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Jul 24

The Dead Weather: From The Basement Live (Video)

Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009 in Music Video

Check out this awesome performance by The Dead Weather Live on Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement. If you haven’t checked out their debut album out yet, Horehound, pick it up now. I am pretty sure everything Jack White touches is gold.

The following video is not from From The Basement, but it is one of my favorite songs by The Dead Weather called I Cut Like a Buffalo.


Check the performances in high quality video and sound here

The Dead Weather Myspace

Jul 23

Atlas Sound (feat. Panda Bear): Walkabout

Posted on Thursday, July 23, 2009 in New Praises

atlaswalkabout Atlas Sound (feat. Panda Bear): Walkabout

What did you want to see/ What did you want to be/ When you grew up

Atlas Sound has a new album coming out this fall entitled, Logos. It contains this new song (download below), “Walkabout” featuring Panda Bear. I am not sure about you, but this is one hell of a song that features a cheery sample of this obscure garage rock song by The Dovers:

DOWNLOAD:
MP3: Atlas Sound: Walkabout (feat Panda Bear)

Jul 3

Holiday Shores: Phones Don’t Feud [Video]

Posted on Friday, July 3, 2009 in Music Video

Via twosyllable records:

Summer is no myth. It exists year round on Holiday Shores Ct, a two-block stretch on the Florida panhandle where twenty-one year old Nathan Pemberton grew up. It’s no more than five minutes from white sand beaches, squawks of seagulls, and wafting smells of suntan lotion.

Columbus’d The Whim is the first first full-length album from Pemberton’s Holiday Shores, who, like the street that bears their name, are quintessentially summer: chimey guitars, reverb-soaked vocals, warbling Rhodes, echoes of years past.
Pemberton started playing the piano at age seven and learned the guitar shortly after. He began finding his musical footing in high school bands, playing with his brother, friends, and eventually his college roommates.

The album, packed with 10 could-be singles, reads like a book of Pemberton’s well-written memories. Each word chosen meaningfully with a linguist’s touch; each sentence constructed carefully with an artist’s ear. Columbus’d The Whim is a literary work in addition to a sonic one.

The current line up, comprised of friends and roommates spent months recording together in Pemberton’s living room obsessing over vintage gear and perfecting their captivating hooks, heart-warming melodies, and creating a haunting tunnel of sound as a stunning backdrop.


Holiday Shores Myspace

Jul 2

Electrisixties: A Garage Rock Band From Buenos Aires

Posted on Thursday, July 2, 2009 in Music Culture, New Praises

electrsixties Electrisixties:  A Garage Rock Band From Buenos Aires

On my first night in Buenos Aires, my roommate and now good friend Juan took me to see a band that one of his friends plays in called Utopians at a place called Plasma. Plasma, located in the Barracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires is a small hip loft/lounge that has a stage. Since you walk up a flight of stairs in order to enter Plasma, it pretty much feels like you are in someone’s hip apartment/loft.

PLASMA:

plasmaaa Electrisixties:  A Garage Rock Band From Buenos Aires

When we arrived there was already a band playing called Electrisixties. As I listened closer and gave the band a better look, I noticed it was four Argentinians playing perfectly tight 60’s style garage rock. Perfect harmonies, good English pronunciation and matching Mod style 60’s suits with high boots to top it off. As I listened more and more to each song, I thought about what a cool city I had moved too. Number 1, I can’t think of a venue in Chicago as cool as Plasma and number 2, I don’t remember ever seeing a band as cool as Electrisixties. It was refreshing to see a band play without any pretension and a band that actually came across well-rehearsed.

VIDEO - Electrisixties Perform their song “A simple goodbye”:

I look forward to seeing these guys again live. While mixing a combination of 60’s garage rock covers with their own original material, Electrisixties are about as good as it gets.

Visit their myspace and listen to their original song “With You.”

www.myspace.com/electrisixties

Jul 1

4 Songs You Should Download Now

Posted on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Bands to Check Out

phonodownlaod 4 Songs You Should Download Now

I don’t really know anything about these bands or who they are. All I know is that these are some damn fine tunes and you should check them out now.

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MP3:Best Coast: Sun Was High (So Was I)

MP3:The Smith Westerns: Be My Girl

MP3:Memory Tapes: Bicycle

MP3:Highlife: F KENYA RIP