New The Go! Team Video

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”.

Music News Highlights

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 Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal [Metal Blade]

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Rating: 5.0

Hey indie rock nerd, I’m a metal guy. I expect music to thrash, shred, and disembowel while you enjoy bands that sing about discos and crying in front of women. Do you even know the difference between grind and grindcore? That’s what I thought. So, Usounds has asked me to be your guide through the pitchblack caverns of pure metal brutality while you listen to Arcade Fire and drink some sort of ironic beer. The only problem is that today I’m reviewing The Black Dahlia Murder.

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The Good Life – Heartbroke

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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]

Music News Highlights – MIA and Dylan Movie

VBS.TV: MIA tells Spike Jonze about how her hairdresser was on horse tranquilizers during her last cut; Must wear wig now. Also, MIA’s new album, Kala received an 8.9 rating on Pitchfork today.

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Galang a lang a lang lang!

Justpressplay.net: Photos of the six actors playing Dylan in the upcoming movie I’m Not There.

Tour of the Century: The Hold Steady with Art Brut! The Hold Steady also have a comic book now.

Patti Smith Live at the Showbox August 11, 2007

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Photo by Angelo Cricchi

Beginning her set with two songs from the legendary Horses album, “Kimberly” and “Redondo Beach,” it was clear that sixty-one year old Patti Smith had not lost a thing along the way, least of all her voice. It’s incredible in fact how much her voice has not aged or altered over the course of her thirty plus year career. From the moment that she commandingly took the stage, she had the audience dancing along, singing along, and most of all, completely spellbound by her unique form of rock music that boils down to nothing short of poetry backed by some of the most apt and talented musicians of the past several decades. Lenny Kaye, Jay Dee Daugherty and others have, over the years, unearthed a truly sensational ability to soundtrack the brilliance of Patti Smith’s written words.

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