Isaac Brock and Pinback love Caleb Boddicker. Kind of like a man loves a woman, but more serious. Here are a couple new tracks from his upcomming album Big Lionhearted and the Gallant Man set to be released October 2, 2007 on Banter Records and produced by Brian Deck.
MySpace: The Upperhand
Recommended if you like: Hands, Piano, Crocodile Relations
Usounds listens to all 196,345 bands on MySpace. Yeah, I know, you’d think there’d be more, right? Well, there will be, and we will listen to those too.
For our first installment of The Best of MySpace, we would like to direct your attention to Seattle, WA band The Upperhand. Band members Nate, Ricardo, Luke and Seth are mysterious to me as there is limited info on the band website upperhandband.com or MySpace page. However, my investigatory research concluded that Ricardo is probably not Mexican which may be disappointing to some.
Rolling Stone: A preview for Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light has appeared online, though the movie’s release was pushed back to next spring. The movie follows the Stones as they prepare for and play an intimate octogenerian gig at New York’s Beacon Theater in 2006.
The Les Savy Fav video contest seems to be going well. Ten hundy goes to the winner and here’s a leading contestant:
The new Go! Team album Proof of Youth will be out September 11th on Sub Pop and includes a cover of Sonic Youth’s “Bull in the Heather”. Here’s the lead single vid for “Grip Like A Vice”.
NME: Stephen Malkmus tears the V Festival and Kasabian a new one. “You need Viagra to get through that roster of bands.” Except for the Cribs. Steve loves the Cribs.
Pitchfork: New Wolf Parade song live at the Wolfe Island Music Festival in Wolfland.
The Good Life celebrate being from the same city as Mannheim Steamroller
The Good Life are back! The band’s fourth full-length Help Wanted Nights will be released September 11, 2007. The Good Life is led by Cursive’s Tim Casher but sounds almost nothing like Cursive. Check out the heartbreaking song “You’re Not You” from 2004’s Album of the Year on The Good Life MySpace page while you’re at it. Tour dates are also listed.
Heartbroke [mp3]
