Doing some late night blog reading and came across an excellent song posted on the just as excellent GorillavsBear. It featured the lead single for Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti’s upcoming new album with record label 4AD. The song is called “Round and Round”. Chris from GVB is calling the song an early front-runner for song [...]
Fredrik released are on Kora Records and quietly released their 2nd album Trilogi. They just released the video for the lovely song Milo. It sounds like a mix of Elliot Smith and Radiohead as a dark folk song. These guys are cool.
Check out the video:
Fredrik – Milo from The Kora Records on Vimeo.
If you pre-ordered Plastic Beach from itunes, you got two pretty cool instrumental tracks. These are pretty, pretty songs that are pretty different from what we have come to expect from the Gorillaz. I don’t know how many people are aware of these songs, but its my hope that the word spreads.
Pirate’s Progress is an [...]
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Got a nice mp3 of “Terrible Love” for you to carry around your ipods. ‘Cause I need to hear this bad boy while I am driving home tonight (seeing Free Energy/Foreign Born tomorrow!) So enjoy this until we get a real studio version of this new [...]
Tinie Tempah is a young up and coming British rapper from South London. The comparisons to fellow grime rapper Dizzee Rascal make sense, although Tinie Tempah seems a bit more accessible to the masses. This can be proven with his recent success.
He just hit #1 on the UK singles chart for “Pass Out”. We all [...]
All bands should try personally reaching out to bloggers, it certainly makes us more inclined to post your stuff. It’s just something about that personal touch man.
Lukas Lonski from Lonski & Classen a duo from Berlin reached out to me on vimeo. I didn’t even know I had a vimeo account, or how the hell [...]
The National just played a brand new song on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon called Terrible Love. It’s going to be the opening track on High Violet, and what a perfect choice. It’s a brilliant song that builds and builds until the song explodes to emotional heights. It’s pretty immense.
Jimmy Fallon already has the performance [...]
Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot just got off the phone with Julian Casablancas. The front man of The Strokes confirmed that The Strokes will be playing Lollapalooza this summer.
He also projected a September release date for their 4th album which is started to wrap up.
Lucky Chi-Town folks. I hope that there is an All Points [...]
We have loads and loads of good free music given out today. Add a new Here We Go Magic song to that list. They announced that they will be releasing their new album Pigeons on June 8th via Secretly Canadian. The song is called “Collector”. It was given away for free on Secretly Candian for [...]
Dr. Dog are offering the first single from their new album Shame, Shame for free. It’s called Stranger. They already gave us a cut from Shame, Shame with the excellent “Shadow People“. I didn’t think it could get any better, but it definitely did with Stranger. This song is dreamy with nostalgia dripping from every [...]
