Actually, on latenightwithjimmyfallon.com. This hasn’t even aired yet. “Terrible Love” is our first listen from and the first track on the National’s forthcoming LP High Violet. Are you ready for some good music?
I gave an abridged history of High On Fire when posting “Frost Hammer,” the lead single from the Oakland trio’s fifth album Snakes For The Divine, because they’re a band who inspire detailed contextualization. Not just because main man Matt Pike was a member of Sleep or that HoF’s released some certified classics (Death is [...] (more…)
In their words, UK twosome Peepholes is the result of Katia Barrett and Nick Carlisle trading off “singing, drumming, keyboards, Kaos pad, guitar etc” duties. In our words, “etc” should include writing hooks because while noisy duos are nothing new — hell, by 2003 there was already an we-are-not-Lightning Bolt glut — noisy duos writing [...] (more…)
Probably more satisfying to MGMT fans than the 21-second guide to Congratulations‘ scratch-off packaging, this 4 minute and 16 second pop song “Flash Delirium” finds the guys blasting off into some DayGlo Bowie-tinged psychedelia. It’s all over the place. That said, remember the collection was recorded by ex-Spacemen 3 astronaut Pete Kember (aka Sonic Boom) [...] (more…)
Congrats County Kildare, Ireland! Heineken’s carbon neutral Oxegen Fest is bringing Arcade Fire and Eminem to your Punchestown Racecourse on the same weekend, 7/9-7/11. This is the first festival date announced for ArFi (I am doing that right?) this year. Of course they may add earlier dates. Previously we speculated about a May release for [...] (more…)
Band Of Horses have left Sub Pop and arrived at Ben Bridwell’s Brown (+ Fat Possum/Columbia) for their new album Infinite Arms. Visually, though, they haven’t strayed too far from Cease To Begin’s nightscape. There’s less water and more mountainous swirls, but like the previous cover image, the sky was captured by photographer Christopher Wilson. [...] (more…)
Late last night Rolling Stone confirmed the sad news that Sparkhorse’s Mark Linkous has committed suicide. A statement from his family:
It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today. We are thankful for his time with us and will hold [...] (more…)
First off, check out an abridged “Soft As Chalk” from the singer/songwriter’s ambitious new “triple” album Have One On Me. This aired on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night and I believe it Joanna’s US TV debut it marks her second American TV performance (see Kimmel ‘05). According to @UncleGrambo,SNL’s Fred Armisen, Akiva Schaffer, [...] (more…)
Rob Barber and Mary Pearson are releasing their excellently chilled-down, darker, and percussively denser second album High Places Vs. Mankind at the end of April. This new track “Can’t Feel Nothing (Remix)” doesn’t show up on it — instead it’s part of the “Can’t Feel Born” 12″ being released as a part of Thrill Jockey’s [...] (more…)
Gwyneth Patrow starred in the only karaoke road trip movie worth mentioning in this post, and now she’s bringing those valuable skills to the real world. Watch her sing “Killin’ Me Softly With His Song” at a Nashville karaoke bar at Videogum. (more…)