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DOWNLOAD: Rival Sons - Only One
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Los Angeles band Rival Sons found great success last year with its debut Pressure & Time – an invigorated blues-rock album that came out in June on Earache Records. But in case you missed it, here’s a track that shows the band’s more introspective side. “Only One,” a classic rock ballad, leans heavily on the blues. Its soulful, crooning lyrics just might help you bring in the new year with love – or at least intimacy – on your mind.
DOWNLOAD: Damien Jurado - Nothing Is The News
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Damien Jurado knows how to work a dirge. His new one, another in a line of collaborations with producer Richard Swift, is called Maraqopa, and the first single "Nothing Is The News" features a slowburn blues that quickly explodes into six-string theatrics. With its aggressive psychedelia, there's something refreshing about this track compared to most of the sterilized rock covering the indie landscape right now. Maybe 2012 will find us plunging ever deeper into darkness. Find out when the album hits stores February 21 on Secretly Canadian.
DOWNLOAD: Delicate Steve - Don't Get Stuck (Proud Elephants)
We readily admit that slide guitar can be a tough sell, but when it's practiced by New Jersey one-man band Delicate Steve (aka Steve Marion), its personal expression rings loud and clear. "Don't Get Stuck (Proud Elephants)" could be an updated version of backwoods blues with intricate fingerpicking, foot-stomp drums and that slide sound ringing like an emotional human voice. Find it and more on the instrumental album Wondervisions, which is out now on Luaka Bop.
DOWNLOAD: Pack A.D. - Sirens
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Hard-hitting garage isn't what we usually expect from our neighbors up north, but Canadian duo Pack A.D. has refused to let up. On their fourth album and as gritty and intoxicating as ever, Maya Miller and Becky Black pound punk and blues into a fuzzy pulp. "Sirens" lures you in with that feminine snarl and keeps you planted until the drums have burned solidly through your skull. Strap-in and grab Unpersons September 13 on Mint.
PREMIERE: White Denim - At The Farm (Live At The Ghost Room)
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White Denim may not look the part, but its live performances present a case study in hypnosis via shredding. Riding on multipart guitar harmonies, loose drumming and crisp bass lines that stay in the pocket, the Austin quartet has graced us with an exclusive live preview of a choice cut from its new record D recorded at its hometown venue The Ghost Room. Officially released yesterday (May 24) in studio form on Downtown Records, "At The Farm" finds the band teasing blues structure, unpredictably complex solos and ramped-up jammy passages into a unique blend of down-home Texan psychedelia.
PREMIERE: Dinah Washington - Slick Chick (Maximum Balloon Remix)
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Dinah Washington wasn't nicknamed the Queen of the Blues without reason. The Chicago legend who shared the stage with Fats Waller and Lionel Hampton among others had a voice that seemed to capture the sad soul that gave the genre its name. Taking Washington from blues to Big Sleep is Maximum Balloon, the solo effort of TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek, who very effectively translates "Slick Chick" into L.A. Noire-friendly terrain. Sitek allows each element of the original, from Washington's voice to sax to keys, to mix with his eerie pulse, bringing out the gritty underbelly lurking quietly in all three. The trill in particular showcases Sitek's success in doing so. Check out Rockstar Game's official soundtrack and remix album out on Verve.
Dinah Washington - Slick Chick (Maximum Balloon Remix)
RCRD OF THE DAY: Dax Riggs - Let Me Be Your Cigarette
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We're not really getting the metaphor here, but it doesn't matter because those words just sound good over Stooges-on-Sub-Pop downstroking. Never let lyrical confusion get in the way of a good rock song. Dax Riggs–formerly of deadboy & the Elephantmen and Acid Bath–releases his second debut album, Say Goodnight To The World, today, August 3, via Fat Possum.
Dax Riggs - Let Me Be Your Cigarette
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DOWNLOAD: The Dead Weather - Die By The Drop
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No use in rehashing The Dead Weather's supergroup pedigree, because they obviously aren't coasting on it. Today's release of Sea Of Cowards marks two albums in less than twelve months for the quartet, both of them snaggletoothed, born-from-the-gutter blues-rawk masterpieces. New single "Die By The Drop" is an expectedly swaggering riff blowout, and, like all other Dead Weather singles, received an awesomely macabre video treatment. Download it below; we're going to go light some shit on fire in the backyard.
The Dead Weather - Die By The Drop
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