Wild Nothing

Great shoegaze. I especially like Chinatown and the Kate Bush cover, Cloudbursting.

New Caribou and two & bands

Just a couple of samples from the new album, "Swim":
Jamelia
Leave House
Kaili

Also, WNYC's Radiolab recently featured a band called "Buke and Gass" on their show. Check out their myspace page. Pretty neat!

Maps & Atlases' myspace page.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire recorded a new album. You can hear "Ready to Start" and "We Used to Wait" here. The band has posted the title track and "Month of May" on their myspace page.

First post from Flag

Warpaint - "Stars"

Beirut/Realpeople - "My Night With A Prostitute From Marseille"

Ramona Falls - "I Say Fever"

Battles - "The Line"

Besnard Lakes - "Albatross"

NooToons

Health - USA Boys
The Twilight Sad - I became a prostitute
Foals - Spanish Sahara
Best Coast - Our Deal
WHY? - Canada (hear it here)

New muse

Eek. Great stuff!

Liars - "Scissor"
Black Keys - "Tighten Up"
Kaki King - "Falling Day"
Caribou - "Found Out"
Delorean - "Stay Close"

More facemelting power pop

The Joy Formidable, check out their myspace page. Enjoy!

break out the thermals, its spring in UT

The thermals, a solid power pop rock trio. Endless fun.

The Morning Benders

My buddy Brad just told me about The Morning Benders. Their myspace page may be the best place to start.

sounds we sent to space

In 1977, nasa sent two probes into space, each with a golden phonograph. Carl Sagan and his buddies picked the music.

Here are some of my favorites from the collection. Its best to imagine the dark emptiness of space and/or aliens listening to these tracks.

Wedding song - Peru

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcwPMeqS97Y

Ugam - Azerbaijan bagpipes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVRdEvdovgk&feature=related

Tchakrulo - Choir - Georgia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV85zrndvdY&feature=related

Flowing Streams - China

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lReQHyOYgU&feature=related

El Cascabel-Lorenzo Barcelata & the Mari

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkKxN9QJ2wI&feature=related

Jaat Kahan Ho - India - Surshri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek7NKH5mTgs&feature=related

"Dark Was the Night"- blind willie johnson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjslb1g3PI8&feature=related

Men's house song - Papua New Guinea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_a3gIA0sRA&feature=related

Bay Area tracks

You can download Social Studies' "Weathered White" here. Also, check out the Papercuts' Future Primitive.

Untitled

Nothing very new here, but all fun songs:

The Uglysuit - ...And we became sunshine
Broken Social Scene - World sick
Elsiane - Hybrid
Feist - How my heart behaves
Broken Bells - October

The Local Natives

Really digging the Local Natives right now - check out their myspace page.

Holy Smokes

Check out Madder Red off Yeasayer's new album "Odd Blood."

Electro-opera based on The Origin of Species

MPR's Lars Gotrich has the backstory. Go to the band's (The Knife) website to stream the album. I've heard most of the album now. It's all great, and certainly challenging, listening. And there are a few songs (like "Annie's Box", "Variation of Birds", and "Colouring of Pigeons") I just can't stop listening to! You'll have to see what you think....

Three songs

Phantogram - "When I'm Small"
Mumford and Sons - "Little Lion Man"
Midlake - "Rulers, Ruling all Things"

Gnarcore!

Better than a lobotomy - if you're in to that sort of thing.... Here are a few of the bands I've been listening to a lot lately:

Genghis Tron: Board up the house (listen through the crescendo starting 2:43, love the party beat starting at 5), and Thing's don't look good
Krallice: I love every song on their myspace page
The Chariot: Forgive me Nashville, And shot each other (epic scream at 0:42)
The Black Dahlia Murder: see their myspace page

Here are a few bands I listened to most when I got into metal: Botch, Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Salt Lake City's Gaza, and Ed Gein.

This stuff will change your brain. Be ready.

The softer side of the Wu-tang Clan

Jah World - featuring Junior Reid

Lali Puna - new album in 2010

This is pretty exciting news... Lali Puna, an Inditronic band from Germany, is recording a new album called "Our Inventions" (first album since 2004). It's scheduled to release on April 2nd. They released a track called "Remember" - check it out!

BluMarTen

I've been listening to BluMarTen's drum and bass mix from Sep.2009 all morning...and it's awesome. Get it here.
There's also a pretty sweet mix of Eryka Badu's "on & On" on youtube (here):
Enjoy

Death metal rooster

To counterbalance that serious sampling/copyright infringement stuff, here's something that made my day a while back. Enjoy!

Beat miners

This broadcast by PBS's Independent Lens does a nice job of describing the conflict between sampling and copyright law. Unfortunately, perhaps because it is so contentious, the show does not point in any way toward a resolution of the conflict. Still, some pretty interesting case studies and interviews with big-name artists.

Chief - Ill Swiss producer

Jazz Unconditional featuring John Robinson

In case you haven't heard

Check out Margot and the Nuclear So and So's. You can hear them on youtube: check out "Quiet as a Mouse" and "Broad Ripple is Burning". They've also got a few great songs on their myspace page.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND : CONTRA

TODAY AND TOMORROW ONLY you can download the new Vampire Weekend album for $3.99 from Amazon.
After that it goes back to .99 a track.

Here's a link to Pitchfork's review of the album. They gave it an 8.6

I'm downloading it as I type so I can post my take on it after I've listened to it a few times over.

Broken Bells - I must have died and gone to HEAVEN

I just stumbled upon this blog when I was looking for tracks (other than The High Road) from Broken Bells. If you haven't heard the Broken Bells is a collaboration between between the Shins' James Mercer and Danger Mouse. You may know that James Mercer has a special place in my heart: his previous band "Flake" come "Flake Music" come "The Shins" originated in Albuquerque, NM and basically made my undergraduate years worth living. But, I stray. So, this album is coming out on March 9th.

If you haven't picked up the track go here: http://www.brokenbells.com/

So as I was looking for leaked tracks and stumbled upon this blog:

There's some sweet Animal Collective tracks, some covers (hits and misses) but some pretty cool links to some lesser known tracks and live tracks.

Enjoy!

Some random finds from the interweb/nets

King Ghedorra (MF DOOM) - I wonder featuring Hassan Chop ( I think, maybe) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S92nxs7MIJw

Fink - Blueberry Pancakes (live) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlI8QZCSQ3o&feature=related

Fink - This is the Thing (live) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjFrBvmJO9w&feature=related

No Eye Contact (myspace), for fans of the Neutral Milk Hotel

http://www.myspace.com/noeyecontact

Mew...

We just listened to Mew live in Studio at KEXP.
Fitting, since it's all about birds! hehe.

Birds, Birds, everywhere

If Bird is the Word, then these bands know it.
Unintentionally I've recently discovered a few bands that are (apparently) just as fond of birds as I am.

The Wooden Birds - This is the band lead by the dude (Andrew Kenny, songwiter from American Analog Set). Sounds a lot like AAS but is described as more 'percussive'.

I've also found this band called Paper Bird
They sound great, but I've been more of in a house / hip-hop mode lately. You know, something to deliver me from this inversion / smog valley.

Also, if you haven't checked out David Bazaan, I suggest you stop reading right now and check him out. No birds, but he has a song called "curse your branches".