The Drums release their new album Portamento on September 6. The whole thing is streaming right now at 3voor12. It’s available to pre-order from the band right now as well.
So take a listen to The Drums new album while you can right here.
Archive for August, 2011
“I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl” is a rocking new track from Wavves‘ upcoming EP, Life Sux. It will be released on September 20 via Nathan’s own label, Ghost Ramp. It’s a clean-cut summer anthem that continues to see Wavves sound a little bit cleaner, with a bit of fuzz on top. A real feel good song that is pefect for the fading days of good weather and no class.
[mp3]: Wavves – I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl
With new album Portamento on the way (September 6 via Frenchkiss Records) The Drums have started a new video series called Visiomento. Every Tuesday (until the end of 2011) they will upload a video to their youtube page and will share with us live in studio performances, interviews, special guests, and more.
This weeks episode was a live performance of Portamento showing, “What You Were”. If you’ve seen them live this summer they probably opened with it. This performance is as good as you can ask for.
Portamento is definitely my most anticipated album for the fall. After watching this performance, you may feel the same:
Edit the start time in itunes to the 28 second mark.
[mp3]: The Drums – What You Were (Visiomento Session)
Last month St. Vincent shared “Surgeon” with us. Now we have another song from her upcoming album Strange Mercy. Today The Huffington Post (of all places) premiered Annie’s new music video & song, “Cruel”.
The Huffington Post leads to a guest post from Annie Clark herself, explaining a little bit about the video. Check out the video/song below. The video is actually kind of creepy. See what I mean:
We’ve known that Summer Camp are releasing their debut album later this fall, but now we actually have all the details. The album is titled Welcome To Condale, and will be released on October 31st via their own Apricot Recording Company imprint. Halloween has never looked so sweet.
“Better Of Without You”, one of my favorite tracks of the year so far is on it, along with 10 others. This is definitely one of my most anticipated releases for the rest of 2011. It’s going to be wonderful.
Check out the tracklist below:
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“Primal Urges” is the b-side featured on The Vaccines 7″ single release for “Nørgaard”. It’s a nice relaxed track that nicely compliments the rockers from their debut. Take a listen:
It’s a limited 7″ that you can pre-order here.
Bradford Cox is releasing a Atlas Sound album entitled Parallax. It will drop on November 8 via 4AD. “Terra Incognita” is a song from the album that is available for free download. It’s six and a half minutes of pure acoustic experimentation. It’s basically the smarts of Deerhunter minus all the tipped out reverb and effects. Understated beauty.
[mp3]: Atlas Sound – Terra Incognita
That’s the album art above. Does it remind anyone else of this?
Treefight For Sunlight hail from Copenhagen, Denmark, and bring big anthem pop to our speakers. Imagine a band with dreamy vocals that sound like a mix of MGMT and Mew. Not bad company, at all.
“Facing The Sun” is a sunny example of their glorious sound. It’s a song from A Collection Of Vibrations For Your Skull, the debut album from the childhood friends. It can be yours below:
[mp3]: Treefight For Sunlight – Facing The Sun
After the jump watch the band perform the song live at Abbey Road Studios:
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The Vaccines covered Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night” during their Live Lounge Session for BBC Radio 1. They succeeded in actually making the song enjoyable.
Watch the performance and then download a mp3:
Last week James Blake teased us with the idea of him collaborating with Bon Iver with something called Fall Creek Boys Choir. Originally I thought that it would be the title of their pairing, but it’s actually the title of their first song together. BBC Radio 1 premiered it an hour ago, and it’s available to listen now (of course).
Blake calls Justin Vernon of Bon Iver one of his biggest influences, and they decided to collaborate after meeting at this years SXSW Festival. They created the track this spring via e-mails. Vernon does the singing, and Blake adds his production touches.
“Fall Creek Boys Choir” will be available to purchase on iTunes next week. But for now, stream it below. It’s just as amazing as you’d hope.
