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Monday, May 21, 2012

New Releases More Music For a Rainy Day: King Tuff's "Evergreen"

Posted by Kelly O on Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:54 PM

King Tuff's new "glam-garage" album is due out next week on Sub Pop. Listen to it today, streaming on SPIN. I think the song "Evergreen" is supposed to remind us that "it's okay."

Sounds like he's channeling a bit of Elliott Smith.

Jesse Spears / Subpop.com

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Friday, May 18, 2012

New Releases / Album / #1 Fan El-P's Cancer For Cure Out Tuesday, Streaming Now

Posted by Mike Ramos on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:46 PM

COURTESY OF FAT POSSUM RECORDS

It's 2012, and Brooklyn hiphop auteur El-P is one of the genre's most hardened veterans. Founding Company Flow in 1992 and helping establish Rawkus Records as an East Coast powerhouse before leaving them on bad terms, and founding/leading seminal early-'00s indie-rap label Definitive Jux before having to put it on indefinite hiatus in 2010, El has rarely received proper appreciation for his vital and continuous contributions to hiphop music.

Thanks to the good people at Fat Possum, El Producto is releasing his fifth solo album (and his first in five years) this Tuesday. After a few listens I can definitely say that his pummeling, post-apocalyptic production style has evolved and aged well, and he can still weave a cryptic, paranoid narrative (see the eerily open-ended "For My Upstairs Neighbor") or flex some classic NY spit-flecked lyrical stuff with the best of em. Cancer For Cure shows El still in top form after fighting the good fight—that is, trying to release quality rap in a climate that continually promotes disposable wackness over good music—for all these years. Turn this one up, but use caution when listening to tracks like "Oh Hail No" (especially if you are a rapper), as the guest verses from Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire and Danny Brown might make you rethink your life.

Stream it here via Rolling Stone, cop it on Def Jux's otherwise abandoned website, and be sure to snatch up your tickets for El-P's July 1 show at Neumos with Killer Mike and Mr. Muthafuckin' Exquire soon, missing that kinda bill in Seattle would be a huge mistake on your part.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

New Releases Dent May Does Things His Own Way

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:35 PM

Dent May, Do Things, Paw Tracks

Paw Tracks

Since his 2009 debut, Mississippi native Dent May has gone deeper into dance, but his music retains the same breezy Beach Boys-meets-High Llamas feel.

He wasn't a great singer then, and he isn't one now, but his slightly arch tone doesn't dim the glow of these warm melodies. If Am & Shawn Lee's Celestial Electric helped to provide my score for Summer 2011, Do Things could serve a similar purpose this year (like that London-Los Angeles duo, he seems to have immersed himself in the Top 40 dance-pop of the Have a Nice Day decade).

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

New Releases / Death Joey Ramone's Hologram* Comes Back From The Grave To Release A New** Album

Posted by Kelly O on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:51 PM

*Okay, not actually a hologram. NOT YET.

**Not a "new" album—a second solo album, that he'd been recording the last fifteen years of his life. Listen to it on Rolling Stone. Preorder it on iTunes.

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New Releases / Crap Don't Call It A Comeback: Cypress Hill x Rusko

Posted by Kelly O on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:05 AM

I was slightly excited, in a secret "shhh! guilty pleasure" way to hear about a new Cypress Hill album coming out next month. I used to "shhh!" secretly love their pothead anthems in the late '90s.

But then I listened to it. Granted, it's a collaboration between Cypress and Rusko and it features tattoo model/drummer Travis Barker—but I still thought Cypress would go harder.

From the press release:

As you'd expect from chameleonic musicians, each song on the album showcases a different musical side to the collaborators. "Lez Go" marries the ominous with the atmospheric, as Cypress' menacing vocals somehow sound angelic over Rusko's harmonious, arpeggiated synths...

...Slightly different? Maybe a little. But anyone familiar with the pedigree of the album's creators should expect nothing less than a sound that operates entirely outside the box.

Listen to "Lez Go" after the cut. Total Crap Rating: 8.5

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Monday, May 14, 2012

New Releases / Song 214 Refixes Plastikman's "Ask Yourself"

Posted by Dave Segal on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:27 PM

Would you get a load of the cojones on this 214 guy… He decided to “refix” Plastikman’s “Ask Yourself,” as if it were broken. And… well, 214 actually has done a bang-up job with Richie Hawtin’s über-creepy mnml-techno klassik, bringing more animated, pinging electro beats and bulbous Roland 303 pulsations to the proceedings.

214's latest EP, Plastic Spokes, just came out on Fortified Audio; listen to snippets of it at xlr8r.com and after the cut, along with that Plastikman refix. You may also want to check out 214's Tulum EP , which was recently issued by Seattle's KRecordings.

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

New Releases The Gossip's New Joyful Noise

Posted by Kelly O on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:03 PM

Do you wanna hear a preview of the new Gossip album, available everywhere on May 22nd? Well, then here you are, superstar!

And before you say anything about the music, can we talk about this cover?

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

New Releases Get Sexually Harrassed By Turbonegro?

Posted by Kelly O on Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:38 PM

The first single off Turbonegro's upcoming album Sexual Harassment, due out June 13th, is now on VICE. It's called "You Give Me Worms." Do people still love these Norwegian rock weirdos?

A new era for the world's biggest underground rock-n-roll band begins. The ten song album, recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York, will be released digitally June 13 and showcase Turbonegro's roots in hardcore punk, 80s alternative, the thrift-store riffs of The Stooges and The Stones, platform-booted glitter rock, and spectacular bubblegum radio music of any era - all executed with an attitude that's unmistakably Turbonegro. Fine quality LP's and CD's of Sexual Harassment will be available in August

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New Releases / Bumbershoot Stream the new Passion Pit Single

Posted by Erin Resso on Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:02 PM

Apropos of today's Bumbershoot announcement, the likely main-stagers have released the first single off of their upcoming album, Gossamer, titled "Take a Walk." The sparkling synths and undeniable hooks that have become the band's MO are certainly present, but Michael Angelakos' unmistakable falsetto is nowhere to be heard.

Take a listen after the jump.

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New Releases / Out of Town / Upcoming Jon McMillion's About to Blow Up in Germany

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:55 AM

I’ve been telling you for years that Seattle’s Jon McMillion is a world-class techno-house producer; now further validation for that opinion is coming in the form of a McMillion show happening July 7 at Berlin’s Berghain/Panorama Bar, perhaps the world’s most prestigious electronic-music venue. The performance is part of a release party for DJ Nick Höppner’s forthcoming mix, Panoramabar 04, on which McMillion has the disc’s first track, “T-Station.” Major, major accomplishment. Congrats, Jon.

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Monday, May 7, 2012

New Releases Stream Beach House's Bloom at NPR

Posted by Grant Brissey on Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:28 AM

I'm only three or four spins into Bloom, and so far I'm detecting more of a "consistently good" vibe, than the "excellent, with occasional moments of bliss" feeling I got from the first two records. It may just take more listens, because, as I've said before, I change my mind all the fucking time. And you know what? THAT'S OKAY.

Listen for yourself.

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Friday, May 4, 2012

New Releases Happy Trails with MV and EE

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:58 AM

MV & EE, Space Homestead, Woodsist

Image courtesy Woodsist.

Dominated by gentle sighs and fluid guitar filigrees, Space Homestead recalls two old souls jamming on the porch as the sun sinks into the horizon—after a hit of acid. MV & EE (Matt Valentine and Erika Elder) infuse their folk rock with psychedelic soul.

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

New Releases Stream OFF!'s Entire Self-Titled Album at Spin.com

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM

No song longer than 1:37—16 songs in around 16 minutes! On yeah, they all sound pretty similar to the first four EPs. Who woulda thunk?

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

New Releases Naomi Punk: The Feeling Out/Streaming Today

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:13 PM

<a href="http://naomipunk.bandcamp.com/album/the-feeling">The Feeling by Naomi Punk</a>

I caught the tail end of Naomi Punk's Record Store Day set at Everyday Music last Saturday. Dudes rock the crunching, plummeting riff thing real good, and much of The Feeling finds them alternating between guitar riffs that drop alongside drum hits like hammers and woozily-effected interludes, all to satisfying ends. The Oly/Seattle trio wash everything in reverb and distortion for maximum disorientation. I'm sitting here with my headphones with this stuff cranked, and I can see people around the office doing stuff and talking to each other, but I feel like I'm watching them from somewhere else. Go ahead, leave the room with me.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

New Releases Ty Segall and Tim Presley: Easy Riders

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM

Ty Segall and White Fence, Hair, Drag City

In front of the green screen (Ty Segall, Los Angeles, 3/25/12

Incase/Room 205
Ty Segall, Los Angeles, 3/25/12

The result of two unruly, garage-rock minds, Hair is loud and messy and not quite as focused as the solo releases Ty Segall and Tim Presley (White Fence) have released to date, but it's still a lot of fun. Granted, if you get no joy from the Pretty Things or Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, you won't find it as pleasing.

The spirit of the 1960s—Nuggets, Back from the Grave, etc.—permeates the thing, to the extent that the intro to "Time" recalls "Hey Joe," "Scissor People" offers a Can-like outro, and one track even bears the title "Easy Ryder"...though that doesn't mean it has anything to do with the generation-defining Dennis Hopper film (if anything, it plays more like an outtake from Segall's Melted).

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Monday, April 23, 2012

New Releases / BSE (TW) / Video Niobe's "Walk the Walk!"

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:25 PM

Cover art image courtesy Tomlab.

Niobe's "Walk the Walk!" falls squarely into the not-for-everyone camp—just the way I like it.

I never imagined I'd encounter a German artist who channels New York's post-punk energy with so much élan. In my mind's eye, I can see Cologne's Niobe [born Yvonne Cornelius] playing at an opening night party for a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit.

Born in Frankfurt, the former Mouse on Mars collaborator moves like James Chance by way of David Byrne and sings like Alan Vega by way of Nico.

You could dance to this song, but that doesn't mean it isn't noisy as hell, especially that Gang of Four-like opening riff (I'm thinking specifically of "Anthrax"). And I love the way the drummer kicks into high gear at 3:52.

Bonus points for the Dutch painter outfit (white blouse, black pants, floppy tie).

Other Music description of her new album below.

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Friday, April 20, 2012

New Releases / Song In Bloom with Beach House

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:20 AM

Sub Pop
Photo: Liz Flyntz

Unlike the rest of the world, Beach House's third full-length, 2010's Teen Dream, didn't quite work for me. I didn't hate it; I just didn't love it, but I'm feeling "Myth," which has been getting a lot of play on KEXP. It's even more lush, dramatic, and Siouxie-like than anything on the Maryland duo's last album, and I prefer that (I also loved Victoria Legrand's guest vocal on Air's Le Voyage dans la Lune).

Check out "Lazuli" below. It's also quite nice, if a little less stunning.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

New Releases / Video Cats Rule...in Orbital's New Video

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:02 AM

Downtown

British techno stalwarts Orbital (Paul and Phil Hartnoll) have just released Wonky, their first album in eight years, and here's the cat-filled video for the title track with MC Lady Leshurr (the first single, "New France," features Zola Jesus).

In the scenario, singing cats drive a black-clad Brit crazy. I couldn't say whether they're meant to be real or imaginary, but I like the basic idea, even if the Clutch Cargo FX could be a little better—it's too obvious the creatures have CGI mouths—though the disorienting camera work is a plus. The song isn't bad either.

Below: videos for "Wonky," "New France," and "Never."

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