Damien Jurado’s simple, effective covers of Microphones’ “Where Lies My Tarp?” and Low’s “Murderer” made for good listening, while also offering interesting personal insights into the Seattle songwriter’s listening habits/aesthetic inspirations. As he told us then:
With a band like Low, I have always compared listening to their music to that of a self reveling and […]
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Damien Jurado – “Arkansas” (Stereogum Premiere)
Posted on 03 March 2010
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Shearwater - "Hidden Lakes" Video
Posted on 18 February 2010
The Golden Archipelago, which has already birthed two downloadable previews in the soaring “Castaways” and its wind-blown counterpart “Black Eyes,” sees its first official video treatment today at the hands of director Alma Har’el. Jonathan Meiburg is in full costumer for “Hidden Lakes”‘ 3/4 piano reverie by way of Talk Talk, dirty and destitute, crawling across a barren land before running into an evil looking Thor Harris (guessing it’s Thor by that earring, tough to say for sure without seeing his bare chest and hammer dulcimer). At which point they make a meaningful exchange of soulful looking puppies. Totally normal.
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the morning benders - "Excuses"
Posted on 17 February 2010
The anatomy of a bona fide buzz cycle: stoking anticipation by securing a solid label and co-producer, releasing one of your album’s more promising tracks, demonstrating you’re a threat in concert at a killer coming-out party, and then (literally) orchestrating a live video with a song, cameo list, and conceit so strong it had no choice but to go viral. You could tell other campaigns to take note, but first they’d need an album worth the fuss, which you can’t calculate, which Big Echo is. I was in from first spin, but also sensed this one had the legs to connect. The “Excuses” live vid did its work to reel in the concert-of-blog-love requisite to make this a morning benders moment, which the band’s stoking here with the song that’s turned everyone to mush in its studio form.
Can’t say just how much of the initial interest in the live “Excuses” had to do with its recognizable cameos, or with the visual of mainbender Chris Chu conducting his small-scale Wall Of Sound, but the success of it is a song is independent of those tics, rests solely on its smart and earnest aurals: “Excuses” opens the record with the dusty crackle and pop of a needle dropping on vinyl, scene-setting for the throwback, ’50s-copping California pop vibes, the doo-wop break, the Etta James string section that color this song’s loping, waltz-time strum, paean of love, and sticky sweet, technicolor melodies. Dig it:
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Defriending Cancer Benefit W/ Todd Barry, James Mercer, Isaac Brock, Eugene Mirman, Tim Heidecker & Friends @ The Moore Theatre, Seattle 2/11/10
Posted on 15 February 2010
Not sure if musicians and comedians preternaturally get along together. But they definitely both hate cancer. So maybe this benefit for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society was more of a my-enemy’s-enemy-is-my-friend thing? Cancer-hating comedian Todd Barry hosted the Seattle event, which included past and present Sub Pop label mates Eugene Mirman, Isaac Brock, and James Mercer, alongside Neil Hamburger, Tig Notaro, Natasha Legerro, and Tim & Eric’s Tim Heidecker. Seattle photographer Laura Musselman caught the event for us. Both Mercer and Brock performed sans bands; Modest Mouse recently announced a Friday spot at this year’s Pitchfork Festival, and Mercer’s prepping a Broken Bells debut album with Dangermouse.
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New Warpaint Video - "Stars"
Posted on 23 October 2009
You could compare Warpaint to Au Revoir Simone for other reasons than being a female trio with fragile melodies, but the Los Angeles crew do something darker. It’s sorta there in the differences between their names. For instance, David Lynch had nothing to do with the dreamy Adam Harding and Burke Roberts-directed video for “Stars,” but its more eerily atmospheric (and shadowy) than “Shadows” even if the title sounds brighter.
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Sufjan Plans Song-Based LP For Next Year
Posted on 23 October 2009
Or, as Stevens puts it, “I’m trying to dissuade any kind of conceptual framework and just write music, love songs, pop songs, and just forget all that conceptual mess…” Learn more in Vish Khanna’s latest excerpt from a forthcoming Signal To Noise Q&A.
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Trent Reznor Donates Reworked NIN Song, Voiceover To Fringe Promo
Posted on 22 October 2009
Now that Nine Inch Nails are done touring, Trent has time for exciting new projects. Like a commercial for the ridiculous pseudo-science drama Fringe? Apparently he refused compensation, just wanting “to have fun and be part of something cool.” Watch.
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Lil Wayne Facing Year In Jail
Posted on 22 October 2009
Weezy’s plead guilty to owning the loaded semi-automatic gun found on his tour bus in 2007. He expects to receive a year in jail at sentencing in February. Then in March, he stands trial in Arizona on unrelated felony drug and weapons charges. More at MTV.
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New Field Music - "Measure"
Posted on 22 October 2009
When Field Music gave us a <a href=”http://stereogum.com/archives/progress_report/progress_report_field_music_079721.html”Progress Report a few weeks into recording their third album, David Brewis noted:
I’ve been rediscovering my teenage love of the Black Crowes’ third album. There’s going to be something to offend everything on this record. That’s the plan.
Who knows if they succeeded in said plan, but the brothers Brewis have returned from their post-Tones Of Town hiatus with a fury, offering up the 20-track double album Measure. Beyond the black Crowes, they also told Jessica their time apart in School Of Language (David) and The Week That Was (Peter) had honed their songwriting and playing skills. Take a listen to the lilting string-lined title track to see if you agree with any of the above.
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New Jarvis Cocker - "Fantastic Mr. Fox AKA Petey’s Song"
Posted on 22 October 2009
Jarvis Cocker’s in banjo wrangling, jaw harp twanging mode for “Fantastic Mr. Fox AKA Petey’s Song,” a playful song about vittles and the handsome little fox in Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl-inspired, Videogum-beloved Fantastic Mr. Fox. Cocker voices Petey in the film, and that’s your first look at him above. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill Murray also voice the stop-motion tale. Along with “Petey’s Song,” the soundtrack includes the Stones, Beach Boys, some Burl Ives, an Alexandre Desplat score, and a few other songs you’ve heard before.
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