From the monthly archives: August 2011
This month’s mix tape really hits the cross-section of this humble blog’s musical scope. Granted, there are no new wave heroes this month — but the selections run the gambit from synthpop, dreampop, shoegaze, indie, and good old-fashioned britpop. There’s new M83, Noel Gallagher, DJ Shadow.. plus plenty of other favorites from the month [...]
Earlier this summer, we were teased by the infectious single “Midnight City.” Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, M83‘s much-anticipated double album, doesn’t come out until October 18 — but there’s been some leakage. Today, a Turkish site produced the intro track, entitled “Intro” of course. It’s appropriately epic and features the powerful vocals of goth [...]
I don’t know about you, but I think Noel is kicking Liam‘s ass. While Beady Eye‘s debut came and went, the advance looks at Noel’s solo album, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, are quite positive. We’ve already enjoyed the britpop pomp of lead single “The Death Of You And Me,” and the laid back [...]
Kristen Gundred and the Dum Dum Girls will release sophomore album Only In Dreams September 27th. We’ve already heard the smoldering “Coming Down,” which drew comparisons to Mazzy Star. Newest peek at the album, “Bedroom Eyes,” is a little sunnier and has Gundred working on her Chrissie Hynde: (via p4k) By the way, if [...]
Do we still care about Jane’s Addiction? I, for one, fast forward through the theme song on Entourage. Regardless, Jane’s 3.0 will release The Great Escape Artist on October 4th. A spacey, mystical video for second single “Irresistable Force” was unveiled today. It plods out of the gate, but Perry and Dave can still [...]
The venerable DJ Shadow returns September 27th with The Less You Know The Better, his fourth full length and first since 2006′s The Outsider. It’s what you expect from DJ Shadow, with the possible exception of the latest track to hit the web, “Warning Call,” which features a driving guitar line and the droll [...]
Thanks to Stereogum and Some Kind Of Awesome for the heads up on this one. Saturday night at Reading, Pulp and The Strokes were the headliners. Late in The Strokes set, they were joined by Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker for a shaky but crowd pleasing cover of The Cars “Just What I Needed.” Even at [...]
Love him or hate him, Wavves’ Nathan Williams is an interesting character. As The Fader points out, he was tripping balls at the MTV VMAs last night — and ended up giving “Best New Artist” Tyler The Creator’s mom his VIP pass. Add to that, Wavves are releasing the Life Sux EP September 20th [...]
Yesterday I committed twittercide. In a few short months, I had gathered a healthy following of 700 or so. Most were crap bands trying to suck up. Some were followers of the local radio station I work for, who quickly realized they weren’t interested in my narrowly appealing music tweets. A few were porn bots [...]
