In episode 18 Bradley and Adam spar about The Black Keys new releases entitled Attack & Release, then give you a point by point discussion about Sun Kil Moon and their new release April. Your Top 8 Music news stories go from Elvis to Itunes and Keith Richards.
Recently Radiohead released it’s “stems” or instrumentals / acappellas for their song Nude off In Rainbows with the intension that fans around the world could try their hand at remixing said song. They even set up a remix website for participants to upload their mixes and vote on the best ones.
I’ve been sifting through the mixes while at work today. My favorite is a track I think would sound right at home sitting in between Morning Bell/Amnesiac and Dollars & Sense. Is it odd to say that I’m nostalgic for the Kid A / Amnesiac days?
(Oh, and the hipster runnoff mix is fucking hilarious)
Check out / vote for the mix below:
After the 70’s came and went disco never made a true revival. It lives on in today’s dance music, but it’s feel good dance driven beat perhaps didn’t have the emotional range to support a reexamination of the style. In contrast, during the past five years many musicians have looked to the decade of slap bracelets and puffy paint for inspiration. I was pushed in that direction myself by the soundtrack to Donnie Darko.
The Darko soundtrack is a good comparison to the new M83 record Saturdays=Youth: at times quiet and reserved and at others unabashedly fulfilled by its own bittersweet joy accentuated by the perfect pop hook. Unlike its revivalist cousins M83 isn’t approximating the style of greats like The Psychedelic Furs, Tears for Fears, or The Church; it is their peer. A document out of time, Saturdays = Youth is the darkwave synth pop gem you keep missing because some idiot put a copy of the DeBarge record in the M section.
Bizarre Houston Rock outfit Indian Jewelry has just let loose a couple songs that I think are pretty damn cool, and maybe a little scary too. Psychedelic as hell and thicker than a stripper from the Clairmont lounge, Indian Jewlrey’s sound isn’t just the “polite shoe gaze” that I’ve seen a lot of bands lately gravitating to. It’s got the punch that is missing from most of the rock being made today. I guess the only question is how do they do it?
Looking into the band a little further there was very little information on their label’s page besides the fact that their label mates are Yeasayer and they apparently stole the band name of someone from the 70s. Find the typed letter here. So a trip over to their website reveals some very strange art and a prior record released in 2006 on monitor records. The Wiki article has a little more info but those things are hard to trust.
Tour dates on their myspace page here.
The LK’s real band name is “The Love Of Kevin, Color, Chaos, and The Sound Of K” and because of that I can see why they shortened it. The LK just further cement the idea in my mind that there is a certain level of expertise that is evidently broken down to molecular form and distributed in the water supply of Sweden. It’s a compound of humbleness, compassion, and sincerity as well.
It’s an experimental pop project that perfectly walks a super fine line and just exudes smiling pop music. Can’t remember what that sounds like when even Brittney seems to be married to angst now? Think Peter, Bjorn, and John (also Swedish) or the experimental nature of Little Dragon (yep Swedes too) perhaps the perfect pop structure of Lykke Li (you guessed it, another Swede). I know it’s not fair that all the most feel good music comes from one place. Either way LK fit squarely in with this lot.
The LK preformed in Atlanta not to long ago and the video is a result of that performance. I’d like to tell you that I was at that show and that I’ve known about the band all along, but alas I too am constantly playing catchup looking for wonderful music. The band hasn’t released any MP3s for your downloading consumptive pleasure, however feel free to sample a few more tracks from their myspace page found Here. Oh and Their Official page is found Here.
P.S. Pasta Primavera put up a track that you can get over here…
We like the good folks over at Google. They always end up buying helpful websites, making them free, and ask only that we look at ads from their adsense empire.
While this isn’t a music post, I had to share one of Google’s April Fools jokes I found hilarious. I opened Gmail this morning to find that the big G was introducing a new feature: Gmail Custom Time. The feature lets you predate ten email messages a year.
Did you sleep through your term paper deadline after one too many rounds of the TV Mustache drinking game? (There was a Burt Reynolds marathon on TBS) Just have your professor check again. Thanks to Custom Time it was there three hours early.
The testimonials are particularly hilarious.
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