Year: 2007

The Clientele God Save the Clientele [Merge]

| Andrew Boe

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Rating: 6.0

There are plenty of things that God needs to save, that is, if there is a big, hairy old thing somewhere in the sky known as God. I would hope that he/she/it will begin by saving the crumbling US dollar and hopefully the future of the planet too by getting rid of the goddamn Bush administration. Incidentally, London’s The Clientele wants to be saved as well and they have titled their new album as such. This is their third proper album and it follows them downstream from where they last left off in 2005. God Save is a concise fourteen songs in forty four minutes of gentle, mildly psychedelic pop music.

Bookshop Cassanova [mp3]

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Music News Highlights

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Do you ever find yourself wondering who will be on the Simpson’s Movie Soundtrack? (Hint:  N.W.A (?) and Ben Folds)

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Apparently, Brian Hugh Warner is running out of tunes about sodomy, organ grinders, his monkey and tourniquets.  Rolling stone reports that Marilyn Manson will cover Justin Timberlake’s “What Goes Around.”

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Matador Records are selling some great albums and a few shitty ones for $5.00 each while supplies last.

Download The Black Keys Live EP for FREE.  FREE!

Ryan Adams mp3s

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Right now it’s all about the tiger

True story: Bryan Adams once told me that, “the song (Summer of ’69) has nothing to do with the year 1969, it’s a metaphor for summer love and the number 69 was chosen because of the sexual position.”  I think even Ryan Adams would appreciate that.

Ryan Adams is set to release the album Easy Tiger on June 26th.

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Everybody Knows [mp3]

Dappled Cities – Fire Fire Fire Video

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Australian band Dappled Cities are preparing to release a great album called Granddance in July.  Here’s a video for the song “Fire Fire Fire” that features technologically advanced polar bear effects that pretty much give Al Gore and global warming the finger.

Random mp3 Roundup

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The usounds HQ is currently swarming with new music.  Why not check out some tracks?

The Ladybug Transistor – Three Days from Now [mp3]
The Electric Soft Parade – If That’s the Case, Then I Don’t Know [mp3]
Shannon Wright – Everybody’s Got Their Own Part to Play [mp3]
Tarwater – A Marriage in Belmont [mp3]
David Bazan – Cold Beer and Cigarettes [mp3]
Mary Timony Band – Sharpshooter [mp3]
Elliott Smith – High Times [mp3]
Beasts of Eden – Malou [mp3]

Music News Highlights

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MIA makes like a tree and cancels Sasquatch appearance due to visa problems.  This will not be huge problem.  Also, Long Winters just added to the line-up yesterday.

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Aversion reports that Smashing Pumpkins tickets have been crashing servers. Also, if you are wondering how you and James Iha can be together forever, make an offer to purchase the jamesiha.com domain for around 20 large. 

Anacortes, WA’s What the Heck Fest is slowly approaching and will feature Calvin Johnson, The Blow and The Oregon Doner.

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