usounds September 4th, 2007
Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray go way out of New York’s city limits to dump a few dead bodies.
Heavy Trash’s Going Way Out With Heavy Trash is out today on Yep Roc.
Outside Chance [mp3]
Going Way Out With Heavy Trash [Album Stream]
usounds August 28th, 2007
Travis Morrison proceeds to feel responsible for dumping a few dismembered bodies into a trash compactor.
As We Proceed [mp3]
All Ya’All [Album Stream]
usounds August 27th, 2007
White Chalk is PJ’s eighth studio album to be released September 25 on Island Records.
Matthew Wendus August 13th, 2007
Rating: 5.5
Maps is the pet project of Northampton electro-head James Chapman and We Can Create is his full-length debut. The disc is a mix of shoegaze and New Order, a digital aquarium in which synthetic swims with organic. The synthesizer roadways mix with Chapman’s breathy vocals and his continental drift of beats and rhythms create a distinctive world. Although Chapman’s sound is alluring, his execution is faulty and meandering. All too often, We Can Create lulls itself to sleep under the weight of its own production and an absence of true substance.
It Will Find You [stream]
usounds August 2nd, 2007
Guardian Unlimited: Beck, Ryan Adams and some dude from Razorlight work with Penguin publishing to design book covers.
Stream the new Travis Morrison album, All Ya’all, on his website here.
Chingy pic of the week
usounds July 20th, 2007
Today you can stream the entire new John Vanderslice album, Emerald City, thanks to our bff’s at Barsuk. Also, the following bands have tour information posted on the Barsuk website:
John Vanderslice - White Dove [mp3]
Smoosh cover Block Party’s Modern Love [mp3]
Nada Surf - Blankest Year [mp3]
Menomena - Wet and Rusting [mp3]
David Bazan - Cold Beer and Cigarettes [mp3]
The Slice gets ready to prepare a 4-cycle gas cultivator that will quickly produce a giant hole to dispose of some dead and mangled bodes.
usounds July 18th, 2007
Rolling Stone: 1000 pics of James Blunt on his new album cover. If I knew photoshop, there would also be one picture of Waldo.
NME: The New New Pornographers are Rilo Kiley. New Rilo Kiley stream for “The Moneymaker”
WTF: This is not music related, but did you know there’s a Pirate Reality show called Pirate Master that follows 6 modern day pirates on their quest for gold? I accidentally watched part of this last night.
Leprechaun Commander to air in the fall
The Rock Radio: Bob Dylan has approved song remixes by DJ Mark Ronson and Chumbawamba. OK, not really Chumbawamba.
usounds July 10th, 2007
Pitchfork: Deerhunter keep poop log. (Pun intended)
Touch and Go Records: Stream and pre-order brand new Pinback track, “From Nothing To Nowhere”. New album Autumn of the Seraphs to be released September 11th.
Rob and Zack are exhausted after burying a few dead bodies under a mossy hilltop
VBS Vid: Everyone loves Battles! (Except for one person I know.) Check out this boozy interview and practice session.
Aversion: Tom from Snow Patrol was arrested. The article doesn’t say why, so it’s pretty much useless, but we at usounds want to say- Stay strong Tom! You are one of the few who honestly answered our weird and borderline inappropriate interview questions. I love you man.
usounds July 6th, 2007
Art Brut added to Bumbershoot festival; poses nude for NME.
Pitchfork: Calexico tour and release new album Tool Box.
New Mando Diao streams for “Wildfire” on Real Audio or WMV.
Rolling Stone: The Beatles will soon be featured in a diaper commercial.
“All You Need is Luvs”
NME: The White Stipes play wacky gig venues on bus, in bowling alley and from inside a Honey Bucket.
Live vid of Destroyer playing brand new song, “Foam Hands” at Calgary’s Sled Island Fest:
usounds June 29th, 2007
NME: UNKLE to play first ever live show. Stream: “Burn My Shadow” from upcoming album War Stories.
See you later DJ Shadow
Seattle Powerpop is celebrating their one year anniversary tonight at the Sunset Tavern! Featured bands include: Sgt. Major, Dept. of Energy, Shake Some Action!, The Small Change, Andy Werth and The Knast.
NME: Peter Hook on the new Joy Division biopic: “The way I always like to look at it is that you can judge how good a film is by how many people go to take a piss during it, and only two people went for a piss - Bernard and a 70-year-old woman.”
Aversion: Peace out Sub Pop. Rogue Wave signs to Jack Johnson’s label?
Weird new Art Brut vid for “Direct Hit” featuring pears and togas:
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