Gigwise report the Kaiser Chiefs wrote and recorded an album based on Will Ferrell’s character in Anchorman. The Ferrell tribute album will not be released because band members say it’s “awful” and “really unfunny”.
New New Pornographers mp3, “My Rights Versus Yours” can be found on the Matablog.
Tonight: Peter Bjorn and John on Leno. Carrot Top on Criag Ferg. BRMC on Jimmy Kimmel.
Art Brut at Sea Level Records
New Art Brut album, It’s a Bit Complicated, will be out June 19th. We are giving out signed posters and a cd samplers (including the songs “Direct Hit” “Pump up the Volume” and “Nag Nag Nag”) to celebrate this exhilarating occasion.
To win, listen to the stream below and tell us your best music video scenario for the song. Please send entries to: usounds AT gmail DOT com. Top three will receive a fun Art Brut prize pack. Sorry, this contest is limited to US, Canada and United Arab Emirates only.
“Direct Hit” Windows [stream] With amazing bonus light show!
Rating: 6.3
The Go Find is a characteristic melodic indie band of the latter half of the Ought Decade, drawing on the twee pop and lovable aching of bands like Death Cab for Cutie. However, this solo project is from the other side of the Atlantic in the heart of Belgium. Dieter Sermeus incorporates jangling guitar arpeggios with plenty of digitization and somber lyrics. He has a penchant for thick synthetic bass and mid-tempo marches which glaze over the production in a viscosity that gives weight, but never glowers. Although most of Stars on the Wall is familiar, there’s plenty of genuine sweetness to appeal to college rockers and starry-eyed dreamers alike.
Dictionary [mp3]
Live from Juan’s basement!
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]
Do you ever find yourself wondering who will be on the Simpson’s Movie Soundtrack? (Hint: N.W.A (?) and Ben Folds)
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.”
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!
