New Art Brut album, It’s a Bit Complicated, will be out June 19th. We are giving out signed posters and a cd samplers (including the songs “Direct Hit” “Pump up the Volume” and “Nag Nag Nag”) to celebrate this exhilarating occasion.
To win, listen to the stream below and tell us your best music video scenario for the song. Please send entries to: usounds AT gmail DOT com. Top three will receive a fun Art Brut prize pack. Sorry, this contest is limited to US, Canada and United Arab Emirates only.
“Direct Hit” Windows [stream] With amazing bonus light show!
The Broken West, a bright-eyed well tanned quintuplet hailing from the musical paradise of Los Angeles, have recently released their full length debut on Merge records, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On, an album that I currently have the dubious pleasure of holding in my hands right now. It really is quite bad. I am finding right now that mere words, the only tools currently at my disposal, may very well be insufficient to describe the unfortunate noises entering my ears. So instead I encourage you to picture a modern day Sisyphus sitting on a chaise lounge in his living room sipping a brimming martini and sucking on an olive smartly plucked from the bottom of his glass. And instead of the rock that we may rightly have expected him to be pushing on his uphill treadmill, he is forced to walk, hands trembling, towards the stereo where he will push play, auto-repeat. And as I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On falls from the speakers and thrusts itself upon unwilling ears in a manner that could pierce the hymen of the most virtuous of virgins, he covers his face with his hands and settles into eternity.
Yes, that does seem to sum it up quite nicely - but don’t take my word for it, give it a listen yourself.
According to his myspace blog, dudes hit on Perry’s wife Etty (second from left) all the time.
Perry Farrell’s new project, Satellite Party will be in stores May 15th. The album is called Ultra Payloaded and will be released on Columbia Records. Contributors include Flea, John Frusciante, New Order’s Peter Hook, Black Eyed Pea’s Fergie as well as an unreleased Jim Morrison Vocal Track. Stream a couple of tracks on MySpace.
I don’t know how many of you have experienced this situation in your adult or childhood lives but picture for a moment, if you will, sitting in a classroom surrounded by middle schoolers all impatiently tapping their feet on the ground trying desperately to reign in the imperturbable insanity that you can clearly see is roiling just below the surface and, all the while, you desperately have to pee. It would not be my intention so early in this review to share any story of incontinence, and rest assured that all evacuations were made in the perfunctory manner without the need of either towels or shame - sometimes there is such a thing as a happy ending! - however we are at times dealt certain hands, and we must live with the cards which we are given. These hands can vary according to the day and the game, from sitting surrounded by twelve year olds while a constant pressure exerted from inside your body makes you seriously question the quality of your composition to reviewing the new Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter album, like, love, and the open halls of the soul, not that these two hands are entirely dissimilar.
Cloud Cult’s new album The Meaning of 8 won’t be available in record stores across the U.S. until April 10, 2007. But the album is now available as a pre-sale special on the Cloud Cult website HERE. You can buy The Meaning of 8 as a full album instant download and/or as a physical album they ship to your weird ass.
The New Magnetic Wonder is out today (simultaneously released on Yep Roc and Elijah Wood’s newly formed label, Simian Frodo Records) and marks the Apples’ first release in 5 years.
Here are some words about the new album via Yep Rock, “True to their Elephant 6 roots, the album features an array of special guests including many members of the Elephant 6 collective. The Apples sought the production skills of acclaimed engineer Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Sebadoh, Phish, Sean Lennon). Goggin and Schneider together massaged the vortex between lush orchestration and an indie rock sparseness all the while understanding the Apples collective unconscious, infused by influences as diverse as ELO, Pavement, and the Beach Boys.”
And of course, some words about the new album by Frodo, “I miss the Shire. I spent all my childhood pretending I was off somewhere else … off with you on one of your adventures! My own adventure turned out to be quite different. I’m not like you, Bilbo.”
Also, Jeff Mangum’s album contributions include: drums, cow object, backing vocals, and handclaps.
Leon is an outdoor squirrel who lives in the Johnsons’ backyard. Rodney J. Squirrel is his friend. Nothing will never rattle Leon. When things get out of control, Rodney relies on Leon for help.
Kings of Leon are premiering a new single from their upcoming third record, Because of the Times (in stores April 3rd) TODAY on MySpace. Steam “On Call” HERE. Also, KoL will be on tour immediately after the release of Because of the Times including Coachella as well as soon-to-be announced other festivals.
A totally unrelated Presbyterian youth group hit the road
The new Youth Group Album was released today. Produced by Wayne Connolly (The Vines, You Am I), and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliot Smith, Guided By Voices), Casino Twilight Dogs sounds a lot like last year’s Skeleton Jar, which is not a bad thing at all. (Unless you happen to hate that album.)
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