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R.I.P. Alex Chilton
Posted on 17 March 2010
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Robyn – “Fembot”
Posted on 17 March 2010
When I talked to Robyn about her new album(s), she had this to say about “Fembot”:
People expect things of you, like kids and like marriage, and I found myself just thinking of that a lot while making this record, so the song is about that in a way, but it’s also fun. I’m playing around with the concept of being a woman, and what it means to physically be able to carry kids, but at the same time that’s not always what you see yourself as.
And she was right. “Fembot” uses robot/car/space shuttle phrases as a metaphor for aging. With vocoder-filtered lines like “My system’s in mint condition,”and “Pop the hatch and hit ignition,” it also doesn’t apologize or protest too much. Listen at the newly-redesigned Robyn.com.
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Sleepy Sun Fever Details
Posted on 16 March 2010
It hasn’t been that long since we premiered Sleepy Sun’s “Red/Black” and “White Dove” videos. But they’re already following up last year’s Embrace LP and Sleepy Son EP with a new full-length this spring. And people say stoners never get anything done. On first listen, Fever doesn’t stray far from Embrace, with the San Fransisco sextet continuing to balance summery folk jams with thunderous sludge. They’re playing a ton of SXSW shows, and will open for Arctic Monkeys for 14 dates around the US and Mexico.
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Holy Fuck – “Latin America”
Posted on 15 March 2010
Holy Fuck streamed the first single from their upcoming album Latin on Chatroulette late last week. If you went looking for Holy Fuck on Chatroulette, well, you probably found it many, many times. Or maybe your boyfriend found it for you. Either way, “Latin America” now comes in safe-for-work, MP3 form. The Toronto band is down to its four touring members, which seems reflected in this single. Holy Fuck are getting ever closer to sounding as great on record as they do live.
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Joanna Newsom/Bowerbirds @ Calvin College, Grand Rapids 3/12/10
Posted on 15 March 2010
The Have One On Me support shows started back in Australia, migrating Friday night to our end of the world for a North American kick off show at Calvin College. The set was just ten songs, but of course that spanned 90 minutes because roughly nine-minutes per song is about right for Joanna Newsom’s labyrinth pop madrigals. Mlive.com describes the set as a hushed and sweeping affair, dropping a few tidbits from the 25-minute Q&A with Newsom that followed. For example: she doesn’t like to listen to music while writing and recording, unless that music is Dirty Projectors — clever girl. That’s a fact framed in her recent NYTimes profile that is long, but if you’ve made it through the knotty depths of her recent triple-disc triumph, you can make it through the piece. (An interesting note: Milk-Eyed Mender and Ys sold 200K and 250K albums, respectively. Have One’s week one was somewhere around 7,000. That’s gotta be drag city.) Of course Joanna gives good photo, and so we sent Graeme Flegenheimer to document the night opened by fellow forest-dwellers Bowerbirds. Here’s the evening’s setlist, along with some so-so video if you’re into that sorta thing:
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Happy Birthday – “Subliminal Message”
Posted on 15 March 2010
Vermont trio Happy Birthday’s self-titled Sub Pop debut is full of catchy, off-kilter songs like the previously posted “Girls FM” and this new gem “Subliminal Message.” The distinctive vocals belong to Kyle Thomas, who you’ll also know from Feathers, King Tuff, and stoned-out J. Mascis metal crew Witch. The latter’s dual-guitar sludge offered an interesting backdrop to Thomas’ sweet, nasal intonations. You’d expect him to sound more at home in a pop setting, but it’s as interesting here because the structure seems ready to implode after each breezy hook (and warping guitar solo). That, and it sounds like he’s throat-singing through his nostrils.
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Sleigh Bells Debut Album Treats Powered By M.I.A.
Posted on 15 March 2010
By the end of CMJ 2009 Brooklyn duo Derek Miller and Alexis Kraus aka Sleigh Bells had a handfull of homemade demos showcasing immediately distinctive and highly combustible distorto-beat razor pop jams, hit the stages with a fully formed live show, and ended the fest with both a BTW stamp and M.I.A. in their pockets. It was a good week. After a quiet couple of months since, their 2010 agenda’s taken shape: opening for Major Lazer and Yeasayer, hitting Coachella and taking featured slots at SXSW parties belonging to everyone from NPR to FADER to Pitchfork, and today announcing their anticipated debut album: Treats, out 5/11 on Mom + Pop Music “in special partnership with M.I.A.’s NEET Recordings.” Maya’s discerning, so that’s a good stamp to bear. Maya’s also returning on her own, with M.I.A. shows in L.A. on July 17th at the Cornfields Of Los Angeles State Historic Park, and a venue to be named in NYC on July 24th (via 24Bit). Good things.
As for Sleigh Bells, they have a lot of dates coming up — if the demos don’t have you convinced, the live show will. Mark ‘em:
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Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever Cover Art
Posted on 15 March 2010
We knew Heaven Is Whenever was on its way. That’s what it’ll look like. Craig Finn has said the album’s lyrical themes include struggle, reward, and suffering. Doesn’t this hand look like it’s reaching for a hand up from God? If you’re a fan of the artwork, you’ll be able to get a screen-printed, limited-edition LP of Heaven Is Whenever on Record Store Day, April 17.
Otherwise, Heaven Is Whenever is out 5/4 via Vagrant.
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Inlets – “Bright Orange Air” Video
Posted on 15 March 2010
We brought you this track from BTW Inlets’ upcoming album a couple months back. Now check out the pointillist video, which goes further with the song’s theme. That means lots of orange, and many references to light pollution. Inlets’ Sebastian Krueger is from Brooklyn, so he’s familiar with the problem. “Bright Orange Air” is directed […]
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Morrissey – “Ganglord” Video
Posted on 15 March 2010
Morrissey is coming off a difficult 2009, a year that made him ask, “What does the future hold? What does the next minute hold?” No word on the former, but for the immediate future he continues to promote last year’s greatest hits collection Swords, despite calling it a “meek disaster.” This song must bring back […]
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