“Can’t Get Started” is the second vid from Handsome Furs’ debut album Plague Park.
Sharon Jones – 100 Days, 100 Nights
Photo by Kelsey Grammer
100 Days, 100 Nights [mp3]
Music News Highlights
Yahoo News: Man gets punched twice in the face during a rendition of Coldplay’s “Yellow” at a gay bar in Seattle by the world’s harshest karaoke critic.
Oh here it comes That funny feeling again when David Lee Roth is back in Van Halen after a 20 year feud.
Maps We Can Create [Mute]
Rating: 5.5
Maps is the pet project of Northampton electro-head James Chapman and We Can Create is his full-length debut. The disc is a mix of shoegaze and New Order, a digital aquarium in which synthetic swims with organic. The synthesizer roadways mix with Chapman’s breathy vocals and his continental drift of beats and rhythms create a distinctive world. Although Chapman’s sound is alluring, his execution is faulty and meandering. All too often, We Can Create lulls itself to sleep under the weight of its own production and an absence of true substance.
It Will Find You [stream]
Rogue Wave – Lake Michigan
Music News Highlights
IMDB: I’m Not There is a film about the life of Bob Dylan to be released in the US in November. The film follows seven characters, each embodying a different aspect of Dylan’s life story and music. The cast playing Bob Dylan includes: Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett (?), Richard Gere (??), and Chingy.
Chingy pic of the week
NME: Radiohead album cover artwork collected in new book. Who knew that Dr. Tchock has been producing Radiohead’s artwork since 1995?
Kinski – Punching Goodbye Out Front
The members of Kinski relax after burying some dead bodies in the woods of northern Washington
Kinski’s new album, Down Below It’s Chaos, will be released August 21st. Here are some words from our bff’s at Sub Pop:
On August 21st, Sub Pop will release the new Kinski album Down Below It’s Chaos on CD and LP (and invisible digital format). If you pre-order the new record by release date, you’ll receive a limited-edition CD-R of a live score the band did in June of this year at the Seattle International Film Festival. Kinski played live accompaniment with the 1927 silent film, “Berlin, Symphony of a City” by Walter Ruttmann at the Triple Door here in Seattle. This CD-R contains a portion of the recordings from their two performances. It’s all live; no overdubs. (And the clinking you hear occasionally is people eating dinner!)
Punching Goodbye Out Front [mp3]