According to KRS, Chris has left Deerhoof to focus full-time on The Curtains. Check out a new Deerhoof EP of cover songs and live stuff dedicated to all the good times with Chris. Also, look for a new Deerhoof album this fall on Asthmatic Kitty.
My Pal Foot Tour:
June 3 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Festival
June 5 – Porto, Portugal – Porto Rio
June 6 – Lisbon, Portugal – Lux
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Like the catchy, creative, ass-shakingly amazing funk/hip-hop from Baltimore? Listen to Spankrock’s album YoYoYoYoYo on AOL radio. Or stream on MySpace. The band description on MySpace: “Fat girls in a hot tub, popping bubbly, after a long night of playing slots at Caesar’s Palace. We sound like the X rated Motorcycle Diaries meets Kweli on crystal meth!”
Be sure to take the Spankbus to Partytown:
May 25 – Leeds – Hi Fi Club
May 26 – Manchester – Roadhouse
May 27 – Newcastle – Digital
May 28 – Nottingham – Dot Dot Fest
June 1 – Copenhagen – Rust
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Who the hell are The Afters? Well, the abridged version of their story goes a little something like this: Josh Havens and Matt Fuqua were working together at a Starbucks in Mesquite, Texas while playing in various other bands. On slow nights, they would kick out a few acoustic jams for customers. Eventually they recruited two other Starbucks employees. This shit really worked out, enabling these guys to quit their coffee jobs. All the band members were okay with this because they found themselves constantly dehydrated and on the can a lot. (Only to find out later that being in a full-time band is pretty much the same thing.) The End.
Steam the album, I Wish We All Could Win here.
Who died and made Lightbody omnipotent? (See above picture, hopefully someone really died and this is merely a ceremonial funeral clip.) Snow Patrol’s fourth studio album, Eyes Open, will be released on May 9th. Preview five songs here.
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Do you ever think that if you hear the song, “Breathe Me” by Sia one more time that you might shoot yourself in the face or take a bath face down? Thanks for nothing Six Feet Under! Well, Zero 7 has a new album called The Garden due out June 6th. Sia and our main man José González are featured on many of the tracks.
Put the semi-automatic down and stream “Throw It All Away” (Sia) on real or windows media.
Tracklist (breathe THIS mf’ers):
1. Futures (feat. José González)
2. Throw It All Away (feat. Sia Furler)
3. Seeing Things
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USOUNDS and The Walkmen have been pretty tight since Jan Fossbeck’s Walkman interview from back in the summer of 2003. Some of our staff approached the band after spotting them at the hipster-infested Linda’s Tavern after a Seattle show. Reminiscing with the band about the interview was great. Hamilton Leithauser said, “Wait…UWHAT?” I think he was just messin’ around though. Hammy is really funny and known to be somewhat of a trickster. Here’s a track called “Louisiana” from the album A Hundred Miles Off to be released on May 23rd on Record Collection.