Tibi PuiuAs previously reported, yesterday night American Dad was all about Louisville’s finest, My Morning Jacket. I didn’t get to see the full episode yet, but from the couple of teasers and short rips on youtube it looks damn hilarious. A lot more humorous than one would expect anyway, even though they had plenty of material to go work with. Bellow you can find a few YouTube clips of scenes from the last night’s American Dad…
New Rain Machine video – ‘Give Blood’
If some of you became a bit disheartened upon news of TV on the Radio hiatus, know that Kyp Malone’s (vocals/guitar) debut solo album, released under the Rain Machine moniker, sounds and feels like a genuine TVotR record. Sure, it’s a deeply intimate and personal record, packed with influences and issues addressed by Kyp, but the vibe while spinning it is so strangely familiar that there isn’t any doubt in my mind – it’s TV…
Download: Little Fish – ‘Darling Dear’
While cycling through myspaces I came across this extraordinary band of such vigor and unprecedented mesmerizing sound the likes you see every couple of years, that simply engulfed me inside the thought that there are so many talented artists out there that wrongfully get little to no coverage. Hailing from Oxford, England, The band is question is called Little Fish and is comprised of vocalist/guitarist/principal songwriter JuJu, “a rail-thin force of nature (think Patti Smith…
Al Byrne’s Radio Bile
Al Byrne
You’ll forgive me if I wallow in a little self-indulgence this week – a new job and, more importantly, lethargy have prevented me from bothering to care about most music-related matters this week, outside of reminding myself quite how brilliant The Hold Steady truly are. If you don’t own any of their records, it’s important that you go buy one right now. In fact, buy all of them. They’re lovely. Two music matters that I…
Sweethead – “Sweethead”
Album name: Sweethead Artist name: Sweethead Genre: Rock Released: November 2 2009 Label: Strange Addiction/Play It Again, Sam ZME Rating: 5/10 Website: sweethead.net I sure hope the record company suit who decided it’d be a good idea to release Sweethead’s debut album in early November is picking bullet fragments out of his own navicular bone right now. Sweethead, if you didn’t know, are the side project of Queens of the Stone Age’s multi-purpose axeman, Troy…
Spoon announce official Transference release date and tour
One of my personal most anticipated release of the upcoming new year is definitely Spoon’s “Transference”. We’ve talked a bit about the new Spoon record in the past, more exactly about the few Transference tracks that have already been played live on the band’s last tour. It now seems people will get the chance to have a first hand account of the new Spoon sooner than one may think, as in the following months the…
Songs of the decade: “The ’59 Sound”
Steve Lampiris
The Gaslight Anthem | “The ’59 Sound” | 2008 From its Born to Run opening riff to its down-and-out, working man lyrics (including repeated lines), the title track to The Gaslight Anthem’s second outing is the best pure rock song of the Aughts. [Maybe I’m slightly biased. It is, as of the time of this writing, the second-most played song on my last.fm account.] To give you an idea of just how Springsteen-esque this song…
Songs of the decade: “The Underdog”
Spoon | “The Underdog” | 2007 Perhaps it isn’t surprising – or, isn’t supposed to be – that the most fun song Spoon released this decade features uplifting Motown-esque horns. The lyrics, too, are notably upbeat with a concise message of not giving up, laying down in the face of difficulty or, most importantly, being (or becoming) social garnish. The song’s lyrics are quotable ad infinitum, whether he’s describing what perfection is to most people…
Magnetic Fields map new tour for upcoming album
“Realism”, the third Magnetic Fields record in the “no-synth” trilogy (following i and Distortion) is slated for a early 2010 release, so evidently a grand North America tour has been announced to support it. Merrit and company can be seen playing their soothing indie pop starting from February, when the tour will kick off in DC, before coming to an epic end in London towards the end of March. A somewhat brief trek, indeed, but…
Charity goes a long way – ‘I Want a Goat’ (music video spoof)
SNL’s satire music video I’m on a Boat stirred a lot of comments when it first surfaced more than half a year ago, bashing auto-tune and the current MTV scene. Looks like some well intended good-doers decided to capitalize on the video’s viral success and produce a hilarious spoof to help raise money and donate goats for some of the poorest people and villages in India. People just have to head over to the project’s…