after a string of live shows on the strength of the members’ fan-pull, wild flag have announced the drop date of their self titled album as september 13. below you can check out the rompy new single “romance.”
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naturally, blu drops a random lo-fi album out of nowhere titled jesus. i’m not mad at all though, as the project features production from madlib, 9th wonder, the alchemist and himself. very, very excited for this. it’s free, but you know, blu’s gotta eat – buy it if you love it.
tracklist:
01. n e w s h i t .
02. w h a t i f i w a s
03. o n t h e p o r c h
04. l u c k y .
05. d m v
06. b u r g a n d y
07. 4 u
08. d o o w h o p +
09. b i r d z n b ee z
10. j e s u s
11. d o t h e k n x w l e d g e
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totes adorbs indie band cults, off the strength of 4 singles and anonymity, are set to release their self-titled full length album june 7th, just in time for the sugary sweetness of summer. check out the tracklist and the nifty little music player with three of their precious wee tracks below.
cults tracklist:
1. Abducted
2. Go Outside
3. You Know What I Mean
4. Most Wanted
5. Walk at Night
6. Never Heal Myself
7. Oh My God
8. Never Saw the Point
9. Bad Things
10. Bumper
11. Rave On
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for those of you that need something a bit more physical than early bragging rights to a record that sprang up suddenly last month, radiohead’s the king of limbs is going to have a physical release tomorrow. you can stream the album at the link below, courtesy of consequence of sound and you can even go here to read the much buzzed about newspaper the universal sigh. that last bit also isn’t something tangible so if that’s your kind of thing, ink-stains and all, you’ll have to heads over to one of the cities that carries the paper itself. hint: it’ll be any of the cities not named “houston.”
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the brilliantly titled hardcore will never die, but you will by druggy post-rockers mogwai isn’t out till feb 15th, but rolling stone have got you hooked up. hit the link to stream the new album. no guarantee you won’t die, though.
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mogwai – hardcore will never die. but you will
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there was a good 13 seconds of “oh my god it’s finally happened” of the new the pains of being pure at heart track “belong” when the introductory guitars are just a little too sweet. but then the band kicked into teenage fanclub territory and everything was right in the world.
check out the new song, which is the title track to tpobpah’s second album, due out march 29.
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yeah that’s a retinal photo of an eyeball up there. if you guessed that, you’re smarter than me, who thought it was a xenomorph egg.
whose eye exactly? why, it’s will wiesenfeld’s aka the beat-making baths. wiesenfeld’s got a new minimal/ambient music project called geotic and he’s just released his full length lp available for free download over on his site. download mend below.
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if you’re wondering why the album artwork for the long-awaited bright eyes album, “the people’s key” is so fiery, well, you’re not the only one. but hey, a new bright eyes song! not conor oberst and the mystic valley band, of monsters of folk, or the desaparecidos (you wish), but a full fledged bright frickin’ eyes song. download the decidedly rockin’ “shell games” below.
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let’s hope you haven’t forgotten about bradford cox’s deerhunter/atlas sound blog. the one where he’s been releasing albums worth of unreleased material daily. if you haven’t been keeping up, cox has just released a two part album series, bedroom databank, of songs he’s recorded in this past year. highlights include covers of bob dylan’s “this wheel’s on fire,” and “kurt vile’s “freak train.” head on over to grab downloads of both albums.
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atlas sound – bedroom databank vol 1+2
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as with 2008′s feed the animals, girl talk’s gregg gillis is offering his new album all day, as a free download over at illegal-art.net. you have the option of downloading the mega-mix as one continuous track (the way all day is intended to be listened to, or spliced into individual tracks (for easier navigation).
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on november 16th, die-hard springsteen fans wil be able to splurge an entire paycheck on the six-disc set (that’s three cds and 3 dvds) on the reissue of bruce’s 1978 darkness on the edge of town titled the promise: the darkness on the edge of town story. the audio portion of the set includes a remastered version darkness and the promise, a two-disc set containing 21 previously unreleased outtakes from the darkness sessions.
npr is streaming the promise in its entirety.
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bruce springsteen – the promise
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j.cole swings by radioplanet tv to update the masses about the delay on his debut album cole world, record leaks, influences and his thoughts on other rappers. the video’s on autoplay, so you can catch it after the jump.
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news from the girls camp: their follow up to the album album, is a six song, 30 minute ep titled broken dreams club. you can download the first track from the ep, “heartbreaker” below, or at the true panther sounds website.
broken dreams club is out november 22.
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- sunbear
as band belle and sebastian lean toward a fuller, poppier side of the indie pop spectrum it’s not uncommon for a band, especially one with a 15 year tenure, to take chances. for their latest, frontman stuart murdoch hands the vocal reins over to b&s members sarah martin and stevie jackson, as well as let a few guests (norah jones and an education actress carey mulligan) into the mix. it’s a new move on murdoch’s part but all very trademark belle and sebastian. stream it in its entirety below.
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belle and sebastian – write about love
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credited to the caribou vibration ensemble which debuted at last year’s ny hosted atp festival, this live version of the up in flames track features a 15 piece band including four tet mastermind, kieran hebden, sun ra arkestra’s marshall allen and more drummers than you’ll ever need.
the caribou vibration ensemble double vinyl live album is only available at caribou shows. somebody pick one up for me.
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caribou vibration ensemble – every time she turns round its her birthday
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the hyper-prolific john darnielle took a minute (or several) to perform the mountain goats’ 2009 album, life of the world to come track by bible verse track. this is highly recommended by sunbear as darnielle is one of the more provocative song-smiths of recent memory.
the life of the world to come is out now.
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head to yeasayer’s myspace to stream their latest album odd blood, as if you haven’t already heard the album. or better yet, you can catch the brooklyn foursome on tour, be you our readers from across the pond or right in your own backyard. tour dates here. oh and hug your koalas. they’re often mistaken for bears (like us). they’re really marsupials.
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the sisters quin have the whole of their new album, sainthood, streaming over on their myspace player. check the press release describing the ideology behind the album:
Tegan and Sara’s sixth studio album – Sainthood – addresses secular themes of devotion, delusion, and exemplary behavior in the pursuit of love and relationships. Inspired by emotional longing and the quiet actions we hope may be noticed by the objects of our affection, Sainthood is about obsession with romantic ideals. In the service of relationships we practice being perfect. We practice our sainthood in the hope that we will be rewarded with adoration. As we are driven to become anything for someone else, we sometimes become martyrs for our cause. Love, like faith, can never be held in an individual’s hands. But the story of a great love affair – especially one that is unrequited or has ended too soon – can be woven like scripture or a bedtime story. And so the themes of Sainthood are tied together by this simple title, borrowed, with great respect, from the lyrics of the Leonard Cohen song “Came So Far For Beauty:” I practiced all my sainthood I gave to one and all But the rumours of my virtue They moved her not at all
the chris walla produced album is set to be released oct 27.
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i didn’t much pay attentin to the avett brothers prior to hearing them open for the decemberists this last sxsw. what i heard was a composite of folk and bluegrass played with the aggresive chutzpah of a punk band. since then, their 2007 album emotionalism hasn’t left my uh, ipod. now the brothers avett are set to release their new album i and love and you next week, and their album is available for streaming over on npr.
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bp3 leaked en masse yesterday, and the entire blogosphere was buzzing, foaming at the collective mouth and forming opinions: some harsh, some absolute acclaim. well here’s your chance to give bp3 a legal spin and save yourself the sketchiness of being a music pirate.
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the big pink, who have been making elctro-rock waves since that excellent ‘too young to love’ back in ’08 have their new debut album a brief history of love streaming over on their site a full month in advance of its release.
also their single for ‘dominos’ is available for download below. this song is absolutely huge sounding and incredibly infectious in that kitschy uk way. think mgmt with accents.
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the big pink – a brief history of love
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it’s no secret that all three weworemasks staff are big fans of fun (both having and the band). their new album is streaming over on amazon in 30 second clips. i know 30 seconds isn’t enough time to truly get your fix but if you extrapolate the total running time over 10 tracks here, that’s 5 minutes of pure, unadulterated fun.
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the album we’ve been waiting patiently for is finally here. that’s right album.. not mixtape. featuring the likes of bun b, kardinal offisial, mickey factz, and more.. plus, plenty of dope production from 6th sense. get on it.
hit the cut for the press release.
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victoria hesketh aka little boots has her new album hands streaming on her myspace player. throw that hype hate out the window, you’re already listetning to la roux and ladytron. make some time to bump a finely crafted electropop album.
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