We All Want Someone To Shout For

Tomorrow night Robbers On High Street are playing on campus at 10pm in the Undergrounds via Late Night. For fellow students, you’re probably aware that Binghamton doesn’t do the best job advertising. So I’ll try and do my part. The NYC band are going to be bringing the rock right to you on campus, and its right in your backyard.

So if you’re on campus, go check out Robbers On High Street. It’s definitely one of the better options that we’ve had on campus in a while. The Oranges Band will also be playing.

Yesterday Fleet Foxes new album Helplessness Blues was officially released. To celebrate, the band has given away the gorgous album closer, “Grown Ocean”, as a free mp3 download. If you don’t have the album yet, you’re truly missing out. I can’t stop playing it.

Grab “Grown Ocean” below, and check out it’s music video right here.

[mp3]: Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean

If you still need a copy of Helplessness Blues, be sure to grab your copy. You can grab the double vinyl right now from insound.

Here’s Tyler, The Creator and Hodgy Beats off Odd Future performing “Analog” – a new offering from Tyler’s upcoming album, Goblin. The guys performed it earlier today for Zane Lowe’s BBC show.

It’s quite a nice song. This is a different side of the guys that may surprise a lot of people. Check it out:

You may remember me posting “Odd”, the gem from fellow Binghamton dudes, Vermilion Club. The song still sounds as fresh as ever. Pigeons and Planes just gave them their seal of approval as well, proving that Vermilion Club has the ability to convert fans of all kinds of genres.

Their debut album Home is available at bandcamp at the wonderful cost of name your own price. Don’t know what you’re waiting for.

Stream the whole album below, then grab the whole thing right here.

Radiohead always find a way to stay in the news – for good reason. The band is planning to play King Of Limbs in its entirety for BBC for a performance that is being called “Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live From The Basement”. It will all go down on July 1st.

If you remember, the band also did a live broadcast for In Rainbows for “Live From The Basement”. This is the first time that the band will be performing these albums live, so it’s certainly a big deal no matter how you look at it.

For more information, checkout this press release from BBC.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard new Washed Out. Thankfully he’s releasing his debut LP, Within and Without, on July 12th (via Sub Pop). The album opening “Eyes Be Closed” is our first taste of the album, and it continues Washed Out’s winning formula. Take a look at the cover art above, and then take a listen to the song. Fitting, right?

It’s a smooth sensual song that takes a step back from the humdrum of everyday life and makes us appreciate the better moments. Eyes be closed and dive right in….

[mp3]: Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed

Washed Out will be playing at Bowery Ballroom on 7/11. See you there?

Here’s the incredibly joyful new Lonely Island jam, “Attracted To Us”, which features good old Beck on guest vocals. It’s a playful song that shows a poppier side to the goofy trio. It’s from the band’s new album Turtleneck & Chain which drops next week.

Stream it below thanks to Some Kind Of Awesome:

While we’re at it, here’s the Snoop Dogg featured title track that dropped yesterday:

I introduced the fantastic Howth to you guys back in February, and they’re re-releasing their album through new label, Mecca Lecca. To celebrate, the band is giving away an incredible reworking of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You”, the staple song of all things romantic. I am honored that they decided to let me premiere the track, because it’s exceptionally great.

It’s a touching display of affection that is impossible to ignore. Whitney’s cover is nearly impossible to out-do, but Howth didn’t try to do that. They molded the song into their own shape, and the result is something just as breathtakingly beautiful.

This is a cover that they should truly be proud of.

[mp3]: Howth- I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton Cover)

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This is what my ears connected with in April. There’s was tons of great new music that deserves to be heard. This is a modest collection of some of the best stuff that I found last month. The artwork for it is posted above, and it’s courtesy of the absolutely amazing Camilo Bejarano of ph7labs.

Stream each track individually, or just download the whole thing. It’s yours to keep.

1. The Naked And Famous – Punching In a Dream
2. Balto – The Railyard
3. James Kelly Pitts – Kettle
4. Blouse – Into Black
5. The Weeknd – The Morning
6. Honest Engines – French Song
7. The Belligerents – Such A Crime
8. The Last Royals – If You Leave (Orchestral Manoeuvres Cover)
9. The Wilderness Of Manitoba – Orono Park
10. Family – Baba
11. Black Light Dinner Party – Older Together
12. Miles Kane – A Girl Like You (Edwyn Collins Cover)
13. Horsecollar – Christopher
14. Findlay Brown – Promised Land
15. Something Fierce – Empty Screens
16. Scattered Trees – Four Days Straight
17. The Booze – Down On Your Luck
18. Dirty Gold – California Sunrise
19. Snowmine – Beast In Air, Beast In Water
20. Arctic Monkeys – Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair

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Check out the rest of my monthly mixes.

Amazon is streaming 30 second samples of all the songs from Goblin, Tyler, The Creator’s debut album. This album has a lot of hype to live up to. Will it? These clips are sounding very promising. We’ll find out very soon, as the album drops May 10th via XL Recordings.

Take a listen to the samples right here.