Daniel Arnold
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- Location: brooklyn, NY
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DOWNLOAD: James Jackson Toth - Nothing Hides
James Jackson Toth, who would get super pissed if you assumed that his role in any of the many incarnations of avant-folky changeling Wooden Wand ever surpassed 'contributor,' has a new album out with his real name on it. We've been reading for a while that he was making a calculated step away from the weird and, going by the sound of this song, we'd say he's sticking to his guns. Sounds kinda like... bummed out electric Vetiver.
Picked up by Rykodisc (i.e. Kill Rock Stars founder and Ryko A&R man, Slim Moon), Toth's got a full length coming out July 29 called Waiting In Vain. Needless to say, we are stoked. Here's a sneak peek of things to come.
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: The Weight - A Day In The Sun
Posted 3/31/2008 1:22 PM by Daniel Arnold
Tags: honky-tonk, folk, indie, country, cosmic american music
If you didn't believe us last time about getting down on that Gram Parsons altar and howling out them Stonesy country blues, just get a look at those nudie suits! These boys aren't shy about who they ride for and that's just as well because it means they don't hold back when they pull their chins back into their necks and scowl out that twang. here's what we said last time - this time we have a real live download!
If this is too country for you, well... maybe you oughta look into getting a little more country. These good ol' Brooklyn boys get down on the altar of Gram Parsons and shake their fallen angel feathers like they were a pack of mid-'70s Stones filthying up the French Riviera. And if this shake-a-mama shit doesn't curl your lip, we got bad news: that thing on your face isn't actually a lip.
DOWNLOAD: Graveyard - Evil Ways
Dudes. Graveyard is the Swedish Deep Purple. Deep Swedish Purple! Forgive me for being predictable and losing my shit over ANOTHER psyched out stoner metal trip, but I likes what I likes and I likes this. A heady mix of folk, blues and hard gnar, Graveyard does for "Smoke On The Water" what Dungen did for "Immigrant's Song," not to mention what Soundgarden did for Johnny Cash. Total van rock. Graveyard, like most other bands you're obsessed with, are out on Tee Pee Records.
DOWNLOAD: Graveyard - Evil Ways
DOWNLOAD: Phosphorescent - "A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise"
Yeah, yeah, we've posted this one before, but this time our boy Phosphorescent did you one better and put together one of the oddest and loveliest - one of the most uncommon - videos we ever saw. A perfect fit for his breakthrough record, Pride, that plays like eight tracks of personal revelations. His, not yours. But it's real nice to be along for the ride. Check out the video and download the mp3.
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Valet - Fire
After a few months on the road as part of Atlas Sound, collaborator extraordinaire Honey Owens is back in Portland, soaking up local talent and turning it into shimmery space blues as Valet. You gotta hear Naked Acid sometime. Late at night, probably, with the lights low. Or you could skip the music, paint your face, put on feathers, stay awake for three days and stare down your reflection in a pond surrounded by torches on a breezy night. But listening to the stoned slow-motion airplane crash in reverse that is her music is way way easier. And it's free. So just do that.
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Valet - Fire
STREAM: The Weight - A Day In The Sun
If this is too country for you, well... maybe you oughta look into getting a little more country. These good ol' Brooklyn boys get down on the altar of Gram Parsons and shake their fallen angel feathers like they were a pack of mid-'70s Stones filthying up the French Riviera. And if this shake-a-mama shit doesn't curl your lip, we got bad news: that thing on your face isn't actually a lip. In fact, we can't even promise that the thing on the front of your head is a face. But quit reading and stomp a boot to this nastified chicken fry. It's got enough singalong swagger and woohoohoo harmonica to cry your Jack Daniels dry. The Weight!
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: The Limes - Beyond Blue
Remember Orouni? That dashing French who you boyfriended on Monday? Well this is his band, The Limes. At this point I feel that it's necessary to share with you a couple of sentences from their bio:
"The Limes are an inter-continental band consisting of Toy Fight, Orouni, Mina Tindle, John Hale and Brent Ballantyne. Started with the simple idea of sharing musical ideas between the Atlantic, members submit material to each other to interpret and record."
The collective expands on Orouni's twee folk charm, adding oompah marching band atmosphere, summery harmonies and inter-continental ENERGY. Elements of CocoRosie, Boy Least Likely To, Beach Boys, The Cranberries, The Modern Lovers, Peter, Bjorn, their friend John, Danny Elfman, Loney, Dear and all your other favorite bands. Get into it.
DOWNLOAD: The Limes - Beyond Blue
DOWNLOAD: The Subjects - Numbers
In the race to win the heart of the hype machine, it doesn't hurt to have friends like White Rabbits and The Walkmen. But that's not nearly all The Subjects have going for them. The Brooklyn four-piece make wobbly pop gems out of the most unlikely materials, crafting off-key lilts and heady guitar into deadly catchy quirk that calls Quasi, among others, to mind.
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Orouni - A Greased And Golden Palm
If this music wasn't born on a sunny back porch in the early morning, it wasn't born at all. Orouni, in his over-enunciated broken english and tape-recorded ukelele simplicity, makes just about the quaintest, most charming songs going. Sounds like Jean Paul Belmondo as the barely convincing star of Michel Gondry (or is it Wes Anderson)'s Elliott Smith biopic, set for no reason at all on a narrow Paris side street. Of this exclusive download, Orouni says: "I've been working on new material for my next album and here is a song that almost nobody has heard yet." The others are demos from a while back.
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Orouni - A Greased And Golden Palm
DOWNLOAD: Orouni - Danish Country Waltz
DOWNLOAD: Orouni - Green Blues
DOWNLOAD: Orouni - The Spiders
Listen to Orouni's full-length debut, A Matter Of Scale, on Orouni.net
DOWNLOAD: War On Drugs - Buenos Aires Beach
The other day War On Drugs saved me from one of those days when I was thinking that there'd never be anything new again that I actually liked. Well not new in the sense that nothing like it had ever come before. But new in the sense that it just came out and listening to it feels like talking Dylan and Petty on the beach with Avey Tare and my brothers and dad and beers. But maybe that's just cuz it says Beach there in the title of the song. You listen.
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