We All Want Someone To Shout For

The Flaming Lips don’t like to stick towards traditional methods. Especially on 4/20. Yesterday at exactly 4:20, Wayne Coyne personally delivered a special treat to his local record store, Oklahoma’s Guestroom Records. He delivered five gummy skulls that contained a usb with four new songs from The Flaming Lips. The skull was also edible, consisting of edible gummy material. How cool is that? You can find a more detailed explanation of the whole situation over at Psych Explorations of the Future Heart.

Below you can stream all four of the songs that were included in the USB: “Drug Chart”, “In Our Bodies Out of Our Heads”, “Walk With Me”, and “Hillary’s Time Machine Machine”. Very Flaming Lips.

Black Light Dinner Party. Get familiar with that name. It will be a name that you’ll be seeing around a lot more frequently in the future.

The band is a team of four produces, based in three cities, completing nearly two years of collaboration to create the sound found on the incredible single “Older Together”. It’s a song that you will love immediately. The chilled vocals will have you mesmerized, while the rest of the band freezes you with electronic interplay that’s becoming an east coast trademark. Calling it catchy is a fair understatement.

This song hits you like a cool summer breeze. It’s hypnotic in every sense of the word. I feel cooler every time I hit repeat. This song challenges every other song out there for the summer anthem of 2011, and this is Black Light Dinner Party’s first song. How’s that for a debut. Yeah, you’re damn right it’s impressive.

Grab a mp3 below and check out the pitch perfect music video (made by dreambear) right after:

[mp3]: Black Light Dinner Party – Older Together

Connect with the band: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud

Tom Vek hasn’t released an album since his 2005 debut, We Have Sound. He completely disappeared from the spotlight, leaving his fans wanting more. That all changes on June 7th when Vek releases his new album, Leisure Seizure.

After nearly five years of absence Vek has delivered a new single in the form of “A Chore”, a masterfully crafted electronic jam that should have all Vek fans salivating. It sounds like the work of someone who has been carefully preparing a worthy follow up that is bound to reward your patience.

Watch/Listen to the “A Chore” music video:

Cecil has basically created his own genre of music as Gobble Gobble. Been digging, “Boring Horror”, another energetic dash of colorful electronic exuberance that has become Cecil’s trademark.

Grab it below:

[mp3]: Gobble Gobble – Boring Horror

If you haven’t heard “Lawn Knives” yet, you haven’t lived.

I’m going through my inbox and discovering some wonderful stuff. Such as the band Blouse, who were recommended to me by a reader. They’re a three piece from Portland, Oregon who have released a couple of incredible singles.

The first single “Shadow” was released by Sub Pop. It was included on their free Terminal Sales Vol. 4: Please to Enjoy compilation.

The second single is “Into Black” which is the true standout in my mind. It features a catchy guitar riff and a light atmosphere that takes me from the restraints of reality. It almost sounds like Beach House with an extra jolt. It’s a dreamy song that I don’t mind getting lost in for three and a half minutes. The only bad part of the song is that it has to end.

“Into Black” was released on Captured Tracks earlier this year. You can still grab a copy right now.

Take a listen it below, and get lost in their world:

Head to their bandcamp page to hear their other material.

Beastie Boys music video for “Make Some Noise” is five minutes taken from the short film Fight for Your Right Revisited. It features an absolutely insane amount of great actors. You truly have to see it for yourself. It’s an awesome watch.

Earlier today Fleet Foxes performed a session for Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show live at Maida Vale Studios. They played a large amount of material mainly pertaining to Helplessness Blues, but they threw in old familiars as well.

Stream/Download all of the songs below thanks to Hiding Behind The Shed… who recorded/uploaded the entire performance.

1. Fleet Foxes – Montezuma (Maida Vale Session)
2. Fleet Foxes – Bedouin Dress (Maida Vale Session)
3. Fleet Foxes – Battery Kinzie (Maida Vale Session)
4. Fleet Foxes – Sim Sala Bim (Maida Vale Session)
5. Fleet Foxes – Mykonos (Maida Vale Session)
6. Fleet Foxes – Your Protector (Maida Vale Session)
7. Fleet Foxes – The Shrine/An Argument (Maida Vale Session)
8. Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean (Maida Vale Session)

Neon Indian is preparing to release his 2nd album this fall. He recorded most of it in Helsinki during the winter, and he’s currently finishing it up in New York. Our first taste of the album comes in the form of the short video clip, “Heart: Attack”. It’s titled after the first part of a three part instrumental that will be on the album. It’s sounding good. Director Sean Lopez shot the film.

Take a peak at “Heart: Attack”:

NEON INDIAN – HEART: ATTACK from gorillavsbear.net on Vimeo.

The new LP will drop sometime in the fall. Check out summer tour dates after the jump:

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It saddens me to report that Gerard Smith, bassist of TV On The Radio, has passed away. The band had previously made their fans aware that Smith was battling lung cancer. Unfortunately Gerard passed away this morning.

The band posted the following message on their website:

My thoughts and prayers go out to Gerard Smith, his family, and TV On The Radio.

Ernest Greene a.k.a. Washed Out has finally made the jump to a big name label. Sub Pop has announced that Washed Out is the latest addition to their amazing roster. They will release his debut full length LP, Within And Without, on July 12th. It will be one of the best albums to chill with this summer.

Within And Without features 8 new songs, as well as “You And I” which was released by the Adult Swim Singles Project last year. The record was recorded with Ben Allen and will be released by World Wide Records, a division within Sub Pop.

A big congrats to Ernest. I still remember my first post about Washed Out. It’s amazing to see how far he has come since.

Check out the tracklist below:

Within And Without:
01 Eyes Be Closed
02 Echoes
03 Amor Fati
04 Soft
05 Far Away
06 Before
07 You and I
08 Within and Without
09 A Dedication