR OUTTA HERE! Also see the 30 Seconds to Mars entry below…most of that applies here too.
Fuck Buttons – “Tarot Sport”
This is the sophomore record by two British assholes (see we don’t love everything that comes out of England) that raided Toys R’ Us for instruments, used the word “fuck” (hardy har har) in their name and were immediately hailed as geniuses by dorks in the indie rock press. We’re pretty sure we could record a similar sounding record by bringing a tape recorder to a 8 year-olds birthday party. We call bullshit.
Chickenfoot – “Chickenfoot”
As rad as early Van Halen was, the subsequent decades have been filled with a lot of bummer moments in Michael “The Secret Weapon” Anthony’s career and have culminated in the ultimate lame experience known as gold record status band Chickenfoot. For the benefit of future generations let’s review the six steps towards total-wackness that The Secret Weapon took to arrive here today on Buddyhead’s Worst Records of 2009 List.
1) Van Hagar
2) Van Halen III = Van Halen + dicklicker from Extreme
3) “The Other Side” = the Michael Anthony/Sammy Hagar Van Halen tribute band
4) Van Halen (except Michael Anthony who was replaced with Eddie Van Halen’s 16 year old son, Wolfgang) reforming for a world tour with Diamond David Lee Roth
5) Mad Anthony’s Hot Sauce
6) Chickenfoot = Sammy Hagar + “The Secret Weapon” + Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer/Will Ferrell lookalike Chad Smith + bald wanker Joe “Satch” Satriani
It’s pretty sad times when there are enough inbred retards out there buying this soundtrack to beating your kids to, to award these out-of-touch yahoos with a gold record. Considering all of the above the only thing super about this “supergroup” is that it’s SUPER SHITTY! Hey Joe Satriani, at least you can relax a bit now cuz there’s no way Coldplay (or anyone else for that matter) will ever think about ripping off any Chickenfoot songs!
Pens – “hey friend ! what you doing?”
I’ll tell you what I’m doin! Throwing this turd like a frisbee across the room. Hey girls! Just because something is recorded in a lo-fi manner doesn’t make it good. You have to have some songs in there somewhere. But good for you! You fooled quite a few people into thinking that this is some good girl punk scronk. We at Buddyhead are not taking the bait. Whatever happened to Huggybear?
Muse – “The Resistance”
The world’s lamest Radiohead cover band apparently bought a Rage Against the Machine record and made a concept record telling people to “Resist the Man”. We urge you to “resist” this record. Way to self-nuke dorks.
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St. Vincent – “Actor”
In 2009, we’ve called this chick “The Michael Jordan of Boringness”, but we also could have used the “Tiger Woods of Whiteness” (with reference to both his success as a golfer and his accomplishments as a cheating husband) or the “Muhammed Ali of Blandness”. In 2010, we’re looking forward to using the phrase “The St. Vincent of _______”. Hope you’re as excited as we are.
The Mars Volta “Octahedron” (2009) + Omar Rodriguez Lopez “A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One” (2004), “Omar Rodriguez” (2005), “Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo” (2007), “The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange” (2007), “Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far)” (2007), “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus” (2008), “Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead” (2008), “Old Money” (2008), “Megaritual” (2009), “Despair” (2009), “Cryptomnesia” (2009), “Los Sueños de un Higado” (2009), “Xenophanes” (2009), and “Solar Gambling” (2009)
This is what it sounds like when not a single person has said to a musician “Dude, this is a really bad idea” for about 5 years. Yeah, we know some of the dozen or so records we’ve listed above came out before 2009, but since apparently Omar and the yes men that make up his circle of musician friends seem to never stop recording every single retarded idea they have, this shit comes off like one long, self-indulgent stroke session that doesn’t have an end. Therefore, we think it’s as valid to tell you ALL of this sucks in 2009 as any other time. Omar, muchacho, seriously, it’s break time. Now HIT THE SHOWERS.
Vampire Weekend – “Contra”
Yeah we know this record comes out next week, but since we’ve already been subjected to 3 songs of it and were assaulted by the bitch’s face that adorns this pile of shit everywhere we looked in 2009, thanks to the “viral marketing” campaign their image consultant came up with for the promo, this record is on the list. Yeah, we get it dorks, you wear Polo shirts with popped collars and like chicks who do the same. Congrats. Led by a former white rapper from Columbia University (don’t believe us, check “http://www.myspace.com/lhommerun“ for his “ironic” hip hop stylings) who apparently got a hold of an afro-beat record between trips to the Lacoste store in the Hamptons, this band crowbars that style in with wuss-rock and the results are dick-shrivelingly lame. Do you really care what a group with that kind of biography’s SECOND album sounds like? Buy the Extra-Golden record instead.
Girls – “Album”
San Francisco’s Girls put out a couple of really amazing singles called “Lust For Life” and “Hellhole Ratrace” that got us pretty excited to hear their debut full length. Kinda like the date that leaves you after dinner and a movie you dropped some serious coin on with nothing more than blue-balls, this cleverly titled “Album” left us just as frustrated and with less money to get a tug-job on Hollywood Blvd. Total let down.
Animal Collective – “Merriweather Post Pavilion”
Lazy music journalists tried to act like these nerds armed with bongos and delay pedals were the second coming of The Beatles or some shit. Everyone from Mojo to Rolling Stone to Pitchdork seemed to have these fruitcakes somewhere in their top five records for 2009. These dudes couldn’t write a song if their lives depended on it, they are to songwriting what “Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” is to cinema.
Alice in Chains – “Black Gives Way to Blue”
Oh, cool! A new Alice In Chains album! We were totally bummed when they broke up, but now they’re back together and everything is just like it was before! They didn’t let a little thing like the death of their one-of-a-kind lead singer and highly contributive songwriter get in the way. Tell you what, Jerry: If you can produce a written, signed and notarized letter from Layne Staley stating that, after his inevitable heroin overdose, it’s totally cool for you guys to replace him with a Lenny Kravitz impersonator and then start putting out albums with Elton John, then maybe we’ll start taking the “new” Alice in Chains a little more seriously. In the meantime, the least you could do is put a big fucking asterisk after the name, to prevent anyone from accidentally lumping this piece of shit in with the real Alice in Chains albums. There’s already a pretty extensive list of bands out there actively trying to ruin your legacy (see: Godsmack, Shinedown etc), why are you dudes helping them out?
Street Sweeper Social Club – “Street Sweeper Social Club”
In 2009 something interesting happened. A couple of Brits decided they were gonna try to embarrass that malorkus from American Idol who likes to make stupid people cry and pretends not to be gay by starting a campaign to have Rage Against the Machine’s classic song “Killing in the Name” be the top of the pops song this Christmas instead of a song he was backing. The campaign worked and Rage beat out some Limey pussy for the number one song. We might be pretty excited about this if we thought it went 1/100th of the way toward undoing all of the lameness that Tom Morello has unleashed on us over the past decade. First there was Audioslave, (we might have preferred ACTUAL slavery if that option was on the table), then The Nightwatchmen, which makes “Monsters of Folk” sound like a lost early Dylan classic, and now this?!?! Tommy, we needed another rap metal band from you like we need Screech from Saved by the Bell to make another sex tape. Can’t wait for this project to fail so we can finally get that Morello/ Durst collaboration that is starting to seem realistic/inevitable.
Bat For Lashes – “Two Suns”
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz…
wake us up when this record is called “Shat For Gashes” and features only songs by Jeff Wood.
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Phoenix – “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”
Seeing as how we’ve never been the ones who shy away from making fun of foreigners, we’d like to point out that these Coneheads are from France. Yeah, these dudes are stuck with the stereotypes that they are rude, they smell, they’re always smoking fags and they never shower! And we’d like to point out that in the French language a shower is known as a douche! Phoenix’s 4th record stinks about as bad as the nostril scorching cloud of B.O. you just know follows these dudes everywhere and to add insult to injury we’ve got to hear these “le tin’s” (that’s French for “dorks”) single on a Cadillac commercial that plays every ten seconds. No wonder America’s auto industry in the toilet, that song makes us wanna go Greyhound. Fail.
Gallows – “Grey Britain”
Staying on the theme of ripping foreigners: Gallows is a lot like American Warped Tour bands cept these spotted-dick loving Brits have way worse teeth, goofy accents, say “trousers” instead of “pants” and have a craving for Jacket-Potatoes. DORKS!
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Puddle Of Mudd – “Vol.4 Songs in the Key of Love and Hate”
The existence of a fourth Puddle Of Mudd record is kinda like if the Nazis won World War II and then World Wars III, IV and V. We’re not really sure who they are or just how it happens, but people actually buy these records and these posers don’t have to get real jobs. All because the idiots in Puddle Of Mudd speak directly to the (mongoloids, err) people of Wal-Mart. Seriously the singer dork Wes Scantlin or whatever his name is must be the “Redneck Whisperer” or some shit cause there is no other explanation as to how we’re still talking about this fossil from the nu-metal era in 2009. Check out their video for “Spaceship”- the fact that these dudes have fans blowing their hair back throughout and AREN’T joking says it all.
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Cobra Starship – “Hot Mess”
Staying on the subject of space crafts that suck, 30 year old emo-pop-punkers Cobra Starship, who are friends with the fruitcakes in Fall Out Boy, dress themselves in ironic neon clothes and, with the aid of songwriters who’ve penned “hit songs” for such musical giants as Backstreet Boys, Carrie Underwood & Britney Spears, make really bad “synthpop” for The Snakes On A Plane Soundtrack and “special” 12 year olds who need something to listen to while riding the short bus to school. Plus, the singer of this shit heap used to play in that audio diarrhea factory called Midtown and is also one of the 2000 people who willfully entered themselves to be immortalized in the Halls of Lameness by submitting a picture for the cover of the 30 Minutes in Uranus album we’re about to nuke below. You lose compadre.
30 Seconds To Mars – “This is War”
Much like drinking and driving or Buddyhead and spell check, acting and rocking don’t mix. This has been proven time and time again (see the Juliette Lewis record above for one example), but somehow these drama queers keep thinking they can play the part of the rock star. Many have done it in the past, but very few have done attempted the crossover in such an over-the-top-hilarious fashion as the dork who played Claire Daines’ love interest in “My So Called Life”. We’re not even gonna print his name cause, considering he has made at least 3 music videos (aka gigantic visual blowjobs to himself) that have opening and closing credits (!) in the last few years, this dude’s ego is already so mammoth, one more typing of it just might cause him to attempt giving himself head so fast and furious his neck will snap. We don’t want to get sued or nothing. Unfortunately, in 2009 this pretty boy, his brother who looks like him if he were a caveman, and what ever other dorks fill out the line up of 30 Minutes in Uranus put out the record “This Is War”. You guys must have been hanging out with Muse or something, cause you just joined them in the self-nuking club this year. This IS war you turds, so if you want peace, drop the guitars and just start being an overpaid Hollywood actor and his posse of mooches. It’ll be like that show Entourage except there will be WAY less getting laid inolved. Leave the music making to the musicians. Kosher?
P.S. Though you are on our “Worst of” list, the news isn’t all bad. Buddyhead would like to thank you for releasing a record that has 2000 different covers featuring the faces of your fans (as mentioned above). Now we have amounts to the rock music equivalent of a sex offender registry so we know the faces of people we need to be suspicious of and avoid in our community. Valuable public service dudes!
Insane Clown Posse – “Bang! Pow! Boom!”
You know how we feel about clowns, backyard wrestlers and white rappers, right? Well believe it or not but these two morons can actually claim being members of all three retarded institutions! We’re pretty sure that it just doesn’t get any dumber than this. Fans of ICP call themselves Juggalos and Juggalettes, watch some of the Juggalettes in the mosh-pit:
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Yep, we’re totally scraping the bottom of the gene pool with these people folks. Just check out Derel Erdman’s photos he took at the mindblowing Juggalo Gathering in Cave-In-Rock, IL. These photos need to be seen to believed, click HERE.
Attack Attack! – “Someday Came Suddenly”
If inbreeding had a soundtrack, it would probably go a little something like this record. Sure, the RECORD came out in 2008, but it was this circus sideshow’s first crack at a music video, 2009’s “Stick Stickly”, which should already be playing in a 24 hour a day loop in the foyer of the Retardation Hall of Fame, that brought them to everyone’s attention. Kinda like people don’t usually know they’ve got crabs till the itching starts, we didn’t know America had come down with “Crabcore” until it nearly melted our eyeballs one fateful day this past summer. Now, Crabcore is a household term thanks to the fact that these dudes look like they formulated their stage moves by watching a gynecology video demonstrating how to give birth standing up. Not since “2 Girls 1 Cup” have there been so many videos on youtube showing people just reacting to something. The worst thing is that “Stick Stickly” is the BEST song on this album. Don’t believe us? Check out a little ditty called “The People’s Elbow” (yep, song named for a wrestling move) or any of the other gems included on here. If you do, however, just make sure there isn’t a gun or rope around and you are on the ground floor of whatever building yer in. Sadly, despite all of this unimaginable shittiness, somehow there are already countless numbers of lemmings in graffiti-covered shirts and geometric haircuts aping this formula and are starting their own equally terrible bands. Devo wasn’t wrong, they were just ahead of their time: human devolution has begun in 2009.
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In case you missed it before, we’ve broken the Stick Stickly video down to its essence (for best results watch clip while reading):
0:01 – The video just started and we already know it’s gonna suck because there is a lone lip-pierced girl sitting in the middle of nowhere. Videos that feature some gothed-up bleeder looking fragile and bummed as the main character are ALWAYS shitty. ALWAYS. We defy you to find a good one.
0:06-0:20 – Yep, as we expected, the chick was a bad omen. The “song” just kicked off in soul crushing fashion with a cookie monster “yow” and the entire band sporting stage moves that look like a cross between masturbating bear from Conan O’Brien and a fucking hermit crab. Do you realize how many friends and family members could have pulled these clowns aside and been like “Dudes, your band already sucks, let’s maybe not compound the problem by playing like you’re shitting a guitar out of your mangina”? Apparently no one felt like doing that. What that means is all of these dudes seriously have zero people in their lives that care for them and probably many that want to see them humiliate themselves on television. Bleak. Hilarious.
0:36 – …and now we’ve shifted from death grunts to singing. How fresh! Way to crowbar in that transition too there fellas! Excellent song craft, doesn’t sound forced at all. You might not have gotten the memo that was circulated circa 2002, but the screamer/singer thing sucked back when it was emo bands doing it. 7 years and a pinch of death metal didn’t sweeten the mix any.
0:58 – Synchronized guitar lifts? Were you felch-fiends male cheerleaders or something? Did you start a band after you realized all the girl cheerleaders fuck football players, not pussies who like to choreograph things?
1:01-1:06 – Fucking BUNNY HOPS?!?!?!?! This is where we started shouting at our computer and dropping the bottles of beer we were holding in pure astonishment.
1:17-1:18 – Remember 11 seconds ago when you thought the bunny hops were the worst thing that had ever happened to your eyes? Well, the fucktard with the blond streak in his hair playing guitar next to the chubby keyboard player just blew your mind. Full crab position, shifting the weight side to side like he’s stretching either for a track meet or the world anal penetration record, guitar at penis level, looking right at you and NODDING! As if he’s going “Yep, this is happening. You can’t stop it”.
1:36-1:38 – The lead grunter is running in place while reaching his hand out and screaming. That’s actually a good call tubby, you should do more running like that, you know, on a treadmill. Who knows, maybe then you’d have a chance with the girl in your own video. Why you got your hand reached out though dude? Is the director holding out a can of Funfetti cake frosting or something? Whatever keeps you motivated I guess.
1:42-1:45 – Yet another seamless musical transition. Seriously, did you guys tab out 50 shitty riffs, put them in a hat and arrange this song in the order they were picked? We’ve see Latin American coups accomplish smoother transitions than this.
2:31-2:32 – Even the girl that’s being paid to be in this video can’t stand this shit anymore, she’s covering her ears now and then firing her agent later.
2:46-3:18 – This is where we started Googling the word “Hitman”. Everything that’s happened before has been prelude to this moment. After winning the gold medal at Lame Breakdown Olympics, these dudes follow it up at the 2:46 mark firing off the notes of music which must surely trumpet the end of days. From shitty deathcore right into Jock Jams territory without even batting an eye. Golly. Cue the shot of the entire band running in place in UNISON. Where’s the clip of some French dude scoring in a soccer game? The best part is you know these fucks thought they were really onto something when they wrestled this part onto end of the song. That keyboard player totally creams his jeans every time this part happens thinking to himself “Ok fat/shitty keyboard player, this is your moment to shine”. After all of that, just as a little cherry on top, we get the “singer” guitar player
weeping about some bullshit with the autotune dimed on his vocal track like this was some cracker version of a T-Pain song.
3:24 – Ok, it’s over. We’re exhausted and pretty certain we’ve now got cancer just from watching this video. That’s all we’ve got in us. We’re gonna go huff a 30 pack of Glade cans in the hope we might annihilate the brain cells that processed this video.
Marilyn Manson – “The High End of Low”
Marilyn Manson is back with his latest reminder that he still hasn’t OD’d yet, despite his best efforts. We were initially a little hesitant to include this in our Worst Of list ever since he started posting death threats to us on MySpace, but then we remembered that 40 year old, balding, out of shape cokeheads aren’t really all that intimidating. Marilyn has stated that one of the tracks on The High End of Low (we forget which one, like it even matters) was the most important song he’s ever written, which is pretty much the equivalent of taking an exceptionally foul-smelling dump and then bringing all your friends into the bathroom to show them the most important loaf you’ve ever pinched. A turd is a turd, and a Marilyn Manson song is, well, also a turd. Then there’s the song “WOW,” which is so far beyond turditude that it actually makes turds sound like a pretty good alternative. The only silver lining to this turdfest is that it’s one of the approximately five albums released in 2009 that don’t feature any guest appearances by Lil Wayne.
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Rodízio completo mixtapeA volte un nastrone può servire anche solo a ricordare un determinato momento, diventare l'istantanea non prevista di una sera che nella sua cornice imprecisa racchiude forse un po' inconsapevole un'intera stagione. Amici intorno a una tavola, nuove famiglie, chiacchiere di concerti visti e da vedere, biglietti aerei di sola andata, un paio di caipirinha, canzoni appena riscritte che ti chiedi dove sarai quando le ascolterai. Nella tua testa scorri i giorni avanti e indietro proprio come gli altri intorno sfiorano il piccolo schermo mentre cercano l'applicazione giusta.Dieci portate e una lunga notte per ricordarle tutte.1) Dominant Legs - About My Girls2) Beach Fossils - Time3) Fluffy Lumbers - Adoration4) Air Waves - Knock Out5) JJ - Things Will Never Be the Same Again6) Hess Is More - Ssshhhh7) Woods - To Clean8) Family Portrait - Mega Secrets9) That Ghost - The Red Bow10) Magic Wands - Black Magic(photo by ACE)
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Black Friday MixA Dark, Dark FridayAccording to Macy's, the holiday shopping season has officially begun, and on this, the blackest of Fridays, I have the pleasure of working in retail once again. There'll be tears. There'll be blood. There'll be savings. And there'll be a myriad of shoppers willing to give us retailers the first two all in the name of that third. Whether or not you be the type to brave the crowds and eye-gouge your way to thrifty glory, I send you off with this Black Friday mix and pray you survive this dark, dark Friday.A Dark, Dark Friday Mix (artist name leads to site and all songs are right click - save as):Amy Winehouse - Back to BlackAu Revoir Simone - Dark HallsBishop Allen - Little Black AcheDivision Day - Bad Black MoonFranz Ferdinand - Shopping For BloodJens Lekman - Black CabLily Allen - Nan, You're A Window ShopperMagic Wands - Black MagicOkkervil River - BlackSally Crewe & the Sudden Moves - Black CarsSpoon - Black Like MeTunng - Tale From Black---------------------------------------------------------------Otherwheres - Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving weekend! And for my sake, stick to shopping your Black Friday on Amazon...
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Magic Wands are a firm favourite here at Walrus Towers, and as we are loving their EP so much the fine folk over at YALC are offering one of you lucky readers to win a copy of it on limited edition 12″ vinyl. Oooh how pretty.
To get your hands on this I’m afraid you’ll have to be UK based (sorry but vinyl costs a fortune to post overseas) and send an email to competitions@thebluewalrus.com with an answer to the following question:
What website brought the Magic Wands together?
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Magic Wands – Black Magic
Magic Wands – Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix)
(Pssssssssst – you might find the answer on here…)
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Magic Wands, who have been featured on both the summer and last electro mix tapes here on TBW released an EP last month on Young & Lost Club (BUY) that deserves a little write up on these pages (and we have a competition to win it on vinyl as well).
The dream pop wonder of Teenage Love and eminently danceable favourite (and heavily remixed) Black Magic are both included on the EP after being given a little spruce by producer John Hill.
They are both great tracks, but they have been on heavy rotation round at Walrus Towers for the last few months, so more new material would have been good. But the new tracks make this worthwhile buy.
Kiss Me Dead is dreamy shoegaze that rolls around your head for hours like a sunnier version of The Kills debut.
Warrior is more upbeat and definitely danceable along the same lines as Magic Wands with a storming 4/4 rhythm cutting all the way through, with a rounded bassline but most importantly catchy as fuck.
Starships is where you can feel the John Hill influence (it has a little bit of Lykke Li about it). It’s got the slower pace of Teenage Love but shows of a slightly darker side of the duo without losing their pop-styled cosmic influence.
If you don’t already own any Magic Wands records then this is an absolute must, but even if you do Warrior and Kiss Me Dead make this worthwhile while we all wait for the album. Plus you might always win a copy if you’re UK based…
Magic Wands – Black Magic
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Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You ByMegafaun, "Kaufman's Ballad" WebsiteMyspaceTeam Clermont site"I don't know man...something in that camera made that dude behind us split in half. Do ya think it's a laser?"Magic Wands, "Black Magic" Label siteMyspaceTeam Clermont siteMess with the Unicorn, you'll get the horn, baby....
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Photo: Amalia Ulman via Boom.
Dans le désert de mon âme, desséché par toute une vie d’ indifférence,
il me faut arracher à chaque pas les mauvaises herbes de la négation et du scepticisme.
- François Coppée, La bonne souffrance.
Free Energy - Dream City
Free Energy (DFA, 2009)
Magic Wands - Black Magic
Magic Love & Dreams Ep (self, 2009)
Taxi Girl - Chercher le garçon
Cherchez le garçon (Pathé-Marconi, 1980)
Tiny Masters of Today - Skeletons
Skeletons (2009)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20
The Phenomenal Handclap Band (Friendly Fire, 2009)
The Millioners - Up to You
Most Sexiest Music (Suomen Musiikki, 2007)
Delorean - Deli
Ayrton Senna EP (Fool House, 2009)
note: I’ve been slowly building a blue arsenal in my mind. I don’t remember exactly where did this playlist came from but it ended up being a really good one to play in the morning to start pumping some energy. Whole playlist is around half hour long so should you feel like taking it for a run - which is what I ended up doing with it - it should last you somewhere around 3 miles. Have a nice start of week everybody.
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Magic Wands will be touring in support of their Magic, Love and Dreams EP this fall. The band will be sharing the stage with Brooklyn’s Brooklyn’s School of Seven Bells for the majority of the tour until they play the CMJ festival in October.
Tour Dates:
09.25.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s *
09.26.09 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar *
09.27.09 - Washington DC - Rock & Roll Hotel *
09.28.09 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *
09.29.09 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn *
10.04.09 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah *
10.05.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour *
10.06.09 - San Francisco, CA - Slim’s *
10.08.09 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *
10.09.09 - Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore *
10.10.09 - Seattle, WA - Neumos *
10.13.09 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry *
10.14.09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
10.15.09 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace *
10.16.09 - Northampton, MA - Pearl Street *
10.17.09 - Boston, MA - The Paradise *
10.29-10.21 - New York, NY - CMJ
* with School of Seven Bells
MP3: Magic Wands - “Black Magic”
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Sorry for the no show Friday and yesterday. Had another sickness to deal with. Swear I’m Benjamin Button. Diseases like an 80 year old. Looking forward to my immune system getting better, heeeeey!
Anyhow, I’m obsessed with this song right now. Had meant to catch Magic Wands at SXSW, and because I had meant to catch 500 bajillion bands, I did not. My brother reminded me of how good they are. And now, I am obsessed. Will 100% be at their Spaceland show tomorrow night (my loves, The Noisettes, playing as well). See you guys there?
Their newer song is good too, “Warrior”:
Magic Wands - Black Magic (mp3)
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I’ve been following Magic Wands for about a year or so now. Their track ‘Black Magic’ was one of my favourite finds of last year yet they seemed to have stalled for a while. Now, they are cranking back into gear with a new EP Magic, Love and Dreams EP with the lead track ‘Warrior’ with the obligatory cool remixes from The XX, Crystal Fighters and Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head.
Apparently, the were awful at SXSW 2008 so hopefully they’ve improved since. They certainly seemed to have bolstered their sound with some decent beats. You have to give bands a chance to develop in this over-accelerated market. Maybe now, I can stop thinking their name is ‘Black Magic’. Note to self: the band is MAGIC WANDS. Thank you brain.
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Magic Wands – Warrior (The XX remix)
Magic Wands – Warrior (Defend Moscow remix)
Magic Wands – Black Magic
Check out the Crystal Fighters and L’amour La Morgue Edition remixes of ‘Black Magic’ at RCRDLBL.
Buy the EP here.
http://www.myspace.com/themagicwands
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The XX – Crystalised (live)
The XX – Crystalised
Introducing: The Big Pink
Weekend Jukebox #6: SXSW artists
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Last month, Music is Art debuted *The Best Albums of May 2009* and now it’s time once again, for the month of June. In celebration of the beginning of summer here, it’s a great feeling to take in, experience and listen to new complimentary sounds. As always, it’s recommended that if you feel any other album should be associated, please be sure to email or share your suggestions below. Enjoy!
Artist: Dirty Projectors
Album: Bitte Orca
Label: Domino Records
Released: June 9, 2009
Listen: Stillness Is the Move
Artist: Little Boots
Album: Hands
Label: Sixsevennine Records
Released: June 9, 2009
Listen: Stuck On Repeat
Artist: Deerhunter
Album: Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Label: Kranky Records
Released: June 9, 2009
Listen: Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Artist: Cassettes Won’t Listen
Album: Into the Hillside
Label: Cassettes Won’t Listen
Released: June 16, 2009
Listen: Into the Hillside
Artist: Patrick Wolf
Album: The Bachelor
Label: Nylon Records
Released: June 2, 2009
Listen: Hard Times
Artist: Magic Wands
Album: Love and Dreams EP
Label: Bright Antenna Records
Released: June 2, 2009
Listen: Black Magic
Artist: Sally Shapiro
Album: Miracle
Label: Paper Bag Records
Released: June 16, 2009
Listen: Miracle
Artist: The Sounds
Album: Crossing the Rubicon
Label: Original Signal Records
Released: June 2, 2009
Listen: Dorchester Hotel
Artist: Illinois
Album: The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe
Label: Planetary Records
Released: June 9, 2009
Listen: Kid Catastrophe
Artist: Elizabeth & the Catapult
Album: Taller Children
Label: Verve Forecast Records
Released: June 9, 2009
Listen: Taller Children
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This has been a long time coming, but today I’ve got 2 CDs worth of amazing summer music. The first disc is more folk based in keeping with last summer’s mix, with the second less folky but just as perfect for the summer afternoons in the sunshine.
We have a few of the bands that were on the last mix popping up again, but most on here have not been featured on TBW before. As I’ve been out of the game for a while, some of these have been around for a few months, and then of course there are a couple of older tracks thrown in for good measure. Also, as some people haven’t noticed – you an download each mp3 individually by the right clicking and choosing “save target as”.
Coeur de Pirate starts off the mix with a blissful and beautifully simple summer piano based piece. The vocals in french create ideas of a simpler time of love and life in the rural countryside.
Gregory and the Hawk offer a great bit of acoustic summery pop. The vocals and very clean production may lend this to some soundtracks in the future, but don’t let that put you off. Easy and relaxed.
Tom Brosseau has crafted exactly what I love about folk music that evokes green summery bliss. It may just be Tom and his guitar and feels familiar, but it is summer folk perfection. Where’s that cider festival right now?
Run Toto Run are on here for a cover of Passion Pit’s debut single ‘Sleepyhead’, which was fantastic in its own right, but here they take out all the sweet electrics and replace them with what sounds like a fiddle and yet somehow avoids sounding too sickly sweet. Once the chorus breaks in, the sun should break through the clouds.
Marina & The Diamonds have been making a name for themselves over the last twelve months, with neon Gold putting out a few records. Here they offer some perfectly formed harmonious pop with a beat that you can’t help tapping your foot to.
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone have the rough production sound that gives their music a certain innocence, and ending this track with an organ line from when the saints go marching just adds to that view.
Jeffrey Lewis is one of those artists that has been established for a while but as I don’t have a history of folk was only recently introduced to him from a Song by Toad podcast. This is cute, funny and reflective, and a track I can’t get out of, even if it is a good few years old.
Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground are on here again with another pop song that sounds like it could have been produced by the Beatles back in the days of Revolver. I may be a Stones man, but pop and folk music came together in the 60s and this owes a lot to that time. Who can’t resist playing a little Beatles at a BBQ?
Drew Helsinki (McConnell) is another from the last mix. Compared to the last one we featured this track is less haphazard, but again shows off his skills for producing simple pop songs that fit on any playlist.
Laura Barrett is on here for a cover of a Harry Nilsson track which brings a xylophone, violins and whistling into the mix, how could I resist such American folk perfection? It demonstrates how we have always looked back to simpler times with rose tinted spectacles even since the industrial revolution.
Small Crew have written a effortless pop song of hope and chasing dreams. Something that is part of that gentle summer emotional reflection that forms plenty of my summer days.
Jay Jay Pistolet are another cropping up from last year and again have produced some folk mastery with Oh Caroline. A just wondrous guitar based folk love song with harmonies and an harmonica that demonstrates why folk music is summer music.
Mumford & Sons have been making a name for themselves over the past 6 months or so with their 3 EPs, following in the footsteps of Noah and the Whale and Johnny Flynn. More great new English folk.
Aidan Moffat & The Best Ofs may be one of the best band names I’ve heard in a while and here give us some more folky summery perfection, with some simple brush drumming and harmonicas tripping us through Aiden’s wonderful deep vocal drawl that almosts makes me think of a happy folk version of Johnny Cash.
The Crookes finish off the first disc pop folk track of stories of youthful and blissful love. Simple structure and catchy rhythms and a few hand claps makes this a fitting end for the first section of the mix.
1 Coeur de Pirate - Comme Des Enfants
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2 Gregory and the Hawk - Grey Weather
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3 Tom Brosseau - Favourite Colour Blue
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4 Run Toto Run - Sleepyhead
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5 Marina & The Diamonds - Mowgli’s Road
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6 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Optimist vs. The Silent Alarm
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7 Jeffrey Lewis - Back When I Was 4
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8 Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground - Birds (On A Day Like Today)
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9 Drew Helsinki - Ampersand
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10 Laura Barrett - Nobody Cares About Railroads Anymore (Harry Nilsson cover)
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11 Small Crew - It’s Not Too Late Too Wait
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12 Jay Jay Pistolet - Oh Caroline
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13 Mumford & Sons - Roll Away Your Stone
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14 Aidan Moffat & The Best Ofs - Big Blonde
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15 The Crookes - Backstreet Lovers
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You can also download all 15 tracks as a zip file:
Summer Days through the Folkish Haze Vol.2 CD1 (coming soon)
Ex Lovers starts of the second disc with an easy and almost tweepop track that reminds me of the good parts of Voxtrot from a few years ago. Now seems to be the perfect time for listening to such tracks if ever there was a time.
Heartless Bastards offer an effortless and timeless garage rock ballad with singer Erika Wennerstrom’s voice easily falling between that rock growl and pop harmony. Wonderful.
The Paper Cranes demonstrate their talents for crafting great pop songs here. They fold a number of clever riffs into one song that should sound over complicated, but somehow finds its way it being simple, cheery pop pop pop as they say on their MySpace
Doctors & Dealers are another to be able to make a very simple and familiar song feel somehow new and interesting with a few well placed harmonies and a foot-tapping beat throughout.
Elizabeth & The Catapult’s Taller Children begins with just the vocals and drums making an easy pop song, before the rest of the band jumping in and making the whole thing a lot more interesting and showing off their rock and roll side which is always going to go down well with me.
Buke and Gass start off with a couple of pretty angular and disjointed riffs which slowly fall into place with the vocals. They are like a more pop YYYs, but with songs that blow the YYYs last album out the water.
Leopold And His Fiction have a track that reminds me of the Datsuns debut a good few years ago now. They might not have that bass driven growl, but write better 70s themed rock/pop than most actually did back in the decade.
The Fine Arts Showcase have written in ‘London, My Town’ one of my favourite tracks of the last six months. It is a wonderous rock/pop that sound familiar but new, rough round the edges and yet clean. I don’t how to pigeon-hole it right now and I don’t really want to, but you just need to listen.
Magic Wands are one of my bands to watch of the moment as they are regularly putting out catchy, danceable pop/rock and Black Magic shows off those quite impressive skills pretty well.
Goldhawks‘ ‘Where in the world’ may have been posted about within the last couple of months, but it is such an expansive and engrossing song that it fitted so well into this mix that I couldn’t leave it out.
Wolf Gang has a single out on the constantly amazing Neon Gold and have been on my radar for a little while now (thanks Angus). I have just been waiting for the mp3 and a good reason to share it. That is now, and here is a beautifully layered piece of unrepressed pop that should be on everyone’s summer soundtrack no-matter what genres you’re into.
1 Ex Lovers - Just A Silhouette
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2 Heartless Bastards - Searching For The Ghost
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3 The Paper Cranes - Telephone
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4 Doctors & Dealers - On The Dancefloor
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5 Elizabeth & The Catapult - Taller Children
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6 Buke and Gass - Rum For You
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7 Leopold And His Fiction - Come Back (Now That I’m Here)
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8 The Fine Arts Showcase - London, My Town
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9 Magic Wands - Black Magic
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10 Goldhawks - Where In The World
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11 Wolf Gang - Lions In Cages
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You can also download all 11 tracks as a zip file:
Summer Days through the Folkish Haze Vol.2 CD2 (coming soon)
Or download both CDs (26 tracks) as a single zip file:
Summer Days through the Folkish Haze Vol.2 (coming soon)
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New Zealand's Bachelorette plays The Hideout this Saturday. Fans of Stereolab and Broadcast should definitely check out her out, and it's always interesting to see how an electronic act translates onstage when backed by a live band.Bachelorette - MindwarpIf you prefer your music with less computers and/or Kiwis, O'Death and Balmorhea are at The Empty Bottle on Saturday. O'Death has kind of a Devil-went-down-to-Georgia thing going on with the fiddle and everything, and Balmorhea plays the kind of songs that would be in the movie of your life where you're walking outside just staring at the sky and thinking about your life and how crazy everything got, you know? Balmorhea - SettlerThe press release for Magic Wands tells me their EP was recorded using the same drum machine as Prince’s "Purple Rain," which reminds me of this longish love letter to Prince's Purple Rain wardrobe posted on PopMatters for the film's 25th anniversary a couple of weeks ago. Magic Wands - Black MagicPS: If somebody buys me one of these cat paintings I'll carve their name in my stomach out of feverish devotion.
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As you may have noticed, along with the lack of posts going on around here, the Graboid has seemingly disappeared as well the past couple of weeks. To catch everyone back up to speed, I’ve decided to post the album releases from the past few weeks that we’ve missed along with everything from this week. I’m sure I may have missed some releases, but I think I’ve covered most of the important stuff for the most part. As usual, let us know what album(s) you’ve been excited about and if we managed to forget anything!
Aeroplane Pageant
Even The Kids Don’t Believe Me
MP3: “Stars Still Pretty”
Astrid Williamson
Here Come The Vikings
MP3: “Eve”
The Builders and the Butchers
Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well
MP3: “Barcelona”
Busdriver
Jhelli Beam
MP3: “Me – Time (With The Pulmonary Palimpsest)”
Cassettes Won’t Listen
Into The Hillside
MP3: “Into The Hillside”
Deerhunter
Rainwater Cassette Exchange
MP3: “Rainwater Cassette Exchange”
Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
MP3: “Stillness Is The Move”
Elizabeth And The Catapult
Taller Children
MP3: “Taller Children”
Hecuba
Paradise
MP3: “Miles Away”
Illinois
The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe
MP3: “Kid Catastrophe”
The Legends
Over and Over
MP3: “Always The Same”
Liechtenstein
Survival Strategies In A Modern World
MP3: “Roses In The Park”
Little Boots
Hands
MP3: “Stuck on Repeat”
Magic Wands
Love and Dreams EP
MP3: “Black Magic”
Major Lazer
Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do
MP3: “Hold The Line”
Miike Snow
Miike Snow
MP3: “Animal”
Patrick Wolf
The Bachelor
MP3: “Hard Times”
Sally Shapiro
Miracle
MP3: “Miracle”
Sonic Youth
The Eternal
MP3: “Sacred Trixter”
The Sounds
Crossing The Rubicon
MP3: “Dorchester Hotel”
Tiny Masters Of Today
Skeletons
MP3: “Skeletons”
Various Artists
Rudo Y Cursi Soundtrack
MP3: Juana Molina :: “Rudo Y Cursi”
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I've got surprisingly little to say about the brand new Magic Wands EP "Magic, Love & Dreams" except to recommend that you pick up a copy when it comes out tomorrow. In a week of relatively weak releases, this is a cool collection of tracks that will probably remind you of Jesus and Mary Chain if you listen to them. That's not exactly the impression the band would like you to have of them, but considering the fuzzed out guitars and sunglasses they wear on stage, it's difficult not to compare them to JAMC. And I don't necessarily think that being compared to icons like Jesus and Mary Chain is the worst thing in the world. But I can also see how just throwing that comparison out there feels sort of unimaginative and plain. What Chris and Dexy Valentine of Magic Wands would like you to think is that they're shooting for something a bit different, closer in relation to the romance music of the 1940's rather than the shoegazey guitar work of the 80's and 90's. Personally I'm less interested in any comparison and just more inspired by the duo's sense of ultimate cool and the delightfully catchy set of songs that make up this EP. They've been touring for nearly the last 6 months in anticipation of this EP, and have been busy writing and recording tracks for a debut full length that will be out either late this year or early next year. Get to know Magic Wands now before they strike it big!Magic Wands- Black MagicMagic Wands- Black Magic (L'amour La Morgue Edition)Buy the "Magic, Love & Dreams" EP for under $4 from Amazon MP3
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i am not exactly sure how long 'black magic' by boy & girl duo (and lovers!) magic wands, currently residing in los angeles, has been on the blogs and how often it has been posted and released and re-released and remixed and what not, i just know that since like half a year i keep coming across it again and again and whenever that happens, i have it playing on repeat for hours and hours. i read their sound is described as 'cosmic pop' or 'bedroom pop' but to me this track is the fucking essence of rock'n'roll. 'black magic' is fueled by the most addictive overdriven guitar-riff ever and then puts a spell on you with truly captivating lyrics that leave me wondering whether the chorus or the verses are the more catchy element. all this wizardry is accompanied by heavily stumbling drums, stuffed with shouts and layered with tons of reverb and distant conjuring chants that will literally want to make you go 'hell yeah'.this is what i was always hoping for when i've encountered people raving about yeah yeah yeahs, the white stripes or the kills but it was magic wands who finally delivered.magic wands - black magicas i have mentioned remixes before, here is one that i've got in the mail today but for me it does not even come close to the original.magic wands - black magic (l'amour la morgue edition)get yourself the 'magic, love & dreams' ep from bright antenna or young and lost club.
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Magic WandsGenre: Psych Pop From: United States Magic Wands are hotly tipped Nashville based girl/guy duo Chris and Dexy Valentine.With instantly memorable poppy hooks and melodies, backed by huge washes of distorted guitars and immense drums machine rhythms and bass lines, Magic Wands sound like The Raveonettes playing hopscotch with the Ting Tings.Lyrically and stylistically, Magic Wands have created a a strangely surreal world of their own. In their Ray-Band Wayfarers, cut off t-shirts they are the epitome of outsider cool. Dexy is like a young Debbie Harry with her bright blonde hair while Chris looks like Kyle MacLachlan playing Pete Perrett in a bio pic of the The Only Ones.The band's first proper single 'Black Magic' (available for download below) is a swirly twirly mix of sleazy otherworldly psych pop that launches with a fuzzed up guitar riff that sounds like it's been beamed direct from Blondie's 'Parallel Lines' before mutating into radioactive disco as sleazy as a one night stand with a drugged up crack whore. Go TryMP3 - Magic Wands - Black MagicMP3 - Magic Wands - Black Magic (L'amour La Morgue Edition) Go VisitMagic Wands - MyspaceGo ViewMagic WandsTeenage Love<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JV5SE3ZfNT8&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JV5SE3ZfNT8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>For those who are having trouble working out the relevance of the admittedly rather obscure title of the post check out this video...<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EHhTxN9KSog&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EHhTxN9KSog&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>
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The duo of Chris and Dexy aka Magic Wands have just released their debut EP, Magic Love & Dreams , via Bright Antenna. There’s a lot to like about this bunch - light guitars, drum machines, hand claps, organs, dreamy vocals, etc.. My only knock on them was that their live show was fairly ‘meh’ back when I saw them open for Black Kids and The Virgins. Though that could have easily changed since then. The EP is a solid listen and I recommend checking it out.
mp3: Magic Wands - Black Magic
mp3: Magic Wands - Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix)
Buy Magic Love & Dreams from Bright Antenna
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The Nashville duo Magic Wands have spent the last 6 months touring relentlessly, opening for Black Kids and the Virgins on the East Coast and supporting CSS in the UK, and tonight they wind down their current tour with The Kills and The Horrors at the Henry Fonda.
This coming Tuesday, May 25th, will see the release of Magic Wands U.S. debut, an EP entitled, Magic Love & Dreams, recorded with John Hill (Santogold, Lykke Li, Nas) and released through Bright Antenna.
I’ve had various versions of some of the songs on Magic Love & Dreams for a while now, from Chris and Dexy’s early demos from 2007 when the duo began playing together and sent me glitter filled package in the mail to their their sold-out 7” UK release, so it is nice to hear the final versions of these songs. “Black Magic”, “Teenage Love” and “Kiss Me Dead” shine brighter than ever and the new song, “Starships” totally rocks.
There is a whole bunch more I would love to tell you about the mystic duo called the Magic Wands, but I have been sworn to secrecy, and will have to leave it up to you to try to unravel the mystery yourself.
MP3: Magic Wands - Black Magic
The folks at Filter gave me an extra copy of the EP and medium Magic Wands T-shirt to give away, if you want it, email me at info (at) inflightatnight (dot) com with Magic Wands in the subject field, and I will randomly pick a winner.
Friday, May 22nd: Magic Wands w/The Kills and The Horrors @ Henry Fonda Theatre (6126 Hollywood Blvd.)
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As an obsessive lover of music, I am the first person to get to a venue
early to check out an opening band. I've discovered some of my
favorites this way - The Duke Spirit, The Black Angels, The Presets, the
list could get very lengthy. So it was with great interest that I
walked into Metro to see the Magic Wands open for The Kills and The
Horrors.This duo has a cute back story—Chris found Lexy on MySpace after
checking out her demos, and they fell in love. Their love turned into
musical collaboration after Lexy relocated to Nashville. And cute
really sums up their sound, too. It's heavily 80s influenced, and the lyrics are all
about young love and having fun. Lexy's "bubble-gum blonde with an edge" look is
totally an homage to Debbie Harry, and her breathy vocals reminded me of her
too. They're a fun band, and they have the potential to ride the wave
of the electro-new wave-pop resurgence. With only a few EPs out in the
world, it's tough to tell if they've got staying power. But if you want to have a good time and
dance with a couple of cute kids in love, I suggest checking out the
Magic Wands.Magic Wands - "Black Magic"
The duo set the stage well for both The Horrors and The Kills. The
Horrors took the stage and basically pretended their first album, Strange House, never existed, playing not a single track from the album. The whole set was comprised of the new Primary Colours,
which is a departure from the raw, garage punk sound of their debut.
The new stuff sounds better live when that raw element comes back into
the fold, but I felt disappointed that they wouldn't even acknowledge
great songs like "Sheena is a Parasite." When The Kills finally made their appearance, it was clear the show
was sold out, with people tightly packed to see the headlining act. As
they did last year at this time, Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart opened
with "U.R.A Fever," from last year's Midnight Boom. The set isn't
anything new, but the chemistry between the two keeps fans coming back
for more in a perverse way. It's that whole "will they/won't they"
anticipation that fuels their on-stage performance. After all, it's
just the two of them and a drum machine—nothing fancy on stage, no
backdrop, no remarkable lighting. So they have to have some pretty
powerful chemistry, and thankfully they do. They played most of the
tracks from Midnight Boom, but pulled out some old favorites like "Fried My Little Brains" and "Kissy Kissy," and even did two covers.
While I didn't walk out transformed by any of the bands, all three put
on good, solid sets and complemented each other well with enough
variety to keep people on their toes.
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In a match seemingly made in heaven, the triple-threat tour of The Kills, The Horrors and Magic Wands put a collective knife to the throats of Chicago on Saturday night. Though none of the acts are black metal or worship Satan (that I'm aware of), all three bands do make dark and occasionally scary-sounding songs, similar to what their names describe. How fitting, then, that on my way to the show, a black cat ran across my path. Surely it was an omen, but thankfully I don't believe in omens and things went remarkably right for me all night.I arrived at the Metro right as Magic Wands were taking the stage for the first set of the night. With the smoke machine already on high, a bubble machine releasing orbs into the air and two white tiger heads impaled on microphone stands, I have to admit- it was a pretty cool stage setup. A pretty cool stage setup for a pretty cool band. The duo of Chris and Dexy Valentine may have only had themselves a couple of guitars and a drum machine, but what they lacked in numbers they more than made up for with their Blondie/Jesus and Mary Chain-inspired pop. The guitars were loud and fuzzy, the beats surprisingly solid, and Dexy Valentine's voice echoed through the club with brute and beautiful force. It was all highly impressive, and given that I've only got an EPs worth of their material, I was inspired enough after their show to find every Magic Wands song I was missing. They quickly turned me from a casual fan to a very active one, and I've got high plans to keep promoting these two until they get the respect they so richly deserve. The only real tragedy I found in their entire set was that it clocked in at just under 30 minutes. Granted, they don't have a wealth of material to play from, and there were two other bands that still had to take the stage, but it would've been nice had they played for longer.Magic Wands- Black MagicNext on stage were The Horrors, a band that I've actually got tremendous admiration for. Their debut album "Strange House" is a brilliant piece of a genre I've dubbed "scary garage," which combines the loud guitars of garage rock with eerie atmospherics that specialize in generating dark moods. Another way to put it is that The Horrors are like a noisier version of Bauhaus, in a very good way. Now The Horrors are on the road promoting the release of their sophmore album "Primary Colours," which I've failed to review mainly because I'm still digesting it. But I can tell you Trent Reznor definitely recommends it, as do I. As for The Horrors' live show, tragically I cannot say the same. In regards to their performance at the Metro, I think the band's general failure resulted from one or both of the following: bad soundboard work or too many cooks in the kitchen. Given that I've never had a sound issue at Metro before, probably because it's one of the best-sounding venues in Chicago, the likelihood of a bad mix is probably not a strong excuse, though if one of their engineers was behind the board on Saturday night it'd make more sense. The grand point I'm trying to make in regards to the mix was that all the instruments were way too loud and the vocals were way too soft. I could hear Faris Badwan's voice singing and understood the pitch changes, but there was not a single word I could comprehend through their entire 40 minute set. Or maybe the whole thing was Badwan's fault, as the guy wandered aimlessly around the stage the whole time like he was completely lost or strung out on something. He'd wander off and then come back and after awhile I wondered if he was doing hits of something backstage. There was very little sense of an audience connection, and while the rest of the band were about as lively as they could be for keeping their feet firmly planted in the same spots the whole time, the performance just lacked a number of great, distinctive qualities. I always find it tragic when a band that sounds so good on record just doesn't deliver the same quality live, and The Horrors definitely fall into that category. Of course maybe I just caught them on a bad night and they're otherwise great, but I'll probably think twice the next time I consider going to see The Horrors perform.The Horrors- Sea Within A SeaBuy The Horrors' "Primary Colours" from AmazonHeadlining the night was The Kills, a band I've seen live before, albeit in the hot sun of Lollapalooza. Alison Mossheart was seriously ailing because of the heat that August day last year, and daytime isn't exactly the best setting to see the band anyways. So a late Saturday night set in a dark Metro felt much more appropriate, and given the two bands that had just played beforehand, everybody was in a pretty dark mood by the time The Kills took the stage. As expected, they delivered. Getting everybody slap-happy by starting the set with "U.R.A. Fever" and then careening through the best of their three-album catalogue, Jamie Hince and Alison Mossheart were on top of their game. The duo whipped through their songs at an alarming pace, with Hince wrestling with his guitar like it was a wild animal, and Mossheart writhing around on stage like something was crawling on her and she just wanted to get it off. It was energetic, it was fun, and most of all it sounded fantastic. The band even through in a couple cover songs, from the Willie Nelson/Patsy Cline classic "Crazy" to the Screamin' Jay Hawkins blues jam "I Put A Spell On You" to the set-closing Captain Beefheart jam "Dropout Boogie." Everything was executed with skill and precision, and it made me happy to hear and see two people really rock out like that.The Kills- Cheap and CheerfulBuy The Kills' "Midnight Boom" from AmazonJust by looking at the bill of The Kills, The Horrors and Magic Wands, you can get a pretty good idea of what you might be in for when going to see this tour. By listening to all three bands, it makes even more sense. These are three groups that absolutely deserve to be on the same bill as one another, which is far more than I can say for a number of tours and their supporting acts that have come through town recently. And while The Horrors were quite disappointing live if you ask me, I'm not going to say they didn't deserve to be there. Magic Wands were by far the most welcome surprise, and while they employ the same male/female duo card that The Kills have, they're also sonic counterparts that play off similar moods. If you've still got a chance to see these three bands while they're on tour, I'd recommend buying tickets. Alison Mossheart will be touring with her new project The Dead Weather with Jack White all this summer, so this is probably the last chance you'll have to see The Kills for a little bit. Get on it if you can.The Kills Set List:U.R.A. FeverPull A USour CherryTape SongNo WowAlphabet PonyLast Day of MagicKissy KissyBlack BalloonHook and LineCrazy (Patsy Cline/Willie Nelson cover)Getting DownCheap and CheerfulFried My Little Brains\**ENCORE**/Goodnight Bad MorningI Put A Spell On You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins cover)Dropout Boogie (Captain Beefheart cover)The Kills, The Horrors and Magic Wands remaining tour dates:05-15 - Seattle, WA - Neumo's05-16 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom05-17 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom05-19 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore05-21 - Pomona, CA - Glass House05-22 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre
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Earlier this week Avalanche posted a Ting Tings track. Today I’m posting a track from a band that actually knows how to do the boy/girl guitar-based electro-pop thing right. This track is from their forthcoming EP “Magic, Love and Dreams” which is to be released on May 29th digitally with a vinyl picture disc that I will be picking up in June. Most of the songs have been floating around the internets for a while, but it will be nice to have them all compiled on one release. The posted song, which is being pushed as the single, isn’t as strong as the rest of the EP, but it’s still certainly catchy and I look forward to hopefully catching them live either on their current tour with The Kills and The Horrors or else in the near future.
Download: Magic Wands - Black Magic
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It is time once again for the round-up of the weekends musical events coming to the IA area. Not as packed as past weekends, but it is a little front heavy. Friday is absolutely loaded, before it slows down for Saturday and Sunday. Here's who is playing Friday and those going on to other regional locales afterwards:Dinosaur Jr.Photo by Johannes SchermanWhen certain bands get back together and tour, it's almost tragic. I'm not going to name names, but they know who they are. Other times, it is like they never left the scene, although they have been on hiatus for years. Friday and Saturday, you will experience the later. Dinosaur Jr. is back with the original line-up and is about to drop a new album (June release, wait for it...). Adding further to that rush of nostalgia is "The Man in the Van With a Bass In His Hand," Mike Watt, slated for the shows as well. If you want to relive those days or want to see what all of us oldies are talking about, I highly recommend getting to these shows. Lancaster's Chameleon Club is the venue of choice for Friday, while those in Baltimore can head to the Ottobar.mp3: Dinosaur Jr. - I Want You To Know (Jagjaguwar Records)Sweden knows pop music. Peter Bjorn and John are Swedish. I think you can follow my logic. The blogosphere's Scandinavian darlings are coming back through the area for a couple of shows, along with a U.S. band that pulls off the Swedish dream-pop sound rather well and new Columbia recording artist Chairlift. The World Cafe in Philly is hosting for an XPN free at noon and a Friday night show . The 9:30 Club gets the honors Saturday in DC.mp3: Chairlift - Evident Utensil (MGMT remix)A band that must be experienced, not just heard, is The Shackeltons. The stage performance is always worth the price price of admission. Baltimore's Sidebar has them with locals FFHH, Caestles and Fourth Grade Security Risk Friday night. My bar of choice in York, The Depot, is the stage for Saturday night. Go see this band.mp3: The Shackeltons - Yellow Cadillac (via band)mp3: FFHH - From the Shadows (band website)mp3: Caestles - Happy Birthday Frankenstein (band website)mp3: FGSR - Sinful (band website)Cut Off Your Hands is in DC with locals US Royalty in support. Check them out at the Black Cat. As for the Philly show Saturday, COYH is teamed with local favorites Canadian Invasion at the North Star. Also with The Yarrows.mp3: Cut Off Your Hands - Closed Eyes (rcrdlbl.com)mp3: US Royalty - Every Summer (from band)mp3: Canadian Invasion - Mansard Roof (Recorded Live at WXPN, Vampire Weekend cover)(greenlightgo publicity)mp3: The Yarrows - May (stream)FridayThere is a CD release party going on in Philly Friday night. Adam & Dave's Bloodline is set to drop Boycott Classics May 12th, but that doesn't mean they can't celebrate a little early. Getting in on the fun are other locals Jotto and Faux Slang.mp3: Adam & Dave's Bloodline - In The Zoo (thanks Bag of Songs)mp3: Jotto - Bang Shoot Shoot Bang (band website)mp3: Faux Slang - Junkyard Ethics (band website)Bat For Lashes, out of the UK, has been likened to Bjork. Thom Yorke added the band to his iPod playlist for an apple promotion, they were nominated for a big British critics prize in 2007, and they were one artist selected for a cover album of The Cure for their version of "A Forest". Not a bad lineage. Now the First Unitarian Church has changed the show to the Sanctuary, so additional seating is available. Also on the bill is new avant chamber neo-baroque folk artist Lewis & Clarke.mp3: Bat for Lashes - Glass (live)(rcrdlbl.com)mp3: Lewis & Clarke - Before It Breaks You (La Société Expéditionnaire)British sensations The Kills are coming to Philly's TLA after a night in DC. In support are Nashville's Magic Wands (as Matt called them, shoegaze-tastic) and another UK band, The Horrors.mp3: The Kills - Ticket Man (band website)mp3: Magic Wands - Black Magic (brightantenna.com)If electronic suits you better, Mountains are inside the Chapel at First Unitarian Church for a seated show. DC and PA are represented as well with Kuschty Rye Ergot and Moral Crayfish opening. Those in DC wanting something electronic, head to the Rock & Roll Hotel for Freeland and Alex Metric.mp3: Mountains - Choral (rcrdlbl.com)mp3: Moral Crayfish - Gadolinite (band website)mp3: Freeland - Under Control (marineparade.net)Death By Sexy is still enjoying the sweet smell of a new album as they play The Red & The Black with Seattle's The Whore Moans. And at the Millcreek Tavern a bunch of local acts are getting together. Head on over and listen to The Quelle Source, The Voyage North, Easy Corner and Phantasm.mp3: Death By Sexy - Blow My Mind (from band)mp3: Easy Corner - Swallow Me Whole (band website)And check back soon for more of what's happening in the area the rest of the weekend.
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With song titles like "Kiss Me Dead", "Black Magic" and "Teenage Love", you don't have to throw a stone very far to figure out the modus operandi of indie rock duo Magic Wands and their formula for rocket ship-aimed success. It's all sharp-knife guitar stabs. Adding fuel to that burning blue fire would be the title of their soon-to-be-released EP Magic, Love & Dreams, out May 25. If you're into all things super sexed-up, vicious, dirty and raw to the bone, get in on Magic Wands immediately and make sure you line up to catch them on dates where they're supporting another duo with slithering sex leanings, The Kills. They both play Webster Hall in New York City on Saturday.(mp3) Magic Wands - Black MagicGodspeed!
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Allison Mosshart of The Kills was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday night in Denver. Apparently a combination of the altitude and a bad cold caused her to have shortness of breath and she was forced to leave the show. She was released from the hospital and plans to go on with the tour. Which leads us up to tonight where they make their return to Austin. Hopefully she has had some time to recoup and the warm Texas weather will do her some good. The band is joined by The Horrors who recently ditched the style that as bringing the dreaded UK "Next Big Thing" hype and recorded a fantastic new album (mostly in the dark). I listened to Primary Colours last night in it's entirety and it is a phenomenal album. It will be in stores May 5th.And get there early because Nashville duo the Magic Wands will be opening. They recently released their debut EP Magic, Love & Dreams with what has been called "wall of white guitars" and "unapologetic cosmic pop". We don't know what that means but it sounds good. Give the the lead single "Black Magic" a listen. [The Magic Wands - Black Magic]The Kills, The Horrors and The Magic Wands :: Tour DatesApril24 Austin, TX - Emo's [Tickets]25 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater27 Atlanta, GA - Lenny's28 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle30 Washington, DC - 9:30 ClubMay1 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts2 New York, NY - Webster Hall4 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg5 Boston, MA - Paradise6 Montreal, QUE - La Tulipe7 Toronto, ONT - Phoenix Concert Theatre8 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick9 Chicago, IL - Metro11 Minneapolis, MN - First Ave15 Seattle, WA - Neumo's16 Vancouver, BC - Commodore17 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom19 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore21 Pomona, CA - Glasshouse22 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theater
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I’m hoping that The Kills show me something that I just didn’t seem to get @ ACL last year. I’m sure the sun soaked early afternoon performance wasn’t their preferred venue, and Emo’s is about as opposite of that, you’ll find in this town. The Horrors and Magic Wands just seem to beckon my attention. A solid bill, with a lot of potential. Emo’s is the place to be on Friday night for some current day, black leather, dark sunglasses, romantic darkness via the 80’s circuit.
This new Horrors song is pretty darn cool.
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MP3> The Kills ‘Cheap and Cheerful’
MP3> Magic Wands ‘Black Magic’
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With Coachella kicking off today (if you’re reading this, you’ll probably want to click here) and Spring finally in the air, life is pretty good right now. So, why not make it even better with this week’s edition of our Friday Mixtape! As always, below you’ll find the week’s best mix of new singles, covers, and remixes, along with mp3s from some up-and-comers you just might want to check out.
NEW Singles:
“Born On A Day the Sun Didn’t Rise” by Black Moth Super Rainbow
“Nikorette” by Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band
“Easy” by Deer Tick
“Houses” by Great Northern
“Black Magic” by Magic Wands
“Easily Bruised” by Matthew Barber
“Armslength” by Moving Mountains
“The Show is on the Road” by Paleface
“Vampire” by Pink Mountaintops
“Songs in the Night” by Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers
“Poke” by Shadow Dancer
“Inaugural Trams” by Super Furry Animals
“Take It In” by Wye Oak
Covers, Remixes, and all that JAZZ:
“What I Have Left” (Mike Bones) by Alexis Taylor
“Mr. Boom Boom Jones” (B-Roc ReFix) by Black Eyed Peas vs. Counting Crows
“Pusher” (Ultimate Eaglehawk Remix) by Henok Achido
“Diabolical Fun” (Aesop Rock Remix) by Illogic
“Can’t Knock The Hustle” (Dave Wrangler Remix) by Jay-Z
“New In Town” (Emil & Friends Remix) by Little Boots
“Love Get Out of My Way” (Fireman Remix) by Milke
“To Live is To Fly” (Townes Van Zandt) by Steve Earle
Something to CHECK OUT:
“Big Schools” by Baby Teeth
“Castle Light” by The Bats
“Nasty Funky” by The Beatards
“There Is Love” by Brian Olive
“Early Aubade” by The Deep Vibration
“Any Kind of Love” by Del Marquis
“This Ain’t Livin’” by Dish
“Miles Away” by Hecuba
“Dumfukistan” by Kicksville
“Time Will Tell” by Linda Draper
“I Hate Cabaret” by Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat
“OMT” by Paper Brain
“Worth Fighting For” by Sarah Siskind
“Hustler” by Spanish Dancer
“Somebody Tried To Steal My Car” by Super 700
“Phantom of My Longest Day” by Valina
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Very excited to share with you my anticipation for Saturday night’s Great Lake Swimmers show at the Brattle Theatre here in Cambridge. Been digging Tony Dekker’s folky, melodic banjo sounds since his debut S/T album back in 2003. This isn’t a “lets get ready to rock and dance our socks off” show. A [...]
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Woven Hand - The Beautiful AxeMagic Wands - Black MagicAu Revoir Simone - A Violent Yet Flammable WorldThe Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Come SaturdayBen Jelen - Ex-SensitiveMelissa Auf Der Maur - Followed The WavesBedouin Soundclash - Walls Fall Down
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On Monday, I’ll be heading towards independent music heaven in Austin, Texas where roughly 1800 bands will be playing at the SXSW Festival both officially and unofficially. The last few weeks and the weekend has and will be spent frantically RSVP’ing to parties, organising a schedule and listening to artists playing. I cannot frickin’ wait..
The SXSW website has an MP3 from nearly every band officially playing and I’m going to draw from the list to show off who I’m looking forward to seeing over the next week. The ten artists I’m most looking forward to right now are (subject to change, obviously): Devo, King Khan and the Shrines, Solid Gold, Here We Go Magic, Amanda Blank, Magic Wands, Little Boots, Casiokids, Radioclit and StarFucker.
There’s also the Irish showcases which I’ll be covering for Day and Night (updated today). I’ll be posting a blog on more SXSW stuff before Monday as well as two podcasts, so for now, enjoy the songs. Also, piece on MP3 blogs by Richard Brophy with quotes from me in today’s Irish Times.
Alaska in Winter - Berlin
Alela Diane - White As Diamonds
Arsenal - Estupendo
Bang! Bang! Eche! - To The Floor
The Golden Filter - Solid Gold
Kap Bambino - Red Sign
Lemonade - Big Weekend
Dent May - Meet Me In the Garden
Magic Wands - Black magic
Radioclit - Kamphopo
Starfucker - Pop Song
Continued after the jump.
Le Castle Vania - Zero Machine
Restiform Bodies - Bobby Trendy Addendum
Mr. Lif - The Sun
Snake & Jett’s Amazing Bullit band - Ten Cities Beyond
Solid Gold - Get Over it
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday
We Have Band - Hear It In the Cans
If you like this try:
Weekend Jukebox #5
Introducing: Casiokids
MAP February 09
N.A.S.A - Hip-Hop feat. KRS-One, Fatlip and Slim Kid Tre
Podcast #23 - Solid Gold / Ariel Pink / Fever Ray & more
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A Dark, Dark Friday MixAccording to Macy's, the holiday shopping season has officially begun, and on this, the blackest of Fridays, I have the pleasure of working in retail this year. There'll be tears. There'll be blood. There'll be savings, and there'll be a myriad of shoppers willing to give us retailers the first two all in the name of that third. Whether or not you be the type to brave the crowds and eye-gouge your way to thrifty glory, I send you off with this mix and pray you survive this dark, dark Friday.A Dark, Dark Friday Mix (artist name leads to site and all songs are right click - save as):Amy Winehouse - Back To BlackBishop Allen - Little Black AcheDivision Day - Bad Black MoonJens Lekman - Black CabMagic Wands - Black MagicModest Mouse - Black CadillacsOkkervil River - BlackPrinceton - BlackbeardSpoon - Black Like MeStarlight Mints - Black CatTunng - Tale From Black---------------------------------------------------------------No Otherwheres For This One Guys
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"White light, my time has come. All night I'm on the run from black magic."I forgot if I already put these guys up here in a mix or something, but whether or not I've already introduced this duo, this, my friends, is Magic Wands. Basing themselves out of Nashville, Tennessee, this twosome originally started their relationship over 200 miles apart. Keeping their relationship alive with late-night calls and a stream of presents in the mail, the pair eventually started recording together. Now finding themselves in the same place, Magic Wands consists of Chris and Dexy Valentine (whether or not that's their real name is debatable seeing as they also list their location as Fantasy Island, Zaire on the same page). Seeing how well their work together turned out, Magic Wands is evidential proof that long-distance relationships work...as well as gift exchanges. Give an ear to Magic Wands and be sure to check out their current tour dates in Europe...Various Songs From Magic Wands (all songs are right click save as):Black MagicHeartbreak WhirlBe their friend!----------------------------------------------------------------Otherwheres -Otherwheres -Otherwheres -
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Black Kids with The Virgins, Magic Wands @ Paradise
Magic Wands - Black Magic
Download audio file (magicwandsblackmagic)
Baltimore Round Robin Tour (Eyes Night) @ Mass Art (map)
The Soft Drugs, The Diamond Mines, Emergency Music, Gunfight! @ Great Scott
Milquetoast, Death Of The Cool, The Main Drag, Blanks @ Abbey Lounge
Brooks Williams, Dan Gonzalez @ Club [...]
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I kinda wasn’t into Magic Wands til I heard their “Teenage Love” — actually, I was really into Magic Wands on a visual level but wasn’t so much into “Black Magic.” “Teenage Love” brought the visual and audio together into one of those perfect music aha moments that I felt the need to share and experience the song with everybody I know — and you. I wish my journey with Magic Wands began with “Teenage Love”:
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Magic Wands kinda reminds me of those bread and butter 90’s bands that I grew up on like Belly and EARLY Beck. Kinda.
“Black Magic” kinda makes me cringe. I really love the first 30 seconds and then it looses me. Not my fav but worth noting:
Magic Wands - “Black Magic”
Magic Wands is on tour with the Black Kids and CSS (not at the same time) — so yeah, they’re hyped.
Dates
Sep 27 2008 Ottobar w/ The Black Kids + The Virgins Baltimore, Maryland
Sep 29 2008 First Unitarian Church w/ The Black Kids + The Virgins Philly, Pennsylvania
Oct 1 2008 Webster Hall w/ The Black Kids & The Virgins NYC, New York
Oct 2 2008 The Paradise w/ The Black Kids & The Virgins Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 3 2008 Music Hall of Williamsburg w/The Kills Brooklyn, New York
Oct 5 2008 Leadmill w/CSS Sheffield,England
Oct 6 2008 Shepherd’s Bush Empire w/ CSS London,England
Oct 7 2008 Waterfront w/ CSS Norwich, England
Oct 9 2008 Kasbah w/ CSS Coventry, England
Oct 10 2008 Academy 2 w/ CSS Manchester, England
Oct 12 2008 Liquid Room w/ CSS Edinburgh, Scotland
Oct 13 2008 Rescue Rooms w/ CSS Nottingham, England
Oct 14 2008 Thekla w/CSS Bristol, England
Oct 15 2008 Concorde w/CSS Brighton, England
Oct 17 2008 Koko London
Oct 18 2008 Korova Liverpool
Oct 20 2008 Mandela Hall w/ The Black Kids Belfast,Ireland
Oct 21 2008 The Academy w/The Black Kids Dublin, Ireland
Oct 22 2008 Carling Academy w/ The Black Kids Birmingham,England
Oct 25 2008 Fuzz Club Sheffield
Oct 26 2008 ABC w/The Black Kids Glasgow, Scotland
Oct 27 2008 Leeds Met University w/The Black Kids Leeds, England
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Arkansas may not be known as a hotbed for bands, but it soon may be with the emergence of a great band called Deas Vail. They were recently named one of Absolute Punk's "100 Bands To Watch", and are also in the running to be placed in a national ad for Nike. Their new CD-The White Lights EP-is out and features a very addictive sound, especially on the track White Lights. Wes, Laura, Kelsey, Andy & Justin comprise a band you are likely to be hearing much, much more from.Deas Vail - mp3: White Lights : From Priests To Thieves : iTunes pre-orders available through the MySpace page◊ ◊ ◊ ◊Anberlin's New Surrender, due for release on September 30th, is streaming in entirety on the band's MySpace page. The excellent album is available for pre-order on the New Surrender site.◊ ◊ ◊ ◊"Sticker, Star and Tape" is the third indie single from the fledging Sam Isaac and a more riotious-fist in air pop affiar than previous outings. Each and every Sam Isaac single has seen this independent artists fanbase swell, and the summer has once again seen Sam a fixture at almost every festival from V to Big Chill via Boring By The Sea and Latitude. "Sticker, Star and Tape" is a central anthem to the Sam Isaac world; a place where friends make artwork, do recording, direct music videos and carry clipboards. Perfect strangers sell his CDs, promote shows and join the ranks. Sam's part of the bargain is donning an acoustic guitar and making the music to lead the troops. We've got two cool hypnotic remixes to share (one from James Yuill (Moshi Moshi Records) and one from Rod Thomas) of the title/lead track from the EP.Sam Isaac - mp3: Sticker, Star & Tape Rod Thomas Remix : James Yuill Remix◊ ◊ ◊ ◊It's autumn - time for new, melancholic songs of Swedish shoegazer Eerie. In his own words:"This thing, I think, was born out of love. Love of the sheer happiness in defeating your enemies and walk away a little lighter at heart. Love of the people that are close to you, not always in miles but in thought and spirit. And of course the love of drum machines, reverbs and the electric guitar. Preferably combined. There's no marketing strategy. No budgets. Just this. Lend an ear. Please."Eerie's MySpace page (more music available there) - mp3: Downfall : Starting Point II◊ ◊ ◊ ◊You can sample another track from the upcoming release by Florida's own indie-rockers, Copeland, via Spin. You Are My Sunshine is a rich playground of sound unfolding into layers of angelic tenor, driving guitars, experimental backdrops and rousing lyrics (some of which can be found in an elaborate maze the band has recently confused web goers with). The production team of Aaron Sprinkle (Eisley, Anberlin, Pedro the Lion), Copeland vocalist Aaron Marsh, and mixer Michael Brauer (Coldplay, John Mayer, My Morning Jacket) joined forces with Tooth and Nail and the result is a brilliant 11-song collection. Release date is October 14th via Tooth and Nail Records.◊ ◊ ◊ ◊Another great track from the Magic Wands, a duo we recently featured. They are currently touring with with Black Kids (and The Kills in NYC), tour dates include Fri, Sept 26 Black Cat(Washington, DC); Sat, Sept 27 Ottobar(Baltimore, MD); Mon, Sept 29 First Unitarian Church, PhiladelphiA, PA; Wed, Oct 1 Webster Hall, NY, NY; Thu, Oct 9 Paradise, Boston, and Fri, Oct 3 Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York (with The Kills).Magic Wands - mp3: Black Magic◊ ◊ ◊ ◊Shiloe showcase their dark and driving sound on the new EP ...And Now the Screaming Starts, out October 14 on New and Used Records. Shiloe has already caused a stir among some of the most influential tastemakers in LA and beyond with two strong EP's. With the intense anticipation surrounding ...And Now the Screaming Starts, the band is poised for even greater national attention. Formed in 2005 with singer/guitarist Ken Ramos and bassist Melissa Pleckham, Shiloe has earned such praise from maintaining a commitment to releasing music with familiar influences but with a fresh and exciting sound. Ramos grew up on a healthy diet of classic and punk rock, while Pleckham's education was fostered by goth and riot grrrl. "Sometimes I feel like we don't fit in 100% because our music is a little darker and louder than some of the bands that play a lot around town," Ramos says. Despite the differences, the band has shared the stage with some of LA's top acts including The Henry Clay People, Gliss, and the Human Value. …And Now the Screaming Starts finds the band coming into their prime. The production is more refined, the songwriting is stronger, and as Amanda Allgood of CMJ puts it, "Their musicianship is anything but timid." The EP's first single - "Gone" – is pure haunting post-punk, recalling Echo and the Bunnymen; the perfect song for a late night LA drive.Shiloe - mp3: Gone : Pre-order ...And Now the Screaming Starts
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Baltimore has a great show at The Talking Head tonight with Throw Me The Statue, Cotton Jones Basket Ride, and The Points. Down in the District don’t miss Black Kids at the Black Cat with The Virgins and Magic Wands. Cut Copy is also in DC at the 9:30 Club with The Presets. Finally up in Philly Johnny Brenda’s has Gemini Wolf, Pink Skulls, and Persona while the M Room has Takka Takka, Oxford Collapse, and Busses.
mp3: Black Kids - No Substitute Lover (Estelle Cover)
mp3: The Virgins - Private Affair
mp3: Magic Wands - Black Magic
mp3: The Presets - Girl and The Sea (Cut Copy Remix)
mp3: Cotton Jones Basket Ride - Blues From A Nest
mp3: Takka Takka - We Feel Safer At Night
mp3: Oxford Collapse - A Wedding
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Chris y Dexy son los dos componentes de Magic Wands, dúo de Nashville y sensación musical emergente para los próximos meses. Tienen actitud, talento para el pop y dos primeros singles perfectos para pistas alternativas. En estos momentos graban con John Hill (Santogold) material nuevo para su primer álbum y serán teloneros en la gira británica de CSS y Black Kids. *Magic Wands-Black Magic*Magic Wands-Teenage Love (vía Spinner)*Magic Wands-Black Magic (vídeo)*Magic Wands-Teenage Love (vídeo)
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Friday's a little bit tamer than Thursday's schedule - there are eleven showcases to choose from instead of fifteen, but the festival makes up for it with the first of two official after parties at City Hall. Friday's after party is sponsored by Red Bull and features The Dynamites, and I'm pretty sure everyone's going to end up there at the end of the night.
But before that, you've got your work cut out for you deciding what to see. The Cannery has a great lineup - including Kindercastle, Cortney Tidwell, Magic Wands, Paper Route, AutoVaughn and finally Superdrag making a headlining appearance at the end of the night. But the End and Exit/In both have great showcases as well - Skybucket Records at The End will be hosting Through the Sparks, The Dexateens and 13ghosts among a couple of others, and Infinity Cat will take over Exit/In with a crew that includes Cake Bake Betty, Royal Bangs, The Mattoid, Meemaw and JEFF the Brotherhood. Then you have 12th and Porter with Ferraby Lionheart, Tyler James, Kyle Andrews, Butterfly Boucher and even Joe, Marc's Brother. And every other showcase seems tempting too! Damn, I'm glad I still have a few days to figure out my plans for that night.
After the jump, the full schedule and mp3s.Mercy Lounge (1 Cannery Row)ASCAP Showcase
8 p.m. - Natalie Warner
8:45 p.m. - The Lonely Hearts (mp3: "American Dream")
9:30 p.m. - The Bridges (mp3: "All the Words")
10:15 p.m. - Ricky Young
11:00 p.m. - Jeremy Lister (mp3: "Some Other Time")
11:45 p.m. - Space Capone (mp3: "If It Feels Good")Cannery Ballroom (1 Cannery Row)8:15 p.m. - Kindercastle (mp3: "Violet")9 p.m. - Cortney Tidwell (mp3: "Tide")9:45 p.m. - Magic Wands (mp3: "Black Magic")10:30 p.m. - Paper Route (mp3: "Empty House")11:15 p.m. - AutoVaughn (mp3: "The Cycles")12 a.m. - Superdrag (mp3: "Here We Come")----------The End (2219 Elliston Place)Skybucket Records Showcase8 p.m. - Duquette Johnston (mp3: "Babies and Diamonds")
8:45 p.m. - Vulture Whale (mp3: "I Thought I Thought Of Everything")
9:45 p.m. - Through the Sparks (mp3: "Mexico")
10:45 p.m. - The Dexateens (mp3: "Sweet Little Loser")
11:45 p.m. - 13ghosts (mp3: "Photographs")Exit/In (2208 Elliston Place)Infinity Cat Records Showcase8:15 p.m. - Reid & Wright (mp3: "Froth of July")
9 p.m. - Cake Bake Betty (mp3: "Eleanor")
9:45 p.m. - Royal Bangs (mp3: "Broke Calculator")
10:30 p.m. - The Mattoid (mp3: "Hey Dude")
11:15 p.m. - MeeMaw (mp3: "Blue In the Blacklight")12 a.m. - JEFF the Brotherhood (mp3: "Noo Sixties")----------12th and Porter (114 12th Avenue North)Nettwerk Showcase8 p.m. - Sara Melson8:30 p.m. - Canon Blue (DJ set)8:45 p.m. - Ferraby Lionheart (mp3: "Small Planet")9:30 p.m. - Tyler James (mp3: "For My Generation")10:15 p.m. - Kyle Andrews (mp3: "Sushi")11:00 p.m. - Butterfly Boucher (mp3: "Never Leave Your Heart Alone")11:45 p.m. - Joe, Marc's Brother (mp3: "It Still Hurts")3rd and Lindsley (818 3rd Avenue South)9:30 p.m. - Joey & Rory10:15 p.m. - Madi Diaz (mp3: "Marry Me Joan")11:00 p.m. - Mando Saenz (mp3: "When I Come Around")11:45 p.m. - The Last AlmanacThe 5 Spot (1006 Forrest Avenue)8:00 p.m. - Ford Turrell8:45 p.m. - Tristen (mp3: "Eager For Your Love")
9:30 p.m. - Ole Mossy Face
10:15 p.m. - Greg Summerlin (mp3: "Shine On Where You Want")
11:00 p.m. - The Nobility (mp3: "I Refuse")
11:45 p.m. - The Comfies (mp3: "Close To Me")The Basement (1604 8th Avenue South)8 p.m. - Jennifer Niceley (mp3: "Dark Eyes")
8:45 p.m. - Sarah Siskind
9:30 p.m. - The Champion and His Burning Flame (mp3: "The Expert")
10:15 p.m. - Neva Geoffrey (mp3: "All Day and Every Night")
11:00 p.m. - Roman Candle
11:45 p.m. - Dixie WhiskeyEdgehill Studios (1201 Villa Place)7 p.m. - What Bird (mp3: "Here Tomorrow")7:35 p.m. - Brett Rosenberg (mp3: "Hey Bartender")8:10 p.m. - Korby Lenker (mp3: "Papercuts")8:45 p.m. - LankyLimelight (201 Woodland Street)8:45 p.m. - Stephaniesid
9:30 p.m. - Biscuits N' Gravy (mp3: "Blue Bossa")
10:15 p.m. - H-Beam (mp3: "Bang")
11:00 p.m. - The Running
The Rutledge (410 4th Avenue South)
8 p.m. - Repent or Forever Be Damned (mp3: "One")
8:45 p.m. - Happy Birthday Amy (mp3: "The Groom")
9:30 p.m. - Tallest Trees (mp3: "Finally Home")
10:15 p.m. - Waves on Waves (mp3: "Modern Man")
11:00 p.m. - Heypenny (mp3: "Parade")
11:45 p.m. - Umbrella Tree (mp3: "Nursing the Patience") AFTERPARTY:City Hall (405 12th Avenue South)Red Bull Afterparty11:30 p.m. - Funky Good Time12:30 a.m. - The Dynamites (mp3: "Killin' It")1:30 a.m. - Egon
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Like I haven’t written about them enough already (no!), there’s more news from the land of Magic Wands, as the duo are joining Black Kids on their US tour:
Sat, Sept 20 The Social Orlando, FL
Sun, Sept 21 Crowbar Tampa, FL
Tues, Sept 23 The Earl Atlanta, GA
Wed. Sept 24 40 Watt Club Athens. GA
Thu, Sept 25 Cats Cradle Carrboro, NC
Fri, Sept 26 Black Cat Washington, DC
Sat, Sept 27 Ottobar Baltimore, MD
Mon, Sept 29 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA
Wed, Oct 1 Webster Hall New York, NY
Thu, Oct 2 Paradise Boston, MA
Fri, Oct 3 Music Hall of Williamsburg New York (w. The Kills)
Sat, Oct 4 Cabaret Musee Juste Pour Rire Montreal, QC
Sun, Oct 5 The Mod Club Toronto, ON
Mon, Oct 6 Metro Chicago, IL
Tues, Oct 7 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
Fri, Oct 10 Neumos Seattle, WA
Sat, Oct 11 Richards on Richards Vancouver, BC
Sun, Oct 12 Hawthorne Theater Portland, OR
Mon, Oct 13 The Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco, CA
Wed, Oct 15 Mayan Theater Los Angeles, CA
Thu, Oct 16 Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach, CA
Note that on Oct. 3 they will support The Kills!
MP3: Magic Wands - “Black Magic”
MP3: Black Kids - “I Wanna Be Your Limousine”
MP3: The Kills - “Last Day of Magic”
- Cecilia
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The Magic Wands (who still aren’t dead) are opening for the Black Kids starting September 20th.
Ugh.
Now everyone will have to deal with hyper-inflated ticket prices for a hyper-inflated band in the Black Kids in order to see the Magic Wands and the Virgins if you’re so inclined.
The good news is you can leave you can [...]
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All the way from Fantasy Island and with a strong penchant for unicorns comes Chris and Dexy aka Magic Wands. They used to play punk separately 2000 miles apart but the duo hooked up in Los Angeles and moved to Chris’ hometown of Nashville and now play dreamy pop music. And it’s niiice.
‘Black Magic’ is a simple psychedelic tune with an undeniable guitar hook and it can only help that they sing in a MGMT-style falsetto while ‘Teenage Love’, (the song which started their friendship after Chris heard it on Dexy’s Myspace) a slow paean to young love which totally reminds me of something else. Anyone? Anyway, 7″ singles of ‘Teenage Love’ and ‘Black Magic’ are available now.
Magic Wands - Black Magic
Magic Wands - Teenage Love
Youtube channel | More info @ Ark Recordings
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Step aside MC Steinberg.INTERVIEW WITH MAGIC WANDSHFC M: On a scale of 1 to 10 how in love are you two?MW: 11Magic Wands - Black Magic
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My new love, Nashville-based duo Magic Wands (read more about them here) have announced some dates for their US tour:
Jul 31 2008 10:00P The Metro w/The Black Keys Chicago, Illinois
Aug 1 2008 12:00P Aug 1-3 Lollapalooza Chicago, Illinois
Aug 2 2008 10:00P Double Door w/ Foals + Battles Chicago, Illinois
Oct 3 2008 10:00P Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York
Oct 4 2008 10:00P Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York
Go see them and report back to me how they fair live!
MP3: “Teenage Love”
MP3: “Black Magic”
- Cecilia
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A duo named Chris and Dexy out of Nashville that met through an unspecified internet dating site. As their love grew they Skyped until past their bed times, giggled slurping Ramen Noodles while dreaming of visiting haunted churches and bowling alleys together. Chris and Dexy were into fantasy and began sending each other vintage rings, [...]
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Des fraicheurs estivales dans la boite mail ces temps-ci. On ne va pas se les garder pour nous !
On va se réveiller tranquillement de la sieste avec un rookie et après on ondule sur le remix des maintenant seniors de la nouvelle scène rock anglaise (hé oui, 6 ans c'est aujourd'hui une éternité !).
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The Futureheads - Radio Hearts (Dolby Anol Remix)
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Welcome to what's traditionally known as Lollapalooza Week here at Faronheit. Yes, during the past 2 years of this site's existence, I've been working hard to try and help ensure that your Lollapalooza experience in Chicago is the best it can possibly be. As this is a Chicago-based site, I feel like I owe it to both natives of the city and those who will be just passing through to get their faces rocked off for three days straight. And as, according to my understanding, Lollapalooza 2008 has the distinction of wearing the "Best North American music festival" crown for 2008, I imagine there's an exceptional amount of excitement surrounding this year's incarnation. So, fellow Lollapalooza-goers, stop by, do some reading, do some listening, find out about some artists you never knew about before and firm up your 3-day schedule. The next few days are going to be one wild ride.As I did last year, Lollapalooza Week 2008 will kick off with the MP3 EXTRAVAGANZA! This is the one day out of the year that I open up my war chest of music and hand you 100+ mp3s for downloading. As a reminder, these mp3s are for sampling purposes only, so if you're at all curious about whether or not you should see a certain artist at Lollapalooza this year, I hope a download will aid you in making that decision. I doubt there's any way a single person can be fully familiar with every artist on this massive bill, so get yourself a little more educated before exposing yourself to some of these bands! And if you like what you hear, a link to each artist's Myspace page is also included so you can stream more songs!Drop by tomorrow for "Faronheit's Lolla Guide 2008: Day 1 Preview" where I'll talk set times and what artists should be on your must-see list. If you're dealing with a few conflicts about what to see on that first day, I'm hoping that guide will assist in your final decision.MP3 note:Downloads are in alphabetical order by artist and are separated into 2 sections:*The "Direct Download" section has mp3s you can download by right clicking and selecting "Save As..."*The "Left Click Download" section has mp3s you can download by left clicking, which will then take you to the download page. I apologize for doing things this way, but I don't have nearly enough bandwith to host and direct link to all these songs myself. 'Tis but a small hassle for such a large reward.Enjoy!DIRECT DOWNLOADBald Eagle - Sharks Are Fucked UpMyspaceBlack Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears - GunpowderMyspaceThe Black Keys - The LengthsMyspaceBlack Lips - Not A ProblemMyspaceThe Blakes - Don't Bother MeMyspaceBooka Shade - The Sun and the Neon LightMyspaceCadence Weapon - Real EstateMyspaceCat Power - The GreatestMyspaceChromeo - Bonafied Lovin' (Yusek Remix)MyspaceCSS - AlalaMyspaceDeVotchKa - TransliteratorMyspaceDr. Dog - The World May Never KnowMyspaceElectric Touch - Love In Our HeartsMyspaceExplosions in the Sky - Welcome, GhostsMyspaceFoals - BalloonsMyspaceGirl Talk - Bounce ThatMyspaceGrizzly Bear - On A Neck, On A SpitMyspaceHa Ha Tonka - St. Nick on the Fourth in a FervorMyspaceInnerpartysystem - Don't StopMyspaceIron & Wine - Boy With A CoinMyspaceJamie Lidell - MultiplyMyspaceThe Kills - Cheap and CheerfulMyspaceK’NAAN - If Rap Gets JealousMyspaceMagic Wands - Black MagicMyspaceMargot & the Nuclear So and So’s - Skeleton KeyMyspaceMates of State - Goods (All in Your Head)MyspaceMGMT - Time to PretendMyspaceThe National - All the WineMyspaceNewton Faulkner - Dream Catch MeMyspaceNicole Atkins & the Sea - Maybe TonightMyspaceNine Inch Nails - EchoplexMyspaceThe Octopus Project - TruckMyspaceOffice - The Big Bang JumpMyspaceOkkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or MaybeMyspaceRogue Wave - Lake MichiganMyspaceSaul Williams - List of Demands (Reparations)MyspaceSpank Rock - Sweet TalkMyspaceSteel Train - I Feel WeirdMyspaceStephen Malkmus & The Jicks - BaltimoreMyspaceTally Hall - Good DayMyspaceThe Weakerthans - Sun In An Empty RoomMyspaceThe Whigs - Right Hand On My HeartMyspaceWild Sweet Orange - Wrestle With GodMyspaceYeasayer - 2080MyspaceYour Vegas - In My HeadMyspaceLEFT CLICK DOWNLOADAmadou & Mariam - La RealiteMyspaceBang Camaro - Pleasure (Pleasure)MyspaceBattles - Bad TrailsMyspaceBlack Kids - Partie TraumaticMyspaceBloc Party - Hunting for WitchesMyspaceBlues Traveler - Run AroundMyspaceBrand New - ArchersMyspaceBrazilian Girls - JiqueMyspaceBroken Social Scene - Stars and SonsMyspaceButch Walker - Ladies and GentlemenMyspaceThe Cool Kids - One TwoMyspaceDe Novo Dahl - HeartbreakerMyspaceDierks Bentley - Long Trip HomeMyspaceDoes It Offend You, Yeah? - We Are RockstarsMyspaceDuffy - Warwick AvenueMyspaceEli “Paperboy” Reed & the True Loves - I Just Got to KnowMyspaceThe Enemy - PressureMyspaceFerras - Liberation DayMyspaceFlogging Molly - Paddy's LamentMyspaceG. Love & Special Sauce - LoveMyspaceGnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone (Violent Femmes cover)MyspaceGogol Bordello - Oh No!MyspaceThe Go! Team - Grip Like A ViceMyspaceThe Gutter Twins - Idle HandsMyspaceHoly Fuck - Lovely AllenMyspaceJohn Butler Trio - ZebraMyspaceKanye West - Flashing LightsMyspaceKid Sister - ControlMyspaceKrista - MissileMyspaceLouis XIV - God Killed the QueenMyspaceLove and Rockets - So AliveMyspaceLupe Fiasco - Pressure (feat. Jay-Z)MyspaceManchester Orchestra - Wolves at NightMyspaceMark Ronson - Just (Radiohead cover)MyspaceMason Jennings - Gentlest HammerMyspaceThe Parlor Mob - Can't Keep No Good Boy DownMyspaceThe Postelles - 123 StopMyspaceThe Raconteurs - HandsMyspaceRadiohead - The BendsMyspaceRage Against the Machine - Born of a Broken ManMyspaceSerena Ryder - This Wheel's On FireMyspaceSharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 NightsMyspaceSofia Talvik - Arms and ArmourMyspaceThe Ting Tings - Great DJMyspaceToadies - Possum KingdomMyspaceUffie - Hot ChickMyspaceWe Go To 11 - LeaderMyspaceWhat Made Milwaukee Famous - For the BirdsMyspaceWhite Lies - Unfinished BusinessMyspaceWilco - Either WayMyspaceWitchcraft - Lady WinterMyspaceExtra special thanks goes out to all the record labels, promoters, Insound, iLike, SaveFile, the SXSW people, and Myspace for all the assistance with this massive project.You can still buy tickets for Lollapalooza 2008! Go to the Lollapalooza website for ticket information.
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I feel like I'm sort of back in the groove this week. Note that I'm qualifying that, as any day now the groove could up and disappear. Nonetheless, this week I'm feeling it and so I'm running with it. Just the other day the Magic Wands magically appeared in my inbox. They're from Nashville. I have to confess that usually when I see that a band is from Nashville my first inclination is to think that they're not for me. I know that's very prejudicial of me, but I really don't care for country music, which is what I immediately associate with Nashville. So let me say straight off that they are not country in any way shape or form! They're a male/female duo with a definite dance/indietronica vibe. Magic Wands--"Black Magic" mp3 off Black Magic 7" Single (buy)Magic Wands--"Teenage Love" mp3 off Teenage Love Digital Single (buy) Every time these two songs by Setting Sun come up I like them better, so I figured it's time to share them. They're a five-piece band from New York state with a fairly mellow, straight-up guitar sound mixed in with lovely strings (actually, they sound more like they'd be from Nashville than the Magic Wands) and I like the lyrics, especially on "Carry Me Away" when he sings, "I only know where I've been / I don't know where I'll go / in the peace of the night when my heart starts to slow / I think of these things and feel my blood grow / old and tired, and old and tired, and old and tired."Setting Sun--"How Long" mp3 off Children of the Wild (buy)Setting Sun--"Carry Me Away" mp3 off Children of the Wild And just for fun, I'm including something by L.A.-based Rurik. It's a little bit rammy and so it's for my friends who like their music on the rammy side. This isn't probably something I'll play repeatedly, but it is Friday after all, so I think it's worth at least a couple of loud plays. Rurik--"Make Me Like You" mp3 off Re-Education (buy) Rurik--"The Dog and Pony Show" mp3 off Re-Education Leave Comment
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Magic Wands are a Nashville based girl/guy duo fronted by singers/guitarists Chris and Dexy. The first time they met, the two only spoke briefly outside a show on in Hollywood in 2006 when Chris was visiting Los Angeles. They wouldn't talk again for over a year.In 2007 while living in Nashville, Chris found a song on Myspace that he listened to repeatedly, day and night. Soon he discovered it was a song by Dexy, called Teenage Love. He sent her a message, and soon the two began talking and exchanging mp3s of their music. Having recently both quit playing punk music, they both agreed they wanted to start something completely different. For fun they began recording songs together over the internet, the first being a song Chris wrote for Dexy called Kiss Me Dead. Most nights that summer they were on the phone until dawn, 2000 miles apart and talking about things like music, magic, love and dreams. They would also send packages to each other—gifts such as toy lions, old records, handwritten poems, candy, clothes, plastic rings and one glowing heart lamp.Quickly they decided they had to be together. So Chris came to L.A. to meet up with Dexy at an old bed and breakfast in the Hollywood Hills. They instantly hit it off— playing guitars, visiting old churches and wearing crowns they bought at a magic shop on Hollywood Blvd. After Chris left, they decided they were destined to be. Two weeks later he was back in L.A. helping Dexy pack up her old Mercedes Benz for a trip across the country. When they arrived in Nashville they began recording under the name Magic Wands, taken from one of Dexy's favorite things that Chris sent her—a magic wand. Currently Magic Wands are living together in Nashville and will release a ltd. EP in the Autumn.Magic Wands - mp3: Black Magic : Teenage Love : MusicGlue has another track!
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Wunderbar - die Sonne scheint und mir wird die "Arbeit" als Blogger durch eine kleine Indie-Promofirma heute mal etwas erleichtert: Scuffy Bird schickten mir unlängst zwei Songs einer mir bis dato komplett unbekannten Band namens Magic Wands. Dieses Duo aus Nashville schreibt hübsch anzuhörende Indiepopperlen, die getragen werden von den Stimmen der beiden und phasenweise an etwas gedrosselte Raveonettes im Lo-Fi-Gewand erinnern. Die beiden ersten Singles der Magic Wands gibt es tatsächlich als Gratisdownload, und auf die Debüt-EP, die im Herbst erscheinen soll, dürfen wir uns alle schon mal freuen!Link zur Bandseite bei MyspaceMP3-Download Magic Wands «Teenage love»MP3-Download Magic Wands «Black magic»
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A random pick from the inbox todaythat caught my attention, a band from Nashville called Magic Wands. I'll let them tell their story. Enjoy.Here's their info:Magic Wands are a Nashville based girl/guy duo fronted by singers/guitarists Chris and Dexy.The first time they met, the two only spoke briefly outside a show on in Hollywood in 2006 when Chris was visiting Los Angeles. They wouldn't talk again for over a year.In 2007 while living in Nashville, Chris found a song on Myspace that he listened to repeatedly, day and night. Soon he discovered it was a song by Dexy, called Teenage Love. He sent her a message, and soon the two began talking and exchanging mp3s of their music.Having recently both quit playing punk music, they both agreed they wanted to start something completely different. For fun they began recording songs together over the internet, the first being a song Chris wrote for Dexy called Kiss Me Dead.Most nights that summer they were on the phone until dawn, 2000 miles apart and talking about things like music, magic, love and dreams.They would also send packages to each other—gifts such as toy lions, old records, handwritten poems, candy, clothes, plastic rings and one glowing heart lamp.Quickly they decided they had to be together. So Chris came to L.A. to meet up with Dexy at an old bed and breakfast in the Hollywood Hills. They instantly hit it off— playing guitars, visiting old churches and wearing crowns they bought at a magic shop on Hollywood Blvd.After Chris left, they decided they were destined to be. Two weeks later he was back in L.A. helping Dexy pack up her old Mercedes Benz for a trip across the country.When they arrived in Nashville they began recording under the name Magic Wands, taken from one of Dexy's favorite things that Chris sent her—a magic wand.Currently Magic Wands are living together in Nashville and will release a ltd. EP in the Autumn.Magic Wands - Black MagicMagic Wands - Teenage Love [MYSPACE]
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Magic Wands - Black Magic (MP3)
Rubies - I Feel Electric (MP3)
… but despite not getting a chance to put our disco first aid skills to use, giving Kev a hand with last night’s Best Foot Forward was fun anyway, and it also brings my adventures in DJing dangerously close to double figures (but don’t worry, there’s a clandestine society working to ensure that that never happens).
In between being asked if I’ve got anything by Oasis (and it was Kev that was asking! Okay so he was only passing on a request but it still burns), failing to decide what to play next before the current record finishes, wondering when Kev was going to get around to playing ‘Train In Vain’ (he didn’t! I know!) and fading out the wrong records, I actually managed to play some good music.
There was at least two and a half minutes of electrified scuzzle-gum pop perfection courtesy of American boy/girl beat combo Magic Wands.
And one Leslie Feist gave Rubies a hand sounding so much like Vince Clarke I thought it only fitting to play Clarke-era Depeche Mode’s “Just Can’t Get Enough” straight after. I might go for Yazoo next time, that’s if the society don’t get to me first.
Kev played some good records too.
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Oh, Mann! Was hab ich da nur angefangen! Die Geister, die ich rief, die werde ich nicht mehr los... Was vor 3 Wochen als netter Einfall anfing, hat mir mittlerweile beinahe mein komplettes Sitz - und Klickfleisch gekostet. Worum gehts? Das SXSW 2008! Das ist ja bekanntermaßen mittlerweile eine wunderbare Quelle guter aktueller Musik geworden, bei der es regelmäßig richtig gute Indiebands zu entdecken gibt. Das Ganze hat nur einen Hacken: Wer hört sich schon alle (nahezu 500!) teilnehmenden Bands durch und filtert den Country, Screamo, Hiphop und den wasweißichnochfüreinenschrott raus, damit dieser nicht via Kompletttorrent meine ITunes Mediathek besudelt? Ihr ahnt es schon, mir kam da eines Abends so eine blöde Idee. Nicht das ich ansonsten zu wenig zu tun hätte (ganz im Gegenteil) ich fing einfach an, mich durch die MP3's auf der SXSW Seite zu klicken und zu klicken und zu klicken und irgendwann war es dann mit Aufhören einfach zu spät. Viel zu viel gute Musik. Der Weg zurück zu weit, der Weg nach vorne einzige Lösung. Voila: Hier ist also der überaus subjektive und unmßgebliche Last Pop Song Guide through the SXSW Galaxy (Teil 1: Sparte Rock)! Und der lohnt sich. Hier gibt es als direkten Anklicker die Songs der Bands, die mir beim Sreenen im Großhirn eine Reaktion hervorgerufen haben, der Bands mit dem gewissen etwas Im Track, derer, die schon vorher meine Beachtung fanden und derer, die mir jetzt als wirklich gut neu aufgefallen sind. Eigentlich wären alle einen eigenen Post wert gewesen. Meine absoluten persönlichen Favoriten werde ich nachfolgend noch in Kurzposts ausgiebiger beleuchten und huldigen, denn die gehen sicher hier in der Menge unter. Also, viel Spaß beim Reisen durch die Galaxie und Probieren der Donnergurgler und nicht vergessen: Don't panic!PS: Die Sparten Pop, Alternative und Experimental folgen noch...AThe Antiteam - Time Creeps MP3The Airborne Toxic Event - Wishing Well MP3American princess - Real Love MP3Apache Beat - Your Powers are magic MP3Apes - Beat of the Double MP3Attack in Black - Young Leaves MP3Audrye Sessions - Julianna MP3A Weather Spiders - Snakes MP3BThe Black Hollies - Paisley Pattern Ground MP3Born in the Flood - Anthem MP3The Bad Trips - First PriorityBad Veins - Cold and Warm MP3Band of Thieves - Woman MP3Beangrowers - Quint Affair MP3
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