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Cy Coleman

The Best Is Yet to Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman, featuring stunning, utterly surprising interpretations of his songs by some of the most gifted contemporary female artists.  Delivering inspired performances to tracks fashioned by producer/pianist Dave Palmer are Fiona Apple, Madeleine Peyroux, Missy Higgins, Jill Sobule, Sarabeth Tucek, Nikka Costa, Sara Watkins, Julianna Raye, Sam Phillips, Ambrosia Parsley, Patty Griffin and Perla Batalla.  ^^Full length out Sept. 15th on New West (along w/ fancy double vinyl!)

^^^Digital Ep out now!  The Fiona track is really special!

A Great Blog!

I stumbled upon this great new blog - The Burning Ear :: please do check it out...the Bike For Three post and the Antlers post both come from the Burning Ear.  My bad, for not giving credit to TBE!

Enjoy!

Hope

Mazzy Star lead vocalist Hope Sandoval will release Through the Devil Slowly this coming September 15^th.  Sorry, it's not a new Mazzy Star record, although that is apparently not too far away either. This album, from her Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions side-project - which features My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig.

Brendan Benson has put out 3 solid solo albums making a pretty good name for himself. However, he probably is better known for his contributions in The Raconteurs singing alongside Jack White.  He is going to release his new album, My Old, Familiar Friend this August.

 

***Check out the track “A Whole Lot Better”.  The guitars and Brendan’s adolescent ache of a voice come together to remind you of that girl (or boy) who first flustered your insides so badly! 

Gaslight + The Boss

This is so freakin cool!!  Click {{here}} for the coolness!!!!!!!!!!!!

New AA Bondy!

When The Devil's Loose will be released on Fat Possum September First.  Check out the tune "When The Devil's Loose" :: {{here}}

 

The Present, the latest surf film from Thomas Campbell is out now on DVD. The soundtrack will be out on CD on July 7th, but you can buy it now at iTunes and other digital retailers.

The album features music from Bonnie Prince Billy, Vetiver, Tommy Guerrero, David Axelrod, Cass McCombs, japanese Motors, The Mattson 2, Gabor Szabo, Plants & Animals and more.

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In Flagranti have just released their new album 'Brash & Vulgar'.  It mutates through clubland taking in sex, disco, dirt, distortion & just a little humour (Not necessarily in that order).  “Pick A Trick” is my new fave song!!  Download {{here}}

*We are all about the love connection…you and In Flagranti – sitting in a tree!

 

 

***Art

When You're Strange

I love this band forever.  Very cool doc. * trailer {{here}}

Camera Obscura's "Honey in the Sun"

A travelogue video if you will...

The xx

The xx hail from south-west London.  This band operate in the night-time, their sound is mysterious, delicate, and to be a little goofy, spellbinding.  Check out 'Crystalised' – that’s the song that'll stick with you, ending flawlessly with both voices singing "go slow" as the music does so until it stops.  This is music for the night - walking home through a city under the stars.  S e x x y stuff!

AC/DC music will be celebrated in sneakers - Daily Business Update - The Boston Globe

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Sounds Like June!!

I can’t say I like the band name…The Henry Clay People!?!?!  But, I do dig their maturity, their fun-loving, rough-around-the-edges, old school rock n roll.  The band comes from LA and they really made a nice first impression w/ the track “Something In The Water”.  SOUNDS LIKE:  Pavement frontman Steve Malkmus, who borrows the shoes of The Replacements or The Ramones.

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San Francisco's Sleepy Sun have a real flair for strangeness.  This sextet's atmospheric pysch-freakout rides the wave of critical acclaim directed at peers like Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes.  The tracks are filled with folkie harmonies but provides many twists and turns…example, the 7-1/2 minute "New Age," which features one shredding solo at the 2-1/2 minute mark, and a second freakout following four minutes later.   SOUNDS LIKE:  …if Fleet Foxes used their harmonies for purposes of evil.

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Snoopy & Linus have a new favorite act, and so do you: Miike Snow.  If you need any persuading, simply check out the lead single, Animal.  There are plenty of ‘dope’ remixes out there of this track.  The Swedish trio are dropping their self-titled debut album on June 9th.  SOUNDS LIKE:  Pulses of sound laid on top of fuzzy clinks and clanks, a rollicking piano, matched by soulful & sublime vocals.

 

The first release of the Jayhawks reissue project will be Music From The North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology a two-disc compilation of Jayhawks album songs and rarities due out July 7th.  myspace

***If you head over to Paste Magazine – they’ve announced details of a giant fundraising campaign to help ease the current financial hardship that the magazine is experiencing.  A donation to the magazine’s campaign will get you a free download of 90+ rare and hard to find MP3s from a diverse selection of artists.  Including “Help Me Forget,” from The Jayhawks. 

Pre- Order the new Cheap Trick!!!

Cheap Trick

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Tinted Windows! Happy Friday!!!

White Lies

They're NME cover stars and chart-topping artists at home in Britain and they're lined up to be ‘the breakthrough band’, if only because they sound like the second coming of The Killers' first record.  Some may say that their retro-sounding '80s synth sound's become a cliché, but those people aren't the fans who are dancing around in their bedrooms or who were bouncing up and down in pure bliss at Coachella!

Check out “To Lose My Life” & “Death”

Killer Letterman performance!  {{here}}

Big Star News!

The Big Star box set is definitely a "go" and is slated for a Sept. 15 release from Rhino.  Four discs, tons of rarities, "best ever" live recordings, and more.  Wow!!! 

Live video :: “Ballad Of El Goodo”

 

Like a true American treasure, French Kicks cuts their own groove while music fans continue to fall under their whispered spell. 

Check out the new video, it’s a good one!!

Grizzly Bear

…romantic powerhouse…a beautiful piece of work…While this is prodigiously modern music, the cleverness of its coordination and restraint of delivery makes it seem of a porous and playful past, leaving the listener lying on a hardwood floor in the 60s, reading Kerouac and smoking Lucky Strikes.  Veckamist is as absolutely enchanting as it is thoroughly impressive.  Download "Cheerleader" {{here}}.

Roman Candle

What I’ve heard of Roman Candle’s upcoming third full-length Oh Tall Tree In The Ear (released May 12) sounds excellent!!  Download “Earlyl Aubade” {{here}}

 

"After three albums, this Chapel Hill, N.C. band has now written a modern-rock masterpiece..." - Paste

 

The first ever No Depression Festival, featuring Gillian Welch, Iron & Wine, Patterson Hood & the Screwtopians, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Lea Mayfield, a Seattle roots-music all-star revue, and Zee Avi...will take place Saturday, July 11 | Marymoor Park- Redmond, WA.

 

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Sounds Like May...

Plain and simple, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez spits the cold facts. He drops acute humanistic observations gleamed from a Detroit born and bred existence.  And though this talented singer-songwriter's primary recorded output reaches back to the late sixties and early seventies, its enduring legacy has manifested itself in the most unexpected, far reaching, and mind-blowing of ways.  SOUNDS LIKE:  It is one of those rare lost albums that turns out to be a genuine classic", and his lyrics are as relevant now as they were back in the 70's.      *Sugarman* Mp3

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Amazing Baby, are a promising new foursome out of Brooklyn.  “Head Dress” is proving to be my favorite so far—a spaced out guitar jam, at times reminding me of early 70’s Bowie.  It features a twisty electric guitar chorus, fuzzed out effects pedals, and ethereal, almost tender vocals.

SOUNDS LIKE:  Glammy psychedelia. Think MGMT meets The Flaming Lips.

*** “Head Dress” video {{here}}

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Sebastien Grainger, former Death From Above 1979 singer/drummer is currently on tour with his supporting band The Mountains.  And, he just released a new ep, check it out… ”Who Do We Care For” is currently in heavy rotation!!  SOUNDS LIKE:  "When Grainger goes by his given name, it means he's all about two things and two things only: the rock, and the roll." 

Josh Ritter news!!

2-Disc Deluxe Edition (w/Free MP3) of 'Golden Age' Released
Original album reissued with 4 non-album tracks, gorgeous new packaging of rare photos, an essay by filmmaker Cameron Crowe, and featuring a bonus disc containing all songs re-recorded by Josh - solo acoustic.  Head over here for a free download!

^^^Great video of Josh doing “Kathleen” live at Easy Street records.

Telekinesis! is the project of Michael Benjamin Lerner.  His self-titled debut is produced by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Tegan And Sara).  The two decided to spend only one day per song in the studio to capture a sense of spontaneity.  The result still sounds beautifully polished, and Michael surrenders indie pop-rock tunes like he's been doing it for decades.  Look out A.C. Newman!  Catchy hooks, foot-tapping melodies and lyrics with high sing-a-long-ability make this a debut to be reckoned with.  Stream the record {{here}}