This ain’t no Blair Witch Project
Everybody Daylight is the kind of 6 minute, downtempo, chill-out track that would do well accompanied by a few hairy green nugglets. (Also good without the nuggs.) According to Matador, their self-titled album was written by two homeless friends from Alabama while living in tents in northern California. Most of the album was completed without a permanent shelter of any kind.
Here is how our BFF from New York accurately describes the new Shiny Toy Guns album:
“Space dance rock mix of The Faint, Depeche Mode, The Killers and Jimmy Eat World. Also, go and see Talladega Nights if you haven’t already.”
The new album, We Are Pilots, will be released October 3rd on Universal Motown. Here’s an mp3 from the album called Le Disko. If you’re feeling the undying love for this track, be sure to stream a few other songs on MySpace.
Major props for having show dates in Nova Scotia:
August 10 – Anchorage, AK – Bitoz Pizzeria
August 11 – Girdwood, AK – Maxine’s Bistro
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Photo courtesy of Comets on Fire
The anachronistic and genre defying sounds of Comets on Fire have been receiving excellent feedback from both fans and press. The new album is called Avatar, and Sup Pop have provided an ionizing track called Dogwood Rust.
Who needs meteors and asteroids:
August 14 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah
August 15 – Los Angeles, CA – Echo
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The new G. Love album, Lemonade, was released this Tuesday on Brushfire. This is G. Love’s 7th album, and who knew one man could be so serious about lemonade:
“The whole thing about lemonade for me was when I first set out from Philly to make it in the music world I went up to Boston, and I would just sit on the front porch of my place after playing the streets or practicing and make myself a big pitcher of lemonade. It just symbolized old time porch loungin’ for that’s where I did a lot of my shedding and writing. It was so simple and great, I said, if I ever get a record deal I’m going to get Lemonade tattooed on my arm.”
Banger featuring Blackalicious
Hot Cookin’ featuring Donavon Frankenreiter
Let the Music Play feat. Ben Harper and Marc Broussard
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See you later Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion. Barsuk will release a great new pop album by What Made Milwaukee Famous called Trying to Never Catch Up on August 22nd. This Austin, TX band is set to play at this year’s San Diego Street Scene, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and are also confirmed as an opener on the upcoming French Kicks tour. The Milwaukee International Clown Hall of Fame can suck it.
F Off Schlitz Audubon Nature Center:
July 27 – Memphis, TN – Young Avenue Deli
July 28 – Columbia, MO – The Blue Note
July 29 – St. Louis, MO – Creepy Crawl
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Stockholm band, Teddybears will release their US debut “Soft Machine” on September 12th on Big Beat Records. These guys were not always such an innocuous-sounding group; in the 90’s, most of the members started as a grindcore group called Skull. The new and non-grindcore Teddybear album instead melds garage punk beats, electro, dancehall, and krautrock with a variety of guest vocalists. Also, they are BFF with Neneh Cherry. Check out Cobrastyle with vocals by Mad Cobra and Punkrocker featuring vocals by Iggy Pop. Arctopohiles beware.
New York band Say Hi To Your Mom will release their fourth full-length next week, Impeccable Blahs. This album may or may not be about vampires; Say Hi’s FAQ page is entertaining, yet puzzling. Here’s an mp3 from the new album called Blah Blah Blah.
Say Hi To Their Moms:
7/18/06 – Columbus, OH @ Andyman’s Treehouse
7/19/06 – Newport, KY @ Southgate House
7/20/06 – N. Manchester, IN @ The Firehouse #
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