Tibi PuiuFresh after their SXSW stint, my favorite new comers of the year, the LA based Local Natives stepped by KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic where they played a lovely set packed with songs off the incredible Gorilla Manor. Just hit play below.
Bloc Party frontman unveils solo album details
Although Bloc Party still is on a indefinite hiatus, that doesn’t seem to stop the band’s frontman from expressing himself though a debut solo album. So it has it Kele Okereke, or just Kele as he decided to sign himself, will release “The Boxer”, his solo debut, on June 21 in the UK and June 22 in the U.S via Wichita/Polydor and Glassnote. Okereke recorded the album mainly in New York with producer Alex Epton,…
Gang of Four ask for donations
Steve Lampiris
The influential post-punkers have asked fans to help finance their newest endeavor, Content, via donations. They chose pledgemusic.com, and you can see the project for yourself (and perhaps throw some change their way). While you can purchase a standard version this summer when the album comes out, a donation now will actually get you some tempting goodies (as well as the album). Depending upon how generous you are, you can receive extras like: signed album…
New Titus Andronicus video: ‘A More Perfect Union’
When I first listened to this song last month, I couldn’t be left more impressed by the band’s maturity, both in sound and lyrics. Hard banging riffs, anthemic hooks and pure passion misting through the air. The video, which was just recently released, although cut to just three and a half minutes versus the original seven minutes, is more or less a faithful visual rendition of what I’d imagine seeing soundtracked by “A More Perfect…
Download: Elk City – ‘Jerks On Ice’
Beautifully soothing and seductive – one couldn’t ask for more of NYC’s Elk City, led by the firebrand Renee LoBue. This June, Elk City is set to bring it’s infectious and warm eclectic pop music to a new level, once with the release of the band’s new album “House of Tongues”. The record is due on the 1st of June via Friendly Fire; until then though, I’d like to invite you to have a listen…
New Music Monday: April 5
This week’s stand out release is definitely “Here Lies Love”, the product of a unpredictable collaboration between David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, about the life of the former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos and her relationship with a servant from her childhood. It’s an immensely ambitious project, backed by an intricate concept and a guest list stretching for miles. If someone had the chance of sampling the record, I’d love to hear some…
Drive-By Truckers: “The Big To-Do”
Al Byrne
Album name: The Big To-Do Artist name: Drive-By Truckers Genre: Rock Released: 16 March 2010 Label: ATO ZME Rating: 8/10 Website: drivebytruckers.com It’s all about “Birthday Boy” this time. On every Drive-By Truckers album, there’s one song that, quite helpfully, doubles as a litmus test as to whether you’ll like happily gorge yourself silly on what they’re dishing out. On Gangstabilly, their rough-and-ready debut album, it was “The Living Bubba”, probably the quintessential DBT song…
(another) new Hold Steady song – ‘Weekenders’
The Hold Steady have been really pampering us lately, having offered two three new songs off their new album “Heaven is Whenever” for streaming, as of today. Hopefully they can show other bands a lesson on how proper previewing should be made. The latest track upped for sampling is the nostalgic anthem “Weekenders”, a massive song. Really, the scale of the sound is immense! Definitely like it more than “Hurricane J” or “Rock Problems”. All…
Wolf Parade announce new album and tour
The band postponed all their other endeavors and side projects (Sunset Rubdown, Handsome Furs, Swan Lake, Moonface), and finally decided to concentrated their creative forces back to the the ‘mother ship’ when Wolf Parade started recording again last late year. Today, we have some first details concerning the new material courtesy of a recent Pitchfork interview with Wolf Parade co-leader Dan Boeckner. So it has it that the new, third Wolf Parade album will be…
Quick On The Apteka
So, if you’re of the age where standing up requires a manly grunt and a sturdy handhold, you may remember a time when the Smashing Pumpkins were an exciting, viable rock band, rather than a withering, sputtering self-parody, and when Jane’s Addiction were quirky artisty-types rather than the embarrassing uncles of the alternative scene. It’s fair to say that Apteka – promising upstarts from Chicago – probably have some fond memories of that time, because…